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Chapter 87 found! Strong connection! You fucking genius!

"They discovered a new phenomenon, and their theoretical reasoning proved that my experimental results at Donggang University could not have occurred?"

Zhang Minghao laughed when he heard this.

He was absolutely certain about the experiment at Donggang University; any research that proved the experimental results to be problematic must be wrong.

"Correct Perception" clarifies this point.

No matter how much other teams research, can they be more accurate than the judgment of the system's special abilities?

Zhu Bingkun, Xue Kun, and others, however, did not allow this to be seen.

Even though Zhang Minghao showed strong confidence in the experiment and they trusted him completely, they dared not say that his experiment at Donggang University would be 100% problem-free.

That wasn't their experiment after all, and even their experiments could have made mistakes, or rather, anyone can make a mistake.

They lack the ability to perceive what is correct.

Therefore, their expressions were very solemn, because the research findings were a major blow to the laboratory's research and direction.

The other party's conclusion is correct, which means that they cannot replicate Zhang Minghao's experiment in Donggang. Their subsequent research plans are all centered around replicating the experiment, and even the project application plan is directly related to replicating the experiment.

If you choose the wrong direction, it will be very difficult to find the right direction in the future.

Zhu Bingkun remained silent for a while before speaking, "Let's go to the lab and verify their findings in the research."

Xue Kun nodded solemnly, stood up, and patted Zhang Minghao on the shoulder reassuringly.

Just as Chen Shuai was about to follow, he suddenly asked, "What about our experiment?"

"Of course we must continue!" Zhang Minghao said firmly, his brows furrowed.

“Let’s proceed as planned.” Xue Kun immediately expressed his support. “We can’t let someone else’s research interfere with our plans.”

Zhu Bingkun also expressed his agreement.

Regardless of what the future holds, this round of experiments must proceed as planned.

……

Yang Xuewen publicly stated that he would suspend the experiment and even gave an interview to reporters. In reality, it was just a very minor news story.

It didn't cause any ripples in public opinion, and nobody cared.

This is something purely within the academic community.

For the academic community, especially for teams studying the Zhang phenomenon, the most influential findings are the experimental and theoretical research results published by Xu Qiujian's team at the University of Florida.

This research has a significant impact.

Yang Xuewen's team was not the only team that decided to suspend the experiment; several foreign teams and one domestic team also participated.

Other teams are still hesitant and are in a wait-and-see state for the time being.

These teams decided to discontinue the experiment because there was no clear research and the experiment had made no progress for a long time.

Despite continuous investment of funds, manpower, resources, and energy, no discoveries were made for a long time. Coupled with the lack of theoretical support and direction, the research could not proceed.

Now a theory has suddenly emerged that proves Zhang Minghao's experimental conclusions at Donggang University are wrong, so of course they will immediately suspend the experiment.

While some teams were still observing, quite a few people contacted the Applied Electromagnetism Laboratory.

While Zhu Bingkun was busy with experiments, his phone kept receiving messages. He found that many people wanted to ask Zhang Minghao.

Zhu Bingkun simply added Zhang Minghao to a group chat called "Zhang's Phenomenon".

It was a newly created group. It was because many researchers were uncertain about the research results of Xu Qiujian's team, so they simply created a group to communicate.

Zhang Minghao returned to his workspace. He had been reading papers, and when he stood up to make a cup of coffee, he noticed a notification on his phone.

I glanced at it and found that I had been added to a new group, and a professor I had met once had tagged me in it.

Cui Ji is a professor at Donggang University of Electronic Information.

Cui Ji was one of the experts on the acceptance team when the Zhang phenomenon was discovered last time.

In the field of electromagnetic metamaterials research, Cui Ji's expertise far surpasses that of the Applied Electromagnetism Laboratory; he is a top expert in electromagnetic metamaterials.

Cui Jifa's message tagged Zhang Minghao and included a question: "Have you read that paper? What do you think of it? I'm referring to your experiment at Donggang University."

He added, "I have verified that the instantaneous electric field exists."

The instantaneous electric field, discovered by Qiu-Jian Xu's team at the University of Florida, means that at the instant air movement is detected, a signal of the existence of an electric field is detected at the same location.

Zhang Minghao had spoken with Cui Ji, and upon seeing the message, he replied with a few words: "The fact that the experiment is correct does not mean that their analysis of the theory is correct."

"I think there must be something wrong with their analysis."

"In addition, there were no problems with my experiments in Donggang, I am very sure of that."

After sending the message, he briefly glanced at the list of group members.

The vast majority of them were people whose names they had never even heard of, probably because they hadn't attended academic conferences and were unfamiliar with scholars in the same field.

When I scrolled down to the end of the list, I noticed a very familiar name.

Yang Xuewen?
Is this guy in the group too?
Before Zhang Minghao could even express his surprise, he returned to the message page and noticed that Yang Xuewen had also sent a message.

Yang Xuewen was refuting his statement, "You say there's no problem, so there's no problem? Who can be 100% certain that the experiment is completely correct?"

"Your lab is in poor condition to begin with. The space for experiments is too empty, and the testing methods are not standardized. How can you be sure that such experiments are correct?"

After he finished speaking, he tagged Zhang Minghao.

Zhang Minghao curled his lip, gave a disdainful laugh, and sent a voice message: "I don't talk to dogs, and I won't be in the same group as dogs. Bye."

After saying that, he left the group.

After Zhang Minghao left the group, the group remained silent for a long time, and no one sent any more messages.

After hearing Zhang Minghao's voice reply, Yang Xuewen was so angry that he almost threw his phone. What was even more infuriating was that the other party left the group without even giving him a chance to retaliate.

Let's leave Zhang Minghao aside for now.

After that voice message appeared, he could imagine how the other people in the group would react. They would definitely listen to it several times in a row, and might even share the gossip with others.

Many people know that he was verbally abused by Zhang Minghao in the group chat.

Most importantly, after saying that, the other person just left the group, left the group, left the group...

Yang Xuewen was seething with anger and cursed several times, but he couldn't do it in the group chat, so he could only post, "So rude!"

"How is this any different from those mindless trolls online? And he calls himself a PhD student?"

"I won't argue with him."

After he finished speaking, he shared the video conference in the group, saying, "We discussed it in the meeting, and so far, no team has made any progress in the follow-up research on the ZXZ phenomenon."

"Professor Xu Qiujian said at the meeting that they had no further experimental progress, but they had made a breakthrough in measurement."

"You've all read the paper..."

"Ura ura~~~"

The professors in the group found what had just happened very interesting, and at the same time, they also felt that what Yang Xuewen said made sense.

Leaving aside the personal feud between Yang Xuewen and Zhang Minghao.

Speaking only of research, the phenomenon of electric field transfer was discovered by Xu Qiujian and Richard Arnold, and has nothing to do with Yang Xuewen.

Their published research findings, as confirmed by experiments, are indeed real.

The theory behind this analysis is supported by data and mathematical proofs, and the analysis is relatively comprehensive.

Therefore, the conclusion drawn is highly likely to be correct.

In other words, the new research direction should be the phenomenon of electric field transfer, rather than replicating Zhang Minghao's experiment at Donggang University to make the fluid or instantaneous electric field stronger.

These are two completely different directions, and the latter may have already been proven wrong.

……

Zhang Minghao doesn't think so.

After putting down his phone, he began to seriously read the paper.

The fact that Xu Qiujian and Richard Arnold's research has received so much recognition, even from Chen Shuai who thinks it's brilliant, must mean it has merit.

The paper is titled "ZXZ Phenomenon: Electric Field Transfer".

The first part describes the discovery of a new phenomenon: at the instantaneous detection of fluid fluctuations, an electric field was measured at the same location, and precise data was obtained. There shouldn't be an electric field at that location, especially not a transient, fluctuating one.

After the experimental findings, Xu Qiujian's team conducted very detailed measurements of other experimental data and performed complex electromagnetic calculations to analyze the underlying mechanism.

The study suggests that the special properties of the material cause the 'electric field transfer' phenomenon.

The reason it is called 'electric field transfer' is related to the characteristics of nickel/alumina cermet. The material itself can trigger the 'negative permittivity' characteristic, which means it will become a material with a negative permittivity.

When the dielectric constant of a material is negative, it becomes an electromagnetic metamaterial.

When conventional nickel/alumina cermets are placed in an electric field, their dielectric constant, which exceeds '9', weakens the electric field.

This is similar to applying the same voltage, where increasing the resistance will decrease the current.

Nickel/alumina cermets trigger the 'negative dielectric constant' characteristic, instantly turning the dielectric constant negative. A negative dielectric constant, in turn, strengthens the electric field.

Similarly, applying the same voltage with a negative resistance will increase the current.

Xu Qiujian's team believes that a phenomenon of 'enhanced electric field transfer' occurs the instant that nickel/alumina cermet transforms into an electromagnetic metamaterial.

The enhanced electric field did not occur inside the material, but was transferred to the surrounding area. The instantaneous field force oscillation caused extremely weak flow of air particles.

At the same time, the instantaneous electric field was also measured.

The most convincing aspect of this theoretical analysis based on experimental findings is not the analytical process itself, but rather the mathematical calculations involved.

Xu Qiujian's team calculated the correlation between the instantaneous electric field value and the negative permittivity of the nickel/alumina cermet, the capacitance of the material, and the experimental electric field strength.

Experiments reveal phenomena, numerical measurements are used for mathematical analysis, and this mathematical analysis supports theoretical interpretation.

The logic is clear and comprehensive!
They drew two main conclusions: one is that electric field transfer can only occur instantaneously.

Secondly, the transferred electric field strength is directly related to the negative permittivity.

The first conclusion has already shown that Zhang Minghao's experiment at Donggang University was wrong.

Zhang Minghao read the paper from beginning to end and was amazed by the data and analysis presented; it was indeed a very impressive study.

But that's wrong!
"Correct Perception" can directly determine that the analytical conclusion is wrong.

He can also pinpoint the problem directly.

The analysis in the paper looks brilliant, but two important questions remain unanswered. The first is why the material cannot be reused.
Each prepared material can only be tested once; the same phenomenon cannot be observed in a second experiment.

why?
The second question is why the same phenomenon was not observed in other materials with negative permittivity.

In recent years, research on electromagnetic metamaterials has yielded fruitful results, with many teams creating materials with negative permittivity.

After the Zhang phenomenon was made public, teams must have conducted experiments using other negative permittivity materials, but there has been no news so far, which means that other negative permittivity materials cannot reproduce the Zhang phenomenon.

Of course, it's normal for theoretical analysis to be imperfect, but the conclusion is definitely wrong.

"It's not an electric field transfer."

"Even if the experiment detects a clear instantaneous electric field, it is not an electric field transfer."

"But it is indeed related to the negative permittivity."

These are Zhang Minghao's two judgments.

Although they can make direct judgments and know the flaws in the other party's research and analysis, it is difficult to refute them on the theoretical aspects.

The main limitation is his knowledge base; he hasn't done any fundamental analysis or research on electromagnetism, so it's already quite an achievement if he can understand all the papers.

"It seems that the laboratory is indeed lacking an expert in electromagnetic theory."

"Otherwise, I could learn from it..."

The theoretical research on the fundamentals of electromagnetism is extremely complex. For example, the theoretical mechanism of superconductivity involves too many disciplines, and many technical terms require consulting reference materials to understand, not to mention the complex mathematical analysis involved.

He still needs to study this in more depth.

If it cannot be refuted theoretically, then it can only be proven by experiments. As long as the experiment of Donggang University is replicated, even the most brilliant theoretical analysis is meaningless.

Zhang Minghao studied the entire paper and gained a lot from it.

He found a clear direction.

The experiment should return to its core focus and study the characteristics of negative permittivity.

He could determine that the Zhang phenomenon was directly related to the negative permittivity, but a stable negative permittivity certainly could not produce the Zhang phenomenon.

Therefore, the distribution of nickel in the material must be non-uniform so that the negative permittivity of the material cannot be maintained continuously.

However, even if the distribution is uneven, any location must be within the threshold that allows the nickel content to reach a negative permittivity state.

He went to the laboratory.

Looking at the time, Zhu Bingkun and Xue Kun should have their 'instantaneous electric field signal measurement' results soon.

When they arrived at the laboratory, they met Ma Yan in the first experimental room.

Ma Yan was preparing metal-ceramic materials when he saw Zhang Minghao walk in. He said dejectedly, "Brother Hao, can you help me?"

"Doing this every day is so boring."

He no longer felt the excitement he had when he first entered the lab; instead, he felt like a beast of burden, having to come to the lab every day to prepare a material.

Several hours!
All my free time is taken up.

"This is a lab perk, meant for you to practice and prepare for future experiments. If I help you, it's like I'm harming you!"

Zhang Minghao spoke very seriously.

Ma Yan was immediately filled with distress, but he could only continue preparing the materials. He was mixing nickel and aluminum oxide powder.

Zhang Minghao glanced at it a few times and was about to leave, but suddenly stopped.

He subconsciously used "Associative Perception" and discovered that the operation of mixing Ma Yan powder was related to the replication experiment.

The connection is strong!

Although there is no definitive data, he can use the dielectric constant as a comparison, which is roughly half of the dielectric constant.
"How can this be compared?" Zhang Minghao was somewhat confused, because one was a process of mixing powders to prepare materials, and the other was a physical property.

How can the two be compared?

He carefully observed Ma Yan's operation and found that it was not up to standard. After adding the materials, Ma Yan kept stirring them, as if he were stirring a liquid.

This step isn't actually part of the procedure; he did it entirely to make the next step simpler.

Ma Yan noticed that Zhang Minghao was staring at him, so he smiled and explained, "This is my own idea, it's just a mix!"

"With this stirring, the two powders are mixed together. After a quick stir in the machine, they'll be ready to be baked in no time!"

Zhang Minghao stared at him, his eyes unwavering. After a long pause, he finally uttered, "You son of a bitch..."

"What a genius!"

"Of course."

Ma Yan thought Zhang Minghao was praising him, and smiled smugly.

Zhang Minghao didn't correct him, because he was certain that Ma Yan's actions were directly related to the replication experiment, but this would lead to...

"Yup!"

"By stirring it like this, the nickel will be more densely distributed at the edges of the material."

"The next step is to put it in the machine, because the time is short, and there will still be a lot of nickel on the edges of the material."

"This is where the connection lies!"

Zhang Minghao's eyes lit up as he pondered, and he used "Correct Perception" to verify it.

Feedback: Correct!
He took a deep breath and gave Ma Yan a thumbs up, "You're a genius!"

"I'll have the lab send you the project subsidy later!"

Ma Yan exclaimed with delight, "Thank you, Brother Hao! You're really something!"

"Thank you, I will definitely try my best!"

As he spoke, he made a small decision, "I'll write this down and show it to Professor Xue Kun later. The material preparation method also needs improvement..."

"I really am a genius!"

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