From small town academic to chief scientist

The existence of complex structures on a six-dimensional sphere is also a very old problem.

Chen Shengshen and Qiu Chengtong both emphasized this issue.

It's a problem of the century.

If Tao Zhiqing can make some key results from this, he will have a great chance of staying at Chongqing High Court in the future.

Otherwise, you can only stay in Chongqing High School or go to Shuimu University or Princeton Institute for Advanced Study as a postdoc.

Zhou Yi was still ready to say more and said to this 24-year-old young man:

"This problem is best studied using the method of Riemannian geometry and introducing a metric on the near-complex manifold that is compatible with the near-complex structure."

Tao Zhiqing nodded repeatedly and said:

"Okay, Teacher Zhou, I've written it down."

Zhou Yi ignored it and continued:

"You can read LeBrun's article. He once proved that the near-complex structure that is compatible with the standard metric on the six-dimensional sphere must be non-integrable.

Whether there is an integrable near-complex structure on a six-dimensional sphere still needs to be studied by you. "

After talking with Huang Shunjian and Tao Zhiqing, Zhou Yi planned topics for students in five directions: physics, chemistry, computer and artificial intelligence, and geodynamics.

The problem is not very big. It can only be said that it can reach the level of doctoral graduates from Chongqing High School.

If you want to stay in the Chongqing High Court, you need to make greater achievements.

Zhou Yi teaches every student carefully.

Even if they cannot stay at the Chongqing High School in the future, with Zhouyi's paper requirements, they can get it from universities all over the world.

What's more, with the name of Zhouyi, just don't go to Beijing University or the island country.

But there is a high probability that Zhou Yi will let them go to Yuzhou University.

Because it is close to Chongqing High School, any new academic ideas from Chongqing High School can be obtained immediately.

After dealing with the students' matters, Zhou Yicai breathed a sigh of relief.

Fourteen students need to be taken care of by Zhou Yi, which makes me tired just thinking about it.

One or two students will study mathematics, and two students will study two students in the other five branches.

The new year's master's degree examinations are gradually approaching.

Then students will be admitted again.

This time, Zhou Yi plans to only accept students majoring in mathematics, physics and artificial intelligence.

Just get 20 together.

After leaving the office, Zhou Yi walked around.

In December, it started to snow on the mountains and it was very cold.

Zhou Yi did not know how long it would take for Huang Shunjian and Tao Zhiqing to produce results.

Maybe one year, maybe two years, or even three years.

These two problems are both difficult problems of the century. If you can solve them, you might even win an international award.

Therefore, Zhou Yi has really been doing this task of recruiting students for several years.

But the experience given is also considerable.

The campus is very big, and since the end of the semester is approaching and the weather is cold, there are almost no people walking around the campus.

Zhang Bin on the side said:

"Academician Zhou, why don't you go back first? It's too cold outside. It won't be good if you freeze your body."

Zhou Yi glanced at Zhang Bin and said lightly:

"Can this little snow make me catch a cold? I'm not that weak yet. I'm thinking about the problem."

Zhou Yi brushed off the remaining snow on his body and felt tired thinking about various things.

Zhou Yi looked at the snow and plum blossoms and said softly:

"The second major point of controllable nuclear fusion summarized before is that the small technologies in it are far more than the previously exchanged technologies that need to be solved.

There are other small technicalities that need to be addressed as well.

The level of difficulty was far beyond my expectations. "

Zhang Bin didn't understand, so he had to comfort him:

"We all believe that Academician Zhou will lead us to do it. Those academicians all said that as long as Academician Zhou takes action, there is nothing impossible."

Zhouyi:...

Who is spreading rumors? Isn't this flattery?

Zhou Yi sighed and said:

"It's not that easy,

The most critical high heat load materials also need to be solved urgently.

And it also involves some manifolds, which may require a special equation to describe.

In short, it's difficult. It takes a lot of time. Not just one or two years, but even three or four years. "

When Zhang Bin heard this, he laughed and said:

"I'm a soldier and a rough guy. I didn't go to a good university, but I used to know about some controllable nuclear fusion. The whole world has been researching in this direction for seventy or eighty years, and it's impossible to succeed in it even in the next few decades. ,

I think the three or four years you mentioned, Academician Zhou, have already defeated the whole world. Even if four years have passed, Academician Zhou, you are still only 26 years old. "

After hearing what Zhang Bin said, Zhou Yi also calmed down.

Yes, the world has invested too much money and time in controllable nuclear fusion.

Even if I had trouble, I wouldn't be able to do it in just one or two years.

About three or four years.

After Zhou Yi understood his ideas, he was no longer so anxious and could just follow the steps.

Once they have mastered the feeding and ash removal techniques, they may be able to proceed to the next step step by step.

Don't rush, take your time.

When Zhou Yi returned home, he prepared some hot pot ingredients and ate them with Xia Xue, mother-in-law and grandfather.

Time flies so fast, and in the blink of an eye it’s time for the postgraduate examination in 2026.

There are many foreign students coming to Chongqing High School at the moment.

Chongqing High Court is one of the test sites, and Chongqing High Court is not open to the public.

Therefore, during such large-scale examinations, many students choose Chongqing High School as the examination venue.

Just to see the appearance of Chongqing High Court.

Hotels and B\u0026Bs near Chongqing High Court are also overcrowded at this time of year.

The scale of the postgraduate examination is now no less than that of the second college entrance examination.

It's an opportunity to change your destiny.

In the era of involution, the advantages brought by higher education are self-evident.

This is also an examination for selecting talents, and both the superiors and Zhouyi attach great importance to it.

Every enrollment signifies the quality of students in Chongqing Higher Education College in the future.

The future development of Chongqing High Court.

During the examination, Zhou Yi also visited the examination room, which caused quite a stir.

Academician Zhou actually patrolled the area in person, which made many candidates' hands tremble.

Damn it, I didn’t expect to actually see Academician Zhou himself.

He seems to be younger than us. I heard that he is only 22 years old this year, which is about the same age as us.

When I think of Zhou Yi's achievements at the age of 22, and when I think that I am still taking the exam here, I almost burst into tears.

The gap between people can be so huge.

The examination rooms that Zhou Yi mainly inspected were those for candidates majoring in mathematics.

There are too many exam rooms to cover in one day.

The grand graduate school examination has finally come to an end.

The test papers of students applying for Chongqing High School from all over the country will also be sent to Chongqing High School for review as soon as possible.

New Year’s Day in 2027 is destined to be an uneasy year.

Because the sixth-generation fighter jets have begun mass production,

The three production lines can produce more than 100 fighter jets a year.

This batch of fighter jets will also be sold to the European Union and Tsarist Russia.

This news can be said to have shocked the country headed by Chou.

The former world hegemon is no longer in glory, and its proud military strength no longer leads the world.

On the contrary, it is a tripartite alliance that is prospering in economy, technology, military, culture and many other aspects.

In the field of science and technology, many technologies are interoperable, and everyone has obtained the technology they want, achieving a situation where multiple directions can run simultaneously.

And the economy is even better. With the increase in trade, the three parties are living a very prosperous life. From the beginning of Guizhou to the 'entrepreneurs', they are all making money.

Not to mention the military field, as long as you have a sixth-generation fighter jet, you can cover half of the world.

The most noteworthy thing is the blend of cultures.

With the popularity of the game "Lords of All", no game in the world can compare.

The unique civilization and culture of Daxia has also attracted the attention of many foreigners.

This news was still told to Zhou Yi by Xia Xue.

Zhou Yi said calmly:

"It's just that we are stronger, otherwise we wouldn't have this effect. In the past few years, they looked down on us Easterners."

Zhou Yi listened to the heartfelt remarks of many foreign students. Even Brother Ni dared to shout at Chinese people in Europe.

If it weren't for technology and alliance, Zhou Yi would be too lazy to deal with the Europeans.

When controllable nuclear fusion comes out, the world will change again.

At that time, the leader of the tripartite alliance may be born.

By then, every Chinese will have the confidence to yell at others when they go abroad.

Every foreigner's attitude towards the people of Daxia will be the same as in ancient times.

Respect, envy, respect and yearning.

Not long after New Year's Day ended,

Academician Feng found Zhou Yi with the good news.

"Academician Zhou, good news, we have found the clue to the first question, and the second question you told us is already being tested.

It’s just that the second big issue and the remaining directions are still being explored. "

When Zhou Yi heard this, he was shocked and said:

"Okay, as long as there is progress, we will go to the laboratory and talk about it there."

Since the laboratory was a bit far away, Zhou Yi and others went there by helicopter.

Not long after, we arrived at the laboratory.

All the equipment required for controllable nuclear fusion has been transported here, and there has been contact with CEPC.

What Zhou Yi and others are doing now is to constantly improve the theory and save costs.

Strive for all experiments to be successful the first time.

The tokamak used now is all superconducting tokamak.

The ultimate goal of all tokamak is to heat the atmosphere fluorine fusion raw material to the ignition point or higher temperature, and to control it for the longest possible reaction time in order to pursue continuous fusion energy output.

Even if copper with good conductivity is used as the conductor to wind the coil, the coil will inevitably have heating problems due to the huge current, which limits the long-term steady-state operation of magnetic confinement nuclear fusion.

Superconductors have zero resistance effect and carry higher current density, which is conducive to the construction of more compact and higher field strength fusion devices.

It can effectively improve long-pulse steady-state operation, so superconducting tokamak must be used.

However, superconducting tokamak is not omnipotent.

Because it is impossible to carry out combustion plasma experiments based on alpha (α) particle heating.

Therefore, before fusion becomes commercialized, it is necessary to develop a fusion reactor that can operate both burning plasma and long-pulse deuterium and tritium plasma.

CEPC may play this role.

Academician Feng on the side said:

“The EAST experimental system consists of the device host and auxiliary systems. In the middle is a cylindrical host with a height of 11 m and a diameter of 8 m.

The host part consists of an annular inner vacuum chamber with a diameter of about 5 m, superconducting magnets, internal and external cold screens and Dewar.

The host computer is surrounded by various auxiliary heating, vacuum evacuation, low temperature distribution, physical diagnosis and other systems.

The EAST superconducting magnet system includes: 16 D-shaped longitudinal field superconducting magnets, 6 central spiral tube superconducting magnets and 8 poloidal field superconducting magnets. The energy storage of the superconducting magnet system exceeds 300MJ.

And it is connected with CEPC. Some experiments can be replaced by CEPC and may be more accurate. "

CEPC has been repaired for 300 billion, and more money will be added in the future. Of course Zhou Yi knows the accuracy of CEPC.

But this multi-billion superconducting EAST can be tested first.

Zhou Yi looked at the huge device in front of him and said:

“I remember that our country’s strategic goal in controllable nuclear fusion is to have reached the second phase, Q=5, 3000s, 350MW, steady-state long pulse burning plasma goal, right?

This is the goal that needs to be achieved in 2025, more than a year has passed. "

Academician Feng said:

"That's right."

Zhouyi said:

"We can speed up the progress. The power grid system here has been unclogged and the energy supply is absolutely sufficient. Besides, there is also the power guarantee of SanX Power Generation. There will be no problem.

The next goal is to study high thermal load material testing. "

Academician Feng Kaihuan said:

"Shuimu University and our Institute of Physics have done a lot of research in this direction. I will ask Academician Li and others to discuss it with you, Professor Zhou."

Zhouyi said:

"good."

Academician Feng briefly talked about the material issues:

"The operating temperature of the first wall of a commercial controllable fusion reactor is above 1,000°C, and the moment when the plasma bursts, it can reach 2,000~3,000°C.

Low melting point materials such as steel and copper are directly eliminated.

Secondly, the task of the first wall is to conduct heat energy away. Ceramic materials with high melting points but poor thermal conductivity are basically eliminated.

The melting point of tungsten, a currently promising candidate material, is 3400°C.

However, tungsten also has the disadvantage of poor plasticity. Under the thermal shock of ion destruction, thermal stress often causes cracks on the surface of the material.

I think our goal is to research in this direction. Once new materials are developed, our subsequent work can proceed steadily. "

Zhouyi said:

"This direction will be developed by me and Academician Li together as soon as possible within this year, and then we will experiment next year."

Academician Feng said with a hint of confusion:

"Can it be done next year?"

Zhou Yi took a deep breath and said:

"Give it a try and challenge our limits."

Academician Feng's fighting spirit ignited when he heard this, and he said solemnly:

"That's right, challenge your limits. Procrastination will not lead to big things. You must be full of interest to compete with the world at all times."

After leaving the laboratory, Academician Feng Kaihuan quickly contacted talents in this field at Shuimu University and Southwest H Institute of Physics.

In the next year or so, they may have to work with Zhou Yi to overcome this problem.

While Zhou Yi was waiting for them to arrive, he also opened some of their previous internal papers and started reading.

There are many papers, and Zhouyi can only take a look at their review papers first. If the direction of the review paper is okay,

Only the following papers can be readable.

If the review paper is not approved by Zhouyi, then subsequent papers will not be readable.