Great Power Technology

With the information about the Pastoral Organization obtained from the Hermes Organization, the activities of the Pastoral Organization in the country were extinguished in a very short period of time, but this does not mean that the organization has completely disappeared. On the contrary, most of them Also got a good one.

As for the reason?

In fact, in Qin Chuan's view, the reason is very simple.

All vested interests who control the main resources of society are potential members of the pastoral organization.

They cannot stand the fact that the benefits they have already received have to be redistributed due to the impact of several huge government projects, and they cannot bear the thought that ordinary people who are just "lower class" in their eyes stand on the same level as them.

Therefore, when the time is ripe, or in other words, when the contradictions and confrontations between the two camps develop to a certain point, these people will naturally choose what they think is the last and ultimately effective solution: transforming into a pastoral organization.

It is precisely because of this that Qin Chuan's rapid reaction force was set up as a standing force. Their struggle with the Pastoral Organization may not end for a long time.

While the quick response team was busy dealing with the domestic pastoral organization, on the other side, the Huawu Institute had also begun the assembly of large lasers and the first wall.

Ye Zhou stood at the edge of the construction site, looking at the equipment being hoisted to the designated position from a distance, with a fascinated smile on his face.

"With the problems of the laser and the first wall solved, we have basically made a breakthrough in all the technical problems of nuclear fusion in the experimental stage, right?"

After hearing his words, Qian Lixun on the side nodded slightly and replied:

"You can say that. What we want to achieve now is the first plasma combustion. In other words, we are not just satisfied that the output energy is greater than the input energy, but we must ensure that the fusion fuel can achieve self-sustaining combustion."

"Judging from the current basic mathematical simulations, the Shenguang 5 project we are currently building should be able to basically achieve this goal - which means that we are one step closer to large-scale practical use."

"However, from the experimental stage to the commercial stage, we actually still have many technical problems that need to be solved, such as the divertor that is currently being developed by all countries."

The so-called divertor refers to a device in a nuclear fusion device used to discharge the particle flow and heat flow from the central plasma as well as the helium ash produced during the nuclear fusion reaction. In layman's terms, its function is roughly It is equivalent to the bottom of a common coal stove in a household.

One side of the divertor is burning plasma with a temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees, while the other side is ordinary material outside the first wall. The temperature passing through the divertor must be reduced to less than a thousand degrees in milliseconds. This is The divertor is required to have a strong cooling function.

The current divertor design mainly uses a solution that combines water cooling, air cooling and a high heat-resistant target plate, which is more than enough to handle laboratory-level nuclear fusion. If you want to achieve commercialization, you must build on the existing basis. Go one step further.

But how to take this step, no one has the answer.

A closed air-extraction divertor is the most likely solution, but this device only remains on paper. After nearly 10 years of development, until the tokamak device has matured, this divertor solution has not yet been developed. Create even one.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou nodded slightly and thought to himself:

It seems that the design of the divertor will also have to resort to simulators.

However, the simulation of the "Little Sun" plot he is currently conducting has nothing to do with the divertor, but a welding solution suitable for nuclear fusion devices. If he wants to figure out the technology of the divertor, he doesn't know how many simulations will be needed.

Therefore, he is not too anxious about this - after all, the divertor is almost the last threshold for commercialization. As long as the problem of the divertor is solved, the technical obstacles facing mankind to create an artificial sun will Only the energy derivation is left.

According to the current progress, it will not be a big problem to build the first commercial nuclear fusion reactor in five years.

In this way, the speed of large-scale rollout of fusion reactors can be slightly accelerated.

The installation project is gradually coming to an end, and all laser equipment is ready, but this does not mean that Shenguang 5 has reached the experimental conditions. There is still a long period of debugging and preparation work waiting. In the cold start state, this Some jobs may last several months.

After the last bolt was tightened, Ye Zhou and Qian Lixun left the construction site and returned to the office.

After making tea as usual, the two chatted about some details of the follow-up test of Shenguang 5 and made some adjustments to the work arrangement. After everything was discussed, Ye Zhou finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at his tired expression, Qian Lixun smiled and said:

"It seems that this project has squeezed you a lot. Why, you are under a lot of psychological pressure?"

Ye Zhou smiled bitterly and nodded. During this period of time, he had to deal with the actual work of the Shenguang 5 and Nantianmen projects during the day, and at night he had to enter the simulator for the next step of simulation. Occasionally, he had some free time and was pulled by Lin Ling. Discussing various issues related to the invasion of adjacent dimensions, it was really hard to hold on mentally.

"It's inevitable that the pressure will be great. After all, this is the first time in human history that we have faced a deterministic and devastating disaster. It's not just me, but everyone involved in the relevant work is under a lot of pressure."

"Including Lin Ling, you know that little girl, although she doesn't have any specific work arrangements now, her daily experiments are fully scheduled, and CEPC's experimental resources have basically been drained by her - it should be said, She works harder than me."

Hearing Ye Zhou's words, Qian Lixun couldn't help but smile. He looked at Ye Zhou's face with great interest and said:

"You are called a little girl. How much older are you? In my eyes, you are still young."

"Harm, it's just a title. She's growing up very fast. She almost collapsed a few months ago, but now, she feels like her fighting spirit has been completely aroused."

"After a while, I won't be able to call her little girl anymore - I will have to call her eldest sister. I heard that people at CEPC are afraid of her."

"Afraid of her? That's not true, is it? I've met that child, and she has quite a gentle personality."

"It's not this kind of fear, it's the fear of her sudden death. Forget it, let's not talk about this - by the way, the conversation has ended here, I just want to ask you a question?"

Qian Lixun's expression became even more curious. He put down the teacup he had just picked up and asked:

"what is the problem?"

Ye Zhou took a sip of water first, and after organizing his words for two minutes, he said:

"Let me start with the background."

"As for the issue of adjacent dimensions, as you know, CEPC has been conducting high-energy detonation experiments recently, trying to find evidence to support string theory through high-precision experiments, because if string theory is experimentally confirmed, then we will have The research on adjacent dimensions can take a big step forward."

"--Of course, this attempt seems to be basically useless at present, but in the process, they discovered a problem."

"From the perspective of string theory, we cannot explain why energy can be transferred between adjacent dimensions, but matter cannot be transferred."

“That’s a major flaw, you know, the big argument of those who are against string theory is that much of the logic of string theory is mathematical, that it’s the same thing as Laplace potential theory. "

"The latter can almost perfectly solve the problem of action at a distance mathematically, but it is not supported by any real experiments."

"You know, actually in China, due to Mr. Yang's influence, the current mainstream exploration direction for the research on the unified standard model and gravity model still believes that we should invest more resources in work such as cosmological observations, so as to Discovering phenomena beyond the Standard Model and general relativity can lead us to explore more accurate paths."

"And now, adjacent dimensions and quantum ghosts are typical phenomena that go beyond the standard model - these two phenomena can almost be said to negate all our previous research directions on grand unified theories."

"This also means that we have now entered a fork in the road."

"First of all, general relativity is absolutely correct after experimental verification. Then, there are only two possibilities before us: either the standard model is wrong, or string theory is wrong."

"I know that you are not only an expert in applied technology, but the papers you published before on string theory are also very professional. My question now is, if you look at it from your perspective, which theory do you think has the probability of being wrong? Bigger?”

After listening to Ye Zhou's words, Qian Lixun shook his head slightly and replied:

"To be honest, those theoretical things are just a side job for me - or just a pastime. If you really want to know the details of this issue, you should ask Mr. Yang directly."

"But, having said that, if you just want to ask me which one is more error-prone, string theory or the standard model, I can give you the answer right now: it has to be string theory."

"In the final analysis, string theory itself is just an attempt. It has no actual experiments to support it, so it is not surprising to be overturned at any time. Of course, even if it is really overturned, we cannot deny the achievements it has made. value."

"The current situation is that the physical phenomena we have observed are obviously contrary to the superstring theory, and this violation is irreconcilable. So obviously, what we should do is not try to build on the basis of this theory. Instead of repairing it, start from scratch.”

After hearing Qian Lixun's answer, Ye Zhou nodded solemnly.

"So what you're saying is that we should give up on experimental exploration of string theory?"

"This only represents my personal opinion. The specifics depend on the professionals who are actually doing research in this area."

"You can provide my point of view to that little girl and let her consider it together with everyone's opinions."

"Understood."

The topic of pure theory ended. Ye Zhou refilled Qian Lixun's cup with hot tea. The two chatted for a while, and the latter stood up to leave. Just a few minutes after he left, Ye Zhou picked up Lin Lingxun. phone number.

He was about to convey Qian Lixun's opinions to the other party, but Lin Ling spoke first:

"Gong Ye, I think the chance of using string theory to explain the problems we are encountering now is too slim."

"I don't want to waste resources on such experiments anymore. I plan to start a new one."

I'm so sleepy, I'll go to bed today