Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

The completion of the Long Night Reactor is a milestone on the road to controllable nuclear fusion research.

In a way, it is also the beginning of a long night.

If this inexplicable life were condensed into one sentence,

It was probably magnificent and exciting.

But if the whole life contained in this sentence is placed in every period and every day of life,

It can't be boring, or even repetitive, day after day.

The ‘Changye’ mentioned in the name of Changyedui,

Far more than the seven years during the construction of Changyedui, it was a much longer time.

After choosing the direction of trying to break through controllable nuclear fusion in this life,

Mo Dao spent most of his life thinking about the same problem.

You need to spend most of your life challenging the same problem over and over again.

Spend your whole life trying to solve a problem.

In this case, the problem has not yet been solved, progress is slow, or even no progress at all.

Especially many times, you will find that a direction of thinking has reached a dead end. Either you can open a new path in this dead end, or you can only go back and look for a possible direction again.

For most people, this is a source of great frustration.

If you are stuck on a difficult problem for half an hour, you may be a little scratching your head.

If you are stuck on a problem for a whole day, you may not think about food or tea all day long.

If you are stuck on a problem for a few days, or even ten days and a half, and you solve it again, you may feel a sense of relief or even a strong sense of accomplishment.

And if the time you are trapped is one year, several years, ten years, twenty years... you will never be able to solve this problem, and you must spend a lot of time thinking about this problem every day...

For Mo Dao, who has lived a long life,

For these things, he was quite calm.

He is rarely anxious, even if he thinks about the same problem repeatedly day after day, he just spends his time like this.

However, even for Mo Dao, this situation occasionally made him feel some pain.

After experiencing many comebacks, my memory and thinking abilities have been enhanced with each comeback.

There is no doubt that Mo Dao is a genius in a general sense.

In terms of learning ability, creativity, and concentration, everyone from Mo Dao's teacher in this life to other researchers who worked with him in this life were amazed.

In terms of learning and research abilities, Mo Dao is obviously far superior to ordinary people.

But even so, Mo Dao was still trapped by this key turbulence issue in controllable nuclear fusion for a long time.

Coupled with what Mo Dao saw in previous lives and the research progress of controllable nuclear fusion decades later,

Perhaps this question has exceeded the limits of human intelligence to some extent.

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After the long night pile was built,

Since 2027, Changyedui has begun operating experiments day after day, year after year.

Despite the noise from the outside world, Changyedui did not change its original plan.

The entire research team on controllable nuclear fusion can be considered a huge one.

In addition to the division, related research groups such as materials research.

On the whole, the entire research team repeats one thing,

Run the experiment, analyze the data, make adjustments, restore the damage suffered by Chang Ye Hei in the previous experiment, and then conduct the next experiment.

Although some related technologies have not progressed,

But the whole long night didn't really stop and do nothing.

During the long night, the Changyedui research team never stopped.

Collecting more data, in addition to providing it to Mo Dao, also explores more possibilities.

But don't know this side,

After the long-night reactor operation experiments and other research work were on track,

Mo Dao obviously spent more energy on theoretical research.

Because at this moment Chang Ye Dui wants to achieve a leap in progress,

It is no longer a problem that can be solved by design.

But a theoretical breakthrough is needed.

Mo Dao's previously selected direction is also a theoretical issue.

As for theoretical research,

Most of the time, Mo Dao can be considered lonely.

In related fields, the knowledge Mo Dao has mastered and the position he has taken forward,

There are obvious gaps with other researchers in the same field.

It is rare to find communicators in this area of ​​research.

In addition to paying attention to the data from Changyedui and even EAST, I occasionally communicate with some researchers on some issues.

Most of the time, Mo Dao was alone with his thoughts.

The data from the long-night reactor operation experiment,

As for the role of Mo Dao's entire research and thinking, we can only say yes.

But most of the time, it can only serve as some inspiration.

There is no way to find even relatively direct answers to the theoretical problems that need to be solved in the operational experimental data of the Changye Reactor.

In terms of the realization of controllable nuclear fusion devices, thinking about turbulence issues,

Most of the time, there is no progress.

Occasionally, there were some by-products of thinking, which led Mo Dao to publish some papers on theoretical physics one after another.

In addition, during this time,

Mo Dao brought several more doctoral students to Capital University, which can be regarded as a contribution to the next generation of researchers in controllable nuclear fusion research.

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35 years,

After Changyedui achieved that breakthrough result, another eight years passed.

At this time,

Obviously, there are many other teams engaged in controllable nuclear fusion research around the world.

Basically, it can be said that there is no movement.

As for Changyedui, no new progress on Xi Mo has been announced for a long time.

Many people have had some changes in their mentality.

It seems that the real commercialization of controllable nuclear fusion is not that close.

Occasionally, there are some voices from major foreign controllable nuclear fusion projects represented by Europe and America.

Basically, they stated that they are very close to breaking through the Q value of one in their controllable nuclear fusion experiment.

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In 2037, ten years have passed since the construction of Changyedui was completed.

Throughout the world, just like Mo Dao in previous lives,

There is a clear difference in the understanding of technological development compared to decades ago.

Many people are pessimistic about the rapid progress of science and technology.

Of course, this is for people who were born and grew up earlier. For people who were born at this time, it was like this when they were born, so there is nothing pessimistic about it.

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In 2038, this year, the research on controllable nuclear fusion set off a new wave throughout the world.

The main reason is that,

After almost eleven years,

America California’s controllable nuclear fusion project finally achieved a Q-value of one.

In the second half of the same year, Europe's controllable nuclear fusion project also announced that the same Q value had exceeded a historic level.

It even reached a level of 1.18.

This is actually not surprising.

After the Changye Reactor achieves this historic breakthrough, it is basically inevitable that other controllable nuclear fusion projects will break through to this value.

Rather, with increased capital investment, it is already very slow to catch up at this time.

So far, the Q values ​​of several controllable nuclear fusion projects have exceeded one.

then,

Faced with the achievements of the European controlled nuclear fusion project, the leader of a certain European country expressed confidence,

"We will achieve it (controllable fusion) no matter the cost, because it represents the future."

Then, only the following year.

On the Chinese side,

Changyedui announced the latest progress, which made the other two parties calm down for a while.

“Chang Ye Hei achieves a Q value of over 2.4.”

But after that.

The pursuit never happened again.

The rapid improvement of the Q value in the controllable nuclear fusion experiment did not happen either.

But, another long period of peace,

In other words, it is still a long night.