Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

The interview was scheduled for a week.

Since this time, Lu Zhou has been busy with miniaturization projects for controllable fusion.

In order to increase the temperature peak of the bubble in the working fluid, several old professors at the Institute of Luzhou and Acoustics also tried to improve the ultrasonic generator. By removing the acoustic suspension stabilizer on the generator, the energy of the load in the ultrasonic wave was increased. The maximum sound pressure acting on the bubble is increased from 15 times atmospheric pressure to 30 times.

Of course, there is no cost to doing this.

The acoustic suspension stabilizer was removed and the bubbles in the solution could not float stably in the center of the container.

However, the so-called sonoluminescence does not need to be able to float in a certain position in the container, so this side effect does not matter.

After updating the experimental equipment, Lu Zhou immediately repeated the experiment with Sheng Xianfu, using two gases, a mixture of helium and neon, respectively, to observe the bubble temperature and the key neutron recovery rate.

The completed experimental report was handed to the hands of Lu Zhou, Sheng Xianfu's face with a mixed expression, said.

"The situation is still not optimistic. The peak temperature can reach a maximum of 10 million Kelvin, but the lowest is only about 500,000 Kelvin."

Looking at the experimental report in his hand, Lu Zhou frowned.

"Is the deviation so big?"

Sheng Xianfu’s expression was dignified and pointed out: “The temperature changes observed by blackbody radiation are quite unstable. I don’t know if our observations have gone wrong or what else.”

If it is possible to make the collapse of each bubble reach the high temperature of 10 million Kelvin, it is possible to stabilize the fusion reaction by pulse ignition in consideration of factors such as volume shrinkage. however

Lu Zhou continued to ask: "What is the neutron proliferation rate?"

Sheng Xianfu hesitated: "I have improved... but the controllable fusion from a stable distance is still far away."

Lu Zhou pondered for a while and asked: "What is the preparation of the new experimental container?"

Sheng Xianfu: "The nuclear industry group has already completed it, and it will be delivered tomorrow."

Upon hearing this sentence, the expression on Lu Zhou’s face was finally relieved.

He placed the experimental report on the table and he told me to open it.

"Today's experiment is here, check the equipment tomorrow. Wait until the day after tomorrow, directly on the liquid lithium."

Sheng Xianfu nodded with a serious expression.

"Yes!"

As Lu Zhou predicted by calculation, when using lighter liquid lithium as the working liquid, its performance on sonoluminescence does exceed that of concentrated sulfuric acid and aqueous solution. Especially when the mixed gas is introduced, the sound pressure acting on the surface of the bubble is significantly improved, and the maximum atmospheric pressure is 31.7 times.

However, the liquid lithium working at 700 degrees Celsius is still too active, and the experiment is several times more dangerous than the original concentrated sulfuric acid.

Especially in the third experiment, the operator accidentally mixed a small amount of oxygen when preparing the helium gas mixture in the electrolysis of heavy water and super heavy water, which caused a burst of flames in the instant container of the gas.

Fortunately, the dose of oxygen was not large, and several researchers in the laboratory responded in a timely manner, so that the laboratory was rescued. If it is really melted through the working container, the high-temperature liquid lithium in the container will directly contact the air. When it is time to say that it is a laboratory, I am afraid that the wall of the load-bearing wall will be light...

In short, since then, the people of the entire institute of higher learning, watching Sheng Xianfu their eyes are different...

Time passed by, and it was the day of the interview.

In the office of the Jinling University, Lu Zhou saw the interview team of ctv.

It’s quite good to say that the reporter who was interviewing him just had a relationship with him a year ago.

"Hello, Professor Lu," with a professional smile on his face, He Ying, wearing a dark blue business suit, extended his right hand and Lu Zhou gently gripped it, and listened with a good voice, "We met again." ""

Released her hand, Lu Zhou nodded with a smile.

"Long time no see, Miss Ho... We are starting now?"

He Ying smiled and nodded: "Start now."

Knowing that Lu Zhou’s research was very busy, she did not waste time on the cold, and soon brought the interview to the topic.

After sitting down on the sofa, He Ying adjusted his sitting posture and indicated that the photographer next to him was ready to start. Then he continued to change his professional smile and looked at Lu Zhou’s opening and said: “I am honored to have this opportunity to interview you. Before the interview, I want to ask you a few questions on behalf of the audience in front of the TV."

Lu Zhou smiled and said: "Ask, as long as I know and can say, I must know everything."

He Ying bent his lips and said: "Reassuring, it is not a very difficult problem."

As she said, she paused and continued to say: "We all know that the mass gap problem of the Yang Mills equation is solved, and the unification of strong interactions and electromagnetic effects will completely change the discipline of the future physics. However, for most For humans, this abstraction can only make people feel confused. What do you think about the future of physics?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said: "Is it so difficult to get up?"

He Ying smiled and said: "It is very difficult for others, but it should be no problem for you?"

"Standing from the perspective of a scholar, about the future of theoretical physics... I really don't really answer this question. After all, no one knows whether a new physics will be born tomorrow." Here, Lu Zhou thought for a while. And continue to say, "In the long-term goal, what the theoretical physicist has been seeking for life is naturally a unified theory. Now the strong interaction and electromagnetic interaction have successfully bridged the bridge, and the rest is gravity. Of course, about Gravity is also very little known to us. Maybe after a century of exhaustion, we can only understand a little fur."

He Ying asked seriously: "Is there a conclusion about the cause of gravity?"

Lu Zhou: "Of course, gravity is probably the most mysterious field in physics. Although our feelings about it may be more intuitive than the other three basic forces, we have the least understanding of it. Even string theory and circle quantum Gravitational theory explains the reasons for its birth from two diametrically opposite ways, but knows that no one today can say for sure who is right."

He Ying continued to ask: "What is the more realistic goal?"

Leaning on the sofa, Lu Zhou thought for a while: "More realistic, or short-term goals, naturally still verify and explore the standard model. Although the standard model is great enough, but through theoretical research and some Experiments, we can always find something that exists outside of the standard model."

Having said that, Lu Zhou paused for a moment and said in a joking tone: "For example, m particles. Although I don't know what it looks like, but by mathematical methods, I can prove that it does exist. If anyone can find it, we It is possible to add a new puzzle to the building of the standard model."

He Ying: "This sounds very exciting."

Lu Zhou smiled and said: "Of course, the exploration of the unknown itself is an exciting thing."

He Ying: "However, however, theoretical physics is still a very distant existence for most of us. Can you explain to us that the study of theoretical physics is for our society and for us? What kind of seeing influence can civilization produce?"

For this problem, Lu Zhou has been thinking for a long time.

Just when He Ying began to wonder if he asked what was inconvenient to answer, and when he was ready to let the photographer cut this paragraph, Lu Zhou suddenly spoke.

"This is a very abstract proposition. It is difficult for me to tell you about a theoretical physics discovery that can produce what ordinary people can see. It is like the Higgs particle, the gravitational wave, and so on. What is found or obtained from this universe is mostly useless to most people."

"Even even including the m particles that I said earlier, even on the basis of the unified theory of power and electricity and the unified theory of weak electricity, we have further unified the four basic forces, and this universe will not change anything because of us. Perhaps We will explore the funds of theoretical physics to improve our lives. It is indeed possible to let more people fill their stomachs in a certain period of time and make our lives better."

Having said that, Lu Zhou paused for a moment and continued with a serious tone.

"However, if no one is going to do something that is considered useless, we will have no future."