A slap...

Five billion in funding?

There was a commotion in the venue.

Wang Hao is a scholar specially invited to the conference. He is actually not here as the leader of the project team or as a laboratory or company representative, but specifically to deliver superconducting research and directional reports.

No one in the venue expected that the first thing Wang Hao said when he walked on the stage was to ask for funds, and he asked for five billion.

This number is really shocking.

Wang Chenglin and Du Jianhua are the leaders of the large-scale experimental group. They just came on stage and talked about the project. They did not talk about the specific funding, but they estimated it to be one to two hundred million.

The research and development expenditure exceeds 100 million, which is considered a major project.

When Wang Hao opened his mouth, he said it was five billion, which already exceeded the total budget of a single technology support department.

The Science Foundation certainly cannot afford it, and their total budget to support superconducting research cannot reach 5 billion.

Similar major projects can only be approved by the top leadership group, a special project meeting must be held, and funding designated by the national finance department and science and technology department.

This is beyond the scope of the meeting's decision.

Even if all the official representatives and scholars at the venue recognized Wang Hao's research, they would not be able to decide to approve such a major project.

After a burst of uproar, the venue suddenly became quiet. They all didn't quite understand why Wang Hao would talk about such an important project on this occasion.

Normally, similar to major R&D projects, because the required funds are too high, it is similar to large particle collider and top major projects. First, it needs to be demonstrated, a special meeting must be held, and then the Ministry of Science and Technology will approve it, and then discuss it later.

Expand and proceed.

What’s the point of saying it here?

Many people looked at the stage with curious eyes.

Wang Hao paused for a while and then set the tone, "Funding is only one aspect of this research."

He explained, "We have already achieved certain results in the research of superconducting materials."

Everyone in the venue understood what he meant. He was talking about the Superconducting Materials Laboratory, which had developed high-temperature superconducting materials that could be used in industry.

Wang Hao continued, "Several of the materials are very valuable."

"We understand the elemental composition, critical issues, and other physical properties of each material."

"Our research is based on this to connect with semi-topological theory. We use experimental data to communicate the theoretical mechanism, so as to expand the theoretical and applied research on superconductivity."

"This will be a huge systematic project!"

Wang Hao explained briefly.

Many of the people here are top scholars in the field of superconductivity, and others are also officials from academia, science and technology departments, and related people. They will understand it if they think about it carefully.

Because there are already several superconducting materials that can be used in industry, based on the materials that can be manufactured, based on their physical properties and experimental research data, we can connect the contents of semi-topological theory to deduce some new things.

Existing research on superconducting materials also relies on semi-topological theory, but the theory is only one direction, and there are many uncertainties in material research.

Why a material has high-temperature superconductivity and other physical properties cannot be explained clearly by a semi-topological theory.

After all, semi-topological theory cannot yet demonstrate the composition of matter by complex elements.

Therefore, it is also a feasible method to use the manufactured complex materials to infer the theoretical content.

only……

If you want to really research meaningful content, you may not be able to achieve results?

Some top superconducting scholars are still a little unsure when thinking about research issues.

Based on the characteristics of existing materials and combined with basic theories, it is hoped that further theoretical content can be researched. It is indeed a feasible solution, but it may not be fruitful, and there is a high probability that it will not be fruitful.

This is mainly due to its complexity.

The reason why the semi-topological theory can only demonstrate the combination of two elements is because of the complexity of calculation and analysis. The further three elements are already so complicated that it makes one's head numb. The four elements are simply unthinkable.

So when faced with a substance composed of a dozen or more atoms, can we achieve results based only on its physical and other characteristics and basic theories?

The uncertainty is too high.

Of course they didn't know that Wang Hao had already determined the semi-topological microscopic morphology of a material, which was the missing part.

Of course, Wang Hao will definitely not tell everything at the meeting, and his purpose is not to persuade others to support the project.

Five billion dollars seems to be a lot of money, but money has never been a problem for Wang Hao.

As long as you apply normally, it is only a matter of time before the funds are approved.

Whether it is the Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Technology, large enterprises, or even the top leadership group, they will support his research and development.

Five billion is not such a big number.

Even if it is just a superconducting industrial company, it can continuously invest funds to support its research and development in the future.

Wang Hao said seriously, "This is a systems engineering project that requires not only funds, but also a large amount of manpower, equipment, and massive experiments."

"We need a lot of experiments and collect a lot of data. It can't be completed by one laboratory or two laboratories."

"In addition, the experiment is not limited to the field of superconductivity and mechanism. We also need to conduct some other material property analysis."

"So it requires a lot of experimental teams to work together..."

When Wang Hao said this, many people in the venue understood.

A large systematic research project requires a lot of experiments and research. It cannot be completed by a single laboratory, and it will definitely require the cooperation of other experimental teams.

If there is no other experimental team to cooperate, we can only build a very large experimental team, which may require thousands or tens of thousands of people.

Obviously.

Just for a single project, building such an experimental institution is not worth the gain, because the cost of creating the institution itself is astronomical.

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Many people in the venue couldn't help but discuss, "In other words, Academician Wang is applying for a very large project, but they cannot complete this project by themselves and require the cooperation of many other teams."

"The research must be centered on his team, the Superconducting Materials Laboratory? They also have an anti-gravity team that can also cooperate, and other teams will also assign some experimental work."

"Isn't this the main project and sub-project?"

"It can also be said that it is joint research with other laboratories, not necessarily a primary or secondary project."

"But in the end, the entire project is managed by the main team, and other laboratories cooperate and distribute experimental tasks..."

"It's so whimsical!"

The last sentence was muttered by Wang Chenglin in a low voice. He was sitting with Du Jianhua, and they were also discussing it, "My team will definitely not join the project anyway, regardless of whether it is 5 billion or 10 billion, even if it is 100 billion, we will

Don’t join!”

"me too!"

Du Jianhua nodded affirmatively, "I remember when Wang Hao was doing exchange gravity research, we didn't even consider cooperation at all, let alone the current theoretical research."

"Isn't joining a project just to do a sub-project? Research is controlled by others, and experiments are all assigned. You still have to do research yourself to be free..."

Wang Chenglin nodded in approval, "Yes, even if you are doing small research worth tens of millions, you will at least have freedom. If you join Wang Hao's project, you will be assigned tasks. Even if there are results in the end, it will be their materials experiment group and other teams.

It doesn’t matter, the most I can do is add the name of the organization to the result.”

Du Jianhua said, "Yeah, what's the point? Doesn't that mean working for someone else, and the funding and research are all controlled by others..."

He kept shaking his head as he spoke.

Although most of the project funding for domestic experimental institutions in the field of superconductivity comes from the Science Foundation, they only agree with the overall project direction of the Science Foundation.

If you join Wang Hao's project, you will have another 'superior' in your mind, and you will lose your freedom in research.

“It’s simply not worth the loss!”

"We are already one of the best teams, why should we join other people's projects..."

"How whimsical!"

"Not even Wang Hao... I guess not many teams will join. Don't worry, this project can't be carried out!"

"There is no point in approving the project. I feel that the direction is still uncertain. Even if the theory makes sense, the semi-topological theory is already very clear. Is it possible to go further?"

"The same applies to applications. We have already produced 120K materials. Can we still produce 150K or 200K materials?"

"impossible!"

"The project doesn't make much sense at all..."

The last thing we talk about is the development of superconductivity. In fact, it is not just Du Jianhua and Wang Chenglin who see it this way, many people also see it this way.

Now there is semi-topological theory, which weakens the research on Hodge's conjecture and further simplifies the theory. However, simplification is only in the field of mathematical calculation and analysis, and there is actually no qualitative breakthrough.

In terms of application, high-temperature superconducting materials exceeding 120K that can be used in industry have been manufactured, and it will be difficult to make further progress in the future.

Many scholars believe that superconducting materials also have bottlenecks and may not be able to make breakthroughs for decades or hundreds of years.

Room-temperature superconductivity still only exists in imagination for the time being.

Wang Chenglin and Du Jianhua both said that they were not interested in the project, and that Wang Hao was thinking that Wang Hao was fanciful. They denied the project and the direction, and also asserted that they would not join the project.
To be continued...