After everyone completed the test, they were able to confirm that the device was effective and could obtain metallic hydrogen, so their test was considered over. According to the original plan, they should shut down the equipment, conduct an inspection, and then proceed.
Obtain more parameters to provide a basis for building larger-scale equipment in the future.
However, the explosion just now really scared everyone. No one could figure out why such an explosion occurred and why the equipment was not damaged by this explosion.
Everyone who didn't understand this decided to let the device continue to run for a while to fully understand the characteristics of the device.
The power plant was informed that it must ensure the power demand here in the past few days and cannot send power to other places. The engineering team urgently produced a receiving device to receive the electricity from this device.
The "discharge port" safely places the high-temperature metallic hydrogen into a sealed container without any loss to prevent it from oxidizing.
You must know that this is high-purity metallic hydrogen. Once it is oxidized and contains impurities, it is almost impossible to restore it.
"Zhao Ye, how much do you estimate our output can be?" After the commander finished handling the matters on site, he ran to Zhao Ye and asked.
Zhao Ye is also calculating this problem. Under the current conditions, if the current energy supply can be maintained, his calculation result is that the daily output is 80 to 100 kilograms. However, in order to obtain such a small amount of output, it is necessary to
The amount of electricity consumed is very terrifying. The entire power plant has been operating at full power, and all the electricity is used to supply this device.
"Commander, my calculation result is that the daily output is about 80 to 100 kilograms, but this is only a theoretical calculation. How specific it is depends on the actual results." Zhao Ye told the scene the figures he calculated.
After confirming with Zhao Ye again, the commander immediately reported the matter to his superiors.
Soon, instructions from superiors came down, requiring the experiment to be continued as much as possible until it was close to the limits in all aspects and then stopped.
Why is there such a requirement?
This is because this metal is so important that all scientific research bosses unanimously told our superiors that this metal is the key to opening the door to the future for mankind.
What should the fourth technological revolution look like? In fact, the top scientists of this era have already made predictions. Artificial intelligence, bioengineering, nuclear fusion, space technology, etc., although no one can say exactly what will happen.
Which, but now I see that the realization of these things cannot be separated from one thing, and that is the metallic hydrogen they have produced now. This metal is so important that the superiors want to get as much of it as possible.
Not willing to take huge risks.
If nothing else, it is extremely dangerous for a thermal power plant to maintain full power output all the time. And no one can say how long this ring press can withstand continuous operation.
Soon, the commander ordered everyone to evacuate the scene. For safety reasons, no one could be left idle within a radius of 500 meters with the machine room as the center.
The operators on site were all replaced by cadres and employees of military industrial units, and all of them were D members. Not only that, before coming up, everyone had to write a suicide note, swear an oath to the D flag, and reiterate their oath.
Zhao Ye was also asked to leave the experimental building, walked far enough away, and checked the situation on the scene through the video.
At this time, no one could leave, and of course no one would want to leave. For three days, Zhao Ye and this group of people stayed here for three days. After three days, news came from the thermal power station.
The unit must reduce the power. If it does not reduce the power, the unit will be in great danger.
That's it, here we are reducing the power supply of the device little by little, thinking of stopping this thing.
The first thing to stop is the supply of raw materials, then the fan starts to cool down strongly, and finally the power supply to the magnetic field is stopped little by little.
But what no one expected was that at the last moment of stopping, the entire device still exploded. Although the operators on site took adequate protective measures, they still suffered varying degrees of injuries.
By the time Zhao Ye was allowed in, the scene had become a mess. The entire device basically no longer existed, and various parts were scattered everywhere in the entire underground space.
"This, this, how could this happen? How could this happen?" A physics expert on the side was almost stunned when faced with these two explosions. The entire device was built by him and Zhao Ye.
. They considered various factors and various consequences, but they never thought that this thing would explode.
Why did this thing explode?
This is what Zhao Ye is puzzled about. This is also the first time his system has "made an error".
After all, he had done a simulation before the experiment started, and throughout the simulation, the equipment was able to operate reliably.
But the reality is so unexpected, and the entire device has been blown up. What they can do now is to carefully collect the wreckage and find out the reason why the entire experimental device exploded.
The only thing that makes people feel fortunate is that in these three days, the entire device produced another 260 kilograms of metallic hydrogen for them. In this way, at least they will have the opportunity to rebuild such a device.
Overall, this experiment can be considered a successful experiment because of the use of more than two hundred kilograms of metallic hydrogen.
In the following week, Zhao Ye almost never came here again. It was not that he didn't want to come, but that he couldn't come. Not only him, but even Han Ma's level was not allowed to come in contact with this aspect. For such an arrangement,
From the beginning, Zhao Ye started to scold her, but gradually he understood and accepted it. Sometimes, not letting him have contact is also a kind of protection.
The more you know, the more isolation you may face. Although he is one of the leaders of the entire experimental project, in addition to his status as a scientist, he is also an entrepreneur. This status puts him in constant contact with the outside world, which is really...
Not conducive to confidentiality.
It’s not that the country can’t trust him, but that in many cases, the more you know, the more dangerous you are.
A week later, Zhao Ye was allowed to enter the experimental building. The first floor and underground had been cleaned and repainted. According to the public, this place was once used to develop new materials. Unfortunately,
The chemical material exploded, but there were no casualties. For this reason, the relevant units even prepared "wounded people" for them.
Although the ring press equipment was removed, the research projects upstairs were retained in order to carry out research on metallic hydrogen. Here, Zhao Ye's task is to use the related properties of metallic hydrogen to develop a new generation of
Chip. As for the research and development work on other application technologies of metallic hydrogen, Zhao Ye does not know where it has been transferred.
A vault has been installed in the basement here to store 200 grams of metallic hydrogen materials left for their research experiments. A platoon of troops was stationed around the entire underground vault for close protection.
This is enough to show that the superiors attach great importance to this kind of material. Perhaps, in the near future, this will be the spark for us to fully enter the new technological revolution. At this time, no matter how strict the confidentiality system is, it is not too much. Not only that, Zhao Ye
It can be imagined that there must be more powerful forces carrying out peripheral protection work around this building, but he deliberately pretended not to see it.
Leaving aside Professor Ci and his project team, Zhao Ye chose a basement and started a new project. He was the only one in the entire project team, and he didn't even need an assistant. No one could come in here except Zhao Ye.
The reason why he did this was very simple. He wanted to create real artificial intelligence.
In other words, he wants to use metallic hydrogen, a new material, to build a brand new computer.
This computer, not to mention the design of its peripheral devices, is just a central processor. Zhao Ye has abandoned the original logical structure.
Among the intelligence levels given by the system, the artificial intelligence he wants to create is just an intermediate product between first-class intelligence and second-class intelligence. Real artificial intelligence is designed based on bionics, and it can
It highly imitates and restores the working mode of human brain neurons. You can imagine, guess, and even dream. But this cannot be achieved by relying solely on metallic hydrogen.
Traditional transistor circuits have three working states. It is based on the differences between these three working states that people have designed various processors. So, regardless of how complex the future processor design is, the process technology has
How advanced they are, in fact, they all use these three working states of transistors discovered by scientists decades ago. Taking advantage of the different performances of these states, humans have designed a variety of integrated circuits, ultra-large-scale integrated circuits, which can
Integrating hundreds of millions of transistors into a space smaller than a fingernail.
But the fundamentals remain true. Before we break through the inherent characteristics of transistors, we can’t even think about real artificial intelligence.
Hardware determines software, and software determines functionality.
In modern software design, the basic logic has actually been determined during chip design and production. Almost all software relies on loops to judge such basic working logic. No matter how many conditions we add to it,
This logic will not be broken. Once it is broken, the hardware that supports it will stop working.
All things like The Matrix can only appear in movies. Even so, in the final stage of the movie, the screenwriter had to use a miraculous method to deal with the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence programs.
of war.
However, the emergence of metallic hydrogen broke this tradition.