Chapter 415: The project unfolds and the key to technological leap forward is discovered!
For tens of billions of projects, the preliminary preparation work is very complicated, and it will also be a long-term work.
In addition to some established large institutions, some experimental groups have also joined in, such as the Sokai University computing group that cooperates with the Superconducting Materials Research Center.
The calculation group, also known as the ‘Algebraic Geometry Calculation Group’, was originally established by Xihai University by employing a large number of algebraic geometry experts.
Now the person in charge of the computing team has become Zhang He.
Zhang He is an outstanding doctorate graduate from Capital University. He quickly rose to prominence after joining the computing group and was promoted to the group leader and later to the director position.
The calculation group is just a mathematics research group, belonging to the School of Science of Xihai University, but the semi-topological element calculation work they do is very important, and has accumulated a solid data foundation for the element work calculation of superconducting semi-topological theory.
Material research and development relies on basic theory, experience, past data, etc. Luck is also an indispensable factor.
The computing group provides basic theoretical data support, which is of great help to research and development work.
Wang Hao is the applicant for the project, but other people are responsible for most project-related matters, and his focus is still on research and development work.
He leads the research and development of first-order iron superconducting materials. He also needs basic support and other people to provide opinions and support. Having a large number of professional personnel to help with calculations and provide data-based opinions will also greatly speed up the research and development speed.
For tens of billions of projects, most of the funds will be invested in material research and development and anti-gravity property testing.
One of the most expensive points is the laboratory manufacturing of new materials. After the materials are developed, they must be manufactured to a certain extent before anti-gravity properties can be tested. However, the manufacturing of new materials definitely does not have industrial production and can only be carried out in the laboratory.
manufacture.
It is impossible for the Superconducting Materials Research Center to allocate too much energy to the manufacturing of developed materials, and part of the work will have to be allocated.
This is why other experimental institutions participate.
Whenever a new material is developed and needs to be manufactured, part of the process will be assigned to other experimental institutions.
The first is to manufacture the materials, which are all made in the laboratory, and then adjust the layout design. If both materials are superconducting, it will be easier to make.
After completing the manufacturing of new materials, the anti-gravity properties are tested.
There are two ways to detect anti-gravity characteristics, one is to conduct conventional testing of anti-gravity characteristics, and the other is to conduct testing of critical superconducting characteristics.
The strong annihilation force field uses high-pressure hybrid materials because the high-pressure hybrid materials can stimulate anti-gravity properties before reaching the superconducting state.
No metallic superconducting material has shown the same properties before.
After the emergence of first-order iron, the situation is different. Some superconducting materials made of first-order iron can stimulate an antigravity field when the superconducting state is not reached.
This is also the direct reason why first-order iron materials are promising to replace high-pressure hybrid materials.
In fact, what Wang Hao wants to do most is a comparative experiment, which is to make the same iron compound, the only difference is conventional iron and first-order iron, and then compare the antigravity and superconducting properties of the two compounds.
Unfortunately, conventional iron cannot stimulate an antigravity field before reaching a superconducting state.
Therefore, the comparison can only be compared to the superconducting state.
This has nothing to do with the strong annihilation force field.
In the process of continuous research, the experimental team also discovered a lithium element compound that exhibited superconducting antigravity properties, but the intensity of the excited antigravity field was very low.
"Less than 0.1%."
"We could only see very weak data, and we thought it was an error at first," Sheng Hailiang said during his report.
He Yi analyzed, "This may be related to the strong metal activity of lithium element."
"possible."
Wang Hao made a comment.
He Yi's statement covers most possibilities.
Most highly active compounds and elements exhibit poor antigravity properties, which may be related to their semi-topological structure.
If the activity is strong, the semi-topological structure will be unstable and easily destroyed.
on the contrary.
When an element or compound is stable, the superconducting critical temperature may be lower, but the corresponding antigravity properties will be higher.
This is not a theorem, but a summary of most situations. Because there are many factors that affect the critical temperature and antigravity characteristics of superconductors, it cannot be judged only from the activity.
After continuous experiments, one problem can be determined. The specificity of first-order iron affects the stability of the semi-topological structure.
This also results in superconducting materials containing first-order iron having relatively higher criticality problems and lower anti-gravity properties.
At the same time, there are also several first-order iron materials that can stimulate antigravity properties before reaching the superconducting state.
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A lot of research, a lot of experiments, a lot of results.
In just two months, the Superconducting Materials Research Center came up with six first-order iron superconducting materials. Among them, the highest critical temperature data is 231k (-42.15c), which was considered very important when it was developed.
s material.
Unfortunately, materials with high critical temperatures do not have anti-gravity properties.
In addition, there are four materials with anti-gravity properties, and two of them can stimulate an anti-gravity field before reaching a superconducting state.
Among them, the highest field strength is 0.93 (7%).
"It's still too low, only 7%, and it's only achieved at a temperature close to superconducting." Wang Hao sighed and shook his head.
Although I know that research is not easy, it is a bit disappointing to come up with such a tasteless result after two months.
Wang Hao analyzed, "It seems that the specific influence of first-order iron is greater than imagined. Judging from the current experimental data, the maximum may not exceed 20%."
"But it's hard to say theoretically."
"We are currently unable to determine the impact data of the specificity of first-order iron through calculation..."
After researching this, many people are a little disappointed.
Although the project has just begun, many people have long been accustomed to the feeling of rapid breakthroughs in research. Especially under the leadership of Wang Hao, several superconducting materials with anti-gravity properties were quickly developed. Unfortunately, the property test results were not good enough.
As expected.
soon.
Another month has passed.
On this day, Wang Hao was still at the Superconducting Materials Research Center, demonstrating the research and development of new materials with others, when he suddenly received a message from Xia Guobin, saying that they had a new discovery of materials.
He immediately went to the NanoVis laboratory.
Xia Guobin had been waiting at the door for a long time. He enthusiastically welcomed Wang Hao in and talked about the new findings of the experiment, "For the first-order ferroalloy that was delivered more than a month ago, we melted the material and then cooled it to create thin sheets. We used precision
Observed with instruments, we found that this material may have a spherical crystal structure at a viewing angle of 0.1 microns."
"oh?"
Wang Hao was stunned for a moment, and then asked for details.
Xia Guobin gave a professional explanation at the beginning. Their experimental process was very complicated. Generally speaking, it was to make the alloy material present a special state so that it could be observed at a viewing angle of 0.1 micron.
The final conclusion is not observed, but inferred based on experimental data.
He handed the data to Wang Hao.
Wang Hao looked at it briefly and didn't pay much attention to the result.
He took a deep breath and thought of a very important question, "If during the material manufacturing process, the smallest possible arrangement is carried out according to the needs of constructing an anti-gravity field, will it greatly improve the quality of the products produced?
Anti-gravity field strength?”
“This may be the key to a leap forward in technology!”
"We still need to discuss it with others..."
His idea is simple.
It turns out that the underlying material layout for creating an anti-gravity field is to mold the materials into various shapes to maximize the overall superposition effect in a single direction.
The semi-topological structure inside the material, which stimulates the anti-gravity effect in the conductive state, is not in a single direction, but is very, very complicated.
For example, it's like the scattering of light.
If light hits a rough cut surface, the propagation direction will be very confusing.
Now to create an anti-gravity field, we need to adjust the rough section and try to align the smoother position with the light source to achieve the effect of fixing the direction of light propagation.
What if the rough cut surface should be made as smooth as possible?
In other words, the process of making materials is not to make a whole, but to make the material a combination of many tiny structures...
"It must be possible!"
The more Wang Hao thought about it, the more confident he became.
He went to the Antigravity Behavior Research Center, gathered all the core researchers for a meeting, and invited Xia Guobin to give an explanation of the experimental results.
Xia Guobin suddenly felt excited.
He also did not expect that the new experimental discovery would receive such great attention from Wang Hao, and that he would have to go to a meeting of the Antigravity Behavior Research Center to explain it himself.
That's the Antigravity Behavior Research Center!
If it were the physics laboratory ten years ago, he would not have any fluctuations at all. Times have changed too fast. The former physics laboratory has become the focus of the world's attention, and even he is not qualified to have access to the research done.
Now……
At least you can go in and take a look around.
Then, he met He Yi.
In the past, He Yi was just an ordinary physics professor. Xia Guobin never thought that one day, He Yi would stand so much higher than him and become the top experimental physicist, not to mention winning the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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"Alas~~"
Such complicated emotions did not affect Xia Guobin's enthusiasm, "Professor He, long time no see!"
He went over to shake hands with He Yi.
Although both of them are at Xihai University, He Yi has to take care of the antigravity behavior research center and the annihilation force field experimental group. He is not engaged in teaching at the university and has few opportunities to meet other faculty members.
He Yi also shook hands with Xia Guobin and said with a smile, "I haven't seen him for a while." He just finished speaking and before he could say anything, someone came over to him.
He started to get busy and continued to give orders, "Notify the Condensed Matter Physics Center and ask them to cooperate in the production of new materials..."
"Next month, we will conduct first-order lithium research. By the way, do you have the report from the Institute of Materials Science, Academy of Sciences?"
"We also need to prepare for tomorrow's experiment..."
"There will be a meeting soon. Didn't you see Professor Xia coming here? Tell them to hurry up and don't waste Academician Wang's precious time!"
Xia Guobin stood nearby and listened in a daze. He asked, "Are the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering of the Academy of Sciences and the Center for Condensed Matter Physics involved in your project?"
"yes."
He Yidao, "There are many organizations involved." He said distressedly, "I am in charge of this aspect of work, and I am really busy. I need them to cooperate together. I can't finish just the assigned work, and I also have to manage experiments...
"
"well!"
He said with a long sigh.
"Is the project so huge?" Xia Guobin suddenly felt something was wrong and asked curiously, "How much funding does your project have?"
After he finished speaking, he added, "If it involves confidentiality, don't say it."
He Yi shook his head and said, "There is nothing to keep secret. If you go to other institutions and inquire about it, you will know that 10 billion is a long-term project."
"How many?"
Xia Guobin was stunned.
"Ten billion?" He Yi asked confused, "What's wrong? Don't you have 20 million in funding? I discussed it with Academician Wang, is the funding still enough?"
"..."
Xia Guobin grinned awkwardly, and a pain flowed through his heart. He asked, "So, the opportunity prepared for us is 20 million?"
"yes."
He Yi seemed to see something and changed his tone and said, "But it still depends on the workload. The plan is 20 million, but Professor Xia, you also know that funding is hard to say... It still depends on how much work is done.
If you don’t have enough funds, you can submit an application later..."
"But let's agree first that when submitting an application later, a clear financial statement must be given, and..."
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Xia Guobin's heart bleeds as he listened. Of course he knew that subsequent applications could also be approved for funding, but it would be very difficult to apply for funding later.
If funding is obtained at the beginning, the degree of freedom in using the funds will be very high, and a large bonus can be given to the people of the institute.
Now there is only 4 million in funding, and they are just scientific research coolies.
"Pah~pah~"
The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became. He couldn't help but walk aside and slapped himself hard twice.
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The meeting officially begins.
Xia Guobin did not officially attend the meeting. He did not participate in the research. He just came to talk about the experimental results and then left depressed.
Before leaving, he looked at Wang Hao sadly.
Wang Hao felt baffled.
However, he didn't take it to heart. He followed the results of the Nanoscale Laboratory and talked about his own ideas, "I think we can start with material manufacturing."
"You have all listened to Professor Xia's experiment. They found that the alloy cross-section is composed of small balls. If we use the smallest unit that technology can support, we can create small material particles one by one, and then put them together.
…”
"Then, what will happen if we use this to conduct an anti-gravity experiment?"
The conference room fell into silence.
Everyone is thinking about the method Wang Hao said. After thinking about it carefully, they think it makes sense, but there are definitely questions.
Zhang Shiqiang, a materials expert in the team, asked directly, "How to make small particles one by one and bond them together?"
"If they are put together only by external pressure, the structure of the small particles will be destroyed, and many gaps will definitely appear."
"other methods……"
"It will have high requirements on material manufacturing technology..."
Others also discussed it.
"Perhaps a main line could be placed in the center, with small particles around it embedded into the main line and always connected?"
"There's no point in doing this."
"You can also use magnetic field adsorption to arrange the small particles naturally and orderly, and then fix them on the periphery..."
"It doesn't have to be cross-cutting, it can also be cut vertically. The material is made into threads with small particles, and then wound together in an orderly manner..."