When he got up in the morning, Lu Chen got on his retro motorcycle and drove slowly towards the energy station next to Dongyang Lake.
Yesterday, I chatted with Mu Zhiran until midnight, which made it a little difficult for Lu Chen to get up in the morning. But no matter how difficult it is, you have to get up - starting from today, Lu Chen shoulders a new and important task.
The tram running through Lushan has been suspended for four days. Although the explosion did not completely destroy the track, the inspection and maintenance of all lines have not yet been completed. For safety reasons, the school informed that the tram will be suspended for about two weeks.
Considering that he and Mu Zhiran frequently visited the Institute of Physics and the experimental area recently, Lu Chen finally decided to ride the motorcycle he had not driven for half a year.
I don't know if it was because of the failure of the pressurizing equipment, but the metallic hydrogen in the car weighed less than ten grams. It took Lu Chen half an hour to clean the car, and he slowly drove away at the most economical speed. It took another ten minutes to drive.
We arrived next to the energy station.
This retro motorcycle was a "transportation vehicle" specially bought by Lu Chen for commuting when he was a graduate student. Although public transportation is extremely developed, driving a vehicle with an internal combustion engine structure and experiencing the feeling of the tire rotation... still feels...
It is a very tempting experience.
Thinking about it now, Lu Chen still felt that he had made a bit of a loss in buying this motorcycle. After buying the car, all the planned trips were ruined. He would use it to work overtime or catch up on sleep during holidays, or else the weather would be so bad that he would not be able to go out at all.<
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All in all, this retro motorcycle, which uses metal hydrogen to decompress, convert ultra-high-pressure cylinders into hydrogen, and is driven by direct combustion in the cylinder, has become... a used car in stock.
But it does look good, so just keep the inventory - Lu Chen doesn't want to sell the car anyway.
"What a great car! You guys have good taste!" The elder brother on duty at the energy station saw Lu Chen's motorcycle from a distance. After Lu Chen parked at the energy station, the elder brother first spoke highly of it, and then asked about the business.
"Replenish energy or replace the tank?"
"Change the tank, brother, can you help me take a look?" Lu Chen hung his helmet on the rearview mirror, pointed at his car and said, "I haven't driven it for a long time, and when I started it today, I was reminded that the pressure tank is inside
Abnormal pressure."
"It's been like this since you haven't ridden it for too long. Your bike must have been untouched for two months, right?" The big brother at the energy station looked like he had seen too much. "The reactants in the tank interlayer have neutralized with the hydrogen.
There will be this reminder, just change the can."
Lu Chen nodded and stepped aside to leave enough space for the robotic arm to replace the energy storage tank. He looked at the many private cars with high-voltage heads plugged into the energy station and asked, "Why is it so busy today? It can't be that the price of hydrogen is going to rise again.
Right?"
"You haven't read the news?" asked the elder brother curiously. "The Port of Bianchi exploded early this morning, and the port facilities were damaged all over. The hydrogen supply in our region comes from the Port of Bianchi, and everyone is worried.
I can’t make up for it, so I came here quickly!”
"An attack?" Lu Chen was a little surprised when he heard that, "It wasn't an accident?"
"The official report hasn't come out yet. But... I heard that some sect announced that they were responsible." The eldest brother scratched his head, "I heard it mentioned on the radio in the car this morning. I can't remember the specific content.
Get up."
Watching the robotic arm complete the final operation of replacing the energy storage tank, Lu Chen swiped the checkout with his student card, and then got on the scooter again.
"What did I say? It must be no problem, hold on!" After hearing the roar of the engine, the elder brother was as happy as if he had played a key role in it. He waved his hand enthusiastically towards Lu Shen,
As if to say "You're welcome", he then turned around to charge other private cars.
The internal combustion engine started, and the vehicle's cruising range showed that it could still run 1,300 kilometers. Lu Chen turned the accelerator and drove towards the dual-zone dormitory.
Dual District is the largest female dormitory area with the most advanced facilities and the most beautiful scenery in the entire Central University. Unlike the lakeside where Lu Chen lives, Dual District is located on a small hill in Lushan. Here you can also enjoy the unobstructed view
Enjoy the view of Dongyang Lake, and you don’t have to worry about the mosquitoes by the lake.
This also gave the dual district the nickname "Weak Water" in the Central University. And places like Weak Water are not easily accessible.
Lu Chen rode a motorcycle and registered it three times in a row. The first time he checked the vehicle's safety facilities, insurance and the silencer pipe above the drain. The second time he checked whether the helmet and the prepared passenger helmet were within the safety period.
Check whether the clothes are neat and orderly for the third time.
When Mu Zhiran got in the car, Lu Chen described to her the three inspections he had made along the way. Especially the third inspection of "clothing neat and orderly" was a bit outrageous... What kind of situation was this to prevent?
?
Mu Zhiran, who was wearing a helmet, was also confused, but compared to Lu Chen, she at least had a possible direction of suspicion, "Did the girl who took the lead in the inspection have dyed green hair and permed it into a big wave?" Lu Chen nodded with lingering fear. During the inspection, the green-haired woman was the most strict. She even put her nose to Lu Chen's helmet, and then asked in a low voice, "Why don't you fasten all the buttons?"<
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"Oh, then it's okay." Mu Zhiran nodded, "That is not a school checkpoint, it was set up 'out of interest' by the senior sisters from the School of Liberal Arts."
"Can you also set up checkpoints because of your hobbies?" Lu Chen looked shocked, "Wouldn't that mean he has become a car gangster and a road bully?"
"Some people said that at first, but they were pushed back by Senior Sister Songdao." Mu Zhiran recalled, "Senior Sister Songdao said at the time, 'We did not block the road by force, nor did we do anything to other people.
——If a fool is stopped, it will only waste a few minutes of effort at most.'"
The fool Lu Chen fell into silence after being wasted for several minutes. He didn't know for a moment whether he should express his anger or... just smile and call it a day.
"I heard that the people who were stopped by Senior Sister and the others should all be physicians." Mu Zhiran handed the ladder to Lu Chen at the right moment, "It seems that it is because you obey the rules that you are easily stopped."
I don’t know how many girls living in the dual districts have been treated by physicians in the past few years - is the situation serious enough to require a check-in?
Lu Chen's motorcycle was not very fast, but when chatting, time seemed to flow faster. Not long after, the four-story Institute of Physics appeared at the end of the road.
"Don't be in a hurry to go back." After getting out of the car, Mu Zhiran stopped Lu Chen, who was about to turn around and go back to the Institute of Immunology, "Teacher Tang should have returned. I'll go see if he is there."
Academician Tang Qinglong has indeed returned, but he looks a little preoccupied. After meeting Lu Chen in the office, Academician Tang did not change the topic to the experimental project in a few words like before.
After chatting with Lu Chen for a while, he suddenly asked a little abnormally, "Doctor Lu, do you think the Great Collapse is really an infectious disease?"
"This is our hypothesis..." Lu Chen was halfway through his answer. After seeing the change in Academician Tang's expression, he changed his words, "Personally, I do think so. But Teacher Yang feels that we cannot simply use 'infectious diseases' to
' to describe the Great Collapse, after all, it is still different from infectious diseases in the traditional sense."
"I am a physics major, but I really know nothing about infectious diseases." Academician Tang said sincerely and politely, and then asked, "How did people in the past discover and study infectious diseases when science was not developed enough?
?"
This involves the professional content of medical history, and fortunately Lu Chen has also studied it. Regarding Academician Tang's question, Lu Chen thought about it briefly and chose to use the 1845 Broad Street cholera outbreak in London as an example to explain. Cholera is a serious infectious disease originating in the Indian subcontinent. However, due to the inconvenience of transportation in ancient times, patients with cholera often died of the disease before returning to their hometown. Therefore, before the 19th century, cholera was always a serious disease.
are endemic infectious diseases limited to the Indian subcontinent.
But during the Age of Discovery, driven by colonialism and industrialization, cholera began to leave the Indian subcontinent. This tiny germ left the Ganges Delta and other areas with dense water networks and quickly spread to other areas. Jiaqing 20th
In five years, cholera, which had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in Afghanistan, Persia and Arabia, came to Jiangnan.
In the Susongtai region alone, this terrible disease killed at least half a million people.
The medical methods at that time could only be called a "mild murder method" in the face of cholera. Thirty-four years later, the research on cholera finally ushered in the dawn.
Physician John Snow produced a "cholera map" by marking the addresses of those who died in the Broad Street cholera incident in Soho, London. This map eventually led people's attention to the Broad Street cholera incident.
On the well - the waterborne transmission route of cholera was finally discovered, and at the same time the concept of public health was born.
Twenty-nine years after Dr. John Snow drew the map, and twenty-five years after the physician's death, German bacteriologist Robert Koch finally isolated and discovered Vibrio cholerae under a microscope. This murderous bacterium was invisible.
The devil was finally captured by humans. Sixty-seven years have passed since the source of the infection that set off a global infection crisis - the Calcutta cholera outbreak.
It was not until seventy-eight years later that quinolone antibiotics, which were extremely effective against Vibrio cholerae, were synthesized.
From the time cholera spread across the world to the creation of therapeutic drugs, it took countless chemists, doctors, and bacteriologists more than 145 years. Seven cholera pandemics killed a total of about 138 million people. p>
After listening to this story, Academician Tang was silent for a long time. After a while, he raised his head and said, "Thankfully there was no big collapse."
Lu Chen didn't know what he should say for a moment.
In 145 years, cholera killed a total of 138 million people. In the five years of the Great Collapse, the number of people who died from the Great Collapse and related events worldwide was at least 4.5 billion.<
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"At least, we found a way to stop it." Academician Tang moved his body, then looked up at Lu Shen and said, "This research project of yours and Xiao Mu's is very important. During this meeting, I found a few trustworthy people.
Chatted with old friends."
Academician Tang's so-called "trustworthy old friend" is at least someone who will not steal papers and is at least a member of the academic department.
"Several of my old friends are very interested in this idea, but they also reminded me of a blind spot - you know the observer effect, right?" Seeing Lu Chen's confused look, Academician Tang sighed quietly.
Tone.
"In the microscopic field, especially at the quantum size of the electron level, it is easy for 'observation to cause state changes' to happen." Academician Tang Qinglong took out a sparkling copper-colored pipe from the desk drawer and held it in his mouth.
The blue LED light flickered on and off as he puffed, "Your repeated measurements of the electrons outside the lithium atoms in the sample are essentially an observation."
White mist sprayed out, and Tang Qinglong said in a low voice, "The more frequently a quantum mechanical system is observed in a certain state, the more likely the system will maintain its original state."
Lu Chen frowned and thought for a while, then his frown deepened and his eyebrows rose higher and higher.
"This means that our hypothesis can only be wrong." He looked up at Tang Qinglong and asked, "Otherwise, our observations will increase the risk of another big collapse."
According to Lu Chen's hypothesis, the Great Collapse itself was an idiopathic mental illness caused by "all the electrons outside lithium atoms spinning downwards." The reason why it was able to cause more than four billion people to commit suicide within five years was because of this
Weird transmission channels of disease.
Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran believe that the transmission mode of this disease should be "quantum entanglement." The electrons outside the lithium atoms in the human brain will not all transform into downward rotation at once, and the entanglement between them also takes time.
The quantum entanglement between people is more abstract and hidden. No one knows how this entanglement occurs and how it ends.
If we want to clarify this inference, we must measure and check a large number of samples. Then there will be more samples that continue to maintain the "downward rotation of outer electrons" state.
The maintenance of this number may further increase the risk of electronic entanglement for normal humans.
Tang Qinglong nodded slowly, then shook his head. He put down the copper-colored pipe in his hand and said, "Don't just look at the risks, but also look at the benefits."
He raised his eyebrows and asked, "If your hypothesis is indeed true, how do you explain the fact that the documentary can treat the patients of the Great Crash? What is so special about the documentary that it can restore the downward-spinning electrons in the patient's body to normal? If
Through your research, we have really caught the Vibrio cholerae lurking in the intestines... Then we can hope to completely defeat or even eliminate the Great Collapse."
"Now, such an opportunity is before us. How do you plan to choose?"