1900: A physics genius wandering around Europe

Chapter 451: China is shocked! Immortal's method! The great powers are terrified! World-destroying weapons! The power of nuclear fusion!
The shock caused by nuclear fusion goes far beyond the scope of the scientific community.

With the promotion of various popular science journals and magazines, it spread rapidly at an unexpected speed.

Because the various effects produced by nuclear fusion are a bit too shocking for ordinary people.

The methods used by gods are no more than this!
China.

When Gao Lu saw the paper, he worshipped Li Qiwei like a god.

He couldn't help but sigh:
"China is so lucky to have Professor Li Qiwei!"

"This paper alone is enough to establish Professor Li as a top astronomer."

"Even in the future, our Chinese astronomers will be able to form an astronomical school."

What Gao Lu said is true.

Any academician in later generations is almost always an absolute authority in his field.

With the academician's own research direction as the core, a huge research field has been formed, supporting countless scientific researchers.

At this moment, Li Qiwei's status is several levels higher than that of academician.

His influence on the Chinese literary world will be like a stabilizing force.

Because he was the first person in China to publish professional astronomy papers.

Therefore, the next topic that astronomers will choose will definitely be the direction of stars.

Therefore, everyone is considered to be Li Qiwei's disciple.

In the future, Li Qiwei will build a team with astronomy as the core.

It was the first country in China to develop such great undertakings as aerospace, satellites, and moon landing.

In this life, the entire sky will be China's airspace!

Bright red flags will be planted on the eight planets and the sun!

Gao Lu didn’t know this, but he was still very excited!

Once upon a time, the so-called astronomy in China was merely observing the celestial phenomena at night.

Although we have entered a new era, the work of Gao Lu and others is still basic measurement work.

There is no real astronomical research at all.

There is no way. My foundation is too poor. I can’t overtake others in a short time.

And now with Li Qiwei, everything is on the fast track.

Thanks to his relationship with the American Astronomical Society, at least China's various hardware equipment will be qualitatively improved.

All of this was mentioned by Yu Qingsong in his letter.

Although he is young, he has now become a bridge for communication between the astronomical communities of the two countries.

Chang Fuyuan and Jiang Bingran were both extremely excited after hearing what President Gao Lu said.

At the same time, they were very envious of Yu Qingsong.

"Qingsong is so lucky!"

“Professor Ridgway is very optimistic about him.”

"Even for such an important meeting, he was brought along."

Gao Lu smiled helplessly when he heard this.

As his right-hand men, Chang and Jiang made great contributions to the modernization of Chinese literature.

They are not much older than Yu Qingsong.

Of course, young people all hope to be appreciated by the big guys and soar to success like Yu Qingsong.

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However, such opportunities are rare.

Gao Lu thought for a while and made up his mind to reveal some explosive news to comfort the two of them.

"Fuyuan, Bingran, everyone has their own destiny."

"I have seen the contributions you have made to Chinese literature."

"I can tell you a secret, but don't tell anyone else."

"Professor Li once told me an idea in private."

"He said that one day in the future, he would have someone compile a history of Chinese science."

"Just like the Records of the Grand Historian compiled by Sima Qian."

"However, Sima Qian recorded the emperors and generals, while Professor Li cares about scientists like us."

Chang Fuyuan and Jiang Bingran were both incredulous when they heard this!

This is a huge matter for them and all scientific researchers in China.

Before the two of them could ask further questions.

Suddenly, Gao Lu's expression became solemn, as if he were on a pilgrimage, his eyes moistened, and he trembled as he said:

"Professor Li said:"

“The great achievements of emperors and generals are not the real factors driving history. It’s just that historians like or are forced to record them.”

“The development of human history is essentially the development of science and technology.”

"The role of the emperor and the generals is just a group of primitive people holding sticks, performing a stage play."

"Sometimes their performances even hinder the development of science and technology."

“The world is the same with or without them.”

"From a global perspective, human history can actually be divided into the pre-Newton era and the post-Newton era."

"Newton is the dividing line of the scientific era."

"If we zoom out to China, our generation marks the dividing line of China's scientific era."

"It is because of our existence that China truly has hope of rising."

"China has suffered the loss of science for thousands of years; a miracle has descended from the sky, like a firefly or candlelight!"

"Mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology, hundreds of schools of thought are flourishing; the pursuit of knowledge is unparalleled!"

"Forge swords for the country, turn truth into steel; science will flourish forever in China!"

"For thousands of years, the younger generations will admire you; your achievements will go down in history and live up to the expectations of the past!"

boom!
It was as if a thunder exploded in my ears.

The night is illuminated and the sky is cracking!
Chang Fuyuan and Jiang Bingran felt as if their souls were being torn apart.

A heat rose up from their bodies!

The heart is shocked and a storm is set off!
What kind of spirit is this!

At this moment, they finally understood what it felt like to die for their friend.

"Oh my god! Professor Li actually compared craftsmen like us to being unrivaled in the world."

"And he himself was only a feeble candlelight."

"How can I be so worthy of this! How can I be so worthy of this!"

"For five thousand years, there has never been a sound like this in the entire land of China."

Chang Fuyuan and Jiang Bingran felt endless shame.

Professor Li regarded them as the swordsmiths of China, guarding China.

They were actually envious of Yu Qingsong just now.

Wouldn't that be a betrayal of the other person's innocent heart!
"President Gao Lu, we were wrong!"

Gao Lu calmed down, smiled softly, and patted both of them on the shoulders.

"Now, you should know what kind of burden you have on your shoulders."

“Although astronomy is not valued in China, it is also part of natural science.”

"Even Professor Li personally advocated for it."

"The younger generations of China will never forget your contributions."

The two nodded solemnly.

Then he took a deep breath.

They could not imagine what kind of shock the news of the History of Science would cause to the Chinese scientific community!
I'm afraid everyone will go crazy.

Professor Li will become a god and a saint in the eyes of all Chinese scientific community.

No, he is greater than a saint!

Because the saint has made no contribution to science, yet he still remains high above everyone else.

Professor Li is the number one scientist, but he calls himself a firefly!
But it was this little candlelight that ignited China's brilliant scientific cause.

The characters recorded by Sima Qian in "Records of the Grand Historian" are divided into the categories of Annals, Family Histories, and Biographies.

Chang and Jiang were daydreaming.

People like me are far from being included in the Annals, but our names should appear once in the Biographies.

However, they could never have imagined.

Li Qiwei will give all Chinese scientific researchers an astonishing romance!

After expressing their feelings, Gao Lu and others immediately started the popular science work of the paper.

Because the impact of this paper is so great.

It is entirely possible to promote it among ordinary people.

It is also a good opportunity to expand the influence of Chinese Tianxia literature.

However, when Ren Hongjun saw the manuscript prepared by Gao Lu, he smiled and suggested:
"President Gao, Professor Li once told me that the core of popular science is popularization, not science."

"Your article is too professional and not conducive to dissemination."

"Take a look at the manuscript I wrote ahead of time and prepared to publish in the newspapers of the Chinese Science Society."

Gao Lu heard this and took it and took a look.

hiss!
He was stunned with shock.

Damn, can popular science articles be written like this?

There was a huge title that read:

"Turning stones into gold! Artificial sun! Professor Li Qiwei publishes another scientific article! The world is shocked!"

There are very few technical terms throughout the article.

It mainly describes the possibility of turning stone into gold and artificial sun.

It is also interspersed with traditional Chinese alchemy and mythological stories.

This creates a strong contrast.

"It turns out that science has developed to such an extent that it can even realize the methods in myths and legends."

Li Qiwei once said to the backbone members of the Huaxia Science Society:

In China today, anyone who can recognize the word "science" and understand its meaning can be considered a talent.

We cannot ignore the difficulty of ordinary people's acceptance in pursuit of scientific accuracy.

There is still a long way to go in popularizing science, and we should start slowly from the simplest knowledge.

Ren Hongjun kept this point in mind. The particularity of the nuclear fusion paper made popular science work extremely easy to do.

He was confident that he would be able to arouse everyone's interest.

Sure enough, when his popular science article was published, it immediately caused a huge sensation in China.

Countless ordinary people were excited!
But the style of the painting soon went awry.

"Oh my goodness! Turning stone into gold! Isn't this a magic that only immortals can do?"

"I'll tell you what, Professor Li Qiwei must be the reincarnation of a celestial being, who came here specifically to save China."

"Li Qiwei, please quickly turn some gold into something for us."

"Artificial sun? Isn't that just lighting a big fireball? Is that difficult?"

"You know nothing. The sun is a star! Do you know stars? If you don't know, read the article. It is countless times larger than the earth!"

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When Ren Hongjun and others saw the collected reader feedback.

All of them smiled bitterly and said:
"Professor Li is right. China has a long way to go in popularizing science."

Fortunately, the sales of the newspaper have increased several times.

Still achieved remarkable results.

Although ordinary people don’t understand it, the elites of China all know the greatness of the nuclear fusion paper.

It’s a pity that the warlords in power just smiled at this.

In their view, the so-called artificial sun is not as practical as buying a few more guns to grab territory.

As for turning stone into gold, they really like it and are waiting for Professor Li to actually realize it and then claim it for themselves.

However, in the eyes of the rulers of today's powerful countries, nuclear fusion is far from being that simple.
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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., USA. This is the center of the United States and the official residence of the President of the United States, the White House.

The current president is Wilson, who is 64 years old.

He has a high reputation and influence at home and abroad because he led the United States to victory in the war.

In real history, in 1962 historians ranked 31 American presidents, and Wilson ranked fourth.

Before him were Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt.

This shows the status of President Wilson.

At this moment, he was in the White House Presidential Office, meeting with the US Secretary of War, Dilbeck.

This so-called United States War Department was actually the predecessor of the later United States Department of Defense.

The U.S. Secretary of Defense still has great power.

For example, before a nuclear weapon is launched, the approval of the President and the Secretary of Defense is required, neither of which can be missing.

The duties of the Secretary of War are similar to those of the Secretary of Defense.

Dilbeck is only 49 years old this year, and can be said to be young and promising.

He took out a piece of encrypted information from his briefcase, handed it to Wilson, and said respectfully:
"Mr. President, this is the relevant data from the Military Science Academy's emergency assessment of the weaponization of nuclear fusion."

"Please take a look."

Wilson took the information and did not open it immediately. Instead, he sighed:
"Dilbeck, have you met Professor Bruce Lee?"

Dilbeck responded, "Mr. President, I have not seen him."

Wilson recalled:

"Ten years ago, when he came to the United States for a visiting scholar program, his first stop was Princeton University."

"At the time, I had just become governor of New Jersey and was also president of Princeton University."

“So, I came forward to receive him.”

“My first impression of him when I first met him was that he was a pure scholar.”

"He didn't like to promote his reputation outside the scientific community."

"That person seems to have no interest in politics and power."

"At the time, I naively thought that scientists would not have much influence on politics."

"But unexpectedly, ten years later, a paper he wrote shocked the world."

"Since you reported this to me so urgently, I guess the impact is not small."

Dilbeck said:

"The War Department has intelligence sources on military movements around the world."

"Every country's military research and development involves the participation of its own scientists."

"We pay special attention to top scientists in particular."

"During the European war, Germany was secretly developing poison gas and even approached Professor Haber, but he ultimately did not agree."

"This time, Professor Bruce Lee proposed nuclear fusion, which is incomparably more powerful than poison gas."

"So, we need to report to you in time!"

Wilson nodded.

He knew that such matters were the responsibility of the War Department.

So he opened the information and started reading.

The more I looked at him, the more frightened I became.

At the end, he couldn't help but look shocked!
"Oh! God!"

This is extremely rare for a president.

All this is because the above analysis data is so horrifying!
"The equivalent of one million tons of TNT!"

"Nuclear fusion weapons can destroy a large city in an instant!"

Wilson opened his eyes wide in disbelief.

"Is this really possible?"

Dilbeck's emotions finally fluctuated, and when he saw the result, he broke out in a cold sweat.

Because this weapon is beyond a soldier's imagination.

This kind of weapon was not created for a certain battle at all. It is a forbidden weapon that can destroy a country!

Whoever masters this weapon first will dominate the world!

This is simply unimaginable for a big country like the United States.

If Germany had such weapons in the war a few years ago, the Allies could have surrendered directly.

All the struggles are meaningless.

"Mr. President, the above data is actually conservative."

"According to the principle of nuclear fusion, there is no upper limit to the energy of this weapon."

"That is, if we have enough raw materials, we can even create weapons that can destroy the earth."

Wow!
After hearing this, Wilson was so shocked that he was speechless.

Dilbeck is right, this is the difference between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.

This is also the difference between a hydrogen bomb and an atomic bomb.

Although both are called nuclear bombs, their principles and powers are completely different.

The principle of the atomic bomb is based on the chain reaction in nuclear fission.

That is, when a neutron hits a uranium nucleus and fission occurs, more new neutrons will be produced, thus forming an explosive chain reaction.

But the power of an atomic bomb has its limits.

This is because of the existence of critical mass.

An atomic bomb is activated by the explosion of high-energy explosives, which squeeze several pieces of nuclear material together to reach a critical mass.

However, in order to ensure that the neutrons have sufficient concentration, a chain reaction can be formed.

That would require the nuclear material to reach a very high enrichment level.

Problems then arise.

The higher the abundance, the smaller the critical mass, and there is an upper limit to the mass that can be concentrated together.

Once this mass limit is exceeded, the nuclear material will spontaneously fission and cannot be controlled.

Therefore, it is impossible to increase the power of an atomic bomb by infinitely stacking nuclear materials.

After calculations taking into account various factors, the upper limit of the power of an atomic bomb is 50 tons of TNT equivalent.

In real history, "Little Boy" had a TNT equivalent of only 2 tons.

But hydrogen bombs based on nuclear fusion are different.

Nuclear fusion is not a chain reaction and there is no critical mass.

It uses the high temperature and high pressure generated by the atomic bomb explosion to initiate hydrogen nuclear fusion.

Then the energy generated by nuclear fusion continues to maintain high temperature and high pressure, and nuclear fusion continues.

So theoretically speaking, the power of a hydrogen bomb can be made infinite!
But if you consider actual combat needs, it’s different.

Even if you make a hydrogen bomb as big as the sun, what's the use? How can you throw it at the Trisolarans?

In real history, the largest hydrogen bomb ever experimentally exploded by humans was called "Tsar", which had a power equivalent to 5000 million tons of TNT.

It is 100 times more powerful than the most powerful atomic bomb.

But its shortcomings are also obvious.

It is 8 meters long, 2 meters in diameter and weighs up to 27 tons.

Even the largest bombers at the time had to have all sorts of unimportant parts removed before they could be carried.

In the end, the plane almost failed to escape the explosion range of the "Tsar".

This shows that blindly pursuing power is meaningless.

Moreover, the future will still be dominated by ballistic missiles, which can carry much less ammunition than aircraft.

But its accuracy cannot be compared with that of dropping from an airplane.

Therefore, the miniaturization of nuclear weapons is the key.

A hydrogen bomb weighing 250 kg is only 4/1 of the weight of Little Boy (16 tons).

However, its power can reach 30 tons of TNT, which is 15 times that of the latter.

This is the difference in power between the hydrogen bomb and the atomic bomb!

However, at this point in time, the hydrogen bomb has a fatal flaw.

That is, it must be achieved on the basis of the atomic bomb.

Therefore, Dilbeck quickly calmed down and said thankfully:

"Mr. President, as shown in the final conclusion."

"The power of nuclear fusion weapons is beyond imagination, but the difficulty of manufacturing them is also beyond imagination."

"To activate this kind of weapon, a temperature of at least several million degrees is required, which is almost impossible to achieve."

"As Bruce Lee mentioned in his paper, this nuclear fusion effect can only be produced in the sun."

"Therefore, we judge that it is impossible for humans to manufacture such a weapon at present."

"Of course, we cannot rule out future technological breakthroughs, which may lead to new possibilities."

"However, after comprehensive consideration, the Ministry of Defense believes that there is no need to restrict Professor Bruce Lee's personal freedom."

After hearing this, Wilson breathed a sigh of relief.

Sure enough, all taboos have prices and thresholds.

If it were so easy to achieve, humans would have died out long ago.

He was unwilling to fall out with Bruce unless it was absolutely necessary.

After all, given the other party's current identity, the impact would be too great.

It's too cost-effective to do this for a vague threat.

You may even end up losing more than you gain.

The current United States is not yet the number one in the world.

I will never be so arrogant as to make the whole world my enemy.

Wilson then ordered:

"Mr. Dilbeck, this document must still be kept under the highest level of confidentiality."

“At the same time, the intelligence team should closely monitor the developments in various countries.”

"If there ever comes a day in the future, this weapon must be in the hands of the United States."

"Only America can bring world peace!"

Dilbeck said solemnly: "Don't worry, Mr. President!"

At the same time, the leaders of the world's major powers were holding secret meetings.

British Prime Minister, French President, German Chancellor
Similar analytical materials are placed on their desks.

Although the final discussion results are the same.

That is the existence of nuclear fusion weapons, which is very, very unlikely.

However, it also made these rulers tremble with fear.

They are still at the stage of tanks, planes and artillery.

It is believed that this is the pinnacle of human military power.

But scientists are already terrified to this extent.

The theories they created were even able to create such terrifying world-destroying weapons that they were like magic.

The power of nuclear fusion has brought unprecedented improvements to the status of scientists.

After all, what if such a weapon really becomes possible one day?

Every country wants to be the first to master it.

And scientists are the top priority.

Bruce Lee, also known as Bruce Lee, officially appeared in front of many leaders for the first time.

They no longer dare to look at these top scientists with a craftsman's mindset.

Who knows what kind of earth-shattering magic is hidden in the other party's intelligent mind.

At this moment, Li Qiwei, who was still in New York, naturally didn't know that his information had become top secret.

Even in various countries there are people who are specifically responsible for monitoring him.

But even if I knew, it wouldn’t matter.

Everything is under his control!
(End of this chapter)