Research starts with PhD students

Chapter 290 Half a year later, two great joys in life, a major experiment!

Large-scale research requires accumulation, and the accumulation process is dull and boring.

In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.

Zhang Shuo had two great joys in his life within half a year.

One is getting married, and the other is being elected as an academician of the Academy of Sciences.

The person he is going to marry is Li Liu Shuangyue. They cannot be said to be childhood sweethearts, but they have known each other for many years and have a good impression of each other.

Zhang Shuo doesn't like to be flamboyant. Given his personal influence, many people will come if he announces his marriage.

So the parents of both sides just met privately to have a meal.

Zhang Shuo then invited familiar friends and colleagues at school, and then went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a certificate, and that was just a formality.

Another great joy was that I was elected as an academician of the Academy of Sciences.

Zhang Shuo is only 30 years old, but it is not surprising that he was elected as an academician. He has won the Fields Medal and is recognized as the top scholar in mathematics.

If even Fields medalists cannot be elected as academicians of the Academy of Mathematics, the existence of academicians of the Academy of Mathematics will lose its meaning.

So during the department meeting, some people even suggested that there was no need to vote and that Zhang Shuo should be approved directly.

Later, a vote was held and he was elected as a member of the Academy of Mathematics with unanimous votes, becoming the youngest member in history.

It is worth mentioning that Luo Yongjun also reached the selection threshold and obtained more than half of the votes of the faculty to become a fellow of the Academy of Mathematics.

Li Weihua unfortunately was not selected.

From now on, Luo Yongjun can also be called "Academician Luo".

After returning from vacation, Zhang Shuo saw Sun Xingli and Luo Yongjun arguing as soon as he arrived at the High Court building.

"Lao Luo!"

Sun Xingli shouted as he entered the door.

Luo Yongjun raised his head high and said with contempt, "What Lao Luo? It's rude! Please call me Academician Luo!"

"Okay, Lao Luo!"

"Call Academician Luo!"

"Lao Luo, Lao Luo, Lao Luo..."

Sun Xingli shouted several times in a row, and then he muttered very hard, "Isn't it all because of Zhang Shuo's help?"

"What do you mean by taking advantage of someone else's connections?" Luo Yongjun said in dissatisfaction. "Zhang Shuo is my student, and he has also been elected as an academician. I should show him some respect from now on and call him 'Academician Zhang'!"

Zhang Shuo said with a smile, "Don't do that! Just call me by my name."

Sun Xingli said immediately, "Did you see that? Zhang Shuo has the ambition of an academician. You are just showing off when you are elected academician."

"What's wrong with showing off?"

Luo Yongjun didn't care. "If you don't return home when you are rich and powerful, it's like walking in the night in fine clothes. If you don't show off, wouldn't your academician title be in vain?"

"Forehead……"

"You are not ashamed of this, but proud of it."

"What are you ashamed of! It's so glorious to be elected as an academician. I think you are jealous?"

Luo Yongjun didn't care at all. Thinking that he had become Academician Luo, he couldn't hold back his smile. "Dali, I won't argue with you. Anyway, why should I, a great academician, argue with a small researcher like you?"

As he spoke, he raised his head proudly, as if he had become a superior person.

This quarrel ended with Sun Xingli's failure.

He looked at Zhang Shuo depressedly.

Luo Yongjun was right in what he said, he was indeed a little jealous.

Although Luo Yongjun is more than ten years older than me, can he be elected as an academician in another ten years?

That's difficult!

Sun Xingli sighed and asked Zhang Shuo, "Academician Zhang, when will you come back to study mathematics? I have been working on Zhou's conjecture."

"Let's cooperate and complete this demonstration."

Zhang Shuo felt that this sounded familiar and immediately asked, "What research?"

"Zhou's conjecture?"

"I remember you were doing this research a few years ago and applied for a project worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, right?"

Zhang Shuo frowned and asked in confusion, "It's still not finished after so long?"

"Forehead……"

Sun Xingli stood there with his mouth half open.

Luo Yongjun gave a thumbs up, "Zhang Shuo, that's brilliant!"

"Next time someone argues with me, I will use this trick to fight back!"

"Forehead……"

This time it was Zhang Shuo's turn to be speechless. He whispered, "I'm not mad at you. That's what I thought anyway."

"That's why it's even more devastating!"

"..."

Sun Xingli was hit hard. He was first angry with Luo Yongjun, and then he was heartbroken by Zhang Shuo's words.

His research was indeed not going very smoothly. He only wrote two papers for a project worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Although there is substantial content, it has only been published in Area 2, which is still far from proving Zhou Shi’s conjecture.

When the project funding period ended, he applied for another provincial funding project, but the funding was only 150,000 yuan.

If he can make a breakthrough in research, his resume will allow him to move on to the Young Elite Scientists Program.

Otherwise, it will be difficult.

Most scholars are stuck at this step. The maximum they can apply for is a few hundred thousand yuan for an Excellent Young Scholar. If they do not achieve any breakthrough results at the end of the funding period, it will be difficult for them to apply for an Elite Young Scholar again.

I can’t make further progress in research. In the future, I will just slowly gain experience and become a third-level professor or a second-level professor…

Then, he gave up academic breakthroughs and concentrated on teaching until retirement.

Zhang Shuo could only give encouragement, "Brother Sun, come on!"

"Your level is fine. I'm optimistic about you. You will definitely be fine."

Sun Xingli's mouth curled up when he heard this, and he said with a dark face, "You should be more sincere, otherwise it seems like you are gloating over someone else's misfortune."

"That's because I'm not interested in number theory research."

Zhang Shuo was indeed not interested.

If it were a few years ago, when I had nothing to do, I might have studied it.

Now we are focusing on theoretical research, or more precisely, on the study of the impact of weak force on experiments.

The corresponding S-level task has also been greatly improved. Up to now, the task progress has reached nearly '30%'.

At this point in the research, many experimental and theoretical issues have been involved.

He also knew why there would be fluctuation mathematical deviations in the chaotic force field experiment at special points.

The core reason is the influence of weak force.

The weak force controls the decay of radioactive elements and affects the stability of matter. The weak force must be at work during the hyperon decay process.

The chaotic force field experiment at special points will create a strong force environment and induce particles to undergo nuclear fission reactions.

In this process, the influence of weak force is even greater.

The splitting of atomic nuclei by nuclear force is essentially active nuclear fission, and as long as it is nuclear fission, the influence of weak force must exist.

In the same experiment, the weak force has different effects because the strong force environment covers different areas and the density of ions is different. Another reason is the control accuracy of the experimental equipment.

Current experiments on chaotic force fields, both in terms of control and detection, are just getting started and can be described as "crude" in terms of technology, far from achieving the precision required to control particles.

The S-level task is to study how the weak force affects the fluctuation deviation in the experiment, which involves the problems of particle dynamics and weak force.

Dynamic control of particles requires extremely sophisticated control technology.

The study of weak force is extremely difficult due to insufficient foundation and insufficient experimental precision.

Although the task progress has only reached 30%, it is enough to increase the understanding of the weak force. With a lot of understanding, many studies can consider the influence of the weak force.

This is also an important gain.

Understanding the weak force is also helpful for other research. For example, we can understand that the essence of "elements' resistance to the diffusion effects of strong forces" is that the weak force restricts the occurrence of fission in a strong force environment.

Some elements, especially stable elements that do not decay naturally, are affected by both the strong and weak forces during nuclear fission reactions.

The weak force in the reaction can also be understood as 'very strong weak force'.

This does not mean that the weak force is strong, but that the effect of the weak force is exactly opposite to the effect of the strong force environment on atoms.

The strong force is of course much stronger than the weak force; the two are not even on the same order of magnitude.

However, in the nuclear fission reaction, the role of the strong environment is not to pull the protons or neutrons of the nucleus apart, but to act on the atom as a whole in a certain direction, which can be understood as pulling the "uneven, protruding protons or neutrons" down.

That is certainly not pulling, it can also be understood as causing protons or neutrons to disintegrate.

Importantly, strong environmental effects are holistic.

For example, placing an object in a deep sea environment.

The sea water in the deep sea exerts strong pressure on objects from all directions.

If the object has bulges or parts are only tenuously connected, it may come apart under the strong pressure of seawater.

The effect of a strong force environment on an atomic nucleus is similar to the above example.

Weak force does not need it.

The weak force exists between particles that are close together. It is like the force inside deep-sea objects, which acts like a rope to pull the weakly connected parts.

Although the force of the rope cannot be compared with the strong pressure of the deep sea, the effect is very obvious because it is a direct effect.

These are the gains from weak force research, and such gains are also related to the increased understanding of the strong force.

The strong understanding mainly comes from the data support provided by the artificial sun project.

Over the past six months, the artificial sun project has conducted three experiments, each of which brought a large amount of data related to strong measurements.

These data can help understand the strength of the force and the force environment.

A strong force environment is not a strong force field. The principle of its effect is completely different from that of electromagnetic fields and gravitational fields.

One of the important differences is direction.

There is no force field direction in a strong force environment. Only when there is matter in the force field can the potential environment effect be reflected.

For the atomic nucleus, the effect of the strong environment can be understood as the deep sea water pressure. The pressure comes from all around, which may be towards the inside of the nucleus or outside the nucleus.

Direction can only be described for individual nuclei.

……

In half a year, Tong Zhiguo's team has made great progress in research.

Their main device has been built and has been tested in two experiments, targeting two different elements.

One is a gas element and the other is a metal element.

The elements came from Zhang Shuo's suggestion to select elements that "may" have strong resistance and let Tong Zhiguo's team conduct resistance tests.

There are results now.

After Zhang Shuo finished the work at hand, he immediately went to the experimental base of Tong Zhiguo's team.

He was not alone, he brought Xue Baikun and Wang Qiang with him.

In research, two people can be of great help.

The experimental base of Tong Zhiguo's team is located in a very remote area, on the edge of the desert. It takes more than 20 hours to get there, which can be called a difficult journey.

The original experimental base was destroyed, so they chose to build a new base one hundred kilometers away.

There is no one in the area nearby and the environment on the edge of the desert is very harsh. It is not easy to build a base and we need the support of the military.

When Zhang Shuo saw Tong Zhiguo, he found that he had become much darker.

Tong Zhiguo took the initiative to greet him and opened the car door for Zhang Shuo. There was a smile on his face, but there was also obvious bitterness.

Difficult!

After half a year of hard work, he couldn't help but miss his happy nine-to-five life at the Science, Technology and Industry Bureau.

At that time, when I entered the office, I would cross my legs, drink coffee, and leisurely read the news and watch short videos.

Just think about it, it’s so happy!

As a result, Zhang Shuo came over and talked about an experimental research and asked him to form a group and go to a remote place.

"Oh~~~"

Tong Zhiguo could only shake his head and sigh, feeling that the experimenters conducting confidentiality research really... had no human rights!
Of course, I was just complaining in my heart.

If he could travel back to half a year ago, he believed that he would still take over the experimental work.

"coming!"

Countless thoughts flashed through Tong Zhiguo's mind, but he still shook hands with Zhang Shuo enthusiastically.

Zhang Shuo got out of the car and walked into the base with Tong Zhiguo. He immediately asked with concern, "How is the experiment going? Is there any problem?"

"Everything is safe, don't worry!"

Tong Zhiguo appeared to be full of confidence. In fact, when he conducted the first test experiment, he was really worried, fearing that he would create a huge explosion.

Even if safety precautions are taken, operators will hide in the air-raid shelter as soon as possible during experiments.

But if you encounter a super-large explosion, the air-raid shelter may not be safe!
He understood the nuclear fission reaction and knew that the reaction could penetrate the ground, perhaps just a few dozen meters and directly invade the air-raid shelter?

Even if there is no direct invasion, the thermal reaction alone is enough to put the lives of people in the air-raid shelter in danger.

Fortunately, everything is safe.

After Zhang Shuo entered the base, he went directly to the main equipment room. It was his second time here and he was already familiar with the route.

The main device is very large, a big sphere with a diameter of more than six meters. There are various equipment around it. The ion cannon device is on one side and is directly connected to the main device.

The experimental process is to fill the main equipment with elemental materials and continuously heat it with radiation. In the process, reactive ion clusters are produced, and the ion clusters will directly enter the main equipment reactor from the inside.

The reactor is not as big as six meters. It is located in the center of the big sphere and its volume is less than one cubic meter.

The outer layer, which occupies most of the volume, is the protective layer, and the main protective layer is a thick inert gas layer.

The thick outer layer of protection is to confine the reaction inside the reactor and ensure the safety of the external environment.

In fact, the safety of the experiment is guaranteed.

Zhang Shuo is not worried about this because he has a deeper understanding of the experiment.

There is not much elemental material filled in the reactor. After being heated to ultra-high temperatures, it forms an ionic state and is evenly distributed in the reactor. The density is only slightly higher than the ion clusters released by ion weapons.

The ion cluster will not explode or emit white smoke, it will just allow the reaction to continue and create a certain strong environment.

When the ion cluster enters the reactor, because the density of elemental ions inside is not high and the strong diffusion effect is very weak, it is good enough to allow the nuclear fission reaction to continue for a period of time.

It is almost impossible to spread outward.

Even if a large-scale strong diffusion effect occurs, the outer layer is still protected by a thick layer of inert gas. The inert gas is to strong diffusion like a high-pressure fire extinguisher and a flame.

Once a flame appears, it will be extinguished immediately. At most, it will cause damage to equipment, but no large-scale accident will occur.

(End of this chapter)