94: From Technological Warfare to Space Empire

Chapter 106 Even if I don't follow this path, I can still win the Nobel Prize! (Please subscribe! Please continue reading!)

Academician Wang let out a long sigh.

"Without winning the Nobel Prize, we have no voice in the international academic community."

Whether a paper can be published or not depends on the attitude of foreigners.

"The direction of cutting-edge research also has to follow their guidance."

"Even our own research results need the approval of a few authoritative journals to gain international recognition."

The words were spoken bluntly, and Chief Hou understood and nodded repeatedly.

Academician Wang continued.

"That's why I had the idea of ​​having you continue your research in computational chemistry, hoping that you could win our first Nobel Prize."

"If I could actually win my first Nobel Prize, that would be a completely different story."

Lin Yu had never actually studied these things before.

Now that Academician Wang is willing to speak, he listens obediently.

Actually, he does have some methods to win the Nobel Prize.

However, he had previously thought that the consumption of too many items made it very cost-effective and therefore not worthwhile.

So it was never mentioned at all.

"What if we could win a Nobel Prize?"

Lin Yu asked.

Academician Wang and Academician Zhou exchanged a glance.

She explained it to him, counting on her fingers.

"First and foremost, academic discourse power."

"The whole world has to listen to what Nobel laureates say."

"When the time comes, the top laboratories in Europe and America will have to follow our lead in proposing theories and establishing directions."

"Secondly, there's the return of talent."

"Why do our top students nowadays all want to go abroad after graduation?"

"It's because there are Nobel laureates there, and the most cutting-edge research environment."

"With these, you will have money, status, and resources."

"If we had our own Nobel Prize winner, the situation would be reversed."

"Overseas Chinese scholars and young people who want to make great achievements will flock to China."

Academician Wang's explanation was reasonable and logical.

Chief Hou and Lin Yu listened intently.

"Thirdly, there's the national image."

How does the international community view us now?

"Poor and backward, people had to rely on hard labor to make a living."

"But what if we could achieve Nobel Prize-level results in basic science?"

That's to tell the world that Chinese people not only know how to work, but also how to use their brains.

"This is more effective than any form of external propaganda."

After saying that, the three men who had lit cigarettes let out another long sigh, put the cigarette holder in their mouths, and took a deep drag.

He exhaled a long string of smoke.

It's so difficult, so incredibly difficult.

Scientists all over the world are vying for the Nobel Prize.

Moreover, to win the Nobel Prize, you need approval from Europe and the United States.

The Nobel Prize they aspire to win is significantly more difficult to obtain than those from other countries.

Difficult, difficult, difficult!

Lin Yu listened for a long time.

In the end, the atmosphere grew increasingly somber.

The air pressure in the entire conference room was getting lower and lower.

Academician Wang, Academician Zhou, and Chief Hou also became increasingly depressed.

He finally couldn't help but speak up.

"That—if it's the Nobel Prize."

"I do have some ideas too."

"For example, what do the teachers think of the topic of the six states of matter?"

Upon hearing this, Chief Hou's first reaction was to touch Lin Yu's head to see if he had a fever.

What are the six states of matter?

Isn't matter just in three states: solid, liquid, and gas?

Show me the other three forms.

However, the next second, Chief Hou suppressed his doubts about Lin Yu's fever.

After all, his academic research wasn't as in-depth as theirs.

So he looked at the two academicians.

He saw the two academicians and was completely bewildered.

That's when he realized that the real problem wasn't with them, but with Lin Yu.

This time, it was Academician Zhou who spoke.

He is an expert in physics.

"Matter? Isn't matter just in four states?"

I heard Academician Zhou say that matter has four forms.

Chief Hou was taken aback at first, then felt somewhat relieved that he hadn't spoken out rashly.

"Solid, liquid, gas, plasma state."

"What are the remaining two forms?"

Academician Zhou seemed to have grasped something key, albeit vaguely.

Lin Yu thought for a moment, considering how to answer.

The six states of matter.

It includes solid, gaseous, liquid, plasma, Bose-Einstein condensate, and fermion condensate.

Solid and liquid are the three common macroscopic states.

The latter three require extreme conditions to form.

However, this does not mean that only the macroscopic form is correct.

The other three states, which can only be formed under specific extreme conditions, are the necessary path to truly explain the mysteries of the universe.

However, the latter two forms have not been confirmed at all.

If it can be proven, the Nobel Prize will surely be awarded.

The discovery of fermionic condensates came later than that of Bose-Einstein condensates.

Lin Yu thought for a moment and decided to start with Bose-Einstein condensates, something that is more widely known.

"Professor Zhou, have you ever heard of Bose-Einstein condensates?"

Academician Zhou smoked a cigarette, his brow furrowed.

Of course he knows about this.

But wasn't it never confirmed at all?

It exists only in theory.

"I know that in 92, Bose and Einstein predicted the fifth state of matter."

Is this it?

Lin Yu nodded.

"That's right, this is it."

"When the force approaches absolute zero, all boson atoms will suddenly condense into the same quantum state, forming a completely new form of matter."

In later generations, this has become common knowledge written into textbooks.

It was first discovered in experiments in 1995 and won the Nobel Prize in 2001.

No one in the world has confirmed it yet.

Academician Zhou's brows furrowed even deeper.

this one?

Regardless of whether this prophecy is true or false.

From 1924 to 1994.

Eight years have passed.

It hasn't been confirmed yet, is it because they don't want to?

That's because countless laboratories around the world tried to make it, but all their efforts failed.

"You mean you're going to mess with it?"

Academician Zhou shook his head.

I advise you to give up.

"The lowest temperature we can achieve right now is only enough to cool atoms to a few tens of microkelvin."

"But it's still three orders of magnitude lower than the absolute zero required for Bose-Einstein condensates."

"Even if this problem is solved, there is still the issue of density."

"The density problem has been solved, but the question of how to imprison them remains."

But in the end, Academician Zhou shook his head.

He said with considerable emotion.

"If it's just a technical challenge, we can work hard to overcome all of the above."

"But the biggest problem is—"

"It's just a prophecy; who knows if it even exists?"

"Bose and Einstein were indeed masters, but their other predictions have also failed."

Academician Zhou looked at Lin Yu.

I felt that only now could I finally see the innocence of a young person.

He offered some words of comfort, albeit with a hint of helplessness.

"Seventy years have passed since Einstein's prediction, and how many brilliant minds around the world have dedicated themselves to this?"

"But who has actually done it?"