As Professor Xu spoke, he used his access card to open the internal working passage and invite the two of them to enter. Although the entire research institute is open to the public, it is clear that the equipment operation area will not be free for the public to enter and exit.

Because these devices are not only delicate and easy to break, but also dangerous. When the Large Hadron Collider was turned on, the energy level was as high as 12 megaelectron volts. If the masses who don't know the truth get too close because of curiosity, it is not as simple as electrocuting coke.

He will be annihilated into plasma by the powerful energy, and there will be no ashes left.

Professor Xu took the two of them to a maintenance channel for equipment. They first passed through the super-toroidal device that they had seen through the tempered glass at first. Yu Xiaoyue was curious, and put her head close to the cylinder to look, almost dazzled by the dazzling light.

"It's so bright. She sighed.

Sun Xiang reprimanded: "Don't touch things!"

"How can I figure it out if I don't touch it!"

Yo, Yu Xiaoyue actually talked back. Master Sun blinked unexpectedly.

Professor Xu played a round game: "It's okay, it's not turned on now, it's not dangerous." The characteristic of the hyper-torus device is that it is completely reflective, and when a little light hits the reflective surface, it will appear bright. ”

They walked past the super-torus device over forty meters long, and after passing through a partition hatch, they entered a corridor of astonishing height. Above the corridor is a particle-accelerating track, from which many pipelines follow. There are small doors on both sides of the hallway with instruction boards hanging on them. For example, "magnetic moment master control unit", "signal synchronization unit", "interval pressure balance unit" and so on. At a glance, there are dozens of rooms of all sizes and sizes in the corridor.

And that's not all, there are forks in the corridors, and the same arrangement is made on the forks. Throughout the space, there may be more than a hundred such modular units of equipment.

"The Large Hadron Collider is more than an annular acceleration orbit and seven major detectors. In order to maintain the operation of the entire machine, there are more than 852 auxiliary subsystems. Each of these rooms is the central unit of a different subsystem. Professor Xu introduced.

There were very few people here, and they had been walking for more than a quarter of an hour, meeting only three people.

"Zhang Yuan, how is the situation?"

It seemed that Professor Xu knew, and he stepped forward to inquire about the progress of the maintenance.

"** sick, liquid helium leak from the cooling system, has been resolved. This Zhang Yuan took two students by himself, saw Sun Xiang and Yu Xiaoyue, and said with a smile, "Xu Suo, these two are your newly recruited graduate students?"

Xu Yongzhi smiled awkwardly, these two were his bosses. So he hurriedly denied: "There is a delay on the particle channel, these two are here to debug." ”

This Zhang Yuan sighed, indicating that he didn't know anything about the particle data pathway, so he couldn't help. He left with his two students, and finally urged Xu Yongzhi to hurry up, there are more than 30 verification data waiting to be turned on today.

When they walked away, Professor Xu smiled at Sun Xiang and said, "Zhang Yuan is a very powerful researcher in cross-border, but he doesn't know more than ten subsystems. In this detection section, we have more than 177 auxiliary subsystems, covering almost all disciplines of basic scientific research. ”

"So, no one will notice that there's an extra room here. ”

Professor Xu finally stopped at the door of a room with an instruction sign hanging on it: Replacement Unit. He swiped his access card and finally opened the door with a key.

The head of Sun Da was obviously suppressed by such a method of hiding things with one hand, which was not "the more dangerous the place, the safer", but "hiding the water droplets in the sea".

Before entering the door, he paused and asked, "Even if it's the general design, but more than 800 subsystems, you know all of them and can remember them all?"

Xu Yongzhi smiled reservedly.

"Do what we do. He said, "Who isn't a genius?"

This room is not very large, and when the door is opened, a soft light automatically turns on. The main equipment in the room is an automatic console in the center.

This automatic worktop has a transparent space the size of a table, which is completely vacuumed and surrounded by many superconducting magnets.

On the roof, there is a complex structure of an inverted triangular pyramid hanging down, the tip of which hangs exactly twenty centimeters above the console.

"Even if someone strays into this place, they will not be able to understand the meaning of this device at all. ”

Professor Xu patted the inverted triangle hanging above and explained further.

"Every time the LHC runs, there are a large number of particles left in the acceleration tube that are not involved in the collision. After these particles are decelerated, they are automatically dissipated into the air as useless waste products.

However, according to the common theory of Sun Yulan and Professor Yu Zheng, some of these particles have undergone a specific energy level transition. When they pass through the microscopic fragmented space-time in the hyper-torus device, they will be displaced with the particles in the parallel universe due to supersymmetry.

So, they are actually no longer the substance of the original universe.

Professor Yu Zheng designed this energy level separation device to separate this specific particle from the particle beam. These particles are aggregated by the condensed matter bench below, forming a visible form of matter.

This is the ambient metallic hydrogen catalyst. ”

Papapa, Sun Da applauded.

"Very brilliant idea, I didn't expect you scientists to go so far. ”

He was really emotional, not only for his daughter, but also for the son-in-law he had never met.

Back then, when he learned that his daughter was married, he really resented this guy named Yu Zheng for a long time. In the mind of the head of Sun University, Professor Yu Zheng's image has always been equal to the three indiscriminate ruffians and hooligans.

I didn't expect that I did have some ability. Like Professor Xu, he patted the energy level separation device of the inverted triangle. Thinking that this was his son-in-law's masterpiece, he felt a little dazed for a while.

Yu Xiaoyue looked confused, and she asked in surprise: "Can you understand......? Aren't you practicing feudal superstition?"

The head of Sun Da smiled reservedly: "I have a lot of time, and when I was bored in Europe, I studied a few doctorates. ”

"Who isn't a genius in this business? ”

Master Sun and Professor Xu laughed and patted each other on the shoulder. Only Yu Xiaoyue, President Yu, stared dryly.

Because this displacement device is a by-product of collecting the end of the collider's operation, it is certainly not visible now that it is working. Professor Xu suggested that everyone could go back to the central hall and watch the start-up operation. He was the director of the institute, and the entire collider could only be turned on after he injected the operating code.

This is not because Professor Xu is arbitrary, and he will not be used by others without him. There is a technical problem here: after the LHC is turned on, the electricity cost per hour of operation is as high as more than 20 million yuan.

So this is not a laptop, you can turn it on if you want, and everything can only be started after the approval of his leader.

"So, how many metallic hydrogen catalysts can you get by running it once?"

Yu Xiaoyue has already begun to think about the problem from a cost and operational perspective, and she wants to ensure a stable supply of catalysts.

"The catalyst obtained after one cycle of start-up operation can be used by the entire group for two weeks. The output on our side is basically in balance with the group's cell production. Professor Xu replied.

"Two weeks? Yu Xiaoyue thought about it and asked again, "Can't you prepare a large amount at once?"

"That's not going to work. Professor Xu shook his head, "The energy load of the entire system has reached the edge of full load, and any more will explode." ”

"Oh, okay. ”

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When the trio returned to the central hall, they found that most of the research team was already in place. When Zhang Yuan saw Professor Xu coming up, he asked, "Is there a troubleshooting?"

"Excluded. Professor Xu nodded to his colleagues and said, "Let's get started." ”

He sat in front of his command platform, Sun Xiang and Yu Xiaoyue stood on both sides, curious and observing.

There are six screens in front of Xu Yongzhi's command platform, which are displaying a variety of complex dynamic data. He inserted a key into the keyhole in front of the desk, and an assistant approached and handed him a memo. He opened the memo and glanced at it twice, then began to command into the microphone:

The Coastal Large Hadron Collider (LHC) SC593rd experiment was launched, and the system was named in order.

Energy management and control system

Online!

Data exchange system

Online!

Cooling system

Online!

Emergency thrust stop system

Online!

Hypertorus detection system

Online!

Full-section elastic scattering system

Online!

......

Professor Xu named more than 50 necessary systems in one go, and with his roll call, the person in charge of each subsystem confirmed that his part of the self-test was normal.

Only a small number of the leaders are in this hall, and most of the leaders work through the screen and online. Yu Xiaoyue noticed that when a blonde person in charge replied "online", there was a snowy scene outside the window behind him.

It seems that the research members of the collider project are really distributed all over the world. They work together on real-time data from the collider, but they don't have to be in the hall.

After confirming that the self-test of each system was normal and all the lights were green, Xu Zhiyong announced: "The SC593rd experiment of the Binhai Large Hadron Collider has been launched!"

At the same time, turn the key on the workbench.

As the bootloader loads, the Large Hadron Collider behemoth kicks into operation. The acceleration of the particle beam takes place in a vacuum tube and cannot be directly observed. But due to the huge amount of electrical energy, a low buzzing roar echoed in the hall.

Soon after, directly across the hall, through a super-ring installation of tempered glass, red glows peeked through the cracks in the outer pipeline. It began to spin slowly, and the light began to shine brightly.

Yu Xiaoyue covered her eyes.

"The design was unnecessary, we didn't need to see it spin and glow with our own eyes. ”

At this time, everything was normal, and Xu Yongzhi finally had a chance to complain to the two, "But everyone else felt that this design was very emotional." ”

"I thought scientists were pragmatists. Yu Xiaoyue's thoughts are normal.

"No, scientists are sullen. Professor Xu told the truth about the world.

Eventually, though, the light grew stronger, and the entire hall was plated in bright red. Yu Xiaoyue, who was full of interest, had to turn her back at this time.

Everyone couldn't stand it anymore, Xu Yongzhi pressed the button, and the polarizing fence on the tempered glass was instantly closed.

The light in the hall returned to softness.

Yu Xiaoyue rubbed her eyes and finally recovered from the bright light. She looked left and right, and suddenly noticed a strange scene.

The command hall, which was very serious just now, suddenly became very lively. Some of the researchers in white coats began to make coffee, some took out snacks, and most of them gathered in groups of three or five to communicate.

The most excessive is the Zhang Yuan who had a relationship, and he pulled out a folding bed out of nowhere. He placed the bed next to his research bench and spread another layer of sheets, apparently ready for a good night's sleep.

Sun Xiang and Yu Xiaoyue looked at each other, and they realized that they might have overlooked an important issue.

"Professor Xu. Master Sun stammered and asked, "How long will this experiment last?"

"Oh don't worry, it's a short run. Xu Zhiyong comforted, "If nothing else, thirty hours will be about the same." ”

Sun Xiang。。。。。。

Yu Xiaoyue。。。。。。

To be honest, this cutting-edge technology is a lot of fun to visit once in a while. But, please, more than thirty hours, staring at these incomprehensible data?

No wonder the researchers came with food and beds, all of them prepared.