Can't do it?

Xu Mang looked at these graduate students in front of him, although they looked young, they were actually not young at all, at least much older than themselves, but this group of people actually felt that their project needed three years to start, what did they think?

"You!"

"Tell me about the basic characteristics of quantum materials. Xu Mang's expression was very serious, and there was a hint of seriousness in his words.

"Uh..."

"It's... This seems to be the content of the material specialty. "I just know a little bit that quantum materials are based on semiconductor crystals, and each particle is a single crystal, which seems to be between one and a hundred nanometers in size," the graduate student said cautiously. ”

"Hmm!"

"Very good... I even know these things. Xu Mang nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Anyway, two of you in the group have undergraduate degrees in materials science, give you half a month to give me a satisfactory answer." ”

Half a month?

This... It's going crazy!

At this time, the graduate student said, "Professor Xu... This... This really can't be done, it was already impossible in the previous month, but suddenly it was reduced by half a month, which... Isn't that our lives?

"I don't need you to study it, you just give me a theoretical framework. Xu Mang said indifferently: "The time here is relatively tight, we have to abandon the misconception that the time is very long, we have little time left, and there are still many issues to be solved in front of us." ”

Words fall,

Xu Mang turned his head to look at the other group of five, and said seriously, "You... Your place of work is in the Modu Observatory, the drive from here to the observatory is forty minutes, and the observatory to Fuda is about an hour. Five hundred a day at your level. ”

"Ten days!"

"Ten days gave me an idea. Xu Mang said calmly: "I have already repaid with the computer department, you can use a supercomputer to calculate black holes at any time, in short, no matter what method is used, you must have a basic idea in ten days." ”

"Let's go, let's go..."

"Go to work yourself. Xu Mang waved his hand.

Watching the members of the two groups leave the conference room one by one with a trace of helplessness and nervousness, Xu Mang couldn't help but stretch his waist, with a calm expression on his face, in fact, he was already panicking like a dog in his heart, it is very likely that the time is up, and the progress of the two groups is still zero.

Leave the meeting room,

Xu Mang went to Brother Chuan Xiao's office and told him about his worries, but Brother Chuan Xiao just smiled and said a... Deserve.

"Said to make you so anxious... If you look at the projects of other research institutes, they basically start in half a year, and you are like this... A month, how can there be progress. Brother Chuan Xiao said: "On the contrary... There will be a negative effect, not everyone is like you, speed is directly proportional to correctness. ”

"Oh..."

"We'll talk about that then. Xu Mang shrugged: "There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, anyway, that's it... Now that the Xu Yang Research Institute has been officially listed, although there is no ribbon cutting, we are already in normal operation, and many places need to use money, and it involves money... You have to hire an accountant. ”

"Or..."

"I'll contact the dean of the Department of Economics at Fuda and ask him to send an outstanding accounting student to our place for an internship, and we don't need to pay!" Xu Mang said with a smile: "I have a good idea, right?"

Sun Chuanxiao: ???

This...

This guy is really a dime!

"Ahem!"

"I said Xu Mang... Don't save this money, you still have to spend it. Brother Chuan Xiao smiled bitterly: "Anyway, if you set up two research groups, what should you do? You won't be traveling around all day, right?"

"Let's take a look at the strength of these people. ”

"If it's not ideal... I had to make a move. Xu Mang shrugged: "Oops... Take it one step at a time, what else can I do..."

...

A few days later,

Xu Mang saw an article, although he did not name names, but from the attitude of criticizing the CRISPR-C2c1 gene editing system, it can be seen that the author is very disgusted with gene editing, and even feels a trace of fear, and he cleverly uses the fear effect to gain a lot of popularity.

For these opposing voices, Xu Mang directly ignored their existence, or that point of view... Technology is that there is no such thing as evil, evil only exists in human beings themselves, and when the person who uses it is sinful, then the technology will become terrible.

Much like nuclear physics, it is a terrible atomic bomb, but sometimes it is one of the indispensable means of generating electricity.

suddenly

The phone rang,

Xu Mang glanced at the number, his expression was slightly surprised, this call turned out to be from his uncle.

Under normal circumstances, he rarely calls himself, unless he encounters any problems, or if others encounter any problems, it is impossible to call, at most let his father-in-law have a word.

"Hello?"

"Uncle... Is there anything you want me to do?" asked Xu Mang.

"Yes!"

"I just finished a meeting and met one of your physicists, he knew about the relationship between me and you, and then talked about a certain key project, Xiao Xu... You know nuclear physics, right?" asked the uncle.

"Understood!"

"As long as it's on the side of physics, I know it. Xu Mang smiled: "Is it controllable nuclear fusion?"

Uncle was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "How do you know? He called you in advance?"

Yes?

Is it really controlled nuclear fusion?

Xu Mang said cautiously: "I guessed blindly... You can't let me build an atomic bomb... I had solved a certain component material of a controlled nuclear fusion device at NTU before, so I thought it might have something to do with this, what is the situation?"

"I don't know. ”

"All he told me... I don't know anything else about this. Uncle said, "If you have time, contact him." ”

"Oh..."

afterwards

Uncle told Xu Mang a number.

Hang up the phone,

I hurriedly called, and soon the phone went through.

"Hello?"

"Is it Academician Zhou?" Xu Mang asked curiously: "I'm Xu Mang, I heard that you are looking for me?"

"Professor Xu!"

"Yes, yes, yes... I was indeed looking for you, and I wanted to call you personally, but I happened to meet your uncle. A strong voice came from the other side, full of energy, "Professor Xu... We may need your help. ”

"Oh..."

"What kind of project is that?" asked Xu Mang.

"Do you know about the Circulation-1 device?" Academician Zhou said solemnly: "Our first large-scale tokamak experimental device is used for basic research on magnetic confinement controlled nuclear fusion, as well as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor program, you should know about these, right?"

Xu Mang was stunned for a moment, and said seriously: "I know... I remember working on the material of a certain part. ”

"Yes!"

"The epoxy base is in line with the material axial insulator, which really helped us solve a big problem at that time. Academician Zhou said with a smile: "Because of this part of yours, we have successfully realized the neutral beam injection system of auxiliary heating engineering, and successfully achieved the 100-second long pulse hydrogen neutral beam extraction on the comprehensive test platform. ”

Xu Mang knew what Academician Zhou was talking about, the plasma pulse temperature reached five times the temperature of the sun's core, which was a high temperature of 100 million degrees.

"Academician Zhou?"

"What the hell is going on?" asked Xu Mang.

"This year, our new generation of controllable nuclear fusion research device, Gyro-2," Academician Zhou said: "In fact, the energy generated by nuclear fusion of the so-called artificial sun is still uncontrollable, and how to make the energy generated by nuclear fusion controllable and easy to use is very important." ”

"Our Circulation-2 can simulate nuclear fusion reactions, which use hydrogen and deuterium gas as fuel, inject them into the device, break them down, and break them to produce a near-core-level plasma, simulating nuclear fusion reactions. When Academician Zhou said this, he couldn't help but show a trace of helplessness: "But we lack a top expert in the field of physics and computer bidirectional. You are such an expert, you should be an authority. ”

Yes?

This... Controlled nuclear fusion in the true sense of the word?

Through his own channels, Xu Mang has long known that there are some problems with the previous device, but he has no way, and technology has stopped the progress of human beings.

With hydrogen and deuterium?

This deuterium is not cheap, hundreds of millions of dollars is only a kilogram, such a price is in a state of no market, but deuterium is a large stranded household, and it is almost impossible to control the content of deuterium, could it be that Academician Zhou solved this problem?

The tritium retention problem is only a small problem, how to solve neutron irradiation, plasma radiation, and low-activation materials?

There are still a lot of questions, what can I do?

All solved?

"Ahem!"

"Academician Zhou?"

"Controlled nuclear fusion... It shouldn't be a real experiment, right?" Xu Mang asked cautiously, "I'm thinking... Are you going to solve the tritium retention problem?"

Academician Zhou said: "It is almost only in the experimental stage, of course, it can also reach the ion temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees, but we hope to control this temperature, and try to delay the time as much as possible under the controllable situation." ”

"Oh..."

"Then my task is to develop an artificial intelligence?" Xu Mang asked curiously, "Conduct relevant simulation experiments in advance?"

"Yes!"

"We want you to be able to provide a service that allows you to get some useful data in advance based on our parameters. Academician Zhou said: "Every time this kind of equipment is carried out, a lot of money will be lost, and there is no way... We have very little money. ”

Xu Mang smiled bitterly, this sentence should be false, this is a key project, and it can no longer be described with money.

"I see..."

"But I need the previous information and data, otherwise... I don't know where to start. Xu Mang said seriously.

"Hmm!"

"That's right... There should be no problem with the need to sign a relevant contract, right? After all, there is a process to follow. ”

"No problem!"

afterwards

The two chatted casually, and Xu Mang hung up the phone.

Controlled nuclear fusion?

This question is a bit tricky...

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