Recently countries have discovered something strange, no, it shouldn't be said to be strange. It is a big breakthrough that has spread in the basic science community.

It started when a European laboratory working on basic materials science made a huge breakthrough in experimenting with a new nanomaterial. An ultra-light and ultra-strong nano-overlay coating material has been studied. And it's been five years since the start of this project.

Britain, France and Germany have allocated more than $100 million to the lab, which was originally planned to run for 10 years.

The first phase of the experiment should be a process of nearly three years, the second phase will take until the seventh year, and the third phase will be until the tenth year.

Finally, the third stage is to produce the coating material on a small-scale laboratory scale, and then move on to the next decade of civilian and military commercial research. The whole plan is planned for 20 years to do industrialization.

But there are always all sorts of contingencies in scientific research. Even the world's best scientists dare not say when their research will come to fruition. Unless the scientist already knows the final answer in advance, it is normal for the postponement to be made.

And this nanomaterials project is exactly that, the first phase of the research took four years to complete. Far below the three-year plan that was laid out at the beginning.

The second phase was already stuck at the beginning, and the budget departments of Britain, France and Germany were all considering whether the research direction of this laboratory was wrong. Because the whole experiment has not progressed for a long time.

But since the beginning of this year, Professor Knight, the scientist who is in charge of the project, has been like a divine help. He always gets all kinds of inspiration inadvertently. Whenever he gets stuck, he just goes out for a spin and gets all kinds of inspiration to help him out of the situation.

In just half a year, the progress of the entire laboratory is advancing rapidly. The whole experiment was like a teacher deliberately leaking questions to students, and the research of nanomaterials completed the entire process that was originally expected to take seven years in half a year.

Now it has begun to enter the stage of expanding industrialization. When Professor Knight published his half-year experiment process and results in academic journals, it caused quite a stir.

Because everyone thinks that the project will not bear fruit until at least 10 years later. New nano-coating materials have a very broad future.

The progress of a basic science can often lead to a great stride forward in applied science.

And if there is only one progress in nanomaterials, then it can be said that the inspiration of a genius scientist has exploded. Although this is legendary, it is also possible in human history.

But in the past six months, the entire basic science circle has been advancing at a rapid pace. If the speed of human exploration of basic science in the past was only riding a bicycle in a slow river, the progress of human basic science in the last six months is like riding a 300-horsepower Kawasaki H2R supercharged motorcycle to participate in a straight-line acceleration race.

You've already reached the finish line in a blink of an eye, and you don't even know how many gears you've changed gears in between.

Basic science is making great strides, as anyone who follows the scientific community knows. In the last six months, more supplements have been published in authoritative scientific journals than in the previous decade combined.

Those articles with 2.0 and 3.0 impact factors seem to have become worthless, and they can be written by individuals.

Li Jie is not a scientist, and he will not read magazines such as Nature and Science, which are so professional that laymen can't understand them. So he didn't know what was going on in the scientific community right now.

Tony reads these magazines by the course, but most of the time he skips them. He specializes in new energy and machinery, so at most he reads articles on materials science, and the rest is at most a simple glance and does not pay special attention.

And the one who really took a closer look at these articles was Dr. Hank, Dr. Banner. Dr. Banner didn't know Harry well, so naturally he wouldn't go to Harry's wedding or anything.

When Li Kit and Tony and the others were attending Harry's wedding, and Tony was also happy to have a daughter. In the Venus base, Dr. Banner was wondering how he had put together a pile of various scientific magazines he had read in the last six months.

He was frowning and thinking about something, as Dr. Hank, who had turned his blue fur into silver, walked in from outside with a cup of coffee. He saw what Dr. Banner was doing and asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

"I'm just curious, have you watched the latest issue of Science?" Dr. Banner asked, looking at the silverback gorilla-like Dr. Hank.

"Look, Dr. Wang's article on quantum communication from China is impressive. His article pushed the field of quantum communication forward by at least two decades. As long as industrialization can be realized, the entire world's information and communication industry will undergo earth-shaking changes in the future. Dr. Banner nodded earnestly.

Dr. Banner looked at Dr. Hank and said, "yes, but don't you think it's weird? There have been too many influential articles of this kind lately. ”

"Strange what?" Dr. Hank was a little puzzled, "Isn't that a good thing for the scientific community?"

"It's a good thing, but it's too concentrated. Isn't it?" Dr. Banner said, pointing to the magazine he was spreading, "Normally, there would be one or two articles a year, or three or five at most. ”

"But since the beginning of this year, and now it's only been half a year, and you look at how many articles like this have appeared. From materials science, to the field of communication, to cytology and so on. All areas are making great strides. It's just that this step forward is too big. Dr. Banner said, touching his chin.

"It's so big that we can't apply all these scientific advances in the short term. If we were able to take all of this science to its senses, we should be able to step into the near-future scenarios that are often portrayed in Hollywood movies. And we generally think that the near-future scenario will not appear until more than 100 or 200 years later. Dr. Banner looked at Dr. Hank and said seriously, "What do you think that means, Dr. Hank?"

Hank frowned, "What do you want to say." ”

Banner began to recycle the magazine, saying, "When I was in Nepal, Captain Rogers and Jason and Thor came looking for me. Jason also sent me some books to read. There is a set of books in it that I remember very well. It is from the trilogy "Once Upon a Time on Earth" by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. ”

"In the first part of the "Once Upon a Time on Earth" trilogy, "The Three-Body Problem", the Trisolarans sent Zhizi to block all the basic scientific progress of mankind in order to lock up the technology of the earthlings. So that humanity will be powerless in the face of the attack of the Trimaran fleet for hundreds of years. Dr. Banner said thoughtfully.

"This approach is strategically correct. And the interesting thing is that we are now on the opposite side of the book "The Three-Body Problem". Our basic science is making great strides. It's as if the teacher deliberately leaked the question to the student, and the process of our calculation and deduction was extremely smooth. I really doubt that someone is pushing us forward from behind?" Dr. Banner looked at Hank and said.

"Who the hell is doing this, and what is his purpose?"