That's just 1 mg!

Listening to Liu Feng's words, Academician Tian was directly speechless.

1 mg?

Or is it just that?

Why don't you go to heaven!

I saw that Academician Tian opened his mouth wide, and he couldn't stop the shock in his heart.

1 mg, what is that concept?

You must know that the antimatter that can be produced in the world every year is only 10 billionths of a gram, that is, 10 grams to the minus 11th power, and Liu Feng, this guy's experimental manufacturing, and it is the first time, can directly increase by 8 orders of magnitude!

I'm not kidding!

After being silent for a long time, Academician Tian opened his mouth, but he still couldn't say anything.

It's no wonder that this guy wants to modify the structure of the Penning ion trap device, with his previous design, he didn't think about being able to restrain so much antimatter, and in terms of safety, he certainly didn't think so much.

After all, 10 billionths of a gram of antimatter can boil half a cup of boiling water at most, but 1 milligram of antimatter is completely different.

You know, 30 milligrams of antihydrogen can send a spacecraft with a small mass instrument to a distance of 250 astronomical units from the sun, and the astronomical unit, which is the distance from the sun to the earth, is equal to 149597870 kilometers......

The annihilation of 1mg of antimatter is almost equivalent to the explosive yield of 43 tons of TNT, and if one accidentally explodes, the entire Institute of High Energy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences will be within a radius of several hundred meters - chickens and dogs will not be left.

Thinking of this, Academician Tian shuddered.

"At my level, I can only depict it to this extent, and I have to trouble you experts for the specific design......

Looking at the drawings, Liu Feng explained endlessly.

However, Academician Tian did not listen to him at all.

This guy is crazy!

Don't you think about the consequences of failure at all?!

Staring at this sketch, Academician Tian swallowed his saliva and said in a trembling voice: "Forgiveness, forgive me, Professor Liu, this time our design of the Pengning ion trap device is not perfect, why don't we wait for me to go back and discuss it with other members of the expert group, and then do experiments after we have perfected the device?"

Liu Feng looked at him suspiciously, puzzled: "Why? I think the device you designed is very good! Although there are certain flaws, the 1mg antimatter is very small compared to the high-energy particles that need to be restrained by nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, so there is no need to worry about whether it can be restrained." ”

Academician Tian shook his head into a rattle: "Professor Liu, too, too much! 1mg of antimatter can almost flatten hundreds of meters around the laboratory, if you are not careful...... We will not be able to atone for our deaths!"

I was worried about danger!

Looking at Academician Tian's frightened expression, Liu Feng smiled dumbly: "I have already considered this point, you don't need to worry!"

"Although the total amount of antimatter that can be produced in this experiment is expected to be around 1mg, we did not create it at the same time. ”

"There is not a lot of antimatter coming out of the collider per unit of time, and most of it will be annihilated when it flows, so the antimatter that eventually flows into the Penning ion trap device will not accumulate too much; after all, this time we are not trying to collect all the antimatter, most of the antimatter, after verifying the reliability of the Penning ion trap device, will immediately 'discharge' the entire system with the follow-up device I designed. ”

"Therefore, even if there may be a danger here, at best it will only cause damage to the equipment and equipment, and there will be no large-scale explosion. ”

Indeed, the energy contained in antimatter is indeed terrifying, but in the case of ultra-high vacuum, there is no large-scale annihilation reaction.

In the follow-up device of the penning ion trap, Liu Feng has already designed a set of ultra-high vacuum reaction chambers, through a circle of vacuum paths, a small amount of matter and antimatter are added to it for annihilation, so that the energy release after annihilation can be diluted to the greatest extent, and the degree of damage is completely within the tolerable range. From this point of view, compared to the uncontrollability of nuclear fusion reactions, antimatter is much more controllable!

Moreover, purely in terms of danger, the high-energy particles in the collider that are accelerated to nearly the speed of light, these things are not at all dangerous, and the antimatter that has quieted down is not at all small!

Hearing this, Academician Tian's expression calmed down a little, and he immediately looked at the sketch again, carefully assessing the feasibility of Liu Feng's plan.

After a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and agreed: "It's good that Professor Liu is prepared, since this is the case, we will make subsequent changes immediately." ”

Liu Feng also nodded: "Well, the official launch of the experiment is expected to start next week, and you guys should speed up the progress......"

A few days later.

Qinhuangdao City.

Although it was late at night, at this moment, the temporary office building of the Super Collider Committee of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was still brightly lit.

After receiving the call of the meeting notice, Ke Wenguang, who had already gotten off work, had already washed up and lay on the bed, but he got up from the quilt again, put on his clothes and quickly came to the office building.

Sitting in the conference room with a yawn, and glancing at Yuan Quan who was sitting next to him, Ke Wenguang couldn't help but push, and said.

"Team Leader Yuan, what kind of nerves are you having today, and what kind of meeting are you having so late. ”

"I don't know," Yuan Quan shook his head, but he seemed to think of something, so he said, "I just heard that it seems to have something to do with the recent positron collider laboratory in the capital." ”

"Beijing Positron Collider Laboratory?" Ke Wenguang became more and more puzzled.

A month ago, they had just been sent here to carry out the demonstration of the super collider, and as for the capital, there had been no experiments for a long time, so could it be that someone over there was going to do an experiment now?

"That's right, I heard that Academician Wang and Professor Liu often run between the capital and Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao is good to say here, after all, there is a super collider construction work, but over there in the capital, what else can make them so nostalgic?" Yuan Quan's glasses eyes shone with wisdom.

Without making them wait too long, the meeting soon began.

While chatting with Yuan Quan, Ke Wenguang learned that the meeting was personally presided over by Academician He Zuoxiu, and almost all the researchers who came from the Beijing Positron Collision Laboratory, whether it was several other academicians or ordinary group leaders, received the notice of the meeting, and all who could come came.

Although he didn't know what Academician He Zuoxiu planned to say at the meeting, seeing that Academician Fang Shouxian and more than a dozen other bigwigs with the title of professor were also sitting in the front row of the conference room, Ke Guangwen still put on a serious attitude.

Generally speaking, these dozen or so bigwigs have their own modules to be responsible for, not in the same system, and rarely cross each other, and usually don't have meetings with them, and occasionally come, at most only a few.

And now, all these bigwigs are sitting here.

Obviously, what will be discussed at this meeting is very important, and most of it is related to the whole collider project.

Soon, an old man with a gray head, but still looking very generous, walked to the rostrum.

Holding his glasses, Academician He Zuoxiu cleared his throat, stretched out his hand to straighten the microphone, did not waste too much time on the opening remarks, and said concisely.

"I'm sorry to call everyone to the meeting so late. Everyone's work during the day is very hard, and you are still in a foreign country, you are not familiar with the place, your relatives and friends are not around, and the working conditions are very closed, which is very difficult, and it is really not easy for you to persevere, but I still hope that you will try to overcome it. ”

"What I'm going to say next is very important, and I hope you listen carefully to everything I say and take good notes of the meeting. ”

Speaking of this, Academician He Zuoxiu paused for a moment, changed to a serious tone, and continued to speak.

"I'll try to make a long story short. ”

"I believe everyone has heard that just over a week ago, there was a major breakthrough in the field of controlled nuclear fusion, and the Hefei EAST Plasma Laboratory successfully achieved a 1,300-second high-density plasma confinement ignition experiment. ”

"It is an honor and a blessing that our country is ahead of the world in the research and development of controlled fusion technology. ”

"However, this is not good news for us!"

"Our antimatter engineering itself is in a competitive relationship with the controllable nuclear fusion project, but now the competitors have made a major breakthrough, and our antimatter engineering is almost still spinning in place, everyone, there is a long way to go!"

"Fortunately, on the side of the Beijing Positron Collider, with the efforts of Professor Liu Feng, the transformation work has been a complete success, and there is no need to wait for the construction of the Super Collider to be completed, and the technical experiments of antimatter engineering can also be carried out. And we, as the core personnel of the laboratory, are fortunate to be the first batch of experimental operators. ”

Hearing this, there was a commotion from the audience.

Someone's eyes were blazing, and his eyes were full of excitement.

Some people shook their heads, and there was a hint of caution and suspicion between their eyebrows.

As for the vast majority of people, they all had a look of surprise on their faces at the moment.

Antimatter engineering!

For most people, it's just a word that you only see in movies and movies.

Even for a long time, many of them have been discussing the question of whether antimatter engineering is unreliable - why should a good super collider project be planned in an antimatter engineering project.

Shouldn't this be the other way around?

Fortunately, even if the Super Collider can't be used to study antimatter, it can study other high-energy physics, so these people don't have much resistance to it.

Today, however, they were told that they could carry out antimatter experiments, and that they were the main team members involved!

Unreliable discussions were instantly swept into the dustbin of history......

Ignoring the voice of the discussion, Academician He Zuoxiu, who was standing on the stage, knew very well that it was not easy to digest this huge amount of information.

In a clear and loud voice, he continued.

"As a leader in the direction of high-energy physics in China, we have the responsibility and obligation to do a good job in this engineering experiment, and we cannot let the colleagues who can control nuclear fusion look down on us, nor can we live up to the expectations of the country and the people, and the future must be in our hands!"

As soon as the sonorous and powerful words fell, the audience burst into applause like a torrential rain.

Pressing down with both hands, signaling everyone to be quiet, Academician He Zuoxiu gently stacked the documents in his hands on the rostrum, and continued in a steady voice.

"From now on, the Beijing Positron Collider Laboratory will be carried out at the same time, but the Super Collider project will also continue. Therefore, among all of you, we will select half of the personnel to return to the capital to carry out the experiment simultaneously, and after a period of time, we can rotate and adjust, and return to the capital as the second and third batches of personnel. ”

"I've got a list here, and I'm going to name them next. Those who read their names will report back to the capital tomorrow, and those who have not read their names should not be discouraged, because the work on our side is equally important!"

At this point in the meeting, the business that needs to be announced is almost over.

The next step is to take a roll call and determine the candidates who will return to the capital.

Antimatter Experiment!

Looking at the list in Academician He Zuoxiu's hand, Ke Wenguang's heart was hot.

Although the second and third batches will also be able to carry out antimatter experimental research in the following time, as the first person to conduct antimatter experiments in China, the sacredness of the first batch of people is afraid that they will have a chance to make history!