"At that time, all the records I remember were as thick as War and Peace, and they were top secret. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info It was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and I remember that Narnov holding up the big piece of information and saying: 'It's nothing for us to withdraw the missiles, and there is something more frightening for the Reich!' At that time, we all thought that in the future, if we made lightning according to these parameters repeatedly, we would be able to mass-produce ball lightning. ”

"Nope." Lin Yun stated the thoughts in his heart.

"Yes, what happened next was beyond everyone's expectations: repeated experiments with the same parameters yielded nothing. A frustrated Narnov let the experiment continue, and over the next year, in strict accordance with the recorded parameters, a total of 50,000 such lightning bolts were made, and no ball lightning was ever seen. ”

"It should be noted that in the Soviet scientific community at that time, determinism and mechanism were the overriding way of thinking, and researchers believed that the natural world was dominated by iron-like causality."

"This way of thinking was determined by the political environment, at that time, Lysenko's ghost in the academic world was not gone, and you deviated from the mainstream ideas academically, although not as dangerous as before, but at least you would have ruined your academic life, and people who dared to deviate like Gamow were in the minority after all."

"This was still the case in the field of basic science and purely theoretical research, when the study of ball lightning was positioned as an applied project, and traditional linear thinking dominated people's minds."

The results of such experiments were unacceptable to them, and they thought that if one experiment could produce ball lightning, future experiments with the same parameters would definitely produce it. So Narnov gave a logical explanation for the results of these 50,000 tests: the parameters of the first test with ball lightning were incorrectly recorded. ”

"This matter is not a big deal, it can be solved within the scope of pure work, and if someone is dealt with because of this, at most it is because of dereliction of duty. But Narnov's habit of politicizing everything gave him an opportunity to exclude dissent. ”

"He was alarmist in his report to the top leadership, saying that there was imperialist spy sabotage in the 3141 project. Since 3141 belongs to the national key weapons development project, this matter quickly attracted attention, and a large-scale investigation began. ”

"The investigation team is mainly composed of GRU personnel, and Narnov is also one of its key members. For the failure of the later experiment, he put forward a "Doctor Incarnate" conjecture, which comes from the novel "Doctor Incarnate": the protagonist of the novel prepares a drug that can make people have a split personality, but he uses the same formula again to prepare the medicine but it does not work, so he thinks that the ingredients he bought back are not pure, but later he learns that it is the impurity of the raw materials used in his successful preparation, and it is the impurities in it that make him successful. ”

"Narnov believes that the saboteurs deviated the system from the predetermined parameters at the first test, but the crooked ones were right, and the deviating parameters produced ball lightning, but this deviation was certainly not recorded, and it was the predetermined parameters that were written down."

This explanation, although bizarre, was the only one that could be accepted by the investigation team at the time, and the following question was which parameters were deviated. At that time, the test consisted of four subsystems, namely the lightning simulation system, the applied magnetic field system, the microwave lasing system, and the aerodynamic system. ”

"At that time, there was a consensus that the most critical parameter was the discharge parameter of the lightning simulation system, and I was the one responsible for the design and operation of the system."

"This is not the pre-war era of rebellion, and it is impossible to convict a person based on groundless speculation."

"However, it was at this time that my father defected to West Germany while attending an academic conference in East Germany."

"My father was a biologist and a persistent genomics, but in the Soviet Union at that time, the genetics theory was still in a state of great rebellion, his academic views were suppressed, and he fell into a deep depression mentally, which I think was the main reason for his defection."

"The consequences of his actions were catastrophic, and the investigation focused on me. In order to protect my life, some members of the group I led framed me in every possible way according to Narnov's instructions, and finally convicted me of espionage and sentenced me to 20 years in prison. ”

"But Narnov couldn't technically leave me, so he suggested to the higher authorities that I should return to the base while serving my sentence to continue my old job. After returning to the base, I lived an inferior life, with no personal freedom, the range of activities could only be within the base, and even the color of the work clothes I wore was different from others. ”

"The most uncomfortable thing is loneliness, except at work, no one wants to contact me, only the female college students who have just been assigned to the group treat me equally, giving me a lot of warmth, and later she became my flag."

"As an escape, I threw my whole body and soul into research. My hatred for Narnov is hard to put into words, but strange to say, I basically agree with his 'Dr. Incarnate' conjecture, aside from not believing that someone had vandalized it, and I really think that it was the unknown deviation of parameters that led to the success of that experiment. ”

"It frustrated me because if I finally found that or those parameters that were off the mark, it would only make it more difficult for me to prove my innocence, but I didn't think about that in my work at all and did my best to expect to succeed in producing ball lightning again."

"The future research route is very clear: the deviation of the parameters can not be too large, otherwise various monitoring instruments and even the naked eye will be detected during the discharge, so the test should make each parameter in turn in the record value up and down a small fluctuation, if you take into account the situation that multiple parameters deviate at the same time, this is a huge combination, to carry out a large number of tests."

"In the process, I'm even more sure that Narnov deliberately framed me, because if he believed that I was responsible for the sabotage, he would have tried to get me to say what parameters I had deviated from, but he didn't ask me once."

"Others, exhausted by the endless and heavy testing tasks, were full of hatred for me. But at this time, I believed, including me, that it was only a matter of time before the ball lightning was successfully produced again. ”

"Once again, things turned out to surprise everyone: when all possible deviations from the parameters were tried and still unsuccessful, I was surprised to prove my innocence. At that time, Brezhnev came to power, and compared with his pig-herding predecessor, he liked to be vassal, and was much more gentle to the intelligentsia. ”