Chapter Twenty-Six: The Present Story
"My case was reopened, and although I was not acquitted, I was released early and offered the opportunity to return to Moscow University to teach. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info It's an opportunity that people working at this remote base crave, but I'm staying, ball lightning has become a part of my life, and I can't leave it. ”
"Now it's Narnov who is going to be unlucky, he is responsible for the failure of his research, although not as miserable as me, but his academic and political future is over."
"He struggled for a moment, insisting on his 'Doctor Incarnate' conjecture, which, unlike before, thought that the parameters of the deviation might be in the other three systems, and began to conduct a large number of experiments, this one even larger, and if it had not been interrupted by an unexpected discovery, it would have been going on for an unknown amount of time."
"Base 3141 has the world's largest lightning simulation system, and conducts ball lightning research as well as a number of other military or civilian experimental research projects."
"In a test for lightning protection projects, ball lightning was unexpectedly produced again! The parameters of this lightning are very different from those of our first successful experiment, and have nothing in common; As for the various extra-imposed factors, such as magnetic fields and microwave lasing, there were none at all in this test, just a pure lightning! ”
And so began a new nightmare cycle: the experiment was repeated tens of thousands of times under the same parameters, and the result was the same as the first time, and the ball lightning never appeared again. There could be no saboteur to deviate the parameters this time, and even Narnov admitted that his 'Doctor Incarnate' conjecture was wrong. He was transferred back to the Siberian Branch, where he held an inconsequential administrative position until his retirement. ”
"At this time, the 3141 project had been going on for 15 years. After Narnov left, the base changed the direction of the test and began to conduct experiments with various combinations of different parameters, and in the following 10 years, nine more ball lightning bolts were produced. The number of lightning bolts required for each generation ranges from a minimum of 7,000 to a maximum of hundreds of thousands, and the test parameters are different for each generation, and most of them are very different. ”
"In the mid-80s, stimulated by the American Star Wars program, the Soviet Union also increased its investment in high-tech and new-concept weapons, including the research of ball lightning."
"The size of the base has expanded dramatically, and the number of tests has increased exponentially, with the aim of finding out the pattern of the conditions that produce ball lightning from a large number of tests. In the last five years, a total of 16 ball lightning bolts were produced, but as before, we have not been able to find any pattern to the conditions under which they were produced. ”
"But unfortunately, at that time we had no chance of correcting, and we lost, lost, lost to a reality that was colder than the snowfield......" Germov said bitterly, approaching the trapezoid, shining a flashlight on it, "I think of it as a monument, and when I am tormented by the memories of the past, I will come here to engrave something." ”
Under the light, the meandering traces are traversed, seemingly as small rivers, but none of them contain them.
"A total of 27 ball lightning bolts were produced in these 30 years of experiments, which are the curves plotted using the main parameters of those 27 experiments. For example, this one is the current radiance of lightning; This is the strength of the applied magnetic field......"
Confusion...... Disordered...... There is no pattern......
This is ball lightning.
"These are the people who have dedicated their lives to Project 3141 for thirty years, and the harsh working conditions have taken their lives. This is my wife, who died of a strange disease caused by long-term exposure to electrical radiation, and her skin was ulcerated, and she died in extreme pain. ”
"A significant number of these people die from the disease. This is my son, who died from the last ball lightning produced by the base, and the 27 ball lightning produced during the thirty years of testing killed a total of three people. It seemed to be able to penetrate everything, and no one could predict when and where it would cast its energy. ”
"But we don't think it's particularly dangerous to do this kind of experiment, because the chances of succeeding in producing it are so small that people will gradually relax from their heightened vigilance, and that's when ball lightning often appears, causing disaster."
"When the last ball lightning appeared, the people at the test site were unharmed, but it penetrated the thick rocks and scorched my son, who was in the central control room, who was a computer engineer working at the base at the time."
Germov turned away, away from the light, and looked into the gloomy darkness: "When I walked into the control center, I saw that it was still as quiet as usual, under the soft light of the ceiling lights, everything was so bright and bright, all the computer equipment was working silently, except for the almost completely burned remains of my son in the middle of the white anti-static floor, as if a phanteur was projected from somewhere......"
"I was going to advise you not to pursue illusory things, but I forgot...... Your motherland, your loved ones, are still ...... Maybe this ...... Yin and yang, what seems right is not necessarily right, because only one side of it is seen...... I've had that idea too...... But no one needs ......"
"How much do you remember about those experimental data...... Lu Yu asked.
"I remember a lot, and I don't miss an important point, how could I forget...... ......It's impossible to forget," said Germow, who told the two men from the Red Nation the core data of the past three decades.
Finally, he said: "Please make all this public, I want people to know that in that sad and idealistic era, a group of Komsomol members came to the depths of the jungles of Siberia, chased a ghost there, and dedicated their lives to it......"
"Yes, definitely."
Lu Yu nodded, he got a lot in this line.
In particular, those key experimental data gave him great insight, others may not be able to see anything, but under the framework of the big universe, they are like shining stars, illuminating the silence and darkness in the distance......
Back in the city, Lu Yu took out two jade cards from the online shopping mall "Dream Street" and gave them to Gemov and Levalenko, and said: "If you can spend it, the online trade between China and Russia will be quickly opened, and at that time, Russians can buy some personal items made in China through the Internet, and the account number and password on this card have a limit of 100,000 yuan every month...... And there is a special person to deliver the goods to ......"
"Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, it has been 53 years now, and the power accumulated in it will shock the whole world...... Including made in China, it will be a representative of cheap and high-quality ......"