Professor Newman also stopped his pen and asked, "Professor Johnson, according to the periodic table you drew in Principia Chemistry, there should be several elements that have not been discovered, right?" ”

Sun Yuan nodded: "Yes, before the No. 92 uranium element, there are elements with atomic numbers 43, 61, 72, 85 and other elements that have not been discovered. ”

"Then why don't you continue to explore the traces of these unknown elements, and instead study a scientific instrument?" Professor Newman was puzzled.

Sun Yuanqi said: "These elements have not yet been discovered by the scientific community, and we have reason to infer that they are caused by the following reasons: first, this element is unstable and has evolved into other elements over a long period of time; Secondly, the presence of this element and its compounds in the earth's crust is extremely small, and no evidence of their existence has been found. Finally, we are still relatively backward in our technology, and even if they exist all around us, we have no way to find them. ”

The participants all bowed their heads and agreed with this analysis.

"Some of you may know that I proposed a 'nuclear reaction' a few years ago. This gives us an inspiration. "In the past, when we discovered new elements, we passively analyzed and purified existing substances, and then obtained them through measurement and comparison. Now, we have a completely new idea of 'making' new elements through nuclear reactions. ”

"Make a new element?" The attendees were all chewing on this new concept in their hearts.

Sun Yuanqi went on to say: "The manufacture of new elements involves two aspects of work: one is to make isotopes of existing elements; The other is the discovery of new elements. In addition to the known gaps in the periodic table, the new element also includes the transuranic element after uranium.

"We now know for sure that uranium, and radon before it, are radioactive and decay over time to become other elements. According to the periodic table, it can be concluded that the transuranic elements after uranium are radioactive, and the half-life is even shorter, even as short as a few seconds, milliseconds, and even microseconds. If pre-uranium elements are still likely to be found in nature, transuranic elements can only be made in laboratories.

"Therefore, in order to discover and manufacture new elements in the future, we must rely on the advancement of scientific instruments in the laboratory, and the most important of them is particle accelerators. As for why and how to build a cyclotron particle accelerator, I have elaborated on it in my paper. I'm going to publish it in Science magazine in the near future, so you can circulate it first! ”

As he spoke, Sun Yuanqi took out the paper and handed it to the people around him to circulate it in turn. Like President McCal and Alumni Association President Pike, they just roughly flipped through and didn't look closely. In fact, even if they read it, they may not understand it. Only a few professors of natural sciences and laboratory personnel read it carefully. In particular, Mr. Newman, the chairman of the professors' association, frequently exchanged views with several people around him.

After a long time, Professor Newman said: "In view of the important role of cyclotron particle accelerators in the discovery of elements, our professors will unanimously recommend that the university focus on supporting this work." Of course, in order to ensure that Yale University, and indeed the United States, is leading in scientific research, we hope that Professor Johnson will not make this paper public until the accelerator is built. ”

When Sun Yuanqi was at UC Berkeley, he had this concern. Now seeing that the school has made this request, it is like drowsiness and encountering a pillow, so I immediately agreed.

Yale has always been dominated by professors. Soon after the professors' meeting passed, the university mobilized funds and personnel.

Although what we have to do now is to repeat the path of Lawrence in the past. It can be said that it is one thing, and it is another thing to do it, Sun Yuanqi has self-knowledge: he understands the principle of this accelerator, but the actual object of the accelerator has only been seen a few times in the laboratory back then, and if you want to restore it like this, it is definitely not something that can be completed by yourself. Sun Yuanqi is not a god - although in the laboratory colleagues have always thought he is. Therefore, after he handed over the schematic diagram and the rough design diagram to everyone, he handed over the arduous development, installation and commissioning work to his colleagues, and made a return to the shopkeeper.

Laboratory colleagues don't think it's wrong: everyone can chisel out the principle of the hollow, do you want him to develop it? If he develops it again, then what are we people doing? Besides, people don't participate in the development, that's because there are still greater achievements and theories waiting for him to discover!

Sun Yuanqi left Chen Jide, Pan Xian and other students to participate in the development of particle cyclotrons. He hurriedly left Yale with Liu Bin, who caused trouble.

The purpose of this trip is not to go to MIT, although there is a lot of work to be done there; It's not to see Lilith and Little Huaizu, although they haven't seen each other for nearly a year, and they are always haunted; Not to mention going to McGill, Canada, to meet his brother-like Rutherford. Instead, head to the Ardenclyffe Tower on Long Island and meet a legend: Tesla, the leader of the Church of Scientology and the "genius forgotten by history"!

Nikolai? Tesla (1856-1943), a world-renowned inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer, was more often seen as a Frankenstein. In orthodox physics textbooks, the most prominent electrical engineer is remembered for the fact that Tesla is the SI unit of magnetic induction and the "Tesla coil" named after him, as well as the alternating current power system that is still widely used around the world. - This is the result of his battle with Edison.

Between the 19th and 20th centuries, Edison and Tesla were the best in terms of electrical inventions, each with hundreds of patents. The first time the two met, Tesla was just setting foot on American soil, and Edison had already made a career in the United States. Tesla visited Edison because of his former employer, Charles? A letter of recommendation written by Bachler for him. The letter, addressed to Edison, says: "I know that you are one of two great men, and the other is this young man. So, Edison hired Tesla and arranged for him to work for Edison Machinery. Tesla has worked hard to solve countless problems for the company.

One day, Edison said to him, "If you complete the improvements to the motor and generator, I'll pay you $50,000." That's almost twice as much as the Nobel prize today. Tesla's painstaking research lasted almost a year, redesigning almost the entire generator, and finally completing the task delivered by Edison, allowing the company to reap huge profits and numerous patent ownership. When Tesla asked Edison for $50,000, Edison was rumored to have replied to him like this: "Tesla, you don't understand the humor of us Americans!" He broke his promise.

So the two turned against each other. Tesla left Edison's company and started his own business. Soon, the feud between the two turned into a debate on the pros and cons of DC and AC on the issue of power transmission and transformation. Although Edison understood the many benefits of alternating current, he still insisted on direct current for the sake of his own business interests, and did everything possible to attack the shortcomings of alternating current. However, facts speak louder than words, and when it comes to practical benefits, the major power companies have made their own choices. In this round, Tesla won a complete victory and avenged $50,000!

The dispute with Edison is just one of the three major fighting methods in Tesla's life. The other two, one was with Marconi for radio patents. At first, Tesla obtained a radio patent in the United States, but under Marconi's defense, the US Patent Office revoked Tesla's patent and subgranted it to Marconi. Since then, Tesla has begun its own arduous rights protection activities. It was not until after his death that the U.S. Patent Office finally restored his ownership of the radio patent. By the way: his alternating current patent was also examined after his death. The reason why this is so is that the American chaebol uses this means to avoid paying huge royalties!

Another battle was when he opposed Einstein's theory of relativity and adhered to the traditional view of physics. Obviously, this was incompatible with the flourishing of atomic physics, and he was never married for life, so his old age was quite unpopular, and he died quietly at the age of eighty-six.

Tesla's three fighting methods in his life can be said to be one win, one draw and one loss. However, it was the final defeat in the confrontation with the theory of relativity that led to his almost removal from the history of science. Since the end of the twentieth century, with the prevalence of the trend of overturning cases, the grave has finally been dug up on Tesla's head. Through textual archaeology and data interpretation, people gradually recognized that Tesla had made outstanding contributions to various high-tech fields such as robotics, ballistics, information science, radar systems, intercontinental missile navigation systems, artificial satellite systems, atomic physics, and theoretical physics, and idolized him, and then put him on the throne of the head of the Church of Scientology.

Sun Yuanqi was like thunder for the sect leader, but he didn't expect that the first time they met was because of a patent dispute. As mentioned earlier, the MIT Electronics Laboratory has applied for numerous patents in the development of radio broadcasting. As a result, the sect leader believed that it violated the radio technology patent he obtained in 1897, and sued Sun Yuanqi and other cadres in court.

After some arguing, I don't know whether to concentrate on dealing with the menacing Marconi, or realize that the two patents are indeed incompatible, the sect leader agreed to reconcile, but there is an additional condition, that is, I hope to meet Sun Yuan. At that time, Sun Yuanqi had already returned to China. In desperation, he had to wait for him to cash in on the day. Now I heard that Sun Yuan had played in New Haven, Connecticut, and the sect leader sent several telegrams urging him. It is said that Sun Yuanqi also wants to see who this "soul traverser" is, so he is naturally a little impatient.

The leader is the leader, and the place where he lives is extraordinary. Just like the main altar of the Cult of the Sun and Moon is located at Blackwood Cliffs, the headquarters of the Church of Scientology is located on Long Island, near New York. In 1900, Tesla spent $150,000 to build the Worden Crevert Tower. And in July 1902, the institute was moved from Houston Street to this place.

The tower was so majestic that the newspapers of the time called it "Tesla's million-dollar building". Later generations had some false rumors that the tower was a complex electromagnetic oscillator that the Cult Master used to resonate between the Earth and the ionosphere, which led to the Tunguska explosion in 1908. It's too sci-fi and out of reality.

When Sun Yuanqi took Liu Bin to Long Island, the sky was still clear. When I got off the car in front of the tower, the sky suddenly became like splashing ink, and a few muffled thunders sounded from time to time. It seems like a hurricane is coming, or maybe it's deserted, and there are only two people on the street.

Liu Bin stepped forward and rang the doorbell. After a few whispers of electric noise, a deep man's voice said, "This is Nikolai?" Mr. Tesla's laboratory, who are you? ”

Sun Yuanqi hurriedly stepped forward and replied into the microphone: "I'm Yanke from the MIT Electronics Laboratory?" Johnson, invited to meet Mr. Tesla. ”

There were still a few electrical noises, followed by a "please come in".

As soon as the words fell, the two gates slid tremblingly to the sides, revealing a path in the middle that led to the pitch-black tower, only a few blue electric lights occasionally flickered in the depths, and then vanished. Seeing that no one opened the door, there was a black hole inside, and there was no human figure, Liu Bin, who had always been not afraid of the sky and the earth, was also a little grassy, and looked at Sun Yuanqi suspiciously.

This kind of remote-controlled door was too pediatric in front of Sun Yuanqi, so he looked at it as if it was nothing, and walked out of the house with his feet raised. Before he had taken a few steps, several birds fluttered and bumped into him in the darkness. Sun Yuanqi hurriedly covered his face with his hands, but heard Liu Bin screaming behind him.