Two days later, Qinghua University.

Liu Jianwei was anxious about his team, but none of them were doing research work now, but everyone looked at each other's handwritten letters sent by Luo Sheng.

At this moment, everyone has no intention of engaging in research work.

"Luo Sheng is crazy, we just think about it, he not only dares to think about it, but also dares to do it!"

After a while, everyone looked at Liu Jianwei, who didn't speak much, and one of the researchers couldn't help but ask, "Professor Liu, what do you think?" ”

Professor Liu Jianwei came to a tactical mirror and said concisely: "I decided to resign from my job at Qinghua University and go to Luo Sheng. ”

There are not many words, and the tone is flat, but there is a firm attitude.

Luo Sheng was not only very sincere in the envelope, but also promised that as long as he could work at Star Arrow International, the company would provide at least 1.35 billion yuan per year for his research project on new carbon nanotube materials for 20 years.

In other words, in 20 years, Liu Jianwei was able to obtain a sky-high research funding of 27 billion yuan, which is a scale that Liu Jianwei could not imagine.

In contrast, he recently applied for a 10 million yuan grant for his research project, which was rejected several times, and this time it was still rejected.

The reason is very simple, it is difficult for the thing he researches to produce results, and it will take a long time for the results to have application prospects, which is still based on success.

What if it fails?

Liu Jianwei looked at his research assistant team: "Do any of you want to follow me?" If you want to stay, I'll arrange it for you. ”

"Yes!"

All team members agreed without hesitation.

This is an invitation from the richest man in the world, and not only that, but also strongly supports the idea of a space ladder that they themselves find unrealistic.

Probably that's how fools and madmen come together.

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Three days later, Liu Jianwei left Qinghua University with his group and came directly to see Luo Sheng.

As for the work handover and resignation issues on the school's side, they don't need too much hard work, Star Arrow International will help deal with it, this is Luo Sheng's attitude towards talents, and someone in the company will come out to solve trivial affairs.

Liu Jianwei and his team of eight people came to the Science and Technology Complex Building, except for him, the rest of the research team is a Ph.D. graduate student, but coming here also means that the degree stops there.

But they did not regret this decision at all.

As everyone got out of the car, Liu Jianwei turned around under the reminder of his students, and saw a young man walking calmly and firmly with a smile.

It's not anyone, it's Luo Sheng, he personally came out to receive him, and there are really few people who can let him personally wait outside for reception, the last time it was Dr. Ernst Wenneck.

"Professor Liu, I finally looked forward to you, and it's really an honor to have you join Star Arrow International." Luo Sheng said with a smile.

"I was flattered by Mr. Luo's hospitality." Liu Jianwei said that the two sides also shook hands politely when they met, but he was quite surprised that Luo Sheng was so polite.

"I won't say anything polite, everyone please come in!" Luo Sheng continued with a smile, and immediately motioned to the seven young people who were obediently standing beside Liu Jianwei, and also said to them with a smile: "Don't be restrained, I've read your information, the oldest is only 25 years old, and I'm still a year older, just call me Brother Luo." ”

In this situation, Luo Sheng did not have the slightest arrogance, let alone oppress people, and the gentle side of the humble gentleman suddenly made several slightly nervous fans relax a lot, and they did not make so much progress.

When they first came to the Science and Technology Complex Building, except for Professor Liu Jianwei, the other seven young men and women were full of curiosity and amazement about everything around them, and there were two young girls in the team.

For the first time, they saw the mansion of the richest man in the world today, with a sense of simplicity and luxury, and they knew that it was the work of Hadid, the master of deconstruction, and that the building had won an award.

But what surprised them the most was not the sheer size of the private mansion, but the technological elements they saw along the way, and perhaps the most impressive of them was the ubiquitous Cortana.

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Living room.

"Professor Liu, I have read the results of your team published online in Nature Nanotechnology on May 14 this year, which reveals the bright prospects of ultra-long carbon nanotubes for the manufacture of super-strong fibers, and also points out the direction and methods for the development of new super-strong fibers."

Luo Sheng looked at Liu Jianwei and continued with a smile: "By using the method of in-situ airflow focusing, the centimeter-level continuous ultra-long carbon nanotube bundle with a definite composition, perfect structure and parallel arrangement is prepared in a controlled manner, and the limiting factors are cleverly avoided. ”

Liu Jianwei was surprised in his heart, and he looked forward to it even more, he didn't expect Luo Sheng to do so much homework, which is honest.

"My team and I prepared ultra-long carbon nanotube bundles containing different number of units, quantitatively analyzed the effects of their composition and structure on the mechanical properties of ultra-long carbon nanotube bundles, and also established a definite physical/mathematical model, and proposed a 'synchronous relaxation' strategy. ”

"It is to release the initial stress of the carbon nanotubes in the tube bundle through nanomanipulation, so that it is in a narrow sub-range, and then the tensile strength of the carbon nanotube bundle can be increased to more than 80GP, which is close to the tensile strength of a single carbon nanotube, and is also better than all other fiber materials found so far."

Luo Sheng said: "The tensile strength has reached the standard of space ladder cables, but centimeters are far from enough, what I want is to use this material to make a few ropes with a length of at least 36,000 kilometers, and finding a way to make such a long pipe is the key." ”

Liu Jianwei: "I think the tensile strength can be increased several times, 300GPa is no problem, but it is only 36,000 kilometers...... There's a long way to go...... Mr. Luo, do you really believe that human beings will be able to build a space ladder in their lifetime? ”

For this problem, Liu Jianwei, as the biggest dreamer, also feels a little lacking in confidence, this is really a super project of the century.

Luo Sheng looked around at the seven young people and stopped at Liu Jianwei, maybe he didn't know that his research results became the key to the space ladder many years later, let alone imagine that he could see and participate in the groundbreaking ceremony of the 'Sky Ladder Project' in his lifetime, and he could also see the completion of the first space ladder in human history in his lifetime.

Of course, this is a matter of Luo Sheng's previous life.

Luo Sheng said with a smile: "Dreams still need to be had, in general, my opinion is that the space ladder is a theoretically feasible, but extremely difficult and troublesome project of the century, which almost requires human beings to fill the most cutting-edge technology." ”

"But just like those epic projects in history, the establishment of the Great Wall more than 2,000 years ago, the establishment of the Qian Grand Canal more than 1,000 years ago, including today's Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao bridge, which one is not a meritorious achievement and a thousand years of ambition?"

"The establishment of Dujiangyan made the imperial cause of the Qin State, and the Pacific Railroad witnessed the rise of the United States, and it was these super projects that achieved the rise of civilization and the prosperity of the country."

"Five hundred years ago, it was the undaunted efforts of a group of navigators who started the process of globalization, and today, the efforts of astronauts and scientists will be the beginning of the next space era, the earth is the cradle of our humanity, but we cannot always be in the cradle."

"In the future, human beings will enter space on a large scale, and it will be inseparable from the opening of a new low-cost route into space like the space ladder, and our journey is the sea of stars, and the space ladder will support the future home of mankind in the sea of stars in the early stage."

Although Luo Sheng's speech was not very impassioned, and even the tone of his speech was very flat, it ignited the hearts of every listener and involuntarily surged.

Yes, in ancient times, epic projects that modern people thought were impossible were built, and the glory created by our ancestors in the past is undoubtedly the best inspiration for future generations.

After a while, everyone gradually calmed down the turmoil in their hearts, and Liu Jianwei couldn't help but worry: "It's just such a super project of the century, I'm more worried that the potential hidden danger of war will easily destroy all efforts." ”

"Destroy? Professor Liu, you don't have to worry about that. ”

Hearing this, Luo Sheng said with a smile, and then his smile looked a little contemptuous, and then added with a light attitude: "Speaking of this, it reminds me of the Three Gorges Dam, it's not that some people like to joke about this, especially some so-called American scholars, saying that if they blow up their Three Gorges Dam, how many people will drown?" 200 million or 300 million? And how much area of industrial area will be flooded? ”

"Then some experts came out to explain that the Three Gorges is a concrete gravity dam that can withstand the impact of small nuclear bombs, and secondly, after layers of fortification, there is no possibility of aircraft penetrating at all, and even if a small number of them are broken through, they are just scratching and so on."

"Hehe, is that enough?" Luo Sheng sneered, and the humble gentleman's side suddenly disappeared, turning into an iron-blooded hawk character, and said:

"This is far from enough, this kind of I tell you that I have an anti-theft window at home, an anti-theft door you can't enter, and the baby is still in the safe in the basement you can't get, why do you say that? Is our army not strong enough? Is it that we do not have enough ICBMs? Is it because the range of the missile is not enough to hit your North American mainland? Or is there not enough nuclear bombs in my warehouse to extinguish you once? ”

"This kind of statement is not called state deterrence, what is state deterrence? It is that I clearly tell the world and Americans that the Three Gorges Dam is the core property of our country and is my treasure, and I tell you that this treasure is placed on the coffee table in my living room, and there is no security door or window in my house. ”

"So the space ladder is the same, this super project is the core property of our country, I just stand it on the equator line, there is no military port around it, there is no fleet garrison, it just stands there barely, but you can move it? I'll doom you! If you move it and it's all over, that's the real state deterrence. ”

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