Although he was very curious about how Senior Brother Luo exposed the cheater's conspiracy, Lu Zhou was still embarrassed to ask in detail in the end.

While eating grilled fish, the two of them talked about some things that they didn't have, and the topic unconsciously changed from what they did on New Year's Day to the Riemann conjecture that couldn't be beaten by the eight poles.

“…… I'm now sure that if we can solve the Riemann conjecture, we will be able to uncover the untold secrets behind the Riemann zeta function, and it's exciting to think that theories centuries apart can echo each other as if the timeline were moving at some unnatural point! ”

"Do you think there is a possibility that the Riemann Zeta function proposed by Riemann is actually from the future, otherwise how can the pair correlation function of the eigenvalue of the random Ermi matrix be exactly the same as the pair correlation function of the non-trivial zero point of the Riemann Zeta function? There was no quantum mechanics in the 18th century! ”

Although he knew that this was a joke, Lu Zhou still smiled with him and said casually in a teasing tone.

"How do you know that history as we know it is not the result of being altered by 'time travelers'? How come you don't know that our past is nothing more than a revised future? ”

"History as we know it is actually the result of being changed by time travelers, and you mean that the past as we know it is actually our future?" After chewing this sentence repeatedly, Senior Brother Luo, who had fallen into a short contemplation, suddenly snapped his fingers, slapped his chopsticks on the table excitedly, raised his head and said, "I thought of a new idea, wait until New Year's Day is over...... Or I'll start doing it when I get back right away. ”

Because his voice was so loud that the guests next to him looked at him.

Lu Zhou coughed lightly a little embarrassed, and motioned with his eyes for him to sit down quickly.

"If you have something to say, don't be surprised."

was reminded by Lu Zhou, and Luo Wenxuan realized that he was in public, so he sat back awkwardly.

However, this guy's embarrassment only lasted less than half a second.

Soon he rested his hands on the table, looked at Lu Zhou with excited eyes, and continued.

"You don't know what came to my mind just now! I bet you'll be amazed at my new idea! I'm a genius! ”

Looking at the senior brother who sat back in his position, Lu Zhou, who was relieved, continued in a relaxed tone.

“…… Whatever the new idea, I hope your paper doesn't include my name. ”

Luo Wenxuan smiled proudly.

"Don't regret it."

Lu Zhou pursed his lips.

"Haha, I'm sure I won't regret it."

The so-called time traveler is just a joke.

He was sure that this idea about the paradox of time must have been done by someone, and there must have been more than one paper.

Isn't that what theoretical physicists do?

First assume that string theory is true, and then make a set of theories. And then assume that string theory is not true, and make another set of theories to explain why it is not true.

In this contradiction of self-affirmation and self-denial, it moves forward slowly.

It can be seen that Einstein is almost like God.

These include the true face of a black hole that was mapped only a few years ago, as well as gravitational waves observed earlier.

Since his death, all the results of the physics community through experimental means do not seem to have deviated from the theoretical framework he made.

Even today, the experimental physics community has not been able to fully test the theories left by that great man, so that those geniuses living in this era can only write and draw on a "castle in the sky" called theoretical physics, and they are in a dilemma of having no way out in the face of the development of strong condensed matter physics......

Wait a minute.

Thinking of Lu Zhou here, he suddenly fell into deep thought.

Einstein seems to be the only one who has left scholars in the same field in a situation where there is no way out.

Time travel is a joke, and there are simply not enough arguments to support this idea.

But how can he prove that the history that has already happened is indeed not the result of change?

There doesn't seem to be a way to prove it......

Especially at this time, he suddenly thought of the existence of the system.

emmmm……

"Like...... Interesting? ”

Touching his chin, Lu Zhou, who thought of a certain possibility, suddenly muttered to himself and fell into deep thought.

“…… Hey, I heard what you said, you seem to be saying something interesting, do you want to join forces together? Looking at Lu Zhou, who was deep in thought, Luo Wenxuan said excitedly.

"You must have heard it wrong," recovering from his contemplation, Lu Zhou smiled faintly, hiding the surprise in his eyes, "As for joining forces or something...... Let's wait until the project we're working on has a result. ”

“…… Okay," Luo Wenxuan said with a helpless expression as he spread out his hands, "...... Can I be happy? At least you didn't reject me outright. ”

Lu Zhou, who was troublesome, immediately said: "Then you should be direct to me and you refuse." ”

Luo Wenxuan: "......"

……

On New Year's Day in 2020, the fire of the "Pangu" fusion reactor illuminated the future of controlled fusion research and civilization.

On New Year's Day in 2021, China's first aerospace aircraft "Xiangrui" with an electric propulsion system successfully flew a test, paving the way for the subsequent manned lunar landing and the launch of the Moon Palace into orbit.

Now that New Year's Day in 2022 seems to be a little dull, except for the new construction of the fifth largest industrial group that shook the entire semiconductor industry, as well as the quasi-Riemann conjecture proof that caused a sensation in the entire mathematical community and the report meeting of Jinling, there seems to be nothing enough to surprise the whole world.

On the day of New Year's Day.

An unexpected guest came to Lu Zhou's home.

Because he was going to Jinling High-tech Park and Aerospace Industrial Park to do business, Director Li of the Bureau of Science and Industry stopped by when he passed by the Purple Mountain.

Just in time for lunch, Lu Zhou ordered a few dishes from the hotel next to him and had a drink with this old friend who had worked together for a while.

It just so happened that international news was shown on television.

The content in the news is exactly what the two talked about earlier, about the topic of aerospace......

“…… According to NASA's separate announcements at the White House press conference, NASA will launch the Deep Space Gate project this year. ”

"The project is part of NASA's lunar exploration program announced in 2018, and according to the disclosure in its draft budget, NASA will launch power and propulsion into lunar orbit in early 2022, which will be the first launch components of the lunar orbital station (Lunar-orbital-Ptfateway)."

"However, since the best orbit is already occupied by the Luemiya space station, NASA is considering an elliptical orbit with a larger orbital period and more acceptable construction costs."

"It is reported that the project was approved by the Congressional Budget Committee in 2021 and has now entered the stage of preparation for launch. According to the content released by the NASA spokesperson, the project will serve the international community as an international circumlunar orbit space station, just like the Yuegong space station. According to the analysis of international relations experts, the project can be seen as the determination of the White House to reorganize the space hegemony, and for the global market, the space program may become the next ......"

In fact, due to the success of the Xiangrui's test flight, the plan began to be prepared in the middle of last year.

It's just that because of the miscarriage of the Ares program, three astronauts were trapped on Mars, which caused NASA to fall into a huge crisis of confidence, so that in the past six months, both NASA and Space-X and other aerospace companies have been quite low-key.

It's a new year and a new page has been turned in history.

Of course, Lu Zhou did not think that just one defeat could destroy the ambition and determination of this space power, otherwise this victory would have been too boring.

They will be stronger and more united after learning from their failures, and this race on the eve of the space age has only just begun.

"Americans really don't want to lag behind." Looking at the picture in the news, Director Li sighed lightly with emotion while drinking and eating braised vegetables.

"No one wants to fall behind, and we can go further in this kind of competition," looking at Director Li, Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Speaking of which, why did Director Li suddenly come to me?" Aren't you busy at work? ”

"Busy, you can't leave your old friends alone," Director Li smiled and said, "I heard that you plan to go back to your hometown for the holidays this year, so I came to visit you in advance, and I didn't disturb Chief Designer Lu's rest, right?" ”

This old friend always sounds weird.

Although the two have been dealing with each other since the beginning of the controllable fusion project, the age gap is there, which always makes Lu Zhou feel that he has been taken advantage of.

The last time I talked to Professor Faltins, it seemed that the people I was chatting with him couldn't help but use the tone of communication with their peers.

Anyway, I'm still young, okay?

Not yet thirty......

Coughing lightly, driving the strange feeling out of his mind, Lu Zhou responded casually: "...... How so? It's impossible to be busy on New Year's Day. ”

"That's good, I'm just worried that I will disturb your rest, and I hesitated for a while before coming," but he didn't notice what Lu Zhou was thinking, Director Li put down his wine glass, looked at Lu Zhou, and continued in a solemn tone, "Academician Lu must also know that I came to Jinling this time with a mission. ”

Lu Zhou nodded: "Someone told me." ”

Without asking who said it, Director Li also nodded and continued.

"The construction of the deep space gate in the United States has already begun, and the budget received by NASA this time is said to be more than $100 billion, which can be said to have far exceeded the original expectation of $21 billion."

"According to the analysis of our experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the White House's plan this time is probably not just as simple as returning to the moon, but their real intention is probably to reunite their allies through economic and diplomatic means, draw an iron curtain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and let the world pattern that is becoming more diversified enter the pattern of a new Cold War."

As for the intention of doing this, it is naturally to contain the rise of China and rebalance the balance of international relations.

This will be a new challenge for China, which has finally opened up the international situation through controlled fusion technology and space strategy. Although the fifth largest semiconductor industry group is still in full swing, even Lu Zhou, who does not have much political sense, can feel that the focus of development in the next ten years will inevitably be in the aerospace field.

Looking at Lu Zhou, who was lost in thought, Director Li continued in a solemn tone.

"At present, the United States has opened its doors to us and invited our domestic space companies to participate in this 100 billion dollar project. Do you think we should export space capacity to them? ”

This is an interesting question.

If the export capacity is opened, it means that Chinese enterprises engaged in space launch business, including Star Technology and the two major aviation groups, will participate in the construction of the deep space gate.

After thinking for a while, Lu Zhou suddenly asked with a smile. "If Warwick has the opportunity to sell chips to Apple, will you stop Warwick from selling them?"

"How so?" Director Li laughed and said, "As long as they dare to buy it, even if we refund the tax to Warwick, we have to let them do this business." ”

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Yes, I'm afraid they won't dare to pay." ”

Knowing the meaning of Lu Zhou's words, Director Li nodded in understanding.

"I kind of see what you mean."

Lu Zhou nodded with a smile and continued.

"The deep space gate is not a big threat to us, it is just a space station, and it is not the spacecraft or space station that they have that really competes with us, but the space companies that are about to master these forces, or those living forces that can send spacecraft to the moon or even more distant places."

"If we can snatch launches from North American companies like Space-X, Blue Origin, Boeing, etc., we can weaken their market competitiveness in the long term and further widen the gap between them and us with the cost advantage that we have established."

Since the opening of the Jinling Aerospace Industrial Park and the successful development of the Queqiao, China's aerospace industry and outer space transportation have achieved large-scale, and the cost of transferring orbit from the surface to the Earth and the Moon can even be on the same order of magnitude as the cost of low-earth orbit launch in many countries.

And this means that in the face of Space-X's bidding documents, Star Technology can easily reduce the offer by a 0, and it is still profitable.

In such a situation, even if it is hindered by trade protectionism, Star Technology can still snatch the cake of those aerospace companies that originally belonged to North America from the Americas.

“…… If one day in the future, their colonies in distant galaxies will need our spacecraft to help maintain even the supply lines, even if they spread the space station to Mars and send the migrants to the edge of the solar system, there is no need to worry at all. ”

Still with some doubts in his mind, Director Li continued: "If the White House can also take this into account, why do you think they would ask us to enter the Deep Space Gate project?" ”

"In order to balance the cost, even if they want the local company to eat all the orders, it is impossible to bear the soaring cost of the imbalance between supply and demand," Lu Zhou smiled and continued, "This is a good thing, it shows that they have begun to consider some practical problems." ”

Between the dream of aerospace hegemony and the thin reality......