Stopping, Lu Zhou cast an inquiring glance at the man who stopped him.

"You are?"

Michiel Benderbauer, Chairman and CTO of Tri-Alpha. Walking up to Lu Zhou, Bendbauer stretched out his right hand, smiled and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you here." ”

Tri-Alpha？

Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows with interest.

He had heard of the well-known Three Alpha companies in the field of controlled nuclear fusion.

As a commercial controllable nuclear fusion company controlled by private capital, the big boss behind this company is Google, an Internet company that has always had a "clean energy complex".

In order to make the experiments on Tri-Alpha's C2-U machine faster, Google also used its advantages in information technology to tailor a set of "optometrist algorithms" to help fusion experiments more efficiently produce the plasma needed for the experiments through more efficient human-computer interaction schemes.

Not only is the old club awesome, but Tri-Alpha itself is also very competitive, and has independently developed a set of devices called "Field Reverse Configuration (FRC)". The appearance of such a device is that of a long cylinder, with several small cylindrical silos-like devices connected to it, which can raise the plasma temperature much faster than a traditional microwave heating device.

There is no doubt that whether it is an optometrist algorithm or a field reverse configuration device, it is a black technology in the field of controlled fusion.

It's just that Lu Zhou always feels that they seem to focus on strange places.

After all, neither advanced human-computer interaction nor faster plasma temperature increases are the technical bottlenecks faced by controlled nuclear fusion.

Holding his right hand and shaking it, Lu Zhou spoke: "I'm also glad to meet you here...... Is there anything you can do with me? ”

Bendebauer smiled and said, "Can you borrow a step to speak?" ”

Looking at Professor Li Changxia next to him, Lu Zhou handed him the grip of the suitcase.

"I'm sorry for you."

Professor Li Changxia smiled and said, "It's okay, then I'll go upstairs first." ”

Lu Zhou: "Well, I'll be there later. ”

After a brief separation, Lu Zhou followed in Bendbauer's footsteps to the café next to the hotel.

After finding a quiet place to sit down, Bendbauer picked up the menu.

"Do you want something?"

"Mocha is fine."

"A cup of mocha, a cup of black coffee."

"Yes gentlemen," he jotted down quickly in his notebook, and the waiter put away the menu and turned away.

After a while, the coffee was quickly served.

Looking at the coffee on the table, Lu Zhou leaned back in his chair and said in a casual tone, "Can you tell me now, what are you going to talk to me about?" ”

Ten fingers crossed on the table, and Bendbauer looked at Lu Zhou with interest and said, "I heard that you are interested in nuclear fusion research?" ”

Lu Zhou nodded: "That's right, this is a very challenging topic, and it is meaningful enough." ”

Benderbauer: "May I ask if it's a spiritual meaning or a monetary meaning?" ”

Lu Zhou: "What do you mean?" ”

"Literally," he took a sip of his coffee, squeezing his eyes as if he was bitter, and Bendbauer threw two sugar cubes into his cup, looked at Lu Zhou and continued, "If it's the latter, why don't you consider working with me?" ”

"Oh?"

"Whether it's $1 billion or $2 billion, it's someone else's money, not yours. But if we join forces, we can make the company bigger and go public. Even if it's 10 billion, or even 100 billion, it's conceivable. ”

"What about my proposal? The youngest Nobel laureate in history, known as the genius Professor Lu," said Bendebauer, with a smile on his face, "I can assure you that you will get at least 5% of the shares, and it will be worth far more than you think." ”

This is......

Want to pull yourself to help the platform?

Hearing this request, Lu Zhou shook his head with a smile and put down the coffee cup in his hand.

"I thought you were going to talk to me about the FRC device."

"Thank you for the coffee, but I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't help you."

Obviously, he didn't expect Lu Zhou to refuse so simply, and Bendbauer was slightly stunned.

Seeing Lu Zhou stand up, he couldn't help but ask.

“…… Why? ”

Lu Zhou shook his head: "There is an old saying in Huaguo, different ways do not conspire with each other. ”

Looking at Lu Zhou in surprise, Bendbauer said in a tone of disbelieving: "Should you ...... Do you really expect to make nuclear fusion? ”

Lu Zhou: "Why don't you ask the researchers in your company about this?" I am sure that they will give you a rigorous and reliable answer from a professional point of view. ”

"I don't discuss this with them, it doesn't make any sense, and their answers are always the same." Benderbauer shook his head and said, "Whoever bets ten years from now is a genius, and whoever bets twenty years from now is a fool." ”

Lu Zhou said with a smile.

"Unfortunately, my answer is the same."

……

July 1.

The International Conference on Controlled Nuclear Fusion has officially kicked off.

At the first report meeting of the first day, after having breakfast, Fei Jingqi and Dian Cili came to the lecture hall with a yawn and sat down in the back row.

Since their supervisor, Professor Yu Jinsong, could not come here for a while, they were specially assigned tasks before coming here, not only stipulating which reports they must listen to, but also requiring them to take detailed meeting notes at the meeting.

Therefore, this academic conference is destined not to fish as usual.

Soon, the debriefing began.

Professor Botham of the Kalam Center for Nuclear Fusion Research gave a presentation on a new discovery in plasma interaction experiments.

The two of them took out their notebooks, and whether they understood it or not, they wrote down all the parts that felt like the main points.

About halfway through the report meeting, Fei Jingqi suddenly lowered his voice and said to Senior Brother Dian who was sitting next to him: "In the past six months, when I was brushing up on my paper, I found a very interesting thing. ”

Dian Cili was slightly stunned: "What's the matter?" ”

Fei Jingqi: "It's obviously a very easy thing to understand, but if you say it in academic language, you can make people in the clouds." ”

Dian Ci Li: "For example? ”

"For example, if we see 'well-known' in a paper, maybe the author of the paper is actually trying to express that only the person in their lab who is responsible for checking the literature knows. Another example is 'Predictions based on statistics', which may just correspond to 'we are guessing, don't take it to heart if you see it.'" ’”

Dian Ci Li: "Can you give us a specific meaning?" ”

Fei Jingqi: "Specific examples? For example, the paper you have in hand, look at the last few lines of his writing—we hope that this research will lead to more in-depth exploration by scholars in the field......"

Dian Cili said with interest: "What do you mean?" ”

Fei Jingqi: "It means that whoever of you likes to do the follow-up work will do it, and Lao Tzu will not do it." ”

"Poof—"

Holding back the suppressed laughter in the weirdness, Dian Cili slammed his forehead on the table.

Fei Jingqi glanced at him with a confused expression.

This guy, is the laugh so low?

With his back to the equations written all over the blackboard, Professor Botham, who was standing on the stage, continued in a warm and slow voice.

“…… We used the high-order harmonic XUV generated by the interaction between the high-intensity laser and the plasma to measure the structure of the plasma with high temporal resolution. ”

"As shown in the PowerPoint, we got a very interesting set of data from the observations, and based on those results, we extrapolated a series of them."

"This involves multi-scale nonlinear evolution, as well as compressible turbulent mixing...... It's not easy to solve it, but fortunately, we have at least achieved partial results. ”

The audience was crowded, and the experts and scholars present whispered to each other.

“…… If the Kalam Fusion Research Center does solve this problem, it will provide a theoretical basis for solving the problem of magnetic plane tearing in the tokamak device. ”

"Unbelievable...... Do you think their data is reliable? ”

"I don't know, I'll have to look into it."

Looking at the audience with satisfaction, Professor Botham had a smug smile on his face.

As he expected, their research results were amazing enough.

Soon, it was time for the question session.

Looking at the man who had raised his hand first, Professor Botham nodded.

"Do you have any questions, sir?"

Standing up, Lu Zhou glanced at the equation on the blackboard and spoke.

"If I'm not mistaken, you introduced differential geometry in the process of solving nonlinear equations."

Pushing his glasses and looking at the Chinese scholar, Professor Botham frowned.

"That's right, what's the problem?"

Lu Zhou sighed and said: "The solution idea of introducing L manifolds to perform topological transformations on nonlinearity is correct, but your method is wrong, and L manifolds are not used like this." ”

Questioned to his face, Botham did not get angry, but laughed.

In a sarcastic tone, he spoke.

"I don't know how you came to this conclusion, but it seems to me that you are making a fuss. There is nothing wrong with my calculations, I know exactly how to use the L manifold, and I don't need you to teach me. ”

The scholars in the lecture hall were full of discussions.

Glancing at the commotion venue, Lu Zhou coughed lightly.

"The L manifold you used was made by me."