Thinking of this, Andrew finally decided to talk to Duke.

"Duke, come to my office." Andrew called Duke's office.

"Okay, Professor." Duke was surprised to receive such a call from Professor Andrew.

You must know that in doctoral research, professors often play a leading role, most of the research is done by the doctors themselves, if the professor has time to participate in the discussion when the research encounters problems, it is already very responsible, more often than not, the professor does not meet the professor several times a year.

Duke had spoken to Andrew several times since the beginning of the school year, so Duke couldn't help but be a little flattered to receive a call from Professor Andrew.

"Well, Duke, I'm here for you today, mainly to talk about your subject." Andrew said straight to the point. People who do research really don't have so many polite words.

"Okay, Professor, that's what I think about the research topic......" Duke didn't go around in circles, and said his thoughts straightforwardly.

"Well, the idea is good, about the formation of natural nuclear reactors, I have also studied for a period of time, in the past research on the formation mechanism, researchers noticed that after the concentration of dissolved uranium of natural uranium reaches 10%, the nuclear reaction can be started under certain conditions, but in our experiments, through simulation, we know that this is not the case, this condition alone cannot start this reaction, and some other conditions must be needed in between."

"In this natural nuclear reaction, if there is no buffer, the accumulation to a certain extent will cause a nuclear explosion, but in fact the natural nuclear reactor does not explode, so there must be something that can make this reaction in a dynamic equilibrium, and most researchers now believe that the natural nuclear reactor is adjusted by water.

When the nuclear reaction speed is too fast, it will produce a huge amount of energy due to fission, which will lead to a sharp rise in temperature (most researchers believe that the temperature of a natural nuclear reactor should be between 200-400 °C), at this temperature, the water will be vaporized, and the neutrons produced by fission will collide with the water molecules and slow down the reaction, which in turn will cause the temperature to drop, and the water vapor will condense into a liquid, reducing the absorption of neutrons, so the nuclear reaction will start to accelerate again.

In this way, water acts as a buffer for the nuclear reaction, in a stable self-regulating manner, allowing this natural nuclear chain reaction to continue.

But in fact, no researcher in the simulation experiment was able to reconstruct this process. So the process is also flawed, and I think water should be just a medium here, not a real buffer.

It's just that the time has passed, and this true buffer is estimated to have disappeared with time, so to solve the mystery of natural nuclear reactors, the initial natural uranium nuclear reaction initiation conditions and buffers should be the key to research. ”

Of course, these two are the key, Duke said secretly in his heart, these are basically the two most important parts of the natural nuclear reactor, and Professor Andrew wants to really get involved in this aspect, not a general talk.

This is a true researcher, who can achieve fame, and success is really not lucky. Thinking of this, Duke suddenly felt that maybe he could shorten the process of "discovery", provided that he could trigger Andrew's thinking through clever prompts, so as to use Professor Andrew's knowledge and experience to complete this "discovery" in some way.

In this way, part of the profit of this major research result will be shared. When the results are out, if some of Professor Andrew's ideas are used in them, they will naturally be mentioned in the reports and papers in the future, and cannot be ignored. This is the basic attitude of a researcher.

Divide it out, divide it out, Duke thought that he would never contribute only to this one aspect in the future, and it was really not a problem to have more people and one less person to achieve the results of this natural nuclear reactor.

"Professor, you see, I think so, first of all, I think ......" Duke began to inspire Andrew's thoughts step by step, his idea is already very close to the truth of the facts, even if Andrew can't think of it for a while today, but as long as Andrew calms down and thinks about this issue carefully, sooner or later he will put forward constructive views.

As long as Andrew's advice is in the right direction, Duke can take it a step further. Duke's discovery would not be too abrupt if he could get results under the guidance of a top expert like Andrew, and if Duke insisted on co-signing Professor Andrew's name, and Andrew's suggestion above was indeed of great value, Professor Andrew would never mind.

Sure enough, Andrew listened to Duke's thoughts, and couldn't help but be greatly inspired, as an expert in nuclear reaction research for many years, his knowledge of nuclear reactions is far from being comparable to Duke's now, even if he adds Kerry's knowledge base, he is not an opponent, but Duke now has some real conclusions in his hands, and he is stronger than Professor Andrew in terms of direction.

Just like a modern high school student who has learned about gravitation, if he starts to discuss the problem of gravitation with Newton, who was hit by an apple for the first time at that time, although he has no concept of the intermediate derivation, he can propose to Newton that the apple fell because it was affected by gravity, and once this correct direction was accepted by Newton, Newton would slowly derive gravitation, and finally derive the law of gravitation through complex mathematical operations.

Professor Andrew is in this state now, so following Duke's inspiration, the idea is really a step on the right path, although Professor Andrew does not know this now, and a selfish professor may hide this idea and study it himself.

Then Duke can guarantee that although Professor Andrew has embarked on the right path, there are still countless divergent paths that he needs to walk one by one to get from this path to the end. Without more than ten years of hard work, it is absolutely difficult to have the luck to find the final result.

Therefore, Duke is not afraid that this achievement will be intercepted halfway, and in such a long time, he can speed up the progress at any time to "discover" this achievement that belongs to him first.

Fortunately, Professor Andrew is not that kind of villain, and when he was inspired by Duke, he quickly said this new idea, which of course was exactly what Duke needed. So Duke pretended to think about it for a while, and then thanked Professor Andrew very happily for his guidance.

With Andrew's guidance, Duke was able to further refine his experimental plan and simulate the test of the new idea, although this was not enough to achieve the conditions for success, but the experimental results would prove that this path was correct. It's enough for Duke to be able to make this thing now.

The progress has been staggering. You know, a lot of people who study this area have been spinning around for years.

Once this is done, Duke can rest for a month or two before moving forward.