Followed Professor Winifred out of the banquet hall, and before Wu Bin could ask him what he was looking for, Professor Winifred introduced a burly middle-aged man to him and said, "This is Professor Angus, our NASA's chief engineer for Mars exploration. ”

"Hello, young Chinese scholar." Angus stretched out his right hand to Wu Bin.

When he heard this name, Wu Bin was stunned at first, and he always felt that he had heard it somewhere, but he thought that the names of foreigners were basically the same, so he didn't think too much, so he stretched out his hand and shook him.

"Hello, Professor Angus."

After shaking hands, Professor Angus spoke: "I have read your paper on solar sails twice, it is very wonderful, and I found that you are very good at using mathematical and physical tools to solve practical problems, which is very rare. ”

Wu Bin: "Actually, the modeling and programming were done by two of my teammates, and I just showed their results. ”

After listening to Wu Bin's words, Professor Angus and the Winifred Sect looked at each other and smiled, "It seems that you are very modest. "Then let me introduce myself again," my full name is Angus Dennis, and I talked to you about the use of graphene for the space shuttle and the space station. ”

"Oh!! It's you! ”

Now Wu Bin remembered that the professor had talked to him after he published the paper "Graphene-filled Rubber Nanocomposites".

In fact, this paper Wu Bin has been issued across fields, during that time he was stuck in a bottleneck in graphene conductivity, because he was afraid that his road would become narrower and narrower, so he decided to change his mind, and soon remembered what Mr. Cai told him about engines and astronautics.

Wu Bin, who thought of it, went to listen to a few lectures on aerospace materials by Professor Shi, and after listening to it, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, because in space, materials will undergo extremely high temperature to extremely low temperature changes, which will make materials such as rubber expand and contract, and then lose strength.

However, if graphene could be used to withstand high temperatures, this would no longer be a problem, and the paper was born.

"Have you applied for a patent?" Professor Angus asked Wu Bin.

"Well, the professor at the school arranged it for me."

The concept of applying for a patent was instilled in him by Professor Liu Yubo, and it also made Wu Bin understand that applying for a patent is not only for the finished product, but also for invention patents, utility model patents, design patents, technology patents, etc., can be patented.

The definition of an academic paper has been changed and changed in the Patent Law, and the current formal provisions are:

To put it simply, the content of the application should be discovered, invented, created, and advanced, rather than repeating, imitating, or plagiarizing the work of predecessors.

However, the concept of invention and creation is too vague, and some people dare to apply for a meaningless molecular structure, which is a lot of work for the patent office.

From the proposal to the approval, it is necessary to go through a series of complex procedures, such as a pass, a reply, a reply, a reply, etc., and generally each laboratory will have a special person in charge of this part.

Of course, this complexity is also due to the importance of patents in this century, which represent the hard power of a company or a research institute.

For example, the research institute of AT&T, a large telecommunications company in the United States, had hundreds of thousands of patented technologies and gave birth to a large number of Nobel Prize winners.

However, AT&T, which is strong enough to this level, has finally gone downhill, and there are many reasons for this, but it also means that even if you have gold and silver in your family, if you don't adapt to the times and have to go against the sky, most of you still have to explain.

Professor Angus, who shook Wu Bin's hand again as if he had re-acquainted himself, said with a smile: "So don't hide it, I believe that your teammates also have a certain strength, but it is still too easy to distinguish who is the main force in the team." ”

"Actually, they really ......"

Hearing that Wu Bin was about to defend himself, Professor Angus immediately waved his hand and said, "Okay, this is not the point we want to talk about today, I called you out just because I was curious about one thing." Saying that, he looked into Wu Bin's eyes: "Are you interested in astronautics?" ”

Wu Bin: "Yes, I've always been curious about astronomy. ”

Professor Angus immediately said, "Then you should come to MIT for graduate school, MIT's aerospace engineering department is definitely the best in the world." ”

Wu Bin couldn't help but laugh a few times after hearing this, and said, "That's what the University of California said. ”

He had revealed his interest in astronomy while chatting with Professor Brad, and Professor Brad immediately told him a story.

It is said that there was a dormitory at the California Institute of Technology at the end of the 30s of the twentieth century, and the five guys in it were all very capable masters, and they were conducting rocket tests in the dormitory all day long, calling themselves "Rocket boy"

But I often walk by the river, how can I not get my shoes wet.

The rocket experiment is not a trick, and the danger must be extremely high, once their fuel experiment failed, causing an explosion and fire in the dormitory building, but fortunately there were no casualties.

But the school couldn't stand these "dangerous elements" and kicked them out of the dormitory.

However, a few "Rocket boys" did not give up at all, and soon organized a group of like-minded friends to go straight to the deserted San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles to continue their experiments in an abandoned stinking ditch.

During the experiment, there are often accidents such as fire in the oxygen supply pipe, fuel explosion and other accidents, but these people are all experienced in escaping, so they have been experimenting in such a rough experimental environment for so long without any casualties.

And their former classmates heard the news and gave them a new name.

"Suicide Club"

In the end, the heavens still lived up to these persistent "Rocket boys", and after 3 months of various tests, they finally built a rocket that would not self-destruct.

The news soon reached the ears of Professor von Kármán, a master of fluid dynamics at Caltech, who was surprised that these boys were not dead, but also felt that they were teachable, so he used his power to recall all these people back to school, and personally taught them the necessary knowledge of astronautics.

This "suicide club" has since been renamed the "Caltech Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory"

With official support, the "Rocket boys" were more unscrupulous in experimenting, and soon they had a new idea.

Strapped a rocket to a propeller plane to allow it to rise faster, and with this idea, they were awarded two grants totaling $11,000, and in 1941, the jet experiment was successful.

And in this legendary story, the most important protagonists are, of course, the five original "Rocket boys"

They are Frank Marriner, a professional aerodynamics master, Jack Parsons, a self-taught ghost chemist, Ed Foreman, a super-genius mechanic known as the brain of the future, and Jeffrey Walker, a double genius who is proficient in fluid mechanics and rigid body mechanics.

And known as the father of Chinese rockets, the father of missiles, the founder of manned spaceflight, and the world's famous strategic scientist, the strongest scholar in China!

Qian Xuesen!