Chapter 17 Cottage is also a technical job (medium)

In short, after obtaining a batch of physical objects and introduction instructions for the civilian version of the Ark reactor, and confirming that this thing can also operate normally in its own world, the Chinese government on the other side of the space-time channel immediately organized an expert research team to conduct reverse mapping of the Ark reactor. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Reverse mapping has always been a specialty of China, a large copycat country, and all kinds of copycats were made in this way at the beginning.

In fact, the imitation of all kinds of counterfeit goods, is also a very demanding technical work, do not look at the reform and opening up "Made in China" there are so many copycats, think that the cottage advanced technology products is a very simple thing. In fact, those domestic mobile phones, domestic tablets and other knockoffs are not simple things such as handicrafts or small hardware parts, but end products involving an entire industrial system. If you don't have enough technical accumulation, you will put all the sets of drawings and samples in front of you, and most of them will not be able to come out!

If all modern scientific and technological products were so easy to copy, China's computer industry would not have been painstakingly operating for decades and would not have been able to come up with competitive "Chinese chips," and China's aviation enterprises would have been unable to produce any results for more than 20 years with a large number of brand-name samples such as Black Hawk and Spey. This is under the condition that there is no technological generation gap between the two.

As for India, the "future power", it is even more of a joke in terms of imitating copycats, and their Arjun tanks are knockoffs of "Wanguo" technology, but the result is tossed for 30 years, and in the end only an embarrassing and god-like goods were made, and even their own army was unwilling to purchase them. In addition, there is Japan's "Shinshin" fighter, which has been tossed back and forth for so many years, and still only exists in the dream of the Air Self-Defense Force.

Even the former Soviet Union, which claimed to be technologically advanced, repaired the same tank engine and used it from World War II to the eighties.

Why is this happening? Could it be that scientists in backward countries are so stupid that they can't even understand technical data? Of course, this is not the case, the technical principle only lets people know what to do, and only the core data can let people know how to solve those specific problems.

These core data represent practical operations again and again, represent countless funds, blood and tears, and even death, and are the accumulation of experience in industrial civilization in developed countries for many years. Take metallurgy as an example, different production operation sequences, ore raw materials from different origins, different response plans, or wrong or right failure summary...... These are the tuition fees for putting technology out of paper, and anyone has to pay it, and there are few shortcuts. However, if we have these core data, we can quickly rebuild a new industrial civilization from the ruins - it is with these data accumulated over many years and generations that the Germans can quickly rise from the ruins after World War II, and the advanced nature of the re-established industrial system is still world-class. And if it is a self-made company like China, even if there is technology aided by the Soviet Union, there will be a series of problems in actual operation.

And the Ark reactor that Wang Qiu and his people got is simply a high-tech product of another world, not only surpassing Wang Qiu's world for twenty or thirty years in terms of technical level, but even the regulations of various technical standards are completely different, and the difficulty of copycat can be imagined.

For example, the material formulations of the various alloy components used on the Ark reactor alone include thousands of experiments, and only through these experiments can all the factors affecting production be confirmed, and these data can be presented in the form of a function change curve, which is the embodiment of the core data. As long as there is a basic standard and this function change curve, a special change can be designed according to the specific material situation, so as to ensure that the performance of the alloy material of the alloy component is up to standard. And this is only the core data of an alloy material, other various parts, from electronic components to heat dissipation materials, each contains a related industrial chain, each industrial chain has its own set of core data, no matter which one is missing, it is impossible to imitate the exact same ark reactor.

However, in order to solve the energy crisis of the entire country and nation once and for all, the central government has also been ruthless, and almost at all costs, it has gathered elite soldiers from all walks of life to study and tackle key problems on the Ark reactor. According to Political Commissar Guo, it was "to take out the spiritual energy of selling pants and starving abacus beads to build an atomic bomb", and started a vigorous "cottage ark reactor battle".

In any case, the Ark reactor that Wang Qiu got at the Marvel World Stark Industrial Building in Manhattan, New York, is only a civilian product for the general market after all, and the first consideration is not the advanced, but the need to control costs and facilitate large-scale production, so the technical content is not too exaggerated. There is no vibranium (the raw material for Captain America's shield) or Erdman alloy (the weapon of Uncle Wolverine in the X-Men) and the like, which is so high-end and high-end that it makes people want to scratch the wall.

Therefore, under the research pressure of the "national system", there is also a huge amount of capital investment regardless of the cost, and with the help of some otherworldly technical materials that Wang Qiu and they managed to collect through the public channels of the Marvel world, such as libraries or academic journals, the cottage scientific research team organized by the central government has made quite good progress on the topic of the cottage ark reactor. They first completed the reverse mapping as fast as possible, and then frantically carried out countless experiments, and soon understood the various technologies contained in it, and then completed the imitation work of one part after another. Even if it is really impossible to imitate perfectly, substitutes with similar functions have been found. In addition, the central government has also lowered the requirements for the standard of copycat tasks - Stark Industries can make the Ark reactor as small as a palm, and the copycat scientific research team organized by the central government does not have such exaggerated requirements, if it makes up an Ark reactor that is similar to a car or even a large truck, it will be considered a basic success.

But the problem is that in one of the most critical links, China's copycat scientific research team has encountered insurmountable difficulties.

“…… To put it simply, your current research work has reached a bottleneck, and you can't synthesize Tony with your current state of the art. Among Stark's new Ark reactors, the ones used to replace palladium plates, which do not exist on the original periodic table, are said to be clean and pollution-free new elements, so I hope we can find a way to get in touch with Iron Man and get the old Ark reactor technology that uses palladium? ”

Wang Qiu blinked in confusion, "...... But why is the need for the old Ark reactor technology using palladium, rather than the production of new elements? Isn't there a risk of poisoning if you use palladium? Like in the "Iron Man 2" movie? ”

“…… Alas, the method of producing new elements is the magic weapon and the cost of eating for the Stark Industries Group today, how can it be sold to outsiders? And, compared to the uranium and plutonium in modern nuclear fission reactors, what is that little palladium? The toxicity is not as toxic as a depleted uranium bomb from the Yankees! Except for Tony, in fact. Who else but Stark would put the Ark reactor in their body like that? ”

The researcher, who had come to report the situation to Wang Qiu, had severely swollen circles under his eyes, and said with a weak sigh, "...... But we don't even have a clue how to synthesize this new element! In addition, we cannot afford the terrible cost of producing new elements in large quantities......"

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Since the discovery of the periodic table by Mendeleev in Russia in the nineteenth century, elements that were not found in the periodic table at that time have been discovered one after another. With the discovery of the ninety-second element, uranium, the elements that naturally exist on Earth have basically been collected. If later scientists wanted to make new discoveries, they could only "make" new elements that did not exist in nature according to the laws of this table.

On the periodic table, the characteristic of the "inhabitants" after the ninety-second element uranium is that most of them are very unstable, and most of them are "inhabitants" who are prone to decay. They do not exist in nature, to be precise, they are not found on the earth, or they occupy a "room" for a very, very short time, and some even "in the blink of an eye" they become another element and "slip" away!

Therefore, elements 93 to 118 after uranium, with the exception of neptunium (NP), plutonium (Pu) and californium (CF), which exist in very small amounts on the earth, are all elements that have not been discovered on the earth so far, and can only be discovered or manufactured by artificially creating conditions.

So, how do humans create a new element that doesn't exist in nature? First of all, it is necessary to carefully select the two elements, the sum of which is equal to the number of atoms of the new element. Then put them in a particle accelerator. Let their nuclei accelerate against each other at a very high speed. Some of them will be smashed to pieces, but some of the particles will stick together and "merge" into a new nucleus. This is the birth of a new element.

For example, in the experiment of synthesizing element 112 () at the German Heavy Ion Research Center GSI, scientists managed to turn zinc atoms with atomic number 30 into ions, let them form bundles, and then injected them into GSI's 120-meter-long particle accelerator, accelerated in a straight line to a speed close to "1/10 of the speed of light", and directly hit a thin target made of lead with atomic number 82. As a result of the high-speed collision of two atoms, most of them were crushed, but a small number of them fused together to form new atoms, that is, element 112 with atomic number 30 + 82 = 112.

Relying on this method of producing new elements, scientists finally filled all the blanks of the periodic table sequence from 1 to 118 at the end of 2015, and are now ambitiously trying to synthesize the heavier new elements behind them - it seems that everything is not a problem, but the trouble is, do you know how many billions of dollars can be spent on a large cyclotron particle accelerator capable of synthesizing new elements?

The first cyclotron particle accelerator in human history was only 12 centimeters in diameter and small enough to be lifted by hand. To build such a machine, an electron tube is pumped into a vacuum, a magnet can be used to bend the charged particle beam, and a radio frequency oscillator or radio frequency resonator is used to accelerate the particles. But the problem is that such a small accelerator can't get the particles to reach enough speed to produce new elements.

At present, the cyclotron particle accelerators used by scientific research institutions in various countries are usually large and large, and their cost is at least equivalent to building a church. For example, the European Large Hadron Collider is now the world's largest and highest-energy cyclotron particle accelerator, located on the border between France and Switzerland, and is known as LHC (Large Hadron Collider). It is a circular accelerator buried 100 meters underground, and its circular tunnel is 27 kilometers long, so it takes more than four hours to complete the journey. The various test instruments are also thousands of tons and tens of thousands of tons, and the total amount of metal used is more than that of a Yamato battleship. If you are in it, it is reminiscent of the starship engine in a science fiction movie.

The construction cost of such a big guy alone is naturally very expensive, and the total construction cost alone is as high as more than 10 billion US dollars, and the annual maintenance and operation costs are also more than 1 billion US dollars. The power consumption is comparable to that of a city! It consumes more than 10 percent of the electricity in the Geneva Region of Switzerland. He was so squeamish that he broke down at every turn, and once the cooling system had a problem and was forced to shut down for several months.

The cost of the "Nimitz" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is only more than $700 million...... Such a thing is more expensive than an aircraft carrier battle!

Well, if it is to solve the energy crisis of all China and even all mankind, it seems that it is worth spending such a huge amount of money, not to mention that China has become much more arrogant today, even when it was too poor to eat, it would still be better to be pants than to make an atomic bomb? Therefore, if it is only the investment expenditure that is larger, the central government still has the ability and courage to solve it.

What's worse is that even if the central government invests a huge amount of money to successfully build a super-large cyclotron particle accelerator, will the new elements needed for the Ark reactor really be able to be produced? Well, according to experts, this does not seem to be a good prospect......

Indeed, anyone who has been involved in high-energy quantum physics knows that after a microscopic particle is broken up with a large cyclotron, at some point enough fragments will combine to form a new nucleus, and when this nucleus is heavy enough to be stable, a new element is created. However, the problem is that those elements with higher atomic numbers in the periodic table have to overcome the huge Coulomb repulsion force when the nuclear reaction occurs through impact due to the increase in the number of protons in the nucleus, so it is difficult to combine to form new elements with higher atomic number.

Therefore, even if a large cyclotron is built locally, it is very, very difficult to create a new element that does not exist on Earth, and the success rate is comparable to that of buying a lottery ticket. According to the general experience after World War II, such a thing happened only once in five or ten years. The production efficiency of such a large number of collisions is comparable to that of ancient craftsmen casting "magic weapons", which cannot meet the minimum needs of industrial production.