Chapter 25: Who is the child?
Sawyer looked at Alex, but he was thinking of another person, a great scientist who had died. He is very impressed by Tesla's achievements. In his opinion, Tesla's IQ is significantly higher than that of ordinary people.
Nikolai? Tesla single-handedly built the foundation of modern electricity, and what he did could be a prophet of the electric age! He obtained about 1,000 patents and inventions in his lifetime, and without him, all kinds of electronic instruments in modern society would not have been invented, let alone affect human life, at least for many years.
For example, alternating current generators, alternating current transmission, hydroelectric power stations, radios, automatic ignition, telephones, radios, televisions, fax machines, radars, wirelessly guided missiles, drones, X-ray cameras, neon lights, solar power generation, bladeless turbines, etc., these are all similar to Nikolai? Tesla has an inseparable relationship.
However, one of the distinctive features of his invention is that the drawings are clean and there are no modifications, and when asked how he did it, he replied that all inventions are brewed in his mind until they are clear to every detail, so there is no need for any modifications at the drawing stage.
In this regard, Alex bears a striking resemblance to Tesla. That is, they can all simulate the objects in the real world in their minds, and after doing experiments in their minds, they can take them out and use them directly. Alex has also tried to do various experiments in the mental space, and found that the results are the same as in reality.
No matter how Alex disguised himself, what he occasionally revealed was enough to make people with a heart tremble. Sawyer is just such a caring person, and his goal is to improve the overall quality of human beings by studying IQ tests.
Alex, who didn't know anything about it, was writing quickly, and it was done quickly. He handed the pieces of paper to Sawyer and said, "Give it to Shockley!" He'll understand when he reads it. ”
Sawyer couldn't help but ask, "How did you come up with these things?" ”
Alex smiled, and he pointed his finger to his forehead and said, "It just flows out of here naturally." You ask me to explain to you how it came about, as if you were asked to explain to a person who was born blind what color looks like. No matter how you explain it, you can't explain it clearly. ”
Sawyer nodded understandingly, but before he gave it to Shockley, he gave Shockley a phone call and briefly said what Alex had written.
"Give me these things right away!" Shockley's voice deepened, and he could tell that what Alex had written was very important.
Sawyer had the paper delivered to Bell Labs quickly. As soon as Shockley got his hands on the paper, he was dumbfounded by what it said. In particular, the principle and structure of bipolar transistors are the subject of his research. Recently, it has reached a critical moment, but it has not been able to find a breakthrough.
Shockley was convinced that his research had not been leaked, and the materials he sent to Sawyer did not cover it. It's just old information about transistors, and it's no secret that these things have long been patented.
What I never expected was that an eight-year-old kid didn't know where to get the knowledge of transistors. After looking at those things, I immediately designed so many types of bipolar transistors, and also gave specific parameter data.
"Could it be that someone else has already done something?" Shockley would rather believe that someone was overtaking him than that it was the brains of some genius child.
Shockley's brain ached, and in the end, he decided to put the matter aside. He immediately entered the lab and set about making the new bipolar transistor according to the instructions of the drawings. He wants to verify that the designs are really as described, and that the characters do not meet the parameters.
According to the above structural instructions, he first made a PNP tube. The key is to have three zones, two combined with three leads. The three areas are the collector area, the base area and the launch area. The two junctions are the collector junction and the emission junction. The three leads are the collector, base, and emitter.
The structure is very simple, but if you don't have the know-how to make it, you may not be able to achieve it. For example, the doping concentration in the emission area is much larger than that in the collector area, and the doping concentration in the collector area is greater than the doping concentration in the base region. In addition, the base area must be very thin, generally only a few microns.
There were plenty of materials in the lab, the tools were perfect, and more importantly, he was doing this kind of work all the time, and soon made a new transistor. He picked up the tool to test it and see if it worked. He turned the P region to the positive and the N region to the negative, let the transmit junction of the transistor add a forward voltage, and then tested the voltages of the several poles separately.
"The collector voltage is normal and meets the set parameters."
"The base voltage is normal and meets the set parameters."
"The emitter voltage is normal and meets the set parameters."
Then the other way around, let the N area take the positive, the P area take the negative, and test it again.
Everything is normal, and all the parameters are the same as those written on the drawings. Shockley suddenly felt completely deprived, and he almost collapsed in his seat. He really couldn't figure it out, he didn't find a breakthrough after two or three years of research, and it was broken by a child in a few hours.
Shockley didn't believe in evil, he tested it again, and the data was still the same as what he had just measured. He looked at the remaining bipolar transistors and picked a simple NPN tube to make.
This type of transistor also works fine, and the parameters are a bit different from what is written on paper, but Shockley knows that this is due to the purity of the material. When it comes to industrial mass production, there will be no such problems.
"Kid!" Shockley suddenly jumped up from his seat and said to himself, "What's that kid's name?" ”
Sawyer didn't mention Alex's name on the phone, only his age and gender, and other than that, Shockley didn't know anything.
Shockley has said that Leonardo da Vinci had an IQ of 220. At that time, he still didn't believe it, thinking that this was a posterity whitewashing his predecessors, and he believed that all great people rely on sweat and hard work to achieve results. It's just that the reality is cruel, and some people are really different, and it is much easier for them to succeed than ordinary people.
"Is it true that 1% of inspiration is heavier than 99% of sweat? Edison, you're right again! Shockley muttered, and he immediately gave Sawyer a call.
"Hello? Who is it? Sawyer struggled to get up and answer the phone, scolding in his heart: "That bastard, he actually called at 3 o'clock in the morning!" ”
Shockley's voice rang over the phone, and he said eagerly, "I'm Shockley!" You said last time that the kid got a high score on an IQ test. What's his name? Where to stay? ”
Sawyer immediately came to his senses, and he said alarmedly, "That child's name can't be told to you, and his parents have asked us not to tell anyone else. What's the matter, aren't you not interested in this kind of thing? ”
Shockley ignored Sawyer's teasing, and said with a wry smile: "That piece of paper you gave me is really an amazing thing!" I'm afraid it will cause a lot of trouble, if these are leaked from some research institute. ”
"You're not kidding, are you?" Sawyer explained the seriousness of the matter, and he said solemnly.
"Yes, I've verified the above, I just verified two transistors, both of which meet the design requirements. The rest, I guess is correct, but the structure is a little more complicated and will take some time. Shockley said without concealment.
"That's impossible!" Sawyer recalls Alex writing these things, and he realizes that they can't come from any research institute. They only come from one place, and that's Alex's brain.
Shockley was stunned, and he asked, "Are you sure?" ”
"I handed the information to the kid myself, watched him think, and then wrote it down," Sawyer said. He didn't do anything else at all during this period, and if these things weren't already in his head, who would have stuffed them into him? ”
Shockley was dumbfounded by Sawyer's words, he paused and said, "You prepare, I'll go over to you right away." ”
He packed up his things on the table, especially the important pieces of paper and the newly made two-pole transistors. He made sure nothing suspicious was left behind before leaving the lab.
When Shockley arrived in Chicago on a plane, it was already past 9 a.m. He went straight to the University of Chicago and found his old friend Sawyer. The two of them used to be classmates and best friends, but one chose to major in physics and the other chose to major in mathematics.
The first thing Shockley said when he saw his old friend Sawyer was, "Where is that kid?" I want to see him! ”
Sawyer spread his hands and said, "I have promised the child's parents not to leak his information at will. ”
Shockley ignored it and said, "I promise you that I won't tell anyone else about this child." ”
Sawyer asked, "Can you keep it a secret?" ”
"Of course you can!" Shockley said impatiently.
Sawyer spread his hands: "I can too!" ”
"We've been friends for so many years, you still don't believe me!" Shockley said angrily.
Sawyer sighed, "Okay, I'll ask the kid first. If he's willing to come and see you, then I didn't leak it to you. ”
Shockley happily urged: "Then hurry, hurry!" I really have something urgent to find him. ”
Sawyer calls Carpenter's house, and it is Richard who answers the call, and he asks Richard to give it to Alex to listen to. When Alex received the call, he listened to Sawyer's story and thought about it.
"It's best for me to talk to my parents about this first." Alex replied.
Sawyer had no choice but to say, "Okay! But please hurry, my friend Shockley, he's coming from Bell Labs. ”
Alex tells Bart and Angel about it. In their astonished eyes, he made a slight note that he had designed some transistors, and that now the people from Bell Labs had come to Chicago to meet him.
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