Chapter 215 Contributing to Nature Magazine, the Physics Community Starts a New Round of Superconductivity Competition!

A week later.

The funding of the Science Foundation has been put in place, and the speed of the allocation is still very fast, probably taking into account the urging of the physics laboratory.

For the Superconducting Office, early and late appropriations are the same. Anyway, it is this year's funding target, and there is no point in dragging the funds and not allocating them.

Funding is in place.

The physics laboratory began to prepare for the experiment and purchased a large number of materials needed for the experiment.

At the same time, the experiment is about to begin.

This time, the number of core personnel involved in the experiment has increased.

It is mainly divided into two teams.

The first team is the personnel involved in the project in the physics laboratory, including Xiang Qiansheng, He Yi, Xiao Xinyu, Yan Jing, and Zhao Chuanxin.

The other team is a team of researchers from Factory 244, including Liu Yunli, Ruan Weiping, Xue Chang and Wang Qiang.

Because the theoretical aspect has been fully prepared, Wang Hao directly explained the work, and selected three metals for experiments in multiple directions.

The meeting also discussed the selected metals, and finally finalized lead, mercury and tin, mainly considering the cost, the three metals are not expensive, and the critical temperature of superconductivity is also acceptable, of which the critical temperature of tin is the lowest, only 3.722K, and the critical temperature of lead is the highest, which is 7.193K.

Then there's the experimental allocation.

The team of Factory 244 has been relocated, the base is 100 kilometers away from Xihai City, the transportation and communication are quite convenient, and their equipment is also very perfect, no worse than the physics laboratory, as long as there are enough funds to complete the experiment.

The projects of the two teams are combined, and the funds are managed in a unified manner.

Wang Hao directly assigned the experimental task, and the three metals had to be tested six times, and they were directly divided in half, and each team was responsible for three experiments.

Before the official start of the experiment, he still emphasized the data problem, "The experimental data is the most important, especially the temperature of the excitation exchange field, there must be accurate values, and all data must have ultra-high accuracy......

Wang Hao also talked about a special problem, "There may be a problem in the experiment, and we must pay special attention to the fact that when the critical temperature of superconductivity is not reached, the strength of the AC gravity field may be higher." ”

"It's not very likely."

"If it appears, you must pay attention to the timely values, so during the experiment, you must be more careful and write down all the instant data ......"

……

What Wang Hao said is a bit incredible.

They have found that the AC gravitational field is activated when the superconducting temperature is approaching, but the intensity is not high, so it stands to reason that the strength of the AC gravitational field is the highest when the superconducting state is reached.

Now Wang Hao said that it was possible to encounter a higher intensity before, which made others a little incomprehensible, but they didn't question it, but secretly wrote it down in their hearts.

Wang Hao specifically mentioned it because similar situations may appear in his analysis.

The probability of a similar situation for monodielectric metals is very small, but there is a slight possibility, especially because it is worried that this situation will affect the experimental process.

In fact, it is like pinching an orange by hand, the orange is completely pinched and burst, and there is indeed a lot of juice spilled, but if you only compare one direction, maybe before the orange bursts, there will be more juice squirted.

This scenario is possible and is a very important signal in research.

Because the probability of appearing is relatively small, Wang Hao just mentioned it, and he didn't particularly care.

The experiment officially began.

The physics lab is busy, and they plan to complete all the experiments in ten days.

This is definitely a process of rapid consumption of funds, throwing out 20 to 30 million in ten days, which also makes everyone in the laboratory excited, and they all feel that every minute and every second will consume a lot of funds.

Everyone takes their work very seriously.

When conducting experiments, they become more serious, and meticulousness is not enough to describe, and many people make records and calculations, and they do it several times in a row to make sure.

He Yi was responsible for coordinating the experiment.

Looking at the high cost of materials like running water, every time an experiment is conducted, it feels like deboning and cutting meat, and he grinned in distress and complained to Wang Hao, "The funds are spent too quickly, like this kind of experiment, one less time is millions." ”

"The problem is, you can't miss it once."

Wang Hao is very indifferent, the cost is really fast, but the results are also very significant, he added the content step by step, and the microscopic shape shaping is more perfect, "I have minimized the number of times." ”

"Six times is the minimum number, and there are only two experiments for each metal, and under normal circumstances, I think each metal needs to be compared more than ten times."

"It's a pity, the funds are too small......

There are errors in the experimental data, and the two experiments are combined for comparison, and some values are analyzed in half to make the data more accurate.

More similar experiments have been done, and the data must be more accurate, and only two experiments have been conducted, and the number of times is still too little.

However, the important thing is the trend and the method, and the conclusion must be deduced, and then it can be slowly improved, and he does not need to improve it himself.

As long as the results are made public, there will definitely be a large number of institutions doing the same type of research.

The research does not need to do alternating gravity experiments, but to conduct superconductivity experiments in the same field, and the recorded data can be reversed to make the values more accurate.

This is a process of numerical correction.

Any established physical constant is not perfected for the first time, and in the following decades or hundreds of years, there will be a large number of related researches, and the constants will be slowly corrected, and finally a very accurate value will be obtained.

For example, the gravitational constant.

Newton discovered the law of universal gravitation, but even he did not know what the value of the gravitational constant G was.

The law of gravitation was discovered for more than 100 years, and there was still no accurate result of the gravitational constant, until more than 100 years later, the Englishman Cavendish used a torsion scale to cleverly measure this constant.

Later, with the development of science and technology, the constants measured by Cavendi were finely modified.

The same is true for the current 'elemental superconductivity critical temperature constant', which only needs to be refined through two experiments to refine the microscopic morphology and determine the approximate value of the constant.

That's it.

……

Nine days later.

The last alternating gravity experiment with 'tin' as the material ended.

Everyone in the lab exhaled softly.

Wang Hao also got the latest data and made a final analysis, and then worked with Lin Bohan to continue to improve the microscopic morphology.

Then the calculations begin.

Because there is enough data, and it only involves some topological calculations, the calculation work is relatively simple, the two of them make calculations separately, and finally compare the calculated values.

“0.0124834。”

"Unanimous!"

Looking at the exact same values, they all had smiles on their faces.

Later, computer-aided calculations were used to obtain the same value.

At this time, it can be determined.

End of experimental work.

Other core personnel are writing reports for experiments, and their experimental gains are still very large, just like Wang Hao said, if they are replaced with low-temperature materials for experiments, the strength of the AC gravity field will be higher.

And so it is.

Experiments done with tin metal have detected the highest alternating current gravity strength - 24 percent.

The strength of this AC gravity field is very amazing, and it is even worth it to spend more than 20 million dollars just to increase the strength of the AC gravity field.

Wang Hao wrote his thesis with a sullen head.

Everyone else knows that the experiment is to study the superconductivity mechanism, and only a few people such as Liu Yunli and He Yi know how to do it.

Lin Bohan participated in the shaping of the microscopic morphology and the calculation of the 'critical temperature constant of elemental superconductivity', but he did not know much about the experiment.

Wang Hao is the only one who understands everything, and the experiment is also led by him.

So he can only write the paper.

He wrote two papers, one was a detailed report, including the content of the AC gravity experiment, and the other set aside the AC gravity experiment, but only analyzed a general column formula based on the study of the microscopic form of superconductivity.

The name of the column is called the law of elemental superconductivity.

This law can be used to calculate the superconducting temperature of a single element, but the calculation of the relevant parameters is very complex, and the various properties of the element need to be embedded in the logic of the new geometry before the numerical value can be substituted for the calculation.

However, to be able to calculate, it is already quite amazing.

It took Wang Hao two days to sort out the results and another week to complete all the papers.

He first submitted it to the higher authorities for review, and determined that the 'condensed' version of the paper did not involve the exchange of gravity field experiments, but only the pure theoretical content could be published externally.

After the approval of the higher authorities, the manuscript was submitted to the journal Nature.

……

There are three most famous and influential academic journals in the world, namely Nature, Science and Cell.

Nature magazine, to be one of them, is naturally remarkable, and they probably have the most highly educated editorial team in the world.

If you want to be the editor of Nature, you must also have engaged in postdoctoral research and have made certain scientific research achievements in related fields.

Campbell, a former associate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Manchester, decided he was not suitable for research and quit his job to become editor of Nature.

As it turned out, the editorial job suited him well.

Campbell has worked for more than ten years and has achieved the position of editor-in-chief, and he will be very attentive to the review of each submission.

It's not easy.

Every year, more than 10,000 high-level papers are submitted to Nature, and there are hundreds of physics papers, which are only 'high-level' papers, and there are countless low-level and ordinary papers.

On this day, Campbell was reviewing the manuscript normally, and suddenly saw a superconductivity paper submitted called "Superconductivity Law and Critical Constant".

He glanced at it and was stunned.

The law of superconductivity?

Critical constant?

These words are absolutely remarkable when put together, and because they are so remarkable, ordinary manuscripts can be put directly into the trash.

Just like submitting world-famous conjecture proofs to top journals, there have always been many similar papers, but more than 99.9% of them have no meaning.

However, out of an abundance of caution, Campbell took another look, and was then attracted by the author's name.

"One is it, Wang Hao?"

"The name seems familiar? From the physics laboratory of Xihai University in China? Xihai University, Wang Hao......"

"The youngest Fields winner!"

Campbell's eyes widened sharply, and he reacted and quickly downloaded the paper.

Such a major research paper should not be ignored at all if it is the research of other small institutions, but it is different with Wang Hao's name, can the Fields winner's submission be deleted casually?

Even if you can't figure out why a Fields laureate would submit a physics paper to Nature, the content must be read.

Soon Campbell was drawn to the content.

It says that a series of experiments were carried out to establish a 'microscopic morphology' to explain the phenomenon of superconductivity and complete a column.

"Using this column formula, combined with the constants mentioned above, combined with the microscopic morphological framework analysis, the superconducting critical temperature of a single element can be calculated?"

"How is this possible!"

"If it's true, isn't the mechanism logic of superconductivity cracked?"

Campbell subconsciously didn't believe it, but considering that he was the youngest Fields winner, he continued to submit his paper.

The paper quickly reached the editor-in-chief, Magdalena Skipper.

As the editor-in-chief of Nature, Magdalena Skipper is rarely in charge of reviewing manuscripts, and the manuscripts that can be delivered to her are very rare.

Therefore, Magdalena Skipper will attach great importance to the papers submitted at the next level, because each one is definitely a major research.

Magdalena Skipper's reaction to seeing the content of the paper was the same as Campbell's, like this kind of paper, but it was impossible to determine whether it was true or false just by looking at it.

She immediately contacted an expert in the field, Professor Samus Eywart at the University of Oxford.

Samus-Evatt is an expert in condensation physics and a guest reviewer for the journal Nature.

After reviewing the paper, Semus Aivaert was also very shocked by the content, he tried to understand the 'microscopic morphology', and wanted to make calculations based on it, but later found that it involved mathematical topology problems, because it involved the confidentiality of the review, and contacted Magdalena Skipper to tell him what he needed.

Magdalena Skipper contacted another mathematician, Steven Davis, in the field of topology.

Steven Davis and Samus Evatt got together to do the calculations, and because the content was so impressive, they even calculated for seven hours in a row, using the methods, formulas and constants mentioned above, to continuously calculate the superconductivity values of aluminum, tungsten, and zinc.

Comparing the determined values, it is found that the deviation is less than one percent.

"Zinc, that's right, too!"

"We've done three calculations in a row, and we don't have any problems, and I believe that other superconducting metals are okay, in other words, it's true?"

"Is there really a so-called law of superconductivity?"

"If the superconducting properties of the elements are calculated, then the compounds and organic molecules will definitely be able to be calculated in the future, and the mechanism of superconductivity is not equivalent to cracking?"

"I'm now pretty sure that this is definitely the most significant advance in superconductivity in decades, even more amazing than the work of Bardeen, Cooper and Whiffle!"

"This is a Nobel Prize......"

Steven Davis and Samus Aiwart looked at each other, their eyes full of deep shock.

They know that once the paper is published, the impact will be absolutely huge.

A new round of superconductivity competition in physics is coming!

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