Standing in the control room, looking at the suspended aerospace engine not far away through the monitoring screen, the shock in Chang Huaxiang's heart could not be calmed down for a long time.

As a scholar who has been working in the field of aerospace for decades, he knows better than anyone how this giant engine will change the development of aerospace.

In a way, it will open a new era, an era of electric propulsion!

On the side, Wen Yuanhang, who was in charge of managing the daily affairs of the institute, was even more shocked.

He could think of more than the scholars present about what this electrically propelled aerospace engine meant.

The powerful endurance of electric propulsion combined with small fusion reactors, especially in the atmosphere, would be unimaginable for such an engine system that uses air as a working fluid.

Especially in the military, an aerospace aircraft equipped with a supporting power system will have the ability to cruise the world.

In the near future, the traditional military deployment of aircraft carriers and overseas bases will change dramatically.

It can be said that this will be an artifact destined to change the pattern of future air battles, and even the entire pattern of wars!

Coming back from the boundless reverie, Wen Yuanhang, who had always been good at controlling his emotions, couldn't control himself and took several deep breaths before he forcibly calmed down.

After breathing a long sigh of relief, he looked up at Xu Chuan and Weng Yunzong who were standing aside, and asked, "Academician Xu, Professor Weng, I want to ask, this aerospace engine. When will it be officially applied? ”

Hearing this question, Xu Chuan did not answer, and he also glanced up at Weng Yunzong, who was in charge of the aerospace engine project.

Although the assembly work and the first test experiments have been completed, it is unclear how many tests will be carried out and how much time will be required.

On the other side, Weng Yunzong thought seriously for a while, and replied: "I can't give a specific time and guarantee for this, but judging from some general data from the preliminary test just now, the performance parameters of this aerospace engine are very good, and the overall has been completed." ”

"However, what is important for aerospace engines is not only the preliminary design and assembly work, but also the subsequent testing in all aspects."

"After all, the engine is installed on a vehicle like the Space Shuttle, and it takes a lot of time for all kinds of tests, and no one can guarantee that it will perform the same on the spacecraft as on the ground until all the work is completed."

"As for the general timing and planning, judging from the current arrangement, if all goes well, all the tests that can be done on the ground can be completed in 60 days."

"In addition, after it is equipped with the space shuttle, it will take about 40 days or so to test it."

Wen Yuanhang nodded, sixty days plus forty days is one hundred days, close to three and a half months.

It sounds like a long time, but it's actually quite a short time to test.

It is important to know that the traditional turbojet aero engine has to go through a wide variety of tests from the ground to the air before it is officially finalized, and the cumulative test time is tens of thousands of hours.

When he was working in the science and technology department, he once heard an academician in the field of aero engines say something like this.

It takes at least two decades to develop a completely new design engine, which is at least twice as long as the development of a new generation of aircraft.

It also takes at least a year to test a brand new engine, which is a relatively fast standard in the industry to complete in 365 days.

The main factor that determines the formal operation time of the designed and manufactured engine is the need to ensure that the engine can work normally under various complex conditions.

For an aero engine, the design phase may not take a long time, but how to verify under complex conditions is the reason for the long cycle required for engine application.

Although the computer age has been able to improve the speed of data processing, and can also use a strong algorithm foundation to simulate various data test sites, there is one point that cannot be ignored, how to transform these complex scenarios into computational data simulation, which is the core.

This transformation process is equivalent to building an industrial system, and it takes a long time.

In terms of traditional aero engines, the reason why the United States can complete the replacement of new fighters relatively quickly is that they have successfully built this complete set of tool systems.

In China, this system is not very perfect, and it has always been an imitation of the United States.

However, judging from the current situation, in the future, they may no longer need to build a traditional engine system. The advent of aerospace engines and the mission of electric propulsion may completely end the era of traditional fossil fuel engines.

Taking a deep breath, Wen Yuanhang looked at Weng Yunzong, and said solemnly: "Professor Weng, the research and testing of the aerospace engine will trouble you. On behalf of the Department of Science, Technology and National Defense Strategic Planning, I request that this aerospace propulsion system be completed as soon as possible! ”

Stunned by Wen Yuanhang's sudden solemnity, Weng Yunzong came back to his senses, nodded seriously, and replied, "I will do my best." ”

The breakthrough of the aerospace engine is the first good news of October.

With a thrust of nearly 500,000 N, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an epic leapfrog development of the electric propulsion system.

And two days after the breakthrough of the aerospace engine, the 2022 Nobel Prize was also announced with time.

Compared with the Literature Prize and the Peace Prize, Xu Chuan still pays attention to the Physics Prize, the Chemistry Prize and the Biomedical Award.

This year's Physics Prize was awarded to three physics professors from the United States, namely John Krauser of the United States, Alain Aspey of France, and Anton Zeilinger of Austria, for their contributions to "entangled photon experiments, verification of Bell inequality violations, and pioneering quantum information science".

As soon as this news came out, "quantum entanglement" once appeared on the hot search of major platforms.

Related physics topics have sparked heated discussions, and the meme of "quantum mechanics in case of indecision" has also become hot again; The major science and technology UP masters or media have thought of a thousand strange metaphors to popularize how wonderful quantum entanglement is, and masters from all walks of life lamented that the end of science is metaphysics, and issued a long sigh of emotion about life, the universe, and the future.

For ordinary people, after reading too much of these contents, it seems that we will have such a feeling: the Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to a particularly mysterious, grandiose, and incredible discovery.

And the next step of quantum entanglement may be time travel, telepathy, four-dimensional space or something.

For Xu Chuan, this year's physics prize is well deserved to be awarded to these three scholars.

The controversy over the concept of quantum entanglement began as early as the beginning of the twentieth century. At that time, with the great development of classical physics, both the academic community and public opinion began to look at the microscopic system.

Quantum mechanics is undoubtedly the most important explanatory theory in microscopic systems, and quantum entanglement is also one of the core points of contention between Einstein and Bohr, as well as one of the differences between classical physics and quantum systems.

In the decades that followed, physicists in the field of quantum mechanics did a lot of experiments on quantum entanglement.

From the optical quantum entanglement experiment proposed by John Wheeler at the beginning, to the Bell inequality distance theory proposed by John Bell, the road of quantum entanglement experiment can be described as quite difficult.

Fifty years later, in 1998, Anton Zeilinger and others completed Bell's theorem experiments at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Through the experiment of multi-particle entanglement, the localization loophole is completely eliminated, and the decisive experimental results prove that quantum entanglement really exists.

This controversy, which has lasted for more than a century, has come to an end.

In Xu Chuan's view, it was actually a little late for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to wait until this year to award the physics prize to quantum entanglement.

After all, quantum entanglement has been confirmed, which not only means a major breakthrough in physics, but also has an extremely far-reaching impact and significance on the application of the quantum field itself.

Although the "true quantum communication" that uses quantum entanglement to transmit information regardless of distance boundaries is still far away, there are still many applications that are beginning to be explored. Many scientific techniques and theories have applied the concurrency characteristics of quantum entanglement itself to achieve this goal.

For example, quantum communication mainly improves the level of information security through quantum encryption.

In addition, there are optical quantum computers, which also make full use of the experimental phenomenon of laser-induced photon correction.

At present, IBM, Google and other companies are exploring general-purpose quantum computers, which are also closely related to the discoveries of superconducting transfer and absolute low temperature environment in quantum entanglement experiments.

In fact, several years ago, there were predictions on major physics forums that quantum entanglement experiments would win awards.

It's just a pity that more than 20 years have passed since the completion of the experiment in 1998, and this honor has been given to the person it deserves.

It is also worth mentioning that after the completion of controlled nuclear fusion technology in 2020, the name 'Xu Chuan' has always been the most popular in the predictions of the Nobel Prize on major websites and forums.

After all, if you want to talk about the Nobel Prize, controlled nuclear fusion is definitely worthy of it.

It can even be said that it is not a matter of whether controlled nuclear fusion technology is worthy of the Nobel Prize, but whether the Nobel Prize can have this honor.

After all, the Nobel Prize is held every year, but controlled nuclear fusion is a technological breakthrough that is rare in 10,000 years.

However, the final result was unsatisfactory, and both last year and this year's Nobel Prize, the jury chose achievements other than controlled nuclear fusion technology.

Of course, Xu Chuan didn't care too much.

On the one hand, he no longer needs the Nobel Prize to serve as his honor, and his name is the greatest honor.

On the other hand, controlled nuclear fusion is not the result of his research alone, but the research project of more than 100 companies and thousands of people.

The Nobel Prize jury will not consider the results of such group research, even if they are excellent.

Otherwise, at least one-third of the achievements of the physics community will have to be captured by CERN.

After all, the high-energy physics community is almost the focus of the physics community today, and it is also the only field that can continue to make various achievements.

The Physics Prize is awarded to the field of quantum entanglement, while the Chemistry Prize and the Biology Prize are awarded to the fields of 'Click Chemistry, Orthogonal Chemistry', and 'Discovery of the Genome and Human Evolution of an extinct human race', respectively.

If Xu Chuan knows a little about chemistry, then he can be said to be completely ignorant of biology.

After a brief look at the relevant introduction, I skipped the relevant news.

In mid-October, after all the Nobel Prizes were opened, Xu Chuan, who was dealing with the work at hand in the office, ushered in another good news!

Academician Tai Xuewen, a leading figure in the field of high-energy physics in China, went to southern Hunan to inspect the large strong particle collider base and deal with the work of the project.

Looking at Senior Brother Lin Feng who appeared in his office who rushed back from the dust, Xu Chuan looked him up and down before he recognized it, and said in a daze: "Why are you tanned like this?" ”

Compared with the white and pure Senior Brother Lin before, this will rush back to this one, and he is almost becoming an African, not to mention the tanned skin all over his body, and there are still some cracks on his face and hands caused by lack of water.

Lin Feng shook his head and sighed, "Huh! Don't mention it, meow a mi, I didn't expect the sun to be so hot over there before I went to Xiangnan, but after following Director Tai outside for a while, it became like this. ”

Xu Chuan said with a smile: "Although the sun over there in August and September is indeed very scorching, I have lived in southern Hunan for more than ten or twenty years and have not been exposed to you like this, you are like this, I almost thought that you were sold to Africa." ”

Lin Feng's face fell, and he said sullenly: "I don't know, I'm the only one who is tanned like this, maybe my skin is more sensitive." ”

"Forget it, don't talk about this, I came here today to bring you good news."

"As for the initial preparations for the construction of the collider, with the support of the provincial and municipal governments in Shonan, the preliminary work has been completed."

Hearing this news, Xu Chuan glanced at him with some surprise and said, "So fast? ”

You must know that the large-scale strong particle collision project is a 100-billion-level project, and it has only been three months since the site was officially decided in July.

It took three months to complete the preliminary preparations, which is indeed a bit exaggerated.

Lin Feng nodded and said with a smile: "I doubt that you have bribed the government over there, and they are too dedicated." Including demolition compensation, the mobilization and deployment of the shield machine, and the project deployment planning, these things save us a lot of time. ”

After a pause, he continued: "Next, we have to find a time to officially start the project, Director Tai asked me to ask your views and opinions, whether our kick-off meeting will be held in a big way, or just invite domestic scholar institutions in a low-key manner." “

Hearing this question, Xu Chuan thought for a moment and said, "What does Director Tai mean?" ”

Lin Feng: "What Director Tai means is that you are the chief designer of the large collider project, and this kind of important event must be decided by you, and he will assist you." ”

Xu Chuan thought for a moment and said, "That's it, I'll take time to go to Xiangnan in the next two days, and I'll make a decision when the time comes." ”

(End of chapter)