Chapter Thirty-Six: Techno-Genius Taylor Will
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Name: Taylor Weir
Age: Seventeen
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Taylor Weir was born in Texarkana, Arkansas, the son of a soccer father and a yoga teacher.
On his 5th birthday, Will told his parents that he wanted a crane as a birthday present. And when the adults dragged him to the toy store, he stamped his feet and shouted, "No, I want it really!"
Many parents may laugh it off, but Kenneth asked a friend who worked for a construction company to help. So, on Will's birthday, a 6-ton crane stopped in front of his house. Wilchen rushed up and sat on the driver's lap, learning to maneuver the behemoth, and he couldn't keep his mouth shut.
At the age of 10, Will somewhere got his hands on a periodic table, and in less than a week, he remembered not only all the elements, but also their mass and melting point.
One day, wearing a lab coat and holding a medical scalpel in one hand, Will took pains to tell his family that he was going to get some blood from everyone's fingers and do a "gene comparison experiment" in the garage, only to be left with his fingers at his fingertips. Another time, Will summoned his family to the backyard, only to see him take out a medicine bottle containing sugar and potassium nitrate, which lit the fuse at the bottom of the bottle, followed by a shattering explosion, and the neighbors ran out in panic to find a small mushroom cloud rising from the backyard of Wilson's house.
A small explosion was far from satisfying Will, and he became obsessed with nuclear reactors again. To celebrate his 11th birthday, his grandmother took him to the bookstore to buy books, and Will picked a book about building a nuclear reactor. He was completely captivated by the book, read and read, and often read some of the chapters aloud. "I'm sure I can do the same thing about building a nuclear reactor!"
By the time Will was 12 years old, the school couldn't teach him anything, and he had to sit in the classroom with nothing to do every day. So, his parents promised him to collect some common radioactive materials in preparation for the school's science and technology competition.
To this end, his father Kenneth borrowed a Geiger counter for measuring radioactive materials, and took Will to various antique stores on weekends to search for goods. Will found alarm clocks, lampshades, and porcelain with radioactive material, and dragged his parents to the New Mexico desert in search of uranium ore, which he then brought back to his garage to study.
This child, who is interested in radioactive materials, has a little worry for the parents. Fortunately, a professional told them that the concentration of the radiation was extremely low and would not endanger Will's health. Whenever someone couldn't stand it and told Kenneth to take care of Will, the father would always sigh: "In Will's eyes, there is no such thing as 'can't'." ”
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While Will was busy researching radioactive materials, his grandmother fell ill with cancer and often had to undergo radiotherapy. Will found that the price of isotopes used to diagnose and treat cancer was so high that many patients went untreated. "If we can find a cheaper way to get these isotopes, maybe more patients could be saved. ”
One day, when he was looking at the sun, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "The sun shines and heats up by nuclear fusion." If I can make nuclear fusion, won't I be able to get high-energy neutrons to get isotopes?"
But Will is just a high school student, with no instruments and no laboratory, how can he do it? Will tries to build his own nuclear reactor in his garage at home. It was at this time that his parents learned that Nevada State University, Reno, could provide the top high school students with the instruments and labs they needed to do their research.
So Will visited a physics professor at the university, and when he heard that he wanted to build a nuclear fusion reactor, the professor exclaimed, "You're only 13 years old, and you want to tinker with tens of millions of volts of high pressure and deadly X-rays?"
Eventually, though, Will was supported by physicist Fanov. Will spends his afternoons in the Farnov laboratory searching for materials and solving technical problems, and he also worked hard to teach himself more than 20 fields such as chemistry, engineering, and plasma physics. Slowly, he began to try to assemble a nuclear reactor.
On his 14th birthday, when everything was ready, he focused on injecting deuterium into the reactor and then applying tens of thousands of volts of high-voltage electricity. He succeeded - Will became the thirty-second individual in the world to complete a nuclear fusion reaction, and the youngest.
However, this was only the first step in Will's vision, "What can nuclear fusion be used for?" One day, he saw a report that tens of thousands of containers were being shipped into the United States every day, and that it was impossible for detectors to detect whether nuclear weapons were hidden in each box, and that the helium-3 element needed for these detectors was very expensive.
"Why not use the neutrons produced by nuclear fusion to detect nuclear weapons?" Over the next few weeks, he conceived a rapid detection device: If a nuclear weapon was hidden in a container, the neutrons produced by nuclear fusion would force the atoms of the weapon to fission, emitting gamma rays or nitrogen, and the detector would pick up the signal and sound an alarm. The nuclear weapons detector he built for a few hundred dollars was more sensitive than the hundreds of thousands of dollars at customs.
Will took the detector to the International Science and Engineering Grand Prix, the world's highest-level science fair for secondary school students.
When CEO Paul heard that a 14-year-old had built a nuclear reactor, he walked straight up to Wilson and talked to him for 20 minutes, and then, Paul left with an incredulous expression, "I only have one thought in my head, I'm so glad this kid is from our country!" Will won the award without any suspense.
In the following two years, he won nine awards, with a total prize of 100,000 US dollars (about 620,000 yuan). Will was invited to attend a tech show at the White House, where he introduced his detector to the president and became the subject of media coverage.
This is the legendary story of Will, a scientific genius~!
[Author's Message:
If you think of the above as a fictional character made up by the author, then congratulations on your narrow-mindedness like me.
On the earth of the real world, there are many real geniuses at this moment, and their intelligence is far beyond the imagination of normal people. You may think that the protagonists of those anti-heaven novels will only exist in the novels that are compiled, but in reality, there are indeed those anti-heaven existences that are far beyond our imagination. Maybe you and I are not those geniuses who defy the sky, but we are fortunate to be witnesses to many geniuses in this era.
If you are interested, please take a look at other corners of the world~!Where legends are performing their good shows~!
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