From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 426 Science and Metaphysics

After the four-person team received 40 yuan from Lin Xiao and formally established the project, they began serious research.

And until today, their research has passed many months, almost a year.

Of course, for their kind of research, one year is quite common, and it is not uncommon for some projects to take several years in total.

However, limited by the funds they can use, they barely spent it until now after all kinds of frugality.

Of course, this "frugality" is just an adjective. The main reason is that they are very frugal on the 40 yuan. No money, unless they go out to eat out by themselves, but even if they go out to eat out, they still have money within the subsidy, so there is no need to worry.

Otherwise, they either have to really save their own money, or they can only ask for money from home.

And today is the most critical moment in their research.

In order to complete this experiment, they spent half of the 40 yuan-a full 20 yuan-to rent a materials laboratory in the institute for a few days-for the laboratories in the institute, whether it is a laboratory The land, and the experimental equipment inside are all public, so if you want to do experiments, you need to spend money to rent them, which is where the money is spent.

Of course, a materials laboratory that can only be rented for a few days for 20 yuan is naturally a top-notch laboratory, and even 20 yuan is still cheaper.

When they went to talk with the director of the laboratory, the other party probably thought that they were young, and because Lin Xiao personally approved their funding, they waived tens of thousands of dollars for them.

And the rent of 20 yuan was the largest sum of money spent by the four-person team, and it was also the last of their 40 yuan in expenses.

However, there seems to be a problem for them now.

Seeing this somewhat different result than expected, several of them scratched their heads.

"The behavior of these electrons always feels a little strange? Is there something wrong with it?"

Chen Gong said.

Li Xiang also nodded, he adjusted his glasses, and was holding a notepad in his left hand, which was filled with calculation formulas and various diagrams, and then said: "According to the results of the energy spectrum of ARPES, the electronic Why does the energy appear to be a bit high? And the structure of these electrons... If calculated according to the theory of electron topological bonding, it shouldn’t be like this.”

Ma Bin's face showed despair, "What's going on now? Is there any problem in our experiment process? Shouldn't we choose this material?"

The other two shook their heads, no one thought that such a thing would happen.

Of course, when it comes to the experimental materials they use, they are indeed quite special.

Their experiment is to verify the implementation process of key topological bonding in Lin Xiao's electronic topological bonding theory. For this reason, they used the ARPES in the laboratory, which is the angle-resolved photoelectron spectrometer, to realize the internal analysis of the sample. The observation of the electronic situation, and then realize the verification of the electronic topological bonding theory.

As for the samples they used, the origin is not simple.

The sample was a tungsten plate they had paid to "retire" from a controlled fusion reactor.

Tungsten is the metal with the highest melting point, and it is strong enough, so it is often used as the inner wall material of controlled nuclear fusion. Of course, the tungsten plate must not be able to withstand the high temperature of controlled nuclear fusion.

As for how they got this sample, it has a lot of history.

Although the well-known controllable nuclear fusion devices in China are only the Dongfang Super Ring of the Plasma Institute, and some tokamak devices such as the Circulator No. [-] M device developed by the Nuclear Industry Group, but in some universities, it is also possible There will be an old experimental tokamak.

And the tungsten plate they got was made from this old device.

Of course, it took them a lot of effort to get this thing, mainly because this kind of thing will carry residual radiation due to neutron irradiation and other problems in the nuclear fusion reaction, even if the radiation value is not very high, generally are not permitted to be sold.

Otherwise, if one is accidentally transferred to the hands of ordinary people, then ordinary people will not know the radiation in the middle of the radiation, and they can be counted as a crime of throwing dangerous substances on their heads.

After all, this kind of thing with radiation can really kill people invisibly, and it is not unheard of for radiation murder cases to happen.

Of course, this kind of thing is fatal to ordinary people, but for researchers like them, as long as they operate properly, these problems can be avoided. Even if it is for trading, just put an experimental name on it , so it is not a problem to trade.

However, this requires a person who knows the basics, after all, it is impossible for someone to just sell it to someone they don't know.

Therefore, Kang Chengning, the leader of the four-person group, made good use of his personal connections and bought this item after being recommended by three people.

And the cost in the middle is probably the second largest cost besides renting this laboratory.

As for why they spent so much effort to build this thing, it was because of the advice Lin Xiao gave them at the beginning.

That is to let them try to try the relationship between the strong interaction force and the electromagnetic interaction force.

But they don't know how to move in this direction.

Even if they spent a month trying to understand Lin Xiao's paper, even if they bought books on quantum field theory and particle physics to try to learn by themselves, it was of no avail in the end.

After all, Lin Xiao's thesis was completely beyond their comprehension.

But if you don't understand the scientific method, you can only start from the direction of metaphysics.

So they thought, something like this in the fusion reaction, in a certain way, doesn't it quite meet their requirements?
Fusion reaction, isn’t it all kinds of damage to the strong interaction force, such as the fusion reaction of deuterium and tritium, that is, the collision of the nuclei of deuterium and tritium causes the suspension of the strong interaction force that maintains the protons and neutrons in the nucleus, and then the strong interaction force The energy possessed by the force is released.

This is like the breaking and formation of chemical bonds. The chemical bonds formed under the electromagnetic interaction force will absorb energy when the bond is broken, and release energy when the bond is formed, and this thing that can be regarded as a "strong bond" for the time being is released when it is broken. Energy, plus the strong interaction force is one hundred to one thousand times stronger than the electromagnetic interaction force, and it releases even more energy.

Of course, what is shown externally is the reduction of mass caused by fusion, and all of this mass is converted into energy. Then, according to the calculation of the mass-energy equation, it can be known how much energy has been converted into the part of the mass that disappeared.

And for this four-person team, since this thing has something to do with the strong interaction force, maybe a wave of metaphysics can come up with something very scientific?

It's a pity that the final facts proved that their ideas seemed too metaphysical.

But when the other three were a little distressed, Kang Chengning, who had been bowing his head and thinking, suddenly said, "No, maybe we should think about it from another perspective."

"What's the matter? Old Kang, do you have any ideas?"

Everyone else couldn't help looking at Kang Chengning. They chose Kang Chengning to be the person in charge. Naturally, they also believed in Kang Chengning's ability. Maybe Kang Chengning also had some ideas?

Kang Chengning looked calm, and said, "I think so, let's think about it. Although the current experimental results are inconsistent with our goals, there are only three possibilities for this to happen."

The other three people suddenly showed curiosity on their faces.

"Which three?"

"Say it quickly, don't be tricky."

Kang Chengning smiled and said, "The first one is that there is something wrong with our equipment."

The other three were slightly taken aback, and then Ma Bin said, "It is indeed possible."

Chen Gong nodded, and said involuntarily, "If that's the case, that's fine."

But Li Xiang next to him said very calmly: "No, this is not good at all."

He adjusted his glasses, then slowly raised his head, the lights in the laboratory reflected a wise ray of light on the lenses, and then his tone became bleak: "Because, this means that we may all be together in the next life." Going to run around to pay off the debt."

Chen Gong and Ma Bin were taken aback for a moment, and immediately realized what Li wanted to say—this means that this expensive ARPES was probably damaged by them. After all, when they applied to the laboratory, the ARPES But it's not bad at all.

Chen Gong immediately covered his heart, with an unbearable expression on his face, and despair in his eyes.

The price of such a top-level ARPES is as high as hundreds of millions!
"Old Kang, please talk about other possibilities, otherwise Lao Chen will soon be unable to hold on!" Ma Bin hurriedly said to Kang Chengning.

Kang Chengning shrugged, and then said: "The second possibility is that the theory of electron topological bonding is wrong."

These words immediately awakened Chen Gong.

He immediately became serious, looked at their experimental results, analyzed them calmly, thought carefully, clapped his hands after a while and said: "It is indeed possible, after all, our experimental results are quite different from the theory of electronic topological bonding."

The more he talked, the brighter his eyes became, and he even jumped up happily in the end.

"Hey, it's entirely possible. Even if Einstein came up with this theory, I have to question it."

"Brothers, whether we can become famous depends on this wave!"

Li Xiang next to him reminded quietly: "But this is what Lin Shen did."

"Uh……"

Chen Gong was taken aback for a moment, as if he just remembered, "Yes, that was made by God Lin, how could it be wrong?"

So he clutched his heart again, his face ashen, and fell into despair that he was about to bear several million debts.

But this time, without Ma Bin's reminder, Kang Chengning said the last possibility: "The last possibility is that we have succeeded in metaphysics, and we have found a field that Lin Shen's theory of electronic topological bonding has not covered. "

(End of this chapter)