From small town scholar to chief scientist

The existence of complex structures on a six-dimensional sphere is also a very old problem,

Both Chen Shiingshen and Yau Shing-tong have emphasized this issue.

A problem of the century.

If Tao Zhiqing can make some key achievements from this, he has a great chance of staying in Chongqing Higher Court in the future.

Otherwise, they can only stay in Chongqing University or go to Shuimu University or Princeton Institute for Advanced Study as a postdoctoral fellow.

Zhou Yi was still going to say more, and said to the 24-year-old young man:
"This problem is best studied using the method of Riemannian geometry, introducing metrics on near-complex manifolds that are compatible with near-complex structures."

Tao Zhiqing nodded repeatedly and said:
"Okay, Mr. Zhou, I've made a note."

Zhou Yi ignored it and continued:

"You can look at LeBrun's article, he once proved that the near-complex structure that fits the standard metric on the six-dimensional sphere must be non-integrable,

Whether there is an integrable near-complex structure on the six-dimensional sphere still needs to be studied by you. "

After talking with Huang Shunjian and Tao Zhiqing, Zhou Yi planned topics for students in the five directions of physics, chemistry, computer and artificial intelligence, and geodynamics.

The problem is not very big, it can only be said that it can reach the level of doctoral graduation from Chongqing Higher Education Institute.

If you want to stay in Chongqing High Court, you need to make greater achievements.

Every student, Zhou Yi is teaching with heart.

Even if they can't stay in Chongqing Higher Academy in the future, with the requirements of Zhou Yi for their thesis, they can go to universities all over the world.

What's more, with the name of Zhouyi, don't go to Beijing University and the island country.

However, there is a high probability that Zhouyi will let them go to Yuzhou University.

Because it is close to Chongqing University of Higher Education, any new academic ideas of Chongqing University of Higher Education can be obtained immediately.

After dealing with the students' affairs, Zhou Yi let out a heavy sigh of relief.

Fourteen students need Zhou Yi to take care of them, and it's tiring to think about it.

One or two research students in the direction of mathematics, and two students in the other five branches.

The new year's master's degree examination is also coming gradually.

It's time to admit students again.

This year, Zhouyi intends to only accept students in mathematics, physics and artificial intelligence.

Just collect 20 of them.

After leaving the office, Zhou Yi took a stroll around,
On the mountain in December, it has started to snow and it is very cold.

Zhou Yi doesn't know how long it will take for Huang Shunjian and Tao Zhiqing to produce results.
Maybe one year, maybe two years, maybe even three years.

These two problems belong to the century-old problems. If they can be solved, they may even win international awards.

So Zhou Yi has really done the task of recruiting students for several years.

But the experience given is also considerable.

The campus is very big, near the end of the period, and the weather is cold, there are basically no people in the school to visit the campus.

Zhang Bin on the side said:

"Academician Zhou, why don't you go back first? It's too cold outside, and it won't be good if you freeze your body."

Zhou Yi glanced at Zhang Bin, and said lightly:

"This little snow can make me catch a cold? I'm not that weak, I'm thinking about it."

Zhou Yi brushed off the residual snow on his body, and couldn't help but feel tired thinking about all kinds of things.

Zhou Yi looked at Xue and Meihua from the side, and said softly:
"The second major point of the controllable nuclear fusion summed up before, the small technology in it is far more than the technology that was exchanged before, and needs to be solved.
There are other little technologies that need to be addressed as well.

The level of difficulty was far beyond my expectations. "

Zhang Bin didn't understand, so he could only comfort him:

"We all believe that Academician Zhou will lead us to make it. Those academicians all said that as long as Academician Zhou takes action, there is no way that there will be things that cannot be done."

Zhou Yi: . .

Which force is spreading rumors, isn't this flattery?

Zhou Yi sighed and said:
"It's not that easy,
The most critical material with high heat load also urgently needs to be solved.

And it also involves some manifolds, which may require a special equation to describe.

In short, it is difficult.It takes a lot of time.Not just one or two years, or even three or four years. "

Zhang Bin laughed when he heard this, and said:

"I'm a soldier and a rough guy. I didn't go to a good university, but I also knew some controllable nuclear fusion before. The whole world has been researching in this direction for seven or eighty years, and it is impossible to succeed even in the next few decades.

I think the three or four years you said, Academician Zhou, have already beaten the world. Even after four years, you are only 26 years old, Academician Zhou. "

Hearing what Zhang Bin said, Zhou Yi also calmed down,

Yes, the whole world has invested too much money and time in controllable nuclear fusion.

Even if I have something to do, it is impossible to make it in just one or two years.
Almost three or four years.

After Zhouyi's thoughts are clear, he is not so eager, and he can just follow the steps.

After the feeding and ash removal technology is ready, they may be able to carry out the next step step by step.

Don't worry, take your time.

Zhou Yi, who returned home, prepared some hot pot ingredients and ate them with Xia Xue, mother-in-law and grandpa.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is the time for the postgraduate examination in 2026.

There are many foreign students coming to Chongqing Higher Court at the moment,

Yugaoyuan is one of the test centers, and Yugaoyuan is not open to the public.
Therefore, every time such a large-scale examination occurs, many students choose Yugaoyuan as the examination venue.

The purpose is to see the appearance of Yugaoyuan.

The hotels and homestays near Yugaoyuan are also overcrowded at this time of year.

The scale of the postgraduate examination is no less than the second college entrance examination.

It is an opportunity to change destiny.

In the era of introversion, the advantages of higher education are self-evident.

This is also a test for selecting talents, and both the above and Zhouyi attach great importance to it.

Every enrollment means the quality of students in Chongqing University in the future,

The future development of Chongqing Higher Court.

During the exam, Zhou Yi also visited the exam room, which caused quite a commotion.

Academician Zhou even patrolled in person, making many candidates' hands tremble.

Nima, I didn't expect to actually see Academician Zhou himself.

He looks younger than us. I heard that he is only 22 years old this year, about our age.

Thinking of Zhou Yi's achievements at the age of 22, and thinking that he was still taking the exam here, his heart almost spurted out.

The gap between people can be so large.

Zhouyi mainly inspects the examination room for mathematics major candidates.

There are too many exam rooms to go through in one day.

The huge graduate school exam has finally come to an end.

The test papers of students from all over the country applying for the Yugaoyuan will also be sent to Yugaoyuan for review at the first time.

The New Year's Day in 2027 is destined to be an uneasy year.

Because the sixth-generation fighter jets have already started mass production,

The three production lines can produce more than 100 fighter jets a year.

This batch of fighter jets will also be sold to the European Union and Tsarist Russia.

This news can be said to shake the country headed by Ugly.

The former world hegemon has lost its glory, and its proud military strength is no longer leading the world.

On the contrary, it is a tripartite alliance, and many aspects such as economy, technology, military affairs, and culture are thriving.

In the field of science and technology, many technologies are interoperable, and everyone has obtained the technology they want, realizing the situation of running in multiple directions.

And the economy is even worse. With the increase in trade, the three parties are living very well, from Guishou to "entrepreneurs" making money.

Not to mention the military field, as long as the sixth-generation fighter jets are owned, they can cover half of the earth.

The most worth mentioning is the blending of cultures.

With the popularity of the game "Lord of the People", there is no game in the world that can match it.
The unique civilization and culture of Great Xia has also attracted the attention of many foreigners.

This news was told by Xia Xue to Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi said lightly:

"It's just that we are stronger, otherwise we wouldn't have this effect. A few years ago, they looked down on us Orientals."

Zhou Yi had listened to the heartfelt words of many overseas students, and even Brother Ni dared to yell at Chinese people in Europe.

If it wasn't for technology and alliances, Zhou Yi wouldn't be too lazy to deal with European guys.

When controllable nuclear fusion comes out, the world pattern will change again.
At that time, the leader of the tripartite alliance may be born.

At that time, every Chinese will have the confidence to yell at others when they go abroad.

Every foreigner's attitude towards the Great Xia people will be the same as in ancient times,
Respect, envy, respect and yearning.

Not long after New Year's Day,
Academician Feng found Zhou Yi with good news,

"Academician Zhou, good news, we have found the clues to the first problem, and the second problem you told us is already being tested.

Only the second big question and other directions are still being explored. "

Zhou Yi was shocked when he heard this, and said:

"Okay, as long as there is progress, let's go to the laboratory and talk there."

Since the laboratory is a bit far away, Zhou Yi and others took a helicopter to go there.

It didn't take long to arrive at the laboratory.

All the equipment needed for controlled nuclear fusion has been delivered here, and has already established contact with CEPC,

What Zhou Yi and others are doing now is to constantly improve the theory and save costs.

Strive for all experiments to be successful at the first time.

The current tokamak is a superconducting tokamak.

The ultimate goal of all tokamaks is to heat the fluorine-atmosphere fusion material to the ignition point or higher, and to keep the reaction time as long as possible in a controlled manner, in order to pursue continuous fusion energy output.

Even if copper with good conductivity is used as the conductor to wind the coil, the coil inevitably has heating problems due to the huge current, which limits the long-term steady-state operation of magnetic confinement nuclear fusion.

Superconductors have a zero-resistance effect, and their higher current density is conducive to the construction of more compact fusion devices with higher field strength.

It can effectively improve the long-pulse steady-state operation, so a superconducting tokamak must be used.

However, the superconducting tokamak is not omnipotent.

Because it is impossible to carry out burning plasma experiments mainly heated by alpha (α) particles.

Therefore, before fusion is commercialized, it is necessary to develop a fusion reactor that can run both burning plasma and long-pulse deuterium-tritium plasma.

And CEPC may fill that role.

Academician Feng on the side introduced:
"The EAST experimental system is composed of a main unit and an auxiliary system. In the middle is a cylindrical main unit with a height of 11 m and a diameter of 8 m.

The host part consists of an annular inner vacuum chamber with a diameter of about 5 m, a superconducting magnet, inner and outer cold shields and a Dewar.

The host is surrounded by auxiliary heating, vacuum pumping, low temperature distribution, physical diagnosis and other systems.

The EAST superconducting magnet system includes: 16 D-shaped longitudinal field superconducting magnets, 6 central spiral superconducting magnets and 8 poloidal field superconducting magnets. The energy storage of the superconducting magnet system exceeds 300MJ.

And it is connected with CEPC, and some experiments can be replaced by CEPC, which may be more accurate. "

CEPC has been repaired for 3000 billion, and more money will be added in the future. Of course Zhou Yi knows the accuracy of CEPC.

But this multi-billion superconducting EAST can be experimented with first.

Zhou Yi looked at the huge device in front of him and said:
"I remember that our country's strategic goal of controllable nuclear fusion has reached the second phase, Q=5, 3000s, 350MW, the goal of steady-state long-pulse combustion plasma, right?

This is the goal that needs to be achieved by 2025, which has been over a year. "

Academician Feng said:
"Yes."

Zhou Yi said:

"The progress can be speeded up. The power grid system has been dredged here, and the energy supply is absolutely sufficient. Besides, there is also the power guarantee of the triple X power generation. There will be no problems.

The next goal is to study high thermal load material testing. "

Academician Feng Kaixuan said:

"Shuimu University and our Institute of Physics have done a lot of research in this direction. I will ask Academician Li and others to discuss with you, Professor Zhou."

Zhou Yi said:

"it is good."

Academician Feng briefly talked about the materials:

"The working temperature of the first wall of a commercial controllable fusion reactor is above 1000°C, and the moment the plasma is shattered, it can reach 2000~3000°C.
Materials with low melting points such as steel and copper are eliminated directly.

Secondly, the task of the first wall is to export heat energy, and ceramic materials with high melting point but poor thermal conductivity are basically eliminated.

At present, the melting point of metal tungsten, a relatively promising candidate material, is 3400°C.

However, tungsten also has the disadvantage of poor plasticity. Under the thermal shock of plasma collapse, the thermal stress often causes the surface of the material to crack.

I think our goal is to research in this direction. When new materials are developed, our follow-up work can be carried out steadily. "

Zhou Yi said:

"This direction will be done by me and Academician Li, and it will be done as soon as possible within this year, and then the experiment will be carried out next year."

Academician Feng said with a hint of confusion:

"Can it work next year?"

Zhou Yi took a deep breath and said:
"Try it and challenge our limits."

Academician Feng ignited his fighting spirit when he heard this, and said in a heavy voice:

"That's right, challenge the limit, procrastination can't make a big deal, and you have to fight the world with great interest all the time."

After leaving the laboratory, academician Feng Kaixuan quickly contacted talents in this direction from Shuimu University and Southwest H Institute of Physics.

In the next year or so, they may have to work with Zhou Yi to overcome this problem.

While Zhou Yi was waiting for them to come, he also opened some of their previous internal papers and began to read.

There are many papers, and Zhou Yi can only take a look at their review papers first. If the direction of the review papers is okay,
Only the following papers can be readable.

If the review paper is not approved by Zhou Yi, then the subsequent papers will not be readable.