Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 196 144 The Third Industrial Revolution

For a physicist, as long as he simply uses his brain, he can understand what it means for human beings if room temperature superconductivity is really realized.

At present, in the early twentieth century, a series of imperialist countries such as Europe and the United States are still at the end of the second industrial revolution.

People have already experienced first-hand that electricity has made significant contributions to improving human life and promoting social progress.

However, there are still two major problems that have not been fundamentally resolved, thus restricting the further development of electric power.

One is the source of electricity.

Today's power plants basically burn fossil fuels, mainly coal, to release heat, and then use the steam generated by heating water to drive generators to generate electricity.

The second is the energy loss in the process of power transmission, especially the longer the transmission distance, the more energy loss.

As a result, people can only build power plants near industrial areas, and use the method of shortening the distance to reduce losses as much as possible.

If room temperature superconductivity under normal pressure can really be realized, it doesn’t even need room temperature, it only needs to be near the melting point of ice at zero degrees Celsius, or the sublimation point of solid carbon dioxide near [-] Kelvin. It can be regarded as half of the industrial revolution.

In electric transportation, no matter how long the distance is, it is no longer a problem.

In terms of transportation, electric vehicles with two wheels can run faster than F1 racing cars.

Moreover, the problem of battery energy storage can also be solved. At that time, it will be faster to fully charge an electric car than to fill up a gasoline car.

After the realization of room temperature superconductivity, don't build any maglev trains. After all, it is still inconvenient to have track constraints.

Go directly to the maglev highway, isn't he good?
Chip technology can also advance by leaps and bounds following the realization of superconductivity, and the heat dissipation problem that has been restricting the development of chips is suddenly solved, and the computing power of chips will also be greatly improved.

Perhaps the artificial intelligence at that time will be more amazing than the ChatGPT, which looks beautiful at first glance.

As for how to solve the energy shortage caused by superconductivity?

Come on, everyone has already mastered superconducting technology, so isn't controllable nuclear fusion a matter of time?

It is said that room temperature superconductivity is half of the industrial revolution, and controllable nuclear fusion makes up the remaining half.

Together, these two technologies have no problem launching a complete industrial revolution.

Maybe when the time comes, human society will really be able to run into communism.

Regarding the third industrial revolution, some say it is aerospace, some say electronic computers, some say it is biotechnology, and some say it is nanotechnology...

But how do these things compare with "superconductivity" plus "controllable nuclear fusion"?
In 1986, two physicists in Zurich, Switzerland, Johannes Bednolz and Karl Miller, came up with ceramic superconductivity, using a critical temperature of "up to" 33 Kelvin, breaking what people have always thought of as superconductivity. Conduct the view that the critical temperature cannot exceed thirty Kelvin.

As a result, in the second year, the two of them won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their achievements in ceramic superconductivity.

This award-winning speed can be regarded as very fast in the history of the Nobel Prize, which shows how strong the desire of the physics community for breakthroughs in superconducting technology is.

Chen Muwu had previously fooled Yoshio Nishina from Copenhagen and asked him to leave Denmark to study superconductivity at Leiden University in the Netherlands. The original intention was to make me distort their technology tree.

But now he feels that his actions may be unintentional.

If Yoshio Nishina died young due to poisoning due to excessive exposure to thallium metal, Chen Muwu might say that this is a great pity for the physics community, and there are always heroes who will die on the road to explore the truth.

If the above-mentioned situation does not happen, Yoshio Nishina has achieved something in Europe and returned home safely.

Then, according to the original development track of history, he still became the person in charge of the "Ren Project" that researched the atomic bomb, so Chen Muwu was confident that he would send the fat man and the little boy to that neighbor who was stripped of water a few years in advance.

But if after returning to China, Nishina Yoshio did not initiate and participate in the "Ren Project", but was successfully led by Chen Muwu on the "right way" of superconductivity, and spread out in his country, cultivating batch after batch If the disciples and grandchildren of the batch are devoted to the superconducting business one after another, maybe on this timeline, I can really make some big news in superconducting research.

Although Ben also has a lot of academic fraud problems, but compared with the third brother, it really pales in comparison.

One of the most remarkable properties of superconductivity is that the resistance becomes zero.

However, only the resistance becomes zero, but it does not mean that the material has entered the superconducting state.

It's a very simple thing, you take a multimeter and adjust the gear to the gear for measuring resistance.

Then connect the two test leads, and the resistance displayed on the multimeter is also zero.

Does this mean that the two test leads of the multimeter have also entered the superconducting state at normal temperature and pressure?

No!

This can only mean that you have short-circuited the multimeter!
At any rate, I still have a little sense of shame. After the academic Daji a few years ago was accused of academic fraud, he could go through the process of "apology and bow".

If it doesn't work, you can still ask your mentor to come and apologize.

But the third brother's academic fraud did not cause any psychological pressure at all.

Faced with the fact that the experimental phenomenon could not be reproduced by others, they gave a solution: Please sit down and ask another third brother to come forward and use the materials provided by the previous third brother to prove that the previous third brother There is no problem with my brother's experiment.

However, the preparation method of the material will not be disclosed, nor will the prepared material be disclosed.

As for why you made the same material, but failed to achieve room temperature superconductivity?
That is probably because the environment on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean is not suitable for research on room-temperature superconductivity, and room-temperature superconductivity can only be achieved on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean.

What's wrong with this country? I was thinking about it and asked...

For all the above reasons, Chen Muwu did not think that his propaganda to Raman that "superconductivity will be the mainstream of future physics" would have any practical effect.

He just saw this pioneer of Indian physics today, and he couldn't help but want to complain. He didn't expect Raman to be fooled by him, and he remembered everything he said. After returning to India, Immediately, a low-temperature physics team was formed at the University of Calcutta to conduct scientific research on superconductivity.

After all, India has not entered the stage of imperialism after leaving Asia and entering Europe after the second industrial revolution.

It is difficult for Chen Muwu to say, who is poorer in India now than in the Republic of China.

But he believes that the education level of the two countries is basically the same.

Although in terms of higher education, India may still be a little stronger, after all, they have produced Raman, Bose and Chandrasekhar during this period.

However, the main problem faced by the two countries in education is the same, that is, basic education is not universal.

Without basic education continuously providing a large amount of fresh blood for scientific research, it will never be possible to establish a solid scientific research system.

Although Raman has been engaged in promoting the development of education in India, his so-called education only serves the high-caste people, and the low-caste people are not considered human beings at all.

Chen Muwu only hopes that after Raman returns to China, he can popularize superconductivity in the country a little bit, and don't let their compatriots turn superconductivity into a theology in the future 100 years later.

In addition, the issue of Indian education is also something that Chen Muwu also has to face.

He built a school in Sweden, to a certain extent, it can be regarded as bringing the higher education of the Republic of China to a higher level.

But without basic education, no matter how magnificent the development of higher education is, it is just a castle in the air.

Shouldn't we send another sum of money back to the country, and make arrangements for basic education in Sichuan, Chongqing and Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia?

Raman and Chen Muwu chatted all morning in the David Faraday Laboratory, and the topics involved physics, education and other aspects.

Except for some inconvenience in communication due to accent problems, the two basically had a good conversation.

At the end of the conversation, Raman asked Chen Muwu another question, or a request.

He asked Chen Muwu if he could recommend some Indian students to study in Cambridge University and do something under Chen Muwu.

"I have a nephew who is very smart, but I feel that if he stays in India, his future and development will be hindered by the level of education there."

It seems that those who want to introduce students are all false. Introducing this nephew to Cambridge University is the real purpose of Raman's last sentence.

No matter where you go, you can’t do without the society of human kindness. Raman came to the UK from India with great difficulty. Apart from attending the Royal Society meeting and having academic exchanges with his colleagues in physics, he also helped his nephew find a way out. One of the purposes of walking.

"Of course there is no problem. Since it was recommended by you, Professor Raman, I believe that he must also be a very talented person in physics."

Chen Muwu agreed very happily, because he knew that even if he did not agree to Rahman's request, Rahman's nephew named Chandrasekhar would go to Cambridge University to study in the future and eventually won the Nobel Prize.

It might as well give him a favor, since he has nothing to lose anyway.

And maybe by the time Chandrasekhar entered school, he would have left Cambridge for education in Sweden!
Oppenheimer, who had been writing the first draft of the dissertation on the nearby table, had one ear pricked up the whole time, eavesdropping on the conversation between the teacher and the Indian.

He thought it would be no problem for Chen Muwu to find a few students from China, after all, it was the hometown of geniuses.

Whether it is Ye Qisun, a doctoral fellow at Harvard University, or the two Chinese classmates at Cambridge University, their knowledge and character have long been recognized by Oppenheimer.

But why did Teacher Chen agree to recruit Indian students?Does he want to see the cobra show?
Those who disagreed with Chen Muwu's move were Chadwick who was doing experiments on the side.

After Laman left, he also expressed his opinion to Chen Muwu: "Dr. Chen, you agreed to recruit that Indian without permission, which may cause Sir Rutherford's displeasure. Who knows that Indian What level is it?"

Chadwick's words originally meant that Chen Muwu had never met Laman's nephew, so he rashly recruited him as a student and entered the Cavendish laboratory. The burden of surgery.

But what he said misunderstood the sensitive Oppenheimer.

Because he was recruited into Cavendish Lab by Chen Muwu after being rejected by Rutherford.

Although he didn't look down on Indians very much, at this moment, Oppenheimer resonated with the Indian who had never met.

Is Chadwick talking about the Indian, or is he using this man to mock himself?
Before Chen Muwu could speak and explain, Oppenheimer had already opened his mouth and said, "What's wrong with the Indians? Aren't Indians also British? Don't forget, your Majesty the King of England now also has an Indian. What about the title of Emperor!"

"Robert, you'd better change the room and write your thesis quickly! It's just a first draft, and there is no profound principle. It's been a long time and I haven't finished it yet!"

Why are we still arguing over this matter!
Chen Muwu had some headaches. The student who had always been very quiet finally showed his thorny side.

But now he couldn't offend Chadwick who was about to allocate funds for the particle accelerator, so he could only yell at his students loudly and pretentiously, making Oppenheimer feel a little wronged.

……

With the help of Chen Muwu and Kapiza, the groom-to-be officer Chadwick finally prepared a new batch of hydrogen containing a large amount of deuterium and deuterated hydrogen.

These hydrogen samples will be brought back to the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University by Professor Aston, where they will continue to study the various properties of deuterium through experiments.

Chadwick, on the other hand, took a break from his busy schedule, took the time to go back to Liverpool, and married his fiancée.

The best man at the wedding is still Kapitsa, and the witness is the bearded Rutherford.

Chen Muwu also went to Liverpool. Before he left London, he went to Chinatown to buy a piece of embroidery embroidered with mandarin ducks as a wedding present for Chadwick.

It may be a great pleasure to attend a wedding and witness a couple step into the marriage hall.

On the train back to Cambridgeshire from Liverpool, Rutherford still had a smile on his face.

Although in order to avoid the big smoking gun, Chen Muwu had already sat very far away from Rutherford.

But he still couldn't avoid the teacher's question: "Chen, now that James is finally married, when are you going to marry that little girl from Curie's family? I will also be your witness!"

(End of this chapter)