Son of the Stars

Chapter 34 Eureka

Thousands of years ago, Archimedes, who needed to test the composition of the crown without damaging it, got inspiration when he immersed himself in a bathtub.According to legend, the great ancient Greek philosopher, encyclopedic scientist, mathematician, physicist, mechanics, and the founder of static mechanics and hydrostatics jumped out of his bathtub when he was inspired. Waving hands and shouting "I found it! I found it! (Eureka! Eureka!)"

Therefore, this process of sudden enlightenment and inspiration is also called "Eureka moment".

The eureka moment is something that almost every scientific worker dreams of—the problem that has troubled him for a long time is solved in an instant, which is simply the best reward for the life devoted to every scientific researcher.This thirst for feedback can make one's whole body itch—to the bone, even to the depths of the soul—with just a little imagination.

What answer the eureka moment can bring is not important, what is important is to experience the feeling of soul trembling brought by the eureka moment.

And Mu Zhiran, whose soul finally regained his calm gradually, looked at the data in front of him, the expression on his face was as calm as the surface of an ancient well - motionless.

"The situation is not very good?" Lu Chen, who had been guarding the laboratory for a long time, began to comfort his doctor of physics carefully, "It is a good thing to have inspiration, but it is normal to have some twists and turns from time to time—after all, the explosive samples we have on hand limited……"

"I detected a small amount of ultraviolet light from Rangna's blood sample." Mu Zhiran said with an extremely calm face, "To be precise, the wavelength of this ultraviolet light is 121.6 nm."

Lu Chen's expression was still cautious, "Does this mean...?"

"It means that I need more accurate spectroscopic analysis instruments and more samples." Mu Zhiran seemed to be wearing a mask called "Calm Mu Zhiran".But Lu Chen could clearly feel that his Dr. Mu seemed a little excited.

"I can't guarantee the sample, but the analyzer should be able to find it." Lu Chen first agreed on Watanabe's behalf, and then reminded, "If you want to apply for more samples, I'm afraid you need some sufficient reasons."

"I can't confirm whether hydrogen is the only element in the excited state, but the intensity of other ultraviolet peaks in the spectrum is very low." Mu Zhiran said slowly, "I'm not 100% sure...but now I have It can be said with greater certainty that in Jeanne’s blood sample, a considerable amount of hydrogen elements were once in the excited state of n=2, and they are falling to the ground state.”

"Considering that the blood sample for testing has been taken from Jeanna's body for more than a month, I have every reason to believe that the amount of hydrogen in the excited state was much higher." Mu Zhiran's expression began There were some changes, but Lu Chen couldn't tell whether it was excitement or fear for a while, she continued, "I just asked Xiaoli to help me estimate..."

The corners of Mu Zhiran's mouth began to tremble, and she said to Lu Chen as if asking for help, "If all the hydrogen in the body of an adult weighing fifty kilograms falls from the excited state of n=2 to the ground state, the energy released Approximately equal to the total energy of four hundred tons of TNT."

Lu Chen also started to tremble.He took several deep breaths in a row and asked, "But... all the elements are in an excited state, it can't happen naturally?"

"Under natural circumstances, it's impossible for the electrons outside the lithium element to spin downward." Mu Zhiran replied, "But to be honest, I'm a bit confused about what is natural and what is unnatural..."

Lu Chen heard a bit of humor and jokes from this "truth".As a result, his tension eased a lot, "Maybe...the abnormality is the real normal state." He looked at Mu Zhiran and asked, "Is this excited state related to the rotation direction of the external electrons of the lithium element that we have confirmed?" ?”

"If there is some kind of resonance field between lithium atoms and hydrogen atoms...it might be related." Mu Zhiran has obviously thought about this issue, but she is not an expert in this field, so she can only talk about it in general terms ": "In the application of quantum computers, there is a practical means of using quantum entanglement to affect the energy level transition of electrons. The quantum entanglement state can affect the probability of electrons absorbing photons-considering the extremely high abnormal entanglement state of lithium atoms, this probability is probably It will also be very high."

"Then, the last question." Lu Chen looked at Mu Zhiran and asked, "Is there any way to stop this abnormal drop in energy level?"

"It is very difficult to keep the electrons in an excited state, not to mention intervention methods, simply providing enough energy is an impossible task." Mu Zhiran's face was full of helplessness and even despair, "A 400-kilogram adult Humans, can emit [-] tons of TNT equivalent of ultraviolet light and heat. We don't know why they are excited at the same time, and we don't know why they all suddenly start falling...but it takes a lot of precision to keep them excited Instruments and interventions, and a lot of energy consumption ... We are afraid that we will not be able to achieve this goal."

She looked at Lu Chen and said helplessly, "The only good news is that although the process of electronic transition may be affected by the observer effect, this state of 'absorbing photons and transitioning to an excited state' should be safe in theory."

"In other words... the observation and research on it will not lead to frequent explosions." Mu Zhiran looked at Lu Chen with neither sad nor happy expression, "We should be able to go out now."
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Lu Chen didn't hear "happy" from his girlfriend's mouth. In fact, he couldn't be happy himself either.

Good brother Estella developed severe diarrhea.

As a common clinical symptom, diarrhea may have many causes.From food poisoning to a bad mood, from cholera to chlamydia...diarrhea can occur in a variety of conditions and in varying intensities.

But when a minor develops severe diarrhea after staying at a radiation intensity of up to 8.3mSv/h for several hours... then this may be very scary.

The large amount of radiation may have killed the small intestinal villi in Estella's small intestine, and the source of this diarrhea...should be radiation enteritis.The disease generally only occurs in patients with terminal tumors treated with long-term radiation therapy -- and their prognosis is... poor.

The good news is that there is a high probability that Estella will not have terminal tumors.His major tumor marker levels were normal, and whole-body ultrasound ruled out significant space-occupying changes.No free cancer cells were found in the blood samples either.

But the bad news is that living in the Mediterranean radiation zone for a long time, the radiation caused lasting and far-reaching damage to his body.Radiation and an unknown tattoo dye combined to cause widespread dermatitis on Estella's body.The scars on his body were piled up layer by layer, as if a layer of scales had grown under the skin.

Also, Estella's eyesight is not very good.After a remote examination by a specialist, they determined that Estella may have suffered from mild cataracts - presumably one of the direct effects of the radiation.

Under such conditions, Estella's prognosis is really not optimistic.Watanabe submitted an application to transfer patients to the coalition government. He wanted to at least let Estella enter the general hospital for systematic examination and treatment.

However, this application was not approved for a long time. In the afternoon, the coalition government still did not explicitly accept or reject Watanabe's application-instead, the thirteen academicians of the committee arrived at the base directly in the aircraft.

In the base, these eight men and five women, a total of thirteen academicians announced the bad news to Lu Chen and others with extremely bad faces.

"At [-]:[-] this morning, the No. [-] manned landing module flying on the ground fire transfer orbit exploded - an astronaut on it had an abnormal fever, and the fever lasted for four days." In this session of the committee Academician Yuan, the most prestigious agronomy student, frowned and said, "The No. [-] landing module and the No. [-] landing module have confirmed the explosion visually, and the frontier base on Mars orbit has also confirmed the explosion. Based on the estimated flying speed of the wreckage, the explosion equivalent is about Five hundred tons of TNT." Academician Yuan took a deep breath and asked, "We have seen Dr. Mu's discovery and the corresponding inference, besides this inference, do you have any other possible hypotheses?"

The scene was quiet. Although Mu Zhiran's inferences were still "guesses" or even "assumptions" in many places, her theoretical logic was complete and almost perfectly corresponded to the current situation.Not to mention other possible assumptions, even Tang Qinglong felt that "this direction should not go wrong".

"If you have new ideas, you are welcome to bring them up at any time." Academician Yuan nodded, "The identity of the astronaut on the No. [-] manned landing module is being analyzed by the Comprehensive Investigation Bureau...but our focus is not on this." He looked at Tang Qinglong and said, "The committee decided to disclose your discoveries and experimental progress in a small area. Now is not the time to build a car behind closed doors. We must gather all the forces we can to attack—this kind of explosion has too much impact on society. We Something has to be done."

"In the final analysis, it is still an infectious disease. It's just that the way of infection is a bit strange." Yang Weimin said, "Since it is an infectious disease, there is always a way to deal with it - any infectious disease must be preventable, controllable and curable. It is an objective law."

Lu Chen just poured cold water on his mentor, "Brother Yang...Although infectious diseases can be prevented and cured, if all human beings become carriers of the infected, there is no way to intervene."

Lu Chen, who dismantled his tutor platform, put forward his own suggestions to the thirteen academicians, "It is more urgent and important to confirm the proportion of 'carriers' in the population than to tackle the problem. We need to conduct a large-scale screening to judge Exactly what proportion of the population has 'external electrons on the hydrogen atom in an excited state'."

"We need a general screening."

(End of this chapter)