Beneath Deep Space

1.8 trillion yuan, this is a really large amount of money, and the global GDP at that time was only about 120 trillion yuan!

Almost all consortiums, banks, governments, and wealthy people participated in this "gamble" operation.

If it succeeds, they will gain huge benefits, so these consortiums are willing to take a gamble.

A large number of people with lofty ideals also ambitiously participated in this operation and were willing to contribute their wisdom.

This great sage has really tried his best. He has used up all the contacts and resources he has accumulated throughout his life, bet on his almost perfect reputation, and the government's support for him has reached its limit.

I have to say that after the physics and other basic subjects of the Nix civilization almost stagnated, biology has flourished.

The following generations of great sages almost eliminated all kinds of diseases and made the medical system unprecedentedly developed...

Some life-extending technologies have even emerged, such as organ cloning technology, free radical longevity medicine, etc., which have greatly extended the lifespan of the Knicks. As the inventor of free radical longevity medicine, Baxter has created huge value with this patent alone.

After all, longevity is what everyone desires, and it is also the most economically valuable. Every Knick will pay for longevity.

Therefore, research in this area has the greatest lack of investment and the fastest research and development speed.

At that time, the average life span of the Knicks had increased to 150 years!

But this is just the average lifespan, the oldest and well-maintained one is over two hundred years old!

It is precisely because of this that, even though the annual birth rate of the entire planet is getting lower and lower, population growth is still advancing by leaps and bounds because the death rate is lower!

Whether this increase in lifespan is a good thing or a bad thing, who knows...

In the process of a civilization's entropy increase, there will always be heroes who appear to try to slow down its entropy increase. Baxter is undoubtedly a heroic figure. He sold his valuable shares in a biological company, resolutely switched from biology to nuclear physics, and started a new scientific research career...

At that time, it was already ninety years old!

Controllable thermonuclear fusion is essentially an engineering project with technical difficulties, but it does not "seem" to be an insurmountable theoretical blind spot. Therefore, on the premise of having high-level technical talents, the Knicks believe that spending money can greatly speed up the progress and improve the success rate.

But money can’t solve all the world’s problems.

These last saviors of the Knick civilization soon suffered.

They first used the most mature and most studied magnetic confinement, which is the "Tokamak" device.

It stands to reason that this thing has been studied by our ancestors for seven hundred years. After such a long time, even a group of pigs can research something even if they don't have enough funds.

A group of smart Knicks people gathered together and discussed frantically, 1.8 trillion, although this money seems like a lot, it must be spent wisely.

In fact, scientific research is burning money, and it is gone as soon as it is burned. They must find a suitable direction.

In the idea of ​​"magnetic confinement", there are three technical difficulties in controllable nuclear fusion:

First, the energy output must be greater than the energy input, which means that the triple product must be high enough.

Second, the first wall material must be able to withstand thermal shock, 14MeV neutron irradiation, and hydrogen and helium ion damage for a long time.

Third, the production cost of tritium element is extremely high, and tritium must be self-sustaining (recycled).

The "Tokamak" device has indeed solved some problems during the previous experiments, and it is more thorough than the exploration of the people on earth. It can light up for several minutes, and the output is about the same as the input. But...it's far from enough to officially generate electricity!

Formal power generation requires stability, long-term stability, and stability for at least several months, not just a few hours or a few days!

So, the entire completion level, that is, in the progress bar of 100, it looks like 1% or 2% is completed, and... it looks like it will go backwards at any time.

If we really take this project seriously, nuclear fusion will really make people complain.

The end result is like a carrot hanging in front of a donkey, dangling right in front of your eyes, as if you can reach it if you step forward... but you just can't eat it!

The main idea of ​​"Tokamak" is to use the external magnetic field to couple with the magnetic field generated by the plasma current.

If the plasma becomes unstable, the system could collapse, causing the instrument to become useless.

If the instrument is scrapped, it is equivalent to burning tens or tens of billions.

So, can plasma be controlled stably?

The answer of previous generations is... it's difficult!

The control of ultra-high temperatures (above tens of millions of degrees) and ultra-large currents (above millions of amperes) is laborious, and there are currently no materials and technologies that are stable enough.

Coupled with the unique turbulence phenomenon of plasma, it is essentially a chaos problem. It is a mountain that cannot be conquered in physics for hundreds of years. It can only be forcibly fitted using quantum computers. But fitting is just fitting and there is no exact solution.

After Baxter and others tried for a period of time, their scalps became numb and they felt the difficulty of the problem for the first time...

This thing will become scrapped if you use it. What should I do?

Things that our ancestors have been unable to develop for hundreds of years must be unfeasible and have huge difficulties.

Time is running out and it will be difficult for these scientists to conquer it in just a few decades, so let’s try another one: a stellarator!

In other words... the tokamak and the stellarator are being carried out at the same time, anyway, spend money!

There are plenty of technical staff too!

Multiple projects in progress simultaneously! Use whichever one is successful!

The stellarator is another type of nuclear fusion device design. The plasma current inside is too violent, troublesome, and difficult to control. Just don’t use it!

Scientists are trying to create a closed and twisted ring-shaped magnetic cage inside through complex external coils.

That is to say, the difficulty of controlling the plasma current is transferred to the difficulty of designing and processing the three-dimensional magnetic field and coil...

The entire "stellar device" device is like a mess, and the processing technology is extremely complex.

This year, the news about nuclear fusion gradually settled down, and no one cared about it anymore... Ordinary people in the Knicks still sang and danced, and comfort and enjoyment continued to become the mainstream. This has been the norm for hundreds of years.

An interesting thing happened this year. The accidental car accident of a famous entertainment star actually attracted tens of thousands of people to watch. This behavior caused a traffic paralysis and even affected ambulances. This is a rare big news...

Knicks erupted into a melee online, expressing sympathy or grotesquely gloating.

There are also some Internet public figures calling for maintaining morals, etc...

They don't know that the last saviors of this world are killing each other in the laboratory.

This group of the smartest Nix scientists, confused and panicked, face this insurmountable "big filter" on a "cosmic scale" alone...

All the work has encountered huge difficulties that are almost insurmountable...

Turbulence problems can be forcibly fitted using quantum computers; radiation material problems need to be replaced regularly...

It seems that many problems have been barely solved, but all added up, it still cannot generate electricity... There are still too many problems, some of which are almost unsolvable.

Great Sage Baxter, a Knick with an IQ above 220, learned the cutting edge of nuclear physics in just three years, but he could not conquer this majestic mountain.

Its temper is getting louder and louder, and its opponents are getting more and more harsh. It has been fighting late into the night for many years, but... to no avail.

These researchers feel like a mountain climber. It looks like the target is close at hand. When they worked hard to climb one mountain after another, they suddenly encountered a cliff.

At this time, they were exhausted, and only then did they realize that their target was just a mirage.

They climbed the wrong way, they went exactly the wrong way!

This is truly great. 1.8 trillion funds, over several decades, only proved the error of one path.

Nothing came of it.

The heads of various departments were replaced several times, the money was burned quickly, and they faced... the complaints and suspicions of the entire world.