From University Lecturer to Chief Academician

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Five billion dollars?

There was an uproar in the venue.

Wang Hao is a scholar specially invited to the meeting. He is not actually here as the project team leader, laboratory or enterprise representative, but to give superconducting research and directional reports.

No one in the venue thought that the first thing Wang Hao said when he came to the stage was to ask for funds, and the first thing he said was five billion.

This number is really shocking.

Wang Chenglin and Du Jianhua are the leaders of the large-scale experimental group. They also talked about the project when they came to the stage just now. They didn't talk about the specific funding, but it is estimated to be one or two hundred million.

The research and development expenditure exceeds 100 million yuan, which is already considered a major project.

As soon as Wang Hao opened his mouth, it was 500 million yuan, which has exceeded the total budget of a single technology support department.

The Science Foundation will definitely not be able to provide it, and their total budget for superconducting research support cannot reach 5 billion.

Similar major projects can only be approved by the top leadership group, and a special project meeting must be held, and the national financial department and science and technology department will allocate funds.

This is beyond the scope of the meeting's decision.

Even if all the officials, representatives and scholars in the venue recognized Wang Hao's research, they could not decide to approve such a major project.

After a burst of uproar, the venue suddenly became quiet. They all didn't quite understand why Wang Hao would talk about such an important project on this occasion.

Normally, for major research and development projects, because the required funds are too high, it is similar to large-scale particle colliders and top-notch projects. First of all, it needs to be demonstrated and held a special meeting, and then approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and then discussed later Expand to proceed.

What is the point of saying it here?

Many people looked at the stage with curious eyes.

Wang Hao paused for a while, and then set the tone, "Funding is only one aspect of this research."

He explained, "We have achieved certain results in the research of superconducting materials."

Everyone in the venue understood the meaning. He was talking about the superconducting materials laboratory, which has developed high-temperature superconducting materials that can be used in industry.

Wang Hao continued, "Several of the materials are very valuable."

"We understand the elemental composition, criticality, and other physical properties of each material."

"Our research is based on this, to connect with the semi-topological theory. To communicate the theoretical mechanism with experimental data, so as to expand the theory and application research of superconductivity."

"This will be a huge systematic project!"

Wang Hao explained briefly.

Many people here are top scholars in the field of superconductivity, and others are also officials from academia, science and technology departments, and related people. They will understand after careful consideration.

Because there are already several kinds of superconducting materials that can be used in industry, based on the manufactured materials, by virtue of their physical properties and experimental research data, we can connect the content of the semi-topological theory and derive some new things.

The existing research on superconducting materials also relies on semi-topological theory, but the theory is only one direction, and there are many uncertainties in material research.

Why a material has high-temperature superconductivity and other physical properties cannot be explained clearly by a semi-topological theory.

After all, the semitopological theory is temporarily unable to demonstrate the complex elements that make up matter.

Therefore, it is also a feasible method to deduce the content related to the theory from the manufactured complex materials.

only……

If you want to really research meaningful content, you may not be able to achieve results?

Some top superconducting scholars, thinking about research issues, still feel a little uncertain.

According to the characteristics of the existing materials, combined with the basic theory, it is indeed a feasible plan to study further theoretical content, but it may not necessarily produce results, and there is a high probability that there will be no results.

This is mainly because of its complexity.

The reason why semi-topological theory can only demonstrate the combination of two elements is because of the complexity of calculation and analysis, and the further three elements are already complicated enough to make people's scalp tingle, and the four elements do not even need to be thought about.

Then, in the face of a substance composed of a dozen or more atoms, can there be any results just based on its physical and other characteristics, and then based on the basic theory?

The uncertainty is too high.

Of course they didn't know that Wang Hao had already identified a semi-topological microscopic shape of a material, and this part was missing.

Of course, Wang Hao will definitely not say everything at the meeting, and his purpose is not to persuade others to support the project.

Five billion seems to be a lot, but funding has never been a problem for Wang Hao.

As long as the application is normal, it is only a matter of time before the funding is approved.

Whether it is the Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Technology, large enterprises, or even the highest leadership group, they will all support his research and development.

Five billion is not such a big number.

Even if it is just a superconducting industrial company, it can continue to invest funds to support his research and development in the future.

Wang Hao said seriously, this is a system engineering project that requires not only funds, but also a lot of manpower, equipment, and massive experiments. "

"We need a lot of experiments and collect a lot of data, which cannot be done in one or two laboratories."

"In addition, the experiment is not limited to the field of superconductivity and mechanism. We also need to conduct some other material characteristic analysis."

"So it takes a lot of experimental teams to work together..."

When Wang Hao said this, many people in the venue understood.

A large systematic research project requires a lot of experiments and research. If a single laboratory cannot complete it, it will definitely require the cooperation of other experimental teams.

If there is no other experimental team to cooperate, we can only build a super large experimental team, which may require thousands or tens of thousands of people.

Obviously.

Just for a single project, building such an experimental mechanism is not worth the loss, because the cost of creating the mechanism itself is astronomical.

In addition, even if there is enough funds, it will not be able to recruit enough talents in a short time.

Many people in the venue couldn't help discussing, "That is to say, Academician Wang is going to apply for a super-large project, but this project, they can't complete it by themselves, and they need the cooperation of many other teams."

"The research must be centered on his team, that is, the superconducting materials laboratory? They also have the antigravity team to cooperate, and other teams will also assign some experimental work."

"Isn't this the main item and the sub item?"

"It can also be said that it is a joint research with other laboratories, not necessarily a primary and secondary project."

"But all in all, the entire project is managed by the main team, and the other labs just cooperate and assign experimental tasks..."

"Wonderful!"

The last sentence was muttered by Wang Chenglin. He was sitting with Du Jianhua, and he also started to discuss, "Anyway, my team will definitely not join the project, no matter if it is five billion or ten billion, even if it is one hundred billion, we will Do not join!"

"me too!"

Du Jianhua nodded affirmatively, "I remember when Wang Hao was doing communication gravity research at the beginning, we didn't consider cooperation at all, let alone the current theoretical research."

"Joining a project, isn't it just doing a project? Research is controlled by others, and experiments are all assigned. You still have to do research yourself to be free..."

Wang Chenglin nodded approvingly, "Yes, even if you do tens of millions of small research, at least you have freedom. If you join Wang Hao's project, you will be assigned tasks. Even if there are results in the end, it will be their material experiment group and other teams. It doesn't matter, the most you can do is add an organization name."

Du Jianhua said, "Yeah, what's the point? Isn't that the same as working for others, and funding and research are all controlled by others..."

He kept shaking his head as he spoke.

Although domestic experimental institutions in the field of superconductivity receive most of their project funding from the Science Foundation, they only agree with the overall project direction of the Science Foundation.

If you join Wang Hao's project, it means you have another 'superior' in your mind, and you lose your freedom in research.

"It's not worth the loss!"

"We are already one of the best teams, why should we join other people's projects..."

"Whimsical!"

"Even Wang Hao can't do it... It is estimated that few teams will join. Don't worry, this project can't go ahead!"

"It doesn't make sense to approve the project. I feel that the direction is still uncertain. Even if the theory makes sense, the semi-topological theory is already very clear. Can it go further?"

"The same is true for applications. 120K materials have been produced, but can 150K, 200K be produced?"

"impossible!"

"Project doesn't make much sense at all..."

The last one is about the development of superconductivity. In fact, not only Du Jianhua and Wang Chenglin think so, but many people think so.

Now there is a semi-topological theory, which weakens Hodge's conjecture and further simplifies the theory, but the simplification is only in the field of mathematical calculation and analysis, and there is actually no qualitative breakthrough.

In terms of application, high-temperature superconducting materials with more than 120K can be used in industry, and it will be difficult to make further progress in the future.

Many scholars believe that superconducting materials also have a bottleneck, and may not be able to make breakthroughs in the next few decades or hundreds of years.

Room-temperature superconductivity still exists only in imagination for the time being.

Wang Chenglin and Du Jianhua said that they were not interested in the project, and they felt that Wang Hao was whimsical. They denied the project, denied the direction, and asserted that they would not join the project.

They did not question whether the project could be applied for.

This is the project that Wang Hao talked about. With his personal influence, the approval is definitely no problem, and it can even be said that it is only a matter of time.

The reaction at the scene was completely different from what they said.

After Wang Hao finished speaking, there was an extremely warm applause in the venue, and the most intense applause were representatives of some small and medium-sized laboratories.

Their thinking is completely different.

Not every team is a large-scale laboratory. There are only three large-scale superconducting research centers in China, the Condensed Matter Physics Research Center, the Basic Science Laboratory, and the Key Laboratory of Superconductivity of the Academy of Sciences.

Even Deng Huanshan's superconducting material experimental group is far behind.

For small and medium-sized superconducting teams, it is also very good to be able to join the 5 billion project and get some funding.

One is because the funding is really attractive. If you join the project, you can at least get a lot of funding. As for cooperating with research, it is not a problem at all. Many teams do projects for the purpose of funding, not to make any major research.

In addition, because of the semi-topological theory and the achievements of new materials, many teams are almost "unable to survive".

When there is a problem with survival, it is super good news to join a super-large project and get funding.

...

During the rest of the meeting, Fu Xiangdong also came to the stage to talk about the work of the computing group, and talked about the follow-up research direction.

He came to the stage to explain the direction of the work of the Algebraic Geometry Group, and also showed his face by the way to lay the foundation for the subsequent application for funding.

After Fu Xiangdong stepped down from the stage, another representative of the experimental group came up on stage, and came down after talking for more than ten minutes.

After the morning meeting ended, many people surrounded Wang Hao and asked him about the 'five billion' project.

The leaders of some small and medium-sized experimental teams simply said, "Academician Wang, my team wants to join the project!"

"Count me in, there are dozens of people in the laboratory, and I will listen to Academician Wang from now on!"

"We will do whatever you ask us to do. There is absolutely no difference. Academician Wang, our team is also capable..."

At this time, Du Jianhua and Wang Chenglin felt isolated. The two stood together and watched from a distance, both of them expressed resignation, "Why do these people have no backbone? They also joined the project to do projects for other teams ,What's the point?"

"Speaking of which, Wang Hao's research seems to be similar to what we applied for. Will it affect us?"

"Maybe?"

"Whatever! Anyway, I will definitely not join. Even if Wang Hao said it in person, I would directly refuse. Our basic research center is completely capable of doing research alone."

"So do we!"

Wang Chenglin and Du Jianhua looked at each other with firmness written on their faces, and said that even if they could not apply for new projects, they would not join Wang Hao's research.

The two walked out of the venue together.

After they parted outside, Wang Chenglin couldn't help but let out a soft breath, thought about it carefully, and affirmed his performance just now.

What he said just now was completely different from what he thought in his heart.

Not to join Wang Hao's project?

What a joke!

If new projects cannot be applied for, the Basic Science Research Center will have no major projects related to superconductivity.

In addition, joining Wang Hao's project is beneficial and harmless. They can also use this to gain a better understanding of the new direction of superconductivity research, and at the same time they can get a lot of funding.

Five billion projects!

The Basic Science Center is one of the largest superconducting research teams in China, and it must be the largest team to join the project and get the most experimental work.

Even if only one-tenth of the total funding is distributed, there will be 500 million funds.

Wang Chenglin thought seriously, "If you can't apply for a new project, join Wang Hao's project."

"Even if the project application is approved, you can consider it..."

"That guy Du Jianhua is really stupid. He didn't even join. It's better like this. At that time, my team will be the biggest partner, and I will definitely get more experimental work and funding."

"After the research results are obtained, our contribution will not be the first, but we can also be the second? At that time, maybe my name will still be on the results..."

Wang Chenglin was full of anticipation.

the other side.

Du Jianhua and Wang Chenglin had the same thoughts, and he also muttered, "This Wang Chenglin is really mentally ill, is he still strong? Still free? Only with funds can he be free!"

"Fortunately..."

"We have a rich reserve of talents. If we join the project, we will definitely get a lot of funding. When the time comes..."

...

The purpose of Wang Hao's participation in the meeting is to find a collective occasion, explain the research direction, and persuade other experimental teams to join in the systematic research.

His purpose has been achieved.

On the same day, many leaders of the experimental team came to the door, patted their chests and said that they would definitely join the project.

more even...

When he returned to the hotel at night, he also received two consecutive calls, one from Wang Chenglin and the other from Du Jianhua.

They both explained that there were too many people during the day, so they couldn't tell Wang Hao in detail, but as long as the project application was approved, the Basic Science Center (Key Laboratory of Superconductivity, Academy of Sciences) would definitely join it.

Wang Hao felt weird, and he didn't think much about it. It must be good news that the two largest teams decided to join.

Only by joining more teams can experiments be carried out faster and more data collected to complete the research.

In the next two days, Wang Hao continued to attend the meeting, but most of the content had nothing to do with him.

Subsequent meetings discussed issues of policy and direction.

The content of the last day is very interesting. It is to determine two superconducting application projects, one is the "superconducting power storage project" related to electricity, and the other is to set up a superconducting motor research group.

The latter is just a small applied research, as long as there is a supply of materials, the research can be done slowly.

The former is a major national science and technology project, which is directly related to the storage and supply balance of national electric power.

After attending the material conference, Wang Hao did not return directly to Xihai, because he received an invitation to go to the third area of ​​the aerospace industry to watch the experiment of new equipment.

This new device is based on Wang Hao's mathematical research and is added to the missile to give the missile an anti-intercept capability.

The next day Wang Hao waited for the people sent by the third aerospace industry district to receive them, and then they took a plane to Xijing City.

After walking out of Xijing Airport, he boarded a military vehicle and headed to the third aerospace industry area, an experimental base located around Xijing.

There will be a missile anti-interception experiment, which is to use the most common test missiles to conduct conventional anti-missile system anti-interception until the missile hits the target.

The anti-interception process of ordinary missiles for the anti-missile system uses an anti-interception auxiliary device designed by the 137th Institute of the Aerospace Industry Division 3 to be installed below the warhead of conventional missiles——

Missile anti-intercept orbit change injector.

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