Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

In the past seven years, Mo Dao has spent most of his time on the design and construction of Changyedui.

In addition to my own thoughts on the main design of Changyedui in the future,

There are also some ideas that other researchers have not been able to decide on.

Study the turbulence problem and revise the design of the long night pile based on the staged thinking on the theoretical level that we already have.

Here, Changyedui, which is still under construction, has an advantage.

Mo Dao's revised design can be implemented immediately. Instead, the experiment on a single part of the Changye pile that has not yet been completed,

The data can also be quickly reversed to verify or allow Mo Dao to make corrections to his research on turbulence problems.

In this iterative process,

Mo Dao, as well as most of the researchers on the theoretical design team, gradually began to have a rough idea of ​​what the future Changyedui would look like.

beyond here,

In some free time, Mo Dao also published two papers on theoretical physics, which were published in top journals and caused considerable repercussions in the academic community.

Let Mo Dao become more familiar in the theoretical circles.

However, these did not affect Mo Dao's main work on Chang Ye Dui in the past seven years.

…

2025.

Qin Huaishi graduated with a Ph.D. and stayed at the school to teach and engage in biological research.

In the same year, Mo Dao and Qin Huaishi got married.

For Mo Dao, he has seen Miss Qin Huaishi put on his wedding dress many times.

But when he saw Miss Qin Huaishi walking up to him in a Chinese wedding dress,

Mo Dao still had a smile on his face.

"Is it beautiful?"

"pretty."

Mo Dao remembers Qin Huaishi's appearance at every stage.

At the wedding, Academician Zhang, Professor Hong, and Qin Huaishi’s professor at the School of Biology,

Everyone came to the scene and sent blessings to the two of them.

After marriage.

The lives of the two of them have not changed much.

The relationship between the two will not change just because they are married.

…

In seven years.

Academician Zhang chose to retire.

After the Changyedui project was on track, Academician Zhang, who was nearly eighty years old,

Although I regret not seeing the completion of the Long Night Reactor, I still choose to leave the rest of the road to realizing controllable nuclear fusion to those who come after me.

Changyedui was also completely in charge of Mo Dao.

Before leaving the Chang Ye Dui project, Academician Zhang held Mo Dao's hand tightly.

Looking at Changyedui, which was still under construction, he said pleadingly,

"...When the Long Night Pile is completed, you must let me take a look."

"Definitely. Academician Zhang."

After Academician Zhang left the Changyedui project,

Mo Dao’s graduate tutor in this life, Professor Hong.

I have not spent a complete ten years of re-employment.

But five years after the construction of the Changyedui began, he collapsed directly at work.

The old man originally only had a short time left in his life, but it was shortened a lot by cancer.

The most important thing is that after the illness, Professor Hong's body is completely unable to support Professor Hong's continued work in the theoretical design team of Changyedui.

He can only stay in the hospital for treatment, waiting for the completion of the long night pile.

When Professor Hong was forced to leave the Changyedui project, he seemed quite free and easy.

"It doesn't matter, Changyedui is already under construction."

Professor Hong just said this with a smile.

…

Finally, after seven long years.

The end of 2026.

After a large research team including Mo Dao put in a lot of energy and effort.

The Changye pile was successfully completed and the first experiment was attempted.

In the huge command hall.

Most of the researchers who participated in the construction of the Changye Pile are here.

According to the original agreement, Academician Zhang was also invited at this time.

Professor Hong, dragging his already seriously ill body, insisted on reaching the command hall.

"Mo Dao, you don't need to be nervous. At least the Chang Ye Dui is definitely an experimental device completely different from EAST."

Academician Zhang didn’t know whether he was talking to Mo Dao or himself,

He raised his head and stared at the scene of the experiment, while saying,

"It doesn't matter even if the Long Night Reactor does not exceed the highest indicator of EAST in its first operation. No one will doubt the value of the Long Night Reactor in the field of research on controllable nuclear fusion."

"Um."

Mo Dao just responded to Academician Zhang's words, but didn't say anything.

In the long process of overturning the design again and again, although it is still a magnetically constrained tokamak device,

But its entire operating system and overall structure are quite different from EAST.

What effects can these differences bring?

Mo Dao actually had some idea in his mind.

Next to him, Professor Hong, who was reluctantly sitting on his chair, acted more directly than Academician Zhang.

He didn't say anything, he just held the armrest of the seat tightly and stared at the scene of the experiment.

"Ten minutes countdown."

In the command hall, the countdown to the scheduled experiment time sounded again.

At the scene, except for a group of researchers.

In fact, there are also reporters from China News Service,

They will take some pictures as part of historical records.

"Researcher Mo. I have been working on the previous controllable nuclear fusion experimental device for a long time and made many changes."

"What do these changes mean?"

"What is the most important significance of this operation experiment?"

The reporter from Huaxin News Agency stood in front of Mo Dao and asked him two more questions before the experiment began.

"The construction and construction process of the Long Night Pile are all some of our attempts."

"Now, it is time to verify the results of these attempts on the overall Long Night Pile."

Mo Dao simply responded.

The reporter from Huaxin News Agency did not bother Mo Dao and others any more.

They just recorded this perhaps historic moment, but the recording was the main thing.

"Countdown five minutes."

"Inject fuel."

"Injection completed."

"Countdown one minute."

"Ohm transformer heater starts heating."

"Experiment begins."

After the experiment began,

the entire command hall became quiet.

All preparations had been completed before.

During the first operation experiment of the entire Long Night Pile,

there were established operating procedures, and there were not many steps that required human intervention.

"The plasma is heated to 50 million degrees."

"The plasma is heated to the predetermined temperature."

"The plasma confinement is continuing, and the intensity data is being collected."

In addition to the occasional broadcast of various values,

For most researchers who participated in the construction and design of the Long Night Pile,

the only thing they can do at this moment is to wait, waiting for the results of the first operation of the Long Night Pile.

Soon.

The scheduled time for the first operation and confinement experiment of the Long Night Pile was reached.

"The plasma steady-state confinement time has reached 1500 seconds."

"The main body of the Long Night Pile has begun to shut down."

This is the design time for the first experiment, and it is still some distance away from the limit operation time.

In the command hall, there was a round of applause.

At least the first value reached the planned expectation.

This means that the construction of the Long Night Pile has been at least half successful.

However, the applause did not last long,

and the researchers did not show much excitement.

Just 1500 seconds is not enough, they are still waiting for a more critical number.

It just needs to be obtained after the data is summarized.

The entire command hall was busy in silence for a while.

Then,

the most critical Q value data was also obtained.

"The first experiment of the Changye pile was run, and the Q value was determined to be 1.12."

Mo Dao got the accurate data, smiled, and reported it to all other researchers in the command hall.

The entire command hall suddenly boiled over.