Scholar’s Starry Sea

Followed Professor Winifred out of the banquet hall. Before Wu Bin asked if there was anything to find him, Professor Winifred took a burly middle age person Introduce him: "This is Professor Angus, our chief engineer of NASA's exploratory fire star."

"Hello, young China scholar." Angus reached out to Wu Bin. right hand.

Wu Bin was stunned when he heard this name. I always felt like I had heard it before, but thinking that the names of foreigners are basically the same, so I didn’t think too much, so I extended the hand and shook his hand. .

"Hello, Professor Angus."

After shaking hands, Professor Angus opened the mouth and said: "I read your paper on solar sails Two times, very exciting, and found that you are very good at using Mathematics and Physics tools to solve practical problems, which is very rare."

Wu Bin: "In fact, modeling and programming are done by two of my teammates. Yes, I just show their results."

After listening to Wu Bin's words, Professor Angus and Professor Winifred looked at each other and smiled, "It seems you are very humble." Then I once again introduce myself, "My full name is Angus Dennis, and I have discussed with you the application of graphene to space shuttles and space stations."

"Oh! It's you!"

Now Wu Bin remembered. This professor once talked to him after he published the paper "Graphene Filled Rubber Nanocomposites".

In fact, this paper Wu Bin has already been published across fields. At that time, he was stuck in a bottleneck on the conductivity of graphene, and because he was afraid that his path would get narrower and narrower, he decided to change it. My mind quickly remembered what Teacher Cai said to him about engines and astronautics.

Wu Bin, who just thought of doing it, went to listen to a few lectures on aerospace materials given by Professor Shi, and suddenly divine light flashed after listening, because the materials in space will experience extreme high temperature to extreme low temperature changes, this It will cause rubber and other materials to expand and contract and lose strength.

But if graphene can take full advantage of the high temperature resistance characteristics, this will no longer be a problem, so the paper was born in the end.

"Have you applied for a patent?" Professor Angus asked Wu Bin.

"Well, the professor at the school made the arrangements for me."

The concept of patent application was instilled by Professor Liu Yubo, and it also made Wu Bin understand the patent application. Not only can you apply for finished products, you can apply for patents for invention patents, utility model patents, design patents, technical patents, etc.

For the definition of academic papers, the Patent Law has been revised and revised. The current official terms are:

In short, the content of the application should be discovered, invented, and Create and advance, instead of repeating, imitating, and plagiarizing the work of predecessors.

However, the concept of this invention is too vague. Some people dare to apply after changing the molecular structure meaninglessly. The workload of the patent office is very large.

From the proposal to the approval, it is necessary to go through a series of complicated procedures, such as one pass, one reply, Zhongtong, Zhongtong reply, etc. Generally, each laboratory will have a dedicated person responsible for this.

Of course, the complexity is also because of the importance of patents in this century. It represents the hard power of a company or a research institute.

For example, the research institutes under AT&&&T, a large American telecommunications company, had hundreds of thousands of patented technologies, and a large number of Nobel Prize winners were born.

However, AT&&&T, which is strong enough for this kind of realm, finally went downhill. There are many reasons for this, but it also means that even if your family is at home, you are not willing to conform to the times and have to walk the heavens-defying In the case of road, most of it still has to be explained.

Professor Angus, who shook hands with Wu Bin again as if he knew him again, smiled and said, “So don’t hide and tuck. I believe your teammates also have some strength, but who is there? It’s too easy to be the main player in the team."

"Actually, they really..."

Hearing Wu Bin had to defend himself, Professor Angus waved his hand immediately. Said: "Well, this is not the point we are going to talk about today. I asked you to come out just because of curiosity." He looked towards Wu Bin's eyes: "Are you interested in Yuhang?"

Wu Bin: "Yes, I have always been curious about astronomy."

Professor Angus said immediately after hearing this: "Then you should come to MIT for graduate school, MIT Aerospace The engineering department is definitely number one in the world."

Wu Bin couldn’t help but laugh a few times after hearing this, and said, "The University of California said so too."

He was When talking with Professor Brad, he revealed his interest in astronomy, and Professor Brad immediately told him a story.

It is said that there was a dormitory at the California Institute of Technology Academy in the late 1930s. The five boys in it were all very capable masters. They conducted rocket experiments in the dormitory all day and claimed to " Rocketboy (Rocketboy)"

But I often walk by the river, so I don’t have any wet shoes.

The rocket experiment is not a playhouse. It must be extremely dangerous. Once their fuel experiment failed and caused an explosion in the dormitory building, but fortunately there were no casualties.

But the school really couldn't bear these "dangerous elements" and kicked them out of the dormitory.

However, a few "Rocketboys" did not mean to give up at all. Soon they organized a group of like-minded friends and went straight to the deserted San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles, in an abandoned stinking ditch. Continue to experiment here.

During the experiment, accidents like fire in the oxygen supply pipe, fuel explosion, etc. often occur, but each of these people has rich experience in escaping, so it is difficult to experiment for so long under such a rough experimental environment. There have been no casualties.

And their former classmates gave them a new title after hearing the news.

"Suicide Club"

In the end, God still did not live up to these persistent "Rocketboys". After 3 months of various tests, they finally made a Rockets that do not self-destruct.

The news soon came back to the ears of Professor von Carmen, the Master of Fluid Dynamics at Caltech. In addition to being surprised that these boys were not dead, at the same time, I felt that student that can be taught. , So he used his power to recall all these people back to the school, and personally taught them the necessary knowledge of spaceflight.

This "suicide club" has since been officially renamed "California Institute of Technology Guggenheim Aerospace Laboratory"

With official support, these "Rocketboys" are even more unscrupulous Doing various experiments, soon they have a new idea.

Tie the rocket to the propeller plane so that the plane can take off faster. With this idea, they received two grants totaling $11,000. Finally, in 1941 In 2015, the jet plane experiment was a success.

In this legendary story, the most important protagonists are of course the five original "Rocketboys"

They are professional aerodynamics Masters [Frank · Marina], a self-taught genius Chemistry home [Jack Parsons], known as the super genius mechanic of the future brain [Ed Forman], a bi-material genius proficient in fluid mechanics and rigid body mechanics [Jeffrey · Walker].

And known as the father of China's rockets, the father of missiles, the founder of manned spaceflight, and the world's most famous strategic scientist, China's strongest learning god!

Qian Xuesen!