Chapter 131 I think you won the lottery
"God of Light, your surprise is a bit too sudden." When I saw Lao Zhao again this time, he no longer looked as gentle and meticulous as before. It was as if he had just been busy for 24 hours without rest. The fatigue on his face could be seen without any explanation.
Just ten minutes after Chen Yuanguang posted on Weibo, Lao Zhao and his department began to operate at full speed, including contacting various places, sending people to block the park where Guangjia Aerospace is located, sending people to protect Chen Yuanguang's parents and people he is familiar with, and contacting experts and think tanks.
China also has think tanks, but compared with American think tanks, they are much weaker in terms of influence and capabilities.
The fundamental reason lies in the fact that the stance of Chinese experts in humanities and social sciences is problematic and they are always thinking about surprising their allies.
"I just did a small replication experiment, sorry to bother you." Chen Yuanguang was very polite.
"This is our Director Chen. He is your relative, and Director Chen will talk to you later. In addition, we have brought experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences with us this time.
We hope to verify the authenticity of room-temperature superconductivity." Old Zhao's tone was also full of fatigue.
He has been working at high capacity since he received the order, and his brain has never stopped.
"Hello, Mr. Chen. I have heard of you for a long time, but we have never met. This meeting is a bit hasty. I am the responsible comrade of the ***** Bureau. Compared with Lao Zhao and Lao Wu, I have certain decision-making power.
So I will talk to you this time to avoid the need for information to be transferred between us." Director Chen gave people a very ordinary feeling, the kind of person you saw on the side of the road and passed by but could not remember what he looked like.
Chen Yuanguang knew that this was a necessary quality, and he was probably a killer when he was young, "Okay, welcome everyone.
I think we don't need to waste any more time and should first verify the room-temperature superconductors?
In addition, we have prepared a paper that you can take a look at first. "
Lao Zhao and other experts looked at Director Wu, who nodded and said, "Okay, let's verify the authenticity first.
It’s not that I don’t trust you.”
Chen Yuanguang said: "I understand."
"Guangshen, I've heard of you before. Principal Dou often boasted to me about how amazing their students are. I've heard of you since you published your first article in Nature.
I am honored to be here to test the room-temperature superconductor. I am mainly looking at the resistance performance and its Meissner effect. "The person who came this time was Academician Chen Xianhui, whose main research direction is superconductors.
He previously taught at USTC, and President Dou, the president of Jiangnan University when Chen Yuanguang was studying there, had taught at USTC's School of Physics for sixteen years before coming to Jiangnan University. The two of them knew each other very well.
"Okay, no problem, let's go directly to the laboratory. The room-temperature superconductor is right there in the laboratory." said Chen Yuanguang.
Everyone went to the laboratory together. Chen Yuanguang took out the room-temperature superconductor and placed it on a magnet for demonstration. Chen Xianhui looked at the thermometer on the wall. It was 24℃, not much different from the temperature he felt.
But he still took out the thermometer from the tool box and saw that the number on it was no different from that on the thermometer in the laboratory.
Chen Xianhui then put it back and continued to observe this room-temperature superconductor. His expression at this moment was no different from that of the young people in Light Armor Aerospace who saw it for the first time.
In the past, he mainly worked on new superconductors, and his research direction spanned multiple superconductor systems, from copper oxide superconductors, fullerene superconductors, iron-based superconductors, and organic superconductors, etc.
Chen Xianhui recalled that more than 30 years ago, after he devoted himself to the research of superconductors, he had imagined more than once what it would be like if he could make a room-temperature superconductor. With his deeper understanding of superconductivity and increasing age, his expectations became lower and lower. He only hoped that he could make a breakthrough and achieve it under the existing conditions.
For example, the current record for the highest superconducting critical temperature under normal pressure is -139°C. If he can push this number forward to 138°C, he will be satisfied.
After seeing the news about LK99, Chen Xianhui was dismissive. The more he knew about superconductors, the less he believed that the Koreans could produce room-temperature superconductors. This was also because he did not shoot on Bilibili. He had similar thoughts in his mind: If this is true, I'm going to eat shit.
Chen Xianhui received a call from the National Natural Science Foundation of China while he was in the laboratory, asking him to get ready and take a special plane directly from Hefei to Pengcheng.
When he saw the Weibo post, even though it was posted by Chen Yuanguang, he still did not believe that it was room-temperature superconductivity. He thought it was low-temperature, nothing more than raising -139℃ to -80℃.
Being in the Light Armor Aerospace building, his body told him that the temperature was really only 24 degrees Celsius. The material was suspended on the magnet. The entire piece of material was suspended without one side trembling against the magnet and the other side suspended.
When Chen Xianhui looked at Chen Yuanguang again, he felt like he was looking at a god. He had worked hard for more than 30 years, but others had easily accomplished things that he had never dared to even think about.
"Light God, can I measure the resistance?"
Chen Yuanguang heard pleading in the other person's tone. It was like seeing the other person's past cognition collapse, and what you believed was no longer what you believed.
Chen Yuanguang nodded: "No problem, you can use the magnetometer and resistance meter here to measure, or you can use your own.
Also, take a look at this piece of material. There are two points marked on it. You can only measure the ideal value by using those two points.
Because it is a one-dimensional superconductor with a lot of impurities, similar to LK99."
The reason why Chen Yuanguang said this was because Chen Xianhui had just taken out the equipment himself, and he thought the other party was being cautious.
Chen Yuanguang's words were undoubtedly another heavy blow to Chen Xianhui's cognitive fortress. The old man, who just turned 60 this year, was a little unsteady.
"Okay," Chen Xianhui nodded.
"One-dimensional superconductivity, it turns out that the theory of one-dimensional superconductivity is true.
Such a niche theory is actually true. Does the Creator really exist? Are simple and beautiful rules the ultimate rules of the material world? "For a moment, countless thoughts flashed through Chen Xianhui's mind, "So the one-dimensional superconductivity theory proposed by Herbert is true?"
Naturally, Chen Xianhui would not regard the one-dimensional superconductivity theory proposed by Korean Cui Dongzhi as the source of the entire system as the outside world believes.
He has read far more literature than the general public and the average PhD. In his understanding, the earliest theory of one-dimensional superconductivity came from the paper "On the One-Dimensional Theory of Superconductivity" published by English physicist Herbert Froelich in 1954.
This paper was published in the 1154th issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Chen Xianhui read Cui Dongzhi's paper on one-dimensional superconductivity that his students showed him.
As for the so-called ISB theory proposed by the Koreans, Chen Xianhui knew at a glance that it was just a slight improvement on Herbert's theory.
It is precisely because he knows the source of Choi Dong-sik's theory that he is even more dismissive of LK99.
After Herbert proposed one-dimensional superconductivity, it was cited more than a thousand times between 1954 and 2000. It is a theory that is as old as it can be, and has certain value, and has played a guiding role in the research of superconductors in later generations. Among them, the concepts of interaction between free electrons and lattice displacement, the minimum energy level required for sinusoidal lattice displacement in the system, the energy gap generated in the electron energy spectrum, the internal field effect of periodic lattice displacement, etc., are still being used today.
But this theory doesn't work. It has been cited so many times, and countless attempts have been made based on this theory, but no room-temperature superconductivity has been achieved. Can the Koreans come up with something by tinkering with it? Impossible.
Chen Xianhui didn't even take advantage of the popularity and directly sentenced LK99 to death.
After seeing the room-temperature superconducting materials in the Guangjia Aerospace Laboratory, Chen Xianhui felt extremely regretful. When measuring resistance, his thoughts had returned to that afternoon twenty-five years ago.
His memory is extremely clear. At that time, because one of his papers cited Herbert's paper, he wanted to read the original text. He found the 1154th issue of the Journal of Philosophy in the old library of USTC and saw Herbert's paper.
The memories had never been so clear again. He ran his fingers over the yellowed and wrinkled book, finding the specific page number in the table of contents.
I wish I had believed in this theory back then.
After measuring the resistance and confirming that it was indeed a room-temperature superconductor, Chen Xianhui had sorted out his thoughts and completed his mental preparation. So many people have failed to make anything based on Herbert's theory. Can I make a room-temperature superconductor?
Why should I be dissatisfied since I chose this theory and became an academician?
"No problem, it is definitely a room-temperature superconductor. There is no problem in terms of performance characteristics and measured resistance." Chen Xianhui gave his own judgment.
Director Wu took the lead in applauding, and after him, Lao Zhao followed suit, and then the entire laboratory broke into applause.
Chen Yuanguang felt that it was a bit silly for him to applaud himself. He sat in the chair without moving. Then he thought about it and felt that not applauding would be even more silly.
"Good, good, very good!
Mr. Chen, the country is lucky, the nation is lucky! Please wait a moment, *** and *** are still waiting for news, I will send them a message first and then we can talk. "Director Wu applauded and walked towards Chen Yuanguang while shaking hands and said.
Director Wu went out to make a phone call. Chen Xianhui walked to Chen Yuanguang's side. He had too many questions.
"God of Light, I have some questions to ask you about room-temperature superconductivity," said Chen Xianhui.
Chen Yuanguang thought that since Director Wu had brought the other party here, there must be no problem. "You said, there's no need to be so polite. Just call me Yuanguang."
Chen Xianhui: "Okay, I won't be polite, just call me Lao Chen.
Yuan Guang, is your room-temperature superconductivity based on the LK99 theory?"
Chen Yuanguang smiled and said, "Professor Chen, you are also working on superconductors, do you think you can burn them out?
It's like if I go buy a lottery ticket and I pick all the numbers 6, the probability of me winning is just as small."
Chen Xianhui will feel better now.
"We all know that superconductors rely on 100% antimagnetic volume. There is no magnetic field inside the entire material, so it is impossible to produce it simply by firing.
Or maybe, but the probability of winning is as low as winning the lottery or winning 1000 bets in a row. I don't think humans have that kind of luck.
More importantly, this preparation method cannot be reproduced; it is a one-time product.
Our GJ01 can be prepared repeatedly. Although it is a one-dimensional superconductor and faces many limitations and is difficult to apply, it is still a room-temperature superconductor."
Chen Yuanguang named it GJ01 to distinguish it from LK99.
Chen Xianhui then asked: "Can I ask about the general preparation principle?"
All the researchers at Guangjia Aerospace who were involved in this project knew that he wanted to publish a paper later, and Chen Yuanguang felt that there was no need to keep it secret.
Even if you know the principle, you can’t make it if you don’t know the parameters.
"Professor Chen, I wonder if you have heard of Exclusion Zone?" asked Chen Yuanguang.
Chen Xianhui asked: "Forbidden Zone? I know its Chinese meaning, but if it is an academic term, I have never heard of it."
Chen Yuanguang disagreed, saying it was normal that he had never heard of it, after all, the other party was a physics professor: "This is a biological concept.
Professor Gerard of Washington State University studies the properties of water on hydrophilic surfaces such as proteins and perfluorosulfonic acid.
He discovered a new molecular structure of water, which he called Exclusion Zone water, which has the ability to exclude all solutes from it.
The structure of ice is three-dimensional, with hexagons arranged in a honeycomb pattern, and the layers are then connected together by oxygen atoms.
As ice melts, the bonds between oxygen atoms weaken and shift laterally, forming electrostatic bonds between hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
This gives the structure rotational symmetry and the ability to translate laterally, allowing it to form any three-dimensional structure, especially helices, which is what water forms in sheets.
Since a superconductor must exhibit 100% diamagnetism and there must be no magnetic field in its body, and Exclusion Zone water can exclude all solutes, does it mean that this structure helps the formation of room-temperature superconductors?
I have no idea how to achieve a multi-dimensional structure, but for a one-dimensional structure, it is entirely possible to use the N-MDCV magnetic field manipulation technology to directional control materials like LK99, so that its two poles are exactly the same in the flow and rotation directions.
The phase differential ratios at the North Pole and the South Pole are arranged in a certain ratio, so that phase compression at the North Pole and phase expansion at the South Pole can be achieved.
This eddy current naturally generates Larmor precession frequencies that cause vibrations within the three-dimensional magnetic structure, thereby building up diamagnetic properties similar to those of Exclusion Zone water.”
Chen Xianhui regretted not bringing a notebook and a pen to write down what Chen Yuanguang said, as it involved too many new concepts that he had never been exposed to before.
"To put it simply, we first use the LK99 preparation method to modify the lead apatite crystal structure, and then use magnetic field manipulation to change its internal magnetic field, so that it can achieve 100% anti-magnetism." Chen Yuanguang concluded.
The technical principles are not important. For example, everyone knows the principles of lithography machines, but only ASML can make lithography machines.
Similarly, everyone knows how to control the magnetic field, but Chen Yuanguang has cleared all the data, and only he knows the setting rules.
Or if someone else can go to the future to look up information, he will also know.
After Chen Xianhui understood, he showed an awkward smile on his face: "Yuan Guang, I roughly understand. I don't know if what I said is right. The probability of your preparation method is not much higher than buying a lottery ticket, right?"
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