Chapter 140 Ripples
"Dr. Wright has recently gone to lead a new scientific research project, and I don't know exactly when he will be back. If you have any questions, I will do my best to answer them for you.
I can't answer your questions clearly, you can stay and we will reply to you by email when Dr. Wright comes back." Chen Xianhui said.
Even if Chen Yuanguang is in Shenhai, China does not intend to let these foreign experts contact Chen Yuanguang. Among the scholars from all over the world, who knows whether some of them come with special missions.
When Jacques Biot heard about the new scientific research project, his eyes seemed to have captured some key information, and he quickly asked: "Is Dr. Wright going to bring us any different surprises?"
Jacques was obviously not interested in communicating with Chen Xianhui. In his opinion, the other party was just making up the numbers, and his understanding of room-temperature superconductivity was not enough to support them in obtaining truly valuable information.
"Oh, it's a secret, a secret that even I don't know." Chen Xianhui replied. He also saw that the other party was not interested in him. This was the first time he was ignored since he became an academician. Chen Xianhui felt unhappy, but he couldn't get angry when he saw this old man with Caucasian appearance.
"Mr. Bio, Dr. Wright has written a paper on how to create room-temperature superconductors. It will be published simultaneously in Nature and Science. But now there is a draft, and I can show it to you."
Publishing papers is also part of the battle for public opinion. You say that I can't mass-produce room-temperature superconductors and that this is just a product of luck. Then I will tell you how to make them. You can deceive the public with tactics, but can you deceive capital?
Once a room-temperature superconductor produced under magnetic field control is manufactured, the previous data will be saved in the device, and the experiment can be reproduced using the same steps. The only difference is the success rate.
The step from zero to one has been completed. For China, the next step is nothing more than going from one to one hundred, increasing the production capacity of room-temperature superconductors and controlling costs.
Jacques Biot was a little shocked, and his long white eyebrows trembled: "China is indeed a responsible country. It is willing to share this kind of information with the whole world."
Chen Xianhui handed the draft to Jacques Biot and said, "We are different from America. We hope to promote progress for the whole world, rather than exploiting the whole world with technology."
Jacques Biot, who understood Chen Xianhui's subtext, smiled and handed the paper to a middle-aged man next to him: "Sorry, I am not doing theoretical research on superconductivity, and I can't understand it even if you give it to me. Professor Caffarelli, an expert in the field of superconductivity, will take a look at it first.
I believe this will be the most important paper in Nature and Science in the past fifty years.
Once room-temperature superconductivity is verified, we will nominate Dr. Wright as this year's Nobel Prize winner.
It is impossible for the Nobel Prize to ignore Dr. Wright this time." Jacques Biot said.
Unlike France, which is committed to becoming a leader in Europe, Sweden is more identified with Northern Europe and lacks a sense of identity with the broad concept of Europe. At the same time, Sweden supports America more than Europe.
When France said that America should give Europe greater support on the Russia issue, Sweden responded that only if Europe supported America first could America increase its support on the Russia issue.
Sweden's neutrality cannot even be maintained in words.
Chen Yuanguang made outstanding contributions to ending the viral epidemic that year, and many qualified nominees recommended Chen Yuanguang, such as former Nobel Prize winner Levitt, who worked closely with Chen Yuanguang. In the end, Chen Yuanguang did not win the prize.
The Nobel Prize Committee's external explanation was that Chen Yuanguang's work was not original, but privately said that Chen Yuanguang was too young and had plenty of opportunities in the future. The deeper reason behind this may also be geopolitics.
After hearing what Jacques said, Chen Xianhui felt deeply moved. For some achievements, honors will chase you. If the Nobel Prize is not awarded for room-temperature superconducting technology, it will be the Nobel Prize that will be questioned.
Even if someone has made more valuable results than room-temperature superconductivity, Chen Yuanguang's Nobel Prize will only be postponed for one year, or awarded to two people at the same time.
Jacques Biot was chatting with Chen Xianhui, and Professor Caffrari became more and more excited as he read the draft. His hands were shaking slightly as he held the draft: "Professor Chen, theoretically this is a completely new direction, and the results you have produced also prove that this path is feasible.
Forgive me for making the bold remark that there is only a method in it, but no specific path for controlling the magnetic field. This will make it impossible for scientific research institutions around the world to reproduce the experiment. If the experiment cannot be reproduced, the Nobel Prize may not be awarded to Dr. Wright. "
Jacques Biot nodded and said, "That will indeed be a problem."
Chen Xianhui thought, are you crazy? If you can replicate it, then this technology will be worthless. Even I don’t know the experimental steps, how can I reveal it to the public? Let alone the Nobel Prize, even if they gave the Nobel Prize to Chen Yuanguang for ten consecutive years, they would not announce the synthesis path to the public.
The reason why papers related to room-temperature superconductivity still have to be published in Science and Nature is because these two magazines have the greatest credibility, and Chen Yuanguang has no intention of reorganizing the magazines himself.
Taking back or even destroying the right to interpret science, education, culture and other areas from the Western world is China's business. Chen Yuanguang does not have the energy or interest to do so.
China had this idea, but there was no opportunity. Chen Xianhui thought that if the Nobel Prize was not awarded to Chen Yuanguang for this reason, it would give domestic and even global public opinion a good opportunity to strip away the halo of the Nobel Prize.
"I'm sorry, but the specific synthesis route needs to be kept highly confidential. Confidentiality is far more important to us than the prize." "Is it the same for Dr. Wright?"
"Dr. Wright doesn't care about this at all. He doesn't need this honor. It's the honor that requires him to prove his credibility."
After returning to the hotel, Jacques Biot found Caffarelli and asked, "Professor, what do you think of the Chinese's room-temperature superconducting technology?"
Caffarelli stood up and paced in the hotel, looking at the light and shadow effects of the modern city outside, and said with a wry smile: "There is no doubt that our Dr. Wright has indeed made a room-temperature superconductor, and that piece of material is an irrefutable fact.
As for the paper, this is a technical route we have never thought of. It combines one-dimensional superconductivity, magnetic field control and Larmor precession frequency to propose a new direction.
After I returned to the hotel, I read several papers on related theories. To come up with this completely new direction, we must span multiple fields such as physics, chemistry, and biology, and Dr. Wright just meets these requirements.
The simple synthesis route of LK99 helped him make up for his shortcomings in the field of superconductivity. His vast knowledge base and excellent sense of smell in chemistry and biology helped him integrate and reshape the knowledge in multiple fields into this new concept.
Logically, there is no problem. There is no problem with the results either. From the perspective of this theoretical system, please forgive me for having too little knowledge and being unable to make a judgment now.
I think we need to form a joint scientific research team to discuss its authenticity."
Caffarelli became more and more excited as he spoke. For a scholar who has devoted his entire life to the study of superconductors, the pleasure of coming into contact with the truth is difficult to describe in words.
"My intuition tells me that this technical route is correct. China and Wright Chen did not hide or deliberately point out the wrong direction in this matter." Caffarelli said: "If you want to deceive strategically as the media said, you don't need to come up with such a complicated technical route.
They directly use other technical routes and claim that they have made it. For example, for LK99, they directly use the synthesis route of LK99 and say that what you have produced is not room-temperature superconductivity, but we can produce it.
As Professor Chen just said, once the production capacity of room-temperature superconductors is increased, they will be sold to the world. We will buy some as samples and conduct more in-depth experiments to study its properties, which can also help us judge the theory proposed by Wright Chen.
His theory allows us to observe the special stable structure of room-temperature superconductors at the microscopic level.
Judging from the Chinese side’s frank attitude, they have no intention of strategic deception.”
Jacques Biot then asked: "Can we reproduce room-temperature superconductors along this technical route?"
Caffarelli said: "I don't know, because the most important experimental steps are missing, and the Chinese obviously won't hand over the experimental steps."
Before doing this experiment, Caffarelli did not know the difficulty of the experiment. He was inclined to theoretical research on superconductors, while Chen Xianhui had done a large number of superconductor synthesis experiments, including copper oxide superconductors, fullerene superconductors, iron-based superconductors, etc.
Chen Xianhui could tell at a glance that this experiment was purely a product of luck.
"Okay, when we get back, the Elysee Palace will set up a separate research institute to be responsible for the reproduction of room-temperature superconductors. If you are willing, you must strive for it now."
"Yuan Guang, I see that a cutting-edge technology achievement transformation company has been established at the national level to be responsible for the commercialization of room-temperature superconductors. I would like to consult you on some issues."
Even though he was in Mianyang, calls kept coming in. Chen Yuanguang could only mute his phone and selectively reply when he saw the missed calls.
He saw Lei Jun's missed call on his phone that day and could roughly guess what he wanted to do: "No problem, brother, just ask."
Lei Jun said on the other end of the phone: "I have discussed with our engineers that the most common application of room-temperature superconducting technology is in the power-related field.
So I want to ask if it is possible to use room-temperature superconductors to create a super battery, even if it is just a laboratory product?
I know that it takes time for technology to be put into practice. Xiaomi Auto will start production at the beginning of next year. I think if possible, we can use superconducting technology to build a concept car.
For example, if there are only ten or even one unit, its range can exceed one thousand kilometers and it can be fully charged in five minutes.
I just want to ask whether it is possible to apply room-temperature superconductivity to batteries to create a similar concept product. "
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