Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 98 Sounds the clarion call to enter first-level civilization
To be honest, Yue Yuan did not expect that this bill would cause such a huge response on the Hope.

"It seems that I have paid too little attention to social sciences. If the long-term evils in society are not solved for a long time, they will eventually break out, and in severe cases, they may even cause internal chaos."

Thinking of this, Yue Yuan felt a little lucky. Fortunately, these sociology and linguistics experts were not ordinary people. Otherwise, these problems might have been ignored, and the best time to correct them would have been missed.

Everyone is trying to make their own contribution.

It is foreseeable that sociologists and linguistics workers will be busy with the implementation of the "Draft Recommendations on Language Standards" in the coming period.

In terms of applied science, due to the emergence of normal temperature pressure superconductivity, the entire engineering department fell into the busiest period since the disaster.

After Yue Yuan clarified the timetable, the Engineering Department formulated two five-year plans.

The first five-year plan: Renovate the Hope from the inside out and replace all the previous wires with superconducting wires.

At first glance, this plan can be summed up in one sentence, but in reality the work is very large.Because the Hope is really big, the total length after expansion reaches 1180 meters. It is composed of twelve large turntables with a radius of 550 meters. Each large turntable has a huge coil on the central axis.

The engineering department now wants to replace all these coils with superconducting coils.

In this five-year plan, the Engineering Department predicts that it will take about three to four years to complete the update of the twelve coils. If there is still enough time left, then they will continue to replace the various lines inside the Hope with superconducting materials. If If you don’t have enough time, then only update the main circuit, cables and components that generate serious heat due to resistance effect.

The second five-year plan is related to fusion engines.

The Engineering Department must make comprehensive preparations in this area. Once the nuclear fusion engine is successfully developed and tested, they will immediately organize relevant departments to produce the new finished engine and install it on the Hope.

Because we don’t know when it will be successfully developed and tested, the engineering department must prepare for the disassembly of the original fission engine in advance, and the fission reactor on the Hope must also be upgraded to a fusion reactor.

It's a lot of work.

If there is enough time and nuclear fusion technology is mature, it may be better to build another one.

However, it only lasted 11 years.

In fact, it is easier to replace the large turntable coil than to upgrade the nuclear reactor, because when the Hope was built, the large coil basically used a modular design.Coil replacement only requires taking out the original coil and replacing it after making the superconducting coil module.

Nuclear reactors are different. They have to be completely dismantled and then a new nuclear fusion reactor built in its place.

The engineering department is busy, and related industrial production cannot stop for a moment.

It can be predicted that in the next ten years, the Ross 154-7 will become extremely busy again, and the large construction site mode will be turned on again.

To this end, the mining department has ordered 79 small hydrogen bombs from the military production side to explode the mineral deposits buried deep under Ross 154-7.Using small hydrogen bombs to mine mines. I don’t know if this idea was something the director of the mining department learned from Yu Nanfeng.

The precise coordinate map of the mining site is now in the office of the Supreme Command. The map accurately indicates the location, depth, and hydrogen bomb usage yield that need to be exploded.

In order to meet future resource needs, Yue Yuan agreed without hesitation.

Anyway, humans can't stay here forever. There is no need to dig slowly. If they should bomb, they should bomb. As long as the seismic waves do not affect the current human industrial base on Ross 154-7.Of course, the small hydrogen bombs used for mining are definitely not directly used by the mining department to detonate them. Instead, they need people from the military to do it. The mining department only provides plans and various parameters.

After all, this is the most powerful killing weapon currently used by mankind.

In terms of applied science, the emergence of room-temperature pressure superconductivity has also set off a storm of innovation in the field of materials science.

As a materials scientist, Xu Zhenyi also became busy day and night. As soon as he came out of the Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research Center, he hurriedly explained to his students, and then rushed to the scientific research building.

There, a seminar based on the application of superconducting materials has already been intensively prepared.

When Xu Zhenyi arrived, scientists from other fields had gathered together.

Even Yue Yuan arrived, but this time he did not stand in the lecture position, but sat quietly in a corner of the large conference room waiting for the seminar to begin.

It is true that Yue Yuan understands technology, but he has not reached the level of mastery in the field. For this kind of scientist-level seminar, he is just an audience, which is just to broaden his scientific horizons.

Not long after Xu Zhenyi arrived, the seminar began.

The format of this seminar is different from ordinary meetings. Instead of having one moderator speak from beginning to end, scientists from different fields express their own views on the seminar content and put forward their own opinions.

Because it was a design and application seminar, in addition to theoretical scientists, a large group of applied scientists also came, including Zhao Youqin, Yu Nanfeng, Li Zenglu, Chen Haiyu, and even astronomers like Gan De. .

After the seminar began, Xu Zhenyi, as a leader in materials science, naturally took the lead in introducing the main content of this seminar to everyone, and then gave a targeted speech.

Applications of room temperature pressure superconducting materials.

When most people hear the word "superconducting", they can think of its applications, such as wires, superconducting engines, magnetic fluid generators, superconducting magnetic levitation, large-capacity batteries, etc.

But in the opinion of experts, its applications are more than that.

It is used in almost all fields currently involved in human society, even in the creation of higher-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance, super particle collider, more powerful electromagnetic gun, and radar.

Manufacturing of various electronic equipment, such as superconducting quantum interferometers, superconducting mixers, superconducting electronic circuits, superconducting particle detectors, etc.

It can be said that the emergence of normal-temperature pressure superconductivity not only gave Hope a new look, but also brought about earth-shaking changes in human society.

Because science and technology are all related, this superconducting revolution will sweep across almost all fields of human applied science and technology.Even electronic devices such as mobile phones and computers will have a new generation of products.

In the computer field, the 'Light of the Milky Way' supercomputer currently used by humans will also be upgraded and turned into a superconducting supercomputer.

No one on the Hope will be idle in the next ten years.

It can be said that the emergence of normal temperature and pressure superconductivity has sounded the clarion call for mankind to enter first-level civilization.

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