From all-round academic master to chief scientist

【Two chapters in one】

Hearing this person's words, Song Tao and the others knew that this time the person who came was really evil.

Their Institute of Plasma is not the only one that studies controllable nuclear fusion in China, but also the Nanjing Institute of Physics, where the person in front of me belongs.

After all, it is such a big project as controllable nuclear fusion, and it is impossible for them to be the only ones to research it, especially since this project inherently requires very high funds, and it is still necessary for their country, China, to develop it.

Because in the current world, there are only two countries that have the funds to independently study this thing. If China does not spend money to study this thing, it will be equivalent to giving up an opportunity to rise in the future and face such consequences. , is obviously bad, so they can only study it.

Of course, it is precisely because of this that different factions have emerged among domestic researchers studying controllable nuclear fusion.

Song Tao's plasma group is one of them. With the Eastern Super Ring's repeated success, they are also the largest group.

As for the Southern Institute of Physics, with the support of the Nuclear Industry Group, it has developed a circulator No. 2M device, and in some specifications, the circulator No. 2M device is even more advanced than the Oriental Hyperloop. Better, so before the establishment of the Jinwu Project, the Institute of Plasma and theirs were the main force in domestic research on controllable nuclear fusion.

So for these two research institutes, they are competitors, and the state can only invest a limited amount of funds into their controllable nuclear fusion research every year. So, they are fighting for funds. It’s not shabby, that’s it. As the two sides went back and forth, they became more and more at odds.

However, these were all things before the establishment of the Golden Crow Project, and now that the Golden Crow Project has been established, the people from their plasma institute have become the main members of the Golden Crow Project by relying on the relationship they had established with Lin Xiao.

And the tens of billions of funds in the Golden Crow Plan are not much better than the fact that they worked so hard just to get some results, and then competed with the guys from the Southern Institute of Physics for funds?

Therefore, they have basically not worried about this matter for so long, and they don't even take the Southern Institute of Physics to heart anymore.

But what they didn't expect was that they no longer took care of the Southern Institute of Physics, and this group of people came over on their own initiative. It was precisely because of this that Li Gang and Song Tao heard that people from the Southern Institute of Physics wanted to After coming, I felt very reluctant.

Not to mention that as soon as they met, this person from the Southern Institute of Physics said such obviously malicious words.

Song Tao snorted coldly and said: "Liang Ping, please pay attention before you speak. There is no leader? You don't think you don't see our Chief Engineer Lin here, do you think so? How can our Chief Engineer Lin have time to waste on you? , of course he wants to spend more time on the most important research.”

As he spoke, he shook his head and said: "As for considering you... I don't know what you said to consider, consider letting you join us? It's like you have some important results in controllable nuclear fusion, Otherwise, you wouldn’t have come to us to ask for alms?”

Hearing the obvious contempt in Song Tao's words, Liang Ping, who was speaking in the Southern Institute of Physics, immediately glared at Song Tao.

He is the dean of the Southern Institute of Physics, and he has the same status as Song Tao. In the previous competitions, the relationship between the two was also very deep, and Song Tao's current words are obviously mocking them. The institute has no results and technology. How can researchers like them endure this?

You can say anything else, but saying that you have no results and skills is just a slap in the face, so Liang Ping will immediately start a royal city PK with Song Tao, of course, it is a literary fight.

However, there was anger between the two, which naturally ignited the anger between the two parties.

Then both sides started to glare at each other.

But at this time, a person who looked more senior next to Liang Ping pulled him and said: "Okay, okay, Liang Ping, don't forget what we came here for, and let's all stop arguing."

Then the man waved his hand to the other people in the room and said, "Okay, okay, everyone, please calm down. We at the Southern Institute of Physics are not here to quarrel with everyone from the Institute of Plasma."

He then said to Li Gang: "Academician Li, you should also give some advice to your people."

Li Gang frowned. This man's name was Zhao Nangao. He seemed to be about the same age as him. Of course, his status in the Southern Institute of Physics was the same as his, as he was the director of the academic committee.

However, Li Gang knew Zhao Nangao relatively well. He seemed to be acting as a peacemaker, but his purpose was not necessarily that of a real peacemaker. He might just be playing a double act with Liang Ping.

Of course, he didn't want the two parties to really quarrel, which would be a bit ugly, especially now that Lin Xiao was not here, and he, the deputy chief engineer, had to avoid such a thing from happening.

So he also pulled Song Tao next to him and said, "Okay, let's see what they say first."

When Song Tao and Liang Ping saw that the old man on their side had spoken, they snorted at each other and then stopped glaring at each other. Of course, there was still some anger between the two parties.

Next, both parties sat down and started talking.

Song Tao first said: "Okay, before we start our formal topic, let me explain that if you want to come here to observe our experience and technology, there is no problem, but if you want to consider things like what I just said, , then forget it.”

At the Southern Institute of Physics, after hearing Song Tao's words, Liang Ping snorted again, but before he could speak, Zhao Nangao next to him grabbed him again, and then said to Song Tao with a smile: " Xiao Song, let’s not say these hurtful words for now, we are here mainly to understand the situation of your Golden Crow plan.”

He said: "The tokamak device that you are planning to build now in the Jinwu Project is going to be the first superconducting tokamak device in the world that uses room-temperature superconductors. The problem of plasma flow has always troubled us. Look. It looks like you are almost done with it."

Song Tao smiled. If we were discussing technology, he would naturally talk about it. He said, "It is true. With the strong magnetic field provided by CCD-I, I estimate that based on our current tokamak specifications, Look, problems may occur only if the temperature is over 500 million degrees. Plasma flows below 500 million degrees can basically be controlled to avoid hitting the inner wall."

Zhao Nangao smiled and said: "It seems that you are very close to success. Our whole country is waiting for you to succeed, and then we can slowly enjoy the blessings in the future."

Song Tao smiled and said: "This is natural, but for now, although we can prevent the plasma flow from hitting the inner wall, we also need to face the chaos inside the plasma flow. Otherwise, although it can We can rely on sufficient repulsion to prevent them from hitting the inner wall, but how to make them operate exactly as we want requires the planning of magnetic fields and research on plasma fluids."

Zhao Nangao nodded and said with a smile: "This is true. It seems that Director Song has thought carefully."

"That's ridiculous."

Song Tao smiled, but then felt a little strange, what does Zhao Nangao mean?

Why are you saying nice things now?

But just as he thought this, Zhao Nangao spoke again: "By the way, in addition to these things, there is another most critical technology, which is the technology of inner wall materials. I wonder how your research is going? This Have you solved the problem?"

"After all, we all study controllable nuclear fusion, so we all know that the problem of high-energy neutrons bombarding the inner wall is the most difficult to solve, and the Golden Crow Project bears the expectations of our whole country. Since your Golden Crow Project has If it can be established, does it mean that you are confident to solve this problem?"

Song Tao immediately didn't know how to answer Zhao Nangao's question.

He frowned, thinking that since you said this is the most difficult problem to solve in controllable nuclear fusion, why are you still asking?

He glanced aside at Li Gang and wanted to know what Li Gang said.

But at this time, Liang Ping smiled and said: "Director Zhao, do you still need to ask this question? If they can really solve it, can Chief Engineer Lin still not come forward every three days? Maybe I just thought this thing couldn’t be studied and gave up.”

Zhao Nangao waited until Liang Ping finished speaking, then glared at him and said, "Xiao Liang, you can't say this. How can you say this?"

And Song Tao couldn't bear this Liang Ping jumping out again, especially since this guy always targeted Lin Xiao in every word he said.

He was very grateful to Lin Xiao, so he immediately replied: "Liang, I know you are jealous of our Golden Crow Project, but you have the guts to say this in front of Chief Engineer Lin! You... …”

But before he finished speaking, Zhao Nangao acted as peacemaker again and said with a smile: "Hey, Director Song, don't be angry, don't be angry, let's calm down first, Liang Ping, you too, how can you say it here? What about this?"

After he said a few words of kindness, and after the two sides calmed down the fire again, he continued to speak: "But having said that, in fact, our Dean Liang's words are still true. It seems that General Engineer Lin is not here? Is it true that he came just now? We also inquired at that time and found out that Chief Engineer Lin has not shown up for two months. Also, when the CEPC particle collider in Shangjing was built, Chief Engineer Lin also hadn’t been with you for a long time. .”

"The Golden Crow Project is our national key project, with an investment of tens of billions. People all over the country and abroad are watching. Mr. Lin is the chief engineer, but he is always not here. Isn't it a bit bad?"

As soon as Zhao Nangao said his words, Song Tao immediately realized that this old guy had been singing a double act with Liang Ping just now.

Fortunately, he still felt that Zhao Nangao was reasonable for a while.

At this time, Li Gang spoke: "Old Zhao, that's not what you said. Our Chief Engineer Lin has been studying the most difficult problem you just mentioned. Although he is not here, he is trying to solve it. It’s the most difficult question, how can you say it’s not good?”

Zhao Nangao smiled and said: "Academician Li, what you said makes sense, but the problem of the inner wall material is a material problem. Material problems must be solved in the laboratory, right? Is it possible that this kind of material can still be used in research? Mathematics can be created behind closed doors using only pen and paper? Do you think that’s what I’m saying?”

Li Gang frowned. In any case, what Zhao Nangao said was not unreasonable, at least from a common sense perspective, but it was precisely this that made them feel even more disgusting.

But Song Tao didn't care so much, and said sarcastically: "You can ask Mr. Lin how he developed room temperature superconductors. Regarding the research of materials, I'm not talking about it, Mr. Zhao, you may not be qualified. Are you going to question Mr. Lin?"

I have to say that Song Tao's method is more effective in the face of this kind of flattery, so Zhao Nangao's face suddenly turned green, and his tone was no longer as smiling as before: "What does it mean to be unqualified?" To question? Director Song, what you said is not pleasant."

After this back and forth, the atmosphere between the two sides became tense again - of course, in fact, this kind of situation has not never happened when people from two research institutes met in the past.

At this moment, the door suddenly opened and a person walked in from the outside.

Everyone in the room looked over immediately and were stunned.

Because this person is Lin Xiao.

"Yo? Are there so many people today?"

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment when he saw the scene inside, and then smiled.

Although he felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere inside, once he appeared in front of these people, the atmosphere began to gradually dissipate.

After all, for everyone here, the name of a person is the shadow of a tree. Lin Xiao, a scientist who can be called the most genius, has a status in the scientific world as high as a towering tree. Hearing his The name is as if you can see the huge shadow reflected by this towering tree.

Therefore, even the people from the Southern Institute of Physics, who were obviously looking for trouble, and even Liang Ping, who had spoken out against Lin Xiao many times just now, turned off.

And when they came to their senses, they immediately started shouting.

"General Engineer Lin, you are finally back."

"Hello, Academician Lin."

"Hello, Academician Lin!"

And after Liang Ping shouted "Hello, Academician Lin", the smile he forced on his face also seemed to be as bitter as it was bitter.

He really didn't expect that Lin Xiao would suddenly appear.

They had already investigated the situation, but Lin Xiaodu hadn't appeared for two months. There were no tigers in the mountains, and there was no monkey claiming to be the king. Couldn't they just take advantage of the situation?

Indeed, as Song Tao said just now, they at the Southern Institute of Physics are very envious of the treatment the plasma is receiving in the Golden Crow Project, and now the Golden Crow Project has also affected their research funding, which involves a more fundamental issue. , so they have been deliberately trying to get a hand in the Golden Crow Project.

So they took advantage of the fact that Lin Xiao, the chief engineer, never showed up at his job to attack the people in the plasma institute.

But these are all based on the fact that Lin Xiao, the "tiger", is really not "in the mountains".

It turned out to be good now, they really happened to bump into Lin Xiao.

Even at this moment, he was a little worried that Song Tao would not tell Lin Xiao what he just said.

Once he really said this, he couldn't even imagine the consequences.

As a result, as soon as he had this thought in his mind, Song Tao next to him walked up with a smile on his face.

"General Engineer Lin, you are here. Let me introduce to you the 'distinguished guests' we have here today."

When he mentioned the word "distinguished guest", he also emphasized his tone, which made Liang Ping and the others even more expecting something bad.

But what surprised them was that although Song Tao's emphasis on the two words seemed a bit malicious, when he introduced them, he really just introduced them and did not talk about the conflict they just had.

This made them secretly grateful to Song Tao, but also sighed in their hearts. Now they were controlled by Song Tao.

Of course, Song Tao did this not only to scare these people, but also to prevent conflicts between them from happening in front of Lin Xiao.

Otherwise, now that Lin Xiao has probably just come out of the secluded research, he will be dragged into the conflict between their two research institutes, which would be a bit bad.

So regarding their conflicts, it was better to talk to Lin Xiao later.

And soon, Lin Xiao got to know these people under the introduction of Song Tao.

But probably because his sudden appearance disrupted the plans of the Southern Institute of Physics, they didn't know what to say next, and Song Tao and the others had no intention of saying anything to this group of people, so this An unpleasant meeting ended here.

These people from the Southern Institute of Physics temporarily returned to where they lived, while Lin Xiao, Li Gang, Song Tao and the others held a meeting related to the Golden Crow Project.

"General Engineer Lin, you are finally 'out of isolation'."

In the conference room, everyone looked at Lin Xiao. At this time, Lin Xiao had not had a haircut for two months. His hair had become a little long and a little messy. He probably only shaved when he came out. of.

Li Gang couldn't help but smile: "Now I feel more like Einstein."

Think about the slovenly Einstein in the photo, he looks a lot like Lin Xiao now!

Maybe you can also contact Planck. After all, Planck when he was young and Planck after studying physics seemed to be two different things.

Maybe this is how scientists feel?

Lin Xiao smiled, smoothed his hair, and then said: "Okay, I will go get my hair cut later. Now let's talk about my achievements in the past two months. I guess you have been waiting for a long time." ”

The eyes of everyone present suddenly lit up and looked at Lin Xiao.

Just kidding, of course they have been waiting a long time.

They had all been looking forward to getting great news after Lin Xiao came out.

Song Tao completely forgot about what happened just now about the Southern Institute of Physics, and asked impatiently: "General Engineer Lin, have you researched that material?"

Thinking about the group of people just now, who had already dealt with this problem, he could now say that what he wanted to hear most was the words "already solved".

But unfortunately, Lin Xiao shook his head: "It has not been resolved yet."

Everyone present suddenly showed disappointed expressions. Sure enough, this problem is still not easy to solve.

It's not that Lin Xiao can do it after two months of seclusion.

However, Lin Xiao suddenly smiled and said: "But if there is no solution, it doesn't mean there is no result. Why are you sighing like this?"

His words immediately revived their spirits.

"what do you mean?"

Lin Xiao nodded with a smile and said: "I have successfully explained theoretically why the special tungsten block in the original experiment showed that property."

"That is to say, now I know why those special tungsten blocks have stronger resistance to radiation, and how to make this ability stronger. At the same time, I also know how to make such a thing. "

"So, the next step is to verify my conjecture through experiments."

"Really?"

Everyone in the conference room suddenly became more excited.

You actually already know how to make it?

"General Engineer Lin, what is the principle of this?" someone asked immediately.

Lin Xiao shook his head and did not say anything. Then he took out a USB flash drive from his bag and showed the contents of the USB flash drive in front of them.

"Next, we first need to choose another site, and then build a small linear particle accelerator. For this small particle accelerator, I have calculated it before, and the budget is about 5 billion."

"In addition, we will not build tokamak in the future."

"What we want to build is another type of nuclear fusion reactor."

"As for this type of device... Well, let's call it a conch-type controllable nuclear fusion reactor for the time being."

As he spoke, Lin Xiao moved his hands and showed the conch-type device he was talking about to the people present.

Everyone present was stunned because of these two things Lin Xiao told them.

Want to build a 5 billion particle accelerator and then give up even the tokamak device?

Lin Xiao, what do you want to do?