The rise of nanometers

Lunar Zone.

The central region of the Mare Imbrium.

A huge project started construction today.

Zhang Xinhua, head of the Lunar Division of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Academy of Sciences, was cutting the ribbon for the project at the temporary base at the construction site.

"Today I am very honored to witness the establishment of the Lunar Large Particle Collider project."

As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen people present applauded. This project was something the Institute of High Energy Physics had been fighting for for several years before it was approved by the Ministry of Science and the Ministry of Aerospace.

In the past few years, because the Federation had to deal with the Third World War that could break out at any time, there was relatively little support for research work in some theoretical fields.

For example, the Institute of High Energy has always wanted the federation to build large particle collider, dark matter detector, gravitational wave detector, etc., but there is no support.

Until Noah would fall apart and Lucia surrendered voluntarily, the Federation's internal pressure on Blue Star was released.

Only then did we begin to pay more attention to theoretical research work.

However, there are indeed many benefits to re-developing the theoretical field now. For example, the society is highly stable, the economy is not short of money, and the emergence of many new materials and technologies has provided better conditions for theoretical research.

Just like the current Lunar Large Particle Collider project, if it were to be built on Blue Star, environmental modification issues and vacuum pipeline maintenance issues would be relatively troublesome.

But if the collider is built on the moon, the problem will not be big. The land transformation here does not need to consider issues such as ecological protection, land acquisition and resettlement, vacuum maintenance, and earthquakes.

After all, the lunar surface itself is a sub-vacuum environment. Regarding the strength of the vacuum pipeline, there is no need to consider the pressure difference outside, and only the cleanliness inside the pipeline needs to be maintained.

In addition, because the tailfield accelerator technology has initially matured in terms of materials and theory, this can greatly improve the working energy level of the particle accelerator from the previous 14G.

Take the Lunar Large Particle Collider in front of you, for example. According to the design plan, the length of the internal vacuum pipeline reaches 360 kilometers, and the maximum working energy level is about 80,000 times that of the Xizhou particle collider.

The two are no longer of the same magnitude.

Based on the technology a few years ago, researchers at the Institute of High Energy would not have dared to imagine that a collider with such a powerful energy level could be built.

This is the accumulation of technology, coupled with the fact that the federal government has very strong human, material and financial resources, it can support such a super project.

Let the current Xizhou Alliance give it a try, let alone launch the Lunar Large Particle Collider. Even if they renovate the old collider, they can't afford it.

What is even more frightening is that the talent pool of the Western Continent Alliance is being lost at an accelerated rate.

In 2018 alone, more than 547,000 highly educated Xizhou people submitted applications for naturalization or work to the federal government.

Although the federal threshold for skilled immigrants is very strict, 53,000 Xizhou people still obtained temporary qualifications for skilled immigrants in 2018.

The crazy loss of talent, the substantial economic recession, the proliferation of black and green, and the very unstable society have accelerated the decline of the Western Continent Alliance.

Now asking them to refurbish the collider will literally cost them their lives.

The Institute of High Energy currently has a large number of people from Xizhou joining the institute, both for research purposes and for better naturalization.

After all, on Blue Star now, except for the Federation, which has the strength to support such a huge theoretical research project, other forces basically have problems with food and clothing.

It is simply fanciful to expect a force that cannot even afford food and clothing to invest heavily in a particle collider.

If they don't defect to the Federation, they can only use the intracranial research method.

In the temporary base, Zhang Xinhua was discussing something with several young physicists: "Bruce, the construction of the lunar collider may take about two years. You actually don't have to come so early in the morning."

Bruce, 37, who was previously a researcher at the Deutsche Heisenberg Institute, smiled and shook his head: "No, I'm here to witness history."

Another local researcher, Chang Sixin, is also very young, only 33 years old this year. He did not say anything, but suggested:

"Now that you're here, don't waste this opportunity. You can consider working in the Lunar Branch for a while and studying some physical phenomena on the Moon. It's easier than Blue Star."

"No problem, I will work in the Lunar Branch for half a year." Bruce nodded.

As soon as the Federation paid attention to it, various experts and scholars in theoretical physics quickly became active. It was obvious that many people were unwilling to be left alone.

Not to mention that scientists are not competitive, they just have their own pride and hope that they can leave their own names in the history of science and name a formula or a theory after themselves.

In the past few years, scientists in the applied field have come up with an endless stream of new technologies, which makes scientists in the theoretical field involuntarily envious and jealous.

Of course, there are also big guys who span the two fields of application and theory.

For example, Xie Qing's team has perfected [electric field synthesis theory] and used electric field synthesis technology to develop various efficient synthesis technologies and various new materials.

There is also Huang Xiuyuan’s nanostructure theory, which is also one of the examples of combining theory and application.

The theories and applications in these materials fields have given the current federation's scientific community a strong advantage in new materials. Basically, it can be said that the federation's rise is largely due to the emergence of these new materials.

The theoretical circles are also convinced. After all, there are not so many new materials, and the current development speed will not be so rapid.

It is precisely because of the rise of the application field that many scientists in the theoretical community have re-reflected on some previous issues and whether they should stick to purely theoretical research.

Many current studies have actually been completely derailed from practical application fields.

This is also the reason why after entering the 21st century, it is becoming more and more difficult for the theoretical community. After all, capital needs to make profits.

As for projects like the Large Particle Collider, the most it can do is produce a few more theoretical results that will lead to dynamite awards.

If you want to make a profit, you can refer to the dilemma of graphene, and you will know how huge a gap there is between theory and reality.

There is also the nanowire semiconductor technology of the year. This technology was not proposed by Huang Xiuyuan, but was proposed by the academic community around 1998.

In theory, nanowire semiconductors can quickly break through Moore's Law and bring chip technology into the era of tens of nanometers and several nanometers.

But why did the industry finally abandon the nanowire route?

The reason is that nanowires cannot be mass-produced.

This is the difference between reality and theory.

Now that the federation is strongly supporting theoretical research, it is actually getting rid of the profit-seeking situation of capital. It is difficult to avoid losses in these theoretical research at the current stage.

But in the future, these theories may become the hope of human civilization.

Whether we can go out of the solar system and develop faster-than-light flight technology requires the support of new physics. The Federation is investing in the future.

Being too preoccupied with immediate gains may cause mankind to lose its future and be completely trapped and dead in the solar system.

This is similar to the current promotion of the aerospace industry. It knows that it may lose money for decades, but the Federation must bite the bullet and persevere. Only in this way can it be possible to get out of Blue Star.

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