Chapter 379 Must Be in Time! (3/4)

Chapter 379 Must be in time! (34)

As one of the seven millennium problems, the NS equation has received extraordinary attention both in terms of its popularity and its application in the fields of physics and engineering.

Especially when this issue is paid attention to by a scholar who can always create miracles, this event itself has a very high degree of topicality.

Many PhDs in universities and research institutes, whether in mathematics or physics, even if their research direction is in other fields, will more or less talk about this topic after dinner.

Many people are wondering whether Lu Zhou is challenging the century-old problem of the NS equation.

If so, where did he go?

Is it just the paper that appeared in the Annals of Mathematics?

People seem to be more willing to believe that the research results of this genius are far more than just those phased results published in the "Annual Journal of Mathematics".

It was lunch time in the dining area on the first floor of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

"Have a bacon sandwich."

"Your sandwich...are you really not thinking about other flavors? It's not a particularly good eating habit to always eat the same food."

Because they always order the same food, the chef here already knows Lu Zhou.

"no thank you."

After receiving the hot sandwich and coffee from the chef, Lu Zhou found a comfortable seat nearby and sat down.

Normally, he might cook his own fire with leisure and elegance, or go to the Ivy League eating club for a leisurely meal, but these days, he eats sandwiches for almost every lunch, and then goes to plasma physics. Laboratory reports.

The design idea of ​​the whole set of experimental equipment seems to be very simple, but it is extremely complicated in practice!

In addition to those obvious problems, there are many not-so-obvious problems to be solved urgently, which requires a combination of theoretical and engineering knowledge, and this means that Lu Zhou must keep in touch with the engineers in the laboratory. Exchange ideas for feasible solutions to things that are difficult to achieve in engineering.

To be honest, at this moment, Lu Zhou felt that his engineering level came in handy. In the communication and discussion with these engineers, he found that he was able to absorb the knowledge of engineering design unexpectedly fast.

As for how fast...

Probably about the same level as when I was studying mathematics problems two years ago.

While chewing slowly on the sandwich, Lu Zhou thought about those complicated problems.

However, at this moment, a lady with long blond hair sat across from him, and conjuring out of nowhere a recorder for interviews.

"Hi, Mr. Lu Zhou, I'm sorry to bother you, I'm a BBC reporter."

Looking at the blond lady suspiciously, Lu Zhou, who was chewing the sandwich, froze slightly, and asked in a vague voice: "What's the matter?"

He couldn't remember what he had done recently that was noticeable enough.

If it's the Hoffman Medal, then she obviously came at the wrong time, because this matter has long passed the timeliness of news, and he doesn't think people are still paying attention to this news.

The reporter girl pursed her lips and smiled, and asked: "That's right, the paper you recently submitted to the "Annals of Mathematics" has aroused extensive discussions in the academic circles. May I ask you about NS in the challenge of the seven millennium problems? Is the existence and smoothness of the solution of the equation a problem?"

If it is a general math problem, it is not worth the BBC to send its foreign correspondents, but the Millennium Problem is different. Whether it is the title of the Million Dollar Problem or the Century Problem, it is worthy of the headlines of the technology panel.

"No, you misunderstood, there is no such thing," Wei Wei was stunned for a moment, Lu Zhou immediately shook his head and denied, "I study the NS equation just to facilitate my own research. Although I did get a very interesting result, But that's nothing to be proud of."

The reporter looked at Lu Zhou in surprise: "It's unbelievable... May I ask, what amazing thing are you researching?"

"No matter what it is, I don't want you to make the news of the scientific research section like a gossip section, and report some unrealistic news by catching wind and shadow," Lu Zhou folded the sandwich wrapping paper into a square, and threw it aside "Before the research results come out, I can only tell you one sentence."

He is very worried. Today he said that he is designing an experiment for the study of high-temperature and high-pressure plasma turbulence phenomena. Tomorrow, the BBC will report that a Chinese scientist has solved the problem of controllable nuclear fusion, and then his phone will be blocked by some people who do not understand the situation. People blow up.

After all, this is a BBC reporter.

He was even "blocked" by Wikipedia for a time because of exaggerated reporting techniques and various headline party behaviors.

Didn't care about Lu Zhou's sarcasm, the reporter's sister seemed to smell the news, her eyes lit up immediately, she leaned forward and approached with the recording pen: "What are you talking about?"

Lu Zhou said with a straight face: "No comment."

Miss reporter: "..."

...

After driving away the reporters, Lu Zhou went to PPPL.

When he arrived, the engineers here were already struggling at their posts.

Seeing Lu Zhou, Professor Lazelson's eyes lit up, and he came up to him.

"The Helix 7-X laboratory accepted our request, and they agreed to install target materials and atomic guns in the first wall in the next experiment to help us collect data."

Lu Zhou immediately asked, "When is the next experiment?"

Although he convinced the Helix 7-X laboratory, Professor Razelson's expression was not easy: "In the middle of January...but we must produce valuable results before the end of December! Otherwise, they will not Consider postponing the test plan for us, and arrange our detectors. You know, the ITER project is getting tighter and tighter, and all the labs are in a hurry."

"We don't have much time left." Lu Zhou looked a little dignified.

"Yes, there is not much time left for us. Of course, we can also wait until the inspection in June next year, but..." As he spoke, Professor Lazelson hesitated to speak.

"but?"

"However, PPPL cannot support us indefinitely to continue this research. If we do not make any progress for half a year, the project may be cut off." Professor Lazelson finally said it out.

The essence of this project is still hanging on PPPL, the funding is provided by PPPL, and all resources such as talents and equipment are also used by PPPL.

There are many black technologies being incubated here, and controlled nuclear fusion is just one of them, and the "He3 atom probe" technology is just a sub-project under the controlled nuclear fusion project.

If this sub-project takes up half a year of funding and scientific research resources, but fails to produce any reasonable results, any laboratory director with a little management experience will cut off such "inferior" projects, or at least postpone the priority .

Unless there are multiple Nobel Prize-level scholars endorsing this kind of project, or the project itself is being carried out by Nobel Prize-winning tycoons.

But Lu Zhou is obviously not, and Professor Razelson is not...

Lu Zhou frowned slightly: "Can't you wait for half a year?"

"I can afford to wait in normal times, but the recent research tasks are very tight, and less important projects will naturally be postponed... no matter how interesting it sounds." When he said this, Lazelsson The professor is also very tangled.

Out of his original intention, he certainly hoped that this project could continue.

After all, the current physics community can only do "diagnosis" rather than "observation" of plasma.

The two concepts are not at the same level in terms of precision, and the phenomenological model established based on the different data obtained by the two is not at the same level at all.

If Lu Zhou's mathematics is really as powerful as he boasted, and they finally succeeded in designing this experiment, maybe the Nobel committee will really consider his name.

This is also the only chance for him, who is more like an engineer than a scholar, to touch the Nobel Prize.

After listening to Professor Lazersson's explanation, Lu Zhou immediately said: "We must speed up the progress! Since the deadline left for us is only until the end of this year, we just need to finish it before the end of this year."

Professor Lazelson hesitated: "Is it too late?"

"It's not a question of whether it's too late." After a pause, Lu Zhou looked at Professor Razelson and said seriously, "It must be done in time!"