Chapter 667 Breakthrough in Miniaturization!

In the end, Senior Brother Luo still stubbornly refused to accept his proposal, saying that he would bring back the check from the Cray Research Institute in its entirety and hand it over to Lu Zhou.

Later, Lu Zhou thought about it carefully and felt that his proposal was indeed a little inappropriate, so he didn't make things difficult for Senior Brother Luo. Instead, he asked the financial institution of the Institute for Advanced Study to send him a travel fee of 100,000 US dollars, and wished him good luck in the future. France had fun with her new girlfriend.

Brother Luo didn't refuse the money, more than that, he even asked him for an extra month's leave.

It seems that he intends to waste the money and come back...

Not to mention Brother Luo who is still in Europe.

These days, Lu Zhou has received congratulatory messages from many people.

Among them are the students and colleagues he led when he was in Princeton, as well as colleagues who had brief exchanges or exchanged business cards at academic conferences, and friends who had in-depth exchanges.

Such as Terence Tao.

When they were studying Goldbach's conjecture, the two had cooperated closely, and their private relationship has been good since then. Academically, both of them are all-round scholars, and their research scope covers almost all directions in the field of mathematics, so there are many things to talk about.

During the phone call, Tao Terence smiled and sent congratulations: "Congratulations, another millennium problem has fallen in front of you. Maybe the Cray Institute should update their "question bank". By the way, it is convenient to disclose your Next subject?"

Lu Zhou: "For a while, I probably won't study mathematics, but think about how to use mathematics to change science."

Terence Tao: "Like going to the moon?"

Lu Zhou: "It's one of them!"

Tao Terence: "This sounds very exciting. My wife works for NASA and always shares with me things that are far away from my research field. If you succeed one day, remember to reserve a seat for me , I have never traveled to the moon in my life.”

Lu Zhou joked with a smile: "There will be such a day, maybe one day I will hold an academic report on the moon."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Zhou stood up from his office chair and was about to go downstairs to the cafeteria for lunch, when his cell phone, which he had just put in his pocket, rang again.

He took out his mobile phone and saw that it was Sheng Xianfu calling. Lu Zhou did not hesitate and immediately pressed the connect button.

"Hey?"

"professor……"

Hearing something was wrong in Sheng Xianfu's voice, Lu Zhou asked immediately without thinking about it.

"It exploded again? Did anyone hurt? Is the equipment I borrowed okay?"

Hearing this, Sheng Xianfu almost caught his breath, coughed a few times and said, "What exploded again! We are not researching bombs, why are we so nervous?"

Lu Zhou: "..."

In a sense, fusion reaction is more terrible than ordinary bombs, right?

but……

People safe is good.

After heaving a sigh of relief in his heart, Lu Zhou said with a speechless face: "Then what are you doing so mysteriously?"

Sheng Xianfu touched the bridge of his nose in embarrassment: "Aren't I excited?"

Lu Zhou: "...excited?"

"Well," Sheng Xianfu, who was holding the phone, nodded heavily, and said in a trembling tone, "We seem to have succeeded."

The phone was silent for half a minute.

Lu Zhou settled down, took a deep breath and said.

"I'll come over right away, we'll talk when we meet."

After all, Lu Zhou hung up the phone and continued to call Wang Peng.

"Come downstairs and pick me up in the courtyard."

Wang Peng didn't ask any more questions, and only replied with one word.

"it is good."

Twenty minutes' drive away, a black red flag stopped at the gate of the institute.

After getting out of the car, Lu Zhou quickly passed the entrance of the research institute without stopping, and walked straight to a corner of the research institute.

Since the last safety accident, the controllable fusion miniaturization research team's laboratory has been moved from a corner of the courtyard to a temporary warehouse next to the research institute. Even so, people who occasionally pass by here will walk around unconsciously.

Walking quickly to the door of the laboratory, before Lu Zhou's front foot touched the door, he heard deafening cheers erupted in the laboratory, and the glass trembled.

"What's the situation?" Lu Zhou hurriedly entered the laboratory and quickly found Sheng Xianfu who was full of excitement. Lu Zhou asked immediately.

"The idea of ​​using liquid metal as the working solution is correct! According to the experimental data, when liquid lithium is used as the working solution, we can apply greater sound pressure to the bubbles through the ultrasonic emission device! And let the volume of the bubbles collapse The changes are more stable!" Sheng Xianfu's shoulders were trembling in order to restrain the excitement in his heart and make himself speak more quickly.

Hearing that his conjecture had been verified, Lu Zhou couldn't help showing joy on his face.

But compared to the success itself, he is more concerned about how they did it.

"Why did you fail last time?"

Sheng Xianfu said excitedly: "In the beginning we tried to increase the power of the ultrasonic generator, but the neutron value-added rate could not be increased. Finally, we found that the key to the problem was the deuterium-tritium mixed gas!"

Lu Zhou: "What did you do?"

"We preheated the injected gas!"

Lu Zhou's heart moved, and he immediately said, "Is the deuterium-tritium mixture heated and ionized?"

Sheng Xianfu said with joy on his face: "Exactly!"

A dazed expression appeared on Lu Zhou's face, and he probably understood what they were doing.

By heating and ionizing the deuterium-tritium mixture, and then pumping it into the liquid lithium through the air inlet, although the ionization temperature of tens of thousands is nothing compared to the instantaneous temperature of tens of millions of degrees, the expansion state When the ionized gas is injected into the liquid lithium, it will have a larger surface area than that at normal temperature, and the energy transmitted by the sound field to the bubble will also increase accordingly.

Under such circumstances, the rapidly collapsing bubbles will obtain a greater instantaneous temperature, thereby reaching the conditions for the DT fusion reaction to occur!

Standing beside Sheng Xianfu, Professor Li Changxia also said excitedly: "We have discovered a more stable method to achieve controllable fusion! We are once again ahead of the world!"

"yes……"

Looking at the simple-looking black metal tube in the center of the laboratory, Lu Zhou couldn't help showing a hint of fascination on his face.

The design scheme of the Hall propulsion unit has been recovered from Wreckage No. 3, and there is no problem in the realization of the production by Xiaoai when the five-axis linkage CNC machine tool is installed in the space shuttle assembly center. Now that the miniaturization of controllable fusion has been solved, nothing can prevent him from completing the blueprint in his mind.

Of course, even now it seems that this "reactor" is still very simple, whether it is power or energy utilization, it is far inferior to the magnetic confinement fusion device that occupies a large area of ​​the Pangu reactor, and it cannot be reused. The high cost also makes it almost impossible to use it in general transportation.

However, this miniaturized fusion power generation device itself is not used to provide energy for production and life, so this shortcoming does not matter.

Considering its superiority in volumetric energy density and its superiority in power over fission batteries, even if it is "slightly" more expensive, it still has flaws.

Paired with the Hall propulsion unit he salvaged from Wreck-3, this set-up would redefine spaceflight in the same way gunpowder had redefined warfare.

It is no exaggeration to say that the whole world will be changed because of their discovery today...

For the sake of Chapter 666, let's vote for a monthly ticket~~~