Chapter 883 New Year's Day in 2022

Although he was very curious about how Senior Brother Luo exposed the cheater's conspiracy, Lu Zhou still didn't have the nerve to ask in the end.

While eating grilled fish, the two talked about what they had and what they didn't have. The topic changed from what to do on New Year's Day to Riemann's conjecture, which was out of reach.

"...I can now be sure that as long as we can solve the Riemann conjecture, we will be able to discover the unknown secret behind the Riemann zeta function. It is exciting to think about it. Theories separated by centuries can actually echo each other. It's as if the timeline shifted at some unnatural point!"

"Do you think there is a possibility that Riemann who proposed the Riemann zeta function actually comes from the future, otherwise how to explain the pair correlation function of the eigenvalues ​​of the random Hermitian matrix and the pair correlation function of the non-trivial zero point of the Riemann zeta function completely Consistent? There was no quantum mechanics in the 18th century!"

Although he knew it was a joke, Lu Zhou still smiled in cooperation with him, and said casually in a teasing tone.

"How do you know that the history we know is not the result of being changed by the 'time traveler'? How do you not know that our past is actually just a modified future?"

"The history we know is actually the result of being changed by time travelers. You mean that the past we know is actually our future?" Senior Brother Luo, who was in deep thought, suddenly called He snapped his fingers, slapped the chopsticks on the table excitedly, raised his head and said, "I have a new idea in mind, wait until the end of New Year's Day...or I will start working on it when I go back soon."

Because his voice was too loud, the guests next to him looked at him one after another.

Lu Zhou coughed slightly in embarrassment, and motioned him to sit down quickly with his eyes.

"Sit down and talk if you have something to say, don't be surprised."

After being reminded by Lu Zhou, Luo Wenxuan realized that he was in a public place, so he sat back in embarrassment.

However, this guy's embarrassment only lasted less than half a second.

Soon he put his hands on the table, looked at Lu Zhou with excited eyes, and continued.

"You don't know what I thought of just now! I bet you will be surprised by my new idea! I'm a fucking genius!"

Looking at the senior brother who sat back in his seat, Lu Zhou, who was relieved, continued in a calm tone.

"...whatever the new idea, I hope your paper won't include my name."

Luo Wenxuan smiled triumphantly.

"Don't regret it."

Lu Zhou pouted.

"Haha, I'm sure I won't regret it."

The so-called time traveler is just a joke.

He can be sure that someone must have done this idea about the time paradox, and there must be more than one paper.

Isn't that what theoretical physicists do?

First assume that string theory is established, and then make a set of theories. Then assume that string theory doesn't hold, and make another theory to explain why it doesn't hold.

In this contradiction of self-affirmation and self-denial, move forward slowly.

It can be seen that Einstein is almost like God.

Including the true appearance of black holes, which were only completed a few years ago, and gravitational waves observed earlier.

Since his death, all the achievements of the physics community through experimental means have not deviated from his theoretical framework.

Even to this day, the experimental physics community has not been able to fully test the theory left by that great man, so that those geniuses living in this era can only write and draw on a "castle in the air" called theoretical physics. The development of strong condensed matter physics is in a dilemma...

and many more.

Thinking of Lu Zhou here, he suddenly fell into deep thought.

It seems that Einstein was not the only one who made scholars in the same field fall into a corner.

It is true that time travel is just a joke, and there is simply not enough evidence to support this view.

However, how can he prove that the history that has happened is indeed not the result of changes?

There seems to be no way to prove that...

Especially at this time, he suddenly thought of the existence of the system.

emmmmm...

"It seems... interesting?"

Touching his chin, Lu Zhou, who thought of a certain possibility, suddenly said something to himself and fell into deep thought.

"... Hey, I heard what you said. You seem to be interested. Do you want to join forces?" Luo Wenxuan said excitedly, looking at Lu Zhou who was deep in thought.

"You must have heard it wrong," Lu Zhou recovered from his contemplation, and smiled lightly, hiding the surprise in his eyes, "As for the joint venture... wait for the results of the project we are cooperating with. Let's talk about it later."

"...Okay." Spreading his hands, Luo Wenxuan said with a helpless expression, "...can I be happy? At least you didn't directly reject me."

Lu Zhou, who found it troublesome, immediately said: "Then you should just treat me directly and refuse."

Luo Wenxuan: "..."

...

On New Year's Day in 2020, the flames of the "Pangu" fusion reactor illuminated the future of controllable fusion research and civilization.

On New Year's Day in 2021, Huaguo's first aerospace plane using an electric propulsion system, "Xiangrui", successfully tested its flight, paving the way for subsequent manned moon landings and moon palace orbiting.

Now on New Year's Day in 2022, it seems a bit dull. Except for the new construction of the fifth largest industrial group that shocked the entire semiconductor industry, and the quasi-Riemann conjecture proof that caused a sensation in the entire mathematics world, and Jinling's report meeting, it seems that nothing happened Enough to surprise the whole world.

On the day of New Year's Day.

An unexpected guest came to Lu Zhou's home.

Because he was going to Jinling High-tech Park and Aerospace Industrial Park to do business, Director Li of the Bureau of Science and Industry stopped by Zijin Mountain when he passed by.

Just in time for lunch, Lu Zhou ordered a few dishes from the nearby hotel and had a drink with this old friend who had worked with him for a while.

Just at this time, international news was shown on TV.

The content in the news happened to be what the two of them talked about earlier, about spaceflight...

"...According to the news separately announced by NASA at the White House press conference, NASA will launch the Deep Space Gate project this year."

"This project is part of the lunar exploration plan announced by NASA in 2018. According to the content disclosed in its budget draft, NASA will launch power and propulsion devices to lunar orbit in early 2022, and this will become the lunar orbit station (Lunar) -Orbital-Platform-Gateway's first launch components."

"However, because the best orbit has already been occupied by the Moon Palace space station, NASA is considering using an elliptical orbit with a larger orbit and a more acceptable construction cost."

"It is reported that the project passed the approval of the Congressional Budget Committee in 2021 and has now entered the launch preparation stage. According to the content announced by the NASA spokesperson, the project will serve as an international lunar orbiting space station just like the Moon Palace space station. In the international community. According to the analysis of international relations experts, this project can be seen as the determination of the White House to reorganize the aerospace hegemony. For the global market, the aerospace project may become the next outlet..."

In fact, due to the successful test flight of the Xiangrui, preparations for the plan had already begun in the middle of last year.

It's just that because of the abortion of the Ares project, three astronauts were trapped on Mars, causing NASA to fall into a huge crisis of trust, so that in the past six months, both NASA and Space-X and other aerospace companies have performed quite low-key .

Now is a new year, and history has turned a new page.

Of course, Lu Zhou didn't think that just one failure could destroy the ambition and determination of this aerospace power, otherwise this victory would be too boring.

After learning from their failures, they will become stronger and more united. This race on the eve of the space age has just begun.

"The Americans really don't want to lag behind." Looking at the picture in the news, Director Li sighed with emotion while drinking and eating stewed vegetables.

"No one wants to lag behind, and we can go further in this kind of mutual competition." Looking at Director Li, Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Speaking of it, why did Director Li suddenly come to me? Are you not working? busy?"

"Busy, you can't leave your old friends alone when you're busy," Director Li said with a smile, "I heard that you plan to go back to your hometown for the holidays this year, so I came to visit you in advance, so I didn't disturb Chief Designer Lu's rest. Bar?"

This old friend always sounds weird.

Although the two have been dealing with each other since the start of the controllable fusion project, the age gap always makes Lu Zhou feel that he is being taken advantage of.

It was the same when I chatted with Professor Faltings last time. It seemed that the people chatting with him could not help but use the tone of communicating with their peers.

By the way, I'm obviously still young, okay?

Not yet thirty...

Coughing lightly, driving this strange feeling out of his mind, Lu Zhou responded casually: "...how could it be? It's impossible to be busy on New Year's Day."

"That's good, I was just worried that I would disturb your rest, and I hesitated for a while before coming," but he didn't notice what Lu Zhou was thinking. Director Li put down his wine glass, looked at Lu Zhou, and put on a solemn tone. He continued, "Academician Lu must also know that I came to Jinling this time with a mission."

Lu Zhou nodded: "Someone told me."

Without asking who told him, Director Li also nodded and continued.

"The construction of the Deep Space Gate in the United States has already started. The budget NASA got this time is said to exceed 100 billion U.S. dollars, which can be said to have far exceeded the original 21 billion U.S. dollars expected."

"Our Academy of Social Sciences experts analyzed that the White House's plan this time may not be as simple as returning to the moon. Their real intention may be to reunite their allies through economic and diplomatic means, draw an iron curtain, and let the current The increasingly pluralistic world pattern has entered into a pattern of a new cold war."

As for the intention of doing so, it is naturally to rebalance the balance of international relations.

This will be a new challenge for Huaguo, which has finally opened up the international situation through controllable fusion technology and space strategy. Although the fifth largest semiconductor industry group is still in full swing, even Lu Zhou, who does not have much political sense, can feel that the focus of development in the next ten years must still be in the aerospace field.

Looking at Lu Zhou who was lost in thought, Director Li continued in a solemn tone.

"At present, the United States has opened the door to us and invited our domestic aerospace companies to participate in this 100 billion-dollar project. Do you think we should export space transportation capacity to them?"

This is an interesting question.

If the export capacity is opened, it means that Chinese companies operating space launch business, including Xingkong Technology and the two major aviation groups, will participate in the construction of the deep space gate.

After Lu Zhou thought for a while, he suddenly asked with a smile. "If Huawei had the opportunity to sell chips to Apple, would you stop Huawei from selling them?"

"How come?" Director Li laughed, "As long as they dare to buy, even if we refund the tax to Warwick, we have to let them do this business."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Yeah, I'm afraid they won't dare to pay."

After understanding Lu Zhou's implication, Director Li nodded understandingly.

"I probably understand what you mean."

Lu Zhou nodded with a smile and continued.

"The Deep Space Gate is not a big threat to us, it's just a space station. What really competes with us is not the spacecraft or space stations they own, but the aerospace companies that are about to master these forces, or those who can use the spacecraft A living force sent to the moon and beyond."

"If we can take launch missions away from North American companies like Space-X, Blue Origin, Boeing, etc., we can weaken their market competitiveness in the long run and further expand their and the gap between us."

Since the opening of the Jinling Aerospace Industrial Park and the successful development of the Queqiao, Huaguo's aerospace industry and outer space transportation have achieved scale. The cost of transferring orbits from the surface to the moon can even be compared with the low-earth orbit launches of many countries. This site is on the same order of magnitude.

And this means that in the face of Space-X's bidding documents, Xingkong Technology can easily lower the quotation by 0, and it is still profitable.

Under such circumstances, even if it is hindered by trade protectionism, Xingkong Technology can still steal from the Americas the cakes that originally belonged to North American aerospace companies.

"...If one day in the future, their colonies in distant galaxies need our spacecraft to help maintain their supply lines, even if they spread the space station on Mars and send immigrants to the outskirts of the solar system, it will not be enough at all For worry."

With some doubts still in his heart, Director Li continued: "If the White House can also take this into consideration, why do you think they asked us to enter the Deep Space Gate project?"

"In order to balance the cost, even if they want local companies to take all the orders, it is impossible to bear the soaring costs caused by the imbalance between supply and demand." Lu Zhou smiled and continued, "This is a good thing, which shows that they have begun to consider some It's a real issue."

Between the dream of aerospace supremacy and the thin reality...