Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 180 Element No. 126 "Bonium Void"

"Is this the only way you can do it? Can you make a difference!"

Zhong Cheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I'll find a solution with your sister-in-law!"

"That's great. Wenyu will just listen to sister-in-law. If it's really not good, let sister-in-law talk to her mother!" Zhou Hu cheered up.

"Okay, go get busy, I will take your business to heart."

After Zhou Hu left, Zhong Cheng started to build neuron models in the Taixu experimental system.

Due to the substantial increase in the number of his team, although the performance of Fuxi No. [-] has been improved many times, it still cannot meet the demand.

Zhong Cheng has arranged to add four more super Fuxi optical computers to the computer room of Fuxi No. [-], but in this way, there is no room for activities in the computer room.

Only by connecting the operation terminal to each office, it is convenient for everyone to use Fuxi optical computer.

The central server consisting of five super Fuxi optical brains, coupled with a large number of laboratories and actual factories, enables his R&D team to use almost the best R&D environment in the world.

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A week later, Zhong Chengcheng completed the construction of a single neuron cell, and then constructed more than a dozen neuron tissues in groups of 32 neuron cells, simulating the structure of the adult brain.

However, the neuron cells in the model cannot generate electrical signals, let alone communicate with each other.

In a word, the human brain he simulated is a "dead thing"!
He had no choice but to send this model to Qin Wenyu first, or leave it to experts for research.

This is a long-term research effort!

It's time for the annual National Day again.

Zhong Cheng didn't wait for the leader's arrangement, so he gave everyone a long vacation.

And in order to make up for the trip to northern Hubei that was abandoned halfway last year, he personally led the tour.

It's just that this year's tour group has expanded to 56 people, and everyone has brought their family members along.

Zhong Cheng arranged for the new group members to form three more groups to travel on their own, otherwise the tour group of two to 300 people would not be able to play.

At last, there were no accidents during this trip, and everyone played smoothly until October 10th before returning to Beishan.

10 month 18 day.

Liu Yuzhu's team completed the implementation plan of the salt lake lithium extraction project, and Zhong Cheng also prepared some relevant materials for the implementation of the air bus system.

I plan to go to the national science and technology seminar of this month in three days.

In the morning, Lin Wei, Yang Xi and Ye Wenxin came to him excitedly.

As soon as he entered the door, Lin Wei, who had always been very calm, shouted excitedly: "Zhong Cheng, we have made a major discovery!"

"what?!"

Zhong Cheng stood up suspiciously and beckoned the three of them to sit down.

"Talk slowly, Wen Xin, pour everyone a glass of water!"

Lin Wei started talking as soon as he sat down.

"Zhong Cheng, we discovered a brand new element!"

"Oh, that's good!"

Zhong Cheng blinked his eyes. It was good, but for their team, they couldn't be so happy.

Yang Xi smiled, "Lin Wei, you should start from the beginning!"

He obviously knew Zhong Cheng's temper better, and he knew at a glance that Zhong Cheng was not too interested in this topic.

"cough!"

Lin Wei suppressed his emotions and said: "The current periodic table of elements can only reach element 118 at most."

Zhong Cheng nodded.

As a person engaged in science and engineering, he knows the periodic table of elements very well.

Everything we see in the world is actually composed of various elements.

Scientists numbered various elements according to the number of protons (nuclear charges) in the nucleus from small to large, and made a table to show them.

This table is the periodic table of elements.

The lower the atomic number, the heavier the element. For example, there is only one proton in the hydrogen nucleus, then it is the No. 1 element, and there are two protons in the helium nucleus, it is the No. 2 element, and so on.

It can be seen that we only need to continuously increase the number of protons in the nucleus to obtain heavier and heavier elements.

According to this principle, scientists artificially synthesize elements that do not exist on the earth.

So far, scientists have filled in 118 elements on the periodic table, of which the first 92 are naturally occurring on the earth, while the others are artificially synthesized.

But these new elements are not of high practical value because of their instability and high manufacturing costs.

So it's normal for Zhong Cheng not to take it seriously.

But Lin Wei's next words aroused Zhong Cheng's interest.

"Then the question is, is there an end to the periodic table? What is the heaviest element in the universe?"

"Um?!"

Inside the nucleus there is always a contest between two forces.

One side is the electromagnetic force between protons, and since protons are positively charged, this force appears as a repulsive force.

On the other side is the strong force, which is responsible for tightly binding the nucleons (protons and neutrons) inside the nucleus of an atom.

Although the strong interaction force is the strongest force among the four fundamental forces, it has a weakness, that is, it is a short-range force, and its acting distance is only 10^-15 meters.

However, the electromagnetic force is a long-range force, so the more protons in the nucleus, the more unstable it will be. When a certain critical value is reached, the strong interaction force cannot effectively bind the nucleus.

Then the nucleus may "decay".

Scientists use the term "half-life" to describe how long it takes an element to decay.

According to this, a rule can be drawn, that is, the heavier the element (the larger the atomic number), the shorter its "half-life".

An element is considered absent when its "half-life" is less than the smallest measurable time interval.

So it can be said that the periodic table of elements has an end!
However, the "half-life" of various elements does not necessarily follow this rule.

Scientists have observed from experiments that when the number of protons (or neutrons) in a nucleus is equal to certain numbers, the "half-life" of the nucleus becomes very long.

These numbers are called "magic numbers".

目前被普遍认可的“幻数”包括2、8、20、28、50、82、126这7个数字。

The numbers of protons (or neutrons) of elements such as helium, oxygen, calcium, nickel, tin, and lead that exist stably on the earth correspond to the first 6 "magic numbers" respectively.

According to this phenomenon, some scientists put forward the "stable island theory", and pointed out that the heaviest element in the universe should be the element with 126 protons (or neutrons).

But it has never been confirmed.

Of course, scientists who studied the "island of stability theory" later proposed that there may be larger "magic numbers", namely 138, 154 and 184.

But this is not universally accepted by the scientific community.

Zhong Cheng thought of this, and asked in amazement: "You don't say you discovered element 126, do you?"

"Hahaha!"

Lin Wei laughed and said: "Exactly, we have named this brand-new No. 126 element 'Bonium Kong' element!"

(PS: There is no word for '钅kong' in Chinese characters. You can put it together and pronounce it Kong.)
(End of this chapter)