Black technology starts from the steel suit

Chapter 204 204 Untitled (Anti-theft, just refresh tomorrow)

After reading the letter, Wang Feng asked, "Have you already understood this matter?"

Jin Lili thought Wang Feng was unhappy, so she held Wang Feng's hand: "For your safety, please don't mind."

"I'm not unhappy, I just want to hear your opinions." Again, when it comes to your own safety, no matter how careful you are, you can't be too careful.

"Our opinion is for you to decide. If you decide to go, then you don't need to worry about anything. If you don't plan to go, then we can also write a more euphemistic letter to refuse them."

"That's it, then I understand." Wang Feng nodded. This is the benefit of being backed by a powerful motherland.They may look down on you, but they will respect your strength.

Because he could not make up his mind, Wang Feng told his supervisor, Academician Zhu, the invitation letter from the Max Planck Society.After listening to Wang Feng's statement, the old man stopped the pen in his hand and raised his head to look at Wang Feng.

"Are you planning to go to Mapu Institute?"

"Under consideration," Wang Feng thought for a while, and said, "Actually, I prefer to hold this report meeting at a domestic university."

Germany is just too far away.

He just finished working on a project, and he doesn't want to travel far for a while, he just wants to take a good rest.

And out of selfish considerations, he hopes that the influence of his alma mater will become greater.Because it is mutual, the more help he gives to his alma mater, the more help he will get in the future.Man is a social animal, and man cannot exist apart from the collective.

Your social status depends not only on your talents and intelligence, but also on the help of those around you.

After thinking about it for a while, Academician Zhu unexpectedly did not agree with his point of view: "The old headmaster must be very happy to hear you say that, and he will definitely be willing to spend a lot of time on your behalf, but I don't recommend you to do this. .”

oh?Wang Feng was a little curious: "Why?"

"The reason is very simple. The stage here is still too small. It is suitable for doing research quietly, but it is not suitable for preaching. If you want to promote your doctrine, you need a broader stage. There is a broader stage outside HKUST. The world also has a better window and environment.”

Putting down the pen in his hand, Academician Zhu looked at his former students and continued, "My suggestion is that when you are young, you should go out more. No matter what you are studying, communicate more with scholars in the same field, It is far more helpful for research than one person leading a group of young people to study."

Moreover, in the eyes of Academician Zhu, Wang Feng's way of studying problems is really no different from "fighting alone".

Wang Feng made a helpless expression and shrugged his shoulders: "Okay, I will seriously consider your suggestion."

"Communication with scholars in the same field is sometimes not just to broaden your mind or get some help, but more to gain a sense of presence, publicize your achievements, and expand your popularity."

"Sometimes, this one thing is more important than your hard work. Can you understand?"

"alright, I got it."

"I hope you will. Also, after you go there, remember to say hello to that old guy Faltings for me." Speaking of the old friend's name, a rare smile appeared on Academician Zhu's serious face , "I have been away from Germany for more than 40 years, and I don't know if his arrogance has been cured."

Academician Zhu once studied in Germany and studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich.It's just that for some unknown reason, he instead formed an indissoluble bond with that mathematician, a proud old Germanic man.

Recalling his encounter with the old man when he was at MIT, Wang Feng's expression suddenly became a little subtle.

The old man doesn't seem very easy to deal with.

Although I don't know what Professor Faltings looked like when he was still in the German research institute 40 years ago.

But judging from what he personally saw, it probably hasn't been cured... No, it's better to say that the situation is getting worse and worse.

"I know that you are not interested in things other than scientific research, but if you are not interested in some things, they will not happen to you. Your current position is getting higher and higher. There are more and more people.”

"Even if you don't have this request, they will. And you have some things, and you can't do without their help. So you can't escape the world."

"Taking a step back, such a thing will not be particularly troublesome to you. I know you are young and energetic, and may look down on others, but since these big guys can stand out from a group of geniuses, they must have their own uniqueness of."

"I'll think about it." Wang Feng followed suit.

After leaving Professor Zhu's office, Wang Feng returned to his own office.

Sitting in front of the computer, he thought for a while, edited an email, and replied to the invitation from the Institute of Electrochemistry of the Max Planck Society according to the email address left in the written letter.

In the end he decided to go to Germany.

What Academician Zhu said is indeed not wrong, his nature is indeed good, but the reality must be taken into consideration.The reality is that you can't become a fat man by eating in one sitting. Although he intends to help HKUST become a world-class prestigious school, this matter still needs to be done step by step.

The most important thing for him now is not this matter, but to find a way to grow his own tree as luxuriantly and deeply rooted as possible.Why!

From this point of view, his influence should not only be limited to the country, but should be carried forward to the whole world.Only in this way can he do what he wants to do more efficiently.

Moreover, since the Max Planck Society has promised in the invitation letter to bear all the expenses during his visit to Germany, it is not bad to go out as a public trip.

After all, although he is not short of money, free things are better than paid ones!

It's just that in this way, the PPT for the report must be prepared as soon as possible... Thinking of this, he began to wonder whether he should recruit a group of doctoral students.

Such miscellaneous work, no matter what, can't be done by myself all the time.

After working all day, it's finally dinner time.

Wang Feng stretched, saved the unfinished PPT, and sat up from the office chair.Fortunately, besides being a professor, he is also the boss of the entire institute.

Since he doesn't want to do it himself, he can hand over the work to one of the participating PhDs. He only needs to review it and tell them the direction of revision.

Just one word, cool!
After returning home in the evening, he still had some special things to do. He planned to end his work earlier, so he told Jin Lili that she would not have to prepare dinner for him for a while, and then went to the dining area of ​​the staff cafeteria alone.

Coincidentally, just as Wang Feng was about to start eating, he ran into Senior Brother Wei who had just finished picking up his meal.

"Didn't you go home for dinner?" The team leader who had just finished work asked absent-mindedly as he sat down opposite Wang Feng with a plate.He was very aware of Wang Feng's treatment, and he had even spent time there.I know that the skills of those chefs are not comparable to the chefs in these cooking classes.

"I don't want to go home to eat today. And I heard that today's food is very good, and there is still a lot of meal allowance left at the end of the month, so the food these days is very good."

"You don't come here to inspect their work, and lower the standard of meal allowance by the way?" Senior Brother Wei said in a joking tone.

"What do you think of me? Although I don't have a lot of money, I still have money to feed you and eat well."

"It's boring if you're so hypocritical."

...

"Haha, I am the same. Actually, after getting used to it, I found that the food in the research institute is also quite delicious." Senior Brother Wei smiled, "At least it is much better than the rice cooked by my wife..."

"Does sister-in-law know when you say that?" It was the first time Wang Feng heard Senior Brother Wei say that. He looked at him unexpectedly and asked, "You'd better bring back the big sword that cheated me last time, otherwise, I will kill you." Tell sister-in-law."

"Hehehe, don't do this, don't do this! If your sister-in-law finds out, she will definitely eat me." Brother Wei begged for mercy.

"And your little girlfriend is not an ordinary person, how dare you go out and make such a fuss?"

"Ahem, ahem, let's discuss something else." The two wives put an end to this unhealthy, but rather dangerous topic.

After dinner, Wang Feng did not go home immediately after leaving the Institute for Advanced Study, but jogged around the small lake behind.

As a researcher, only with a healthy body can he perform better in research.

Ever since he became a professor, Wang Feng has realized this more and more deeply.

As a husband, only with a healthy and strong body can the family and everything prosper.Then

After sweating, he returned home and took a shower. Wang Feng lay on the bed refreshed. Jin Lili seemed to be back to report to work. It is not easy for a top scientist to go abroad for an academic visit. Deploy it.

And taking advantage of this time, Wang Feng can also take a good rest and think about how to go in the future.

Recently, he often visits the museum because he increasingly finds that chemistry has limits.Even the best chemical fuels have an energy density less than one-ten-thousandth that of nuclear energy.

And the energy density of the best chemical batteries is difficult to reach 1/5 of that of fuel, so that sometimes he has to think about a question: Should I study physics carefully?

Nuclear power is an efficient energy source that consumes less resources
You can look at a set of data, which is a very intuitive comparison of numbers. The energy density of nuclear energy far exceeds that of chemical energy.

Since the principle of nuclear power generation is nuclear fission, a small amount of mass is lost during the fission process, and this part of mass is converted into energy (e=mc2).Commonly used fossil fuels are nothing more than the breaking and reconnecting of bonds between molecules.The energy difference between the two is several orders of magnitude.A 100W kilowatt power station, if coal is used, needs about 400 million tons of standard coal a year, and 2760 trains are needed to transport it.The nuclear power plant only needs 30 tons of raw materials.So we can see that nuclear power is largely unaffected by changes in raw material prices.This largely determines that nuclear power is beneficial to stabilizing electricity prices.In addition, the convenience of transportation makes nuclear power very suitable for power supply in some remote areas.

In addition to high energy density, nuclear power has almost no CO2 emissions and no gas pollutant emissions, and nuclear power plants under compliance management will not discharge radioactive substances at will.Therefore, from the perspective of environmental protection, especially emission reduction, nuclear power has its own incomparable advantages.

On the campus of the University of Chicago, the lighthouse country, there is an abandoned sports field.On the outer wall in front of the stadium looking west, there is a carved metal plaque, which reads in English: "On December 1942, 12, human beings realized the first self-sustaining chain reaction here, thus opening a controlled release of nuclear energy."

This is the birth certificate of the atomic age.The first atomic reactor made by mankind was built on the tennis court under the stands of this stadium.It was November 1942, and the campus of the University of Chicago in Beacon Country was deserted.As the Beacon Country was involved in the Second World War, the students went their separate ways, and the campus lost its former joyous and noisy atmosphere for a while.

Careful people were surprised to find that at the entrance of the indoor tennis court of the campus gymnasium, there was a striking sign that read "Institute of Metallurgical Technology", prohibiting outsiders from entering.

In fact, a group of important figures came here, headed by the Italian physicist Enrifermi, who led a group of physicists to develop an atomic reactor here.

As early as January 1939, at the International Conference on Theoretical Physics, Fermi learned that the German physicist Hahn had discovered the phenomenon of uranium nuclear fission.At that time, Fermi was very shocked. He seemed to have a premonition of its great value: After a uranium nucleus captures a neutron, it will split into two roughly equal parts.

In this way, if each fission of the uranium nucleus emits a neutron, it will cause the next fission.In this cycle, a chain reaction may occur.Then, Fermi calculated that uranium nuclear fission may release unimaginably huge energy.

Then, Fermi continued his experiments.Using an advanced cyclotron, the possibility of a chain reaction has been confirmed, and the reaction speed is extremely fast, and the time interval between the two reactions is only one-fiftieth of a second.

For such an achievement, Fermi was thrilled.He believes that once the rate of uranium nuclear fission can be artificially controlled, the chain reaction will continue automatically, and it will release huge energy in a very short period of time. Human beings will open up new energy sources!

The fact is indeed as he thought.It's just that what he didn't expect was that the first to use this principle was not the atomic reactor that could benefit mankind, but the unparalleled atomic bomb.

But this is really not difficult to understand. After all, it was in a war period, and all development must be based on war.

It did, however, kick off the atomic age.

(End of this chapter)