From University Lecturer to Chief Academician

There has been a lot of debate within the tech sector over purchase orders from two large corporations.

Some tend to make deals;

Some people think that the sale of raw materials has a risk of leaking secrets, and they insist on trading only as a section of our iron material, but the follow-up will delay the delivery for too long, and they cannot reach an agreement with the two companies.

Herein lies the paradox.

In fact, no matter whether they are inclined to trade or consider the issue of confidentiality, everyone is very clear that there is a risk of leaking secrets in the sale of raw materials. The question is to what extent the secrets will be leaked.

F-rays are the most critical.

If it is determined that the sale of raw materials will reveal the existence of F-rays, no one will support a deal, because the confidentiality of F-ray technology is much more important than $3 billion.

When Zhang Lin brought back the news about Wang Hao, the senior staff felt incredible, "Academician Wang has developed a new technology that can directly create a large-scale strong annihilation force field, and the strength is still very high?"

"is that true?"

"Maybe it's true. Recently, the annihilation force field experiment team has been spending too much money..."

"This should be the research result!"

"This result is really..."

"Excellent value!"

The senior staff were very pleasantly surprised.

In fact, one of the reasons why they consider taking risks to reach a deal is that there is a lot of financial pressure. Even as a national science and technology department, the annual budget is very limited.

The annihilation force field experiment team burned too much money, to the point where it was difficult to maintain.

Even if it is just doing routine research, because the materials and equipment used are too high-end, the auxiliary equipment used in the manufacturing of the force field, including the cooperation of other departments, a series of high-tech, material ordering, etc., will burn two dollars a month. , 300 million is easy.

In the past two months, more than two billion yuan has been filled in.

In the face of the expending speed of the Annihilation Force Field Experimental Group, money really seems to be just a number.

Now it is equivalent to solving two problems directly.

One is the issue of confidentiality. If F-rays are not used for raw material manufacturing, naturally there is no need to worry about the leakage of F-ray technology.

The second is the large-scale strong annihilation force field, which can quickly produce first-order iron raw materials.

According to the order price of the first-order iron raw materials by two large enterprises, doesn't it mean... the new annihilation force field manufacturing technology is faster than printing money?

"It doesn't need to be the same price, just half of it."

"A tenth is fine!"

"Large-scale field force, I have learned about it in detail. There is a large-scale field force. The way to make it is to pass materials through the field force area..."

As the senior staff thought about it carefully, a golden light shone in their eyes.

Not to mention how much revenue the first-order iron raw materials can bring in the future, the three billion US dollars in front of us is very attractive.

Many people will pay attention to how much assets a certain rich person has, and how much profit a certain large company makes a year. They may think that three billion US dollars is not too much for the national science and technology sector.

Actually, not so.

The national scientific research budget is fixed.

The annual total appropriation cannot exceed the total budget. If a certain research occupies a large amount of funds, it will directly affect the funding of other projects.

There are many types of scientific research funding, including special projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, national defense expenditures, natural science funds, and so on.

For example, the Natural Science Fund, which is closest to the scientific research funding of universities, has an annual science and technology investment budget of about 40 billion yuan.

A comparison will show how huge three billion US dollars is.

Now one deal can make three billion dollars, and it can be directly and easily earned. It can be said that the funding of the technology department has been greatly supplemented.

Naturally, there will be no objections in the follow-up.

soon.

The science and technology department and two large companies reached an agreement and decided to sell raw materials containing 45 grams of first-order iron at a price of three billion U.S. dollars.

The delivery time of raw materials is set in two months.

...

"Delivery is scheduled for two months?"

Duruk-Bent was very concerned about this transaction, and he knew the details on the day the two parties signed the contract.

"What does this mean?"

Of course, Duruk-Bent couldn't figure it out, so he found a group of experts in related fields to discuss the two-month delay in delivery.

A large group of experts quickly came up with three possibilities.

The first possibility is, "They rely on the experimental group to manufacture raw materials instead of having a factory. The manufacture of raw materials cannot affect the annihilation force field experiment."

The experimental group is not a factory, and it does not specialize in the production of certain raw materials.

If the superior department wants to use the equipment of the experimental group to manufacture certain materials, it cannot delay the time of experimental research. If it is replaced by some small laboratories, of course there is no right and no reason to resist. After all, it involves a large amount of income that cannot be refused.

Wang Hao and the Antigravity Behavior Research Center are different. Their research is the most important and cutting-edge in the world, so the situation is naturally different.

Caltech professor Alexei Meyer suggested another possibility, "Maybe they're making it very slowly."

"We don't know how raw materials containing primary iron are made."

"Many people subconsciously think that just putting iron in a strong annihilation force field is like a normal magnetization reaction, but maybe it's not."

"I know a special physical phenomenon of a strong annihilation force field, that is, it will be repelled by a high magnetic field. Kubo's organization is preparing to study this phenomenon."

"Maybe high magnetic repulsion will cause some changes in the field force, or high magnetic manufacturing equipment takes up a lot of space, etc., whatever the reason, in short, things may not be the same as we imagined, maybe The manufacturing process is not that simple."

Alexei Meyer's statement has been recognized by many experts.

Finally, Christopher Johnson also mentioned a possibility, "Maybe the technology is not up to standard."

"The raw materials they manufacture contain very low levels of first-order iron, so extraction is a big problem, and it will cost a lot of money..."

"One possibility, I think, is that the force field they created is unstable and just close enough to allow the iron to make electronic transitions."

"The raw materials that pass the force field still need a series of tests to determine whether they contain first-order iron."

"This process takes a lot of time."

Christopher also received a lot of support.

The reason is very simple. Their inherent impression of creating a strong annihilation force field is that "it costs a lot of money to create a fixed force field."

This is the case with the equipment of the International Annihilation Theory Organization. A piece of equipment costing tens of billions of dollars to produce an annihilation force field with a fixed strength.

Because of the complexity of the equipment, there is little room for adjustment.

If you want to create a stronger field force, even if you pass the technical demonstration, you need to carry out major engineering modifications, or simply re-manufacture new equipment.

The technology of the Antigravity Behavior Research Center is indeed high-end, but it has only 'barely' discovered the extremely weak first-order iron element.

Therefore, there is a great possibility that the technology is not up to standard and the field force is unstable.

...

Annihilation force field experiment base.

The science and technology department formed a leading group, especially to investigate and learn about new technologies. They are very interested in new technologies.

Wang Hao and Teacher Xu walked in front.

Pulling behind Xiang Qiansheng, he introduced the new technology to the leading group, "The new technology we have developed can produce a large-scale and strong annihilation force with one piece of equipment."

"The original technology was the superposition of anti-gravity fields, and the equipment manufacturing cost was very high. Now it is directly manufactured by a piece of equipment, which is much simpler."

"Moreover, the field strength is also high."

"Last week, we've raised the field strength to 4.81."

Speaking to Gansheng, he found that the people in the leadership team were puzzled, and explained, "The strength of the field force produced by the original technology is about 4.3 to 4.6."

A comparison will understand.

"Beyond the original strength?"

"Is it possible to manufacture raw materials containing first-order iron in large quantities now?"

"this……"

"Not yet!"

Xiang Qiansheng said a little depressed, he felt that technology is equivalent to playing the piano with a group of laymen, and the key point of concern of the other party is completely different.

Wang Hao stopped and said with a smile, "We now have two methods to produce raw materials of first-order iron. One method is to continue to increase the strength."

"Another way is to use strong magnetic interference."

"We are more inclined to the first one for the time being, because the introduction of a strong magnetic field is the next step, and premature magnetic field intervention is not conducive to research."

After Wang Hao explained, he continued to walk forward, and said to Teacher Xu, "Actually, catching up with and surpassing the original technical strength is only the initial goal."

"We hope that by using the new technique to create a stronger annihilation field, we may then be able to find other elemental substances that undergo electronic transitions."

"This is the most important."

"If you can find other first-order elements, Mr. Xu, you should understand..."

"this……"

Mr. Xu is not a professional scholar. He considered it carefully and said, "Will material science make great progress?"

"That's just one part of it."

Wang Hao continued, "Actually, I am more concerned about annihilation theory, or annihilation physics. If a second first-order material can be found, the theory related to strong annihilation force can be improved, and the properties of elements, the strength of annihilation force field and Correlation of electronic transition phenomena."

"Even, analyzing annihilation force and electromagnetic force..."

"That's the most important thing!"

...

For more than a month, the annihilation force field experiment team continued to study.

Halfway through they did four experiments.

The increase in strength of the annihilation force field produced by the experiment is almost as expected.

There is still an improvement every time, but the magnitude of the improvement is not as good as before, but the accumulation of the three promotions is also very large.

"6.52!"

Zhu Huacai's group measured the force field strength data.

This intensity value is already close to Wang Hao's judgment range for the intensity of F-rays, but as long as it does not enter the judgment range, the reaction of the experimental team will be very flat.

Of course, they are still very happy.

But when they are happy again and again, the threshold of happiness will naturally increase, and they are only satisfied with the results, and they have not reached the level of excitement.

The next day, a news from the material testing center made people excited.

In the magnetized iron material manufactured by the Material Testing Center, the 'extremely weak' first-order iron element was detected.

When the news came, Wang Hao stood up in surprise, and he immediately looked at the test data report.

The values ​​above...

That is indeed 'extremely weak'.

Wang Hui said, "Compared with the original material, the content of first-order iron has been reduced by more than three times. If this material is to be used for extraction of first-order iron, the estimated cost will be more than ten times higher..."

Wang Hui focuses on the direction of material detection, participating in the research is just to analyze the material, research and extract the first-order iron.

He didn't know about the existence of F-rays, or how the raw materials were made.

Therefore, Wang Hui is more concerned about the extraction of first-order iron. The original material extraction cost is already very high. Even now, every gram of extraction costs tens of millions.

In the current materials, the content of first-order iron is lower, and the extraction cost will rise linearly.

ten times!

That means that every gram of extraction needs 100 million.

This is simply 'eating money'.

Wang Hao was very excited after hearing this.

One is because the magnetized iron material definitely contains a first-order iron element, which means that the field strength of '6.52' has exceeded the limit of the iron element's electronic transition.

Two...

The technology department has an order for 45 grams of raw materials.

Since the other party needs the raw material of first-order iron, it can deliver this material. As for the cost of the other party's extraction...

Doesn't it directly prove that the extraction cost is really high?

One gram, one billion...

Conscience price ah!

...

After determining the first-order iron element contained in the magnetized iron material and the specific content value of the first-order iron element, the annihilation force field experiment team quickly started to manufacture it.

The current manufacturing method is the same as many people imagined.

After using experimental equipment to create a strong annihilation force field, it is enough to pass the pure iron material slowly through the field force, and then perform degaussing treatment.

These materials can then be packaged and delivered.

The experimental team quickly completed the manufacturing work, and the delivery speed of the materials was also very fast. The delivery place was at the airport in Heliao City.

Both companies are transported by cargo planes.

After the plane took off, it was difficult to say the specific delivery location. One plane deviated midway and went straight to American Chicago.

Chicago, Administration Building.

Duruk-Bent met with several materials experts at Argonne, including Christopher Johnson, who works on first-order iron materials.

However, it was Duroinshev-J-Baker who did the research on the raw materials. He held a report and said seriously, "My team has already done preliminary research on the raw materials."

"The content of the first-order iron element is extremely weak, and the extraction work is very difficult."

"At present, our understanding of first-order iron is limited to international public information and the research results of Mr. Johnson."

Duroinshev glanced at Christopher before continuing, "Our preliminary judgment is that the extraction cost per gram of first-order iron will be around 35 million U.S. dollars."

This number is surprisingly high.

Duruk-Bent couldn't help asking, "Thirty-five million dollars? Are you sure?"

"I am sure."

Duroinshev said seriously.

Duruk-Bent took a deep breath and said, "The extraction cost of one gram is 35 million US dollars, plus the manufacturing cost of raw materials, 100 million US dollars is not high..."

"Profit margins may be less than fifty percent!"

"this……"

"The opponent's technology department is really conscientious?"

"..."

"..."