Chapter 989 Dr. Banner's Suspicion
Recently, various countries have discovered some strange things, no, it should not be said to be strange things. Rather, it is a major breakthrough circulating in the basic science community.
In the beginning, a laboratory in Europe that studies basic materials science made a huge breakthrough in experimenting with a new nanomaterial. An ultra-light and ultra-strong nano-coating material has been developed. It has been five years since the research on this project started.
Britain, France and Germany have allocated more than 100 million US dollars to this laboratory, and this project was originally planned to be done for ten years.
The experimental phase of the first phase should take nearly three years, the second phase needs to reach the seventh year, and the third phase is to reach the tenth year.
The final third stage is to carry out small-scale production of coating materials at the laboratory level, and then enter the next ten years of civilian and military commercialization research. The whole plan is planned for 20 years for industrialization.
But scientific research always has all kinds of unexpected events. Even the most outstanding scientists in the world dare not say when their research will definitely bear fruit. Unless the scientist already knows the final answer in advance, it is normal to delay the process.
As with this nanomaterials project, the first phase of research took four years to complete. Much lower than the three-year plan formulated at the beginning.
But the second phase has just started, and it has already been stuck. The budget departments of Britain, France and Germany are all considering whether the research direction of this laboratory is wrong. Because the whole experiment has been slow to progress.
But since the beginning of this year, Professor Knight, the scientist who presides over the project, seems to have been helped by God. He can always get all kinds of inspiration inadvertently. Whenever he gets stuck in an experiment, he only needs to go out for a turn, and he can get all kinds of inspiration and guidance to help him break out of the predicament.
In just half a year, the progress of the entire laboratory is advancing rapidly. The whole experiment was like a teacher deliberately leaking questions to the students. The research on nanomaterials completed the entire process that was originally expected to take seven years in half a year.
Now it has entered the stage of expanding industrialization. When Professor Knight began to publish his experimental process and results in the past six months in academic journals, it caused quite a stir.
Because everyone feels that this project will not be fruitful until at least ten years later. There are very broad advances in new nanocoating materials.
The progress of a basic science can often lead to a great stride forward of a piece of applied science.
And if there is only one advance in nanomaterials, it can be said to be a burst of inspiration from a genius scientist. Although this is legendary, it has also happened in human history.
But in the past six months, the entire basic science circle has been advancing at a rapid pace. If the speed at which human beings explored basic science before was just riding a bicycle on a slow cruise river, the progress of human beings in basic science in the past six months is like riding a 300-horsepower Kawasaki H2R supercharged motorcycle to participate in a race. Like drag racing.
You have already reached the finish line in a flash, and you don't even know how many times you have changed gears during the process.
Basic science is making strides, as anyone who follows the scientific community knows. In the past six months, various authoritative scientific journals have published more supplements than in the previous ten years combined.
Those articles with 2.0 and 3.0 impact factors seem to be worthless, and they can be written by individuals.
Li Jie is not a scientist, and he will not read such professional magazines as "Nature" and "Science" that laymen can't understand at all. So he doesn't know what's going on in science right now.
Tony can read these magazines, but most of the time he skips them. He specializes in new energy and machinery, so at most he reads articles on materials science, and at most he simply glances at them and doesn't pay special attention to them.
It was Dr. Hank Banner who really read these articles carefully. Dr. Banner didn't know Harry well, so naturally he wouldn't go to Harry's wedding or anything.
When Li Jie, Tony and others were attending Harry's wedding, and Tony also had a daughter. In the Venus base, Dr. Banner is puzzled by arranging various scientific magazines he has read in the past six months.
He was frowning and thinking about something. Dr. Hank, who had turned his blue hair into silver, was walking in from the outside with a cup of coffee. Seeing what Dr. Banner was doing, he asked curiously, "What are you doing?"
"I'm just curious, have you read the latest issue of "Science"?" Dr. Banner asked, looking at Dr. Hank who looked like a silverback gorilla.
"Look, Dr. Wang from China's article on quantum communication is impressive. His article has pushed the field of quantum communication forward for at least 20 years. As long as it can be industrialized, the information and communication industry of the whole world will There will be earth-shaking changes." Dr. Banner nodded seriously.
And Dr. Banner looked at Dr. Hank and said, "Yes, but don't you find it strange? There are too many influential articles of this type recently."
"What's strange?" Dr. Hank was a little puzzled: "Isn't this a good thing for the scientific community?"
"It's a good thing, but it's too concentrated. Isn't it?" Dr. Banner pointed to the magazine he had spread out and said, "In normal times, there are only one or two such articles a year, and at most three or five." .”
"However, since the beginning of this year, it has only been half a year now. You can see how many articles like this have appeared. From materials science, to communication, to cytology, etc. All fields are making great strides forward. Only this progress The pace is too big." Dr. Banner touched his chin and said.
"It's too big for us to apply all these scientific advances in the short term. If we can fully apply these scientific advances, then we should be able to enter the near future scenario that is often portrayed in Hollywood movies. And we generally think that This near-future scenario will not appear until more than a hundred or two hundred years later." Dr. Banner looked at Dr. Hank and said seriously: "What do you think this means, Dr. Hank?"
Hank frowned: "What do you want to say."
Banner began to recycle the magazines, and said at the same time: "When I was in Nepal, Captain Rogers, Jason and Thor went to find me. Jason also gave me some books to read. There is a set of books that I own. The memory is very deep. It comes from the trilogy "Once Upon a Time on Earth" by Chinese writer Liu Cixin."
"In the first part of the "Three-Body Problem" of the "Once Upon a Time on Earth" trilogy, the Trisolarans sent sophons to block all the progress of human basic science in order to lock the technology of the earth people. When the century-old Trisolaran fleet attacked, they were powerless to fight back." Dr. Banner said thoughtfully.
"It's strategically correct. And it's interesting that we're on the opposite side of The Three-Body Problem. We're making great strides in basic science. The same problem, our calculation and derivation process is very smooth. I really doubt that someone is pushing us forward?" Dr. Banner looked at Hank and said.
"Who is doing this, and what is his purpose?"