Chapter 499 Paying for the Mistakes Made

In the office, the atmosphere became quiet.

For David Gross, although what Xu Chuan said made sense from a personal perspective, it did not meet CERN's expectations at all.

Or, it did not meet the expectations of the member states behind CERN.

Especially the United States, which is more eager to make breakthroughs in controlled nuclear fusion technology.

After all, the emergence of controlled nuclear fusion technology has broken the fragile order that the international community barely maintains.

You know, energy is a prerequisite for the development of society and science and technology for human civilization, or for any civilization.

Throughout the ages, all activities of human society are inseparable from energy, from food, clothing, housing, transportation, to culture and entertainment, all of which consume a certain amount of energy directly or indirectly.

It is an important material basis for human survival and development, the driving force for human social and economic development, and one of the pillars of human modern civilization.

Energy is equivalent to the blood of civilization, which drives the pace of civilization. The more modernized a city is, the more dependent it is on energy.

And this prerequisite has now been broken.

For a country, or a civilization, if the energy problem is solved, it can be said that all the contradictions caused by insufficient productivity will be solved.

The realization of controlled nuclear fusion is bringing such changes.

In this field, if the United States, which has always regarded itself as the world police and international boss, cannot keep up in a short period of time, then its status will inevitably decline.

But for the United States, this is an unacceptable change.

So compared with the European Union, the United States is more eager to make breakthroughs in controlled nuclear fusion technology to continue to maintain its position.

And this time the transaction of the CERN Council was undoubtedly intervened by the United States.

Of course, other member states of CERN also hope to obtain high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material technology, or a batch of materials, from China.

After thinking for a while, David Gross expressed this idea.

"Exchange a batch of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials?" Xu Chuan asked.

Master Gross nodded and said, "Yes, if we can get a batch of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, I will have a greater chance of convincing the Council."

"Of course, apart from the technology transaction, CERN can purchase this batch of superconducting materials by paying some additional funds."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan began to think.

CERN hopes to obtain a batch of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, which is probably the final bottom line of this exchange.

As for the purpose of their needing this batch of superconducting materials, it is naturally related to controlled nuclear fusion technology.

This is something both parties know well, but they just don't say it out loud.

After thinking about it, he felt that this condition was not unfeasible.

For controlled nuclear fusion technology, superconductors with high critical magnetic fields are essential materials, but there are alternatives.

High-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials have advantages in magnetic field strength, but there are also some low-temperature superconducting materials that can achieve this level of magnetic field strength.

It's just that there are gaps in thermal conductivity, critical current density, superposition magnetic field, etc.

If the superposition magnetic field control is carried out through the expansion of the core fusion reactor, it is not impossible to achieve approximate plasma.

He is not worried that the EU will be able to make a breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion technology after getting this batch of materials, because there are two other key factors that are restricting it.

One is the mathematical model of high-temperature plasma turbulence, which is the key to constraining the operation of plasma inside the fusion reactor.

The other is the first wall material, which is even more difficult.

If the mathematical model of high-temperature plasma turbulence can still be made by the ability of the top mathematicians in the EU, the first wall material is extremely difficult and there is no possibility in a short time.

You should know that they also got the first wall material by chance.

In the case that the core material manufacturing technology is not leaked, even if the raw materials are obtained, it is difficult to reverse it.

So it is not impossible to trade a batch of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite materials to CERN.

And the technology in CERN is not what he said.

Apart from other things, he needs the high-energy and particle detector reserve technology in CERN.

Because this technology involves the observation of dark matter.

In his previous life, he observed dark matter through the high-brightness LC-LHC collider, and the construction of the high-brightness LC-LHC collider was in 2025, which is enough to show that CERN now has the corresponding high-energy and particle detector reserve technology.

There is no doubt that this is what he and China need.

It’s just that when buying and selling, you can’t reveal your intentions, just like buying things on the antique street, the first target you ask is better not to put the thing you want.

If CERN knew that you have something they urgently need, they will definitely raise the price.

But now, it is worth trading a batch of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials in exchange for the high-energy and particle detector reserve technology in CERN.

After confirming that this transaction can be reached, the chairman of CERN also relaxed a lot.

Although he will step down as CERN chairman in the second half of this year, his term of office has expired, but he is indeed concerned about physics. During his tenure, he not only facilitated China's joining CERN as a member country, but also laid the foundation for the subsequent cooperation between CERN and China.

After initially settling the cooperation with CERN, after seeing off David Gross and Edward Witten, Xu Chuan returned to the office.

"Tang Ran, here is a list of books and papers, please go and buy them."

In the office, Xu Chuan called his assistant and handed over the paper torn from the notebook in his hand, which listed the names of books and the list of papers he listed.

After dealing with the report meeting and CERN, it is time to deal with his own mistakes.

He made a mistake by introducing the unpublished small polaron theory of the strong electron-phonon interaction system in the unified framework paper of the strongly correlated electron system.

Maybe this is nothing to others, but for him, this is a mistake that should not be made.

Because scientific research must always be rigorous, even if the small polaron theory of the strong electron-phonon interaction system is the result of his own work, he should not make such an elementary mistake.

And if you make a mistake, you must accept the punishment.

When he taught students before, if students made mistakes or did not meet the target requirements, one of the punishment methods was to make a list of books, requiring them to finish reading them within a certain time, and then conduct an assessment.

He himself was no exception.

Perhaps reading books was not a punishment for him, but there was no doubt that he needed to devote all his free time to reading the specified books within the specified time.

And the subsequent assessments were not so easy to pass.

Tang Ran took the paper and glanced at it curiously. On the clean and tidy paper, there were densely packed books including various "", with two or three books in a row, and this piece of paper was almost filled directly.

A rough estimate is that the number of books is probably dozens or even hundreds.

Although he was a little surprised why so many books were bought suddenly, Tang Ran didn't ask much, but just said: "Professor, after buying these books, will they be sent to the office or your villa?"

Xu Chuan thought for a while and said: "One third will be sent to the villa, one third will be sent to the office here, and the remaining one third will be sent to Xinghai Research Institute."

This is how he will spend the rest of his time.

Tang Ran nodded: "Is there a plan? For example, which part will be sent to the villa and which part will be sent to the office?"

Xu Chuan: "Let's do it in the order of the form."

After a pause, he looked at Tang Ran, his eyes fell on her weak arms, and after thinking for a while, he said: "With so many books and paper materials, I'm afraid you and Lu Ling can't move them. Find two male comrades to help move them."

It would be great if the school assigned him a male assistant, so that he could just leave this task to the male assistant.

The bad thing about all female assistants is that in daily work, if you encounter such a job that requires physical labor, it is almost difficult for female comrades to do it.

Tang Ran smiled and said, "Don't worry, professor, I will take care of it."

Xu Chuan nodded, and without thinking too much, he handed over the work of purchasing books and papers to his assistant and left the office.

The report meeting of "Unified Framework Theory of Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems" came to a successful conclusion. After solving the cooperation with CERN, he finally had time to go to the Sichuan Hai Materials Research Institute.

And over there, the test results of the improved superconducting materials were still waiting for him.