Chapter 249

"The plasma density has exceeded 2×10^20/m^3!"

Another burst of excited sounds rang out from around him, waking Xiao Yi up.

Looking at the big screen, it is quite close to the number 2.12.

He sighed, forget it, why do you think so much?

Just keep your mind on the present.

But no matter what, he had to try to study the first wall material.

As to how far the development of science and technology can go, the first wall material may be able to give a simple answer.

Success means the road ahead is endless.

unsuccessful……

Let’s talk about it then.

But in short, he has now truly

"2.12! The new limit has arrived!"

The voice next to him reminded Xiao Yi.

He immediately picked up the walkie-talkie: "Okay, now start to control the fuel injection and keep the plasma density stable at 2.12×10^20/m^3!"

"yes!"

…

After about a hundred seconds.

This ignition experiment is over.

The end result is undoubtedly gratifying.

The first is the achievement of running above 100 million degrees for 150 seconds.

This included running at 160 million degrees for 39 seconds.

In addition, the most important result is the verification of the new Greenwald limit.

At a density of 2.12×10^20/m^3, the plasma flow is still quite stable and very safe. This shows that under the same conditions, the energy that nuclear fusion can output can be even higher!

As soon as the relevant news was sent out, it quickly appeared on the domestic hot search list.

Of course, the verification of Greenwald's new limit has once again attracted the attention of the whole world.

However, compared to these good news, the Plasma Institute feels that the better news is——

Xiao Yi decided to accept the invitation, become a researcher at the Institute of Plasma, and join the research on controllable nuclear fusion!

Chapter 219 BE and GE of Human Sciences

As fireworks exploded in the sky at this moment of 12 o'clock.

It also announces the arrival of the new year.

After eating New Year's Eve dinner with his family, he then watched the Spring Festival Gala until after twelve o'clock, Xiao Yi stood in front of the balcony of his room, looking at the night sky outside the window.

The house he lives in now is the villa he bought for nearly 20 million.

However, because he did not show up in person when he bought the house, and because he usually drives in and out of the car, his identity has always been kept secret, so people here probably have never thought that the most famous genius scientist in the country is now , now living in the same community with them.

Looking at the rising light in the sky and the explosion of fireworks, Xiao Yi rarely lost his rational and scientific discussion in his heart, and was left with only the sigh of this beautiful scenery.

However, there are still relatively few people setting off firecrackers. Although fireworks are prohibited in the city, there are always some daring ones.

As 12 o'clock passed, the sound of fireworks became less and less.

"Okay, it's time to go to bed."

Returning to bed, he closed his eyes.

Before falling asleep, he briefly thought about what he would do after the New Year.

The first thing is about officially becoming a researcher at the Institute of Plasma.

Although he had decided to join the Institute of Plasma, since it was already the end of the year and there was no time to go through some relevant procedures, he put this matter until the end of the year.

Of course, this does not mean that he will quit other units. Generally, capable scholars will hold positions in multiple units.

For example, in addition to being the director of the Science Island Laboratory and a professor at the University of Science and Technology, he is still a researcher at the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Mathematics, and he can still get a salary.

When he proved the NS equation before, the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Mathematics also celebrated it. I heard that there were banners and other posters.

Some time ago, I invited him to give a report there.

Of course, when we talk about the report meeting, we have to mention the report in March.

Originally, he thought that this report meeting would not be too troublesome, but now he learned that more than 1,000 people had signed up to participate in this report meeting, including many foreigners.

So when the time comes, this report will no longer be simple even if it wants to be simple.

I heard that the government is planning to expand the scale of his lecture and turn it into a two-day academic exchange. The first day will be his academic report, and the second day will be an exchange meeting.

After all, there are many highly skilled talents among those who came to attend this report, so the government also hopes to retain such talents.

He doesn't have any objections to this. Anyway, he will be responsible for making his own report. How many people can be retained depends on the efforts of the government.

No matter what, this is a rare opportunity. After all, there are not many foreign talents willing to come to China. Now his report will provide such an opportunity. It would be best if the government can seize the opportunity.

All in all, these are the two short-term tasks now.

Join the Plasma Institute and complete the proof report of the NS equation.

As for long-term tasks…

The complex trajectory of the plasma flow in the tokamak resurfaced in his mind.

Achieve controlled nuclear fusion.

Before, he felt that this research was far away from him.

But now, he suddenly became anxious about the level that human technology can reach.

So, he now wants to use the question of whether controlled nuclear fusion can be achieved to give himself an answer.

The thoughts in his mind gradually turned into chaos with sleepiness, and finally, he fell asleep.

And probably because of the daytime thinking and nighttime dreaming, in his dream tonight, he dreamed of the future human world, with extremely advanced technology, and even reached the level of civilization 2.0.

Not only can the Dyson sphere be built around the sun, but it can even achieve space travel between stars.

As for controlled nuclear fusion, it has been realized a long time ago, and even the third generation of nuclear fusion, helium-triple fusion, has been realized. Because such fusion reactions produce almost no neutrons, the radiation damage to the first wall material is much lower than that of deuterium-tritium fusion, and the life of the nuclear fusion reactor has also been greatly improved. After a spacecraft is equipped with a helium-triple fusion reactor, it can travel in the universe for at least 50 years without landing. If it is refueled, it is not a problem to travel for a hundred years.

Productivity has been greatly improved, and everything has reached a level that humans in the 21st century cannot imagine.

And he himself has become the chief scientist of human civilization and has received countless respects because of the various great breakthroughs he has made in the field of nuclear fusion.

But suddenly, he suddenly found that he was awake, and it turned out that he was just in a dream.

After waking up, he found that he was actually in the 25th century. Let's not talk about how he lived to the 25th century. However, although the science of the human beings in the 25th century was quite developed, especially in network technology, it had reached an unprecedented height. The metaverse had also been fully built. Almost most of the young people devoted their time to the metaverse, and there were very few young people who wanted to be scientists.

At this time, the scientific community could hardly find the future direction. Although humans had been able to migrate to the moon and Mars and establish human bases, quantum communication technology had also made great progress and had been fully applied to network technology, allowing humans on the three planets of Earth, the moon, and Mars to achieve non-delayed communication.

However, in terms of the most critical energy technology, it was completely stagnant.

Although controlled nuclear fusion has been achieved, even the Q value can reach 10.

However, the nuclear fusion reactor created by humans can only maintain the operation of the reactor for one year. After one year, it must be shut down for maintenance. This is mainly because the most important first wall material has never made a key breakthrough, and scientists no longer know what kind of molecular structure can withstand the erosion of high-energy neutrons and can make good use of the energy generated by the reaction. The development of materials has reached its limit.

And the reactor that is shut down for maintenance once a year has been used by them for four centuries. One of the key raw materials needed has almost been used up by them. Only a hundred years of quota is left. On Earth, Mars and the Moon, this raw material has been mined out.

When this key raw material is completely used up, all nuclear fusion reactors in the world will have to be shut down.

At that time, humans will fall from the current prosperity to the level of no controllable nuclear fusion four centuries ago.

You know, in today's society, because the metaverse has become the main way of life for humans, 80% of the world's industries are related to the metaverse, and these metaverse technologies are basically maintained by quantum communication technology. The power consumption of the entire society has increased by hundreds of times compared to before.

Once there is no nuclear fusion to maintain, what will happen to the people who have lost the metaverse? It is simply unimaginable.

And just those people are nothing.

Governments of various countries have also realized this problem.

If this problem cannot be solved scientifically, there is only one way left, which is to reduce the overall power consumption, or simply reduce the population directly.

Because the prosperity brought by nuclear fusion for centuries has also allowed the human population to expand for centuries again. Until now, the total population living on the three planets has reached 20 billion people, especially on Earth, where more than 15 billion people live.

Therefore, if the population is reduced by half, then those raw materials can be used for at least another 200 years, and if it is reduced by three quarters, it can be used for another 400 years!

Therefore, those weak countries were once again poisoned by war.

Even, it is not ruled out that such things will happen in the human bases on the moon and Mars.

After all, the casualties caused by destroying the human bases on Mars and the moon are definitely much higher than those caused on Earth.

Once the human base is destroyed, the humans living in it can't escape.

So until one day.

In this dream, Xiao Yi is also the most important scientist in the world and went to the Mars base for an investigation.

And when he went out of the cabin to investigate, he suddenly saw a fire in the sky in the distance, and he could clearly recognize that it was a missile. In the end, the missile landed on the base behind him.