Chapter 379 Heading to the Plasma Laboratory

"What? You don't have the material?"

Hearing the system's answer, Lin Xiao's face suddenly showed a very surprised expression.

Does the system even think that there is no such electromagnetic force material?

Of course, electromagnetic material is just a term he made up, but he knows what the electromagnetic material he is talking about is, so the system also knows what he is talking about.

Basically, all three forms of solid, liquid, and gas in the universe belong to electromagnetic matter. That is, based on the electromagnetic interaction force, the extranuclear electrons between atoms attract each other and form chemical bonds, and then countless atoms are connected in this way. The substance formed.

This is the form of matter that is generally recognized by people. There are many other forms, such as plasma, Bose-Einstein condensate, and fermion condensate. However, these three are not capable of being formed under normal circumstances. I saw it, so there is no need to discuss it further.

Of course, if he really wanted to dig deeper, Lin Xiao could now find a form that could serve as the inner wall material of a nuclear fusion device, that is, degenerate matter.

For example, in the neutron degenerate state, in this state, all atomic nuclei are closely together, and protons and electrons combine to become neutrons, so only neutrons are left in the entire substance.

And this material can obviously easily withstand the bombardment of neutrons in nuclear fusion.

However, the most common neutron degenerate material in the universe is a neutron star. The reason why a neutron degenerate state can be formed is because of the huge gravity of the neutron star. The gravity overcomes all other repulsive forces and forces the electrons and Atomic nuclei combine to form this material.

So to put it this way, it means that if you want to use this kind of thing as the inner wall material of nuclear fusion, you need to use the neutron degenerate state, which is the second most dangerous thing in the universe after black holes.

After all, a cubic centimeter of neutron star can have a mass of 2 billion tons, and the entire earth is only 60 trillion tons, which is equivalent to a neutron star of 30 cubic kilometers.

Of course, there is no need to consider these for the time being. What needs to be considered is how to create even one cubic centimeter of neutron degenerate matter on the earth.

So, there is no need to consider this at all.

In the end, if you want to solve the problem of materials for the inner walls of nuclear fusion devices, you still have to go back to materials that can be created on earth.

But now, even the system believes that this ordinary solid material is impossible to perform this function.

Although the system's denial was very disappointing, Lin Xiao was not surprised at all. After all, this could be calculated based on calculations.

For electromagnetic interaction materials, the ultimate force they can withstand is the electromagnetic force between them, which is the energy that needs to be absorbed when chemical bonds are broken. This is basically a matter of high school chemistry. I have learned all of them.

In nuclear fusion, the uncontrolled neutrons produced by the fusion of deuterium and tritium will carry energy at least equivalent to a temperature of more than 100 million K and directly hit these chemical bonds. Obviously, even the strongest metal bond among chemical bonds will It is basically difficult to withstand the bombardment of this energy, and in addition to the breakage of chemical bonds, the damage caused to the inner wall by neutron transmutation during nuclear fusion is also one of the reasons why the dream of human nuclear fusion has not been realized so far.

Lin Xiao's face couldn't help but show a headache expression at this moment.

The system has denied it, so what kind of materials are needed now to be able to fulfill this role?

Or is there even no such material?

Is using magnetic confinement devices to achieve controllable nuclear fusion the wrong direction?

He frowned and asked in his mind: "So, how many truth points are needed to be able to use the material technology for the inner wall of a tokamak device?"

The system replied: "A thousand truth points are needed."

Lin Xiao's brows relaxed slightly. It seemed that there was still such material.

However, the price is really too expensive. For one thousand truth points, even a room-temperature superconductor only had only five hundred truth points.

Of course, this is the core material in the controllable nuclear fusion device after all.

It can be said that as long as humans master this material, controllable nuclear fusion will become as close as a stone's throw away and within reach.

And even room-temperature superconductors, although they have a great effect, can only slightly alleviate human energy problems. Compared with controllable nuclear fusion, which can completely solve the human energy crisis, it is still slightly inferior.

Therefore, if Lin Xiao had to spend one thousand truth points or five hundred truth points at this moment to redeem the inner wall material of the controllable nuclear fusion device or room temperature superconductor, then he would be 100% willing to spend one thousand to redeem it.

However, this is a thousand truth points after all. Lin Xiao has saved up so many truth points for so many years, and now he only has more than a thousand truth points, so he does not plan to redeem them directly yet.

At least you have to try it yourself first.

It's nothing more than using numbers to calculate again.

Then just figure out a suitable material form.

Well, it's simple...well, I can't really say it's simple.

At this moment, Lin Xiao couldn't help but shook his head with a headache, and then turned his gaze outside the balcony again, looking at the lights lit up in every house, "Well, it seems that I am very busy this year. Hey, my mother just said that I will be busy this year." I’m not busy anymore. I have to find a daughter-in-law for them. Hey, let’s tell them this ‘good news’… Ah Sneeze!”

After sneezing suddenly, he covered his body, remembering that he had been outside for a while and it was time to go back inside to warm up.

…

Time passed quickly.

Although the Spring Festival is short, for Lin Xiao, it can be regarded as a half-day of leisure.

As soon as the Lantern Festival passed, he once again set out on his way to work.

"Let me tell you, being busy at work is one thing, but you must also take care of your life. Although it is not urgent to find a wife, finding a girlfriend must be urgent. Did you know?"

Standing at the door of his house, Lin Xiao said with a look of despair: "I know, I know, don't read it, don't read it."

He shouldn't have done it that night and shared a piece of 'good news', only to have it talked about for a year.

"Go ahead, you brat, you won't be obedient when you grow up."

Looking at her son's expression, Yang Rong shook her head.

Seeing Lin Xiao devote his attention to research every day, if he were a student, she would be happy as a parent, but now... well, it is really worrying.

But children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. She and Father Lin can't care about it, so they can only talk about it.

Seeing Lin Xiao and his bodyguards arranged by the country go downstairs, Yang Rong closed the door and could only pray for Lin Xiao in her heart that his research would go smoothly.

…

Lin Xiao finally set foot on the road to work, but he did not go directly to Shangjing, but went to Feishi first.

According to what Ma Gaoliang said, after he went to the Plasma Institute, he would be received there, so he planned to go here first.

It just so happened that he also wanted to discuss with the scientific researchers over there about the inability of ordinary materials to do the job.

Soon, we came to Fei City. The plasma laboratory is located on Fei City Science Island, an island that sounds very scientific, and of course it is. This place is basically a research institution. I met an age-looking person on the road. The older one may be a professor-level person.

Of course, it is also possible to catch a young man who looks to be in his twenties and is an academician.

That is Lin Xiao who came here today.

Sitting in a car arranged by the National Security Bureau, Lin Xiao entered the Institute of Plasma, which had already received the news and lined the streets to welcome him at the entrance of the institute.

"Welcome Academician Lin."

"Hello, Academician Lin!"

Everyone present, whether they were researchers or graduate students, all cast admiring glances at Lin Xiao.

Just kidding, who doesn’t know that room-temperature superconductors were developed by Lin Xiao?

This alone is enough for those present to thank Lin Xiao. After all, a room-temperature superconductor has brought them countless papers.

Currently, only China in the world has room-temperature superconductors, and in terms of research on nuclear fusion, they are the only people who can obtain room-temperature superconductors for experiments. So in this regard, the topics they have published recently are basically all room-temperature superconductors. Superconductors are rounded. Of course, they have also given birth to no less than five "Science" and "Nature" papers. As for other papers in this area, they are even more countless. This is the purely academic value of room temperature superconductors, just like cryo-electron microscopy. A photo of a hair is like a piece of "Cell".

Faced with such a welcome, Lin Xiao also smiled and greeted these people, and then entered the reception room under the leadership of Song Tao, director of the Plasma Institute.

"Academician Lin, we have finally met you."

After arriving at the reception room, Song Tao sighed.

Lin Xiao smiled: "It's nothing strange to see me. Everyone is doing it for academic reasons anyway."

Song Tao laughed and said, "That's true. However, I'll leave academic matters to our Academician Li Gang. In terms of academics, I'm definitely not as good as the two academicians."

Then he pointed to another person beside him.

Academician Li Gang, director of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Plasma Research.

Generally speaking, if there is an academic committee in an institute, then its director is basically fully responsible for academic research matters, and his academic ability and status are among the highest. For example, Zhao Xian, the father of superconductivity, He is also the director of the academic committee of his research institution.

Obviously, in the Institute of Plasma, Academician Li Gang has the full responsibility for academic research.

"Academician Lin, hello."

At this time, Academician Li Gang also smiled and nodded at Lin Xiao and said, "Actually, it was me who asked Director Ma Gaoliang to invite you here."

Lin Xiao nodded with a smile and said, "Hello, Academician Li, I also learned about it from Director Ma."

"Haha, that's good." Li Gang said with a smile: "I invite you to come over suddenly, please allow me to apologize first, but I also heard that Academician Lin has even solved the problem of room temperature superconductors, so I thought of inviting Academician Lin to come and chat. Once we talk, maybe we can get some inspiration on our controllable nuclear fusion."

"Of course that's no problem. In fact, I just want to discuss a topic with Academician Li right now."

Lin Xiao said: "Does Academician Li feel that ordinary materials like ours are basically impossible to meet the inner wall requirements of a tokamak device?"

After his words fell, the place fell silent.