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Chapter 936: Is there a solution to the problem of nuclear sewage?
Academician Du Jianzhang from the School of Physics of Yanda is drinking tea in the office of Academician Ji Xingming of Qingmu University.

Academician Ji Xingming is 49 years old. He has only been an academician for more than 4 years. He is currently the dean of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of Qingmu University.

The Institute of Nuclear Physics, like the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, is a key national research institution. It is also the largest atomic physics research institution among universities in the country. It has developed an extremely advanced nuclear reactor - modular pebble bed high-temperature air cooling. reactor, making Xia Guo one of the few countries in the world that has mastered high-temperature gas-cooled reactor technology.

Academician Du Jianzhang, 43, became an academician two years ago. He is better at theory. He is currently a doctoral supervisor in the atomic physics major of the School of Physics at Yanda. His main research direction is inertial confinement nuclear fusion.

It can be said that these two are the top experts of the Mesozoic era in Xia State's atomic physics. They have no shortage of national key projects in their hands. They are usually very busy people. Even if they are close friends, They often just chat for a while in the busyness of various academic conferences, and there is almost no opportunity to spare time to sit down and chat and drink tea.

But today is special. Qin Ke, chief scientist of Qingmu University and academician of both academies, contacted the two academicians through his assistant in advance, saying that he had important matters to communicate.

Qin Ke's contact was very polite and without any arrogance, but neither Academician Du Jianzhang nor Academician Ji Xingming dared to neglect. They quickly put down all the work at hand and waited for Qin Ke's arrival at the agreed time and place in advance.

Even though they are all academicians, it seems that no one is lower than the other. Moreover, as the dean of the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Academician Ji Xingming’s status is on the same level as Qin Ke’s teacher, Academician Jiang Weixian, but both Ji Xingming and Du Jianzhang know very well. , let alone "young academicians" like them who have been promoted to academician less than five years ago, even those gray-haired senior academicians have nothing to show off in front of Qin Ke.

Who told Qin Ke to have achieved countless research results, all of which were great achievements that could affect human civilization?
Recently, a media produced a very popular program called "Exhibition of Honors and Achievements of Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingjun". It has only been about three weeks since its first broadcast, and the cumulative number of viewers has exceeded 5 million. It can be said that It was so popular that the program team made a lot of money.

In fact, the content of the program is very simple, which is to introduce all the honors and achievements this young couple has received since their "debut", and introduce them in detail one by one. However, the program is very carefully done, and the introduction also takes into account both professionalism and popular science. The huge traffic brought by the names "Qin Ke" and "Ning Qingyun" is hard to imagine if they are not popular.

Speaking of which, if a program like this were to feature other academicians as the protagonists, it would be great to have three to five episodes of a 40-minute special program.

However, this program "Exhibition of Honors and Achievements of Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingjun" has been released for nearly 20 episodes so far, and it only explains the honors and research achievements achieved by the two when they just graduated with Ph.D. in Physics!
During this period, awards such as the Cole Prize in Number Theory, the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, the Ramanujan Prize, the Crafford Prize, the Xia Guochen Prize in Mathematics, and the Fields Medal alone accounted for half of the space. In addition, domestic operating systems, mathematics teaching Auxiliary materials, seed invention patents, proof of the twin prime conjecture, proof of the Polignac conjecture, proof of the hail conjecture, proof of Goldbach's conjecture, proof of the Riemann conjecture... which one cannot be introduced in a special episode?

Being able to accommodate so much content in 20 episodes is the result of the production team's efforts to compress some of the achievements and awards!
It is expected that the two will be introduced in detail later on their various achievements in fluid mechanics, meteorology, computational seed science, material physics, proving world conjectures, etc., as well as their achievements including the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Peace Prize, and the Wolf Prize , the first prize of the National Natural Science Award, the highest national science and technology award, academicians of both academies, and nine major foreign academicians...the various awards, including the National Natural Science Award, cannot be explained in another 30 episodes.

That's not the scariest thing. The scariest thing is that the two of them are not yet 25 years old!
You must know that a person's golden scientific research period is from 28 to 45 years old!Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun have not yet entered their golden age, but they have already created so many incredible achievements and won almost all the major awards in the world. Who can predict what kind of world-renowned achievements they will achieve in the future? ?

For such a scientist who has reached the pinnacle of the world's scientific community at such a young age, in one word, he cannot be offended.

Besides, haven’t we seen the last time Qin Ke fell ill and fainted unexpectedly, and nearly a billion people across the country collectively prayed for him?The influence of such an idol academic god who is so popular is so terrifying. He only needs to say a harsh word in the media to make ordinary academicians feel miserable.

What's more, there is a very important point. The Academy of Sciences had already informed them last year, asking them to fully cooperate with Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's research on nuclear sewage treatment, and listed this cooperation as the highest priority. .

With such instructions from above, when Academician Du Jianzhang and Academician Ji Xingming heard that Qin Ke wanted to meet with them, how could they dare to be negligent?

So even though the agreed time was three o'clock in the afternoon, both Academician Du Jianzhang and Academician Ji Xingming were waiting in the office three and ten minutes in advance.If Qin Ke hadn't mentioned that there would be a meeting in his fluid mechanics laboratory, the two academicians would have even planned to go there and wait.

"Old Ji, can you guess what Academician Qin will do when he comes to see us?" Academician Du Jianzhang put down his teacup and asked Academician Ji Xingming.

After all, they both belong to the teaching and research system of Qingmu University. How could Academician Ji Xingming be more informed than him, a professor at Yanda University?
Unexpectedly, Academician Ji Xingming just spread his hands and said helplessly: "To be honest, I don't know much more than you do. Ever since Academician Qin asked me for all the experimental data and research information related to radioactive elements last year, we haven't had much contact with him. The last contact was after the Spring Festival this year, and the contact at that time was just to ask me to add some latest experimental data."

Academician Du Jianzhang was stunned for a moment: "It's the same here. It was also after the Spring Festival. Academician Qin sent an assistant to ask for some latest experimental data, but he didn't let us cooperate in the experiment..."

The two smiled wryly at each other.

The superiors wanted them to help Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun solve the pollution problem of the sea areas surrounding Xia State caused by Japan's discharge of nuclear sewage, and they themselves were willing to cooperate fully. After all, if they succeeded, they would be famous in history.

But Qin Ke didn't seem to have any intention of asking them to help with the experiment. In addition to taking away their experimental data and experimental plans over the years, he seemed to have forgotten them, leaving them with nothing to do.

Academician Ji Xingming poured tea for Academician Du Jianzhang and said with some regret: "I heard that Academician Qin's team has been conducting research on string theory, and plans to start from string theory to find a way to control the random events of radioactive element decay."

He has done scientific research all his life and followed the path of "experiment-trial-error-correction-summarize the theory-re-experiment verification". Qin Ke chose to start from pure theory to solve practical problems and use mathematics to solve physical problems. It feels a bit incredible - or rather, unreliable.

If theoretical physics is so good, why should we use experimental physics? Do we still need the physical principles of "practice brings true knowledge" and "experiment to verify theory"?
Even an outstanding person like Einstein was promoted to the altar because his general theory of relativity has been continuously verified through experiments over the past hundred years? 100 years ago, Einstein couldn't even win the Nobel Prize simply by relying on his purely theoretical general theory of relativity!
Not to mention that string theory itself is a castle in the air that cannot be experimentally verified and is a pure intellectual game. Isn’t it funny to use such an illusory theory to seek to solve real-life physical problems?
If it had been anyone else, Academician Ji Xingming would have scoffed and ignored him.

But it is Qin Ke who conducts research in this "unique" way - the great mathematician Qin Ke who has created countless incredible miracles. Academician Ji Xingming can only say that he "cannot understand".

Academician Du Jianzhang shook his head and sighed: "Yes, I have been paying attention to this matter. I heard that in order to perfect string theory, Academician Qin led his team to create a 'new geometry'. This 'new geometry' It is now very popular in the international mathematics community and has been regarded as the best mathematical theoretical subject in history and the hope of completing the unification of mathematics in the future. Academician Qin also used this 'new geometry' in a live interview to demonstrate mathematically It reveals the existence of parallel time and space and the non-retrospective nature of time.”

"It's not just that." Academician Ji Xingming knew better: "In the past two weeks, Academician Qin uploaded the latest paper on arXiv, which used 'new geometry' to explain and demonstrate the dimensional problem of 'M theory', which also caused There was a great response and sensation. It is said to be the first time in the physics community that someone has used mathematics to find the answer to the 'Calabi-Qiu manifold' and dimensionality problem and demonstrated it. When it comes to Academician Qin's mathematical ability, there is really no one in the world. It's better than anyone else. But to study physical problems solely by mathematics is really..."

Academician Ji Xingming stopped speaking halfway through.He still didn't want to make any negative comments on Qin Ke's incomprehensible research method.

Du Jianzhang understood what he meant and sighed.

Even though Academician Du Jianzhang is a more theoretical physicist, he still devotes a lot of time and energy to conducting experiments when studying inertial confinement fusion. Using experiments to repeatedly verify and improve the theory is what he sees as the "kingly orthodoxy" Way.

This is very similar to the view of Academician Ji Xingming.

Although the two of them really believed that Qin Ke's mathematical skills were unparalleled, they had doubts about Qin Ke's method of solving practical problems in physics purely with mathematics.

No matter how powerful Qin Ke's "new geometry" is, or what physical conjectures he has demonstrated mathematically, it is all just mathematics. For this physicist who has been accustomed to the "kingly orthodox" method all his life, there is no way to pass it. The "conclusion" of experimental verification, no matter how rigorous the mathematical argument is, has an unreal feeling of "flowers in the mirror, moon in the water".

Academician Du Jianzhang drank the tea in his cup in one gulp and brought the topic back to the original question.

"Let's not mention these. Lao Ji, do you think what happened to Academician Qin when he came to us this time? Could it be that there is really no progress in the nuclear sewage issue, and he finally remembered that he needs our experimental cooperation?"

Academician JI Based on massive experimental data. But relying solely on the data we have before is probably far from meeting the modeling requirements for solving the nuclear sewage problem, right?"

Academician Du Jianzhang thought for a while and then said: "I heard that you guys made a new breakthrough in the research on the TRPO process for removing actinides last week. Could it be that Academician Qin wants to come and learn from the experience and exchange ideas?"

Academician Ji Xingming is currently leading a team to study "separation-transmutation" technology. The goal is to separate the long-lived strong radionuclides in high-level nuclear waste and transmute them into stable or short-lived nuclei in a reactor or accelerator. elements, thereby reducing the long-term harm of radioactivity and achieving volume reduction of high-level nuclear waste.The most outstanding achievement is the TRPO process for removing actinides, which has reached the most advanced level in the world.

Qin Ke wanted to solve the problem of nuclear sewage experimentally, and the results of Academician Ji Xingming's team were of great reference significance.

Academician Ji Xingming shook his head and said: "These results of ours can only remove actinides, and cannot effectively separate other strong radionuclides such as Sr-90 and Cs-137, let alone dozens of radioactive elements in nuclear sewage. . Academician Qin is afraid that he will look down upon him."

"Haha, no matter what, it's impossible for Academician Qin to ask us to find a way to verify his mathematical argument experimentally. After all, string theory, space-time dimensions, not even CERN's large particle accelerator can verify it, let alone Forget about using our nuclear research experimental equipment.”

The two of them were actually just passing the time by making random guesses, diverging their thoughts on various topics.When the time came to 14:50, a staff member came to announce that Academician Qin and Academician Ning came hand in hand.

Academician Ji Xingming and Academician Du Jianzhang quickly got up and went out to greet them.

Unexpectedly, Qin Ke and his wife arrived 10 minutes early. Regardless of whether they agreed with the couple's way of solving physics problems with mathematics, this punctual attitude alone made the two academicians Ji and Du feel good.

Academician Ji Xingming had notified his colleagues in the institute in advance and brought a large number of people to the entrance of the institute to greet Qin Ke and his wife.

After some pleasantries, Academician Ji Xingming took Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun on a brief tour of the institute, and then the two parties went to the conference room to sit down separately.

In the conference room, Academician Ji Xingming did not ask Qin Ke's reason, and first expressed his position: "Academician Qin, Academician Ning, if you have any use for our Institute of Nuclear Physics, just ask, all of us will do our best, and finally I’ll give priority to you two.”

Academician Du Jianzhang also hurriedly patted his chest to express the same attitude.

Qin Ke always respects me and I respect others. He smiled and said: "Thank you to Academician Ji and Academician Du. In fact, Qingjun and I came here mainly to design some experimental plans." , two academicians are needed to help arrange implementation.”

As he spoke, he took two thick materials from Ning Qingyun and handed them to Ji Xingming and Du Jianzhang respectively: "We have carefully read the experimental data and experimental plans that you two gave us over the years. This The equipment and materials used in the experimental plan are all on hand. Could you please check if there are any problems in the implementation? How long will it take to complete the experiment?"

Ji Xingming and Du Jianzhang were surprised when they took it and saw it written clearly on the cover——

"Seven Experimental Plans for Controlling "Random Events of Decay" of Radioactive Elements"!
Even Ji Xingming and Du Jianzhang were used to seeing the storm. They were stunned for more than ten seconds when they saw the title. It was Ji Xingming who was the first to ask: "Academician Qin, what do you mean... you have found a way to control radioactive elements." The method of decaying random events... and also formulated a specific experimental plan based on our existing experimental equipment?"

Because he was so shocked, Ji Xingming's voice stuttered.

Qin Ke smiled confidently: "Yes. As long as these experiments are successfully completed, the problem of nuclear sewage should be easily solved."

Ji Xingming and Du Jianzhang fell into silence again, with only one thought left in their minds:
real or fake?The problem of nuclear sewage that countless physicists have racked their brains for but has no solution to. This...is there a solution?And the solution is within your own hands?

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