From University Lecturer to Chief Academician

"Mr. Carter, it's not so easy to discover new physical phenomena. This is how science and technology research works. It's a great success once in a hundred times!"

"For this experiment, we have sufficient theoretical and experimental preparations, and it is only the first time to conduct an experiment."

"We will continue to increase the magnetic field strength in the future."

"Also, it's not that we haven't found anything. Some materials have a greater magnetization response through superimposed force fields..."

"..."

Several researchers patiently explained to Gran Carter for a long time.

In fact, they are unwilling to explain more, especially as an official of the Ministry of Energy explained, the other party is the former famous football player Glenn Carter.

Some of them look down on Glenn Carter from the bottom of their hearts, thinking that the other party is a guy with a simple mind and well-developed limbs. He can only work in the Ministry of Energy because of his reputation as an athlete.

But Gran Carter is a representative sent by the Ministry of Energy, and the funds required for the experiment are directly allocated by the Ministry of Energy.

For experimental research, the one who pays is the boss!

The Department of Energy, which spends huge sums of money to support experimental research, can humble the people involved in the research, but not everyone can bow their heads for the work.

A researcher with a fiery temper taunted him in a strange way, "Mr. Carter, scientific research is not the same as a football game. Not every time there is a winner or a loser!"

Gran Carter's anger suddenly came up.

He felt very angry before, and was sent by the Ministry of Energy to observe the experiment. He originally wanted to witness the history of science, but he stayed in the safe room for more than half an hour, and nothing happened.

That is tantamount to witnessing failure.

Gran Carter feels a bit like watching a rugby game. Even though he used to be a rugby player, he is now a real spectator. He will support his favorite team in the game.

It was originally a game full of must-wins, and after winning, you can get the championship trophy...

The results of it?

Lost!

Every spectator is going to be angry about the game and about the athletes involved, especially the ones who make mistakes.

Gran Carter would not entangle with ordinary researchers. He went directly to Val Cronin and asked loudly, "Why did this experiment fail!"

"Mr. Cronin, you should know how important the experiment is. Everyone is paying attention, even Mr. Selva (Minister) is paying attention to your experiment."

"The equipment manufacturing alone cost nearly 300 million US dollars, 300 million US dollars, do you know how much that is?"

"Tell me, if news of the experiment's failure spreads, how will we explain it to the taxpayers?"

Val Cronin also had a bad temper.

He is a well-known superconducting application expert, and he is respected everywhere he goes. He was also hired by the President as a national science advisor. As a result, after he became the head of antigravity research, he felt only pressure.

The current experiment did not find it, and the pressure was even greater. Hearing a question from a former rugby player felt like he had been humiliated.

Val Cronin immediately retorted loudly, "Mr. Carter, you have to know that we are just continuing Rorel's research, and the Ministry of Energy has also approved the proposal submitted earlier."

"This is not an experiment that our team is optimistic about, but an experiment that the whole world is optimistic about."

"Before I became the person in charge, Rorel received the support of the Ministry of Energy and was ready to form an international academic organization to fund and manufacture equipment for research."

"Later, the Ministry of Energy believed that the research had a certain degree of confidentiality, so it decided to invest unilaterally."

"I'm just continuing to work."

Val Cronin said word for word, he stared into Glenn Carter's eyes, and continued seriously, "In addition, you should know the news a while ago, the florists, Wang Hao's team, also Start making superimposed force field equipment."

"If this direction is wrong, even Wang Hao has gone into a misunderstanding. Our experiment has no results. What's so strange?"

"..."

What Val Cronin said earlier, Glenn Carter always listens to the left ear and catches the right ear. No matter what, Cronin is the leader of the experimental group. After the big investment, the experiment has not made any progress, so he will definitely have to bear some responsibility. Responsibility.

But the last sentence, Gran Carter thinks makes sense.

That's Wang Hao!

Wang Hao's team is making superimposed force field equipment. If the research direction is really wrong, it seems that it is no big deal for them to make mistakes together with Wang Hao?

Gran Carter let out a sigh of relief.

Val Cronin vented, and his mood improved a little. He explained patiently, "Actually, our experimental research has only just begun. Although we haven't seen any new physical phenomena, many physical phenomena are derived from to detect, not to see with the eyes."

"The experiment is over, but the data analysis has not been completed. Maybe some new physical phenomena have appeared, but we haven't analyzed them yet..."

Although what he said seemed to make sense, it was really just to comfort Gran Carter.

Val Cronin also knew from experience that they did not find anything, and subsequent data analysis would have no results. He could only think, "I hope that after strengthening the magnetic field, there will be discoveries!"

"Fortunately, Wang Hao's team is also creating a superimposed force field..."

"This is also a reason for the failure of the experiment!"

...

Many people are paying attention to the experimental research of Val Cronin's team, especially in the physics circle. Some top scholars are constantly inquiring about the news, and they hope to know the results as soon as possible.

That is a new physical discovery, and it may represent the direction of future research and development.

However, there was no news from the laboratory. After only three short days, relevant analysis conclusions were released. "If there is no public information, it is tantamount to declaring failure!"

This statement has received a lot of support.

In fact, it is like rumors on the Internet. After some rumors spread, it is too late to wait for relevant information to refute the rumors, and no key evidence can be found to prove that the rumors are rumors. The rumors will spread faster and faster. Believe it There will be more and more people.

"Experiment failed" is just a guess, but whether it is Val Cronin's team, Los Alamos Laboratory, or other relevant people, they have not stood up and expressed their opposition. Naturally, more people will believe it. , the experiment certainly found nothing.

Soon the news spread to the country.

Leaving aside academic and public opinion discussions, there are three domestic teams specializing in annihilation force research. In addition to the Antigravity Behavior Research Center, there is also a team from the Condensed Matter Physics Research Center, and a team from the Superconducting Laboratory of the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences.

These two teams did not have any major achievements, but there are still some small achievements. They are mainly engaged in the research of the characteristics of the anti-gravity field, and will also allocate some projects related to the behavior of the anti-gravity field.

The most important thing in the direction of anti-gravity is the study of strong annihilation force. The new physical phenomena that may be brought about by large-scale superimposed force fields have attracted widespread international attention, and they will naturally pay attention to it.

After knowing that the Val-Cronin team had no results, they also began to worry about Wang Hao's research, so they hurriedly asked in various ways, "There is no new discovery at Cronin's side, Academician Wang, do you want to continue?" ?”

"certainly."

Wang Hao's answer was very definite, "Don't look at Cronin, they are different from us."

There was no reply after that.

His work is very busy. The anti-gravity performance research center is assembling and testing the high-pressure mixed material anti-gravity standard equipment, and the anti-gravity aircraft research base is assembling and testing the second prototype.

Both research centers are assembling test equipment, which involves a lot of complicated work and encounters various problems every day.

In the assembly of high-pressure mixed material anti-gravity standard equipment, Wang Hao devoted more energy, mainly because the equipment components had already been shipped over, and they inspected each component, and then carefully assembled them together.

After the overall debugging of the equipment is completed, the experiment can begin.

This progress is definitely not comparable to that of the Val Cronin team, mainly because the superimposed force field equipment of the Val Cronin team has been manufactured very early.

The Antigravity Behavior Research Center decided to manufacture new equipment late, and the progress was naturally far behind. However, their speed was very fast, because there was a standard equipment, and they only assembled the same equipment and then spliced ​​them together.

"It will take about half a month."

When Wang Hao asked about the specific time, Xiang Qiansheng estimated, "We still need to conduct internal debugging and conduct individual experiments on each device before assembling them together to create a superimposed force field."

Wang Hao is still satisfied with the progress.

At this time, many international scholars are still paying attention to the research of Val-Cronin's team, because the superimposed force field equipment of Val-Cronin's team has been confirmed to be manufactured.

Now the first experiment must have been completed, but no news has come out for a long time.

Many people analyzed and came to two conclusions -

One conclusion is the same as before, that you don't have any new physical discoveries; the other conclusion is made of big discoveries, and they are big discoveries that need to be kept secret.

Not many people believe in the latter.

This is mainly because, at the same time, there are other information as evidence, for example, Glenn Carter has been to Val Cronin's team, and after he came out, he was photographed with a face full of disappointment, and it is obviously impossible to see anything new. physical phenomenon.

As time passed, the pressure from public opinion became more and more intense, and more media got involved, which made some people start to pay attention to the experiment, which brought even greater pressure.

Val Cronin still didn't come forward. He didn't need to explain to reporters or the public, but he had to explain to the Ministry of Energy.

He went to the Department of Energy for an internal inquiry and said, "We really haven't made progress worth talking about so far."

"This does not 100% mean that our direction is wrong. Perhaps after increasing the strength of the magnetic field, there will be some new discoveries."

"No one can guarantee that scientific research is 100% correct, let alone we are just continuing the previous direction."

"But at the same time, florists are doing the same research."

"If we don't find anything, the florists are unlikely to find anything."

"It's too early to talk about failure. We can continue to strengthen the magnetic field, or do some other tests..."

Val Cronin said a lot in the question group, which can almost be summed up with "looking forward to the future" and "shirking responsibility".

Naturally, DOE officials were also dissatisfied.

Val Cronin knew that he might be fired at any time regardless of his position, so he could only bite the bullet and continue to devote himself to research.

...

As time passed, the attention of the academic community shifted from Valker-Ronin's team to the Antigravity Behavior Research Center.

The Val-Cronin team has not made public information for a long time, and there is a high probability that there is nothing new to discover.

What about Wang Hao's team?

Calculated according to the time, and taking into account the high efficiency of the flower growers, the equipment of the Anti-Gravity Behavior Research Center is almost ready.

So will it work?

Public opinion is still not optimistic about the research, mainly because of Val Cronin's failure.

Wang Hao did not explain the experimental information, and the research is kept confidential to a certain extent, and the outside world naturally does not know the details. Most people think that their research is the same as that of Val Cronin, and they also create a superimposed force field equipment.

In the same research, if one side doesn't find anything, how can the other side make any discoveries?

This is why the research is not optimistic.

However, unlike Val Cronin, even though he received a lot of attention, Wang Hao did not feel the pressure at all, because he had enough support, including the trust of his superiors and the public, and there was no such thing as 'creating a black hole' ' The rumor issue.

Wang Hao didn't show up in public at all, he was just doing research normally.

Of course there are still some inquiries.

An experimental research has attracted the attention of the whole world, whether it is a colleague or a superior leader will care about it, Xu Baogong contacted Wang Hao and asked about the experimental problem.

Wang Hao gave a simple explanation, "Our research uses high-pressure hybrid materials, which are different from Val-Cronin's. They use conventional superconducting materials."

"In addition, the difficulty of our experiment lies in controlling the temperature to avoid allowing the device to enter a superconducting state..."

These are very simple for researchers who understand the experiment, but for laymen, they are completely "wordless books".

Xu Baogong's head got dizzy, so he simply made an appointment with Wang Hao. He wanted to form a leadership team and go to see the experiment together.

This is not to put pressure on Wang Hao, but to really pay attention to the experiment itself.

Just like Glan Carter's idea, the experiment may have new physical discoveries, and it may be a moment to witness the history of science. Even if there is only a slight possibility, we must pay attention to it.

The time they set is one month later.

That is not a test experiment, but the first formal experiment. At that time, the large-scale mixed material superimposed force field equipment will be placed in the high magnetic field space environment supported by high energy, that is, by the influence of the high magnetic environment, I hope to see to new physical phenomena.

Xu Baogong also confirmed that there will be other experts coming. The anti-gravity experts are naturally anti-gravity researchers, and they are the leaders of the other two anti-gravity teams in China - Deng Jian and Zhao Yiran.

After making an appointment with Xu Baogong, Wang Hao continued to participate in the testing of superimposed force field equipment.

Several high-pressure mixed material anti-gravity devices have been debugged and fixed in a certain position. The content of the formal test is also very straightforward, that is, to turn on four devices at the same time to create anti-gravity fields separately and superimpose them together.

To put it simply, it is to use new equipment to create a superimposed force field.

Because it is not in a high magnetic field environment, the new equipment cannot use the previous single magnetic field manufacturing device. It is just a test to create a superimposed force field. The work of the participants is to ensure the normal operation of the equipment.

Wang Hao didn't pay much attention either.

Without the influence of high magnetic fields, there would be no problems such as radiation. He stood a few meters in front of the safe house and watched the equipment start up.

After the four equipments were officially launched, the participants kept paying attention to the temperature.

Temperature control is the most important.

In the process of continuous cooling, the speed must be slow enough to ensure that the high-pressure mixed material reaches 216K and cannot be lowered to the critical temperature of 213.

To put it simply, the temperature should be controlled at around 214K, and the fluctuation value should not exceed 1K.

In the absence of automatic control and fine detection, it is definitely a delicate job to rely on manual control. Even Wang Hao is constantly concerned about temperature control.

"213K!"

"Notice!"

Yan Jing was directly in charge of the experimental data, and immediately reminded her after seeing the values.

Hearing the sound from the headset, Wang Hao also glanced at the value of the meter, and was stunned when he looked up and saw the superimposed force field area in the center.

Many people were also stunned.

At that moment, they noticed that the area of ​​the superimposed force field became gray and dark.

The grayness is not just a color. When you look carefully, your eyeballs seem to be sucked away, as if the surrounding light has been sucked away.

"what is that!"

"Changed color? What is it?"

"Don't look!"

"Academician Wang, it's dangerous!" He Yi stayed next to Wang Hao. Like everyone else, he noticed the abnormality in the superimposed force field area.

His reaction speed was very fast, and he immediately shouted something.

Two armed guards next to him immediately pulled Wang Hao into the safe house for safety.

There was some confusion in the experiment room.

When Wang Hao entered the safe room and looked outside again, he found that the grayness in the center of the superimposed force field had disappeared.

"Gone?"

When he was wondering, he heard Yan Jing's excited and dissatisfied shout, "Cooling group! Attention! It's already 218K!"

"It turned out to be like this, the temperature was not maintained..."

Wang Hao took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement and commanded, "Cooling team personnel pay attention, don't look at the center of the device, do your job well, and keep the temperature at 214K as planned."

"Others do a good job, don't be affected by the experiment..."