Infinite Life: Trapped in a lifetime

Early 21st.

After the Lunar New Year.

Most people in China are still immersed in the afterglow of the Spring Festival atmosphere and the pain of going back to work after the holiday.

In addition to the bustling flow of people commuting to and from get off work in the city, there are occasionally children setting off firecrackers bought from unknown sources.

In the countryside, the red firecracker debris from the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival has not been swept away in the yards of every household.

It seems to be no different from the usual scene after the Spring Festival.

And here in the long night pile,

There was no holiday during the entire Spring Festival, and the intense work continued from before the Spring Festival to after the Spring Festival.

But this was the choice made by the Changyedui researchers themselves.

"Mom, it's coming soon, just wait until you see me on TV."

"When are we going to have a holiday? It's coming soon. After we've been busy for a while, the company will definitely give us a big holiday!"

"Don't ask about the mission. It's confidential."

A researcher working on the Long Night Heap Project had a brief phone call with his parents at home. After talking for a few words, he hung up again.

At the Changyedui project site, two middle-aged researchers looked at Changyedui, smiling and communicating in the same way.

"It's a success. If there is a problem this time, it will take at least another month or two. When I go back to the house, my wife and son will ask me who I am."

"Then it will be the same if you go back now."

"Bah, bah, bah."

And the reason why I was busy throughout the Spring Festival,

Mainly because,

After almost four years,

At the end of 2020, the Changye Reactor controllable nuclear fusion experimental reactor was completed.

And a group of researchers really couldn't wait to come back after the Spring Festival to conduct the first experiment of Changyedui.

Therefore, I chose to work overtime to prepare for the operation of the first experiment after the Long Night Reactor was completed.

And now, everything is ready.

…

Late March.

It’s not far from the Changyedui experimental facility.

Changyedui project command hall.

After everything is ready,

The first operational experiment after the completion of the Changye reactor,

Most researchers of the Changyedui Project will witness it here.

Compared with the previous life, this life’s Changyedui’s first experiment,

Reporters from China News Service were also present to record this period of history.

At the same time, Mo Dao, who had some intersection with Mo Dao in his previous life, the senior leader of the Huaguo Academy of Sciences,

At this moment, I also choose to be there to witness this moment.

"Professor Mo, just conduct the experiment according to your arrangements and don't worry about me."

The old leader stood with Mo Dao, Academician Zhang and Professor Hong.

In this life, Capital University still hired Mo Dao as a professor at Capital University’s School of Physics.

However, Mo Dao has not yet recruited a graduate student despite being busy with many things in the past few years.

Mo Dao nodded and said nothing more, just looking at the scene where Chang Yedui was.

The long nights of this life,

In fact, it is not a replica of Changyedui from the previous life.

Could it be that he wanted to repeat what Chang Yedui had accomplished in his previous life?

Rather, they want to gradually embody the theoretical breakthroughs made at the end of the previous life in the controllable nuclear fusion experimental reactor.

Therefore, the Changyedui in this life is very different from the Changyedui in the previous life, even after many transformations.

In other words, overall, there are essential differences.

This difference is mainly to make it easier for Mo Dao to continue upgrading on Chang Ye Dui.

Until, on the long night pile, we embarked on the long night of controllable nuclear fusion research.

"Thirty minutes countdown."

"Inject fuel."

"The fuel injection was successful."

"Countdown to ten minutes...five minutes...one minute."

"Ohmic pressure transformer heating comes to work."

"It is detected that the fuel mass begins to heat up."

"The plasma heats up to five million degrees."

In the entire command hall, as time began,

It's pretty quiet most of the time.

The old leader did not communicate with Mo Dao and others at this time, and did not disturb Mo Dao and others' work.

Just following Professor Hong, Academician Zhang and others, they looked at the scene of the Changyedui experiment site.

In the command hall, there are only occasional prompts for specific values.

"Plasma heats up to fifty million degrees... to one hundred million degrees."

"The plasma confinement situation is stable. Experimental intensity data are being collected."

After the plasma heats up to 100 million degrees and enters the steady-state constraint stage.

In the command hall, applause erupted for the first time.

Because this at least means that Changyehei has reached the conditions for the start of this experiment.

As for the rest, we need to look at the continued status of the first plasma confinement experiment at the Changye Reactor.

After the entire experimental process has been determined,

There were actually very few areas where Mo Dao needed to intervene in the entire experimental process.

Most of the time, Mo Dao, together with other researchers, looked at the pictures of the experimental site and some key data including the continuous running time.

This scene,

It seems to be somewhat intertwined with the scene of Chang Ye Dui's first experiment in his previous life.

It's like blurring the boundary between two lives.

However, there are differences.

The two long night piles are different.

The people who were witnessing Chang Ye Dui’s first experiment at this moment were also different.

In this life,

At this moment, Professor Hong has not yet been diagnosed with cancer.

Although his body is a bit decrepit due to old age, he is still in good spirits.

He was not sitting in a wheelchair like in his previous life, but just standing beside Mo Dao, witnessing this moment.

Academician Zhang has not yet completely given up his work on the Long Night Reactor and has not left the field of controllable nuclear fusion.

Together with other researchers of the Changyedui, he went through the entire construction process of the Changyedui, and at this moment, they witnessed the first operation of the Changyedui.

Of course, the same thing is that Professor Hong and Academician Zhang are still a little nervous as they were when they witnessed the first experiment of Changyedui in their previous life.

They have invested almost a lifetime in the research of controllable nuclear fusion.

From being a young man to now having gray hair on his temples, how could he not be nervous?

Even though they personally participated in the entire construction process of Changyedui, they were still afraid of their expectations being disappointed.

Mo Dao looked at Professor Hong and Academician Zhang and said nothing.

They don't need comfort, they just need to see success piled up all night long.

For him, Changyedui at this moment is just a starting point. The next step in transforming and upgrading Changyedui in the direction he wants is the key to this life.

But for Professor Hong and Academician Zhang,

This is still a key step on the road to controllable nuclear fusion research.

If successful, they can truly see the dawn of the career they have worked for their entire lives.

"Steady-state constraint running time reaches 1800 seconds."

"The scheduled operating time has been reached. The main body of the long-night reactor begins to execute the shutdown procedure."

There were no surprises in the first run of Changyedui.

Come here,

In the command hall, there was a second round of applause.

Then, there was another period of silent and tense waiting.

After a long night of shutting down,

The data collected in this experiment began to be processed quickly.

And the first to come out are naturally some of the data that attract the most attention.

"Long night stack, the Q value of the first run experiment was determined to be 2.98."

Just like in the previous life, Mo Dao announced the results of the first experiment to a group of researchers.

This time, the new Changyedui was just the first experiment, and it exceeded the results of the previous Changyedui's many years of attempts and efforts.

Cheers rang out in the command hall.

Next to him, the old leader who witnessed the entire experimental process,

He was also a little excited and asked Mo Dao,

"Professor Mo, does this value mean that the experiment was successful?"

"right."

"Does that mean we are a big step closer to controllable nuclear fusion?"

"Yeah, much closer."

Mo Dao smiled and responded.

While Mo Dao was talking to the old leader,

Academician Zhang and Professor Hong next to them had red eyes.

Professor Hong opened his mouth and finally said,

"Good boy... It's worth dying here now!"

"That's not possible, Professor Hong."