Chapter 203 The fewer words, the bigger the matter

Xing Shuping led Xu You and Qiao Sen to his office, told Xiao Liu to make tea, and then closed the door.

At the meeting just now, Xing Shuping could only talk about some broad directions.

Xing Shuping cannot yet announce some specific details to everyone.

"Professor Qiao, Xu You, I need to tell you some details. After seeing the progress of our project, the above decided to allocate a supercomputer to us. In this way, we can start searching for superconductors.

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Hearing the news, Xu You and Qiao Sen were very excited.

In the previous first-stage experiment, due to various limitations such as equipment and funds, the project team could only use supercomputing for a period of time.

After all, everything only exists in theory. If a lot of resources are used and a lot of electricity bills are spent, there are no results.

It is really difficult for the project team to explain to the superiors.

However, after this breakthrough result.

It is enough to show that the current direction is correct.

"Great, Academician Xing. In this way, we will definitely find more superconductors with higher superconducting critical temperatures."

In just the first calculation, hundreds of superconductors were found.

Xu You feels that it is very possible to break through the 195K limit next.

"Of course, even if we are equipped with a supercomputer, the computing power of the supercomputer is limited, and it is impossible to exhaust all substances. Xu You, next you still need to plan a calculation plan, and try to pick the superconducting probability first

Test the largest molecular configuration. We also need to have a rough estimate of the supercomputer usage time."

"Okay, Academician Xing, I understand."

Xu You had been thinking about the next calculation plan.

It is definitely not advisable to perform calculations blindly.

But Xu You already had preliminary ideas about the rough ranking of possibilities.

After returning, Xu You began planning for a new round of experiments.

"This feeling is a bit like artificial intelligence playing Go again." Xu You sighed.

In the layout stage of Go, there can be more than 300 choices for each move.

But even artificial intelligence with powerful computing power will not try to exhaust all possibilities.

For example, at the beginning, you will never go to the center of the chessboard or to the very edge of the chessboard.

The only possible landing points are the star position and its vicinity.

In this way, the amount of calculation is greatly reduced.

Xu You followed this idea and planned a new phase of calculation plan.

"Let's calculate it in several batches. Calculate the most likely batch first, and then proceed in sequence. The total calculation amount is still a bit large, so we can only do it step by step."

Xu You didn't know how much money the superiors planned to invest in this project and how long it would last.

Xu You made the next plan based on his understanding of the theory and the statistics of the previous batch of results.

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On this day, China’s mainstream media released such news——

"The Chinese scientific research team recently discovered a new superconductor, and the critical temperature of superconductivity reaches 150K under normal pressure."

The entire news content is only a short twenty or thirty words.

After the news was released, it did not attract much attention.

But not long after, some people who were relatively familiar with the current physical situation of the world noticed the significance of this news.

"Holy shit, we actually discovered a superconductor with a critical temperature of 150K at normal pressure? This is normal pressure! It has set a new record!"

"I checked and found that it is 12K higher than the previous record of the critical temperature of superconducting under normal pressure. I just don't know what kind of material this superconductor is and is it easy to prepare?"

"The fewer words, the bigger the matter. In this way, we should be one step closer to discovering room-temperature superconductors."

With the discussion and spread among these netizens, the news gradually gained popularity.

More and more netizens have joined the discussion.

"I remember that someone discovered room-temperature superconductors before. Superconductivity can be achieved at 15°C."

"That is superconductivity under high pressure, which has no practical significance. It is much more difficult to reach such a high pressure than to reach a low temperature."

"Our scientific research team is so awesome! I don't know which scientists made the contribution. Why is the specific team and name not mentioned in the news?"

"It should be temporary news. There may be detailed reports later."

But after that, there were no follow-up reports.

This also shows that such a report with very little information is probably intentional.

Soon, the news spread to other countries outside China.

"China actually discovered a superconductor with a critical temperature of 150K under normal pressure? Is this true news? Why didn't it explain what this substance is?"

"It's not just a smoke bomb. I don't believe that China can have such strong scientific research capabilities."

"Yes, if it is really discovered, it should be reported carefully. There is no reason for just two short sentences like this."

But some people don't think so.

"A young scientist from China just published a paper a while ago explaining the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. I think there may be a big connection between the two."

"Yes, it is definitely a very important theory to be able to publish the title of this paper on the cover of PRL. It is unlikely that China will just send out false news."

"Oh my god, China has come to the front this time? What are our scientists doing? Haven't the theories been made public? Why haven't our scientists made any discoveries?"

At this moment, on China's Bihu, the popularity of this news has risen to the first place, and some people are already thinking about real room temperature superconductors.

"It seems that our scientific research team has found a new direction to search for high-temperature superconductors. If I guessed correctly, Xu You should be a core member of this team, at least one of the core members. It may be far away from finding a real room-temperature superconductor.

It won’t be too far.”

"If room temperature superconductors really emerge, the impact on mankind will be disruptive. Maglev trains, magnetic resonance imaging, superconducting quantum interferometers, etc., can all achieve leaps and bounds. The cost of electron transportation will be greatly increased.

If it decreases, mankind may move towards a new era."

"In this way, rice phones no longer have to worry about heating."

"This is a worldwide technological revolution! The power consumption of superconducting quantum computers will be greatly reduced, and computers will enter a new era. Research on controllable nuclear fusion will also be put on the agenda."
Chapter completed!