Chapter 463 The most important thing is, I am here!
It is difficult to solve the problem of multi-orbital correlation effect and superconductivity in strongly correlated electron systems.
Of course, Xu Chuan never thought that this problem could be solved in a short time.
But at least, he already had some idea of the strong diamagnetic mechanism discovered in KL-66 material.
I have to say that the two old gentlemen gave him quite good inspiration from different perspectives.
Whether it is Mr. Yang's starting from the electron dynamics behavior of the strong correlation system in the non-equilibrium state, or Mr. Qiu's thinking of free electrons in the strong correlation state as an electronic liquid or electronic solid mode, they are all based on theoretically feasible points.
proposed.
The former is suitable for KL-66 materials, while the latter may spread to the entire strongly correlated electronic system.
So after communicating with the two old gentlemen, he locked himself in a room at the Beihai Hotel and studied it with concentration.
The days passed like this, and in the blink of an eye, New Year's Day had passed, and it was time for the meeting for the leaders of science and technology to lead the construction of the Large Strong Particle Collider.
At Zheng Hai's reminder, Xu Chuan came to Fuxing Road.
The headquarters building of the Science and Technology Institute is here, and meetings will also be held here.
Compared with the manned space and moon landing project exchange meeting held last week, this meeting is just a small meeting in terms of scale.
But in terms of the importance of the participants, the funding planning of the project, etc., it is not weaker than the former at all, or even better.
After all, the total funding for the manned space mission to the moon, even after the increase, is now only tens of billions.
The budget for the construction of the Large Strong Particle Collider in the early years was almost 200 billion.
Of course, now that collider-related technologies have become relatively mature, including superconducting materials, detectors, etc., the demand for funds has been reduced a lot, because the construction budget will also be reduced a lot.
However, even if the technology is mature and the budget is reduced, it is still a large project worth more than 100 billion yuan.
The one-time allocation of funds is much larger than that of manned spaceflight.
There is no way, this kind of basic large-scale scientific research equipment, no matter what it is, costs a lot of money.
For example, the International Space Station is the largest space facility for mankind in low-Earth orbit. It is a joint research and development project of 16 countries including the United States, Tsarist Russia and the European Space Agency.
The initial construction cost of this project has reached a full 160 billion meters of gold, which is still 160 billion meters of gold 20 years ago.
Or the "Future Circular Collider" (FCC), which was originally planned to be built in Europe but has now been basically put on hold, is expected to cost about 21 billion euros.
It can be seen that, except for a very small number of top powers who are capable of completing this type of basic scientific research equipment themselves, most of them are jointly developed by dozens of countries.
The meeting was held in the headquarters building of the Science and Technology Institute, and there were not many people.
When Xu Chuan walked into the building, a staff member immediately came forward. After verifying his identity, he was led all the way to the conference hall.
In the conference hall, many people had already arrived.
After seeing Xu Chuan, they all came up to greet him and communicate with him.
In today's meeting, this is the real boss, and his ideas can almost determine the fate of the future collider.
Xu Chuan smiled and greeted these scholars and government officials one by one, found his seat and sat down.
Naturally, the person who presided over this meeting was Qin Anguo, a man of science and technology.
According to the meeting procedure, Chief Qin first gave a brief report on the entire meeting, and then said: "This meeting is actually mainly about discussing the construction and use of the Large Strong Particle Collider.
and questions.”
"The specific situation is in the information in front of you, and it has been sent to you before. Let's take a look at it, and then we will discuss and exchange. You can express any ideas you have. The country needs your ideas and help."
Hearing this, everyone in the conference hall lowered their heads and started reading.
Whether to build a large strong particle collider is beyond the scope of this meeting.
Under Xu Chuan's suggestion, the construction of the Large Strong Particle Collider has become a foregone conclusion.
Today’s discussion is about how to build, scale, budget, whether it is necessary to introduce other countries, technology, etc.
Of course, basically everyone already has their own answers to some of the questions and content discussed today.
After waiting for a while, Qin Anguo continued: "If there are no other questions, we will officially start. Regarding the arrangement of the materials in front of you, if you have ideas and suggestions, you can raise your hands to discuss."
Hearing this, someone in the conference hall immediately raised their hands.
"I have an idea about the construction of the Large Strong Particle Collider."
Qin Anguo looked over and saw that the person who raised his hand was Director Tai Xuewen, Huaguo's director representative at CERN.
After China became a member of CERN a few years ago, Director Tai has been responsible for the communication between China and CERN.
"Director Tai, please speak." Qin Anguo nodded and motioned for the other party to continue.
Tai Xuewen cleared his throat and continued: "As for the construction of the Large Strong Particle Collider, I think we can learn from the CERN model and expand it into an international cooperation project."
"On the one hand, through multi-country cooperation, we can save a lot of money on our own. After all, according to the preliminary plan, the budget of 150 billion is not a small number."
"If we can introduce funds from other countries, we can greatly reduce our own expenditures."
"On the other hand, through multi-national cooperation, we can absorb the excellent materials, equipment, technology, talents, etc. from other countries in the large strong particle collider."
"Especially CERN. In this regard, CERN's experience can be learned. Whether it is the construction of the collider or scholars in the field of basic physics, the introduction of these will be of great help to us in building the collider."
After hearing this, the conference hall immediately started talking, and many people nodded in approval, thinking that this method was feasible.
"I think this suggestion is feasible. Whether it is budget or technology, if we cooperate, it can indeed reduce a lot of pressure. CERN has complete collider construction experience. If it is introduced, it can really help us save a lot of time.
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"It is feasible, but how does this ensure our country's control over the collider? You know, every time CERN starts a collider research project, there is endless debate."
"We can adopt a membership system. We really need the research and technology of other countries on the collider. It is enough to use the membership system to ensure that our own scientific research projects account for a large proportion."
"I don't think it's appropriate. We have already reserved the technology to build the collider ourselves. Introducing other countries is not very helpful. There is also the risk of losing control of the collider. If we want to do it, it is better to
Let’s do it ourselves, and the budget of 150 billion is not unaffordable for us now.”
In the conference hall, some people were in favor and some were opposed.
This kind of problem involves many aspects, and it is impossible for everyone to stand at the same point of view.
Suddenly, sitting opposite Xu Chuan, Mr. Yang Zhenhuan looked at Xu Chuan and directly brought the topic to him: "I wonder what Academician Xu thinks of this issue?"
Hearing this, the conference hall suddenly became quiet, and everyone looked over.
Being stared at by others, Xu Chuan coughed slightly and said: "As for whether it is necessary to introduce technology from CERN or other countries, I think it is still necessary."
Hearing this, Mr. Yang looked at him in surprise. Based on his understanding, he should object.
Xu Chuan didn't pay attention to the looks of others, and continued: "In terms of the construction of the Large Strong Particle Collider, although we already have the corresponding technology, it is undeniable that CERN has spent more time researching in this area than we have.
It is much longer, and the relevant technologies in reserve are also more complete.”
"So the introduction of CERN is necessary."
After a slight pause, he continued: "But I think it is quite necessary for us to have control over the collider we financed and built."
"The purpose of building a collider is, on the one hand, to explore physics, and on the other hand, to cultivate physics talents for ourselves."
"If control is lost and controlled by others, some basic things need to be discussed and discussed, and it means nothing to us."
"So no matter how we control the built collider, we must have it in our own hands."
Hearing this, Director Tai Xuewen frowned slightly and asked: "If this is the case, how should we introduce the collider technology of CERN and other countries?"
Xu Chuan smiled and said: "It's very simple."
“My suggestion is that we should fund the construction of the collider by ourselves, but we can communicate with CERN and other countries. If they are willing to provide us with technical and talent support in the process of building the collider, we can
Once the collider is completed, we can reserve a member seat for them."
"Just like our current status of joining CERN, we provide corresponding scientific research funds every year and obtain corresponding jobs, research tasks, technical achievements and other things."
"In this case, if someone causes trouble, we can easily kick them out."
"Of course, under normal circumstances, I believe we would not do such a thing. After all, basic scientific research is beneficial to the whole world, and we are not some bandits."
Hearing this, Director Tai Xuewen frowned and asked, "What if they don't agree with this method?"
Xu Chuan said calmly: "Then we don't want them anymore."
"According to the plan, the Super Large Hadron Collider we built this time will be built based on energy levels of one petaelectron volts or even higher petaelectron volts."
"This will be the world's first large collider with an energy level of exascale electron volts. There is demand for the collider not only from ourselves, but also from the European Union and other countries."
"The current situation is that although we need technical support from CERN, we do not necessarily need it completely. The collision experiment is needed by all countries."
"The current situation is that we give them a chance, rather than begging them to join, let alone give up control of the collider and turn it into a conference system."
"If they think it's not possible, just let them build it themselves."
Hearing this, Mr. Yang, who was sitting opposite Xu Chuan, showed a trace of interest in his cloudy eyes. This is the character of this young scholar. In some places, he is quite domineering.
On the opposite side, Director Tai Xuewen frowned and said: "If CERN and other countries choose to refuse, we will probably be extremely short of manpower for the experiments after the collider is completed."
"After all, it is impossible for us to support large-scale basic scientific research projects such as the collider research alone, and we will be under great pressure in terms of future funding expenditures."
Although there are many physicists in China, it is impossible to devote all of them to the Large Strong Particle Collider.
After all, there are many other areas to develop.
The mission of basic scientific research equipment such as collider is to advance human understanding of the natural world and provide basic scientific knowledge for solving real-world problems.
This type of operation is difficult to achieve by relying on the power of one country.
It is beneficial to all mankind, but it is a great burden to the countries that build and use it.
Not to mention the huge amount of money spent during construction, each start-up, maintenance, etc. will cost a huge amount of money.
More importantly, its results are difficult to transform into applied technology and benefits in a short period of time.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Just like the verification of the Higgs particle and the study of the Standard Model, this theoretical achievement only completes humankind's understanding of the universe and the physical world.
In fact, I don’t know how many years will it take for the promotion of technological development.
Hearing this question, Xu Chuan smiled and said, "There will be no shortage of people."
"Even if the United States, the European Union and other countries refuse to join us, they have no ability to prevent physicists from coming to us to do research. Unless they can provide a collider with the same strength as ours."
"But it can be said to be a difficult thing for the United States and the European Union."
"First of all, they are too busy investing in research on controllable nuclear fusion. It is difficult to allocate scientific research funds to invest in the field of collider."
"After all, in addition to the huge amount of money required to build the Large Strong Particle Collider, starting the collision experiment every year requires a large budget."
"The current CERN budget alone has caused dissatisfaction among many member states. If you ask them to invest huge amounts of money in it, IMHO, this is almost impossible."
After a pause, he continued: "Secondly, even if the worst happens, the United States and the European Union will follow up on investment in this field, and the collider they build will be difficult to surpass us in terms of energy level."
"Don't forget that the core of the collider lies in superconducting materials and detectors."
"The ability of the critical magnetic field of a superconducting material to constrain particles determines the intensity of the collision energy level. In this regard, the high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting material I developed has the highest critical magnetic field among current superconductors."
"Without top-level superconducting materials, it will be difficult for them to compete with us in the collision energy level. I believe that CERN's cancellation of the order for high-temperature copper-carbon-silver superconducting materials under pressure from the United States is the thing they regret most.
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"Scientists are realistic. If we welcome and accept other scientists to come in, there will never be a shortage of personnel."
"As for the cost, it is undeniable that every time the collider is started, it consumes a lot of electricity, which is why it consumes a lot of money every time it is started."
"But don't forget, for us, electricity is the most indispensable thing in the future. A small-scale controllable nuclear fusion reactor is enough to provide energy for a large collider."
"Except for electric energy, the funds consumed in other aspects can only account for half at most."
As he spoke, he looked at Director Tai Xuewen and continued: "Finally, and more importantly, I am right here!"
"I can say that no one except me can find particles that truly exceed the standard model within ten years."
