U.S. National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is one of the most famous laboratories in the United States and is also an official laboratory affiliated with the United States. Of course, this laboratory is also ranked among the best internationally.
The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is mainly engaged in a very wide range of research, and basically conducts research on any scientific research project that can be named.
Among them, research on superconducting materials is included.
At this moment, many researchers in the Superconducting Materials Laboratory of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory are sitting at their workstations without knowing what to do with their hands.
Some of them even took out their mobile phones and started playing.
It doesn't look like the world's top laboratory at all.
Of course, the reason why the entire laboratory looks like this is because of the news that has made a big splash in the world in the past two days.
Room-temperature superconductors have already appeared in the world.
"Philip, do you think we can prepare to be fired?"
A researcher looked at the extremely decadent scene in front of him and couldn't help but discuss it with his colleague next to him.
Philip next to him was looking at his mobile phone. When he heard his colleague's words, he sighed and said, "Who knows?"
He also raised his head and glanced at the situation in the laboratory, and shook his head helplessly, "Let's wait for the news from our director... Alas, that Chinese guy is simply not a human being. The secrets of high-temperature superconductors have not yet been revealed.
After unraveling it, he finally found room-temperature superconductors."
"Alas~"
Both of them sighed.
For those who study superconducting materials, the ultimate goal is to realize room-temperature superconductors. Who would have thought that it has only been a little over a hundred years since the superconducting effect was discovered. Then everyone slowly studied and made breakthroughs. After all, high-temperature superconductors
It has only been discovered less than forty years ago, and there is still a lot of time in the future.
For these researchers, it was as if God had made a joke on them.
At this time, the door of the laboratory was opened. The two thought it was their laboratory director, but it turned out that it was actually a colleague.
It was already time to go to work, and when this colleague came, Philip said: "White, you are late."
White immediately raised his index finger to his mouth and said "shush", then walked to them and whispered: "Don't speak so loudly, Director Burns shouldn't be here yet? Hey, I expected it yesterday, you guys
I definitely don’t have the time to do research, so I thought I could come in later today, and that’s true.”
Hearing White's words, Philip and both of them couldn't help but shook their heads speechlessly. This White is really courageous.
However, they couldn't help but envy White. He must have had a good sleep this morning. They came here early in the morning, wondering if there would be any relevant news. Fortunately, Director Burns was not seen all morning.
I don’t know what the person is doing there, maybe he is also discussing related countermeasures?
At this time, White asked: "By the way, have you heard anything this morning? Tom, I remember that you and Director Burns are very close."
Tom spread his hands and said, "As I said, he didn't come this morning. I don't know when he will come."
"Is this so?"
White showed a regretful expression: "I should have come later if I had known earlier."
"If you come later, you can prepare to resign."
However, at this moment, the laboratory door behind them was opened, and the Director Burns they were talking about walked in and glanced at White angrily.
White was immediately startled and quickly turned his head to look over, "Uh... Director Burns, this..."
But at this moment, they were all stunned, because after Burns came in, someone else came in.
And the person in the middle is surprisingly their Minister of Energy, Guinness Berg.
The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is affiliated to the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Secretary of the Department of Energy, Guinness Berger, is naturally the immediate boss of their immediate boss.
"Minister Berg."
The three people stood up immediately and shouted.
The other researchers in the laboratory also stood up and turned their attention to Minister Berg.
They couldn't help but wonder, was this coming to announce the dissolution of their laboratory, or to announce the continuation of their research?
Obviously, they all hope it's the latter.
At this time, Guinness Berg also walked up to the crowd, looked around at the researchers present, and then said with a smile: "Hello, dear scientists, today I am bringing you
A piece of good news.”
"First of all, our superconducting laboratory will not be disbanded and will continue to operate."
Following Guinness Berg's announcement, the researchers present immediately cheered.
In fact, for them, the reason why they are worried about being disbanded is because their research is too expensive. After all, it is materials science, and it also needs to study basic science, that is, the content of condensed matter physics. Their laboratory is very expensive.
In terms of level, it can definitely be ranked at the forefront.
Fortunately, their minister did not say that they would be disbanded, which made them all breathe a sigh of relief.
At this time, Guinness Berg said: "In addition, there is another good news."
"Next, our Department of Energy will increase its funding investment for you. However, we need you to invest these funds mainly into one research."
At this time, he motioned his prosthetic eye to the side. Then, the agent who had sent Dr. Finn the small stick of room-temperature superconductor walked up to everyone with the box. Then he carefully opened the box and took out the stuff inside.
A thin piece of CCD-I was taken out.
The researchers present were all puzzled, what is that?
So a small piece of something is what they want to study next?
But that's it, how can they divide it among the dozens of researchers present?
Even some myopic researchers couldn't see anything and didn't even know that the agent was holding something in his hand.
At this time, Guinness Berg said: "Now, I need you to do your best to reverse engineer this material."
Reverse imitation?
Everyone present was stunned. Are you asking people who study superconductivity to study how to reverse engineer a material?
For them, just thinking about the difficulty of reverse imitation is a bit overwhelming, not to mention that they are not specialized in this.
At this time, someone finally couldn't help but asked: "Minister Berg, before that, can you tell us what this thing is?"
Guinness Berg smiled and replied: "This is a room temperature superconductor."
As soon as he said these words, the eyes of the researchers present suddenly froze.
That extremely thin thing is a room temperature superconductor?
For a moment, these researchers suddenly forgot about the trouble of reverse imitation, and instead showed very enthusiastic expressions.
This is a room temperature superconductor!
Having heard the news about the emergence of this thing before, for these people, what they want to do most is to see with their own eyes what this normal temperature superconductor looks like, and at the same time, they also want to see how it behaves as superconductor at normal temperature.
Phenomenal.
But unfortunately, they all know that it is difficult to obtain room-temperature superconductors from China, so they have to give up this idea.
But what they didn't expect was that Minister Berg actually brought one to them.
Guinness Berg said: "So, this is your next task. Reverse imitation may take a lot of time and money, so I hope you can spend these limited resources on important places.
"
"Thank you, Minister Berg."
These researchers all said immediately.
However, someone still asked: "But, Minister Berg, is there only such a small stick? If it is such a small stick, it may not be so convenient for our research."
Hearing this, Guinness Berg immediately frowned, "There is only such a one. Even for such a small one, we have spent a lot of time and energy. If you want to blame it, blame the person who created it."
The place is too selfish and doesn’t want to give us too much.”
The people present looked at each other, wondering which country created the room temperature superconductor?
They are all highly intelligent people, and they are obviously not so easily deceived by Guinness Berger's few words.
Of course, they didn't say anything, and they knew in their hearts that this thing would be difficult to get.
"Of course, we will try our best to bring you more in the future, so you don't have to worry too much about this matter. Now, your only purpose is to copy it." At this time, Guineas Bo
Ge said again.
"The importance of normal temperature superconductors to human beings. I believe that all respected scientists should know better than me. This technology must be in our hands. Only in this way can we better contribute to human development.
In the hands of selfish people."
"Okay, let's stop here. Agent John is from the FBI. From today on, he will be mainly responsible for protecting this material. If you need to apply, just ask John."
After saying that, Guinness Berger stopped staying and left here.
Everyone quickly gathered around and looked at the very slender normal-temperature superconductor with curiosity on their faces.
Someone asked Agent John: "Where did you get this thing?"
"No comment." Agent John responded coldly, and then said: "Okay, starting from today, you can apply for the right to use it from me, but when you use it, I will always watch your experiments.
To prevent you from destroying it."
"OK."
These researchers said one after another.
However, the researcher named White looked at this thing and showed doubts.
He couldn't help but murmured: "How do I feel...this room-temperature superconductor can just be used in artificial nerves?"
Agent John had sharp ears. Hearing his muttering, he immediately looked over and said seriously: "Sir, please be careful what you say and don't talk nonsense."
White was startled, then waved his hands repeatedly: "That's how I feel."
"Humph, I hope so." Agent John said no more.
But the confusion in White's eyes became even deeper.
