Great Country Academician

The awarding of the Nobel Prize was a feast, and it also disrupted some of Xu Chuan's research arrangements.

Although he himself doesn't care much about this, this is the Nobel Prize after all, and its influence is the largest among all awards in the world.

Congratulations from relatives and friends, interviews from major media, various social activities and other things made him busy for several days.

But as time went by, new hotspots replaced old hotspots, and his life gradually stabilized again.

These days, though busy, Xu Chuan also took the opportunity to learn about the outside world, mainly what happened in the mathematics world.

After the Fields Medal was awarded, he temporarily left the world of mathematics and started a journey of application.

But as the main research direction in this life, he must understand the major events in the mathematics world.

As of early October this year, two major events have occurred in the mathematics world.

The first is that Peter Schulz, a professor of Germanic mathematics who won the Fields Medal not long ago, and Professor Jacob Styx of Goethe University jointly issued an article saying:

"They found a "serious, irreparable error in the paper of the Sakura country mathematics professor 'Mochizuki Shinichi' proving the ABC conjecture. "

In 2012, Shinichi Mochizuki, a mathematician in Sakura Country, announced that he had proved the century-old problem "ABC conjecture".

But in the full six years since then, only a few mathematicians said they understood Mochizuki's proof and agreed.

However, most mathematicians are at a loss in the face of Mochizuki's lengthy and confusing proof, which also leads some people to doubt Mochizuki's proof.

To this day, Schultz and Jacobi have proposed major flaws, which undoubtedly prove that the proof of the ABC conjecture has failed.

Xu Chuan remembered this incident.

Because the ABC conjecture is of great significance in the field of mathematics, it has a high status in number theory, almost as famous as the Riemann conjecture.

Many famous conjectures/theories are its inferences, such as Fermat's last theorem, Beer's conjecture, Mordell's conjecture, and twin prime conjecture.

In 1995, it took Professor Andrew Wiles more than 200 pages of papers to complete the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. But if the ABC conjecture is established, then the proof of Fermat's big conjecture only needs the following lines:

Let a=x^n, b=y^n, c=z^n; where a+b=c

According to the ABC conjecture: c≤(rad(abc));

That is, Z^n≤(rad(x^ny^nz^n)≤(xyz)\u003cz)

So n\u003c6, and the case of n=3, 4, 5 has been proved by Euler et al.;

Available: Fermat's last theorem holds.

These few lines of mathematics that can be understood after learning factorial in junior high school are extremely simple.

But it can prove the Fermat conjecture that took three hundred years to solve in history.

And its foundation is based on the establishment of the ABC conjecture.

Xu Chuan had also read Mochizuki Shinichi's proof paper, but he couldn't understand it either.

In the more than 600-page thesis, Mochizuki Shinichi created a set of new mathematical theories, even mathematical symbols, and words that were entirely his own.

Specifically, the paper is full of strange symbols, such as gold, wood, water, fire, and earth in traditional gossip literature.

Not only the words, but even the gossip diagrams are used.

In addition, there are a large number of definition names with weird styles in the paper. For example, "The Extreme of the Dark Edge of the Universe", "Hodge Cinema", "Alien Arithmetic Holomorphic Structure" and so on.

To understand these things, you have to read the papers of more than 600 pages and other papers of more than 500 pages (these 500 pages are all Mochizuki Shinichi himself.)

So after roughly flipping through the proof papers of the ABC conjecture, he threw it aside.

In Xu Chuan's view, Shinichi Mochizuki's proof paper is comparable to the great unification of mathematics in Minke.

Although the former is a solid international famous mathematician.

And the fact is, until he came back from rebirth, Mochizuki Shinichi's thesis was still in the state of enclosure and self-play.

Despite his insistence that he has proved the ABC conjecture, the mathematical community has given up hope for his thesis.

As for the other thing, the math extends to quantum computers.

2018 was supposed to be the year that quantum computers achieved "quantum supremacy," or evidence that quantum computers far outperform ordinary classical computers.

However, this is not the case.

In August, when the Fields Medal was awarded, Tang Yiwen, an 18-year-old Chinese teenager, proposed a traditional computer AI algorithm.

Its computing speed can be compared with quantum computing, and compared with the previous traditional algorithm, it has achieved an exponential increase in computing speed.

This discovery not only dispels the quantum speed-up myth of two quantum computing heavyweights, but also demonstrates the fruitful interplay between quantum and classical algorithm research.

Interestingly, Tang Yiwen intends to prove that such an algorithm does not exist.

But over time and with her own research, she discovered that such algorithms do exist.

And the delay in quantum supremacy has even led some theoretical computer scientists to believe that quantum computers will never outperform the best classical computers.

Xu Chuan really didn't know much about this matter.

But he is clear that the development of quantum computers has not been abandoned by future generations.

After all, Moore's Law has limited the calculation speed of traditional supercomputing.

But at present, Xu Chuan is very interested in the AI ​​algorithm proposed by Tang Yiwen, so he found a paper and read it.

It's just that he doesn't know much about algorithms, so he can only take a rough look to understand some of the ideas and cores inside.

After thinking about it, Xu Chuan wrote down the name in his heart.

If you have a chance, maybe you can mention it to the top to see if you can poach this talent from the United States.

He understands the importance of traditional supercomputers better than anyone else.

For at least 20 to 30 years in the future, traditional supercomputing will still be the main force for large-scale computing.

The importance of talents who can provide algorithms for supercomputing is beyond doubt.

After tossing around for a while, Xu Chuan finally returned to his normal life after the turmoil of the Nobel Prize passed.

Delayed nuclear energy and lithium-sulfur battery R\u0026D projects re-entered.

Under his leadership, the research and development progress of the two major projects has obviously improved day by day.

Especially nuclear power projects.

On the basis of the well-established theory + the "prophet" Xu Chuan, coupled with the stimulation of the Nobel Prize, the research and development of new anti-radiation materials is progressing rapidly.

With the help of the advanced equipment in the "Modu Nuclear Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences", the research and development team successfully produced the most primitive "crystalline erbium zirconate" in less than a month.

Although stepping from a familiar field to another unknown field will make people confused, Xu Chuan specially arranged a month to familiarize himself with the paper, which shortened the period of confusion and observation of the eight researchers to a minimum.

"Professor, the first batch of 'crystalline erbium zirconate' produced by nanotechnology has completed preliminary processing."

In the Academy of Sciences' Institute of Nuclear Research, Xi Xuebo, a researcher, looked at this young man who was ten years younger than him in reverence, and reported seriously.

The first ever winner of a Nobel Prize and a Fields Medal.

Let alone put it in Huaguo, even if it is put in the whole world, it is also a super giant standing on the top of Mount Everest overlooking the entire planet.

To be able to conduct scientific research under such a super master, Gao Xiang, who has spent eight lifetimes, may not have this opportunity.

As a postdoctoral fellow, he actually had the opportunity to be one of the first to join the scientific research projects of such big guys.

Xi Xuebo doesn't know how to describe his own luck, so he can only choose to do everything well.

In the laboratory, when he heard that the first batch of 'crystalline erbium zirconate' had been produced, Xu Chuan didn't even raise his head, but just gave a soft 'hmm', indicating that he already knew.

In front of his eyes is another material experiment in progress, which is a follow-up expansion of the "crystalline erbium zirconate" material.

The material experiment in his hand lasted for more than an hour. After preliminarily handling various materials in the experiment box, Xu Chuan took off his gloves and looked at Xi Xuebo who had been waiting by the side.

"Let's go, take me to see your results."

During this period of time, he did not follow up and participate in the manufacture of 'crystalline erbium zirconate'. For this material, he had prepared a fairly detailed manufacturing process in advance and handed it over to others.

As for himself, he had more important work on his hands.

It is true that 'crystalline erbium zirconate' can block nuclear radiation, but it is a solid material similar to ceramics.

The material is fine for making containers to store nuclear waste, but it simply cannot be used for protective clothing.

In the face of nuclear waste carrying high-intensity ionizing radiation, most electrical equipment will fail.

This is because electronic devices generally rely on circuits to transmit signals to achieve their functions. Nuclear radiation, especially the radiation of some neutrons and protons, will damage the structure or generate interference signals, causing electronic devices to malfunction or permanently fail.

In this case, it is unrealistic to use robots or mechanical equipment to complete experiments on nuclear waste.

Therefore, when he is faced with nuclear waste carrying high-intensity radiation, a protective clothing that can isolate radiation is essential.

Metal clothing made of lead metal can adapt to some experimental environments, but due to inherent defects, lead protective clothing cannot be applied to all experiments.

And a kind of protective clothing that can perfectly isolate nuclear radiation and does not affect the operation of the experiment is the basic prerequisite for starting the nuclear waste experiment.

The material experiment that Xu Chuan is conducting in front of him is just like this.

Using atomic cycle technology, he is manufacturing a relatively lightweight protective material for subsequent nuclear energy beta radiation energy concentration and conversion projects.

Following Xi Wenbo, the two came to another laboratory together.

The first batch of processed ''crystalline erbium zirconate'' is stored here. The quantity is not large, and the total weight is less than 100 kilograms.

However, it is enough to verify the effect of this new material for the first batch of isolation experiments.

Under the leadership of Han Jin, several researchers are processing the manufactured ''crystalline erbium zirconate'' into individual containers.

These containers are different, some are box-shaped, some are cylindrical, and they are not very big, only one meter in length and only about ten centimeters in diameter.

These things are customized according to the nuclear fuel rods in the nuclear power plant.

Generally, nuclear fuel is in the form of uranium dioxide ceramic pellets sintered from uranium mixture powder.

The porcelain core block is a cylinder with a diameter of one centimeter and a height of one centimeter. Hundreds of core blocks are stacked together into a slender zirconium alloy casing with a diameter of one centimeter, a length of about four meters, and a thickness of about one millimeter, and then form metal plates one by one.

Because the nuclear fission reaction is like burning atoms, these metal plates are called nuclear fuel rods.

After five to eight years of use, the fuel rods will be decommissioned from the nuclear power plant and become nuclear waste that is a headache for everyone.

Xu Chuan needs to use the material "crystalline erbium zirconate" to show the progress of his nuclear energy research and development project and the phased results to the above.

The best way is to use containers made of it to store nuclear waste and test performance.

By loading nuclear waste and then storing it for a period of time, it is tested to check the stability, insulation and other properties of the container.

Then compare the data with traditional containers, and you can see the advantages of this new material.

With the staged results, the follow-up experiments, whether it is scientific research funds or corresponding talents, can be quickly approved or convened.

Of course, with his current status, it is easy to apply for these resources from above even if there is no phased result.

But the degree of trust between people is limited after all.

If he squanders his reputation in exchange for resources but fails to achieve results, it will be difficult to obtain the support of the country in the future.

The Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal are not omnipotent. They bring glory, but they are also a double-edged sword.

As for how to use it, it depends on the winners themselves.

After the first batch of containers made of "crystalline erbium zirconate" were processed, the nuclear energy laboratory started the first batch of conventional radiation countermeasure project experiments.

The experimental method is not complicated.

Through instruments and equipment, a strong radiation source was manufactured, and then the container made of "crystalline erbium zirconate" was tested to collect a series of data.

But for the researchers on the nuclear energy project team, it is a crucial step.

They have been busy for two months, and under the leadership of a Nobel Prize winner, they have produced a new type of radiation-resistant material.

And how effective this material is, we will know today.

This is related to whether the "atomic cycle" theory is correct, and also related to whether the "Nuclear Energy Beta Radiation Energy Concentration Conversion Electric Energy Mechanism Technology Project" can continue in the future.

After all, after this period of research, everyone knows that the entire project is based on the atomic cycle theory.

If the most basic theory collapses, the project will be disbanded sooner or later.

This is a difficult thing for the researchers in the project team to accept.

After all, it was not easy to have the opportunity to do experiments with the Nobel laureates. If the project is disbanded, it will be a big loss.

Therefore, everyone except Xu Chuan was very nervous, anxiously waiting for the results of the radiation resistance test.