Great Country Academician

The relevant news spread quickly. Faced with the sudden termination of cooperation, the physicists who came to China to participate in the cooperation and exchange meeting were immediately confused.

There was a lot of discussion, and no one understood why the United States would make such a decision.

I have to say that the recent situation in the world of physics or high-energy physics is like riding a roller coaster, with twists and turns.

First, CERN suddenly announced that it would stop the upgrade of the LHC Hadron Collider, which shocked all physicists;

Then CERN announced that it would cooperate with China to build a strong collider with an energy level of over 100 Tev, which made everyone excited again.

But at this moment, the United States forced its way in, causing CERN to suspend cooperation with China, and leaving everyone confused and completely confused as to how these things were played out.

The story of twists and turns is simply more exciting than the novel.

After all, no matter how outrageous the novel is, it is often not as outrageous as reality.

In the Beihai Hotel, Qin Anguo, the leader of science and technology, hurried over from Fuxing Road.

Such a thing happened suddenly. Not only did it catch Xu Chuan off guard, but even his superiors didn't react.

Although the top management has paid attention to this aspect, they thought that the United States might intervene in this matter, and even made some preparations.

But the meeting had already advanced to the stage of signing the contract. It could have been said to be a sure thing, but it was suddenly cut off at the waist, which really caught people off guard.

So after figuring out what was going on, Qin Anguo quickly rushed to the Beihai Hotel.

At least he needs to explain to Academician Xu what is going on.

After knocking on the door of the hotel room, Qin Anguo opened the door and walked in after hearing a voice asking to come in.

In the room, Xu Chuan was in front of the computer contacting friends at CERN and the United States to inquire about the situation. When he looked up, he saw Qin Anguo walking in.

"Chief Qin, why are you here?"

Putting down the mouse with a smile, Xu Chuan stood up and greeted.

Qin Anguo nodded, handed over the document he was carrying, and said, "Academician Xu, regarding the suspension of cooperation at CERN, there is an explanation here. Please take a look first."

Xu Chuan glanced at him, took the investigation documents and started reading them.

Sitting on the sofa opposite, Qin Anguo also explained: "It is indeed a bit unexpected that something like this happened at this juncture."

"But the United States' actions against us are not just once or twice."

"We have considered actions in this area before and made some preparations, but this time the United States is determined to compete with us in the field of high-energy physics."

"Not only did we provide CERN with a batch of copper oxide-based superconductors whose magnetic field strength performance is not weaker than high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, we also prepaid more than 1.5 billion meters of gold project funds."

"I have to say that in this matter, the United States has really paid its dues."

Saying that, Qin Anguo smiled helplessly and shook his head.

Given the rogue nature of the United States, in most international cooperation projects, it can be said that it is almost difficult to prepay project funds in advance.

Under normal circumstances, it is good if it can pay the project funds normally.

advance payment?

Don't even think about it.

Just like the original International Thermonuclear Fusion Experimental Reactor project ITER, until they voluntarily left, the United States had not paid off the project fees that it should have paid.

After China realized controllable nuclear fusion technology, ITER almost collapsed.

However, the United States seems to be planning to restart ITER recently and once again focus on the idea of ​​​​concentrating the efforts of various countries to jointly study controllable nuclear fusion technology.

After all, more than half a year has passed, and countries have basically discovered many problems after advancing controllable nuclear fusion technology for a certain distance.

Some may be able to be solved independently, but other issues, such as first wall materials, perfect high-temperature plasma turbulence control models, etc., can be said to be difficult to perfectly handle at the same time depending on the capabilities of one country alone.

Not every country can have top capabilities in mathematics and materials science at the same time.

Even in the United States, although it has prepared superconductors whose magnetic field strength performance is not weaker than that of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, it still encounters many obstacles in the breakthrough of first wall materials.

Including the control model of high-temperature plasma turbulence, even the Princeton High Temperature Research Institute, which has the holy land of mathematics and has the most Fields Medal winners in the world, has not yet established a mathematical model that can perfectly control it.

This is one of the reasons why they intervened in this cooperation between CERN and China.

Under normal circumstances, although research in the field of basic sciences is difficult to promote the development of science and technology in a timely manner, how should they cry if a genius like Xu Chuan appears again?

After briefly flipping through the report Qin Anguo brought, Xu Chuan put it on the table, frowned slightly and said:

"Although we are indeed far behind in the field of basic science, I am not worried about competing in the field of high-energy physics."

"Many research in the field of high-energy physics relies on the performance of the Large Strong Particle Collider. As long as we improve the performance of the collider, we don't have to worry about missing discoveries."

"It would be a pity if this cooperation is interrupted like this. Some of the detector technologies stored at CERN are indeed much more advanced than ours."

"As for these detector technologies, if we have to study them independently, it will probably take a long time to achieve them."

Hearing this, Qin Anguo thought for a moment and said, "Is there any specific technical direction or name? Maybe we can trade it back in other ways?"

Xu Chuan thought for a moment and said: "I know the general technology, but if CERN refuses to cooperate with us, I am afraid that it will not provide us with any technology in the future."

"After all, if the United States intends to hinder our development in the field of basic science, it is unlikely to allow CERN to leak these technologies."

Qin Anguo nodded and said, "But no matter what, we have to try it first."

Xu Chuan thought for a while and asked: "Speaking of which, in the field of controllable nuclear fusion, do we have any cooperation or transactions with the United States? For example, exporting superconducting first wall materials or building fusion reactors? "

Qin Anguo thought for a moment and replied: "There is no way to build a fusion reactor yet, except for the fact that when we traded Helixite-7X with the Planck Institute of Plasma in the German country, we agreed to help the Planck Institute build a fusion reactor. Outside of the reactor, there are currently no plans to build fusion reactors abroad.”

"Including the export of electricity in Southeast Asia, we are planning to build fusion stations on the domestic border and then transmit the power through high-voltage wires."

"As for export materials, this is available."

"Although the first wall material is not currently in the export list, the first-stage high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite material was classified into the export list some time ago."

"Of course, this is the result of some transactions. It was not planned in vain."

Hearing this, Xu Chuan nodded and said, "I heard that the United States is planning to build a large-scale controllable nuclear fusion reactor in Ohio? And it has also purchased a batch of high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials from us? "

Although the Western Superconducting Group currently produces high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials, this is a scientific research result of the Sichuan Hai Materials Research Institute, so he still knows the news related to superconducting materials.

Qin Anguo: "Yes, we have done some transactions through the WTO before, and we have obtained some equipment we need, and we have also lifted the export ban on high-temperature copper-carbon-silver composite superconducting materials."

"At that time, the United States did purchase a batch of superconducting materials from us."

Having said this, Qin Anguo paused slightly, then looked at Xu Chuan and asked, "Do you want to ban the sale of these materials?"

It's not surprising that he can think of this aspect. After all, the man in front of him has forced South Korea to apologize twice.

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "It doesn't have to be a complete ban on sales. Export controls can also be implemented."

"Now that the other party has already made a move, it won't be fun if you don't respond."

"It's a pity that the United States is too big, and the patent authorization for artificial SEI films is not easy to obtain. Otherwise, I can just cancel it and show it to them."

"Don't these Americans know that I am the person in charge of the Large Strong Particle Collider? If they disrupt the cooperation I have agreed upon, I won't give up my surname as Xu if I don't give them a hard time."

PS: Yesterday’s monthly pass will be updated! Although there are still dozens of pieces left in the end, I still want to thank the big guys for their support, thank you all.

Another: Be cute and roll around in a low voice, please give me a guaranteed monthly ticket! (ω)