The End of Technology

Although Ning Zi warned that there is still radiation in the glass room where the negative mass material is placed, which may cause risks to human health, this warning is obviously of no use. After Ning Jie left, Li Rongchang watched helplessly as the national treasure-level scientists around him immediately helped each other change into protective clothing, and then walked into the glass room in an orderly manner for a visit.

"Old Xu, according to my understanding of general relativity, if this kind of negative mass matter really exists, then the gravitational waves emitted by the object should have an impact on it, right?"

"Well, how do you say this? In field theory, the casimir effect can create this effect locally, but as you know, these are all theoretical things. If you ask me to say it, I can't really explain it clearly. You guys We all know that general relativity is incompatible with many descriptions of quantum mechanics, and we also want to unify macroscopic and microscopic theories. String theory is already there, but we have never seen matter with negative mass.

If you really want to talk about it, you should know that there is a very important holographic duality principle in string theory, which roughly means that all the information of a space-time can be encoded on its low-dimensional boundary. The information of the three-dimensional world can be projected onto a two-dimensional surface. In theory, if we understand all the projections of the two-dimensional surface, we can know its three-dimensional structure.

This preliminary research is mainly done by some scientists in the United States, and I don’t know much about the specific situation. To put it bluntly, it is to integrate general relativity and quantum mechanics through the construction of quantum gravity theory. However, now everything is a hypothetical research, and there is no final conclusion in the physics community. Now that negative mass matter has been discovered, some things can be determined. The key is how to discover it. "

"Yeah, how did you discover this thing? It's really a miracle."

"Come on, don't be emotional, let's get to work first. As Ning Zi said just now, the test data has been opened to us. In this way, Lao Xu, you know a lot about physics. You go read the report and get a general understanding of what he does. The guiding theory of things will be explained to us later. Xiao Yu, you go study the test records and figure out the operation process. We will divide the work and cooperate with the others to test the materials and collect various data. Is everyone okay? "

"I'll just listen to you, Lao Gao. Let's take action. This opportunity is rare."

"Hey, you said that these materials have been discovered. Can we directly make a gravity sail in the future? In this way, there will be no risk in landing on the moon. Can we also go to the moon in the future?"

"Haha, the pattern, Lao Liao, what does it mean to land on the moon? If this material is really productive, I will send you to Mars in the future, and also give you a ton of soil so that you can grow potatoes on Mars."

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In the bedroom of the laboratory, Ning Zi watched several academicians chatting, laughing and energetic in the surveillance camera, listened to their excited talks, and then yawned.

He did stay up too late today, and his work and rest habits have always been very healthy.

There was no way, he had to receive so many big guys who came to test the materials, and he still had to show the most basic courtesy.

After seeing that everyone was no more calm than him, he lay down on the bed with satisfaction. It was time to sleep.

Just as I lay on the bed, a sentiment from March appeared in my mind: "Meow, this is what human beings' desire for exploration should look like. There are always some people who have the ability to create silicon-based life, but they always think that they should use it first. The ability to produce silicone dolls, meow..."

Um……

Who is this talking about?

The next moment, Ning Zi fell into sleep.

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Li Rongchang admires the vigorous energy of these national treasure-level scientists.

Although he couldn't hide his excitement after seeing this material, when the time passed three o'clock, he still couldn't stand it anymore, and then he took a nap in the rest room in the laboratory under the guidance. It was already three hours later when I woke up. After a simple wash, I returned to the laboratory and saw that the bosses who had stayed up all night were still busy there. Not only did they not show any signs of fatigue, but they were all still energetic. Extremely excited.

You must know that the average age of these academicians is more than 50, and the oldest one is 63 this year.

If Ning Zi hadn't suddenly given such a shocking news at night, it would have been impossible for these big guys to stay up all night to test the materials. He couldn't afford any physical problem for any of these people.

And in fact, just looking at the enthusiasm of these people at this time, he could already conclude that there was really no problem with Ning Zi's results. Of course, he had actually confirmed this conclusion before going to bed last night, and then reported it before going to bed.

He knew very well that everything was going to be different starting today.

So I thought about it, changed my clothes, and walked into the laboratory.

"Excuse me, academicians, it's already morning, um, almost half past six. You've also stayed up all night, so you'd better go and rest first."

"Hey, Li Bu, are you awake? Where is Ning Zi?"

"Um, Ning Zi? You're probably still sleeping, right?"

"How can he sleep at this time?!"

"That's right, how can he still sleep?"

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"Ahem, so you should rest. Everyone, let me say a few more words first. I invited you here last night to verify the authenticity of this technology and to make some reference decisions for the higher ups. Now Everyone has verified it and confirmed that Ning Zi's laboratory has indeed produced the entire result. In fact, the specific research work is not so urgent.

I am not being alarmist. Fellow academicians, there will definitely be several important meetings to be held in the future, and these meetings are likely to involve future scientific research directions, and even ultimately determine the scale of at least trillions in the next five or ten years. The flow of scientific research and engineering funds.

Therefore, if everyone suffers some physical problems at this time in order to understand the properties of the materials and misses the subsequent meetings and reporting work, then the loss may be a bit big. The body is the capital of doing things! We all go to rest quickly, so when Ning Jie wakes up, I will risk my life and pull that kid over to help everyone clear up their doubts, how about that? "

This simple and direct persuasion also successfully made everyone stop talking to themselves.

Well, I didn’t feel very tired before, but after hearing these words, I felt sleepy again.

This is often the case for people. When the brain feels excited, it will secrete a variety of hormones to keep the body in an excited state. Until someone brings these people back to a rational state, they will soon feel sleepy. Although the sympathetic nerve is still excited at this moment, after the command to rest has been given, they will finally know that they are tired.

"Well, what Lao Li said is right. Let's all go and take a rest first. Sharpening your knives won't stop you from chopping wood."

"That's right, that's right. There's still a tough battle to be fought next, but we can't fall behind at this time. Besides, the little guy didn't come, which doesn't mean anything."

"Yes, yes, let's rest first. Go to bed early and get up early. Get up in the afternoon and catch Ning Zi and teach us old guys a lesson."

A few self-deprecating words also made Li Rongchang breathe a sigh of relief.

Okay, these big guys went to rest, and it was time for him to have a good talk with Ning Zi. To him, this is the most important thing now.

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"Um...what? You want to display these materials at the astronomy forum? Ning Zi, this...isn't convenient for displaying? Isn't it too advanced?"

Li Rongchang knew that Ning Zi was a very thoughtful person, but he didn't expect to hear such a big piece of information right after the conversation. He suddenly felt that he didn't have a good rest last night, which made him a little drunk.

Of course, his tone was still very gentle, and he was discussing with Ning Zi very seriously.

Ning Zi fiddled with the computer in the laboratory for a while, then looked at Li Rongchang and replied: "Well, if I say that these materials alone are not advanced, and there are other achievements during this period of seclusion, right? Is it convenient to show?"

Li Rongchang was stunned for a moment, and then felt a little stuffy, that sudden feeling of suffocation.

A material with negative mass has almost driven several national treasure-level experts crazy. He dare not think about what more advanced results Ning Zi can come up with in such a short time. This even made him feel a little nervous for a while, so nervous that it became difficult for him to swallow his saliva.

It’s not that Li Rongchang has never seen the world, but he listened to what those academicians said yesterday: landing on the moon, going to Mars, building a space platform... I thought that in his lifetime he would be able to fly the red color representing China everywhere in outer space. Flag, he couldn't help but feel excited in his heart, so that his tone was trembling when he spoke: "Ning Zi, what do you mean by more advanced things?"

"Some specific engineering technical details, although they still only exist on computers, I think it is feasible. Well, how to put it, you know that I study artificial intelligence, and our artificial intelligence is already the world's leader, so I used supercomputing technology to make some relatively detailed things, such as large-scale variable cycle engine matrix control technology assembly, ultra-large component precision assembly technology catalog...

The significance of these technologies is that we can use these anti-gravity materials to directly build spacecraft that can adapt to space navigation, or large-scale projects such as large-scale space command and coordination systems. So we show the materials just to prove the correctness of the theory. These engineering details made through artificial intelligence are what can really quickly turn the theory into reality. These should be reasonable, right? "

Ning Zi explained quietly and carefully observed Li Rongchang's expression to see if the senior official also thought it was reasonable.

At least there is no exaggeration in the slightest. The details in the engineering field are truly valuable assets. Because theory is only a directional guide, and practice is often a process of trial and error. Failure is the mother of success. This is the stage.

Many seemingly sophisticated technologies are meaningless if they break through the layer of window paper.

This is like electronic-grade single crystal silicon processing technology in the field of silicon-based chips. The semiconductor industry has extremely high requirements for the purity of silicon. Generally, a decimal point followed by 11 nines is required to meet basic requirements. To achieve this level of purity requires a spraying technology, namely barium spraying technology.

The technical principle is roughly to spray barium hydroxide with crystal water inside the crucible, allowing the barium hydroxide to react with air to generate barium carbonate. The barium carbonate will decompose at high temperature in the furnace and react with silicon liquid to produce barium silicate. Barium silicate has an orthorhombic crystal structure with one covalent bond and two polar bonds. When it is attached to the inner wall of the crucible, it can effectively prevent bubbles and oxygen in the transparent layer of the crucible from entering the dissolved silicon, and isolate the crucible. The bursting of bubbles causes the silica powder to enter the molten silicon, causing bubbling during Czochralski single crystal silicon and improving the purity.

China did not have this technology at the time, so even if it knew the theory, it would be useless. Because the specific formula of crystallization water is a secret kept by high-end wafer fabs in the world. Only through repeated experiments in the laboratory and a little bit of trial and error can the process slowly improve and the purity of single crystal silicon slowly increase.

This testing process is both tedious and expensive. But it is actually a question of the percentage of various chemical materials.

Similar to this, there are also various catalyst formulas in industry.

The effect is extremely high-end, but to be honest, it may be a substance that can be seen everywhere in life. But these formulas are extremely valuable, because professional catalysts can often double the purity and yield when used properly.

The technologies Ning Zi is talking about now allow China to directly bypass hundreds of billions or even trillions of investment in research and development and directly create epoch-making equipment that is at the top of the world's pyramid. This can indeed be said to be truly advanced stuff.

As for negative mass antigravity materials, even if the theory is published and scientists can see it with their own eyes, there is no specific preparation method. It will probably take dozens or even hundreds of years to make the same material in the laboratory.

Li Rongchang instantly understood what Ning Zi meant, but then again, even his level couldn't actually determine anything now. His opinions are, at best, references.

But this time he was really shocked.

Although he couldn't quite tell what the two names Ning Zi cited were for, he could probably make his own judgment and start to verify...

"Ning Zi, what do you mean, can this material be industrialized and mass-produced?"

"Well, it's not a big problem. There are some technical difficulties in mass production, but half a year of hard work should be enough."

"After mass production, you also have a ready-made technical solution to use this anti-gravity material?"

"Yes. For example, the technical catalog of ultra-large component precision assemblies can be used not only in the design of movable space ports, but also in the design of spacecrafts and space command platforms. If you don't take too big a step, you can also First make an aerospace aircraft carrier that moves within the atmosphere, or make a small suspended city that can move in the air and specialize in aerial tourism projects, etc.

Of course, it needs to be matched with corresponding life support technology, but the artificial intelligence system in the laboratory is also working hard to do corresponding analysis and calculations, and the results may be given soon. These things are the most important. Of course, although I will display the negative mass material, the specific preparation process will definitely not be announced, so this is reasonable, right? "

Li Rongchang looked at Ning Zi with a complicated expression.

If all the scientists in this world were as simple as Ning Zi, there would probably be no need for engineers.

Of course, at this moment, he began to wonder whether everyone had underestimated the artificial intelligence technology developed by Ning Zi.

Although he is not a serious technical official, he has had relevant experience in presiding over project construction, and he is very clear that there are often a lot of detailed problems in the planning of these large-scale projects. Artificial intelligence directly derived the assembly technical catalog, which made him a little confused, but he couldn't find anything unreasonable.

Moreover, Ning Zi's words seemed reasonable, and made him feel weird.

To be honest, it is very unreasonable to say that each retreat only lasts for ten or twenty days, and then it can come up with advanced technology that people don’t know how to describe. This efficiency is so high that it makes many researchers who call the laboratory their home doubt their lives.

But with the foreshadowing of a series of previous achievements, Li Rongchang felt that if there was anyone in the world who could achieve this level, it would probably be Ning Ju. By the way, there is still Ning Zi assisted by artificial intelligence.

So Li Rongchang did not answer Ning Zi's question directly, but asked straight to the point: "Ning Zi, to what extent has the artificial intelligence technology in your laboratory developed?"

Ning Zi blinked her eyes, resisted looking at the kitten, and replied pertinently: "The world leader."

A very pertinent answer and irrefutable.

But this obviously did not faze Li Rongchang. He soon found a breakthrough and asked sincerely: "How far ahead do you think you are? Can you reveal a little bit?"

Ning Zi hesitated a little. This time he took the initiative to pick up the kitten next to him. He felt the kitten's head rubbing against his palm. After pondering for a moment, he replied: "If I were to judge, I would conservatively estimate that it is hundreds of years ahead." .”

Obviously no one doubted the cat next to Ning Zi, at least no one suspected it yet, and Li Rongchang didn't look at Yu Yue for a moment longer because of Ning Zi's actions.

Of course, if a cat's lifespan is exceeded, March already has a ready-made strategy, which is nothing more than to make some modifications to the appearance. As long as you have a cat-loving persona, after the companion pet dies, replace it with another one. No one will find the cat incomprehensible.

So at this time, Li Rongchang just swallowed, then nodded, and replied cautiously: "I understand, but I don't have enough authority to ask the question you asked. I have to report it to the superior. Please understand. But as a theory As the founder and inventor of new materials, I believe the higher-ups will fully consider your thoughts and opinions."

"That's best. I have my own plans and arrangements, and they are definitely the ones that are most beneficial to China." Ning Zi nodded and replied.

"By the way, those academicians want to hold a meeting this afternoon, and they must invite you to attend. You have to go and talk to the academicians. You have to give me this face, otherwise I won't be able to explain to them." Li Rongchang said affectionately. He said, as if he was not facing a scientist at this time, but a very good friend.

"Okay." Ning Zi nodded, confirmed, and then said seriously: "So you will definitely give me face. I must show this material at this World Astronomy Forum."

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