Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2236 Brainstorm (4K)

Although we planned to set aside some time in the afternoon to discuss the issue through multiple channels online and offline in order to resolve the problem as soon as possible, things did not develop as expected.

It took a group of people a lot of time just to read the materials and review some experimental reports.

When the sun was setting, Zhang Tianhao subconsciously took out the Taoyao he carried with him from his pocket, only to find that today's limited supply had been used up.

The slightly plump young man in his 40s sighed helplessly, then pressed his temple with his right hand for a while, then rubbed his cheeks with his hands, and then continued to read the materials with a focused expression.

Similar scenes were seen in several meeting rooms and offices. Some people even got used to eating desserts such as durian pizza and double skin milk while looking at the ingredients.

Although for these "outsiders" who are not in the black hole battery laboratory, spending time and energy reading these materials is a thankless task, there is no extra subsidy or bonus, and it will not directly help their own projects, but scientific research is like this, once you immerse yourself in it, you will be unable to extricate yourself.

In particular, the black hole laboratory has a very realistic special problem, which causes the experimental report materials to be full of strangeness and uncertainty, but everyone can bring them in through various derived formulas.

"The high-energy gamma rays emitted by micro black holes can be converted into electron and positron pairs. These particles can be deflected by electromagnetic fields to form a power device similar to a jet engine. Therefore, the source of subatomic black hole energy can be solved..."

"Solar energy is too poor, and it is impossible to rely solely on nuclear power to develop. Black hole energy is indeed an excellent superior alternative."

"By accelerating and colliding protons, antiprotons and other particles, in a high-energy environment, the energy density generated by particle collisions can reach very extreme conditions. Under such conditions, it is entirely possible to deliberately create and cultivate a micro black hole."

"Hawking believes that black holes cannot exist forever. They will radiate particles and energy outward, causing them to lose mass. The mass and volume of a micro black hole are smaller than those of a normal natural black hole, so its decay rate must also be extremely exaggerated, or even so short that it has no chance to swallow the surrounding matter."

While everyone was exploring, Zhang Tianhao suddenly clapped his hands and exclaimed: "If we can accelerate two particles to the speed of light through the particle accelerator of the collider and then let them collide, the energy generated at this moment can create a micro black hole!

The muon collider project that our company launched not long ago has also brought enough experience to our engineering team. Perhaps we can upgrade the collider again!"

After Zhang Tianhao's remarks, a scientist quickly refuted: "With our current manufacturing technology and material technology, even if we upgrade it, we are completely incapable of creating a controllable micro black hole, because our large particle collider cannot reach the power to create a black hole.

According to the current data formula, if we want to accelerate the particles to the speed of light, I am afraid that even if all the energy on the blue planet is added together, it will not be enough. "

After the scientist finished speaking, Zhou Yiheng, a member of the Jiuzhou Technology Titanium Star Energy Research Group, quickly refuted: "The energy of the blue planet is like a vast ocean. The energy that we humans are currently mining and utilizing is like a grain of sand in this vast ocean. At least after the nuclear power project we are currently developing solves the material strength problem, the energy that can be provided is enough to support the operation needs of large-scale high-intensity colliders. Even if a micro black hole is born for one second, the black hole battery laboratory can collect enough experimental data.

Just like the nuclear bomb back then, after the explosion, this terrible weapon not only cleaned up a bunch of garbage, but also became an important source of cleanliness for mankind, didn’t it?

I think we can focus more on nuclear fusion, high-energy physics, materials science and other projects. As long as the progress is fast enough, we can completely implement black hole energy from theory to specific equipment and materials in our generation. "

Hundreds of older scientists did not immediately refute Zhou Yiheng's remarks. As for the muon collider project that the company successfully built several years ago, many of them had used the experimental quota of this collider and obtained a lot of rare and unique data, which enabled them to produce many results.

The muon (micro-), also known as the muon, is a lepton with a basic charge of -1 and a spin of 1/2.

Of course, the most important thing is that the newly produced muons have a speed close to the speed of light and can be accelerated to higher energy than electrons, which has greater advantages over proton collisions.

This means that a 10-tera-electron-volt, 10-kilometre-long muon collider could produce particles with the same energy as the 100-tera-electron-volt, 90-kilometre-long proton machine being built at CERN.

If this project moves a few steps forward, it might be possible to build an ion collider that can create a micro black hole.

"However, upgrading technology is easier said than done, but how difficult is it to accomplish at this stage?"

"Even if it is theoretically possible for a microscopic black hole to produce a micro black hole, the minimum black hole mass detected by our gravitational wave detectors still needs to be further optimized..."

As the discussion deepened, the group of people with high research authority, including Zhang Tianhao and Chu Ci, became increasingly silent.

After many twists and turns, everything turned out to be in line with Mr. Gu's original plan! ?

Gu Qing waited for a while until the discussion slowed down, then asked loudly, "I think everyone has finished reading these materials? Do you have any other ideas?"

While others were shaking their heads, hesitating, and thinking deeply, Gu Qing looked at Ma Qifeng and said, "Ma Qifeng, as the general manager of the black hole battery laboratory, what do you think?"

Ma Qifeng raised his head the moment his name was called, and he subconsciously glanced at his colleagues around him before standing up and saying, "If the artificial micro black hole is successfully created, it will definitely mark another great victory for our human scientific exploration, but it will also bring new challenges.

Many of our projects require in-depth research into the properties of micro black holes and understanding black holes before we can use them.

At the same time, by deepening our research on micro black holes, we may be able to open up a research path to explore extra dimensions and string theory, allowing us to have a more comprehensive understanding of the most elusive force in the universe - gravity.

In short, the research direction of our black hole battery laboratory is temporarily determined to advance the research of micro black holes and energy simultaneously." At this point, Ma Qifeng paused for a few seconds, and then said with emotion: "On the edge of the unknown, if we can control the power of black holes, we may be able to avoid the dark and dangerous future..."

Scientists are also human beings and have their own thoughts and emotions.

And quite a number of scientists at a certain age have extremely pessimistic views on the future development of mankind.

Gu Qing had some guesses about Ma Qifeng's pessimistic thoughts. Perhaps in the mind of this middle-aged man who was extremely pessimistic about the future, this black hole with extremely strong gravity, which could make the curvature of space-time so large that even light could not escape from its world, was, in his mind, the source of the optimal solution technology for the future of mankind.

There is not only one team within Jiuzhou Technology that studies black holes, but the only laboratory that combines black holes with future energy for research is the Black Hole Battery Laboratory.

Gu Qing looked at everyone in deep thought, and he suddenly said: "It takes a lot of effort to create a black hole, and it takes a long distance to reach a real black hole. So can we steal some of the black hole's energy and use it for research first?"

When Gu Qing asked his question, an old man suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "The energy generated by a black hole is very huge. The energy layer of particles in the area outside the black hole's event horizon will split into two parts, one part falls into the event horizon, and the other part escapes.

The energy generated by this part of the escaping object can, in theory, indeed be extracted! According to Hawking's quantum mechanical emission theory, energy can be extracted through the electromagnetic field around the black hole, through quantum mechanical emission. "

As soon as the old man finished speaking, someone else immediately retorted, "Emitted through quantum mechanics? It's better to say that it's because the magnetic field lines inside and outside the black hole are constantly breaking and reconnecting. In this extremely special environment, the plasma is accelerated to nearly the speed of light and thrown out. Their movement direction cannot be consistent at all, and they can't even be locked by the program for simulation!"

However, after this rebuttal, someone else quickly stood up and said, "Why not? In a quantum chaotic environment, plasma will accumulate negative energy. We can use this property to extract energy from black holes! As for the computational difficulty of locking, testing, and simulating operations, as long as our quantum chips and quantum algorithms can meet the standards, it is not impossible to calculate!"

After the quantum chip engineer said this, a virtual character in the energy research project area of ​​the Titanium Star Department also said: "When I first started studying black holes, I found that the mass of black holes is extremely large compared to our blue planet, and the energy contained in them is also very huge. In the current stage of research, we all speculate that this energy is locked at the bottom of a smooth space-time hole in the black hole.

Under the condition of a rotating black hole, space-time is dragged and deformed. In this case, some energy will be released to the plasma escaping from the black hole. Although these leaked energies are not even a drop in the bucket for a black hole and can only be regarded as grains of sand in the sea, for us humans, these few grains of sand are enough for us to make a great technological leap!

According to calculations, the process of electrifying the plasma can stimulate an efficiency of 150%, which is far higher than any power plant currently in operation on our planet."

"A few years ago, we detected a large-scale radiation burst on the sun, which is a black hole flare. Perhaps we can use the sun's black hole flare to conduct the most basic research..."

With your opinions and my contributions, the direction of the entire research was changed and optimized step by step, and we even had a clearer understanding of the specific links and technical stage processes of the experiment.

Li You, head of the semiconductor department, said: "We cannot observe the behavior of particles at the edge of a black hole now, but as long as there is enough long-distance observation data, our quantum chip and quantum world algorithm research projects can actually support the simulation of particle behavior at the edge of a black hole in the laboratory.

A few years ago, a team of professors from several universities in Pudong City discovered that if femtosecond laser direct writing technology is used to process on photonic chips, a coupled waveguide array analogous to the equivalent potential field near the black hole horizon can be made, and they successfully achieved the quantum simulation of the generation and evolution process of particle pairs near the artificial black hole horizon at that time.

Of course, their research also has great limitations. After all, based on femtosecond laser direct writing technology and the concept of transformation optics, they only used a single layer of non-uniformly changing photon waveguide lattice to construct a one-dimensional artificial black hole, which is not a true black hole in the astrophysical sense.

However, their research also has extremely strong inspiring and theoretical effects. For example, their research found that unlike the linear motion evolution in flat space, near the black hole's event horizon, the evolutionary motion of single-photon wave packets accelerates exponentially with time, and its acceleration ability depends on the space-time curvature near the black hole, which coincides with the radiation decay phenomenon proposed by Hawking.

Our quantum chip can simulate further results with limited data through the particularity of the quantum world. In a sense, we are simulating the curvature of higher-dimensional space-time. "

From a middle-aged semiconductor engineer to a leading figure in Bluestar Semiconductor Industry, after Li You's family was properly taken care of and his family members recovered, he burst out with learning ability and energy that even Gu Qing could not ignore.

In the process of his thinking, the project that was originally just a theory has been materialized to the point where it can now be used for field research.

And the heads of these relevant laboratories and research teams did not feel it was awkward.

Even though these transfers would affect the projects in which they currently invested their main resources, this group of leaders did not immediately object.

After finishing the long speech, Li You subconsciously took out Taoyao from under his desk.

Tons tons tons...

Drink it all in one gulp.

Ma Qifeng looked at the series of actions taken by the semiconductor department boss and didn't even bother to hide the surprise on his face.

Gu Qing could even clearly hear him muttering, "If that's the case, then we can break down the big goals into small ones, break down the long-term goals into short-term goals, achieve a phased result every five years, and take a big step forward every ten years... That's really possible, right?"

In response to Ma Qifeng's thoughts, Gu Qing patted his shoulder and said softly: "With unity, even Mount Tai can be moved. Nothing is impossible."