Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Across the Pacific, it's noon.

After sending the e-mail, Sarott went to the bar and got drunk.

In order to maintain a sober mind in the experiment, he had never had the habit of drinking at noon, but this was an exception.

A bar on the edge of Silicon Valley, sitting beside him, his assistant Paul sighed and comforted him.

“To open up, it's not necessarily a bad thing that your lab was sold to ExxonMobil. Although Professor Lu is a brilliant... or great scholar, there are not many resources he can give you. Besides, ExxonMobil spent 50 million to buy us, certainly not just to keep us on a cold bench..."

Watching Professor Sarott not react at all, Paul knew that his comfort was mostly ineffective, and shrugged his shoulders and forcibly ended the topic.

“Anyway, having money is not a bad thing. ”

Sarott grabbed the corner of his mouth.

“You don't understand. ”

Paul: “I don't know what? ”

Nor did Sarott explain anything, except lifting the bottle and filling it with a few bites, but talking about other things on his own.

“My dear Paul, I always thought that academia should be a free thing. As long as it's not against the most basic human ethics, even if it's a less correct point of view, you should claim it as long as you believe it's right. The more people don't believe you, the more you should prove to them that you're right. ”

Paul frowned, “Isn't it free now? ”

“Maybe so," Salot sighed looking up at the ceiling, "but by the time you got to me, when your research or behavior had become a gear to move the world forward… you probably had a different feeling about your understanding of freedom. ”

Paul didn't say anything, just looked at Professor Sarott inexplicably.

After not speaking for a while, Salot put the empty bottle next to the stool and picked up the bottle again.

Just as Paul was going to remind him, "You're drunk," he said somewhat abruptly.

“After a while, I intend to emigrate. ”

“To where? Professor Lu's lab? ”

“I don't know, it's not China anyway, there's only one Professor Lu...”

Sarott, carrying a bottle, thought for a while, scratching his hair, “Perhaps Holland? My father told me that my ancestors lived in a small town in Utrecht until the Germans bombed Rotterdam… but I never went there. A long time ago, Utrecht University sent me an invitation to be a professor there, but they drive too low a salary to match the resources Cornell University gave me... but now I'm thinking, if I had accepted that invitation, maybe it wouldn't have been that bad? ”

……

The research on fusion batteries is in bottlenecks, and the issue of core heat dissipation seems to be a difficult problem to solve, so many people within the project team have begun to question the technology route itself.

After all, can nuclear fusion really be miniaturized like nuclear fission?

Is it really feasible to inertially constrain this route on miniaturized controllable fusion?

The most troubling thing is, if you don't need a magnetic field to withstand that energy beyond a star, what material is needed to withstand the heat of that moment?

Yet they do not seem to have more options than inertial restraints. After all, on small spacecraft, there is simply not enough space for them to create a closed magnetic cage sufficient to restrain those plasmas.

No one can answer these questions, not even the research of the former can be used as a reference.

In an effort to find inspiration for solving the problem, these days the Ark has collected a large number of papers related to space, fission batteries, and space station heat dissipation technologies in an attempt to draw inspiration from a number of published research materials.

Indeed, the papers did inspire him.

For example, a paper on "First Principle Study of Sons in Alpha-Borough and its Decahedron-rich Compounds” provides an interesting thermoelectric conversion model while discussing the scattering phenomenon of electrons on sons.

Converting thermal energy into electricity is really an interesting idea in a way, and in fact, most of the nuclear fission cells that are applied to spacecraft are based on this way of generating electricity.

However, this does not solve the problem fundamentally.

The use of temperature differentials within and outside spacecraft to generate electricity may lead to limited efficiency in the conversion of thermal energy into electricity, but does not alter the fact that heat rejection is difficult.

Sitting in his office, he muttered to himself to the ceiling, turning his pen in the hand of an ark leaning against his office chair.

“It would be nice if the controlled fusion reaction was allowed to exothermize slowly. ”

Or, the area where the pulse ignites is small enough...

At this point, the sound coming next to him interrupted his mind.

“Professor, what are you talking about? ”

Zhao Huan, holding a document bag in his chest and standing at his desk, was looking at him with curiosity.

Ark: “Nothing... anything? ”

Zhao Huan nodded and said, "Well, it's almost week 10, and your Computing Materials lesson is about to start. Here's your schedule. ”

“I know, I'll leave the schedule here," he said, standing up from the office chair, sighing, “… I go out for a walk and call me if something comes up. ”

“Hmm.” Zhao Huan nodded.

Don't know if it's an illusion, she always feels that the professor is in a bad mood.

In fact, Assistant Zhao's intuition is not wrong. The Ark is in a really bad mood right now, and even a little irritable.

Intuition tells him that he chose the right research approach.

However, it seemed that there was an invisible barrier blocking the seemingly viable road in front of him.

In implicit ambiguity, the ark feels that the bottleneck is not in engineering, but in theory.

That is, there is no longer enough theoretical basis to support his research into controllable fusion miniaturization.

Moreover, this difficulty has not yet been able to circumvent the phenomena of magnetic islands, magnetic surface tears, etc. in plasma physics from an engineering point of view, transferring theoretical difficulty to engineering difficulty and cost, as in the case of Tokamak.

“Scientific Efficiency Punishment for Previous Research? ”

Walking along the campus's shaded trails, thinking of the ark, suddenly shook his head with a smile.

Probably the year before, when he first came into contact with controlled nuclear fusion studies, he encountered a similar situation.

At that time, the topological research methods of L-flux and bias differential equations had not been proposed, and the existence and smoothness of NS equations and theoretical models of plasma turbulence were among the two major unsolved mysteries of mathematics and physics.

It is precisely after these theoretical issues have been resolved that the realization of controllable fusion technology will have an adequate theoretical basis.

Without these theories as a mattress, it would be almost impossible for either the German spiral 7-X or his modified STAR-1 imitator device to achieve those proud results.

However, where exactly are the theoretical bottlenecks of controllable fusion miniaturization?

If this bottleneck is really theoretical...

Through the tree-lined trail, thinking about the problem of the ark, he unconsciously walked to the usual lecture place.

On the podium, standing in a professor he doesn't know, listening to the content is probably about physics.

Through the glass by the wall, he can clearly see that the students in the classroom are listening with all their heart.

However, just as he was about to leave, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a few key words through the corners of his eyes swept from the blackboard.

The inspiration in the underworld flashes away.

The heart of the ark moved slightly, without any hesitation, towards the back door of the classroom.