The next morning, Lu Zhou followed the China delegation to visit the controllable fusion power station in Cadarache, a small city in southern France.
In addition to the old man who came to France with him, the President of France, executives from Electricité de France, and engineers from East Asia Power accompanied them.
This time, it wasn't Academician Wang who led the team. Instead, it was an old engineer that Lu Zhou had never seen before, as well as a group of young men.
When the old engineer saw Lu Zhou, he excitedly grabbed Lu Zhou's hand, making Lu Zhou feel particularly embarrassed.
Obviously, even though many years had passed, and he hadn't been engaged in nuclear engineering research for a long time, his prestige in this field hadn't weakened at all.
He didn't even know if it was an illusion, but he felt like these people, who had never actually interacted with him before, were overestimating him.
In his opinion, at least half of the success of the Pangu reactor belonged to the entire project team.
Not long after, they arrived at their destination. The group of people first took a photo at the gate, then walked into the nuclear power plant under the guidance of the construction team.
The exterior design of this nuclear power plant was basically completely modeled after the Pangu reactor, and it took a full three years to build. Not far away from it, there was the unfinished foundation of the ITER project.
Because the Pangu reactor core catcher technology was completely different from the ITER project, the French construction team was faced with the choice of either digging up the foundation and reconstructing it, or completely abandoning this place.
Considering that the former might not be cost-effective, and it might not be able to pass the project acceptance inspection by East Asia Power, they chose the latter.
When the person in charge here talked about how the French workers used their expertise and wisdom to overcome numerous problems and finally built this "little sun" that was destined to light up the west coast of Europe, the engineers from East Asia Power who accompanied the delegation all laughed.
This thing has been built for three years?
I can't believe they're still so proud.
However, in the end, the construction period wasn't extended, and it was delayed until the end of next year. This really surprised many people in the delegation, and they even gave a round of applause at the end.
During the tour, Lu Zhou, who was the chief designer of China's controllable fusion project, seemed a bit absent-minded.
It wasn't because he was troubled by the efficiency of the French, but because he spent the whole night studying the notebook. Even now, his head was still spinning around the complex mathematical formulas.
Even for him, solving the mathematical problems in the notebook was not an easy task.
Especially in terms of mathematical expression, the parts involved in these problems were abstract numbers, not the traditional decimal system. Although motive theory was a good tool, if these abstract mathematical forms were attached with more complex logical transformations, the whole problem would suddenly become like a ball of yarn. It would take a lot of effort to untangle them.
Fortunately, he had completed the unified theory of algebra and geometry, and he had made many additions to the motive theory.
If he were to use a mathematical method from ten years ago, just proving that Proposition 2 in this notebook was equivalent to Riemann's conjecture would be enough to stop a lot of people. In fact, even an outstanding scholar like Professor Grothendieck was stuck at this stage.
With his advanced mathematical theory, it only took Lu Zhou less than an hour to prove this point yesterday.
However, that was the end of the optimistic situation.
After spending an entire night to finally prove Proposition 3, Lu Zhou was faced with the exponentially more difficult Proposition 4. He racked his brains for an hour, but he still couldn't come up with any ideas.
As for the next problem …
There were ten more …
Lu Zhou had a headache just thinking about it.
He deliberately slowed down and walked next to Lu Zhou. Director Giacobino, who accompanied him to visit St. Lizier Church yesterday, smiled and spoke.
"Academician Lu, what do you think of this nuclear power plant?"
Lu Zhou looked around and spoke casually.
"It's okay."
Director Giacobino eagerly asked, "How does it compare to the Pangu reactor?"
Lu Zhou: "Pretty much."
When Director Giacobino heard this, a look of joy appeared on his face.
Lu Zhou looked at the expression on his face and didn't know what to say.
As an experimental reactor, the Pangu reactor in Haizhou could only generate less than half of the electricity generated by the Fuxi reactor in Daya Bay. It only supplied electricity to Lu Province and northern Jiangsu. As for the Yangtze River Delta city group from Wuzhong to Shanghai, the newly completed Fuxi reactor was now responsible for supplying electricity to the Yangtze River Delta city group.
Even for the Pangu reactor, it only took them one year from construction to official operation, and this was done on the basis of research and construction.
It took three years to replicate the Pangu reactor according to the drawings of the East Asia Power. Lu Zhou didn't know why he was so proud …
Ignoring Director Giacobino's inexplicable sense of pride, Lu Zhou finally followed the delegation through the rest of the nuclear core delivery ceremony.
The price was tens of billions of Euros, and the cost was only one-tenth. Producing this nuclear core was more profitable than selling a hundred fourth-generation nuclear machines.
Just this order alone increased the foreign exchange reserves of the China Central Bank by two to three percent. Not to mention the hidden value of this order in terms of political and economic cooperation, which couldn't be measured with money.
Even though the French side was heartbroken, if they could use low-cost fusion power to eliminate the expensive domestic nuclear power, the pressure on public spending and energy would be greatly reduced. The cost of industrial electricity would also be greatly reduced. This would stimulate production more directly than cutting interest rates.
For both sides, this was a win-win deal.
Therefore, when they shook hands, both the French President and the China delegation had bright smiles on their faces.
After the process was done, the group returned to the car.
As soon as they sat down, Lu Zhou took out his unfinished notebook and began to study it.
If this "information" really came from an extraterrestrial civilization, then without confirming the content of the information itself, it was not appropriate to rashly disclose it.
Lu Zhou wasn't sure if Professor Grothendieck used the "language of an extraterrestrial civilization" to interpret this information. Considering his mental state, it was possible that he interpreted it as "devil's whisper".
Perhaps it was these unanswerable propositions that became the last straw that broke his spirit.
In fact, if it was possible, Lu Zhou really wanted to discuss the "devil" with him in person. Unfortunately, this was impossible.
Not long after he obtained the system, he had just completed the proof of the first mathematical proposition in his life. The pope of algebraic geometry had already reached the end of his life.
In addition to the origin of these mathematical formulas, Lu Zhou was also confused. According to the "Void Memory" he saw in the system space, the "Void" that created this memory obviously knew the language of the Earth civilization and could even translate it with the language of other civilizations.
However, the information that Professor Grothendieck received didn't seem to be a straightforward language? Instead, it was a code in the form of mathematics.
Could it be …
The information that Professor Grothendieck received didn't come from the Void? Instead, it was a level or even a few levels lower than the Void, like an extraterrestrial civilization like the "Calan civilization"?
This guess was also possible.
Anyway, whether it was the Void or other civilizations, Lu Zhou didn't believe in the existence of "devils".
However, he now understood why the old man's mental state suddenly took a sharp turn in his later years, and why he did some things that others thought were unbelievable.
Thinking about these things was indeed not an easy task for an old man in his seventies or eighties.
He still remembered Professor Deligné's evaluation of Sir Atiyah. At that age, forget about making any achievements, it was already a miracle that he could remain conscious.
Not to mention that these complex mathematical formulas were a bit mentally polluted for Lu Zhou.
Wang Peng, who was sitting next to Lu Zhou, looked at him and spoke.
He looked at Lu Zhou and said, "You don't seem to be in a good mental state."
Lu Zhou: "Maybe I stayed up late last night."
Wang Peng: "You've been staying up late for two nights in a row, right?"
Lu Zhou: "It's fine, I still get five hours of sleep every day."
Wang Peng: "… Doctor Yan's suggestion is that you should try to get eight hours of sleep every day. This is also for your health."
"Compared to my health, there is something more worthy of my attention." Lu Zhou looked at his old friend and gave him a reassuring look. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, after this is over, I will definitely rest for a while."
Wang Peng hesitated for a second and looked at the notebook in Lu Zhou's hand.
"… This notebook?"
Lu Zhou didn't nod or shake his head. He just spun the pen in his hand and gave a simple and ambiguous answer.
"Sort of."
Lamp pen
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