This was probably the most tiring flight Lu Zhou had ever taken.
It was also the longest flight he had ever taken.
Lu Zhou dragged his suitcase and walked down the gangway with an exhausted look on his face. He pinched his eyebrows and felt dizzy.
Thinking about it carefully, this was the first time he had ever received a love confession?
And it was by his own student …
As expected, being handsome was also a sin?
Wang Peng, who was waiting outside the gangway, looked at Lu Zhou's exhausted face. He paused for a second and immediately took the suitcase from Lu Zhou's hands.
"Are you still jet-lagged?"
Lu Zhou yawned and said, "It's not that I'm not jet-lagged, I just didn't sleep at all …"
Wang Peng looked at Lu Zhou with a strange expression.
"Didn't sleep? Then how did you spend the past ten hours? "
In a sense, being able to sit on a plane for more than ten hours with one's eyes open was quite impressive.
"I was thinking about something … Let's not talk about this." Lu Zhou coughed and said, "Take me back to Zhongshan International, I just want to sleep."
Wang Peng nodded and said, "Okay … Do you want me to help you?"
Lu Zhou: "That won't be necessary."
…
After Lu Zhou returned to China, he immediately immersed himself in the controllable nuclear fusion project.
Using his previous thesis on the plasma turbulence model in the stellarator, the professors from Jin Ling University's computer science department and physics department finally finished writing the plasma control scheme.
Almost at the same time, the construction of the supercomputer was also completed.
The superconducting coil problem was solved, and the main control computer and control scheme problems were also solved. Now, there was only one thing left for him to do.
Which was to experiment.
After a meeting and discussion, Lu Zhou finalized the next experiment plan, as well as the work schedule of each research unit until the day of the experiment. The date of the next experiment was finally set to be August 20th.
Even though Lu Zhou didn't plan on doing anything dangerous, he still reported his upcoming experiment to the Jinling city government.
What he didn't expect was that what was supposed to be an ordinary experiment would end up like a martial law.
On August 20th, at the foot of Purple Mountain, outside the STAR Stellarator Research Institute …
Lu Zhou looked at the armored vehicle and helicopter parked in front of the research institute. He coughed and spoke to Regiment Commander Dai.
"Do you have to be so dramatic? It's not like this is a nuclear test."
Regiment Commander Dai smiled and said, "Professor Lu, please don't be nervous. We are just taking precautions. The military chief specifically called me and told me that if there was an accident, the equipment could be abandoned, but the people must be brought out. "
And if the kind of accident that you're imagining really happens, this thing won't be able to escape …
There was a difference between the neutron beam of a fusion reaction and the gamma ray of a fission reaction. In front of a neutron beam, any armor was like a piece of paper. It was only slightly useful in diving … But no one knew how useful it was.
Lu Zhou explained in a serious manner, "I have to explain again that controllable nuclear fusion is safe. It's not the same thing as the second cannon fusion."
Regiment Commander Dai smiled and said, "I know, we're just taking precautions."
Lu Zhou: "…"
Seeing how Regiment Commander Dai was so insistent, Lu Zhou let him be.
Anyway, an armored vehicle and a helicopter didn't take up much space.
After passing through the entrance of the tunnel, Lu Zhou, followed by Regiment Commander Dai and his guards, stepped into the laboratory that was embedded in the mountain.
The engineers and researchers at the research institute were already working at their respective positions.
Other than that, Lu Zhou also saw a man and a woman in casual clothes.
After the young woman saw Lu Zhou, her eyes lit up, and she immediately walked over.
"Hello, Professor Lu, I'm Wu Qingqing, a reporter from Jinling Daily. This is my assistant, Zhang An."
The young man with the camera nodded and smiled brightly. "Hello, Professor Lu!"
Lu Zhou frowned and didn't look at the two people. Instead, he looked at Sheng Xianfu, who was commanding the scene, and asked, "Why did you invite reporters?"
Sheng Xianfu said helplessly, "I really didn't invite them. I saw them waiting at the door early in the morning … I thought you invited them."
Wu Qingqing saw that Lu Zhou didn't seem to like them standing there, so she immediately explained, "It has nothing to do with Professor Sheng. The Jinling city government invited us here to do a live interview … If we're disturbing your research, we can leave now."
Lu Zhou sighed and said, "Forget it, you guys are already here, if you want to stay, then stay. But after the experiment begins, I hope you guys can stay quiet. Don't make any noise, don't walk around, and don't make any phone calls. Also, if you want to take photos, do it now. "
In the fields of theoretical physics and plasma physics, many domestic and foreign research institutes loved to do this kind of publicity. The typical example was probably CERN. Regardless of whether they were conducting experiments or not, they would hold a press conference every few days.
However, Lu Zhou didn't have this habit. In his opinion, other than the final success of the experiment, even if the in-progress results were worth celebrating, there really wasn't much to publicize.
After all, theoretically, one could have as many of those things as they wanted.
Wu Qingqing smiled and said, "I know! Oh yeah, before the experiment begins, can I interview you? "
Lu Zhou thought for a bit and said, "If it won't take too long."
"Please rest assured, Professor Lu, it's just a few simple questions. It won't take too long," Wu Qingqing said with a smile. She flipped open her notebook and said, "When it comes to the word 'nuclear', a lot of people are scared. I want to ask Professor Lu, is controllable nuclear fusion really as safe as experts say? Or what would happen if there was a nuclear leak at the STAR machine? "
When Lu Zhou heard this layman's question, he smirked.
"Have you seen a hydrogen bomb explode before?"
Wu Qingqing paused for a second and said, "… I've seen it in movies."
Lu Zhou said, "If an accident happens, you'll probably see a beam of light, or you won't see anything at all. Then, the hundreds of millions of degrees of heat will evaporate every drop of water in your body. Before you're burnt, you'll probably be detonated by the water in your body. But I promise, the process won't hurt you. "
Lu Zhou looked at the two young people who were gradually turning pale and smiled.
"I lied to you guys about all of that."
"Ha, haha." Wu Qingqing laughed awkwardly and said, "Professor Lu, you're so funny."
Do all scientists make jokes like this?
Honestly, this joke isn't funny at all.
Lu Zhou stopped joking and said in a calm tone, "Relax, there's a fundamental difference between a fusion reaction and a fission reaction. Let's say that we're only doing a plasma confinement experiment today, it won't involve a real fusion reaction. "
When Wu Qingqing heard that there wasn't going to be a fusion reaction today, she quickly asked, "What's the difference between a plasma confinement experiment and a real fusion reaction?"
Lu Zhou: "The difference is that we're injecting hydrogen into the reaction chamber, not its isotope, deuterium-tritium, which is used as nuclear fuel."
While they were talking, the engineers who were debugging the equipment had finished the final preparations for the experiment.
Lu Zhou signaled the two reporters to quietly stay on the side. At the same time, he signaled the staff to confiscate their phones and cameras. He then looked at Sheng Xianfu, who had been waiting there for a long time.
"Are you ready?"
Sheng Xianfu nodded with a serious expression and said, "I'm ready."
Lu Zhou nodded and looked at the silver watch on his wrist.
It was two minutes until 3 o 'clock in the afternoon.
All the work that needed to be done had already been done.
Lu Zhou looked through the floor-to-ceiling window and looked at the steel behemoth in the middle of the laboratory.
Lu Zhou spoke in a solemn and steady voice.
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