The experiment soon began!
With the help of a logistics vehicle, the core module was quickly sent into the vacuum chamber.
Academician Yuan Huanmin walked to the console next to the floor-to-ceiling window and nodded at the engineer next to him, signaling him to open the suction valve.
The air in the vacuum chamber was gradually evacuated. The mechanical cantilevers hanging above the vacuum chamber slowly moved. They hooked onto the cables installed at the four corners of the core module and slowly lifted the entire core module.
The assistant standing in front of the console made sure that the core module was stable. He looked at Academician Yuan and spoke in a confident tone.
"The preparations are ready! We can begin the experiment at any time! "
Academician Yuan nodded and spoke in a sonorous voice.
"Begin the experiment!"
"Yes, sir!"
The antenna on the side of the core module slowly unfolded.
At the same time, the indicator lights on the console that corresponded to the various components of the core module lit up.
"Moon Palace core module main control computer successfully started!"
"All chipsets are operating normally!"
"Confirm battery status!"
"Batteries are operating normally!"
"…"
Lu Zhou stood next to the floor-to-ceiling window with the other engineers from the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation. They quietly waited for the experiment results.
Yang Xu, who was standing next to him, looked at Lu Zhou's expression and gulped. He couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration.
Jesus, this is a hundreds of millions of yuan investment. If I were in Lu Zhou's shoes, I wouldn't be able to speak properly.
Professor Lu was the only one who could remain so calm at a time like this …
Actually, what Yang Xu didn't know was that Lu Zhou, who was staring at the temperature-time curve, was also worried. He wasn't as calm as he looked.
However, a person who had seen the world was still different from others.
Compared to a controllable fusion experiment, a core module was far less dangerous and less expensive. Therefore, it wasn't worth Lu Zhou's time to think about it.
However, even though Lu Zhou wasn't worried, the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation executives standing next to him, especially the vice president, Zheng Xiangdong, were panicking. After all, he was the person in charge of the Moon Palace project.
He had fought for this "status" with great difficulty, but who would have thought that it would become a hot potato, causing him to be unable to sleep well for almost a week.
He stared at the temperature-time curve for a while. He finally couldn't help but ask Academician Yuan in a low voice.
"Why do I feel like this curve is jumping up and down more violently than a few days ago?"
Was this a treatment or a deliverance? Why did it feel like the problem was becoming more and more serious?
However, the expression on Academician Yuan Huanmin's face didn't change.
"That's normal. The temperature of the materials is different."
"Temperature environment?"
Academician Yuan, who was staring at the screen, nodded and explained impatiently.
"Yes, the core module was pre-cooled before the last experiment. This time, it's directly entered the vacuum chamber at room temperature. The cooling system's minimum operating temperature is about 20 degrees Celsius. It would be strange if the temperature curve is the same."
Zheng Xiangdong paused and asked, "… Then why didn't you pre-cool it this time?"
This time, Academician Yuan was finally annoyed by this layman's question, so he retorted.
"Why are there so many whys? Are you a hundred thousand whys? "
Zheng Xiangdong finally noticed Academician Yuan's annoyance, so he awkwardly whispered.
"… Pretend I didn't ask."
Seeing Vice President Zheng being humiliated by Mr. Yuan, Director Zhang, who was standing next to him, smirked.
He didn't like Vice President Zheng, so he was happy to see Vice President Zheng being humiliated by Academician Yuan.
But then again, no matter who it was, it was quite annoying to ask questions while others were doing experiments.
Time quickly passed by, and soon, the experiment had been going on for almost 20 minutes.
Lu Zhou looked at the temperature-time function curve and suddenly tilted his head. He spoke to Yang Xu, who was standing next to him.
"13 degrees Celsius."
Yang Xu paused for a second and didn't know how to react.
"What?"
Lu Zhou smiled and spoke.
"Let's make a bet. When the timer reaches 30 minutes, the temperature parameter will be 13.5 degrees Celsius, with an error of 0.5 degrees Celsius. When the timer reaches 60 minutes, the temperature parameter will be 14.7 degrees Celsius, with an error of … 1 degree Celsius. "
Yang Xu's eyebrows twitched fiercely as he looked at the bouncing curves.
F * ck sake …
What the hell is this?
Spaghetti?
He knew that as the director of the Institute of Computational Materials, his mathematical abilities were pretty good. At least in the materials science community, he was considered a big name. However, at this moment, he couldn't even tell what kind of function this thing was, let alone model and calculate it.
He didn't believe that Lu Zhou could use this thing to calculate the temperature parameter ten minutes later!
Therefore, he spoke without hesitation.
"I refuse! Gambling is illegal! "
Lu Zhou couldn't help but speak.
"Let's bet on a bowl of barbecue rice."
Yang Xu: "… No need, it's my treat."
It was just a bowl of barbecue rice anyway. There was no benefit if he won, and if he lost, he would feel defeated. He didn't want to bet.
"Boring."
Seeing that Yang Xu wasn't going to fall for it, Lu Zhou shook his head and sighed. He then turned around.
The result was predictable. The experiment was a success, so it didn't matter if he watched it or not.
If everything went according to plan, even if the entire core module operated at 100% load for thirty days, the temperature would fluctuate between 11.3 to 21 degrees Celsius.
If one took into account the radiation environment and sunlight in space, then there was no way to predict the temperature. However, based on empirical data, if Lu Zhou could do this in the vacuum chamber on the ground, then he could do it in space.
When Academician Yang Zhongquan saw that Lu Zhou was about to leave, he raised his eyebrows and spoke.
"You're not waiting for the experiment results? If this thing burns, you'll have to pay for it. "
Lu Zhou didn't look back. He shook his head with a smile and said one last sentence.
"There's no need to watch, I already know the results."
With that, his figure disappeared at the entrance of the laboratory.
The researcher standing next to the door looked at Lu Zhou with a muddled expression. He didn't know what was going on. As for Academician Yuan, he was too focused on staring at the screen. He didn't even notice that someone was missing …
Yang Xu hesitated for a bit. In the end, he didn't follow behind Lu Zhou. Instead, he stayed.
Even though he didn't believe that Lu Zhou's mathematical abilities were so amazing that he didn't even need a piece of draft paper to do mental calculations on a function curve, he couldn't help but be curious about how far away Lu Zhou's guess was from the actual data.
Yang Xu quietly waited for ten minutes. He looked at the curve and felt like his heart was beating at the same frequency as the curve.
When the experiment time reached thirty minutes, an excited voice came from the console.
"Current temperature is 286.69 K! The temperature-time curve is stable! "
286.69K！
Yang Xu, who had completed the unit conversion, was shocked. His pupils involuntarily contracted as he stared at the temperature-time curve.
It was 13.54 degrees Celsius!
F * ck me!
Exactly the same?!
Is Lu Zhou even human?
There was no need for the engineer to report at all. The data was displayed on the large screen on the console.
The people standing in front of the console looked at the data displayed on the temperature-time curve. The engineers on the space station project team burst into cheers and hugged each other.
Sun Yuanpei stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and looked at the core module suspended in the vacuum chamber. His cracked lips trembled, and tears began to flow down his face.
We did it!
We did it!
This is like a dream …
Zhao Xianpu, who was standing next to him, grabbed his arm and shook it excitedly.
"F * ck me, our Moon Palace is saved! Professor Lu is nutty! To think that he could actually be saved! This is insane! "
He used all the words he could think of to express his excitement. Towards the end, the engineer, who was not good with words, even began to stutter.
Standing in front of him, Sun Yuanpei, whose arm was being shaken by him, sniffed, nodded stiffly, and said in a choked voice.
"Yeah … Professor Lu is nutty!"
Smells good!
Even though Zheng Xiangdong didn't know what the curve on the screen meant, he could tell a lot from the cheering atmosphere in the laboratory. He was ecstatic, and he quickly asked Academician Yuan, who was next to him.
"How's the situation? Is it done? Is the problem solved? "
This time, Academician Yuan didn't give him a hard time.
The old man stared at the screen as he spoke with a trembling voice in disbelief.
"The situation is very good …"
Precisely speaking, it wasn't very good.
It was unimaginably good!
After that, he quickly turned around and looked for Lu Zhou.
The only thing he wanted to know now was what method he used to increase the heat dissipation capacity of the entire heat dissipation system by an order of magnitude without changing the loop heat pipes that were already wired.
However, when he searched for Lu Zhou's figure in the crowd, he was surprised to notice …
Where is he?
Where is he?
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