Recently, various countries had discovered some strange things. No, it wasn't strange. Instead, it was a big breakthrough in the field of basic science.
In the beginning, a European basic materials science laboratory made a huge breakthrough on a new type of nanomaterial. An ultra-light and ultra-strong nano coating material was developed. This project had been in the works for five years.
Britain, France, and Germany had already spent more than 100 million USD on this laboratory. The original plan for this project was to be done for ten years.
The first phase of the experiment should be close to three years. The second phase would be in the seventh year, and the third phase would be in the tenth year.
The final third phase would be the small-scale production of the coating material. After that, it would be ten years of commercialization for civilian and military use. The entire plan was to industrialize it in twenty years.
However, scientific research always had all kinds of unexpected events. Even the best scientists in the world didn't dare to say when their research would produce results. Unless the scientist already knew the final answer in advance, it was normal for the industrialization to be delayed.
This was exactly the case for this nanomaterial project. The first phase of the research took four years to complete. This was far lower than the initial three-year plan.
The second phase was stuck at the beginning. The budget departments of Britain, France, and Germany were all wondering if the research direction of the laboratory was wrong. Because the entire experiment had been stuck.
However, since the beginning of this year, Professor Knight, the scientist in charge of the project, was like a god. He was always able to inadvertently get all kinds of inspiration. Whenever he was stuck in an experiment, all he had to do was go out and he would be able to get all kinds of inspiration to help him solve the problem.
In just half a year, the progress of the entire laboratory was rapidly advancing. The entire experiment was like a teacher deliberately leaking questions to the students. The research of nanomaterial completed the original seven year process in half a year.
Now it had entered the stage of industrialization. When Professor Knight published his experimental process and results in an academic journal, it caused quite a stir.
Because everyone thought that this project would take at least ten years to produce results. The new nano coating material had a very bright future.
The progress of a basic science could often lead to great strides in applied science.
If there was only a single nanomaterial progress, it could be said that a genius scientist had a burst of inspiration. Although this was very legendary, it was also possible to happen in human history.
But in the past six months, the entire field of fundamental science had been advancing rapidly. If the speed of human exploration of basic science was like riding a bicycle in a river, then in the last six months, human's progress in basic science was like riding a 300 horsepower Kawasaki H2R supercharged motorcycle to participate in a linear acceleration race.
In the blink of an eye, you would reach the finish line. You wouldn't even know how many times you had changed gears.
Everyone who paid attention to the scientific community knew that fundamental science was making great strides forward. In the last six months, the leading scientific journals have published more supplements than in the last ten years.
Those 2.0's
An article with a 3.0 Impact Factor seemed to be worthless and could be written by anyone.
Li Jie wasn't a scientist, and he didn't read Nature or Science, which were too professional for laymen to understand. Therefore, he didn't know what was happening in the scientific community.
Tony would read these magazines, but most of the time, he would skip through them. He specialized in new energy and machinery, so he would read materials science articles at most. He didn't pay special attention to the others.
Dr. Hank and Dr. Banner were the ones who really read these articles. Dr. Banner and Harry weren't familiar with each other, so he naturally wouldn't go to Harry's wedding or anything like that.
When Li Jie, Tony, and others were attending Harry's wedding, and Tony also got a daughter. In the Venus base, Dr. Banner was puzzled as he put the various scientific magazines he had read in the last six months into a pile.
He was frowning and thinking about something. Dr. Hank, who had turned his blue hair into silver, walked in from the outside with a cup of coffee. He saw what Dr. Banner was doing and asked curiously, "What are you doing?"
"I'm just curious, have you read the latest issue of Science?" Dr. Banner looked at Dr. Hank who looked like a silverback gorilla and asked.
"Yes, Dr. Wang's article on quantum communication from China was impressive. His article advanced the field of quantum communication by at least 20 years in one fell swoop. As long as it can be industrialized, the entire world's information and communication industry will undergo earth-shaking changes in the future. "Dr. Banner nodded seriously.
Dr. Banner looked at Dr. Hank and said, "Yeah, but don't you think it's strange? There have been too many influential articles like this recently. "
"What's strange?" Dr. Hank was a little puzzled, "Isn't this a good thing for the scientific community?"
"It's a good thing, but it's too concentrated. Isn't it? " Dr. Banner pointed to the magazine he had opened and said, "In the past, such articles would only appear one or two a year, at most three or five."
"But since the beginning of this year, it has only been half a year. Look at how many such articles have appeared. From materials science to communications, to cytology and so on. All the fields were making great strides forward. It's just that the pace of progress is too big. "Dr. Banner said while touching his chin.
"It's so big that we can't apply all of these scientific advances in a short period of time. If we can apply all of these sciences as they should be, then we should be able to step into the near-future scenes often depicted in Hollywood movies. And we generally believe that the near-future scenes will only appear in one or two hundred years. " Dr. Banner looked at Dr. Hank and said seriously, "What do you think this means, Dr. Hank?"
Hank frowned and said, "What do you want to say?"
Banner began to recycle the magazine and said, "When I was in Nepal, it was Captain Rogers, Jason, and Thor who went to find me. At that time, Jason also gave me some books to read. One of the books left a deep impression on me. It's from the "Earth's Past" trilogy by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. "
"In the first part of the" Earth's Past "trilogy," The Three-Body Problem ", the Trisomers sent Tomoko to block all the progress of human basic science in order to lock up human technology. So that humans would have no power to fight back when facing the attack of the Trisomers fleet hundreds of years ago. "Dr. Banner said thoughtfully.
"Strategically speaking, this is the correct course of action. And it's very interesting that we are now on the opposite side of the book "The Three-Body Problem". Our basic science is making great strides forward. It's like a teacher deliberately leaking questions to the students. Our calculation and derivation process is very smooth. I really doubt that someone is pushing us forward. "Dr. Banner looked at Hank and said.
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