Pacific opposite shore, at this moment at noon. 太平洋对岸,此刻还是中午。 After sending the mail, Surrott went to the bar to drink a dead drunk. 发完邮件之后,萨罗特去酒吧喝了个烂醉。 To maintain a sober mind in the experiment, he never has the custom at noon drinking, but this time actually made an exception. 为了在实验中保持一个清醒的头脑,他从来没有大中午喝酒的习惯,不过这次却是破例了。 In the bar in Silicon Valley edge, sat in his side, his assistant Powell visits him to sigh, comforted one to say. 硅谷边缘的一间酒吧里,坐在了他的旁边,他的助手保尔看着他叹了口气,安慰了一句道。 „Takes easy, your laboratory was sold to Exxon Mobil not necessarily was a bad matter. Although Professor land is one very outstanding...... or the great scholar, but he can give your resources is not actually many. Let alone, Exxon Mobil spent 50 million us to buy, definitely to not raise us is holding a title without any obligations of office......” “想开点,你的实验室被卖给了埃克森美孚未必是一件坏事儿。虽然陆教授是一名很优秀……或者说伟大的学者,但他能给你的资源其实并不多。更何况,埃克森美孚花了五千万把咱们买下来,肯定不会只是为了养着我们坐冷板凳……” Looks that Professor Surrott a response does not have, Powell knows that own comfort mostly not effective, therefore shrugs, ended this topic forcefully. 看着萨罗特教授一点反应也没有,保尔知道自己的安慰多半是没有奏效,于是耸了耸肩,强行结束了这个话题。 „In brief, rich is not a bad matter.” “总之,有钱并不是一件坏事儿。” Surrott under corners of the mouth. 萨罗特咧了下嘴角。 „You do not understand.” “你不懂。” Powell: „What...... don't I understand?” 保尔:“……我不懂什么？” Surrott did not explain anything, but raised the beverage bottle to fill several fiercely, mentioned other things. 萨罗特也不解释什么,只是扬起酒瓶猛地灌了几口,却是自顾自地说起了其它的事情。 „My dear Powell, I have thought academic should be a free thing. So long as did not violate the most basic human relations morals, even if it not that correct viewpoint, so long as you believe that it is right, you should advocate it. Others more do not believe you, you more should to them show that you are right.” “我亲爱的保尔,我一直认为学术应该是一个自由的东西。只要不是违反了最基本的人伦道德,哪怕它是不那么正确的观点,只要你相信它是对的,你就应该主张它。别人越是不相信你,你越是应该向他们证明自己是对的。” Powell knits the brows to ask: „Isn't it now free?” 保尔皱眉问:“难道它现在不自由吗？” „Perhaps yes,” catches the eye to look at the ceiling, Surrott sighs, „waited for you to be in my degree, when your research or behavior has become the understanding that a gear that promoted this world forward...... you regarding free, will have the different feelings probably.” “或许是吧,”抬眼望了望天花板,萨罗特叹了口气,“不过等你到了我这个程度,当你的研究或者说行为已经成为了推动这个世界向前的一颗齿轮……你对于自由的理解,大概会有不同的感触。” Powell has not said anything, but looks at Professor Surrott puzzled. 保尔没有说什么,只是不解地看着萨罗特教授。 Some little time has not spoken, Surrott placed by the empty wine bottles the stool, took up one bottle. 好一会儿没有说话,萨罗特将空酒瓶放在了凳子旁边,重新拿起了一瓶。 When Powell planned reminded him „you to drink”, he somewhat said towering. 就在保尔打算提醒他“你喝多了”的时候,他有些突兀地说道。 „After a period of time, I plan to immigrate.” “等过段时间,我打算移民。” „Goes? Laboratory of Professor land?” “去哪？陆教授的实验室吗？” „Does not know, in any case is not China, there only has a Professor land......” “不知道,反正不是华国,那里只有一个陆教授……” Carried Surrott of beverage bottle to think a while, flexure sent dispiritedly difficultly, „perhaps was Holland? Listened to my father to say on our family ancestor to live in a small town of Utrecht, bombed Rotterdam...... I not to go until the German. Long ago Utrecht University has sent the invitation to me, asking me to go to there to be the professor, the wage that but they opened was too low, the resources could not compare Cornell University to give me......, but I think now, if initially accepted that invitation, perhaps the situation won't be bad?” 拎着酒瓶的萨罗特想了一会儿,颓废地挠了挠头发,“也许是荷兰？听我父亲说我们家祖上生活在乌特勒支省的一个小镇里,直到德国佬轰炸了鹿特丹……不过我一直没去过。很久以前乌特勒支大学给我发过邀请函,请我去那里做教授,不过他们开的薪水太低,资源也比不上康奈尔大学给我的……但我现在想想,当初如果接受了那张邀请函,或许情况也不会那么坏？” ...... …… The research of fusion battery fell into the bottleneck, the issue that the reactor core radiated as if became the issue that was hard to solve, the team internal many people started to have the suspicion to the technological line. 聚变电池的研究陷入了瓶颈,堆芯散热的问题似乎成了一个难以解决的问题,以至于项目组内部不少人又开始对技术路线本身产生了怀疑。 In the final analysis, can the nuclear fusion really achieve the miniaturization like the nuclear fission? 说到底,核聚变是否真的能像核裂变一样做到小型化？ Inertial confinement this route on miniaturized Controlled Nuclear Fusion, really feasible? 惯性约束这条路线在小型化的可控聚变上,又真的是否可行？ Those who most make one puzzle, if not need the magnetic field to withstand that to exceed the energy of star, actually what material can resist that flash the burning hot? 最让人困扰的是,如果不用磁场去承受那超越恒星的能量,究竟得什么样的材料才能抵挡住那一瞬间的炙热？ However besides the inertial confinement, they as if no many choices. After all on the narrow and small spacecraft, simply does not have enough space, makes one to restrain these plasmas to them sufficiently the closed magnetic cages. 然而除了惯性约束之外,他们似乎也没有更多的选择。毕竟在狭小的航天器上,根本没有足够的空间,给他们制造一个足以约束那些等离子体的闭合磁笼。 These issues, no one can reply them, even does not have the research of predecessor to be the reference. 这些问题,没有人能回答他们,甚至没有前人的研究可以作为参考。 In order to seek to solve the problem the inspiration, for serveral days Lu Zhou collected massively with the aerospace, the fission battery and space station cooling technology related paper, tries to be inspired from some public research data. 为了寻求解决问题的灵感,这些天来陆舟搜集了大量与航天、裂变电池、空间站散热技术相关的论文,试图从一些公开的研究资料中得到启发。 In fact, these papers also truly had some inspirations to him. 事实上,这些论文对他也确实产生了一些启发。 For example „first principle research of chemical compound phonon about a- boron and in icosahedron rich boron” paper, during the discussion doublet phonon creates the scattering phenomenon, provided an interesting thermoelectricity transformation model. 比如一篇关于“a-硼及其二十面体富硼化合物中声子的第一性原理研究”的论文,在讨论电子对声子造成散射现象的同时,提供了一种有趣的热电转化模型。 Transforms the electrical energy the thermal energy, in some sense this truly is an interesting idea, in fact applies the nuclear fission battery on spacecraft mostly, bases on this way to generate electricity. 将热能转化成电能,从某种意义上这确实是一个有趣的想法,事实上大多数应用在航天器上的核裂变电池,也正是基于这种方式发电。 However, this cannot completely solve the problem. 然而,这并不能在根本上解决问题。 In the temperature difference outside use spacecraft and spacecraft conducts the electricity generation to could enhance the thermal energy to transform the electrical energy in the limited degree the efficiency, but cannot change the heat-removal difficult fact. 利用航天器内和航天器外的温差进行发电或许可以在有限程度上提高热能转化成电能的效率,但并不能改变排热困难的事实。 Sits in the office, sets pen to paper by the Lu Zhou relay in office chair, to the ceiling was thinking aloud that whispered the sentence. 坐在办公室里,靠在办公椅上的陆舟手中转着笔,对着天花板自言自语地嘀咕了句。 „If can make the controllable fusion reaction slow exothermic good.” “如果能让可控的聚变反应缓慢放热就好了。” Making the impulse firing the region enough small...... 或者,让脉冲点火的区域足够小…… At this time, the sound that side floated interrupted his train of thought. 这时候,旁边飘来的声音打断了他的思绪。 „Professor, what are you saying?” “教授,您在说什么呢？” The chest front is holding a dispatch case, stands Zhao Huan before desk, the correct use curious line of sight visits him. 胸前抱着一本文件袋,站在办公桌前的赵欢,正用好奇的视线看着他。 Lu Zhou: „What matter no...... has?” 陆舟:“没什么……有什么事情吗？” Zhao Huan nods saying: „Un, immediately was the tenth week, your computation material class must teach a course, this was your class schedule.” 赵欢点了点头说:“嗯,马上就是第十周了,您的计算材料课就要开课了,这是您的课表。” „I knew, the class schedule placed here was good,” is saying, Lu Zhou stood up from the office chair, sighs, „...... I went out for a walk, if there is a matter to make my phone call.” “我知道了,课表就放在这里好了,”说着,陆舟从办公椅上站起身来,叹了口气道,“……我出去走走,如果有事打我电话。” „Un.” Zhao Huan nods. “嗯。”赵欢点了点头。 Does not know is the misconception, she always felt that professor is not quite as if happy. 不知道是不是错觉,她总感觉教授的心情似乎不太好。 In fact, intuition of assistant Zhao not wrong, the Lu Zhou present mood is not truly wonderful, even can say somewhat agitated. 事实上,赵助理的直觉并没有错,陆舟现在的心情确实不怎么美妙,甚至可以说有些烦躁。 The intuition told him, the research approach that oneself chose was correct. 直觉告诉他,自己选择的研究思路是正确的。 However has the barrier that cannot see together probably, in front of that seemingly feasible road block him. 然而就好像存在着一道看不见的屏障,将他面前那条看似可行的道路封锁了起来。 Indistinct, Lu Zhou felt that the bottleneck as if not leave in the project domain, but was in the theoretical field. 隐隐约约中,陆舟感觉瓶颈似乎并不是出在工程领域上,而是出在了理论领域。 Namely, enough rationale, cannot support him the research to the Controlled Nuclear Fusion miniaturization. 即,已经没有足够的理论基础,可以支撑起他对可控聚变小型化的研究。 And, this difficulty also has no way like Stellarator in Tokomak, goes round the plasma physics Magnetic Island and magnetic surface tearing and other phenomena from the angle of engineering, difficult problem theoretically will pass the burden to the project difficulty and cost. 并且,这种难度还没法像仿星器之于托卡马克那样,从工程学的角度绕开等离子体物理中的磁岛、磁面撕裂等现象,将理论上的难题转嫁到工程难度以及成本上。 „Scientific research efficiency penalty that advance study causes?” “超前研究导致的科研效率惩罚吗？” Walks on the treeshady lane in campus, thinks that here Lu Zhou, shakes the head suddenly with a smile. 走在校园的林荫小道上,想到这里的陆舟,忽然笑着摇了摇头。 Probably was the year before last, when just contacted the research of controllable nuclear fusion, he has also bumped into similar situation. 大概是前年,在刚刚接触可控核聚变的研究时,他也碰到过类似的情况。 At that time, the l throwing of manifold and partial differential equation developed study the research technique not to propose, the existences and smooth 在当时,l流形和偏微分方程的扑拓学研究方法还未提出,ns方程解的存在性与光滑性、以及等离子体湍流的理论模型,都属于数学界与物理学界的两大未解之谜。 Also after these theoretical issues were solved, realization of Controlled Nuclear Fusion technology had enough rationale. 也正是在这些理论问题得到了解决之后,可控聚变技术的实现才具备了足够的理论基础。 Without these theories takes the upholstery, spiral stone 7-x of Germany undergoes the star-1 Stellarator installment that he transforms, is almost impossible to yield these proud results. 而如果没有这些理论作为铺垫的话,无论是德国的螺旋石7-x还是经过他改造的star-1仿星器装置,都是几乎不可能取得那些傲人成果的。 However, theory bottleneck of Controlled Nuclear Fusion miniaturization actually where? 然而,可控聚变小型化的理论瓶颈究竟在哪里呢？ If this bottleneck really theoretically...... 如果这个瓶颈真的在理论上的话…… Passed through the treeshady lane, is thinking at heart Lu Zhou of issue, arrives at the place that usually taught unknowingly. 穿过了林荫小道,心里想着问题的陆舟,不知不觉中就走到了平时讲课的地方。 On the platform, stands in the professor who he does not know, probably what listening to the content to say is the physics. 讲台上,站在一位他不认识的教授,听内容大概讲的是物理。 Near the glass by wall, he can clear seeing, the students in classroom attend a lecture attentively. 透过墙边的玻璃,他可以清晰的看见,教室里的学生们正在用心听课。 However when he is about to leave here, has swept the corner of the eye split vision from the blackboard, suddenly glimpsed several essential inscriptions. 然而就在他准备离开这里的时候,从黑板上扫过的眼角余光,忽然瞥见了几个关键的字样。 The dark in inspiration flashes to pass. 冥冥之中的灵感一闪而逝。 In the Lu Zhou heart moves slightly, nothing hesitant, walks in the direction of classroom back door. 陆舟心中微微一动,没有任何犹豫,向着教室后门的方向走去。