Chapter 317 Gravitational Waves
Although applying for a project through school channels can better help Ning Chen accumulate academic success and facilitate subsequent professional title selections, Ning Chen is not special about these things now. Of care.
With the support of Xingchen Technology, Ning Chen can research various projects freely without having to apply according to the normal process every time.
Now Star Technology has a large amount of scientific research funds and can also mobilize a lot of resources. Generally speaking, it is definitely a better choice than the channel of universities.
Of course, this does not mean that Ning Chen can completely abandon his identity as a college teacher. After all, this is Ning Chen's basic identity, and Ning Chen does not want to be a pure businessman.
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After confirming the plan, Ning Chen explained his arrangements to Lu Minghao.
Hearing that Ning Chen suddenly wanted to build such an instrument to receive gravitational waves, Lu Minghao felt a little unexpected.
According to normal circumstances, Lu Minghao would not have any resistance to Ning Chen’s orders. After all, Ning Chen is the absolute controller of the company. No matter what order Ning Chen makes, he will obey it unconditionally. executed.
But this time, Lu Minghao did feel that Ning Chen's decision was a little too sudden.
"Mr. Ning, do you really want to invest a lot of money in manufacturing equipment to search for gravitational waves? Scientists have not reached a good consensus on whether gravitational waves really exist..."
Lu Minghao's The meaning is obvious. Even though Xingchen Technology has very abundant funds, it is not a wise choice to spend so much scientific research funds to study such a project with little hope.
However, Lu Minghao didn't know that as a reborn person, Ning Chen could be 100% sure of the existence of gravitational waves.
Ning Chen was not angry because of Lu Minghao's doubts. In fact, as a company executive, Lu Minghao's reaction was very normal and he truly considered the company and himself.
"Manager Lu, your considerations are very objective, but I will not make such a decision without full confidence. Just rest assured and follow my plan. Everything will be fine." I will bear all the responsibilities myself.”
After hearing what Ning Chen said, Lu Minghao had no other opinions.
"Okay, Mr. Ning, I will implement it according to your plan."
Lu Minghao was very efficient and quickly organized a new project.
After Xingchen Technology gradually emerged, Ning Chen spent a lot of money to help the company recruit many experts from various industries.
This is somewhat similar to Warwick's approach. Ning Chen believes that only with enough scientific researchers can the company achieve sustained positive development.
Ning Chen's strength alone was not enough to complete all the work.
Even if Ning Chen can point the direction for many research works, those branches of research work also require the assistance of other experts.
Of course, in addition to Xingchen Technology, Ning Chen also hopes that Warwick Corporation and Shengzhou University can also participate in studying projects related to the detection of gravitational waves.
What makes Ning Chen happy is that both Warwick Company and Shengzhou University are very interested in this project and expressed that they will do their best to help Ning Chen conduct research on this project.
Including Ning Chen’s materials laboratory at Shengzhou University, they also joined the project.
Before the project was officially launched, Xuzhou couldn't help but ask Ning Chen about some matters related to the project.
"Teacher Xu, I heard that you want to build a device to find... so-called gravitational waves?"
The way Xu Zhou asked Ning Chen, it was obvious that he couldn't believe this project. , after all, the scientific community has not yet reached a consensus on whether gravitational waves really exist.
Xu Zhou didn't know how much money Ning Chen had invested in this project, but the investment in some equipment and materials alone reached an astronomical figure.
"Yes, Teacher Xu, this is not only my public research goal, but also my real research goal. The research of this device requires several new materials, so we have to continue research."
"Teacher Ning, to be honest, your project is really out of the blue. If you were not the initiator of the project, it would be hard for me to believe that this project could be successful within a few years."
Xu Zhou tactfully expressed to Ning Chen that he was not optimistic about this project, and Ning Chen was not surprised by Xu Zhou's reaction.
Xu Zhou's character has always been very straightforward. If he has anything on his mind, he will tell Ning Chen without any scruples.
Even though Ning Chen has now become the world's top scientific researcher and rich man, Xuzhou still has no sense of distance from Ning Chen.
“Don’t worry, Mr. Xu, just think back to the projects we have done before. Besides, these investments are made by our Xingchen Technology. Even if the final project really fails to succeed, all responsibility will be It’s all undertaken by Xingchen Technology.”
"Haha, Teacher Ning, if you say that, I can rest assured. No matter what the final result is, I must at least ensure that there will be no failures in the branch field I am studying."
In the following time, Ning Chen, Xu Zhou, Yuan Shuai, Sui Feng and others gathered together to study the experimental plan and various precautions related to this branch project.
Since Ning Chen is currently very busy with work, there is a high probability that Ning Chen will not be able to devote too much energy to this project.
The main work still needs to be taken care of by Xu Zhou, Yuan Shuai, and Sui Feng.
"Don't worry, Teacher Ning. With us here, we can definitely complete the tasks you assigned us smoothly. Of course, if you can take time to come to the laboratory often, it will definitely help the project go faster. The research is completed.”
Ning Chen nodded when he heard this and said:
"As long as I have time, I will definitely participate in this project as much as possible. I hope that our gravitational wave detection equipment can be successfully launched as soon as possible!"
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In the following time, multiple research teams including Xingchen Technology, Warwick Company, and Shengzhou University began research work on gravitational wave detection equipment. This device is essentially similar to a radio telescope, but in order to receive the presence of gravitational waves faster and more accurately.
When designing this instrument, Ning Chen also incorporated the theoretical ideas of laser interferometry, which allows the instrument to more accurately measure distance changes caused by gravitational waves.
While everyone was investing their energy in this project, this matter quickly attracted the attention of others.
“According to reports from our international students, Ning Chen has recently started a new scientific research project. This project is very grand. Even all the projects that Ning Chen has studied before, I am afraid that they cannot match the energy invested in this project. So many."
"Really? What kind of research project is this?"
"Simply put, this project is to detect the existence of gravitational waves. The relevant theoretical basis was proposed in Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a hundred years ago. Of course, this concept only exists in theoretical assumptions and has not been verified by any phenomenon..."
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"I see, it seems that this research is likely to fail. But since Ning Chen dared to invest so much energy in this project, he should have found some strong evidence."
With this Judging from the research significance of the project, if Ning Chen can really successfully prove the existence of gravitational waves, it will indeed be a research that has the potential to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
“The current work carried out by Ningchen’s team is mainly to study this new type of equipment for detecting gravitational waves. This project does not seem to be that huge in scale, but the actual scientific research funds and the enthusiasm of scientific researchers The investment even exceeds the quantum leap and quantum pilot projects..."
"This is good news for us, and it proves that Ning Chen can devote such huge energy to this project. Ning Chen himself is also very interested in winning the Nobel Prize in Physics. We just need to follow the trend and get the Nobel Prize Organizing Committee. After Ning Chen actually makes results, we can help Ning Chen win the Nobel Prize in Physics as soon as possible. Okay.”
They are still confident in Ning Chen’s ability. Even though this research project is very difficult and the success rate is relatively limited, as long as the project is led by Ning Chen, then Nothing is absolutely impossible.
This kind of thing is completely consistent with their previous plan.
As long as Ning Chen can successfully win the Nobel Prize in Physics according to their expected trajectory, and come abroad to receive the award as a matter of course, then the threat of Ning Chen can be eliminated forever.
On the territory outside the Xia Kingdom, no matter how great Ning Chen's abilities were, there was no way to display them, so he could only be slaughtered by others.
"If Ning Chen cannot win the Nobel Prize in Physics in the short term, let's use other alternatives. This matter should not be rushed or any oversight should be made. Everything needs to be done from the beginning Let’s discuss it later.”
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Time passes day by day, and the project team working on gravitational wave detection equipment is working intensively every day.
With everyone's dedicated research, the project team's research has achieved breakthroughs one after another, and the distance between Ning Chen and Ning Chen's ideal goal is constantly getting closer.
Unconsciously, a few months have passed, and the research on many branch projects has entered the final stage.
Ning Chen’s materials laboratory has successfully developed several new materials for this new type of equipment. After testing, the properties of these materials are very suitable for the observation of gravitational waves.
Among them, Ning Chen played a very good leadership role, and Xu Zhou, Yuan Shuai, Sui Feng and others also made important contributions.
In addition to Ning Chen's laboratory, the research teams of Xingchen Technology, Warwick Corporation, and other laboratories at Shengzhou University have also made many key results.
Finally, after achieving breakthroughs in various branch research projects, Ning Chen started working on parts processing.
Many of the parts here are very precise, and the processing accuracy of some parts even reaches nanometer and micro-nanometer levels, which makes the processing technology very difficult.
Fortunately, Xingchen Technology has long been involved in the industrial field. For example, the photolithography factory jointly owned by Xingchen Technology and Warwick Company has extremely high processing technology and can produce the most sophisticated process technology in the world. chip.
With the support of such processing technology, Xingchen Technology finally overcame one difficulty after another and successfully manufactured various accessories needed by Ning Chen.
Seeing the dawn of the completion of this research, Ning Chen began to discuss follow-up arrangements with other members of the project team.
"Mr. Ning, we need to choose a suitable location for the instrument. Judging from the size of this instrument, it certainly cannot be placed directly inside the company."
In fact, Ning Chen Although many parts of the designed instrument are very precise, in order to receive enough signals, the entire instrument is very huge.
If you want to get better reception, the entire instrument can even cover an area the size of several football fields.
"Manager Lu, I think we should build this instrument with the largest specifications according to the previous plan. The construction location of the first instrument should be somewhere in the countryside of Shengzhou."< br>
Ning Chen would definitely not place this kind of equipment with a very large area in the city. After all, it is difficult to find such a huge open space in the city. Even if it could be found, the cost of renting the land would be a million dollars. An astronomical number of pens.
The same area will save most of the money if placed in rural areas, and there will be no difference in the observation effect.
"Okay, Mr. Ning, I will find a suitable land as soon as possible."
At this time, Lu Minghao suddenly realized that there was some hidden meaning in Ning Chen's words just now.
"Mr. Ning, you mean...this will be the first device we build to observe gravitational waves, but...may not be the last device?"
Seeing the surprised look on Lu Minghao's face, Ning Chen nodded with a smile and said:
"Yes, I even think that this may not be the last device to observe gravitational waves. Because gravitational waves are very difficult. It is difficult to accurately detect the various gravitational waves existing in the universe by building only one observation equipment. Only by building enough observation equipment can we maximize the probability of successfully observing gravitational waves. "
Lu Minghao did not expect that Ning Chen would continue to invest in this project, because the previous investment was already very huge, but if gravitational waves cannot be observed, then this project will probably be a bottomless pit. .
Ning Chen guessed what Lu Minghao was thinking and quickly explained:
"Manager Lu, you don’t have to worry. After completing the construction of the first gravitational wave observation equipment, we will first Conduct detailed testing before deciding on the next specific plan.”
(End of this chapter)