novelsite Chapter 584: Copycat is also a skill
Chapter 584: Copycat is also a skill
Chapter No.17, Shanzhai is also a technical activity
In short, after obtaining a batch of physical objects and instruction manuals of the civilian version of the Ark reactor, and confirming that this thing can work normally in its own world, the Chinese government on the other side of the space-time channel immediately organized an expert team to tackle the problem. Reverse mapping of the reactor.
Reverse surveying and mapping has always been a forte of China, a big copycat country, and all kinds of copycat products were produced in this way at the beginning.
In fact, counterfeiting all kinds of counterfeit products is also a highly demanding technical task. Don't look at the "Made in China" after the reform and opening up with so many counterfeit products and think that counterfeiting advanced technological products is a very simple task. matter.In fact, those counterfeit products such as domestic mobile phones and domestic tablet computers are not handicrafts or simple gadgets such as small hardware parts, but end products involving an entire industrial system.If you don't have enough technical accumulation, you will put a complete set of drawings and samples in front of you, most of them will not come out of the cottage!
If all modern technology products were so easy to copycat, China's computer industry would not have worked hard for decades to come up with a competitive "Chinese chip", and China's aviation companies would not have such a There are a lot of famous brand samples such as Eagle and Spey, but after more than 20 years of tossing, they can't come up with any results.This is under the condition that there is no technological gap between the two.
As for India, a "future powerhouse", it is even more a joke when it comes to imitating knockoffs. Their Arjun tank is a knockoff of "Wanguo" technology, but after 30 years of tossing, they only came up with an embarrassing and godlike one. Even the army of our country is unwilling to purchase goods that look like this.In addition, there is also Japan's "Xinshin" fighter jet, which has been tossing around for so many years, and still only exists in the dream of the Air Self-Defense Force.
Even the former Soviet Union, which claims to be technologically advanced, tinkered with the same tank engine and used it from World War II to the 80s.
why?Could it be that scientists in backward countries are so stupid that they can't even understand technical materials?The truth is of course not the case. The technical principle is only to let people know what to do. Only the core data can let people know how to solve those specific problems.
These core data represent repeated practical operations, countless funds, blood and tears, and even death. They are the accumulated experience of industrial civilization in developed countries for many years.Take metallurgy as an example, different production operation sequences, ore raw materials from different origins, different response plans, wrong or right failure summaries... These are the tuition fees for implementing technology from paper, and anyone must You have to pay, and there are few shortcuts.But if these core data are available, a new set of industrial civilization can be quickly rebuilt on the ruins—it is precisely by relying on these data accumulated over the years that the Germans can quickly rise from the ruins after World War II. The advanced nature of the re-established industrial system is still world-class.And if it starts from scratch like China, even with the technology aided by the Soviet Union, there will be a series of unacceptable problems in actual operation.
The Ark Reactor that Wang Qiu and the others got is simply a high-tech product from another world. Not only has it surpassed Wang Qiu and his world in terms of technology for 30 to [-] years, but even the regulations of various technical standards are completely different. , the difficulty of copying it can be imagined.
For example, the acquisition of the material formulations of the various alloy parts used in the Ark reactor involved tens of thousands of experiments. Only through these experiments can all factors affecting production be confirmed, and the These data are presented in the form of function change curves, which is the embodiment of core data.As long as there are basic standards and this function change curve, specific changes can be designed according to the specific material conditions, so as to ensure that the performance of the alloy material of the alloy component is up to standard.And this is only the core data of an alloy material. Various other parts, from electronic components to heat dissipation materials, each contain related industrial chains, and each industrial chain has its own set of core data. Without which one, it is impossible to imitate the exact same Ark reactor.
However, in order to solve the energy crisis of the entire country and the nation once and for all, the central government is also cruel, almost at all costs, and gathers elite troops from all walks of life to conduct research on the Ark reactor.According to Guo's political commissar, he "brought out the spirit of making an atomic bomb after selling his trousers and flicking his abacus beads on a hungry stomach", and the vigorous "Counterfeit Ark Reactor Battle" started.
In any case, the Ark reactor that Wang Qiu and the others got at the Stark Industrial Building exhibition in Manhattan, New York, after all, is only a civilian product for the general market. The first consideration is not advanced features, but cost control and convenience for large-scale production. Production needs, so the technical content is not too exaggerated.There is no use of vibrating gold (the raw material of Captain America's shield) or Edman alloy (the weapon of Uncle Wolverine in the X-Men) in the materials. It is too high-end and high-grade to make people want to scratch the wall. thing.
Therefore, under the research pressure of the "national system", there is still a huge amount of capital investment regardless of cost, and with the help of Wang Qiu and the others through the public channels of the Marvel world, such as libraries or academic journals, they managed to collect some other world technologies According to the data, the counterfeit scientific research team organized by the central government has made quite good progress on the subject of the counterfeit Ark reactor.They first completed the reverse surveying and mapping at the fastest speed, then frantically conducted countless experiments, and quickly understood the various technologies contained in it, and then completed the imitation work of one component after another.Even if it is really impossible to imitate perfectly, substitutes with similar functions have been found.In addition, the central government has also lowered the requirements on the standard of counterfeit missions-Stark Industries Group can make the Ark reactor as small as a palm, while the counterfeit scientific research team organized by the central government does not have such exaggerated requirements. An Ark reactor that is as large as a car or even a large truck is basically a success.
But the problem is that in one of the most critical links, China's copycat scientific research team has encountered insurmountable difficulties.
"...To put it simply, your current research work has encountered a bottleneck, and Tony cannot be synthesized with the current level of technology. In Stark's new ark reactor, the kind used to replace the palladium plate, in the original element It is said to be a clean and pollution-free new element that does not exist on the periodic table, so I hope we can find a way to get in touch with Iron Man and obtain the old-fashioned Ark reactor technology using palladium?"
Wang Qiu blinked in confusion, "...But, why is the old-fashioned Ark reactor technology using palladium needed instead of the method of producing new elements? Isn't there a danger of poisoning when using palladium? It's like "Iron Man 2" "As in the movie?"
"...Hey, the method of producing new elements is the magic weapon of the Stark Industries Group and the cost of food. How can it be sold to outsiders? Moreover, compared with the uranium and plutonium in modern nuclear fission reactors, What's that little palladium? It's not as poisonous as a depleted uranium bomb from the Yankee! In fact, besides Tony Stark, who else would put the Ark reactor in his body like that?"
The researcher who came to report the situation to Wang Qiu, with severely swollen eye circles, sighed weakly and said, "...But we have no idea how to synthesize this new element! In addition, we have to bear Can't afford the horrendous cost of mass producing new elements..."
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Since Mendeleev of Russia discovered the periodic table of elements in the 90th century, elements in the periodic table that had not been discovered at that time have been discovered one after another.With the discovery of the No.[-] No. [-] element uranium, the elements that naturally exist on the earth have basically been collected.If later scientists want to make new discoveries, they can only "create" new elements that do not exist in nature according to the laws of this table.
On the periodic table of elements, the characteristic of those "residents" after No.90 element uranium is that most of them are very unstable, and most of them are "residents" that are prone to decay.They do not exist in nature. To be precise, they have not been found on the earth, or they occupy the "room" for a very, very short time. An element "slips" away!
Therefore, from No. 93 to No. 118 elements after uranium, except for neptunium (Np), plutonium (Pu) and californium (Cf), which exist in very small amounts on the earth, the others have not been discovered on the earth so far. Elements can only be discovered or manufactured by artificially creating conditions.
So how do humans create a new element that doesn't exist in nature?First, two elements must be carefully selected, the sum of their atomic numbers must be equal to the atomic number of the new element.Then put them into a particle accelerator.Let their nuclei collide with each other at a very high speed.Some of them are smashed to pieces, but some particles stick together and "synthesize" into a new nucleus.This is the birth of a new element.
Take the experiment of synthesizing element 112 (Cn) at the German Heavy Ion Research Center GSI as an example. Scientists managed to turn zinc atoms with an atomic number of 30 into ions, let them form beams, and then injected them into GSI’s 120-meter-long particles. In the accelerator, it is accelerated along a straight line to a speed close to "1/10 the speed of light", and it directly hits a thin target made of lead with an atomic number of 82.As a result of the high-speed collision of two atoms, most of them were smashed, but a small amount fused together to form new atoms, that is element 30 Cn with atomic number 82+112=112.
Relying on this method of producing new elements, scientists finally filled all the blanks in the periodic table sequence from 2015 to 1 at the end of 118, and are now ambitiously trying to synthesize the heavier new elements behind - it seems that Everything is no longer a problem, but the trouble is, do you know the cost of a large cyclotron accelerator capable of synthesizing new elements, up to hundreds of millions of dollars?
The earliest cyclotron particle accelerator in human history has a diameter of only twelve centimeters, so small that it can be carried by hand.To build such a machine, an electron beam tube is evacuated, magnets can be used to bend the beam of charged particles, and a radio-frequency oscillator, or radio-frequency cavity, is used to accelerate the particles.The problem is that such small accelerators can't get the particles to go fast enough to produce new elements.
At present, the cyclotron particle accelerators used by scientific research institutions in various countries are usually large and huge, and their cost is at least equivalent to building a church.For example, the European Large Hadron Collider is the largest cyclotron particle accelerator with the highest energy in the world. It is located on the border between France and Switzerland, and its English name is LHC (Large Hadron Collider).It is a circular accelerator, buried 100 meters deep underground, and its circular tunnel is 27 kilometers long, so it will take more than 4 hours to walk through it.The various supporting test instruments also range from several thousand tons to tens of thousands of tons, and the total amount of metal used exceeds that of a Yamato battleship.If you are in it, it will be reminiscent of the starship engine in science fiction films.
Such a big guy is naturally expensive to build. The total construction cost alone is as high as more than 100 billion U.S. dollars, and the annual maintenance and operation costs are also more than one billion U.S. dollars.The power consumption when it starts up is comparable to that of a city!More than [-]% of the electricity in the Geneva region of Switzerland is consumed by it.She was so squeamish that she would break down at every turn. Once the cooling system had a problem, it was forced to shut down for several months for repairs.
And the cost of the "Nimitz" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is only more than 7 million U.S. dollars... Such a thing is more expensive than an aircraft carrier!
Well, if it is to solve the energy crisis of the whole of China and even the whole of mankind, it seems worth spending such a huge sum of money, not to mention that China is already a lot richer, even when it was too poor to eat, it would be worth it. Or is it better to be a trousers than to make an atomic bomb?Therefore, if it is just that the investment and expenditure are a little higher, the central government still has the ability and courage to solve it.
What's more, the real question is, even if the central government invests a huge sum of money and successfully builds a super-sized cyclotron particle accelerator, will the new elements required by the Ark reactor really be able to be produced?Well, according to experts, that doesn't seem to be a good prospect...
Indeed, anyone who has dabbled in high-energy quantum physics knows that after smashing microscopic particles in a large cyclotron, at some point enough fragments will recombine to form a new nucleus, and when this nucleus re- When it is stable enough, a new element is created.But the problem is that those elements with higher atomic numbers in the periodic table, due to the increase in the number of protons in the nucleus, have to overcome the huge Coulomb repulsion when the nuclear reaction occurs through impact, so it is difficult to combine to form new elements with higher atomic numbers .
Therefore, even if a large cyclotron is built at all costs, it is very, very difficult to create a new element that does not exist on the earth, and its success rate is comparable to buying a lottery ticket.According to the general experience after World War II, such a thing can only happen once in five or ten years.Such a production efficiency that relies entirely on luck is comparable to ancient craftsmen casting "magic weapons", which cannot meet the minimum needs of industrial production at all.