Chapter 406 Is it related to me? (5555)

To do an experiment, the experimental process may take three minutes, but the preparation may take three hours.

Silver starlight flickered inside Yuzu's body. Using her innate talent of "arcane insight", she scanned the giant creature in front of her, which was nearly ten meters in diameter and over three meters in height, bit by bit.

This is the volume after the reactor is dismantled. The complete electric tokamak of UCLA is even larger!

Caleb Monroe, the white guy with freckles in the lab, was a Yunso fan and insisted that it was a new Bluetooth player from Sony, which made it very unhappy.

I'm not some Sony player, I'm an arcane being created by the level 31 legendary wizard Sekalis Oselton!

I have been the first author in SSCI!

A few days ago, when you said that you wanted to use a large model to train and simulate the evolution of the wake field and optimize particle trajectories and acceleration efficiency, the deep learning paper you read was also written by me!

Foolish humans, how could you know how great I, Professor Jorz, am?

"Yuzu, are you done scanning?" Fang Yu skillfully calibrated the last set of Langmuir probes and communicated with Yuzu through the Esseran Core in the Sea of ​​Consciousness.

"The scanning and modeling have been completed, great master." Yuzu was startled and quickly replied, "ETPD is actually not complicated, but some of the details are indeed ingenious."

A great master is certainly not a stupid human being, and the master of the great Professor Jorz is certainly also great.

The arcane mage who reached intermediate level in the shortest time in history!

And it happens in this Dharma-Ending Age!

Youzi could never have imagined that the apprentice who only had servant authority and could only perform simple magic tricks in the Lorraine Tower a year ago has now become an intermediate wizard!

On average, one level is advanced every month or so. This situation has never happened in the ten thousand years of arcane history on the main plane.

If Patrick O'Shea, who took 250 years to achieve his legendary status, is called the "Son of the Demon Network", then his master is simply the father of the Demon Network!

No, it should be said that he is the master's licking dog.

Youzi had seen Fang Yu's advancement before. The swarming magic network energy rushed in like a flatterer, which was far from the stingy alms that seemed to be given away during the Great Arcane Era.

In Yuzu's memory, when arcane mages were promoted in the Age of Great Arcane, they were basically indifferent when the magic network energy "baptized" the arcane mages, with an attitude of "that's all, take it or leave it".

Is this because there is only one arcane mage in the world?

Yuzu couldn't figure it out, and didn't try to think about it.

"Gis, I didn't expect you to do so well on your first try."

Kevin Stone, who was climbing up the ladder and installing a turbulence suppressor on top of the ion chamber, gave Fang Yu a thumbs up below.

He had just taught Fang Yu how to adjust the Langmuir probe set. Fang Yu only tried it twice and quickly mastered the skills and tricks, making adjustments quickly and well.

"Thank you, my girlfriends all say the same."

Fang Yu shrugged, rechecked the probe array, and then clapped his hands with satisfaction.

I am indeed a genius.

"Fuck! You enviable dog! Emily brought you coffee again today, didn't she? She wasn't this proactive when she was dating Dr. Barnes before."

Kevin Stone fastened the last few buckles of the turbulence suppressor with envy, and then checked it carefully.

"I really don't understand women. I don't understand why they say they like decent, ambitious men, but then turn around and go date some scoundrel who I doubt even has a community college diploma..."

Kevin Stone was being sour. He wasn't talking about his previous girlfriend who had a PhD and never used shampoo when washing her hair. That girlfriend had dumped him some time ago. He was talking about a junior girl who was studying public affairs and he was currently pursuing her.

He met this girl at a campus activity a few days ago.

He had just broken up with his girlfriend, and this local Hispanic girl from California took the initiative to talk to him. They got along well, and she told him that she liked men like him who were upright, motivated, and smart.

As a result, after a few days, he found out that she was dating a little gangster who claimed to be a street artist, and the two of them were much more intimate than when they were with him.

"She didn't lie to you. Her mind tells her that she should like decent and ambitious men, but her subconscious mind is only attracted to the kind of ruffians you mentioned. The iceberg theory also applies to choosing a partner. What you like physiologically and what you think you should like are completely different. There's really nothing we can do about it, Kevin."

Fang Yu shrugged and crawled out of the cavity.

"It's bullshit physiological liking. Humans evolved into humans thanks to their brains. Otherwise, what's the difference between us and apes?" Kevin Stone cursed, but he felt a little regretful and scared after saying it.

What I just said was not correct enough for Zheng Zhi, so don’t get reported.

"Fang, the turbulence suppressor has been installed and the preparations are complete. We can start the test. Let's go to the control room."

Kevin Stone shrank his neck, climbed down the ladder, and called out to Fang Yu who was still standing on the top operating platform.

"After the ETPD is turned on, remember every reaction process."

Fang Yuyong casually reminded Youzi in his mind and was about to leave the equipment area when he suddenly remembered the signal that appeared in the last experiment.

"By the way, Youzi, pay attention to the 12.6THz periodic signal from last time and see if it will appear again this time." Fang Yu hesitated for a moment and decided to let Youzi observe it.

The frequency of the signal seemed very familiar to him, but he couldn't figure out what it was similar to.

This extremely high frequency signal, instrument false signal and noise is indeed a possibility, but it has never been able to completely convince Fang Yu.

Of course, it is possible that it is a signal manifestation of unknown particles or dark matter radiation, but it cannot be proven in isolation. Even if it is, there is no way to confirm the existence of unknown particles and dark matter through this set of signals.

After all, this is just an insignificant one among the hundreds of thousands or even millions of signals in each experiment.

Let’s try the experiment again this time to see if the signal appears again.

Fang Yu looked through the records of the previous two experiments, and this signal had never appeared in the experimental records.

From this perspective, the possibility that it is a false signal is indeed very high.

However, we should observe it again. This time, we have improved the experimental plan and updated the experimental equipment to see if we can still capture the mysterious 12.6THz signal.

Originally, Fang Yu just wanted to figure out how to build a tokamak, but after being exposed to high-energy physics for a period of time, he really developed a great interest in this subject.

Although arcane and physics are basically two different things, and even the existence of some arcane phenomena directly negates certain quantum physics theories, the discipline of high-energy physics still brings Fang Yu a lot of inspiration in the field of arcane.

The same is true in reverse.

In short, Fang Yu is now indeed very interested in the 12.6THz periodic signal.

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"The main console has been started and the authority verification has been passed."

"Laboratory environmental testing begins: vacuum pressure is stable, air humidity is 0.5%."

"Ambient temperature: 21.3°C, high-precision error control ±0.1°C."

"Magnetic coil array current: Normal (35.2kA), electromagnetic coil intact."

“Particle Targeting Chamber: No Impurities or Particle Deposition Detected.”

As the ETPD self-test program starts, the system console's automatic voice prompts also start working.

As Kevin Stone entered a series of commands on the main console, Ma Wei and Caleb Monroe began to tense up, keeping abreast of the core equipment's warm-up progress.

"Vacuum chamber evacuation started. Current vacuum level: 10 to the power of -7 Torr."

"Plasma guide cooldown mode activated."

"Liquid nitrogen cooling pipe injection has begun. Liquid nitrogen injection is complete, and the pipe temperature has stabilized at -196°C."

"Plasma cooling system pressure test is normal."

"The magnetic coil is in the superconducting state... The cooling state is stable."

"Particle injection system activated. Current target particle: hydrogen ions."

"Particle guidance rate: nominally 300 keV."

…

"Langmuir probe array signal detection initiated. Data link stable."

"Neutral beam heating system ready, parameters locked into target range."

As soon as the last two broadcasts by Ma Wei and Caleb Monroe finished, Kevin Stone took a deep breath and said, "Let's get started."

After that, Kevin Stone typed out a series of instructions on the keyboard, and the experimenters on site began to operate various experimental instruments in an orderly manner, and began to execute them step by step according to the requirements of the experimental plan.

"The experimental sequence has started loading the core magnetic field ring."

"Plasma chamber current: 45.3kA, plasma ring forming."

"Electromagnetic coil field pressure: monitoring the fluctuation rate of equilibrium electron density."

………

As the last announcement came to an end, a series of data streams began to appear on the computer screen in front of him.

Kevin Stone breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was not a single alarm in the data stream scrolling on the screen.

"Vacuum chamber pressure...particle guidance field...plasma generation state...electron temperature...all normal!Completely in line with the experimental plan!"

Kevin Stone stared at the computer screen with a flushed face, and from time to time he would glance at the ETPD through several layers of lead glass.

"This experiment will definitely get the desired results." The pimples on Ma Wei's old face were redder and looked like they were about to burst.

If this experiment is successful, at least a top journal can be published, and as a core member, he will definitely be able to be co-first author.

In recent years, there have been more and more top journal papers in the fields of quantum and high-energy physics with co-first authors, with the least being three or four and the most being even seven or eight.

Mainly, modern physics basically relies on interdisciplinary collaboration, with theoretical physicists responsible for theoretical derivation, experimental physicists responsible for experimental design, and data scientists conducting mathematical modeling and results analysis... As a result, being co-author has become the norm.

And if the experiment fails... haha, that means the research progress of this team will be delayed for at least half a year, and they might even lose the opportunity to publish in a top journal to other research groups.

The most nervous person was undoubtedly Kevin Stone, who stood behind Ma Wei and kept peeking at the computer screen in front of Ma Wei.

In the experimental plan, the plasma discharge in the tokamak will last about 30 seconds. For Kevin Stone, this is simply the slowest 30 seconds since he was born.

Fang Yu was also looking at the screen, but his mental focus was always on the situation in the laboratory.

It couldn't be seen from the outside, but in his mental feedback, he could clearly see the purple plasma flow gradually rotating into a ring in the cavity within a second, like a giant energy dragon bound by the magnetic field, twisting and tumbling in the fiery core.

It does seem to be going smoothly.

Fang Yu narrowed his eyes and was about to withdraw his mental power when he sensed a turbulent excitation wave that did not seem to be suppressed by the turbulence suppressor at the top of the cavity. Instead, it broke through the stable area of ​​the magnetic field coil and was madly tearing the plasma boundary.

In the fifth second after the plasma was generated, two red "warnings" suddenly popped up on Ma Wei's computer screen!

not good!

Before Kevin Stone and Ma Wei could react, Fang Yu's hands were already tapping rapidly on the console.

"What's going on!? Fang! What are you doing!?"

Kevin Stone's head buzzed.

What was that warning just now? What are you doing, Fang? How could you switch to manual mode? Are you ruining this experiment?

"Look at the data, one of the turbulence suppression sensors has fallen off! There's something wrong with the feedback data!" Fang Yu stared at the screen of the console, constantly tapping on various parameters.

Kevin Stone turned his head to look at Ma Wei's computer screen, and sure enough, in just four or five seconds, it was filled with red "warning" messages!

It’s over!

The experiment that I prepared with great difficulty is ruined.

Kevin Stone instantly felt what despair was.

Turn off the engine. Kevin Stone was about to say this when he looked up at the screen, only to see that the warnings on the screen suddenly decreased a lot. After a second or two, all the red "warning" messages disappeared.

This shows that the plasma flow has completely returned to normal!

What's going on?

Kevin Stone's mouth dropped open.

"It's done. I manually adjusted the parameters of the turbulence suppression magnetic field and blocked the detached sensor. It should be basically fine. The experiment has 7 seconds left, 6 seconds, 5 seconds..."

Fang Yu's voice sounded in Kevin Stone's ears.

Manually adjusted the turbulence suppression magnetic field parameters?

Is this human language you're talking about?

Kevin Stone continues to open his mouth wide.

There are dozens of sensors in total. How do you know which one fell off?

Did it really fall off? Was it fake? How could a human being do that?

But the system did issue a warning just now.

A few seconds passed while we were talking, and the ETPD had already entered the automatic shutdown procedure.

ETPD requires active cooling and radiation attenuation, and must undergo multiple rounds of evacuation and gas replacement in the vacuum system. It can only be entered after the experiment administrator confirms that it is harmless to the human body. This also takes at least one hour.

Kevin Stone couldn't help feeling a little dazed as he looked at Fang Yu, who was concentrating on checking data in front of the console.

Judging from the data, the plasma did have a turbulent runaway problem just now, and Fang did manage to stabilize the situation after manual operation.

But how is this possible?

The turbulence suppression system requires data from dozens of sensors to operate properly. If any one of them falls off, it may trigger an automatic emergency shutdown. How did he discover the specific error within three seconds, determine which sensor was detached, and urgently and accurately block the sensor, thereby avoiding the ETPD automatic shutdown?

Is this really something humans can do?

Not only him, but everyone in the experimental group was dumbfounded.

What UCLA lacks the most is true talent.

Each of them, in the first 20 years of their lives, may be the smartest person they have ever met. They are the children of other people's families and always crush their peers.

But after arriving here, they experienced for the first time what it felt like to be crushed.

There are so many geniuses.

Kevin Stone's former roommate was a genius from Argentina. He never studied, slept in class, and partied at night. He would start studying three days before exams, and he would always get A's.

Kevin was designing an experiment. He passed by and was able to find out the five optimization items of the experiment at a glance. He was a genius among geniuses.

You never know whether the guy next to you who plays beach volleyball and surfs at the beach every day will publish a conference paper tomorrow.

But can these people do what Fangis just did?

I probably can’t do it…

"Fang, how did you determine which sensor fell off just now?" Kevin Stone asked cautiously.

"It's very simple. The time series data suddenly changed. Looking at the data, I know that sensor 23 has fallen off, causing the turbulence suppression abnormality. All I need is fast hands."

"My LOL hand speed is 350, so this is nothing."

Fang Yu stared at the screen and flipped through the data, without even turning his head, and answered casually.

Just look at the data! ?

Is that right? Is that right? Is that right?

Kevin Stone's head roared like thunder, and he cursed three times, as if he was shattered into pieces by the truth of science.

Last time you did Fourier calculations in your head, and this time you did spectral analysis of time series data in your head, right?

In comparison, the last mental Fourier arithmetic was not that scary.

The feedback signal of the plasma magnetic field is a high-dimensional coupled nonlinear system, and any signal distortion will cause feedback chain noise.

Like a chaotic pendulum, you can't tell with the naked eye which part is wrong.

Could it be that there really is a monster in this world who can do Fourier calculations in his head?

Kevin Stone felt that his thirty years of scientific literacy had been greatly challenged.

Damn, why bother studying plasma? Why not tie this guy up, open his head, and see what the difference is between him and us ordinary people! ?

Just switch to medical biology.

Kevin Stone was gritting his teeth when he heard Fang Yu calling him.

"Congratulations, Kevin, your experiment should be successful." Fang Yu rubbed the corners of his eyes.

"The peak coda amplitude is 2.52 GeV/m, and the electron beam energy gain is 1.55 times, which perfectly meets the experimental plan. I suggest you pay attention when making the figure, so that the reviewers don't think that you have fabricated this data."

"I've already gathered the data and given it to Ma Wei for summary. The report should be out soon."

Success? Really?

Kevin Stone was happy, but not as happy as he had imagined. Instead, he felt empty.

It was like the goddess he had been pursuing for years had always ignored him, but as soon as his friend told her a thing, she came over and gave him a BJ.

Kevin Stone hurriedly glanced at Fang Yu's screen, but saw that Fang Yu had switched out and started searching again in the massive data.

"What are you looking for?" Kevin Stone asked curiously.

"I'm looking for... I found it!" Fang Yu tapped his fingers.

12.6THz, that’s it! It appeared again!

Let me see what you are.

"Yuzu, Yuzu, have you found this set of signals?"

Fang Yu activated the Eseran Core and excitedly contacted Yuzi who was still in the ETPD laboratory.

"Master, I've found it." Yuzu's voice was a little hesitant. "I compared it again with all the known papers, and indeed, I didn't find any meaningful signal with the same frequency."

Didn’t you notice?

Fang Yu frowned slightly.

But this frequency... is really familiar.

"Although it's not found in any known papers, I just compared the signals and I feel..."

Fang Yu was delighted: "What do you feel?"

For the first time, Yuzu's tone was so uncertain: "I feel this signal should be related to you, Master."

Is it related to me?

Fang Yu was slightly stunned.

"Look at the time sequence. The signal appeared steadily while your mental power was still in the lab. But when you realized the sensor had fallen off and returned your attention to the control room, the signal disappeared. After you shielded the sensor and returned your mental power to the lab to check, the signal reappeared until the experiment was completed and it automatically shut down."

"So, I have a hypothesis," Yuzu said hesitantly, "The source of this signal is most likely... you?"

(End of this chapter)