At the end-of-year scientific summary meeting at TPC headquarters, Masaki Keigo finally appeared again. As the head of the scientific review team, as soon as he walked to the podium, more than a dozen scientists raised their hands to express their intention to speak. Masaki Jingwu snorted, then knocked on the table to signal everyone to speak in order.
"Masaki Keigo, I admit that you are a genius. Your research on light, your research on biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics, and your understanding of the Max dynamic system are all top-notch, but you can't wait. First of all, compared to a powerful space carrier, the TPC system that has been finally established is obviously more important."
"Yes Masaki Keigo, it's not that we are unwilling to build a space carrier, but that building a carrier at this time is provoking those branches around the world that have just completed their reorganization. We finally united with those peaceful people to complete the reform. If it was because of Max The power system has once again provoked an arms race, and there is no going back."
"Everyone can technically support Dr. Yao's research and construction, but it is too dangerous to further increase investment. Masaki Keigo, please think about it carefully."
"First of all, please clarify one thing." Masaki Keigo tapped the table hard with his knuckles.
"Compromise is not peace, and peace never means not conducting weapons research. Of course, with your simple thinking and logic, I'm afraid you can't understand what I'm saying, but please think about it with your scientists' thinking. , If science is constrained by these messy things, can technology really support humans to go into deep space?"
Masaki Keigo is actually very busy, and the problems that arose on the road to light have not yet been resolved. He has not paid attention to the internal affairs of TPC for a long time.
It was not that he had never thought about seeking help from Casto, the forerunner, but his subconscious told him that some roads must be walked alone, and if he still wanted to seek help in the matter of evolving into light, Castor's help, then he may never be able to face the proud self in the mirror in his life.
Masaki Keigo took a deep breath. If it weren't for the Max Power System, he wouldn't have come to attend any bullshit meeting. He firmly believed that the Max Power System was very important to the future of mankind. He looked at the internationally renowned scientists sitting below. At a glance, he knew that some people here had lost their scientific ideals as scientists. In their previous actions to support Sawai in establishing the TPC, they had completely transformed into the kind of politicians they once hated the most.
Suddenly, a scientist who looked familiar to Keigo Masaki stood up and said, "Mr. Keigo Masaki, I want to know if you insist on building the Max power system again and again even though you know that building the Max power system will bring chaos to the world. Because you actually did it on purpose,
Before the TPC was established, you never paid attention to our invitation. But now that peace has finally arrived, you have taken the initiative to join us, and you continue to point out us on weapons-related matters. Are you deliberately provoking it? Humanity has returned to its original state of war. "
Masaki Keigo frowned and recalled the scientist's face, and then he remembered that this guy's name was Tango Yuuji, the man who was kicked out of the first meeting because he was late.
"A second-rate scientist like you is not worthy of saying this to me. If you think that I support the Max Power System just to build weapons to bring mankind back to the past, then I can only say that the most powerful weapon in your mind is for me, Masaki Keigo. It’s just a child’s play, as long as I am willing, I can restore power that you can’t even imagine in minutes.”
"What kind of power are you talking about? What is the usage scenario of the light wave equipment you are researching? There have been records of explosions and earthquakes near your company. Have you conducted weapons-related research in private? This is your Your own behavior, or the behavior between you and Casto behind you, the Victory Team or even higher-ups?"
Tango Yuuji was obviously very upset about Masaki Keigo looking down on him. It was obvious that he came to this meeting well prepared. Whether it was the company behind Masaki Keigo or Masaki Keigo's personal friend, Tango Yuuji had done certain things. investigation.
No, this shouldn't be information he can get.
Masaki Keigo glanced at him, and he was even a little surprised. Although this person named Tango Yuuji was disgusting with him, it was rare that this guy actually aroused his interest. You must know that he was Masaki Keigo, and most people were I dare not speak to him like this.
This guy was somewhat ambitious, but his methods were too mean, and it was obvious that this guy was being used as a weapon. Masaki Keigo shook his head, too lazy to say anything more to him.
The next day, there were some rumors within TPC. Rumors about Masaki Keigo privately researching high-intensity weapons began to appear. At the same time, some negative news about his intention to seize classes and seize power also began to circulate.
Masaki Keigo knew why. The group of scientists who had formed an academic group were putting pressure on him, trying to make him bow his head.
Some people object for the sake of science, while others object just to prove their strength.
But Masaki Keigo knew that the more times like this, the less he could retreat. Once he retreated, the pressure would rush to Castor and others.
He, Masaki Keigo, would never shirk his responsibilities to others.
He was proud of everything he had, and at the same time he was proud of pride itself. He didn't want to, and couldn't, change all of this.
In fact, Sawai and others had anticipated the emergence of small groups among scientists. Grouping would occur wherever there were people. What's more, these people felt that they had contributed to the establishment of TPC. They felt that they were now Their status is not worthy of their original contribution to the establishment of TPC.
Sawai and others had already thought that as long as Masaki Keigo opened his mouth, they would be able to pass administrative orders and break up these small groups one by one. However, unexpectedly but within reason, Masaki Keigo did nothing and just accepted it. He was attacked by small groups.
Because the attack has not been further expanded, it can only be regarded as rumors among scientists. Faced with this situation, Sawai can only ask people from the Intelligence Bureau to control public opinion and prevent these news from being overly fermented.
On the other side, Dagu did not go to find Masaki Keigo because he returned to TPC. He did not even notice that Masaki Keigo came to TPC. He had been privately investigating the Max power system test machine that night.
Ever since he discovered that there was light in the optical fiber of the Max power system of the testing machine that night, he had paid careful attention to everyone who was close to the testing machine. He noticed that many people had tried to pass by the testing machine, or even enter or exit the testing machine. Pass testing machine.
At the same time, he invaded the database of the test machine, and then he was surprised to find that there was a large amount of startup data in the database of the test machine that had not been recorded.
The light in the optical fiber that Dagu saw that night was actually the trace that Max's power system had been activated.
The Max power system is actually a special engine created by utilizing the annihilation effect at the atomic level. In fact, a few years ago, this was only an engine with only theoretical possibilities in science fiction. Of course, there is another engine like this in science fiction. A more popular name - antimatter engine.
Before Dr. Yatsuo created the Max power system, the antimatter engine was a theoretical engine that had been proposed long ago.
As the name suggests, antimatter engines can use antimatter to propel spacecraft, with extremely high specific impulse and thrust-to-weight ratio. Spacecrafts fueled by antimatter are also regarded as efficient tools for interstellar transportation of mechanical energy in the future.
One advantage of using an antimatter engine is that the annihilation of antimatter can occur spontaneously and does not require many conditions like the nuclear reaction in a nuclear engine, so there is no need for a large reactor and the weight of the spacecraft can be reduced.
The only by-product produced by the annihilation of the entire antimatter engine was the powerful light that filled the interior of the engine at that moment.
However, there are still many difficulties to overcome if we want to turn our ideals into reality.
First of all, making it consumes too much energy. Because there is no other way to make antimatter, we can only reverse the annihilation process and use a particle accelerator to create antimatter from energy according to Einstein's mass-energy conversion formula.
For this reason, before this, the world could only produce 10 billionths of a gram of antimatter every year, which is not enough to heat a cup of coffee.
Another obstacle is storage, because antimatter will annihilate and explode as soon as it encounters positive matter, so we cannot use any containers made of positive matter to store it. We use magnetic fields to store these antimatter elementary particles.
The most commonly used is the ultra-cold vacuum Penning ion trap, which is a portable antiproton storage device that uses superimposed electromagnetic fields to store protons, but positrons are difficult to store in this way.
Even in the TPC database, there are tens of thousands of design ideas for antimatter engines.
But the only one that has really produced research results is Dr. Yao's Max Power System.
Although Dr. Yatsuo has made his research public, this is only a disclosure that is not public. The core things about the design, the really key details, are actually all hidden.
It's like the whole world knows the principles used to make atomic bombs, but not many countries can actually make atomic bombs.
The only people in the world who truly fully grasp all the design ideas of the Max power system, apart from Dr. Yatsuo, are Director Tomuramura of the Science Bureau in charge of the Victory Feiyan system, Keigo Masaki of the Scientific Review Team, and several people who once belonged to the Space Development Agency. A scientist and a few other people.
The rest are either people like Sawai who have the authority but cannot understand the design ideas, or people like Dr. Mizuno who understand but can only read core materials in related fields such as electromagnetism.
After constantly reading through the records and observing for several days, Dagu felt that he had discovered the truth. Although he talked hotly, in fact everyone was full of interest in the Max power system, even those who talked about it. The scientists who expressed their objections came to the hangar more than once and tried to study the complete picture of Max's power system in the name of inspection.
As the project leader, Dr. Yatsuo didn't mean to stop them. On the contrary, he seemed to hope that these people could really come and see what the Max power system was like. He hoped that such behavior could change other people's prejudices.
As for security, it is a pity that the security in the TPC hangar is weaker than expected. In fact, it cannot be said to be weak. For scientists, the hangar can be opened easily, but for security personnel, the hangar does not allow them to be too Too close to these devices.
After observing for a few days, Dagu felt that he had understood. Some of these people were curious, some were afraid, and some simply wanted to master this technology.
It's just that Dagu didn't know whether he should report this matter, but after a few days of observation, he knew why these people were able to sneakily approach and activate the test machine without being discovered by others.
Because these scientists have overlapping permissions, they can cover all relevant permissions of the hangar. Some people changed the night surveillance, some shared the passwords for night entry and exit, and everyone pretended to be incompatible with each other. He knew it, but he actually protected others.
Dagu feels that although these crooked scientists are very smart in scientific research, they are very poor in reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance capabilities. They are not at the same level as people like him who have truly received professional training.
Of course, in fact, ordinary people can't find out what happened on the test machine. Ordinary people don't even know that the test machine will leave light in the optical fiber when it is started. But it just so happens that Dagu is the one who has reconnaissance capabilities and can understand the test. Someone whose machine has been activated.
A group of thieves secretly trying to control humanity's most cutting-edge technology? Dagu felt as if he had discovered the truth of the matter.
Then, he secretly told Mr. Casto and Captain Hui Jian about this matter.
In the next few days, Dagu discovered that the security in the hangar at night had become stricter. Although the security personnel still refused to allow access to the experimental equipment, there was no trace that the system had been secretly opened.
Dagu relaxed a little, and then he finally discovered that at some point, negative public opinions about Masaki Keigo began to appear within TPC, and when he investigated, he found that these public opinions happened to come from those scientist groups.
After thinking about it, Dagu felt that he really had no good solution for this kind of thing, and then he decided to go to Casto again.
If you are in doubt, go to Casto!
(End of chapter)
