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Xing Shuping led Xu You and Qiao Sen to his office, ordered Xiao Liu to make tea, and then closed the door.

At the meeting just now, Xing Shuping could only talk about some general directions.

Some specific details, Xing Shuping can not announce to everyone.

"Professor Qiao, Xu You, I need to tell you some details. After seeing the progress of our project, the higher-ups decided to assign a supercomputer to us. In this way, we can freely search for superconductors. "

Hearing this news, both Xu You and Qiao Sen were very excited.

In the first phase of the previous experiment, due to limitations in equipment, funds, etc., the project team could only use the supercomputer for a period of time.

After all, everything only exists in theory, if a lot of resources are used, a lot of electricity is spent, and there is no result.

It is really difficult for the project team to explain upwards.

However, after having this breakthrough result.

It is enough to show that the current direction is correct.

"Great, Academician Xing. In this way, we will definitely find more superconductors with a higher superconducting critical temperature."

Just the first calculations found hundreds of superconductors.

Xu You feels that it is very possible to break through the limit of 195K in the future.

"Of course, even if we are equipped with a supercomputer, the computing power of the supercomputer is limited, and it is impossible to exhaust all the materials. Xu You, next, you still need to plan the calculation plan, and choose the probability of superconductivity as much as possible. We need to test the largest molecular configuration. We also need to have a rough estimate of the supercomputing time."

"Okay, Academician Xing, I understand."

Xu You had also been thinking about the next calculation plan.

It is definitely not advisable to calculate blindly.

But Xu You already has a preliminary idea about the approximate order of possibilities.

After returning, Xu You started planning a new round of experiments.

"This feeling is a bit like when artificial intelligence is playing Go again." Xu You sighed.

In the layout stage of Go, there are more than 300 choices for each step.

But even a computationally powerful AI doesn't try to exhaust all possibilities.

For example, at the beginning of the game, you will never go to the center of the board, or the very edge of the board.

The possible landing points are only the star position and its nearby positions.

In this way, the amount of calculation is greatly reduced.

Following this line of thought, Xu You planned a new stage of calculation scheme.

"Let's do the calculation in several batches. First calculate the most likely batch, and then proceed in sequence. The total amount of calculation is still a bit large, so we can only do it step by step."

Xu You didn't know how much money the higher-ups were going to invest in this project and how long it would last.

Xu You made the next plan according to his own understanding of the theory and the statistics of the last batch of results.

...

On this day, in China's mainstream media, such a news was released——

"The Huaxia scientific research team recently discovered a new superconductor, and the superconducting critical temperature reaches 150K under normal pressure."

The whole news content is only twenty or thirty words.

After the news was just released, it didn't attract much attention.

But not long after, some people who knew more about the current state of physics in the world noticed the significance of this news.

"Holy shit, we actually discovered a superconductor with a superconducting critical temperature of 150K under normal pressure? This is normal pressure! A new record has been set!"

"I looked it up, and it's 12K higher than the previous record of superconducting critical temperature under normal pressure. I just don't know what kind of substance this superconductor is, and is it easy to prepare?"

"It's true that the fewer words, the bigger the matter. In this way, it should be one step closer to the discovery of room temperature superconductors."

Under the discussion and dissemination of these netizens, this news gradually became popular.

More and more netizens joined the discussion one after another.

"I remember that someone discovered a room-temperature superconductor before, and superconductivity can be achieved at 15°C."

"That is superconductivity under high pressure, which has no practical significance. It is much more difficult to achieve such a high pressure than to achieve low temperature."

"Our scientific research team is really amazing! I don't know which scientists made the contributions. Why didn't the specific team and name be mentioned in the news?"

"It should be temporary news, maybe there will be detailed reports in the future."

But after that, there were no follow-up reports.

This also shows that such a report with very little information is likely to be intentional.

Soon, the news spread to other countries outside of China.

"Huaxia actually discovered a superconductor with a superconducting critical temperature of 150K under normal pressure? Is this true news? Why didn't it explain what this substance is?"

"It's not just a smoke bomb, I don't believe that Huaxia can have such a strong scientific research capability."

"Yeah, if it is really discovered, it should be reported carefully. There is no reason for it to be just such a short sentence."

But some people don't think so.

"A young scientist in Huaxia just published a paper a while ago, explaining the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. I think there may be a great connection between the two."

"That's right, it is definitely a very important theory to be able to publish the title of this paper on the cover of PRL. It is unlikely that Huaxia will just send out a fake news."

"My God, this time Huaxia came to the front? What are our scientists doing? Isn't the theory already public? Why haven't our scientists discovered anything?"

At this moment, on China's Biehu, the news about this news has risen to the first place, and some people have already imagined a real room temperature superconductor.

"It seems that our scientific research team has found a new direction to find high-temperature superconductors. If I'm not wrong, Xu You should be a core member of this team, at least one of the core members. It may be as far as finding a real room-temperature superconductor." It won't be too far."

"If there is a room temperature superconductor, the impact on human beings will be subversive. Magnetic levitation trains, magnetic resonance imaging, superconducting quantum interferometers, etc., can all achieve leaps and bounds. The cost of electronic transportation will be greatly reduced. If it is lowered, mankind may enter a new era."

"In this way, rice phones no longer have to worry about heating."

"This is a worldwide technological revolution! The power consumption of superconducting quantum computers will be greatly reduced, and computers will enter a new era. Research on controllable nuclear fusion will also be put on the agenda."