Chapter 601

These foreign institutions love nothing more than holding a press conference every few days to announce some achievement of theirs; the goal, of course, is to remind their sugar daddies to hurry up and cough up the money.

For Xu Qingzhou, aside from successfully completing the experiment—such as completely solving the problems of lithium dendrites or the shuttle effect—those interim results don't actually have much promotional value; at most, it's like what he did before at MIT, simply releasing a message on an official platform to stimulate others.

Otherwise, they have interim progress too.

Judging from the data Zhao Shengwen sent, it is at the very least several years ahead of the current industry level.

Xu Qingzhou found a seat by the window, opened his notebook, and let his gaze fall on the supersymmetric function theory he had calculated in the morning, considering the dynamic phase problem in the transition rules.

Not far away.

"Is that Xu Qingzhou?"

The middle-aged man wearing glasses sized Xu Qingzhou up from afar, clicking his tongue in wonder; although he had seen photos in the news, seeing the real person in the flesh still made one sigh at how truly young he was.

Once Professor Harvey sat down beside him, he asked with a smile: "You chatted for a few minutes, how was it?"

"He is a powerful and terrifying competitor."

Professor Harvey glanced in Xu Qingzhou's direction.

"Oh? It's rare to hear the word 'terrifying' from you." The middle-aged man was slightly surprised; Professor Harvey was a rather proud person.

Professor Harvey said earnestly: "Yes, he is worthy of that word. In him, I felt an incomparable confidence, or rather, pressure."

Newton proposed the framework for calculus, the law of universal gravitation, and optical theory at 23; Einstein published his "Annus Mirabilis papers" at 26, which included special relativity, the theory of the photoelectric effect, and research on Brownian motion.

Maxwell completed "On Faraday's Lines of Force" at 24, laying the mathematical foundation for electromagnetic field theory.

These are all people who were capable of making an era flourish in the long river of human history.

In this Xia Nation person before him, he felt a kind of pressure one might face from these great figures.

The middle-aged man's tone was relaxed: "Hey, buddy, relax. Compared to a vague feeling, I think you should go look at our experimental data instead."

Just three days ago, their experiment had a breakthrough.

In terms of critical current density, it is 50% ahead of peers; the solid-state electrolyte structure is innovative, and the developed LPSC/LTLC/LPSC sandwich-structure solid-state electrolyte has a critical current density (CCD) increased to 1.52 mA/cm².

Currently, the international advanced level is only 0.5-1.0 mA/cm².

The symmetric cell cycle life has increased by 10 times, and furthermore, a brand-new lithium dendrite suppression technology has been developed; theoretically, it can almost solve the lithium dendrite problem.

The middle-aged man leaned back in his chair: "I am already looking forward to everyone seeing this data, especially the shocked expression on that guy Galen Krueger's face."

Galen Krueger, the person in charge of leading the lithium dendrite experiment at Stanford University.

Their old rival.

On the podium, Didier Queloz had already begun the afternoon report meeting.

Various detection methods and technologies.

Key detection targets, including habitable zone planets, planets with masses between Earth and Neptune, and rogue planets.

Xu Qingzhou put away his mathematical calculation manuscript and listened with great interest.

By comparing observations of star systems of different ages, they are reconstructing the early evolutionary history of the solar system, which also involves in-orbit manufacturing technology and breakthroughs in additive manufacturing technology for ultra-large space antennas to support future deep space exploration.

Occasionally, it makes one feel a bit dazed, as if they had traveled into a sci-fi world.

"Planetary exploration, interstellar travel."

Xu Qingzhou squinted his eyes, "The first thing to solve is the energy problem; traditional chemical fuel rockets can only support low-Earth orbit missions, and controllable nuclear fusion energy can be considered the biggest breakthrough point at present. Next is ultra-long-range communication and navigation; information transmission in interstellar travel has a time lag, and it also relies on algorithms..."

The most urgent tasks currently are concentrated in three major directions: energy systems, radiation protection, and communication technology.

Thinking of this, Xu Qingzhou couldn't help but smile to himself; if things went smoothly, he might be able to solve both the energy and communication problems.