The problem was that the people orchestrating all this behind the scenes were utterly dumbfounded. This wasn't what they wanted! They weren't ordinary netizens who thought she really knew nothing. Wasn't that fucking obvious? Many scientists had been invited over and had personally seen the data.
It was all real.
They were all experts. The ordinary people outside could blindly celebrate all they wanted, but they couldn't. This was not the result they wanted. What they wanted was for Jiang Ling to prove her paper—plainly put, for them to be able to extract and produce this new element as well.
As long as they could discover it too, they could infer the approximate composition of the other side's material from the new element's energy, thereby accelerating their own Controlled Nuclear Fusion research.
Even an idiot knew that whoever mastered Controlled Nuclear Fusion would master the future.
America had once controlled oil, which was why the dollar became the world currency. But if the other side mastered Controlled Nuclear Fusion, then they would be the future. That was an advantage—an incomparable advantage!
Everything humanity had could be said to rest upon energy. More importantly, Controlled Nuclear Fusion would not merely replace conventional energy sources, nor was it simply about protecting the environment and the Earth.
More importantly, it was a crucial technology for humanity's journey into space.
With Controlled Nuclear Fusion, the plasma engines used by humanity in space would gain far greater power. At present, humanity's Ion Engines had such pitiful thrust that they could only be used for minor tasks like satellite orbital adjustments. They were utterly incapable of serving as primary propulsion.
Because their thrust was too weak.
But Controlled Nuclear Fusion was different. The ultra-high-temperature matter confined by magnetic fields was itself a kind of particle. When