The Defense That Went Down in History (Part 2)

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Inside the conference room.

Looking at the title of the paper before him, Academician Xue Qikun unconsciously made a somewhat comical gesture:

He slowly took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes hard twice with his knuckles, then opened them wide again and stared at the paper.

And then—

Yep, those words still hadn't changed at all:

<An Exploration of the Mechanism Behind High-Temperature Superconductivity>.

Seeing this.

Thump, thump, thump—

Academician Xue Qikun's heart, which had barely skipped a beat even when he won the Buckley Prize, suddenly began pounding violently.

In this day and age, the concept of superconductivity wasn't unfamiliar to many people.

In physics, superconductivity is the phenomenon in which a material's electrical resistance drops to zero below a certain temperature. After this transition, the material is called a superconductor.

Anyone who went to high school should know this.

In a circuit, charges in the wires move like runners when driven by voltage, forming an electric current. But resistance in the conductor impedes their motion.

If the circuit is made of superconductors, the charges can race freely through it, and the current will keep flowing.

In a loop made of superconducting lead, no sign of the current weakening can be observed for months.

Superconductivity was first discovered by Onnes in 1911. He cooled mercury with liquid helium and found that its resistance dropped to zero at −268.98°C, opening the door to the world of superconductivity.

From a commercial and technological perspective.

Once superconducting materials could be put to practical use, human technology would undergo a whole new leap forward.

For example, in power transmission, in household appliances, and in transportation—by then, the wheels on all moving vehicles could be eliminated.

The Formula One championship would be replaced by the low-altitude hovercar races from Star Wars, and you