1900: The Wandering Physics Overlord in Europe
Chapter 674

Electron-Positron Collision! Shocking! The Ultimate Experiment! Blast Out a Universe! Stun the Entire Audience!

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After reviewing the process from Transuranium Elements to Uranium Nuclear Fission, Li Qiwei could not help but smile.

Barring any surprises, the Borneo Atomic Research Institute would become the first experimental institution capable of accelerating neutrons.

Transuranium Elements would inevitably be theirs for the taking.

Li Qiwei was even secretly considering what to name elements 93 and 94 when the time came.

By then, the discussion of Fermi's report was also drawing to a close.

The leading figures had nearly reached a consensus:

"Transuranium Elements will become the most important subject in Experimental Physics!"

Clearly, given the caution of those present, they could not possibly acknowledge their existence at once.

After the conference ended, Irène, Rutherford, and the others would certainly return to verify it carefully.

Another storm was about to sweep through the world of Experimental Physics.

Amid the crowd, Yu Yin looked excited.

He had never imagined that neutrons could be so important.

"The director truly had the foresight to see a thousand miles ahead!"

"The Radon-Beryllium Neutron Source and Water Moderator Fermi used can only control neutron velocity qualitatively—either increasing it or decreasing it."

"That fills the experiments with uncertainty and the flaw of being impossible to reproduce."

"But if accelerating neutrons with an accelerator achieves a breakthrough, then we will be able to control their bombardment speed at will. When that happens, perhaps new phenomena may emerge."

As a leading experimental scientist, Yu Yin knew perfectly well that the most crucial core of experimentation was "control."

Without control, every experiment was nothing more than pure gambling on luck.

And he might very well become the first person to control neutrons.

Soon, the question-and-answer session for Fermi's report ended, and he returned to his seat as though a great burden had been lifted.

Irène secretly gave him

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