A moment later, Wu Zhiming steeled himself and dialed another number!
The call connected quickly!
"Dean Li, this is Wu Zhiming from the Research Project Review Office at Dragon University of Science and Technology! Sorry to disturb you so late!"
"Is something the matter, Reviewer Wu?" Dean Li asked amiably!
Wu Zhiming explained the situation to Dean Li, who was immediately startled!
"Where are you right now?"
"I'm in the Research Project Review Office!" Wu Zhiming replied!
"All right, wait there. I'll be right over!"
After hanging up, Dean Li changed into a white shirt.
"Old Li, we're about to go to bed. What are you going out for?" Dean Li's wife asked!
"You go to sleep first. There's something research-related I need to take care of!"
"You're almost retired, yet you're still so busy every day. Remember to come home early. Don't stay up till the middle of the night again. Your health isn't what it was when you were young!"
"All right, I know!"
Dean Li answered, then opened the door and left!
Wu Zhiming waited for Dean Li in the Research Project Review Office.
Dean Li was the dean of the Project Research Group. Under normal circumstances, as a frontline reviewer, Wu Zhiming had to first submit any research projects he approved to Director Ma of the Research Project Review Office. After Director Ma approved them,
they would then be submitted to the Project Research Group to decide whether they were worth researching, or how much funding to invest in the research!
But Wu Zhiming had bypassed Director Ma and called Dean Li of the Project Research Group directly. This was reporting over his superior's head, a violation of the rules that could get him disciplined if things went badly.
But the matter was urgent, and Director Ma was usually negligent in his duties. Wu Zhiming feared that even if he submitted it to Director Ma, the director might not approve it, so in his urgency, he had thought of contacting Dean Li directly!
A little over ten minutes later, Dean Li pushed the door open and entered. Dispensing with pleasantries, he went straight to Wu Zhiming and said!
"Where's the document? Let me take a look first!"
Wu Zhiming stood up and let Dean Li sit down. The document was right there on his computer desktop; he had never closed it!
After sitting down, Dean Li put on his glasses, took hold of the mouse, and began reading from the beginning.
He skimmed the first section of the document. None of that was important.
He then went straight to the second section and began reading carefully. The more closely he considered it, the more frightening it became. The formulas and data were far too precise, with many figures given to more than ten decimal places.
Assuming all the data was correct, there was only one way the submitter could have obtained such precise figures: their research into controlled nuclear fusion was already highly mature!
At this thought, Dean Li could not help growing excited.
He could still understand the formulas and data at the beginning of the second section, but those toward the end were somewhat beyond him.
"Um, what's your name?" Dean Li looked up at Wu Zhiming and asked!
"Dean Li, my name is Wu Zhiming!"
"Zhiming, can you understand the data and formulas toward the end of the second section?" Dean Li asked!
"I only understood a third of it!" Wu Zhiming answered honestly!
"Then what does this 3H+23H-→4He+10n+1.76€×10^7eV mean?"
"..."
Wu Zhiming explained what the formula represented. Dean Li immediately gained a rough understanding; after all, he was not an expert in this field.
He then asked about the meanings of several more formulas, and Wu Zhiming explained everything he knew to Dean Li!
Only when they reached the remaining material that neither of them could understand did they stop studying the document!
"Zhiming, how do you know all this?" Dean Li asked curiously!
"Dean Li, I used to be a researcher working on controlled nuclear fusion. Later, I was transferred here because of health issues!"
"Oh, I see. If you hadn't been the one to review this document, I'm afraid anyone else would probably have treated it as garbage. By the way, where's Director Ma?"
Wu Zhiming told Dean Li what had happened earlier, and Dean Li was immediately furious.
Dean Li took out his phone and dialed, only to find that the other phone was switched off!
"Dean Li, please don't be angry. It is very late, after all," Wu Zhiming said!
Only then did Dean Li check the time on his phone. It was already 12:21 a.m.!
Forget it. This document was the most important thing right now!
"By the way, Zhiming, which private organization sent this document?" Dean Li asked!
"If I'm not mistaken, it was probably an individual."
"An individual?"
Dean Li exclaimed in surprise. He would not believe that one person had developed such meticulous formulas and data even if someone beat him to death!
After all, controlled nuclear fusion was an enormous undertaking.
Wu Zhiming then showed Dean Li the email. Its body read: I hope to gain admission to your university.
This was controlled nuclear fusion! And it was merely to gain admission to Dragon University of Science and Technology?
With this document in hand, never mind Dragon University of Science and Technology-any university in the world would probably fight like mad to recruit the sender!
Dean Li thought for a while. Whatever the other party's purpose, he still needed to verify this document further.
Then Dean Li called a plasma physics professor at Dragon University of Science and Technology.
After a brief exchange, Dean Li called an expert in magnetism and novel magnetic materials at Huaqing!
An hour later, more than a dozen leading experts and professors from various fields had gathered, filling every seat in Dragon University of Science and Technology's Research Project Review Office!
Before they arrived, Dean Li had instructed Wu Zhiming to print more than a dozen copies of the material!
It was now 2:58 a.m. The dozen or so experts and professors studied the documents in their hands, their eyes filled with delighted surprise.
Once everyone had finished reading, Dean Li spoke!
"You're all leading experts in your respective fields. Why don't you share your thoughts on this document?"
"Judging by the data and formulas, its credibility is extremely high. Even if there are some errors in the details, it still represents a qualitative breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion research..."
"My field is magnetic materials. Looking solely at the tokamak's toroidal magnetic confinement device in this document, there isn't a single problem.
"At present, under short-pulse operating conditions lasting on the order of several seconds, large conventional tokamaks in developed countries have achieved plasma temperatures of 440 million degrees and pulsed fusion output power exceeding 16 megawatts.
"But the plasma temperature in this document reaches 600 million degrees, and the power exceeds 20 megawatts. The energy released is a cut above that of those developed countries. If we develop a new type of tokamak magnetic ring device according to these formulas and data, we'll already be ahead of the entire world!"
"..."
The experts all voiced their opinions, analyzing the document's contents within their respective fields. In the end, 90% agreed that what the document proposed was feasible!
The discussion continued until six in the morning, when a professor specializing in superconductivity suggested using Huaqing's supercomputer to further verify these formulas and data!