Chapter 506: Groping
At the same time, Jiang Mingxuan also announced that he would strengthen ecological protection around the pitcher plant city and determine the distribution range and living conditions of Julia fungi as soon as possible.
This is the ecological survey team of Nepenthes City.
Recently, I have put aside other work and concentrated my efforts on conducting a thorough investigation of the area where Julia fungus was previously collected.
Based on this careful investigation, the distribution range and survival habits of Julia fungi have been gradually improved.
The fungus is only distributed in a rainforest covering an area of 372 square kilometers northwest of Nepenthes City.
Julia fungus is a symbiotic fungus with a relatively small body (1.2-1.7 cm in diameter) and light blue color. It only coexists with a local unique redwood.
This local redwood is distributed only within this 372 square kilometers and is not found in other areas.
And even for this type of rosewood, not all rosewoods will have Julia fungus.
Currently, only about 7.6% of redwoods have been found to have Julia fungi symbiotically.
Once the redwood dies, the Julia fungus will soon die as well.
Faced with this situation, the ecological survey team paid more attention to local ecological protection. After all, once the ecology of this unique redwood and Julia fungus is destroyed, it is very likely to cause the extinction of the entire species.
Moreover, the discoveries made by Julia and others have greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of other ecological survey teams.
The entire Amazon rainforest covers a vast area, and no one is sure how many . Among these unknown species, whether there are fungi similar to Julia fungi is also an area worth exploring.
Other biological research institutions in Nepenthe City also received a special task from the Science Division, which was to complete the artificial cultivation of Julia fungus as soon as possible.
After all, the living conditions of Julia fungus in the natural environment are very harsh. If you are not careful, it will die in minutes.
The 34507 laboratory that received the scientific research task is a fungus cultivation laboratory located in Nepenthes City.
Sapiens has conducted in-depth research on symbiotic fungi, and the 34507 laboratory is conducting research on this basis, so the difficulty will be relatively low.
Since Julia fungus and rosewood coexist symbiotically, studying the artificial cultivation technology of Julia fungus requires simultaneous research on this special rosewood.
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In the Atlon Oasis in Africa.
Li Qingye also received relevant reports, but he was not too happy about this discovery.
After all, the shortcomings of Zhu Chen's magnetic monopole crystal are too obvious .
The defects in service life are too serious, and it is basically impossible to use it in a short period of time.
As for other applications of Zhu Chen's magnetic monopole crystals, they are also difficult to achieve.
This is not only a problem of service life, but also a problem of production.
Based on the small amount of production from the natural Julia fungus, these few milligrams of Julian magnetic monopolar crystals would not even be enough to fill the gaps between teeth.
And a series of other envisioned applications, such as magnetic monopole generators, magnetic monopole strong magnetic fields, magnetic monopole maglev trains, anti-gravity spacecraft, etc., all require a lot of raw materials.
What's more, the Zhu Chen magnetic monopole crystal is not a real magnetic monopole. There is still a closed magnetic field between the two magnetic poles.
Li Qingye is very clear about the difference between the two.
After reading the relevant research reports, he looked up a lot of papers on magnetic monopoles, as well as condensed matter physics, electron quantization and the like.
Even with a super brain, Li Qingye still hasn't solved the problem of the service life of Zhu Chen's magnetic monopole crystal.
However, he did not dwell on it. Since the problem could not be solved in a short period of time, he would continue to increase investment in related scientific research.
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The magnetic monopole project is highly valued by the Science Division.
Various investments and manpower have directly increased more than ten times.
Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Shi Feng are the core researchers of this project. They led a large group of researchers and each carried out related research.
Among them, Dr. Lawrence's research direction is to study how to extend the service life of Ju Chen magnetic monopole crystals.
Dr. Shi Feng's research direction is to study how to artificially synthesize Ju Chen magnetic monopole crystals and how to find potential substitutes for this crystal.
However, this kind of research tends to be a combination of theory and practice, which is quite difficult for many researchers.
Among them, Dr. Shi Feng used the compound database and supercomputer simulation to find many similar molecular structures.
However, the synthesis of large organic molecules is much more difficult than that of small molecules.
Because the larger the molecular weight, the longer the synthesis chain will be, and the more complicated the steps will become.
This is also why many large molecule drugs are often extracted from natural organisms rather than through artificial synthesis.
The steps for artificially synthesizing large organic molecules are extremely complicated, and the production cost will rise sharply.
Inside the laboratory.
Dr. Shi Feng looked at the data feedback, a helpless expression appeared on his face: "It's difficult! Not even half of the reaction steps have been completed."
The other researchers were also dejected.
"Shi Bo, how about we try similar inorganic compounds?" one of the researchers suggested.
Dr. Shi Feng frowned and thought, then he looked through the hundreds of inorganic compounds simulated by the supercomputer.
These are inorganic compounds simulated by supercomputers. They are also somewhat difficult to synthesize, but they are much better than organic compounds.
In addition, this is not the key point. The key point is whether these inorganic compounds can produce the magnetic field resonance effect of magnetic monopoles.
But in the end he made up his mind: "I am going to assign some researchers to study the simulated inorganic compounds."
"OK."
The researchers nodded.
Obviously, many researchers think that it is too difficult to study organic compounds, so it would be better to allocate some of their efforts as soon as possible to study some areas that may have special energy fields.
In fact, Dr. Shi Feng was not too concerned about this aspect.
But now he had to grit his teeth and continue working on the project.
Because other scientific research institutions of the company were also actively conducting research in this area, this enormous pressure forced Dr. Shi Feng and others to grit their teeth and persevere.
Of course, this is just healthy competition and does not affect the friendship between the two parties.
If other scientific research institutions come up with results first, then Dr. Shi Feng and others can only blame themselves for not being as skilled as others.
In addition to the various scientific research institutions of Sapiens on Earth, a more practical scientific experiment on magnetic monopoles was also conducted on the Sapiens space station in the mid-orbit.
The number of astronauts on duty at the Homo Sapiens Space Station has now reached 42.
Most of them are scientific researchers.
The main focus of space research is on how to synthesize Ju Chen magnetic monopole crystals, and also to study whether this crystal has any undiscovered physical and chemical properties in outer space.
If we can obtain Juchen magnetic monopole crystals with relatively long service life in the future, we will definitely develop long-distance communications in outer space.
At this time, the various physical and chemical properties of the crystal in outer space become very important.
The efficient Homo Sapiens company has already sent some samples to the lunar base, which is currently the best location for testing long-distance communications.
While the Sapiens company is busy researching various technologies.
Some major undercurrents have also occurred in various parts of the world.
