The ultimate goal was the same, yet the means were as divergent as a carriage heading south when the driver intended to go north, resulting in a head-to-head confrontation.
What should have been a collaborative effort turned into a spectacular tug-of-war competition.
At such times, acting foolishly seemed to be the only choice.
Applying the words of a certain important figure: "Disinfectant can kill the virus in one minute, so if we want to quickly kill the virus, maybe we could drink the disinfectant or inject it into our body..."
This statement might sound ridiculous, and anyone with a basic education knows how ludicrous it is.
It's even hard to believe that such words could have been spoken on television by a prominent personage.
But if one were to take it seriously, one would find that the statement does indeed have an effect—since if people are gone, does it matter whether the virus that relies on the human body for survival lives or dies?
This is true for people, and the same goes for buildings.
It turned out that the test version of the material model was also quite useful.
Given enough data and computing power, along with more imaginative parameter designs, it was indeed capable of producing something different.
The good news was that, less than forty-eight hours after obtaining the activation code, the model had provided a laboratory preparation scheme for element 119 and its isotopes.
The bad news was that the model did not find a preparation scheme for the predicted new element's stable isotopes 303 and 311 and exited its working state.
The worse news was that the International Atomic Energy Agency had accepted a report from CERN, confirming the existence of element 119 and officially entering the naming stage.
In other words, the over 300 million US Dollars spent on the activation code yielded a result that had already been proven. This investment was somewhat unjustly squandered, placing the responsible experts in an embarrassing predicament.
If they gave up now, the total of over 300 million US Dollars would have been for nothing. If they didn't give up, they would have to spend an equivalent amount of money to redesign the parameters and restart the model.
Unfortunately, even if they spent more money, there was no guarantee of success. Even within the expert panel, debates had arisen.
Some believed the model might be controlled, only the methodology was unknown because they currently had no evidence of tampering.
Others believed that the model itself had no issues, but their parameter settings were not suitable, leading to the result. If they tried several more times, they might succeed.
Their reasoning was the same; they had found no evidence of a person directly manipulating the model. So, since Huaxia could use this method to discover the existence of new element's stable isotopes, they naturally could too.
Yet another group believed that the existence of stable isotopes 303 and 311 of the so-called new element 119 could be a result of some theoretical deduction, but the capability to prepare these isotopes in a laboratory at the current stage was a hoax.
The reason was that the instability of superheavy elements is a fundamental result of the excessive number of protons in the nucleus, leading to immense electromagnetic repulsive force.
At the same time, the short-range nature of the nuclear force meant that it could not provide enough attractive force to overcome these repulsive forces within the large nucleus.
These were basic physical laws, hard to change.
While theoretically the island of stability effect does exist, and since neutrons carry no charge, they can increase the nuclear force within the nucleus without increasing electromagnetic repulsion.
Theoretically speaking, an increase in neutrons can indeed make an element more stable. However, as the atomic number increases, the number of neutrons required to maintain the stability of the nucleus rapidly grows far beyond what current laboratories can achieve through synthesis.
In other words, Qiao Ze's paper about new elements was unproblematic. However, the actual assertion that stable isotopes 303 and 311 could be prepared in the laboratory was an outright fraud.
If such a method truly existed, there was no reason why elements after 116 could not find a way to prepare stable isotopes.
In any case, after obtaining this result, the team of experts responsible for this test became divided. Regrettably, those who believed that the parameter details were improperly designed and that a bit more effort might lead to success were clearly at a disadvantage.
Because although the other two groups of experts held different viewpoints, they both tended to agree that it should not be a waste to continue this project any longer.
From this, it was evident that the vast majority of experts were still rational.
They would not recklessly go all-in on a world-shocking discovery, aggressively pushing to the end.
Even if this discovery could lead to a method of controlling stable isotopes of superheavy elements, potentially revolutionizing the world.
The experts' opinions began to be conveyed upward.
The expert team responsible for this material model each had their own bosses, so whether to continue this farce also reached a stalemate.
When all the information was consolidated and reported to Romand Willy, the Langley magnate felt that everything was within his expectations.
What consoled him was that the opinions of the expert team were very reasonable.
To be frank, Romand Willy could no longer tolerate being manipulated like a fool.
This tedious farce should come to an end.
Those experts who were convinced that the material model was definitely useful should focus on how to crack this model, rather than thinking about squandering taxpayers' money at will.
His heart was bleeding.
Of course, if he knew that this time more computational power was utilized and that the supercomputers used had been deployed with some codes, he would probably be even more anguished.
Fortunately, these issues were technical personnel problems, and he didn't need to worry about such a myriad of complications.