Chapter 228 Solar Sails

"Have you participated in IPhO with him?" Leonard was a little surprised after hearing Aiden's words, "But that's normal. Those who can compete in the finals of IPhO will basically continue on the path of physics and come to participate in this game." Competition is no surprise either.”

"Mr. Leonard, what I am discussing with you is whether it is strange for him to appear here? What I want to express is that this Chinese should stand on the podium and start his show, instead of competing with us on the same stage! "

"Have you been psychologically affected by him? Even if he is the champion of your session, it does not mean that he will win this time. Don't worry, my brother will help you win it back this time." Leonard said after taking the picture He patted Aiden on the shoulder and looked like he would leave it to me.

But Aiden gave him a roll of his eyes, "Do you understand what I'm saying? Do you think I'm panicking like this just because he won the IPhO? After that game, I knew this guy named Wu Bin This guy is definitely a devil-level monster, so I paid special attention to him later on, and guess what kind of feats he accomplished during his freshman year."

"Hey~ Are you still following his news?" Leonard subconsciously took a step back and looked at Aiden with a strange look in his eyes.

Aiden decisively gave Leonard a middle finger, and then said: "This guy published "Science Advances" as a freshman, and it was a cover article. Can you believe it?"

"Science!?" Leonard was shocked, "This is too evil."

After exclaiming, Leonard looked at Wu Bin, whom Aiden had just pointed out to him, and felt a powerful aura suddenly burst out from him.

"So." Aiden patted Leonard on the shoulder, "Do you understand how I feel like I've lost even though the game hasn't started yet?"

"F***" Leonard's mentality collapsed now.

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Wu Bin, who didn't know that he had destroyed the mentality of the team before the game even started, led his teammates into the computer room and started downloading the questions for this game.

[Solar Sailing Journey to Mars]

【Ion thruster】

"Sure enough, they are all questions about going to heaven..." Zheng Wenhan swallowed after reading the questions.

Because this competition is sponsored by the American Astronomical Administration, they have long thought that there will be a high probability of going to the sky. However, in general, their preparations are still focused on rockets, so now they are still confused when looking at the two questions. Compared.

"Your new weapon..." Bo Jiasheng couldn't help but curse.

Then, after a series of negative emotions such as confusion, discomfort, and helplessness passed, Bo Jiasheng and Zheng Wenhan couldn't help but turn their heads and look at Wu Bin, their eyes were so helpless.

"What, let me choose?" Wu Bin asked, pointing to himself.

"Boss, please." The two men bent down towards Wu Bin and made a gesture of invitation at the same time.

So Wu Bin rubbed his chin and read both questions completely.

Solar sails and ion thrusters are both products of science fiction brought to reality. Ion thrusters are used to solve the problem that traditional chemical rockets must carry a large amount of fuel. As a result, most of the launch weight of a rocket is fuel. Inefficiency problem.

Solar sails are trying to find a new way for humans to navigate the universe.

After struggling for a long time, Wu Bin felt that the issue of solar sails was more interesting, so he turned around and asked his two teammates: "I want to choose solar sails, what about you?"

"The solar sail is great." Bo Jiasheng immediately gave a thumbs up.

"Well, I feel good too." Zheng Wenhan immediately agreed.

"That's it." Wu Bin waved his hand and decided.

Thousands of years ago, human beings knew how to use swollen sails to sail across the endless ocean. How could humans who knew how to use force give up a ubiquitous force in the solar system?

Yes, that is light.

Light is an electromagnetic spectrum visible to the naked eye that has wave-particle duality and is used to illuminate the world in many people's minds.

To be honest, when he first read a paper related to solar sails, Wu Bin couldn't help but admire the great imagination of these senior scientific researchers who thought about the stars and the sea all day long.

Solar sails, also called light sails, are space navigation technologies that rely on unfolding a large-area thin film structure and utilizing the extremely weak light pressure generated by sunlight photons on the surface of the light sail to achieve propulsion.

Although the thrust generated by each photon "hitting" the solar sail is extremely small, in the absence of friction in space, this force gradually accumulates and can propel the spacecraft forward.

The title of this competition is Solar Sail Journey to Mars, which requires contestants to build a physical model of interstellar flight of a light-driven solar sail spacecraft, and optimize the route to maximize passenger capacity and shorten navigation time.

Of course, solar sails taking passengers on a day trip to Mars are still only theoretical.

Although Japan successfully launched its first solar sail spacecraft "Ikarus" in 2010 and successfully arrived near Venus six months later, a large number of astronomers and physicists began to conduct a lot of research on this vehicle. , but carrying passengers is still at the stage of living in a dream.

Looking at Bo Jiasheng who was a little confused, Wu Bin patted him on the shoulder and said: "First build the power model of the solar sail and the model of the solar sail in orbit. I will help you with subsequent optimization."

"Okay, I'll try my best." Bo Jiasheng nodded vigorously.

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48 hours later, Wu Bin sent the paper he had checked to the official email. Then he looked at the two exhausted teammates next to him and said with a smile: "Want to celebrate? Western food? Bar? You all do it this time. Very good.”

"No...I'm so sleepy that I can't open my eyes." Bo Jiasheng waved his hand weakly.

Because he didn't want to be a character who could only hug someone's thighs, he had been adhering to the principle of never asking Wu Bin if he could solve it himself in the past two days, so he burned a lot of brain cells.

But in the end, when he got Wu Bin's affirmative nod, he still felt quite accomplished.

Zheng Wenhan was similar. After working hard on the computer for a day, he was too sleepy to say anything.

So Wu Bin had no choice but to shrug and said, "Okay, let's go back to the hotel."

"Hey there."

Just when the three of them walked out of the computer room, an American brother who was about 1.9 meters tall suddenly stopped in front of Wu Bin.

Wu Bin was stunned for a moment, then looked at his face and felt that he looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him before, so he asked: "Hello, what's the matter?"

The big American brother immediately extended his hand in a friendly manner and introduced himself: "My name is Aiden. I participated in the same IPhO as you. I believe it must be God's arrangement to meet you again in my country. Do you want to go for a drink together?" A drink? Of course, my treat."