Graduate School of Reality and Drama (2)
– Defend the heart of the capital.
It was an order received by a major who had been returned to active duty with a first-class special promotion.
To protect the city responsible for the energy supply of the empire’s capital from enemy attacks.
If a coastal city more than 200 km away from the capital is destroyed, the empire will be paralyzed.
If the capital is the brain of the empire, then this coastal city is the heart that keeps the brain and body active.
The war hero, who rose from private to major in the shortest amount of time, was able to access anywhere in the heart of the capital and read all information.
If Jeong Seo-hoon’s memory had been locked, he would not have been able to find out what the information meant.
However, the current warden, whose consciousness and memory spanned both worlds, had the ability to see through the secrets of the capital’s heart.
However, the Imperial Army General Headquarters does not know the level of the major general’s scientific knowledge.
The director’s educational attainment recorded on the medical record is equivalent to a normal high school graduation.
Because I don’t know the director’s level of knowledge, and I believe in the name of a war hero.
He was openly and proudly able to steal knowledge to his heart’s content.
– Research director. Please explain what this is.
-Defense Commander, this is a very difficult concept… … .
– It’s okay. As Defense Commander, I just want to know what front you are fighting on.
-All right. then… … .
The head of the research institute and high-level researchers were thrilled with the director’s attitude of recognizing them as comrades in the rear.
He generously showed and explained everything the heart of the capital had.
* * *
For four days, while occupying the particle accelerator of the Force Engineering University, Jeong Seo-hoon fought a lonely fight.
‘There and here move according to the same physical laws.’
That’s why I’m sure it’s the same universe.
It probably exists in a place that transcends distant distances.
‘However, the level of science and technology there and here is not the same.’
Basic science there has developed to the extent that the Earth is astounding.
However, the field of applied science was a bit different. Some parts were better than Earth, some parts were worse than Earth.
Perhaps it is an imbalance resulting from differences in needs.
In particular, the military field was considerably behind Earth, which was due to a civilization that had long distanced itself from war.
However, now that the Great War was in full swing, military technology was also developing rapidly.
It was much faster than the World War on Earth because it had already laid the foundation soil firmly.
‘I don’t have to embody this knowledge I’ve picked up on Earth. I can’t even implement it.’
Because we have to build the foundation for implementation step by step from the beginning.
However, even with unlimited capital, support, and decades of time, this cannot be guaranteed.
‘I just have to peek at the sun through the fog.’
Everyone lives in a land that is always surrounded on all sides by thick fog.
It is assumed that the sun is somewhere outside the fog, but no one is sure where it is or whether it really exists.
It shows the sun on the horizon that clearly exists to earthlings who are curious about the fog. Prove it.
‘There is no need to implement a ship that can reach the sun.’
Humans who learned of the existence of the sun will try to build a boat to cross the howling sea.
However, I will endlessly miss the sun on the horizon that never gets closer, endlessly pursuing the unreachable horizon.
The knowledge Jeong Seo-hoon chose to prove to the earth is the unreachable sun of the horizon.
The howling sea is the limit of Earth’s civilization that makes it impossible to reach the sun.
I will show you the direction, but I won’t give you the way or means to get there. Because one’s dreams and the path of an actor may be forcibly twisted.
‘The sun becomes a utopia.’
Utopia because it can never be reached.
You won’t even realize that it’s not hanging on the horizon, but actually floating over the high sky.
Just by showing his utopia, he gains an authority that will not be broken.
The secret from space, the authority to freely reach the comet.
However, proving the stolen knowledge on Earth was difficult.
Even sailing down river, let alone sea, was dangerous with a crude ferry.
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Not to mention searching for the direction to the sun beyond the fog.
For four days, Jeong Seo-hoon worked hard to create clues that could help him pinpoint the location of the answer he already knew.
PD’s camera was taking pictures, but the power of the lens did not activate. Maybe it’s because it’s not an acting situation.
‘Let’s not be impatient. It’s not something that can be done in a day or two anyway. You have to think about it for a few years before proceeding.’
But on the fourth day, when it was time to spend our last night in Pohang, I suddenly felt nervous.
A 4-year PhD would not give you the authority to reach the comet.
I have to prove this knowledge.
Is it really possible with this facility?
Shouldn’t we move to the wider world, the US or Europe?
“It’s so cool to see him immersed in his research. I am not conscious of the camera at all. No, you seem to have completely forgotten about having a camera?”
Taking advantage of a short break, Song Jeong-woo’s compliment made Jeong Seo-hun awake.
“What did you just say?”
“Yes? He seems to have completely forgotten about having a camera… … . It’s nice to see him fully immersed in his research… … .”
Jeong Seo-hun raised his head and quickly looked around.
It seems that the closed control center is spinning round and round around itself.
The thick finish of the electronic wiring connected to the accelerator, the walls lined with monitors that reflect the inner sector by area, and dozens of seats for monitoring researchers to sit and look into… … .
The existence of this gigantic particle accelerator laboratory came into sharp relief.
“It was a camera. Yes, I am now inside a giant camera.”
A particle accelerator is a camera.
This huge laboratory itself is a camera for observing the ultra-microscopic world.
The moment I realized that, my eyes lit up. My whole body started to boil.
The landscape has completely changed.
The field of vision that was subordinated to the wavelength of visible light opens the iris infinitely wide toward the realm of flow of fundamental energy.
A confusing landscape that makes your head dizzy.
Perhaps, if there is a God who sees everything, wouldn’t the world contemplate by that existence look like this?
Jeong Seo-hoon started controlling the equipment again.
Fine particles are created, and the circular accelerator tunnel begins to rotate at a speed that converges on light.
The movement is clearly visible.
Colors are clearly perceived.
Even though very small particles cannot have colors perceived by humans, the temperature of the color is felt clearly.
And it was huge.
I felt the size of the accelerating particles so huge that I was afraid that I would die from being hit by it.
The sphere of electromagnetic force sprouting innumerably on the surface of the particle, and the ever-changing rules and irregularities of strong and weak forces that closely push, pull, and change around it, were visible.
At that moment, Jeong Seo-hoon laughed. Boiling joy spilled out of his face.
-Professor Hwang Geon-wook, did you do it?
In the ecstasy of the ultra-microscopic world, a distant echo called him.
Jeong Seo-hoon, who slowly moved his sight and senses to the macroscopic world, showed off his sincere joy to the fullest, whether it was Hwang Kun-wook or the director.
“I found the ember.”
* * *
When I returned to the school laboratory late at night, Hwang Ki-tae greeted me with a disheveled appearance as always.
“Have you been well? Good job. Acting, experimenting, must have been crazy.”
“It wasn’t that hard.”
“You must have barely slept, are you okay? Does your face look good?”
“I got enough sleep.”
“Yeah. Does it look so good? Isn’t it just a matter of wasting time experimenting?”
“It can’t be. How much equipment are you touching alone?”
“Actually, there have been some complaints. I thought several master’s and doctoral degrees would come as a team under the guidance of professors, but how’s it to spend a year alone with a master’s degree?”
It wasn’t a tone of rebuke, it was closer to conveying the fact that something like this had happened.
“You must have had a hard time keeping up with my brother.”
“What are you struggling with? Seo Hoon is much better than me, a doctoral student in his later years, he is the successor of Professor Lee Se-jong, what do you guys know? Then he lowered his tail right away?”
I have a lot of strength in my shoulders and I’m elated.
Perhaps there was an exaggeration aimed at not being able to cross-check.
“Are you going to go down to the Force Engineering College many times in the future? Shall I contact you to make a schedule in advance?”
“Nope. I don’t think there will be anything going down for a while.”
“yes? It seems there isn’t much to film with the background of the Force Engineering School.”
“It’s not that, I have to organize the outline of the thesis, and more than anything, I don’t have to use an accelerator anymore.”
“You have nothing to write about?”
Only then did Hwang Gi-tae’s tired eyes slowly return to focus, as if he felt a sense of wonder.
Jeong Seo-hoon’s face, which is completely free of fatigue, gives off a familiar feeling.
Far from just getting enough sleep, the relief that only those who have found the end of their heavy homework can have… … .
Hwang Gi-tae’s face brightened rapidly.
“Did you get a clue? already?”
“It’s still in the basic stages.”
“No, even if it is basic. already like this? How much? Should I experiment further? It’s not like they’ve entered the self-verification phase.”
Jeong Seo-hoon smiled silently, and Hwang Ki-tae moaned after realizing that he had made more progress than expected.
“Hey. this is not Are you really going to finish your doctorate in 3 years instead of 4?”
“It may take a little less than three years. But it won’t be because of school rules. I think the remaining time is just an end-of-year vacation, well.”
“What… … Anyway, congratulations.”
“I’m sorry, bro.”
“no. What do you have to be sorry for? In the end, it was my choice to become a ten thousand year doctoral student. Still, if I do something while having children and maintaining a family, I am not slow to get a doctorate.”
Gi-tae Hwang, who congratulated me with a smile, calmed down a bit and asked.
“Then, let’s say you’re going to outline the thesis for the time being, when are you going to do additional verification experiments? When do you think the thesis will be finished again?”
“I think additional experiments should be conducted in Daejeon, not Force Engineering College. The Nuclear Fusion Research Institute.”
“Ah, was nuclear fusion what you picked up as the main subject? But why did you go down to the particle collision experiment?”
“As I said before, there was something to check beforehand. I checked it, so it’s okay.”
“Looking at the basic clues, it seems that the prior confirmation was a very important idea.”
“yes that’s right.”
Hwang Ki-tae’s eyes were filled with a feeling of envy. But there was no jealousy.
“I really should have given a child like you a waiver instead of doing such a clumsy thing… … .”
“My life in the military was fine. Rather, I was able to concentrate and study on my own. While teaching the children, I also learned the basics from scratch. Teaching others is the real thing.”
“right. In particular, it must have been really difficult for you to teach ordinary middle and high school students. By the way, when your thesis is completed, do you think it will be of some help to practical nuclear fusion with that idea?”
“I can suggest a new direction, but I don’t think it will be of much help right away.”
* * *
Jeong Seo-hoon completed a short thesis draft and submitted it to Lee Se-jong.
Lee Se-jong, who reviewed the draft, called him shortly after.
Lee Se-jong’s expression as he looked at the first draft alternately with him was full of proud emotions.
“I’ve said this idea before, but the idea is really strange. It’s a witty idea. But how are you going to verify it?”
“It is not yet in the draft here, but it has been confirmed that the first hypothesis is not wrong at the Institute of Force Engineering. After verification in Daejeon, I didn’t put it in to organize it by tying it together.”
“If your idea turns out to be true, Jung-kun, will it help KSTAR?”
KSTAR. An experimental nuclear fusion research reactor in Daejeon that Korea successfully developed independently.
It was a similar question to Hwang Ki-tae.
“I don’t know too much about that. First of all, my goal is to complete my doctoral dissertation.”
“A little bit of work on this idea of spin coherence might suffice for a PhD. At least that’s how I feel. So, when are we going to Daejeon?”
“There is a Daejeon filming next week, so maybe I can touch it while listening to it then. However, Daejeon is a regular appearance, so I guess… … .”
Sejong Lee nodded as if he understood.
“Don’t worry. I will lead.”