Graduate School of Reality and Drama (3)
The day we went down to Daejeon’s KFE and Korea Fusion Energy Research Institute for filming.
Song Jeong-woo producer was more nervous than usual.
“Professor Sejong Lee, why are you coming down? I don’t know if I’ll be able to film properly because it’s burdensome.”
Assistant director Kim Hyeon-tae gave me a lot of reading.
“PD-nim, don’t worry too much. The Nuclear Fusion Research Institute is a government-funded research institute. It’s obvious that the nose will come out high. Throughout the filming, there will be kusari meg here and there. The professor must be coming down with him to shield it.”
“That makes it more burdensome. You’re going on a business trip to the provinces because you’re the project team leader, but it seems like things won’t work out if the group president suddenly sends you alone, so would you be reassured if he said he’d go with you?”
“It is not. It is more burdensome.”
The filming staff on the chartered bus were also half worried and half thrilled at the story that Lee Se-jong was accompanying them.
On the other hand, the atmosphere of Jeong Seo-hoon’s Benz sprinter was far from that kind of tension.
“But seeing that the Nuclear Fusion Research Institute is being used as a filming location, does nuclear fusion also appear in the material of the drama?”
“That’s right. The artist asked how the nuclear fusion facility could be omitted from the romantic engineering school concept.”
“It’s very desirable. What was the rating right now?”
“I shot more than 29% in this third episode.”
“Oh, you mean there are so many of them?”
“Have you not seen the professor?”
“I wasn’t able to watch all of them because I was busy, but I did watch the first episode. It was fun. There are some places where the historical research is wrong, but that’s a dramatic permission, right?”
“Yes. It’s fiction, not a documentary. If all historical evidence is followed, it will be a 320-episode documentary rather than a 16-episode documentary.”
“Yes, yes. Drama and documentary, now I know the difference. Aren’t these the same things as science fiction?”
Jeong Seo-hoon’s van was currently running at the forefront of the filming team’s bus procession.
“Shouldn’t have called Dr. Jeong too. Thinking about it now makes me a little sad.”
“Your father must be busy with his father’s work.”
“It can come out a bit shaky at the research center, but just ignore it. You don’t have to deal with it. Institutional friends are always picky like chickens hatching eggs because they are always paying attention to the government.”
“All right.”
The group arrived at the research center before they knew it.
PD Song Jeong-woo greeted the PR cooperation team leader with a bright smile.
“By the way, isn’t it that only Korea University is promoted too much in the drama? I think we would be a bit disappointed if we were beaten up like the Force Engineering College. At best, I even cooperated with the filming.”
From the beginning, Song Jeong-woo smiled calmly at the bone-filled word.
“Ah, it’s all fiction. All characters, place names, and institution names appearing have nothing to do with reality.”
“Still, viewers would automatically associate Hankuk University and POS Engineering University while watching the drama.”
“Even so, you don’t have to worry at KFE. Because the universities in the play will be portrayed as beings like flowers blooming on a cliff, coveting and competing with each other for KFE facilities.”
“Okay, then I’ll believe you. Please, our Nuclear Fusion Research Institute, make it come out great.”
“Yes, yes. The ultimate goal of our drama is to convey how fierce and beautiful life the researchers leading science and engineering live.”
“It seemed like that. Seeing that all the characters in the play live luxuriously in expensive cars, even I, who don’t like dramas, know what vicarious satisfaction is.”
The head of the PR cooperation team, who had been somewhat strict, was speechless when he was surrounded by five flower-like actresses, and he did not know what to do.
It just melted like ice cream in midsummer.
The scheduled shooting date is 2 nights and 3 days.
In the meantime, KFE decided to do its best to cooperate with the filming.
The staff were busy preparing for the shoot by installing lights, cranes, and rails.
The actors checked the movement line in their spare time and exchanged rehearsals to refine their acting.
Employees of the research institute who occasionally came out to look around took pictures from a distance and shared them on social media.
-The sincerity of Yoo Jeong-ah practicing the script.jpg
-Han Seo-hee Seeing it in real life, her physicality is no joke. I really need to watch her concert next time.
-It’s Im Seo-rin. It’s Im Seo-rin.
– Chae Ji-hyun’s slammer body is no joke;;; I just looked at it up close, but I couldn’t say anything and froze;
-Lee Seohyun is a miracle… …
-Yoo Jung-ah, her face is really small, her skin is white, she looks like a porcelain doll, she’s just crazy
Since it is a male-dominated workplace, most of the stories were related to actresses.
There were no rumors about actors such as Jeong Seo-hoon and Cha Do-jin, but… … .
-It’s no joke when you see Jeong Seo-hoon in real life.
– I’m extremely envious that I’ve kissed everyone except Lim Seo-rin… … ㅠㅠ Are you going to kiss Lim Seo-rin in this drama?
-I think I’ll do a hundred percent.
-What do you lack in your face, your height, your academic background, your brain? real life so unfair
* * *
KFE filmed episodes of conflict between ‘Seoul National University’ and ‘Cast’, an advanced science research institute based in Daejeon.
The fusion and plasma research teams from both universities were used as a stage for a performance competition.
The publicity cooperation team resided throughout the filming set, requesting various requests or presenting opinions.
It wasn’t the content of the drama, it was almost all about the background.
“This is the pride of our researcher, KSTAR. It’s an experimental fusion reactor. It cost 400 billion won to make this.”
“Wow, 400 billion won. That’s amazing.”
“If you don’t mind, is it possible to make more than 1 trillion won in a drama… … .”
“Don’t worry. The script says 1.4 trillion won. But originally, isn’t the lower the price, the better for government approval?”
“The reality is that, even in dramas, I hope that the price will be a little higher. Then, wouldn’t the public also have the perception that fusion research is originally this expensive?”
“… … understand.”
Song Jung-woo is always in a position to worry about the production cost, so I felt sympathy for the same.
* * *
The drama filming for the day was all over, and it was time for actor Jeong Seo-hoon to return to science.
The KSTAR driving team, which came out to supervise the use of the nuclear fusion reactor, reacted with trepidation upon hearing the agenda for the experiment.
“Spin interference test? Professor, are you here for research related to quantum entanglement?”
“Well, it’s not entirely wrong.”
“No, Professor. Anyway, this is not it.”
The head of the KSTAR driving team protested because his face was slightly flushed.
“I thought it was an ordinary plasma operation experimental value test, but out of nowhere, an agenda related to quantum entanglement? If it was an experiment like this, permission would not have been granted in the first place. Our KSTAR is a plasma nuclear fusion device, not a quantum meter.”
“Let’s not be so. You know, I also contributed to the creation of KSTAR. The royalties of our company’s patents applied here were also greatly reduced.”
“… … That’s true. We are a government agency. This experiment… … .”
“It’s not very unrelated. I’m trying to get more plasma uptime in other ways. do you know If our apprentice’s idea is validated, will it help us achieve an uptime of over 100 seconds later?”
Permission must have already been granted, Lee Se-jong must have authority, and the KSTAR driving team could no longer protest with that part.
However, when Jeong Seo-hoon tried to connect his personal laptop to a supercomputer dedicated to nuclear fusion, the team leader was horrified once again.
“No, what are you trying to do?”
“I made a separate control value calculation simulator. Do not worry. I went through the security check earlier.”
“Team leader, it doesn’t happen once or twice, so let’s not be too sensitive.”
“Okay… … . After disconnecting, I will do a security check again.”
Even after checking today’s date security sticker, the driving team leader was grumpy for no reason. Jeong Seo-hoon and Lee Se-jong decided to understand such a reaction.
The experimental nuclear fusion reactor started to operate with a heavy sound.
Jeong Seo-hoon closed and opened his eyes, lowering the level of consciousness infinitely lower.
‘This is a giant camera. A cognitive facility where you can observe the ultra-microscopic world.’
The authority of the lens was activated, and the field of vision was synchronized with the ultra-microscopic world.
-ah… … you… … Not even deuterium… … hydrogen… … what to do… …
A protest echoing the macroscopic world flows faintly from high above.
I see huge particles that are engulfed in hot temperatures and fluctuate.
In the view synchronized with the hypermicroscopic world, the hydrogen nucleus felt as if a huge spherical fragment hundreds of meters in diameter was right in front of my eyes.
‘The fusion probability is within 0.1% to 0.085%.’
Based on the knowledge gained in Rashid’s world, the figures were calibrated to suit the level of civilization on Earth.
At first glance, it seems too low.
However, if you push that much, it will stop.
The number of huge hydrogen particles floating in front of my eyes was so large that I simply ignored the probability of 0.085% and poured out the winning particles.
The pre-programmed calculation program on the laptop began to take clunky control.
Atomic nuclei and atomic nuclei are made of 5,000 pieces of LEGO.
Throwing them hard at each other from opposite sides of the playground, then having them reassemble into bigger, newer Legos in an instant.
The difficulty and probability of this task can be compared to that.
‘If you can accurately mesh the countless bumps on the surface of the nuclear force field… … .’
It is possible to mix atomic nuclei naturally without the coercion of heat exceeding 100 million degrees.
Read at noblemtl.com
Nuclear fields naturally mix with each other and merge into one without the forcing of high thermal pressure.
is to prove it.
‘It’s only a matter of timing, i.e. probability.’
You can see the unevenness of the nuclear field of each particle constantly changing.
Fields of power that would not fit at all come closer to each other.
If even one of the countless irregularities is out of alignment, the particles will reject each other and bounce off.
However, the moment the spheres of supermicroscopic world power that governed particles came into contact with each other, innumerable irregularities with no shape were precisely fitted and matched.
At that moment, the two Legos matched exquisitely and transformed into a bigger and heavier new Lego.
Some of the pieces that fell off in the process lost mass and released a huge amount of energy.
-uh… … ? this… … what… … ?
* * *
The head of the KSTAR driving team stiffened after checking the real-time figures.
Particles are still a long way off from reaching 100 million degrees.
However, Jeong Seo-hun stopped further heating.
The driving team leader was surprised because heat data that was not supposed to appear was detected.
Jeong Seo-hoon repeated driving.
The second time it shut down at a lower temperature, and the third time it lowered the temperature again.
Each time, the heat energy that should not exist numerically was caught every time.
Of course, the heat itself wasn’t great.
However, it was clear that it was an absurd phenomenon considering that it was a reaction occurring in the hypermicroscopic world.
When Jeong Seo-hoon finally stopped everything, the driving team leader stuttered with a white face.
“School, professor. what is this now… … .”
Likewise, Lee Se-jong, who had been hardened from the shock, finished his transformation with a gentle smile in that short moment when he looked back at the driving team leader.
“You still don’t know?”
“Professor, this can’t be high-temperature nuclear fusion… … .”
“Chief, I witnessed the Nobel Prize nomination in real time. What are you doing without getting an autograph?”