164: Chapter 164 Dreams Come True!

Zhou Changming's heavy, trembling words were like a heavy bomb, smashing hard into the test hall.

In an instant, the noisy discussions in the vast space seemed to be cut off by an invisible giant hand.

Everyone turned their necks in unison, staring fixedly at the silver-gray sealed container in his hand.

A few elderly experts even slowed their blinking frequency, fearing they might miss even a single frame of the subsequent scene.

He Mingde suddenly bounced up from his chair, the chair legs scraping against the floor with a sharp, muffled sound.

"Old Zhou... what did you just say?!"

Zhou Changming's chest rose and fell violently as he strode forward, placing the container steadily in the center of the long table, his hands still trembling slightly.

"I said, it's been fabricated!"

He gritted his teeth and repeated it word by word, his voice even louder than before.

"The last batch of sintering was completed last night, and it was demolded early this morning. we performed several core preliminary screenings immediately."

As he spoke, he reached out to unlatch the sealing fastener at the top of the container, and with a "click," he flipped the lid open.

Everyone's necks stretched forward in unison.

Those in the back row even stood on their tiptoes, desperately squeezing forward.

Inside the container, laid on an anti-static buffer pad, a small silver-gray flake-like sample lay quietly in the center.

Its surface had a soft metallic luster, the edges were neatly cut, and it wasn't large, only about the size of a palm.

Placed under the incandescent light, it looked quiet and completely unremarkable.

But the dozens of people surrounding it stared with such fanaticism in their eyes that they seemed to want to poke their entire heads into the container.

Zhou Changming carefully took the sample out of the container, cradled it in his palm, and held it up before everyone.

"After demolding this morning, we first measured the resistance. At room temperature, the reading dropped directly to zero without any transition interval; it just cleanly fell to zero."

"Then, we did a preliminary diamagnetism screening with a permanent magnet. The moment the magnet was placed on it... it levitated! Steady and motionless."

"Finally, we briefly applied electricity, pushing the current directly to the physical limit of the equipment we had on hand to observe the heating situation. For a full half hour, there was no temperature rise at all."

As these three sentences landed, a series of extremely restrained gasps echoed in the hall.

Zero resistance.

Perfect diamagnetism.

Zero temperature rise.

The results of the three preliminary tests all pointed to the same conclusion.

Zhou Changming placed the silver-gray block back onto the operating table and looked up.

"The preliminary results are completely in line with expectations, but after all, it was just a simple screening, and the equipment precision wasn't enough."

"So I escorted the sample here immediately. I want to work with everyone to use the academy's top-tier equipment to conduct a comprehensive and rigorous systematic verification!"

Hearing this, He Mingde stepped forward. He stared down at the silver-gray block for three seconds, then turned to look at the others.

"What are you all standing around for?!"

"Start the full set of verification procedures now!"

"Power up all the high-precision detection equipment for me!!!"

With the command given, the entire test hall fell into a state of frantic operation.

Dozens of elderly experts moved separately, their movements so agile they didn't seem like a group of people in their sixties or seventies at all.

The precision instruments at various detection stations were also started one after another, indicator lights lit up in sequence, fan speeds were pushed to the maximum, and a low-frequency hum filled the entire space.

The verification work progressed with an almost frenzied efficiency.

"The PPMS (Physical Property Measurement System) data is out; the zero-resistance transition temperature is far higher than room temperature! The R-T curve has already completely dropped to zero above the room temperature range, clean and neat, without any interference from mixed phases!"

"SQUID magnetic measurement is complete. Perfect diamagnetism! Magnetic flux is completely expelled, Meissner signal is 100%! A textbook-level perfect diamagnetic state!"

"Testing of the three major critical parameters is finished. All have broken through the limit values in existing literature! Every single one is at a crushing level!"

"XRD diffraction pattern comparison is successful; the crystal structure perfectly matches the layered copper-oxygen/nickel-oxygen composite oxide configuration described in Academician Lin's data! A brand-new Superconducting phase, never before reported in any literature!"

"The fifty-cycle polar thermal cycling test is over, with no attenuation in superconducting performance! Mechanical strength meets engineering application standards! Long-term current-carrying test shows the zero-resistance state is continuously stable, with no signs of quenching!"

In the test hall, reports shouted in voices cracking with emotion rang out from time to time.

Every voice that fell hammered frantically against the hearts of everyone present.

The moment the final set of extremely harsh fatigue data was confirmed to be correct.

"Whoosh—"

In the entire test hall, a deafening cheer suddenly erupted, loud enough to lift the roof!

Zhou Changming's legs went weak, and he slumped into a chair.

He covered his old face tightly with both hands, his shoulders shaking violently, as tears of excitement vaguely seeped through his fingers.

It took a long while before he lowered his hands, revealing an old face that was flushed red and covered in tears and snot, yet unable to hide the look of wild joy.

He Mingde stood where he was, his arms suddenly raised high. He looked up at the shadowless lights on the ceiling, his Adam's apple bobbing frantically, his mouth repeatedly murmuring only the same words.

"It's done... it's done... it's really done..."

Several white-haired old experts held each other's shoulders, slapping each other's backs hard, shouting something that was completely drowned out by the rising cheers.

Some were laughing unrestrainedly, while others were desperately wiping away the tears that wouldn't stop flowing from the corners of their eyes.

More people just stood there in a daze, gazing at the quiet silver-gray block on the operating table with eyes full of reverence, unable to speak for a long time.

Room-Temperature Superconducting Material.

It had really been achieved.

This was no longer a theoretical derivation fabricated in top academic journals to scam funding, nor was it a pie-in-the-sky promise on the PPTs of those tech giants The Other Side of the Ocean.

It was a solid piece of superconducting material that had undergone comprehensive and rigorous verification, possessing zero resistance and perfect diamagnetism under room temperature and pressure.

The dream humanity had chased for over half a century had become a reality today, in this test hall.

And at the center of this storm.

Lin Yuan stood quietly on the periphery of the crowd, one hand in his pocket, silently watching this scene.

Then, someone in the hall was the first to turn their head.

Immediately after, dozens of gazes, burning to the extreme and wrapped in scorching respect, converged in unison on Lin Yuan.

Meeting these gazes, the corners of Lin Yuan's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a composed smile.

He slowly pulled his hand out of his pocket and, with palm facing down, made two extremely casual downward pressing motions in the air.

The movement wasn't large, but the cheers in the hall quickly subsided within a few seconds.

"The successful fabrication of Room-Temperature Superconducting Material is indeed something worth being happy about."

Lin Yuan's voice was steady and unhurried, showing no hint of the excitement of having just created history.

"However, everyone, don't celebrate too early."

As the words fell, the smiles on the faces of the elderly experts in the hall, which had been glowing with joy just a moment ago, froze.

Everyone stared blankly at Lin Yuan, waiting for his next words.

Lin Yuan scanned the faces filled with confusion and pointed a finger toward the silver-gray block on the operating table.

"What has been verified now are only the superconducting properties of the material itself: zero resistance, diamagnetism, critical parameters, phase purity, and stability."

"But don't forget, what is our ultimate goal?"

He Mingde's back tensed, and his pupils shrank; he had already vaguely grasped something.

Lin Yuan slowly raised a long finger.

"Controlled Nuclear Fusion."

As those few words landed, the atmosphere in the hall grew even quieter.

"The operating environment of a fusion reactor is a completely different concept from ordinary laboratory conditions."

Lin Yuan folded his hands in front of him and continued unhurriedly.

"Plasma at hundreds of millions of degrees, high-energy neutron irradiation, extreme electromagnetic fields, fatigue accumulation from long-period continuous operation..."

"The fact that a material performs perfectly in the lab doesn't mean it can hold up when thrown into a fusion reactor."

He tilted his head, scanning the faces that were gradually cooling down from their excitement.

"Therefore, we still need to conduct a targeted test to verify its..."

"Engineering applicability under fusion reactor operating conditions."