Although the school is on holiday, there are many jobs in the UK, and Alice doesn’t have time to spend in Los Angeles. So James is also a teacher anyway. Since the holiday is on holiday, the whole family will go to the UK to live on holidays.

Others were wandering around the city of London, and Alice could naturally stay in this institute.

The most important topic at this time is Lockheed's side.

That is, the research and development of new explosives.

Explosives are substances that can burn violently in a very short time under the action of a certain external energy, and then explode. Generally speaking, the chemical and physical properties of the explosives are stable, but regardless of whether the environment is sealed, the amount of medicine, or even when there is zero oxygen supply from the outside world, as long as there is strong energy excitation, it will perform stable detonation work on the outside world.

When an explosive explodes, it can release a large amount of heat energy and produce high-temperature and high-pressure gas, which can destroy, throw, compress surrounding matter. The basic reason is that during the rapid combustion of explosives, it can generate a large amount of heat and gas in a short time, so the constituent elements of explosives are crucial.

In chemical reactions, a large amount of energy is stored in the form of chemical bonds between different atoms of the reactants. When the compound molecules decompose, the product may use some of the energy to form new bonds, but most of the "remaining" energy will form high-temperature heat.

Compounds with related elements are likely to generate related gases during reaction. Heat will accelerate the movement speed of each gas particle, making the pressure higher, and the concentrated gas will expand rapidly under extreme pressure. The direct manifestation of explosive explosion is to rely on high-pressure gas that is strong enough to kill, so as to destroy buildings and cause casualties. If the gas expands faster than the speed of sound, a powerful shock wave will be generated.

For professionals, it is not difficult to make known explosives. Because the scientific name of many explosives is composed of this substance, theoretically, any undergraduate who successfully graduated from the university's chemistry department can use enough laboratory materials and equipment to create 90% of the world's known explosives.

In fact, even drug production is the same in principle. It is an act that even high school dropouts can try. It’s just that many raw materials are not something you think about, but you can get it by thinking about it. Therefore, most laymen are blocked out of the door. For example, at least nitrogen tanks are not everyone has the ability to sneak into chemical factories, not to mention that many people don’t know where to look for them.

It is not difficult to manufacture existing ones.

So what about developing new ones?

Alice had already bought a whole university library-level chemistry book in her office study on the top floor of the institute.

Return to the fifth floor above the ground from the underground, stay for a while, and then walk down one more floor.

"Gentlemen!"

An office was opened and Alice walked into it slowly: "Who can make the afternoon free and do me a favor?"

Now of course it is when I go to work. Dozens of programmers share a huge office building, and four or five people can occupy a large office. In this room, six simple people raised their heads together.

"No problem, boss." A thin young man was extremely diligent: "Murder or fire prevention, smuggling or drug trafficking. Even if you say that, there is nothing I, Connelly, can't do!"

"Oh, my dear, sorry, it's not something that has something to do with the computer." Alice blinked at Connelly apologetically, causing people around to chuckle: "You are going to the University of Exeter in this city to buy some things that are used in the chemistry department."

"Director of Chemistry?" Another programmer spoke: "Boss, have we just built a medical research institute? Isn't it enough to let them even out a little?"

"It's not that simple." Alice shook her head and smiled: "Not only bottles and jars, I also need to use the school's media to buy some special raw materials, liquid nitrogen tanks, liquid oxygen tanks, and various heavy chemical raw materials. The head of the chemistry department of their university must have a channel."

This mission was indeed sudden, but it was really fun.

Where is this? This is the world of super programmers. Although ternary is a long-lasting goal, everyone is busy with their own small projects and has a lot of daily communication with each other. Alice was invited by Lockheed to develop a new type of explosives, which is not news at all.

Therefore, five of the six young men immediately said that they would live up to the boss's entrusted and bought a large number of materials for her as quickly as possible. You should know that these people are not only a group of passionate young men, but also a group of folk masters recruited from all over the world to participate in the new explosives research and development project. What else can be more interesting than this?

"Sorry, I just figured out an idea here, so..."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter~" Alice jumped to the person who was the only one who wanted to stay: "Tell me, what ideas have you come up with?"

"It's Bernaber, not..."

The programmer was helpless because the boss always liked to call him that, and he always emphasized it, and the boss ignored it every time...

"Anyway, that's it. Look at the boss, don't there be a serial port for connecting peripheral hardware on our computers now?"

The others immediately took the task, and he began to explain his ideas clearly for Alice: "These serial ports are now used to connect the mouse and external touch dem, as well as various cameras and writing boards, or two devices and computers to transmit data from each other. But I found that it has a very big disadvantage, that it must be powered off to plug and unplug, and the transmission rate is really low..."

it turns out……

Alice silently cracked her mouth as she listened to his unique opening.

"So what's your idea?"

Bernaber shrugged and said, "So, you know that I studied hardware in my undergraduate degree. Although I later became pure programming, my foundation has not fallen. I just wanted to discuss with the downstairs to see if I could give some support on the device and let me...well, try to develop a serial interface that can be plugged and unplugged with electric power?"

Why did you discuss with the downstairs? You just came to Oss directly, so why don’t you pay attention to the fools downstairs?

"Plug and unplug with power, and increase the transmission rate of the serial interface, right?" Alice couldn't help but smile at the corner of her mouth. Is it really unexpected, or should it be expected? The birth time of the idea will of course be earlier than the standard formal promotion, but is it still a bit too early to say this topic now?

Well, it's always a good thing.

"Yes, that's it!"

Seeing that the boss was trying to support himself, Bernaber was immediately excited: "I have already thought of several of the most obvious benefits about this technology. First of all, we can remove the damaged modules when the system is turned on in time, and update or expand capacity when the system is turned on without affecting the system operation. At the same time, since these parts will be very reliable, we can also use them as power cutoffs so that the system can perform fault analysis and reduce costs!"

Look at Bernard's endless speech. He obviously had already put a lot of words in his preparation, for fear that his ideas would be refuted after he spoke them. Seeing the employees' passionate appearance, Alice was embarrassed to give him some cold water and calm down.

"The word "with some plugging" is too wordy, it's better to call it hot plugging." A sentence gave an accurate definition. Alice said: "You also know what our institute does. With ternary computers as the long-term goal, various new computer technologies are blooming, and dozens of programmers have contended for a hundred schools of thought. You can do what you want. Funding and equipment are not a problem. Hasn't I read the solid-state drive project proposed by anyone six months ago, and I've passed it without thinking about it?"

When it comes to solid-state drives, let alone others, Alice is a little excited to think about it herself.

In the end, it was a place where a bunch of weirdos were accumulated, all kinds of inspirations and ideas, ideas, ideas and ideas, and they jumped out without any money every day.

In fact, the research history of solid-state drives is quite long. Since ibm developed the first hard drive in 1956, this concept has been in a travel state. That's right, in the 1970s, storag-tek developed solid-state hard drives.

But the emergence of technology does not mean practicality. After all, the market is the real magistrate. Before the technology is fully mature, most people don’t need to place large-capacity mechanical hard drives, and buying high-priced solid-state drives with small capacity is purely a disease.

As for this institute...

Alice is here.

In half a year, those in the third-tier hardware department can make much faster progress than Intel and ibm...

Not everyone can enjoy this kind of small stove~

"Come on, teenager!" Alice laughed and said, "As usual, submit a feasibility report to me, and then go all kinds of trouble!"

It was really a surprise that he thought of the concept of universal serial bus in advance. You should know that the most valuable thing in the IT industry is the qualification to set standards. Although it may not necessarily have direct profits, the brand value it can bring is enough to reach hundreds of millions.

"Tsk tsk tsk, the people in my research institute are indeed talented~"

The girl walked out of the room happily, then paused and looked around.

The area of ​​the fifth floor gymnasium is not really as large as a sports venue. There are only dozens of programmers in such an empty office area. In other words, everyone can easily find an entire office as his own private small laboratory.

So as the big boss, isn’t it easy for Alice to free herself up a chemical explosives laboratory?
Chapter completed!