Chapter 25 Who is the child
Sawyer looked at Alex, but he was thinking of another person, a great dead scientist. He admired Tesla's achievements very much. In his opinion, Tesla's IQ was obviously higher than that of ordinary people.
Nikola Tesla built a modern power foundation, and his actions could be a prophet of the electrical age! He obtained about 1,000 patents in his life. Without him, various electronic instruments in modern society would not have been invented, and would not have affected human life. It would have been delayed for at least many years.
For example, alternating current generators, alternating current transmission, hydropower stations, radios, automatic ignition, telephones, radios, televisions, fax machines, radars, wireless guided missiles, drones, X-ray cameras, neon lights, solar power generation, bladeless turbines, etc., all of which are closely related to Nikola Tesla.
However, one distinctive feature of his invention is that the drawings are clean and there are no modifications. Someone once asked him how to do it. He replied that all inventions were brewing repeatedly in his mind until they were clear to every detail, so no modification was needed to reach the drawing stage.
At this point, Alex and Tesla are surprisingly similar. That is, they can simulate real-world objects in their minds, and after doing experimental verification in their minds, they can take them out and use them directly. Alex has also tried various experiments in the spiritual space and found that the results are the same as in reality.
No matter how Alex disguises himself, what he occasionally reveals is enough to make people with urgency look scared. Sawyer is such a person with urgency. His goal is to improve the overall quality of human beings through research IQ tests.
Alex, who knew nothing about this, was writing quickly and it was done soon. He handed the pieces of paper to Sawyer and said, "Give it to Shockley! He will understand after reading it."
Sawyer couldn't help asking, "How did you think of these things?"
Alex smiled, and he pointed his forehead with his finger and said, "It just flows out of here naturally. You asked me to explain to you how it came about, just as if you asked you to explain to a person born blind, what the color looks like. No matter how you explain it, you can't explain it clearly."
Sawyer nodded, though, before he gave Shockley, he called Shockley and briefly said what Alex wrote.
"Take me these things right away!" Shockley's voice became deeper, and he could hear what Alex wrote was very important.
Sawyer asked someone to quickly deliver the paper to Bell Labs. As soon as Shockley got the paper, he was stunned by the contents. Especially the principles and structure of bipolar transistors, which are the topics he has been studying. Recently, it has reached a critical moment, but he has not found a breakthrough.
Shockley firmly believed that his research had not leaked, and the information he sent to Sawyer did not involve this aspect. It was just the old information about transistors, and these things had long been applied for patents, which was not a secret.
Unexpectedly, an eight-year-old child didn't know where to get the knowledge of transistors. After reading those things, he immediately designed so many types of bipolar transistors and gave specific parameter data.
"Is there anyone else who has already developed the results?" Shockley would rather believe that he was rushed to the forefront than believe that this was what a genius child thought of.
Shockley's mind was so painful that he finally decided to put the matter aside. He immediately entered the laboratory and started to make new bipolar transistors according to the instructions in the drawings. He wanted to verify whether these designs were really as explained and whether the symbols met the parameter requirements.
According to the above structural description, he first made a PNP tube. The key is to have three zones, two combined with three leads. These three zones are the collector area, the base area and the transmitting area. The two junctions are the collector junction and the transmitting junction. The three leads are the collector, the base and the emitter.
The structure is very simple, but if you don’t master the tricks, it may not be possible. For example, the doping concentration in the emission area is much greater than the doping concentration in the collector area, and the doping concentration in the collector area is greater than the doping concentration in the base area. In addition, the base area must be very thin, generally only a few microns.
There are plenty of materials and perfect tools in the laboratory. More importantly, he has been doing this kind of work all the time and quickly made a new transistor. He picked up the tool to test it to see if it could work normally. He connected the P zone positive and the N zone negative, and asked the transistor's transmitter junction to add a forward voltage, and then tested the voltages of several poles respectively.
"The collector voltage is normal and meets the set parameters."
"The base voltage is normal and meets the set parameters."
"The emitter voltage is normal and meets the set parameters."
Then, in turn, let N area connect positive and P area connect negative and test again.
Everything was normal, all of which were consistent with the parameters written on the drawings. Shockley suddenly felt that his whole body was exhausted and almost paralyzed in his seat. He really couldn't figure it out. He had studied it for two or three years but couldn't find a breakthrough, but was broken by a child within a few hours.
Shockley didn't believe in evil, so he tested it again, and the data was still the same as what he had just measured. He looked at the remaining bipolar transistors and chose an NPN tube with a simple structure to do it.
This type of transistor can also work normally, and the parameters are a bit different from those written on paper, but Shockley knows that this is due to the purity of the material. By the time the industrial mass production will not have such a problem.
"Child!" Shockley suddenly jumped out of his seat, and he said to himself: "What's that child's name?"
Sawyer did not mention Alex's name on the phone, but only mentioned age and gender. Apart from that, Shockley knew nothing.
Shockley knew that someone had said that Leonardo da Vinci's IQ was 220. At that time, he still didn't believe it, thinking that it was later generations who were whitewashing their predecessors. He believed that all great people relied on sweat and hard work to achieve results. But the reality was cruel, and some people were indeed different. It was much easier for them to succeed than ordinary people.
"As it turns out that 1% inspiration is more important than 99% sweat? Edison, you are right again!" Shockley murmured, and he immediately called Sawyer.
"Hey? Who?" Sawyer struggled to answer the phone, cursing in his heart: "That bastard actually called at 3 a.m.!"
Shockley's voice rang in the phone and he said anxiously: "I'm Shockley! You said last time that the child got a very high score on the IQ test. What is his name? Where do he live?"
Sawyer immediately woke up and said alertly: "The child's name cannot be told you. His parents asked us not to tell others. What's wrong? Are you not interested in this kind of thing?"
Shockley didn't care about Sawyer's teasing, and he said with a wry smile: "The piece of paper you gave me is such an amazing thing! I'm afraid it will cause a lot of storm, if these were leaked from which institute."
"You're not kidding, are you?" Sawyer knew the seriousness of the matter and said seriously.
"Yes, I have verified the above content. I have only verified that the two transistors, both of which meet the design requirements. I probably have the rest, but the structure is a little more complicated and it will take some time." Shockley said without any concealment.
"That's impossible!" Sawyer recalled the scene where Alex wrote these things. He knew that it was impossible for these things to come from in any institute. They only came from one place, that was Alex's brain.
Shockley was stunned and he asked, "Are you sure?"
Sawyer said, "I handed the information to the child myself, watched him think with my own eyes, and then wrote down the contents. I didn't do anything else at all. If these things weren't in his mind for a long time, who would have stuffed them to him?"
Shockley was speechless by Sawyer's speech. He paused and said, "You prepare for it, I'll go find you right away."
He packed up the things on the table, especially those important pieces of paper and the newly made bipolar transistors. He left the lab only after he made sure nothing was left of suspicious things.
When Shockley flew to Chicago, it was already past 9 a.m. He went straight to the University of Chicago and found his old friend Sawyer. The two of them were classmates and best friends, but one chose physics and the other chose mathematics.
The first thing Shockley said to her old friend Sawyer was: "Where is that child? I want to see him!"
Sawyer spread his hands and said, "I have promised my child's parents that I cannot disclose his information at will."
Shockley ignored it and said, "I promise you too, and I won't tell anyone about this child."
Sawyer asked, “Can you keep the secret?”
"Of course it can!" Shockley said impatiently.
Sawyer spread his hands: "I can do it too!"
"Our old friends for so many years, you still don't believe me!" Shockley said angrily.
Sawyer sighed, "Okay, I'll ask the child first. If he's willing to come to see you, it won't be considered as my leak to you."
Shockley urged happily: "Hurry up, hurry up! I really have something urgent to look for him."
Sawyer called Carpenter's house. It was Richard who answered the call. He asked Richard to hand it over to Alex. When Alex received the call, he listened to Sawyer's statement and thought about it.
"It's better to let me talk to my parents about this matter first." Alex replied.
Sawyer had no choice but to say, "Okay! But please hurry up, my friend Shocklethale came here specifically from Bell's Laboratory."
Alex told Bart and Angel about this. In their surprised eyes, he said lightly that he had designed some transistors, and now the people from Bell Labs have come to Chicago and are planning to meet him.
Chapter completed!