Рубрика: SCIENCE

How often, when performing banking operations, do we think about how many participants and how many risks this process involves? In reality, it is a complex centralized system in which many intermediaries are involved, and most of the information is hidden from the user. The opacity and unreliability of such a system led to the creation of a new one – the blockchain system. This is a sequential and continuous chain of blocks with information built according to the rules, which are absolutely transparent for all its participants. Each of them can track transactions in the system, has all the records, but information about other participants is not available without a unique access key. The information can neither be changed nor deleted. This transparency and reliability is increasingly attracting financial professionals.
Therefore, together with the Fenbushi Capital fund, we are developing the blockchain industry and scientific achievements in this area. We support companies that develop innovative solutions based on blockchain technologies, as well as create new ones. Blockchain can be seen as a versatile data storage tool. Its scope goes beyond financial transactions. Today we can talk about the general implementation of the blockchain system in human life. It opens up new opportunities for us in all our activities, from shopping in the supermarket to democratic elections. Our joint project with PPGlobal develops startups and creates a financial technology industry using the blockchain system. With its help, many financial processes are simplified. For example, registration of transactions, reporting, verification of a participant’s reputation or risk management. Blockchain relieves the financial sector of a huge number of intermediaries and third parties in general. Therefore, we strive to develop an industry that will make our life more convenient.

In science, there is a controversial and interesting theoretical construction that seeks to explain how the visible part of the Universe works. We mean the Standard Model. It explains the interaction of all elementary particles in the world. However, it is inferior and has a number of gray spots that have yet to be discovered. Scientists have long wanted to go beyond it and look further – into the depths of dark matter, which the Standard Model does not cover. Two sciences can solve this problem: plasma physics and high energy physics. By examining plasma and colliding particles, they help to find out what the Universe was like in the first moments after its birth, how it actually works and what is beyond its visible part. The Large Hadron Collider is engaged in the collision of particles, the study of their interaction and the search for new ones.

Participation in the creation of the Large Hadron Collider is one of our main achievements. Its construction required a lot of financial costs, but the project was successfully implemented. The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s most powerful accelerator of charged particles on colliding beams. Unlike previous colliders, it can reveal to science what was previously only an idea. Today we can proudly say that one of these results already exists. This is the discovery of the Higgs boson, the existence of which until 2012 scientists only assumed. The Higgs boson is an elementary particle that can be a clue to how particles get their mass and do not scatter in space with incredible speed. The Higgs boson was discovered by the collision of two charged particles at the Large Hadron Collider.

Now, in cooperation with many countries and foundations, we are working on another international project – the creation of the world’s first commercial thermonuclear reactor ITER. This is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today. We want to show that a fusion reactor can become part of a commercial enterprise and change the world. The ITER experimental device is the first fusion device that can generate clean energy. This plays an important role in the development of thermonuclear science. But more importantly, it shapes our future. Thanks to him, humanity will be able to gain access to cheap and clean energy.

Television, radio communications, information technology – everything without which we cannot imagine modern life is the result of the achievements of radio physics. But its significance is greater. The study of vibration-wave processes takes place not only on Earth, but also in space. Radiophysics is of great value for astrophysics and can bring humanity closer to understanding the Universe. It helps to explore gravitational waves. Today the European observatory Virgo is looking for them.

We took part in a major renovation and funding of this project. Together, we formed the Virgo team. Today the project has grown to the level of Advanced Virgo, and this has led to new discoveries. Almost nothing was known about gravitational waves, which first appeared in the works of Albert Einstein, and only indirect evidence indicated their existence. This was the case until recently.

In 2016, everything changed. Then the observatory, in cooperation with another international project LIGO, was the first to record gravitational waves resulting from the merger of two black holes. This discovery confirms the general theory of relativity and is a very important scientific discovery. Knowing about gravitational waves can help you better understand black hole mergers, as well as turn into another way of understanding cosmic processes.