Just as Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun set foot on the prairie, Horst Sullivan, the editor-in-chief of the editorial department of Physical Review Letters (PRL) in the United States, was carrying out review work as usual.

As a top journal in physics, prl receives numerous manuscripts every week. Although most people are self-aware and do not dare to submit to prl easily due to their low level, there are also many people who try their luck or think too highly of themselves.

Therefore, it is not easy to select excellent manuscripts from hundreds of paper submissions every day, and from time to time, you will be disgusted by those "junk" manuscripts.

Sullivan frowned displeased, threw a paper directly into the recycling bin, and cursed in his mind: "Fake oil! What rubbish, even MIT's undergraduate thesis is not up to the standard, and you dare to give us prl

Submit? This recommender must be blacklisted!"

The so-called recommenders refer to academic experts who recommend papers to the journal editorial board, and they must be at least associate professor level.

The original intention of this recommender system was to discover outstanding papers written by unknown new physics talents and current students. Professors are also willing to recommend excellent papers they have seen. However, as time goes by, this kind of "recommendation" has slowed down.

It slowly changed.

In order to improve the acceptance rate of many poorly written papers, they will find professors with weak academic principles to recommend them.

Some of these professors are doing it to make some extra money, some are not showing mercy, and some are doing it for their students. Almost all of them turn a blind eye and write about a hundred words of recommendations.

As the saying goes, "a rat's excrement spoils the whole pot of porridge." These black sheep have caused the recommender system to begin to collapse. Today, more and more editors have begun to ignore the comments of recommenders. Even the authors don't bother to read them and just read the titles.

, abstract and text, if it doesn’t work, just throw it into the recycle bin, regardless of whether anyone recommends it.

Sullivan saw several rubbish papers one after another, so he simply got up and went to make a cup of coffee. While complaining to his colleagues, he slowly brewed the coffee with a hand grinder and added two spoons of sugar before returning to work.

"Keep going, I hope to see excellent papers." Sullivan took a sip of coffee and continued to open the mailbox: "Huh? "Research on large-scale circulation patterns and kinetic energy change characteristics using n-s equations"? This paper looks a bit

mean."

Sullivan was interested. Judging from the title alone, it was a new direction that no one had written about before.

The new direction means that excellent papers may appear, and of course there are also headline-grabbing headlines to attract attention. But no matter what, it is better than submitting papers that you don’t want to click on when you see the title.

Sullivan, as usual, skipped information such as author and corresponding affiliation, and started directly with the abstract.

The coffee swirls in the taste buds, and the words flash in the eyes.

But after looking at it for a while, Sullivan's eyes widened: "What the hell...are you sure this is a manuscript submitted to a physics journal?"

Yes, the topic is related to n-s equations, but the first two pages are full of complex mathematical calculations!

You must know that there is a page limit for prl submissions, which generally cannot exceed six pages. This paper only has five pages, and the previous mathematical formulas alone take up two pages...

Of course, this is not the key. The key is that Sullivan cannot understand these mathematical calculations!

As a Ph.D. in physics who has worked for nearly ten years, Sullivan's level in physics is still very good, but his expertise in mathematics is naturally not as good as that of ordinary mathematics master's students. The first two pages of this paper

The mathematical formulas apply extremely complex knowledge points of partial differential equations, which are beyond Sullivan's mathematical level.

Sullivan wanted to reject the manuscript directly, but these mathematical calculations seemed unclear. He hesitated slightly, skipped the difficult and difficult derivation process, looked directly at the final derivation conclusion, and then continued to read the subsequent text.

After the third page, the style of painting becomes normal, with exquisite physical experiment plans, detailed and clear experimental charts and data, and impeccable text descriptions. What surprised Sullivan the most was that the conclusions drawn from the experiment were consistent with those derived from the previous mathematics.

The conclusion is exactly the same!

In other words, the following experimental part is a verification of the previous mathematical derivation part!

This is significantly different from the usual title formats such as "Introduction", "Proposed theoretical speculation", "Experimental verification of theoretical analysis results", "Experimental numerical analysis", "Conclusion and discussion/outlook".

Mainly because of the previous "part of proposing theoretical guesses", others almost all use words to describe, but this paper is better, almost all uses mathematical formulas...

However, putting aside this part of the mathematical formula that cannot be verified, the conclusion derived from the formula, as well as the subsequent experimental plan, experimental values, and experimental summary are indeed a very good paper. The experimental plan proposed is very innovative and completely

It is developed around a certain special solution of the n-s equation. It is highly targeted, logically rigorous, and has no errors or omissions.

"The main difficulty lies in the previous mathematical derivation part... It would be too far-fetched to deduce such a correct or even accurate result through mathematics, and it completely matches the experimental conclusion..."

Sullivan frowned, a little unsure.

"Forget it, let's see who wrote the paper and if there are any recommenders." Sullivan turned to the beginning of the paper again.

Hey, there is no recommender, the corresponding author is the same as the first author. There are two people in one work.

"The contributor is from the Xia Kingdom? The author's name should be pronounced 'Qin Ke' or 'Ning Qingyun', right?"

Although Xia Guo has submitted more and more articles to prl in recent years, Sullivan is still not used to the pinyin pronunciation of the author Xia Guo. He read it a few times and found that the two names were a bit familiar. He had heard them somewhere...

Just as Sullivan took a sip of coffee, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind and he almost spit out the coffee.

He sat up straight, put the coffee in his hand aside, and then opened the web page and started searching.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing the news about the Fields Medal award ceremony, as well as the photos and names of the two young and outstanding-looking young mathematicians from Xia State, Sullivan's mouth twitched.

, quickly look at the corresponding unit of the paper.

Qingmu University, that’s right!

Sullivan didn't know if there was another "Qin Ke" with the same name and surname in Qingmu University, but at the same time, the name appeared side by side with "Ning Qingyun", so it couldn't be someone else.

"Physics papers submitted by two Fields Medal winners..." Sullivan twitched the corners of his mouth again. Fortunately, the news about the Fields Medal did mention it. This year's Fields Medal has broken the minimum age.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, who were recorded, are not only distinguished professors in the Department of Mathematics, but also graduate students in the Department of Physics...

It’s not too strange to think about submitting articles to physics journals.

"Fields Medal winner..." When Sullivan looked at the extremely complicated mathematical derivation process in the first part again, he suddenly felt comfortable.

The mathematical derivation jointly written by the Philippine Prize winners is normal if you can’t understand it!

After all, it was a paper written by a top master in mathematics. Sullivan thought about it and decided to carefully pass the preliminary review first and hand it over to more professional reviewers to determine whether there were any problems with the paper.

As for the reasons for passing the preliminary review...

"In the second two-thirds of this paper, the experimental plan is extremely innovative, the experimental process is rigorous, the data is detailed and clear, and the experimental conclusions and prospects are brand-new perspectives that have never been proposed by anyone in the industry. They are of extremely high academic value. As for the first three

One-third of the mathematical derivation part. Due to my limited mathematical level, I cannot judge whether there are errors or omissions in the mathematical derivation of the two Fields Medal winners."

Editor-in-chief Pius Poulsen soon received the review paper from Sullivan. He was stunned for a while before opening the paper and taking a closer look.

Half an hour later, he rubbed his forehead and temples: "No wonder Sullivan said he couldn't understand."

He himself could only partially understand it, but the experiments and conclusions in the second half were indeed written very well, surpassing most submissions.

It's just that he is not sure whether the mathematical derivation process in the previous part is accurate. Looking at the physics community, there are probably not many experts who are qualified and able to review this part of the content.

Poulsen looked over the list of review experts who had good cooperative relations with the journal over and over again, trying to select an expert who was good at fluid mechanics, engaged in the direction of long n-s equations, and had a sufficiently high level of mathematics to serve as a reviewer...

But I never found the right candidate.

It happens that the elder of the Philippine Prize, and it is a joint submission of two elders of the Philippine Prize, must not be casual in reviewing the manuscript. This is related to the academic reputation of prl.

"I have a headache."

Poulsen simply reported the matter to the editor-in-chief, who also frowned when he heard it, and finally summoned six editors-in-chief of the editorial department to discuss the matter.

An editor-in-chief recommended: "How about contacting Professor Tao Zhexuan of the University of California, Los Angeles? He has also done outstanding research on n-s equations."

Professor Tao has broad interests in mathematics and has done in-depth research on n-s equations. He published a paper entitled "fiime blowup fed three-dimensiookes equation", discussing the global regularity of the Navier-Stokes equation.

The formalization of the supercritical state barrier also led to a conclusion: even if the initial value of the averaged n-s equation is smooth, it will "explode" in a limited time because the kinetic energy tends to infinity.

It can be said that Professor Tao is a suitable reviewer in terms of n-s equations and mathematical level.

Poulsen breathed a sigh of relief and said: "I also agree to choose Professor Tao as the reviewer for the beginning mathematics part. As for the subsequent physics part, I suggest that Professor Sreenivasan of New York University can be selected."

Professor Sreenivasan is an iconic figure in modern small-scale research on turbulence. He is also one of the pioneers in using multifractal theory to establish turbulence statistical models. He has won the "Otto Laporte Award" and "Otto Laporte Award" awarded by the American Physical Society.

"Fluid Mechanics Award". There are only a few fluid mechanics experts in the world who can win these two awards at the same time.

The double review expert lineup of Professor Tao and Professor Sreenivasan is indeed worthy of the joint submission of the paper by the two Philippine Award winners.

The editor-in-chief said: "Okay, let's decide like this."

The reviewers were finalized, and the editor-in-chief couldn't help but sigh: "This is probably the first paper in the history of our prl to send review invitations to top mathematicians and physicists at the same time."

…

While prl was contacting the reviewer, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were already riding in an off-road vehicle to Chagansumu Village.

Change the source app and view the latest chapters of this book on multiple sites at the same time.]

The wheels rolled over the unmelted snow on the road and arrived at the entrance of the village.

This small, poor and backward mountain village has changed a lot from a year ago.

The originally narrow, bumpy, and bumpy muddy mountain road has been replaced by a smooth and wide two-lane cement road. A beautiful primary school stands at the head of the village, with a tall red flag flying over the playground, which is particularly conspicuous and covered with snow.

The small mountain village has added a bit of vitality and vitality.

Hearing that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were coming to the village, the whole village and the village chiefs and elders of the two nearby mountain villages, regardless of the howling cold wind, waited at the entrance of the village early. Huo Baoyan, secretary-general of Qing Ning Student Aid Foundation

and two clerks were also waiting.

As soon as he saw the two people getting off the car, the village head Butuge, who was over sixty years old, rushed forward, held Qin Ke's hand vigorously, and said excitedly: "Mr. Qin, Miss Ning, welcome you back to Chagansu."

Kimura!”

The other men, women and children also cast grateful glances.

Over the past year, living standards in the three villages, including Chagansumu Village, have indeed improved significantly.

With the assistance of the Green Lemon Student Aid Foundation, a beautiful primary school was built. Children from the nearby Santiao villages can sit directly in spacious and bright classrooms for classes. They do not have to go to school in the previous small and dilapidated buildings, nor do they have to travel over the mountains.

Ling went to the primary school in the town twenty or thirty miles away!
To be continued...