<h4>Chapter 435: Magical Key</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>Henyee Trantions <strong>Editor: </strong>Henyee Trantions
It turned out that supeputers were not invincible. When the calctions wereplex enough, it would also get a “headache”.
Although thews of motion involved in microfluid dynamics were under the framework of ssical mechanics, when the number of microfluids reached a certain limit, it transformed into a non-ssical chaotic state.
As per what Professor Green said, ssicalputers might not be fit for this kind of work. Controlled nuclear fusion simtion required a quantumputer. In addition, all precise numerical fluid simtions required sophisticated quantumputing technology.
Fortunately, with the help of Fields Medal winner Lu Zhou and countless hours of hard work, Professor Green’s team finallypleted the numerical simtion of the model.
The moment the calctions werepleted, the people inside the supeputer control room began to cheer. People were giving out high fives to celebrate this hard-won victory.
Half a minute ago, they used the von Neumannputer to confirm a sma physicist’s hypothesis of a chaotic system. Whether from the perspective of massive parallelputing or from the perspective of physics, this was undoubtedly a great achievement.
They were the only ones that knew how difficult this was.
Of course, most of the work was aplished by the person who was able to create a mathematical model of this chaotic system...
Lu Zhou stood next to Professor Green as he asked in an uncertain tone, “We did it?”
“Seems like it... although I don’t know if this is the result you’re looking for,” Green said as he ced the USB into Lu Zhou’s palm and smiled. He said, “Honestly, I didn’t think we could seed.”
“Thank you.”
Lu Zhou looked at the USB in his hand and smirked.
“You’re wee.” Green patted Lu Zhou’s arm and said, “Remember to add the John von Neumann Center in the list of research centers. We haven’t produced a result like this in a long time.”
Lu Zhou smiled and said, “I will, definitely.”
...
After receiving the experimental data, Lu Zhou began to write his thesis.
Actually two weeks ago, before the John Neumann project began, Lu Zhou had been writing the main part of the thesis. Right now, he only had to add the data and images generated from the supeputer into the thesis.
Once Lu Zhou finished writing the thesis, he leaned back against his chair as he looked at the thesis on theputer screen. He then felt a sense of aplishment.
Suddenly, his eyebrows twitched.
In the midst of happiness, he couldn’t help but feel a little anxious.
<i>If I continue researching... will it be a little dangerous?</i>
<i>Nuclear fusion is undoubtedly a dangerous piece of technology.</i>
<i>Especially when it bes “controble”.</i>
Lu Zhou stared at the screen while thinking.
“Should I think of adding a backup n?”
However, they were still a long way from implementing this technology. Countries didn’t want to spend money on funding while ITER’s budget requirements grew every year.
But what if one day the technology was implemented?
In other words, if the world’s nuclear fusion scientific researchers finally created a controble nuclear fusion technology, then ITER would have fulfilled its mission statement. They could finally show the governments all across the world some results.
Lu Zhou didn’t know if this was a good thing or a bad thing.
Lu Zhou suddenly felt like he had the key to all this.
It could lead to a better future, or it could open a box of curses that wouldpletely destroy humanity...
He frowned and switched off hisputer. He then stood up from his chair.
Vera noticed that Lu Zhou looked a bit weird, so she tilted her head and asked, “What’s wrong, Professor?”
Lu Zhou shook his head and said, “Nothing, I’m going out for a bit.”
The sun was setting outside the research center.
Lu Zhou ran twops around Lake Carnegie and felt a lot better.
As a schr, he didn’t have to worry about the impact a piece of technology would bring.
As civilizations got more and more advanced, no matter howplicated the process might be, history would push humanity forward and build a better future.
Whatever was in the box...
Lu Zhou would open it.
This was the mission of a schr.
When Lu Zhou went back to his house, he went upstairs into his study room and switched on hisptop.
As he looked at his thesis, he tapped his finger on the desk and began to think.
<i>Where should I submit it?</i>
<i>Nature?</i>
<i>Science?</i>
<i>These two journals don’t seem to be suitable for this type of heavy academic, data-driven thesis. After all, the application of L Manifold and various differential geometry methods in the thesis greatly increases the reading difficulty.</i>
Lu Zhou’s eyes suddenly lit up; he thought of a suitable journal.
<i>PRX!</i>
<i>You’re the chosen one!</i>
...
PRL and PRX were journals of the American Physical Society; the former had a 4-page, 3,750-word limit. After all, the PRL’s full name is Physical Review Letters. Thetter didn’t have a word limit, nor did it limit the number of submissions per journal issue.
The only unfortunate thing was that a thesis publication had a base fee of US$1,500 with additional fees based on the number of pages in the thesis. For most theoretical physicists, this was a huge expense.
However, for schrs that were slightly well-known, this fee could be waived.
Because of this rule, PRX’s first issue in 2011 published 38 theses; all of them were long papers.
That was until 2013 when the American Physical Society’s meeting in March decided to strictly control the number of theses published in PRX. Each month’s issue was restricted to between 6 to 8 theses. Each thesis was also required to solve a certain type of problem conclusively, thus eliminating sub-par theses.
After all, inconclusive in-progress results produced too many sub-par theses...
Therefore, all theses published in PRX were screened and filtered.
PRL had a bigger influence in the China academicmunity than PRL, but in the international stage, PRX’s influence was way beyond that of PRL’s...
The thesis was submitted and arrived at the editorial department of PRX.
PRX editor Frank opened his work email and saw this thesis.
“sma turbulence?” Frank raised his eyebrows. He finished reading the abstract of the theses and continued to read the thesis body.
But soon, he began to frown.
It wasn’t because the thesis was badly written, but because he couldn’t understand the mathematical forms at all...
Frank double-checked the author’s name and research institute of the thesis and began to start teasing.
“The author is a mathematics professor from Princeton... Interesting, he might have intended to submit to a mathematics journal instead?”
Normally, other than really nutty journal editors-in-chief, most journal editors didn’t have the ability to review journals. They might have a little research experience in the relevant fields, but most of the time, they only had basic academic qualifications.
Therefore, not being able to understand the thesis was normal.
Lancent was standing next to Frank by the coffee machine. He took a sip of coffee and looked at the thesis contributor’s name on the screen. Suddenly, he had a surprised look on his face.
“Lu Zhou? I know this guy. He’s this year’s Fields Medal winner.”
Frank looked at his co-worker and said, “You follow mathematics?”
Lancent smiled and said, “Why not? Physics and mathematics are closely rted. Not to mention, he solved the Navier–Stokes equation at the International Congress of Mathematicians.”
Frank had heard of the Navier–Stokes equation. He had even read the New York Times report. He heard the lucky guy rejected million-dor prize money... Even though the schr was famous, Frank still had to treat the thesis with caution.
Frank thought for a long time before he finally decided to let a reviewer determine the content and quality of the thesis.
“Which reviewer do you think is appropriate?”
Lancent rubbed his chin and spoke.
“Experts in sma physics... Let me think... I know! Professor Keriber from Germany should be a good choice. I remember he was the head of the Wendelstein 7-Xboratory at the Max nck Institute for sma Physics.
“I think he has the most amount of say in this field!”