Chapter 436: The Key to the Magic Box

Facts have proved that supercomputers are not omnipotent. When the calculation is complicated to a certain extent, even supercomputers will have a "headache".

Although all the laws of motion involved in microfluidic elements are within the framework of classical mechanics, when their number reaches a certain scale, they are no longer in the classics, but enter a chaotic field.

Perhaps as Professor Green said, this is not a job that traditional supercomputers are good at. Controllable nuclear fusion requires a quantum computer, or in other words, accurate numerical simulation of all fluids requires mature quantum computer technology.

But fortunately, with the cooperation of Lu Zhou, the Philippine Award leader, the research team led by Professor Green finally completed the numerical simulation of the model after many days of hard work.

The moment the entire calculation was completed, cheers erupted in the control room of the supercomputer, and people clapped hands to celebrate this hard-won victory.

Just half a minute ago, they used John Norman to overcome the existence of a chaotic system that was identified by plasma physicists. Whether it is from the perspective of large-scale parallel computing or physics, it is very difficult. Undoubtedly a great achievement.

And only they themselves know how difficult all this is.

Of course, the greater achievement is the person who uses mathematical methods to "description" this chaotic system...

Standing next to Professor Green, Lu Zhou asked in an uncertain tone, "Successful?"

"It looks so, although I don't know if this is the result of your pursuit," Professor Green handed the USB flash drive to Lu Zhou's hand, grinning, "To be honest, I didn't expect to succeed at first. .”

"thanks."

Looking at the USB flash drive in his hand, a smile appeared on the corner of Lu Zhou's mouth.

"You're welcome," Green patted Lu Zhou's arm, and said with a smile, "Remember to add the name of John Norman Supercomputing Center in the column of the research unit, we haven't produced such a big result for a long time. "

Putting away the USB flash drive, Lu Zhou smiled and said happily, "That's for sure."

...

After getting the experimental data, Lu Zhou started writing the paper.

In fact, as early as half a month ago, John Norman had already started writing the main part of the thesis before the calculation began. Now he is only adding the data obtained from the supercomputing and the images drawn based on the data to the thesis. .

Stretching, Lu Zhou, who was done, leaned back on the chair, looking at the thesis on the computer screen, feeling a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

However, at this moment, his eyebrows suddenly frowned slightly.

Aside from his joy, he couldn't help feeling a little worry in his heart.

I always feel that if I go deeper into the research, will it be a bit... dangerous?

There is no question that nuclear fusion is a terrifying technology.

Especially when everything becomes "controllable".

Staring at the screen for a while, Lu Zhou thought for a moment.

"Is it time to think about the way out?"

Although it is still far away from the final realization of this technology, it is so far away that countries are playing football with each other in scientific research funding. While ITER's budget exceeds the standard every year, it cries to the governments of various countries for poverty...

But what if it could come true one day?

In other words, if all the preconditions for lighting up controllable nuclear fusion are finally met under the concerted efforts of scientific researchers around the world, and ITER has successfully fulfilled its original promise, a commercial Reactors lie before governments...

He also couldn't tell if it was ultimately a good thing or a bad thing.

At this time, Lu Zhou suddenly felt that he might be holding a key in his hand.

It may lead to a bright future, or it may open Pandora's box and completely smash the pastoral songs in people's minds...

Frowning, he closed the computer lid and stood up from the chair.

Noticing that Lu Zhou's expression was a bit strange, Vera tilted her head and asked.

"What's wrong, Professor?"

"Nothing," Lu Zhou shook his head, "I'm going out for a walk."

It was getting dusk outside the institute.

After jogging twice along Carnegie Lake, Lu Zhou felt much better.

As a scholar, the impact of technology is not something he needs to consider.

When civilization is advancing, no matter how tortuous the process is, history will eventually move in the right direction, and the future is always beautiful.

No matter what's in the box.

He will open it.

Because that is the mission of being a scholar.

After returning home, Lu Zhou went straight upstairs, came to the study, and turned on the computer.

Facing the thesis on the computer, he lightly tapped the table with his index finger, lost in thought.

Where should I post it?

"nature"?

"science"?

These two journals seem to be unsuitable for such articles with too much academic content and too much data. After all, the application of L-manifolds and various complex differential geometry methods in this paper have greatly raised the reading threshold.

After thinking about the paper for a while, Lu Zhou's eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought of a suitable journal.

PRX!

It's up to you!

...

Both PRL and PRX are journals of the American Physical Society (APS). The former has a length limit of "3 pages, 4 figures and 100 words abstract" (after all, the full name of PRL is "Physical Review Letters"), while the latter has no length limit , and there is not even a hard and fast rule on how many papers to publish in a journal.

The only unfriendly thing is that the basic page fee of a paper is 1,500 US dollars, and additional money is calculated according to the number of pages. For most grassroots theoretical physicists, this is really a "huge sum".

However, for some well-known scholars, this expenditure can be ignored.

Because of such Buddhist rules, when PRX was launched in 2011, there were only 38 papers published in the first year of PRX, and all of them were long papers without exception.

In 2013, the editor-in-chief of PLX stated at the March meeting of the American Physical Society that the number of papers published would be strictly controlled, and only 6-8 papers would be published every month. And it is required that each paper must be able to definitely solve a certain type of problem, thus completely eliminating the possibility of water journals.

After all, there are too many places that can be irrigated with the staged results...

It can be said that the papers that can be published in PRX are all high-quality products that have undergone layers of screening.

Although the reputation of PRX in China is not as great as that of PRL, in fact, its influence in the international academic circle has recently gradually surpassed the trend of PRX...

After the paper was submitted, it went through layers of screening and was finally sent to the office of the PRX academic editor.

Opened the work mailbox as usual, and Frank, the editor of PRX, saw this paper.

"Plasma turbulence?" His eyebrows were raised with interest. Frank finished reading the abstract of the paper and continued to look at the text.

But soon, he frowned.

It wasn't because the thesis was poorly written, but because he couldn't understand those mathematical formulas at all...

After reconfirming the author and research institution of the manuscript, Frank couldn't help but bend the corner of his mouth and said in a joking tone.

"The contributor is a mathematics professor from Princeton... Interesting, do you think he made a mistake in submitting his manuscript to a mathematics journal?"

Generally speaking, except for the editor-in-chief of awesome journals, the editors of most journals do not have the ability to review manuscripts. They usually only have scientific research experience in related fields, and some even have general academic literacy.

Therefore, it is quite normal to not understand.

Standing next to Frank with a cup of coffee in his hand, the tall and thin Rancent took a sip of his coffee and took a closer look at the contributor's name on the screen, with a surprised expression on his face.

"Lu Zhou? I know this person, this year's Fields Medal winner."

Frank glanced at his colleagues: "Are you still following the trends in the mathematics world?"

Rancent smiled and said, "Why not? Mathematics and physics have never been separated, not to mention that this year's International Congress of Mathematicians solved a century-old puzzle about NS equations."

Frank had heard about the news about the NS equation, and he had even read the report in the New York Times. It is said that the lucky guy even rejected a one million dollar prize... Anyway, the contribution of a well-known scholar, Still have to be treated with caution.

Looking back at the manuscript, Frank thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to leave the quality of the manuscript to the reviewers to decide.

"Who do you think is a better reviewer?"

Ransant stroked the stubble on his chin and said.

"Experts in the field of plasma physics, I think... I have it! Professor Kleiber from Germany should be a good choice. I remember that he is the head of the Spiralite 7-x laboratory at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Max Planck Society .”

"Yes or no, I think he should have more say in this regard!"