About four days after Zhou Ping submitted, his manuscript was finally seen by a review editor in a scientific journal.

The title of the paper is "A Room-Temperature Superconducting Material Called Iron-Rich".

Half a day later, the paper was on the desk of one of the editors-in-chief of a scientific journal.

"A room-temperature superconducting material called iron-rich"? Tsk, people nowadays are really getting better and better at taking names, room-temperature superconductivity...... Any idea what that means?"

The editor-in-chief of the scientific journal smiled lightly, apparently having a heart of complaining about the paper from the beginning.

The original review editor said, "Editor-in-chief, you better take a serious look, this paper and other articles are really ...... It's not the same. ”

"Oh, it's different, is there a surprise?" the editor-in-chief of the scientific magazine smiled.

"I can't say the specifics, but I carefully checked the above equation and found that it ...... All right. The review editor said solemnly.

"Are the equations all right?" The editor-in-chief of the scientific journal raised his eyebrows slightly, became interested, pushed the frame of his glasses and said: "Since you say so, then I really have to study it well, okay, you go down and get busy, I'll take a look at this paper first." ”

"Okay. ”

After the review editor left, the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal began to carefully flip through the manuscript.

At first, he just went through it hastily, but soon, he picked up a pen and paper again and carefully calculated the data on it.

In fact, because in recent years, Science magazine has often received some manuscripts that are not worthy of the name, or even plagiarized other people's papers, and there are not a few manuscripts with bright titles but messy content.

This makes the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal scoff at this kind of paper that dares to write a paper on 'room temperature superconductivity', and has no good feelings.

Moreover, the contributors are not well-known in the industry, so the first impression of this paper will naturally drop again and again.

However, when he seriously finished calculating the data of the paper, he didn't think so, and his expression quickly became solemn.

"Iron-rich, a new theoretical system of nano-superconductivity...... The calculation of the data is indeed correct, but the question is whether superconducting materials up to 374K really exist, and what if these experimental data are fake?"

The editor-in-chief of a scientific journal frowned, academic fraud is not uncommon now, and professors in many universities often do this kind of thing because of the pressure of papers, and a lot of it is exposed every year.

Probably because he didn't have enough coffee spots, the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal planned to hire a big coffee to help review the manuscript.

The big guy's name is Carson, and he is a professor at Princeton University.

Carson, who is in his 70s this year, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of high Tc superconductivity in barium-lanthanum-copper-oxygen systems in the last century.

As a Nobel laureate in superconductivity and a former mentor to Professor Black, who recently developed a new high-temperature superconducting material, no one is better suited to review this paper than Carson.

At first, when the editor-in-chief of a scientific journal approached Carson to help review the manuscript, Carson refused because he had not been in a good mood lately.

However, after learning that the content of the manuscript was actually related to room temperature superconductivity, Carson thought about it and finally agreed to help review the manuscript.

It took three days for Carson to complete the review.

However, because I tried more than a dozen times, I couldn't create this iron-rich molecule in the paper, and I couldn't verify the experimental data, so I didn't evaluate this paper.

The editor-in-chief of a scientific journal asked, "Professor Carson, do you mean that this iron-rich material, which is embedded with iron atoms, is fake and does not exist?"

Carson replied, "No, I didn't mean that.

From the equations in the paper and the experimental data provided above, it is clear that there is a phenomenon that electrons can be paired regardless of condensation.

Thus, at both the microscopic and macroscopic levels, objects can enter the superconducting state.

However, this macromolecular fullerene itself is difficult to manufacture accurately, and it is even more difficult to open its cage and stuff an iron atom into it.

This material has never been found in nature, and I have tried many things in the lab, but I have not been able to make this 'iron-rich' molecule.

Again, however, I have no way of proving that such 'iron-rich' molecules do not exist.

So, I remain optimistic about this paper, but I don't comment on it. ”

"Is that so? I see, emotional about your review and opinions. ”

"You're welcome. ”

After the connection, the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal had a headache and showed the manuscript to the editor-in-chief.

The end result: handle it with care.

Helplessly, the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal could only send the manuscript back to Zhou Ping, with a message: "The experimental data cannot be verified, and the manuscript will not be approved." ”

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Black Bone Nuclear Fusion Institute.

After Zhou Ping received the email reply from Science magazine, he thought that the manuscript had been approved, and he originally felt that the speed of Science magazine was quite fast.

But when I saw the words 'I can't verify the experimental data, the manuscript will not be approved', my face suddenly collapsed again.

called Pan Xinlong, and the two discussed and came up with two solutions.

The first is to continue to submit articles to the journal "Science", adding the method of preparing iron-rich food.

The second is to simply not submit.

When Jiang Bo got the news that the paper was not approved, he immediately rushed to the Nuclear Fusion Research Institute to inquire about the situation.

Zhou Ping said with a wry smile: "Science magazine didn't create iron-rich molecules, and it was impossible to verify the data, so I probably thought we were fake, so we didn't pass it." ”

"Is that so?" Jiang Bo frowned.

Pan Xinlong said: "Actually, as early as when I was writing my thesis, I thought of such a possibility, but I didn't expect it to be the case. ”

Zhou Ping said: "No way, iron-rich is not an ordinary compound after all, there is no such thing in nature."

In addition, it is an embedded polymer with a unique molecular structure, and it is impossible to target the production of iron-rich without ultra-high-precision nanodevices.

It is estimated that in the world's laboratories, only the Black Bone Carbon Nano Research Institute has the strength to create iron-rich targets. ”

Pan Xinlong said: "Then what should we do now? Is it true that we must write the manufacturing method of rich iron on the manuscript of the paper and re-submit it?"

Zhou Ping looked at Jiang Bo: "It depends on what Mr. Jiang means, but I personally don't recommend it."

Because even if the method of making iron-rich is written, the journal Science may not be able to create iron-rich materials in a macroscopic state.

The experimental data in the microscopic state are not enough to explain the authenticity of the paper, because most of the data in this paper are measured in the macroscopic state.

Unless, we can mail the iron-rich materials from the lab to Science headquarters. ”

Jiang Bo pondered for a moment and said, "Our original intention is to make iron-rich materials famous all over the world, so that the whole world knows that submitting to top journals such as Science is only one way, but it is not the only way.

I won't mention the matter of submitting again for the time being.

Professor Zhou, Professor Pan, you guys prepare here, and I'll have people come and shoot a promotional video, and do some interviews with you, and then put the film on the Internet to promote.

At that time, as long as it goes well, it can also achieve a good publicity effect. ”

"Okay. Zhou Ping and Pan Xinlong responded in unison.

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(End of chapter)