Chapter 266: You're Going to Make a Big Deal (2)
Nature Physics, the world's most famous academic journal of physics, is an academic journal that physics laboratories and university physics majors must order around the world.
Since the twentieth century, most of the papers that have won prestigious awards in the field of physics have been reported in Nature Physics, which shows the influence of Nature in the global physics academic community.
As an authoritative academic journal in the West, Nature rarely publishes academic papers by Xia Guoren, except that Nature believes that Xia's academic level is not up to the level of the West, and there have been several academic scandals in Xia in recent years, which have attracted great attention from the global academic field.
A few years ago, "Nature" retracted the paper of a Xia scientist because of plagiarism problems such as lax experiments in the paper.
Therefore, the review of Xia Guo's manuscript should be more strict.
It is also an East Asian country, with the same standard, the papers published by Oriental scientists can pass, but the papers published by Xia Guo can pass, which is an unwritten rule within Nature.
However, this regulation does not work for Pangu Technology, and in the academic field, academic institutions, including Nature, are staring at Pangu Technology, and the company seems to be a monster in the academic world.
Some time ago, the editorial department of "Nature" was still worried about Pangu Technology's failure to publish the paper on phagocytosis II colony treatment sewage to its own magazine, but it did not expect that Pangu Technology would send the latest paper here.
Of course, the Physics Editorial Department attaches great importance to it, and the editor-in-chief Fair directly put forward the paper "Exploration of Energy Formulas and Color Center Constants of Carbon 14 Micronuclear Batteries, Radioactive Materials, and Semiconductor Materials" of Pangu Technology from many papers, and held an editorial group meeting to review the paper.
In addition to the clerical work, the members of the physics editorial team also include professors from universities.
They will study the paper from various aspects such as text, logic, and feasibility, and give an evaluation, which can be published directly after the evaluation is passed.
"This was written by Xia Guoren?" As soon as the first page of the paper was opened, the members of the review panel exclaimed.
The essay does not need to be beautifully written, but the logic must be clear and decent.
There is still a little bit of a gap between the language logic of Xia Guo and English, so many papers from Xia Guo are full of grammatical errors, and Pangu Technology's papers are more like written by researchers in English-speaking countries.
Phil reminded: "It's automatically translated by their translation software, man, don't worry too much about the language, we focus on the content." ”
Beside Fell, an old man stroked his glasses on the bridge of his nose and carefully examined the contents of the paper.
The old man's name is Primo, who is seventy-six years old, deputy director of the physics laboratory at the University of Cambridge, and an expert in physics.
It's just that the old man is old, and he rarely does experiments in person, but more guidance. Being a consultant in Nature magazine is also what the elderly like to do in recent years, after all, being a consultant in Nature can better understand the forefront of the development of physics in the world, and it is also a little wish of the elderly.
Primo's expression didn't seem to change, but his heart fluctuated extremely violently.
He saw the protocol and detailed experiments and experimental data of the C14 micronuclear battery,
Fifteen years ago, when Primo was still working at the Institute of Physics, his team proposed a micronuclear battery solution to the growing energy crisis facing humanity.
C14 was taken into account in the selection of safe nuclear material and the material was studied in detail.
But in the next five years of research projects, the entire experimental project fell into a bottleneck because of C14.
The laboratory did make a battery made of C14 as a raw material, but there were two problems that were difficult to break through.
First, the battery is small.
In the final stage of the experiment, one kilogram of C14 nuclear battery produced 10 microamperes.
What is the concept of 10 microamperes, this current does not feel at all on the human body, and it is not enough to even be qualified to be a lighter in the practical application field.
Second, it is large in size.
One kilogram of C14 crystals is required to produce 10 microamperes, but the total weight of the rest of the equipment, including the material that receives C14 radiation, reaches 100 kilograms.
In the final analysis, the main problem is that the current technology cannot effectively use all the energy radiated by C14, so it cannot generate effective electrical energy.
A 100-kilogram battery produces 10 microamps, which is more theoretical than practical, and the experimental plan was finally sealed in the physics laboratory in Cambridge.
Primo did not expect that Pangu Technology would successfully solve this problem and create a real micronuclear battery.
According to the data in the paper, micronuclear batteries will surely become the main trend of human energy development in the future.
"What about your opinion, Mr. Professor?" Fair asked in a whisper, Primo's opinion crucial.
Instead of jumping to conclusions, Primo said, "I need to go back to school and have my students check the formula." ”
Primo said, "Do you know the essence of this paper?"
Looking at the somewhat dazed members of the editorial department, Primo also knew that he was playing the piano to the cow.
Still, he said, "The best part is the formula he set up, the mathematical formula between the amount of radiation, the dimension, the color center, and the current, and the introduction of the color center constant k." This opens the door to an energy world that can even monopolize future energy. ”
So serious?
Does that mean that the paper is completely ready for publication in Nature?
Primo said goodbye to the crowd and left the office.
The seventy-six-year-old man has been anxious in his heart, hoping to know as soon as possible whether Pangu Technology's experiment can withstand scrutiny in terms of mathematical logic.
That night, London time, the Cambridge Physics Laboratory, also known as the Cavendish Laboratory, where Hawking had worked, had no sleep all night.
Under the teacher's arrangement, the students of Primo began to demonstrate the feasibility of the Pangu scientific paper, and finally concluded that the mathematical logic was completely correct, but the practical operation was too difficult.
β rays can reach 99% of the speed of light is an efficient flow of electrons, and according to the energy of decay, the electrical energy Earth produced by C14 can meet the logical formula in the paper, but only if more than 90% of the β particles spilled by decay are absorbed.
Cavendish Labs does not currently have this technology, but that doesn't mean Pangu Technology doesn't have it.
But the problem is also in front of Primo, with the current laboratory technology, the experiment cannot be replicated.
Primo shared the results of the laboratory with the editorial board of Nature Physics.