Chapter 133: Astrophysics journals that can't find reviewers
With the intentional public publicity and promotion of CCTV and other media, news such as the existence of an associated star in the tetrahydrogen envelope of Betelgeuse soon spread.
Not only domestic, but also spread abroad across the ocean.
It is the nature of everyone to eat melons, whether they are Chinese or outsiders, and they are also quite interested in this news that instantly blew up social networking sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.
The presence of a companion star in Betelgeuse's body, Betelgeuse's binary star system, and a supernova that may explode early are all eye-catching.
There are endless discussions on major social platforms, and occasionally some people in the general population will notice the method of calculating Betelgeuse, but this thing is only briefly mentioned in the news and not explained in detail.
However, from this aspect, there are also many questioning parties.
It is not only questioning the correctness of this calculation method, but also questioning whether there really is an associated star in Betelgeuse's hydrogen envelope.
There are even more doubts about the country in the East, questioning whether they are really capable of discovering this shocking astronomical phenomenon, and whether it is sure that it is not fabricated and fake data.
After all, in the eyes of many Westerners, the country in the East has always been backward, both economically and scientifically researched.
In terms of astronomical equipment, there is no top-notch scientific research equipment that can be used, and it is simply impossible to have the ability to discover this cosmic wonder before they have various top-notch astronomical equipment such as the Hubble Telescope.
It's like some Chinese people have always questioned that NASA's moon landing program was an outright hoax.
Now, it's their turn to question.
How can there be another star inside a star?
Is it so close that it won't be sucked into the core by a strong gravitational pull? It's not scientific.
Even if it existed, it would not be possible to be discovered under the light of Betelgeuse.
Observing the inside of a star is something that only God can do, and humans have to speculate about the structure of the Earth's interior under their feet.
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Of course, the perception of ordinary people has not affected the academic community.
Even if there are many people who are skeptical, they will try to prove that the best way is for astronomical agencies in various countries to announce that they will continue to observe Betelgeuse.
Because according to the published theories and data, the companion star returns about every 23~31 days, which means that in the next time, if the theory is correct, it will only take less than a month for them to re-observe the abnormal data brought by the companion return.
The pursuit of truth in the academic world and the development of science always come first.
Just like Xu Chuan's previous paper that was thrown on the arxiv preprint server, many people are questioning whether it is correct or not, but there are also many more people who hope that this method is correct and successful.
Because if correct, the astronomical and astrophysical communities will usher in a vigorous development.
Just as aerospace explores the sea of stars and the distant future that human beings can hope for but cannot reach, astronomy explores the mysteries of the universe and the future of mankind.
In the future, human beings may be able to use this method to find a planet suitable for human migration from the vast and cold universe.
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The fluctuations in the astronomical and astrophysical circles are very large, and the fluctuations in the mathematical community are not small.
The residual temperature of the Weyl-Berry conjecture has not completely passed, and the proover has made a result using the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem.
If memory serves, it's been less than four months since the Weyl-Berry conjecture was proven.
In more than three months, he once again made results on the theorem he proved, which is too fast.
Although this achievement is aimed at the astronomical community, it does not affect the attention of many mathematicians in the slightest.
On the one hand, the speed of successive results is too fast.
It is no exaggeration to say that three months is not enough time for ordinary mathematicians to fully understand this new set of theories.
And top mathematicians, even if they can understand the xu-weyl-berry theorem in three months, it is almost impossible to use it to make results on this basis.
On the other hand, it is still because of age, eighteen years old, less than nineteen years old is too young.
At this age, in most countries around the world, the vast majority of people may not have compulsory education, but this person is already standing at the pinnacle of mathematics.
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At the University of California, Los Angeles, Tao Zhexuan downloaded Xu Chuan's paper from the arxiv preprint server with great interest.
Unlike other top bosses in the math world, he is much younger in terms of his age, and his attention to preprint servers like arxiv is quite high.
Although most of the papers and ideas above are dross, except for those that have been officially published, there are occasionally a few ideas that can make people shine.
Of course, in the world of mathematics, if you don't have a solid enough foundation, relying on an idea alone is not very useful.
Inspiration is important for mathematical researchers, but it is also divided.
The same inspiration or idea can be explored by two mathematicians with different mathematical skills.
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In front of the computer, Tao Zhexuan opened the downloaded paper, printed it out and held it in his hand.
After talking to Xu Chuan at Princeton last year, he has kept an eye on the young mathematician.
At the age of eighteen, his achievements in mathematics have stood at the pinnacle of the mathematical world, and such a rising superstar, it is not surprising that the mathematical community will usher in a talent who stands at the top of the pyramid in the future and makes great contributions to the development of mathematics.
"Let me see how far you've progressed on the xu-weyl-berry theorem."
After muttering a sentence, Tao Zhexuan spread out the paper in his hand and looked at it.
Although it is a paper on the plate of astrophysics, there is not much knowledge about astrophysics above, and the contributor turned his pen to mathematics after briefly introducing some information about astrophysics and Betelgeuse.
In this paper, which is less than six pages long, mathematical calculations and formulas occupy more than four pages.
“....... δ2u/δt2=Δu,t>0,x∈Ω; u=0,t≥0,x∈Ω;
“....... Δ=∑πj=1δ2/δx2j......”
"Using the method of separating variables, let u(t,x)=ψ(t)·φ(x), substituting this into equation (1) and taking into account the boundary conditions, then for λ>0, there is: Δφ/φ=ψtt/ψ=-λ......
“.......“
“...... n(λ)=(2π)?891.986d⊙w||nλn/2.....”
“....... n(λ)=(2π)891.986d⊙w299792.4580.12*λn/2......”
“........”
Staring at the mathematical formulas and calculations on the printing paper, Tao Zhexuan watched intently.
"Is it a deformation of the xu-weyl-berry theorem?"
"First, it is transformed from an isospectral wave to a Sobolev space wave, and then the mathematical parameters are brought in by presenting an amplitude function of periodic oscillations, and then the calculation of the three-dimensional space mass source is completed."
"It turns out that the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem is used to complete the calculation of celestial parameters in this way, which is really an ingenious idea,"
At his desk, Tao Zhexuan muttered to himself while staring at the printed paper.
Although he did not participate in the review of the Weyl-Berry conjecture proof, he had seen the complete proof process published in the Annals of Mathematics several times.
Although the process of proving Weyl-Berry's conjecture is very difficult, it is not difficult for him to understand it.
Even if some astronomical knowledge is mixed into the calculations I see today, it is not difficult to understand his IQ of 230.
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A paper of less than six pages does not take long to read once, and in about ten minutes, Tao Zhexuan read the paper completely.
However, he did not draw conclusions, and instead took out a stack of paper and pens from the drawer.
Read the paper again and again, and check the mathematical formulas and calculation processes in the paper.
This time it took a little longer, more than half an hour passed, Tao Zhexuan, who was crawling at the desk, put down the black ballpoint pen in his hand, sat up straight and breathed a long sigh of relief.
"It's amazing, I can't find any loopholes in the calculation process, and looking at the paper, it seems that this is only a part of the application of the xu-weyl-berry theorem."
"At least, I only saw the calculation process of Betelgeuse's mass in this paper, and the paper also mentioned the calculation method of other parameters such as volume, diameter, and speed of motion."
"It's really exciting to look forward to what the full paper looks like, his expansion on the xu-weyl-berry theorem is much deeper than I imagined, and his mathematical ability is stronger than I expected."
"It seems that in the future, there is a Fields Medal destined to be his."
Tao Zhexuan stared at the paper on his desk with shining eyes, and in the calculation just now, he not only did not find any loopholes and calculation errors, but also keenly realized that different methods were needed to calculate different celestial parameters.
Of course, the different methods here refer to the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem after different forms of torsional deformation.
The xu-weyl-berry theorem is the core thing, which calculates different parameters through boundary values and eigenvalues, which is the core of the application theorem.
"I remember that it seems that Xu Chuan voted the method of the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem to accurately calculate the parameter information of distant celestial bodies to the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, right?"
"But in the astrophysics community, is there a professor who can review this kind of math level paper?"
Staring at the manuscript paper on the table, Tao Zhexuan suddenly remembered something, and his eyes flashed with a strange light.
This paper should have been submitted to a mathematics journal from the perspective of submission, but I don't know what the teenager thought, so it was actually submitted to a journal in the field of astrophysics.
Although the computational method did work on astrophysics, he had no doubt that there was no professor in the astrophysics community who could review the paper.
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In fact, the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics is also struggling with this.
The Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem, a method for accurately calculating the parameters of distant celestial bodies, is indeed of great importance to the astrophysical community.
If this new approach is correct, there will be a major revolution in the astronomical and astrophysical communities.
The old way is out of the stage, and the new way is leading the world.
It is no exaggeration to say that there are not many such changes in the entire scientific community.
Therefore, it is impossible for the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics to abandon the paper that has already been submitted to them.
But the reality is that they can't find the right reviewers.
The Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics is a top journal, yes, but it's for astrophysics, not mathematics.
In the entire astrophysics community, there are really few professors who understand mathematics.
And these few, they have tried, but without exception, all of them have returned, and the feedback to them is that they are not math capable enough and do not have the ability to review this paper.
For this reason, the entire editorial department from bottom to top, from technical editors to review editors to editors-in-chief, is dying.
If no reviewers can be found, they will have to type the paper back and suggest that the submitter submit it to a mathematics journal.
But no one is reconciled.
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Annual Reviews Inc. publisher headquarters, where the editors responsible for reviewing papers are all gathered in one office.
"Gordon, is there any feedback from Professor Sal Polmatt?"
In the office, Jens Brooks, editor-in-chief of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, tapped on the table and asked.
Across the desk, a young editor shook his head and replied, "Just received the feedback, Professor Sal Polmatt said there was nothing he could do. ”
Hearing this, Jens Brooks rubbed her temples with a headache.
Saar Polmatt is an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics.
Although Thrall won the Nobel Prize in Physics for 'discovering the accelerated expansion of the universe by observing distant supernovae', his mathematical ability is also quite excellent, and he is considered a top mathematical talent in the field of astrophysics.
If even he couldn't do it, Jens Brooks really didn't know who else in the astrophysical community could review this paper.
It's not that he doesn't want to find the elders of the mathematics community to review the manuscript, but they don't know any of the elders of the mathematics community at all.
Of course, they must know the top math masters like Faltins, Deligne, and Tao Zhexuan, but these top masters don't know them.
Astrophysics and mathematics are not a system at all, okay.
How can there be such a thing to rush to a mathematics professor to review a paper submitted to an astrophysical journal.
Although this paper was written by a mathematician, and there is a lot of mathematical content in it, it is not suitable after all.
"It's a big head, why don't you go find Edward Witten?"
Jens Brooks rubbed his temples and sighed, Professor Edward Witten, who won the Fields Medal, was a master of mathematics and a master of physics.
Astrophysics is also physics, and it is more appropriate to hook up a little bit than to suddenly go to Professor Deligne and them.
And Professor Witten works at Princeton, so maybe the paper will catch the attention of those mathematicians.
With a headache, Jens Brooks suddenly heard the excited voice of his subordinates.
"Editor-in-chief, Professor Tao Zhexuan sent us an email asking if we had found a reviewer for the Xu-Weyl-Berry theorem to accurately calculate the parameter information of distant celestial bodies."
"Tao Zhexuan? The University of California college one? The one that won the Fields Medal? Jens Brooks asked quickly.
"Yes, he said he might be able to take the job if he didn't find the right reviewer."
"Quick, get him back to the mail!"
"It would be great if Professor Tao was willing to take over the review of this paper."
Jens Brooks stood up excitedly, although he didn't know why Tao Zhexuan would take the initiative to ask about this, but for them, this was the best news.
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ps: Report the state, the body temperature has stabilized a lot, although there is still about 38.3,4, but at least it has stabilized, but the throat hurts badly, and the muscles of the arms and thighs are seriously sore.
The mental aspect is a little worse than the day before yesterday, and my head is muddy, I hope I can recover some after I get up, and if I continue like this, I will probably have to break off.
The eight tails don't want to break the change, and if you don't get points, you can redeem the leave slip, and you don't have full attendance if you break the change, ┭┮_┭┮.