Across the Pacific.
Watsonton.
George stood on the roadside holding a box of personal belongings and looked at the "Science" editorial office building with a disappointed expression.
In this day and a half, he experienced great joy and great sorrow.
He regretted very much, regretting that he had not taken a second look at the text of the paper. If he had taken a second look, he would not have been kicked out.
He sat on the curb with a box of personal belongings in his arms, looked at the Science editorial building, and thought about his experiences for a day and a half.
"Rebirth of the Great Era of Fighting Waves"
He remembered that it was around three o'clock in the morning yesterday, and the last paper he reviewed was a manuscript submitted by a seventeen-year-old high school graduate in Asia.
The title of the paper is very vivid. Because the translation is very special, it took me a long time to understand the meaning of the title.
Also because of the title, he did not read the text of the paper.
He politely wrote a rejection email to the author of the paper.
After he was done, he took a shower and went to bed.
After sleeping for five hours, he was woken up by the alarm and hurried to his place of work.
"Science" editorial office building.
After he came to his office, he did the work he repeated every day, finding valuable papers from a pile of papers submitted by unknown scientific workers.
To be honest, he hates this kind of job. Not only does it have a lot of work, but the salary is also low.
What he wanted to do was review papers written by well-known scientists.
While I was thinking about it, I reviewed the manuscript. After rejecting ten papers, the phone on my desk rang.
It was a call from the editor-in-chief, who asked him to go to the editor-in-chief's office.
Hearing the tone of the editor-in-chief's voice on the phone, he knew that something good was coming and that he was going to be out of trouble.
really!
After he went to the office, the editor-in-chief praised him profusely, saying that he was serious about his work, hard-working, and so on.
Then the editor-in-chief tripled his salary, added benefits, and adjusted his work content.
Review papers by well-known scientists.
With a look of excitement on his face, he returned to his desk and handed over the work at hand to an unlucky new editor.
It took him half the morning to get familiar with the new work content. In the afternoon, he received submissions from well-known scientific workers.
He attaches great importance to this paper because it was jointly submitted by neutrino detection laboratories in multiple countries.
In the beginning, the paper described what happened.
It is said to be from 3pm on July 28th to 1am on July 29th, Washington time.
During this time, the Earth experienced a strong, high-density neutrino storm.
When he saw this, he thought of something terrible and jumped directly to the end for the conclusion.
He was relieved to see in the conclusion that the neutrino storm did not come from the sun.
He looked again from the front.
After reading the entire paper, he wrote a comment.
"This is a kind reminder from the universe to mankind. We humans should leave the earth and the solar system as soon as possible. The future of mankind lies in deep space."
After writing, I sent the paper and comments directly to the editor-in-chief.
When he got off work in the afternoon, the editor-in-chief gave him a reply and praised him for his good comments. He asked him to arrange for the comments and paper to be published in the journal at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
After receiving such a reply, he happily made arrangements and chose a family photo in the solar system...
After completing all arrangements for the year, he got off work.
When he got home, he felt bored.
In the past, I would continue reviewing manuscripts after I got home from get off work.
He was not used to the sudden change.
Bored, he had to sit in front of the computer and read the paper on neutrino storms that he had reviewed during the day.
In his opinion, humans are lucky this time. This neutrino storm was not caused by the sun.
If so, human civilization will be ended.
This also reminds mankind that we must get out of the earth and the solar system.
Only by moving into deep space and spreading throughout the universe can human civilization continue.
Just as he was thinking about it, the time came to ten o'clock at night, and when he was about to go to bed, his college classmate sent him a message saying that an article that could win the Nobel Prize had appeared on the national preprint service system dominated by Easterners. Physics Prize Essay.
After he saw the news, he felt that his college classmates were deceiving him, so he didn't care.
After all, it is a national preprint service system dominated by Easterners. What valuable papers can be found on it?
After a while, another college classmate sent him a message, saying the same thing.
This classmate was even more exaggerated, saying that this paper could win the Nobel Prize in Physics, and that if the findings in the paper were confirmed, he could also win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
It is even said that both big and small names in related research fields in the entire academic world are studying this paper.
This time he asked one more question and asked his classmates to send him the title of the paper.
When he saw the title of the paper, he was instantly confused.
This paper was the last paper he reviewed at around three o'clock in the morning.
He clearly remembered that this paper was submitted by a high school graduate from Asia.
This paper is as amazing as his college classmates said!
Unconvinced, he entered the official website of the overseas version of the national preprint service system dominated by Easterners.
For this purpose, he also specially applied for an account.
After successfully logging in, he entered the title of the paper in the search bar.
After the search results came out and he saw the number of reads and downloads of the paper he was looking for, he was completely dumbfounded.
After a while, he hurriedly clicked on the paper and chose the English version.
Upon closer inspection, the corresponding author, first author, affiliation, title, etc. are all exactly the same as the paper he rejected.
In order to confirm that the two papers were the same, he found the rejected paper and compared it.
It turned out that it was indeed one.
And he also noticed that when submitting the manuscript, the author had indicated that the preprint would be distributed on the national preprint service system dominated by Easterners.
Now, he was uneasy and quickly read the text of the paper.
As he looked at it, he knew that he had missed a very, very valuable paper.
While reading the paper, I thought about whether there was a way to remedy it.
Just like that, the time came to ten minutes in the morning, and when he was about to send an email to the author to explain the situation, his cell phone rang.
I saw it was a call from the editor-in-chief.
After the call was connected, the editor-in-chief yelled at him and said he was derelict in his duties. He talked a lot.
After the editor-in-chief hung up the phone, he remembered a sentence and asked him to go to the home page of the official website of the journal Nature.
He looked at it and knew it was irreversible.
The next day, he arrived at the Science editorial building half an hour early and sat in his office waiting to process his results.
While waiting, he learned that another paper had appeared in the national preprint service system dominated by Easterners.
Paper proving the existence of heavy photons.
His classmate told him that after the paper confirming the existence of heavy photons appeared, both the big guns and the small boys in related research fields in the academic community howled.
When he lamented that the author of the paper was cheating people, his colleagues in the editorial department looked at him with sympathy.
At noon, he came to the editor-in-chief's office again.
The editor-in-chief told him that the editorial committee had decided to fire him.
When he left the editor-in-chief's office, the editor-in-chief told him that the paper he reviewed on neutrino storms would be published as scheduled, along with his comments.
After leaving the editor-in-chief's office, he went to the restaurant to have lunch, then returned to his desk, packed up his personal belongings, and left the Science editorial building.
Holding a box of personal belongings, I sat on the curb in front of the Science editorial building and thought about this.
Just as he was thinking about it, his cell phone rang.
A college classmate told him that the paper confirming the existence of heavy photons has been published in a special issue of the journal Nature.
When he logged into the official website of the journal Nature and saw the two special issue papers posted on the official website, he felt even more unhappy.
What should have been his glory has now become his disgrace.
He stood up with a box of personal belongings and walked to the community where he lived three kilometers away.
By the time he returned to his residence, it was already past three in the afternoon.
He hurriedly came to the computer and logged into the official website of the journal Science.
After seeing the solar system family photo, comments and his name on the homepage, he sincerely thanked the editorial committee and the editor-in-chief for not erasing his last glory.
At this time, he wanted to go east to see this high school student named Su Zhe. He wanted to know why Su Zhe was able to write such a paper.
At the same time, he regretted very much and regretted not taking a second look at it.
…
Badu, Faculty Apartment in the West District of HKUST.
At this time, it was already dawn.
Su Zhe, who was dreaming, was awakened by the ringtone of his cell phone.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead, took his cell phone and saw that it was a call from Ning Qiaoqiao.
Confused, he answered the phone.
The moment it was connected, Ning Qiaoqiao's voice came from the phone, "Su Zhe! Good news! Our guess is right. The unknown factor is really neutrinos, and neutrino storms are not generated by the sun, but by the sun." It’s the cosmic space outside the solar system…”
After listening to the first half, Su Zhe's heart skipped a beat, but he felt relieved after hearing the rest.
Ning Qiaoqiao chatted with him for a while and then hung up the phone, saying she wanted to go back to sleep.
After ending the call, he logged into the official website of the journal Science using his mobile phone.
There is a family photo of the solar system in the most prominent position on the official website.
The picture has a title and a comment.
"Neutrino storm."
"This is a kind reminder from the universe to mankind. We humans should leave the earth and the solar system as soon as possible. The future of mankind lies in deep space."
He noticed that the editor's name was written at the end of the review: Anthony George.
Su Zhe clicked on it and looked at it briefly. After seeing the data and conclusions in the paper, he put down his phone.
Just as Ning Qiaoqiao told him at the beginning, they guessed correctly. The signal detected by the faulty extreme microwave radiation spectrometer was related to the neutrino storm. The reason why the XX-hydrogen atom vibration model verification experiment repeatedly failed was also related to the neutrino storm. Related to sub-storm.
Fortunately, this neutrino storm was not generated by the sun.
As Anthony George, the editor who wrote the review, said, this neutrino storm is a reminder from the universe to humans, and humans should be vigilant.
He agreed with what the editor wrote that the future of mankind lies in deep space.
Lying on the bed, he unconsciously remembered the dream he had had before, a dream that scared him to the point of sweating.
In the dream, the sun exploded.
The fiery solar wind sweeps across the Earth...
