"Nature" magazine headquarters, "Nature-Physics" editorial department.
The early morning sunlight hit the computer screen from the window, reflecting a somewhat dazzling white light that shone on Campbell's face.
That wrinkled face was obviously much older than two years ago.
Campbell sighed sadly, rubbed his forehead vigorously, and turned on the computer habitually.
Two years ago, he wouldn't have been this diligent at all.
When I come to the office every morning, I first make a cup of coffee, read some magazine news, relax, and then get back to work.
It's different now.
In the past two years, he has served as the most ordinary review editor. It would not matter if it were anyone else, but he was once a senior editor of "Nature Physics", and his mentality is completely different.
So he is busy working every day, hoping to get promoted again based on his performance.
Last month, he succeeded.
Magdalena Skipper was pleased with his performance and returned him to his original position.
The editor-in-chief of "Nature Physics" has only Magdalena Skipper, the editor-in-chief of "Nature", who can be considered the person in charge of "Nature Physics".
Although he successfully returned to his original position, Campbell did not dare to relax at all. He learned the lesson from the last time and took Donald Cordini to heart.
"This despicable old woman!" Campbell couldn't help but grit his teeth when he thought of Cordini's name, but did he have any good ideas because Donald Cordini had retired.
The recent news related to Donald Cordini is that he found a 40-year-old boyfriend after his retirement, and even went shopping hand in hand in the mall intimately.
Campbell felt even more uncomfortable thinking about it.
He is still working hard every day in order to earn a salary to support his family, while his enemy, Cordini, retired safely and found a young and strong boyfriend.
"hateful……"
"If I were in New York, ahem..."
Campbell clenched his fists hard, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked up at the time, quickly gathered his thoughts, and checked the manuscript in his mailbox.
The first one was not interesting, so I sent it back directly.
Second copy, what? Is it possible that a comet hitting the earth could wipe out the dinosaurs?
third……
Campbell read several articles in a row and felt a little dizzy when he saw a big title, content.
"Strong annihilation power?"
He read the introduction with confusion, and then noticed the author's name.
The reason why he didn't notice it at first was because he saw two unfamiliar names: Helen Hinton and Chen Mengmeng.
After downloading the paper, he noticed the corresponding author - Wang Hao?
Campbell stood up smartly, and then he knew that he did not need to review it, so he immediately approved it and marked the sentence "Wang Hao, publish directly".
After confirming that the paper would be published directly, Campbell breathed a sigh of relief and patiently read the contents of the paper.
This time I was really patient, and it lasted all morning.
Although it is not a careful review, I have browsed the main content and realized that the main argument is the impact of strong annihilation force on particles, and I have come to an important conclusion--
Continuous strong annihilation force will make the structure of particles more stable and cause the properties of particles to weaken.
"This conclusion..."
Campbell felt a little confused. He went back to the end and looked again, and suddenly thought of the controversy in the international physics community about the existence of dark matter.
Suddenly, he understood.
Campbell realized that the problem was a bit big, so he immediately called Magdalena Skipper and explained the paper submitted by Wang Hao and the problems with the content.
"That is another explanation for dark matter, which makes up for the lack of explanation in the field of astrophysics when dark matter does not exist."
"But it will definitely cause controversy. Now whether dark matter exists is an international academic issue."
"More scholars believe in Parsons' theory. Once this study is released, it's unclear whether it will have any impact..."
After hearing this, Magdalena Skipper didn't care at all. Instead, she said with great interest, "Just follow the next issue."
"No, put it directly on the website. The network will release it in advance, and it will be released to the public and free of charge. It will be posted on the homepage!"
"Campbell, you have to know that we are just an academic journal, and our job is to publish scholars' papers. Many scholars will be interested in Wang Hao's latest research."
"This is enough!"
"Our job is to let more scholars see the papers they are interested in. As for whether it will cause controversy..."
"If there is, that's the best."
Now Campbell understood.
He did think a bit complicated. They just published papers. As for the internal disputes in the annihilation theory, what does it have to do with them?
The most important thing is that Wang Hao decided to publish the paper in Nature magazine instead of Science magazine.
This opportunity must be seized.
…
"Nature" magazine uses actions to explain what is called 'publication speed.
Wang Hao submitted the paper two days ago. Only two days later, the paper appeared on the large-screen news on the main website of Nature magazine. The background picture of the news was a mysterious mathematical symbol, with a sentence below - -
"Wang Hao's latest achievement!"
Below that is a subtitle, ""Strong Annihilation Force"."
After clicking on the news page, I saw a simple explanation of the research on the 'Strong Annihilation Force', with a free download link.
The approach of Nature magazine truly shows their sincerity. They have not reviewed it, and just like publishing news, they directly hang the paper on the main website, so that everyone can directly download and watch it.
Those who do not subscribe to Nature magazine can also download and watch it for free.
This will make the paper visible to more people.
Wang Hao was shocked by the speed and method of publication. He received a lot of special treatment, but this time it was still very different.
"Didn't you say that "Nature-Physics" needs to be reviewed?"
He felt a little confused, "I remember that when I submitted my manuscript two years ago, I was told that it definitely needed peer review..."
Helen first saw the news about the paper. She was also very surprised, but also a little depressed, "My and Meng Meng's names were not on the news picture at all."
"Yes, we were originally a team."
"In the end, only Teacher Wang...
The two female students looked at Wang Hao sadly.
Wang Hao could only laugh, "There's nothing we can do about it. Otherwise, next time I submit an article, I'll emphasize it to them?"
"next time?"
"Where can there be a next time..."
"Maybe, but I'll have graduated by then."
…
The papers posted on the homepage of the official website of Nature magazine will definitely attract the attention of many scholars.
At the beginning, everyone only noticed that Wang Hao published the paper. Later, they discovered that the authors were Helen and Chen Mengmeng, and Wang Hao was the corresponding author.
The corresponding author is very important, sometimes even more important than the first author.
This is mainly because the corresponding author often means the recipient of the project, the leader of the research group, or the mentor.
Wang Hao is the mentor of Helen and Chen Mengmeng, and he guided the students to complete the research together.
The author of the study is only one aspect, what is more important is the content of the paper.
In fact, in the academic field, strong annihilation force is not attractive. It feels like it exceeds the speed of light. It is just a conceptual problem.
What happens beyond the speed of light?
big
Probably many people are just curious, but not very interested, because human technology cannot achieve faster than the speed of light.
When conducting in-depth research on the content of the paper, many scholars discovered that something was wrong. The theme of the paper was to demonstrate the effect of the strong annihilation force on the generation of particles.
First of all, it will cause reactions inside the atoms, increase the force inside the atoms, and cause strange reactions among electrons.
At the same time, it will also make the atomic structure more stable and the particle structure more stable. The direct impact is the weakening of the external behavior of matter.
After further understanding, I found that the content of the paper on strong annihilation force is directly related to the issue of dark matter.
Sporson, professor of physics at the University of Manchester, explained, "Strong annihilation force will weaken the particle behavior. To put it simply, it means that the external performance is weakened."
"For example, when illuminated by light, the absorbed light will also be weakened."
"Suppose there is a section that can absorb fifty percent of the light energy."
"If the material properties that make up the section are weakened, then the light energy absorption rate will not reach 50%, it may be 40%, 30%, etc."
"In other words, the external manifestations of particles, matter, and some physical properties are weakened."
"In astronomy, if some galaxies have a large number of strong annihilation regions and the material properties there are weakened, the spectrum they scatter will also be weakened."
"This will affect astronomical calculations of galaxy mass studies."
"Current astronomy uses various spectral analysis methods to measure the mass of galaxies. Of course, we cannot directly measure it. The data obtained can only be combined pictures..."
Spoulson concluded, "The weakening of particle properties under the action of strong annihilation force replaces the role of dark matter in astronomy."
Florida State University.
In a large classroom on the third floor of a teaching building, an open class on theoretical physics was being held.
Ridley Parsons is the keynote speaker of the open course. What he talks about is the construction of dark matter based on the annihilation theory.
Now Parsons is an academic star at Florida State University. He has a large number of admirers, and many students like to attend his classes, not only because of Parsons' achievements, but also because of his interesting teaching style.
Parsons loved to hold open classes to promote his theories.
He was convinced of one thing.
For a theory that cannot be verified, when more people believe it, it will naturally become a true theory.
In fact, just like religion, it is uncertain whether gods exist, but as more people believe in them, gods will exist in people's hearts.
If the whole world believed that a certain god existed, and those who said it did not exist would become heretics.
Parsons did not teach alone. He also had a friend to help him, and his friend was also a heavyweight.
Lin Wenji, director of the Antigravity Research Group at the National Physical Laboratory at Florida State University.
Wenji Lin and Parsons became good friends because their research complemented each other.
Lin Wenji hopes that Parsons can provide a theoretical basis to help antigravity-related research.
Now that Lin Wenji's antigravity team has made a new discovery, he also hopes that Parsons can participate in it to explain the new discovery with the annihilation theory.
"If we can complete this research, we may win the Nobel Prize." Lin Wenji said confidently.
Parsons was naturally very interested.
So he and Lin Wenji became good friends and invited Lin Wenji to open open classes together.
Half of this open class is Lin Wenji explaining the relationship between annihilation force and anti-gravity experiments, and the other half is Parsons promoting his own theory, "Annihilation theory is an important physical basis, and the existence of annihilation force can construct what we know all physical phenomena."
"Of course it includes dark matter. My research believes that dark matter is the most important component in the universe and can even be understood as the basis for the existence of matter."
"Dark matter supports the existence of the Higgs particle..."
"Although humans have not discovered dark matter so far, I believe it is just a matter of means. We exist in a three-dimensional universe, and we need some special means to discover dark matter that is different from the three-dimensional composition..."
"At the same time, we need to construct more theoretical foundations and continue to demonstrate..."
Parsons said enthusiastically.
After the course ended, a student told him, "The content on the front page of Nature magazine has a new replacement for dark matter, which is researched by Wang Hao."
Parsons and Lin Wenji returned to the office together and immediately studied the content of "Strong Annihilation Force".
They are all top physicists, so they can easily see the key.
"The particle form is weakening?"
"impossible!"
"How can strong annihilation power exist? It doesn't exist at all!"
"This is fiction!"
Parsons subconsciously denied the effect of strong annihilation force on the weakening of particle form, which was almost equivalent to directly denying his research.
Parsons said firmly to Lin Wenji, "No one can prove the existence of strong annihilation force."
"This is just a theory, mine is also a theory, but I believe that my research is more credible!"
Parsons was a little flustered for a moment, but he calmed down a lot after thinking about it carefully.
Because it cannot be proven.
Even if the theory of 'strong annihilation force' appears, the theory is just a theory. As long as the strong annihilation force is not discovered, there is no way to prove that his research is wrong.
It's like 'beyond the speed of light.' You can only prove what will happen, and who can prove it?
Everyone believes in the calculation results of the theory of relativity, so we have a definite answer.
What if you don't believe it?
It won't have any impact anyway.
So Parsons became calm, and he kept emphasizing to Lin Wenji that his own research was correct.
Lin Wenji's reaction was a bit strange. He just said a few words in a coping style, obviously a little absent-minded.
In fact, Lin Wenji thought of his new discovery.
His antigravity experimental group used three superimposed force fields and found that after a metal object passed the edge of the superimposed force field, a weak magnetic field response appeared on the surface.
This discovery is likely to be astonishing, and he would want Parsons to participate in the research and explain it based on the annihilation theory.
It doesn't seem to be needed now!
In the argument of "Strong Annihilation Force", the conclusion of the strange reaction of electrons is just related to the research. So, the edge of the superimposed force field is the strong annihilation force?
The theory is there and the experiments are there.
If this discovery is made public, it may be a Nobel Prize-level achievement!
Lin Wenji took a deep breath and decided not to be friends with Parsons anymore.
