Chapter 8: A Different Approach
The U.S. Association for the Advancement of Science is the world's largest association of scientific and engineering associations and the largest non-profit international science and technology organization, with more than 200 branches and tens of millions of members.
The annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science is also a top gathering of the scientific community around the world. In addition, the famous "Science" is now also hosted and published by the Association for the Advancement of Science.
With the support of such a behemoth, there are naturally all kinds of professional reviewers. However, because the review itself depends on their time, the review time is usually not short.
In order to avoid some strange manuscripts wasting the time of the big guys, they will go through several procedures before being sent to these peer review experts.
First, the preliminary review staff will check the formatting and duplication rate of the paper. If there are no problems, the journal editing assistant will check whether the manuscript is complete, etc. Only after the journal editor has read the paper and feels it is appropriate will it be passed to the peer review experts to minimize the arrival of inappropriate manuscripts.
Even the initial review staff who are responsible for the first process have a good breadth of knowledge after being exposed to the work for a long time, but their daily work is a bit mechanical and boring.
Because many of the contributors are students who just want to test the waters and send them in.
If it's just a student, it's actually okay. At least the format and layout of the document they send over are generally up to standard.
But there is a kind of people called folk scientists who make them feel a little bit dizzy.
There are often some shocking and thriller headlines.
The more you know, the more you will be in awe of knowledge. However, for the amateur scientists who can exceed the speed of light with their forehand, perpetual motion machines with their backhand, and prove the Goldbach conjecture from time to time, the staff responsible for the preliminary review also felt a sense of powerlessness.
Sometimes they would send emails to scold them after their papers were rejected.
In the editorial department, Hof made some coffee and prepared to have a pleasant day. He opened his work email and started today's preliminary review work. Having worked in this position for three years, he is considered to be quite experienced.
For many manuscripts, you can tell whether they will be rejected just by scanning the title.
"Oh my God, the Goldbach conjecture has been proved again."
After seeing a scary headline, Hof couldn't help but cover his head with his hands, but out of professionalism he still glanced at the corresponding author.
Very good, I haven’t heard of it before. It’s from China.
Thinking of the last time he read a paper on the machine translation of perpetual motion machines, his scalp started tingling again.
"Who sent it?"
The colleagues around me are no longer surprised by this. They will occasionally tease new colleagues with this kind of words, but there are no new people here now.
Asking this question is also out of professional instinct. If it is asked by a big shot, then this would be a real bombshell.
"WANGYI, Chinese."
"Really? I've never heard of a master named Yi."
Because it is an English journal, generally speaking, even if the manuscripts are submitted from China, the signatures will still be filled in according to Western standards. However, Wang Yi was completely pragmatic and had never considered this aspect before. Even if he knew about it, he probably wouldn't care about it.
So here it directly becomes Master Yi.
"Rejected?"
"It was rejected, and the work unit was not filled in in detail."
"Hey, I've been receiving more useless manuscripts from there lately."
"It's normal. After all, they have such a large population. If most of the language wasn't screened out, there would probably be more submissions. The recent increase is because there are more machine translations."
Hof sighed helplessly. The workload of this job was getting heavier and heavier.
"But there are talented people among the Chinese. I remember that last year Tao completed the proof that all odd numbers can be expressed as the sum of at most five prime numbers without the help of the Riemann hypothesis. This can be regarded as filling in a piece of the puzzle."
"Yes, but he has won the Fields Medal the year before last."
"Fields~, it seems that Harold from France also published a paper on the weak Goldbach conjecture last month."
"After all, it's the problem of the century..."
As the two of them chatted, they also casually swept Wang Yi's submission into the recycle bin...
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On the other side, Wang Yi rubbed his forehead and roughly understood where the problem lay.
The fact that it was rejected almost
The initial review must have been rejected due to other issues, so that should be my identity?
In fact, if Wang Yi asked his alma mater for help and found a big shot to sign as the corresponding author , he would definitely be able to get all the way to the professional review stage.
But he obviously didn't think so.
His original purpose of publishing the paper was to let the academic community know him, as a greeting, so that when he publishes something strange in the future, you will come to study and discuss with me to spark inspiration.
Now that his serious submissions had been rejected, he naturally took another approach.
Just a greeting, let's get to know each other in a different way...
Then I found an agent to connect to a certain company.
If the King can govern the country, then there should be no problem for me to publish papers, right?
Although Twitter is not as popular as it will be in the future, its monthly active users have officially exceeded 200 million, and the "comment" function that was originally scheduled to be launched in two years on Twitter in this parallel world has also been launched ahead of schedule.
(At the beginning, I could only add my own opinions when forwarding. The comment function was not opened until 2015, but similar adjustments will appear for the needs of the plot. I will not explain it later. Please don't argue with me. After all, it's a parallel world~)
In fact, at this time, the number of active users of a certain book is five times that of a certain special, and its influence is even greater.
But after all, the nature of the two parties is different. A certain book is more like Yaoxin, and a certain person is more like Weibo, so Wang Yi still directly targeted a certain person whom even the King of Understanding dared to ban from speaking.
He doesn't worry about talking about sensitive topics.
Well, he said he would not publish sensitive topics, but after completing the registration and casually creating an avatar of the Wuji Sword Master, Wang Yi directly wrote a title of "Does this mean that Science magazine involves racial discrimination?"
Then he proudly recounted what had happened, attached a screenshot of the time when his application was rejected immediately, and finally uploaded the complete proof process step by step.
The point I want to emphasize is that my certification process is so long that they must have rejected it immediately without even looking at it.
If I talk about the difficulty and significance of the Goldbach conjecture on Twitter and say a lot of math blah blah, it’s useless. Who would go online to read math?
So it is better to choose a politically correct topic. Anyway, the proof process is attached at the end, and those who can understand it will naturally help explain it.
Maybe when the time comes, you can post some strange questions that you need help with directly on Twitter and gather everyone's advice.
After doing all this, Wang Yi quit the agency without caring how the matter would turn out.
He just wants to achieve his own goal and won't waste time dealing with those comments.
Instead, he looked up some relevant information that was useful to him.
"Silver is quite expensive."
After looking through the information related to silver, Wang Yi muttered to himself.
Under the influence of the European debt crisis the year before last, the price of silver climbed to its highest point in 30 years. Now, with the continuous surge in China's silver production, it has begun to fall and there is a certain amount of overcapacity.
In addition, the demand for silver manufacturing has begun to decline slightly, but at least the price is still high, costing more than 40 US dollars per ounce, or almost 10 yuan per gram.
Silver is an excellent magical metal and can also be processed into mithril. With natural magic so lazy, Wang Yi also needs to consider building a wizard tower for himself with high-quality materials.
Build a perfect wizard tower, increase one's influence to make money, gather global resources and talents to pursue the truth of magic and technology. This is the new goal set by Wang Yi.
To build a wizard tower, the more silver the better. Ten yuan per gram doesn't sound expensive, but it's per gram. Just like cutting cakes, the price of a really large amount is still a headache.
How much does a normal bracelet weigh? The amount used in industry is not high, but Wang Yi needs to build a wizard tower. Even if it can be made entirely of silver and transformed into mithril, it is no problem.
China is now the largest producer of silver, but it also consumes a lot of things. It's a bit troublesome to stockpile such a large amount of this precious metal. It's no longer a question of money.
A short-term surge in demand will only cause prices to skyrocket; money itself has limitations.
After scanning, Wang Yi also felt that when he had some free time, he might have to go to Mo Country...
