Chapter 83 What is your dream?
After carefully reviewing the entire paper, Boras Barry gave his arbitration opinion.
After hearing the editor-in-chief's approval, the two editors no longer had any disagreements.
"Since Mr. Boras Barry said so, I have no objection. We are just an academic journal publisher and cannot reproduce the author's experiment to verify its authenticity."
"That's true, but this paper is from Wang Xiangwu's laboratory at Jilin University in China. They have published papers in PRL before, so they must be very careful about their reputation. As for what you said, IPhO is just a game, so why can't the American players win the championship, or even make it into the top five? Is it because they didn't play the game seriously?"
After hearing what Boras Barry said, the editor lowered his head and did not answer.
"Okay, you guys continue working. I will handle the review comments for this paper. Of course, we must have some necessary skepticism. We must always maintain a serious review attitude and not be lax at all. If there are any problems, please report to me immediately and I will make the decision."
"Understood, Mr. Boras Barry."
After that, Boras Barry carefully reviewed the paper again, annotated some places that he thought needed revision, and gave his own review opinions.
After completing this series of work, Boras Barry replied to the email address where the paper was sent.
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Due to the time difference, Wang Xiangwu did not see the reply email immediately.
After waking up in the morning, Wang Xiangwu opened his mobile phone as usual to check if there was any important information.
There were a few messages on Wang Xiangwu's WeChat, but they were not very important, so Wang Xiangwu did not rush to reply.
After reading the WeChat message, Wang Xiangwu opened his work email again.
Wang Xiangwu does not receive emails very frequently in his work mailbox, but they are often important emails.
After opening his work email, Wang Xiangwu actually saw a new unread email.
"Hmm? This is..."
After seeing the sender of the email, Wang Xiangwu suddenly became alert.
“Has PRL finally responded?”
Wang Xiangwu knew that the review results of the paper submitted by Xu You would finally be announced.
After seeing this email, Wang Xiangwu felt a little nervous.
In fact, when Wang Xiangwu suggested Xu You to invest in PRL, Wang Xiangwu himself was a little unsure.
Although there is nothing wrong with the content of the paper itself, Xu You's qualifications are too shallow, which inevitably makes people have doubts.
In the author introduction, Xu You could only add the honors he had won in various competitions, and that he was the third author of Zhao Weijia's SCI paper.
Compared with those scientific researchers with rich resumes, his resume is really too pale.
"I actually... passed?"
After seeing the contents of the email, Wang Xiangwu confirmed this fact.
Although there were long review comments in the email, indicating that there were still many areas of the paper that needed to be revised.
But this is also a very .
What's more, this is PRL, the top journal in the physics world.
PRL is well-known in the industry for its strict review process.
Although many of those who have the courage to submit papers to PRL are big names in the physics world.
Even so, the acceptance rate of PRL-reviewed papers is only around 20%.
It is incredible that Xu You, a freshman who was doing scientific research for the first time and writing a paper for the first time, was able to pass the review on his first submission to PRL.
It is even more shocking than getting first place with full marks in IPhO.
After calming down, Wang Xiangwu quickly told Xu You the news that the paper had been accepted.
At this time, Xu You had been up and studying for almost an hour.
When Xu You saw the message sent by Wang Xiangwu, he was very happy.
The approval of the thesis means that Xu You has successfully entered the scientific research circle and become a real researcher.
Of course, Xu You did not tell his roommate about this.
Xu You knew that people's joys and sorrows were not shared.
If you tell them directly, they may not be happy for you, but may feel that you are showing off.
"Okay, teacher. I have classes in the morning, and I'll go to the lab after lunch."
Because the paper still needed to be revised, Wang Xiangwu asked Xu You to come to the laboratory when he had time to discuss the revisions in person.
After lunch, Xu You came to Wang Xiangwu's laboratory.
When Zhao Weijia saw Xu You coming, he excitedly put his arm around Xu You's shoulders.
"Junior brother, you are so awesome this time! That's PRL! I have never dared to submit it in all these years. Many Nobel Prize winners will submit their papers to this journal, and now you are going to be on par with them! You must help me realize my previous dream in the future!"
"Brother...what is your dream?"
"I'm afraid you'll laugh at me if I tell you this, but when I was your age, my dream was to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Of course, I was just young and frivolous at the time, and I didn't know how high the sky was. But for someone like you who was able to publish in PRL at the age of 18 and win a Nobel Prize, that's a great hope!"
"Senior brother, are you thirty this year?" Xu You suddenly asked back.
"No, I'm only 28 this year. Why, do I look old?"
Xu You was also a little surprised when he heard this age. In fact, thirty is an understatement.
"No, no, what I mean is, you are still young, and you have a long way to go. Some people can win the Nobel Prize at the age of 96. You don't have to put your hopes on me."
"Come on, I know my own level. If I can have a stable job and marry a wife, I will be satisfied in my life."
At this time, Wang Xiangwu also came to the laboratory.
"I'm here, Xu You. Sit down, I'll talk to you about revising the paper."
Wang Xiangwu was still very excited, but he did not go out of his way to praise Xu You.
For a child like this, Wang Xiangwu no longer needs to praise him deliberately. He just needs to try his best to help Xu You grow.
After the two sat down, Wang Xiangwu showed Xu You the review comments from PRL.
"Teacher, are there still many problems with my paper?"
When Xu You received the review comments from the journal editor for the first time, he was not clear about what this concept meant.
"Not too many. Normally, for every approved paper, the editor will give a lot of comments and ask the author to revise them. Some may be problems with the paper itself, and some may be due to the journal's own set of requirements. This is all normal. There are very few places in your paper that need to be revised."
