Great Country Academician

Chapter 870 "Exploration·Physics", if you have the ability, don't learn Chinese.

With the official public release of the first issue of "Exploration", the attention of the academic community has shifted from the acceptance results of the CRHPC institution to this newly established journal.

Whether it is Xu Chuan's reputation and aura, or the first paper published in this journal, the theory of strong electric unification, they have firmly grasped the attention of the academic community.

Some people support it, believing that no matter which journal a paper of the level of the theory of strong electric unification is published in, it will not affect its value and deserved honor.

Some people oppose it, believing that the purely Chinese journal "Exploration" will end sooner or later, after all, pure Chinese is too narrow.

Even the theory of strong electric unification can only be a temporary boost.

Even in China, some people in the public intellectuals, high V, and 500,000 groups believe that Xu Chuan is learning from the last feudal dynasty, closing the country to the outside world, and hindering the connection between the domestic academic community and the world.

California, at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"Professor, the journal you want."

In an office in the School of Physics, a plump female assistant walked in with a journal in her hand.

On the sofa, Barry Barish, who was communicating with someone, took the paper from the assistant with curiosity and interest.

"What is this?"

Across the sofa, Professor Wilcox Gustav, who was wearing gold-rimmed glasses and looked a bit like an aristocrat, took a look and asked.

"Journal paper."

Barry Barish replied concisely, his eyes fell on the freshly released "Exploration" general issue.

"Journal paper? Which one? I don't think I've seen this style."

Professor Wilcox Gustav took an interested look at the paper in Barry Barish's hand and asked curiously.

The words on the paper were not English, nor were they French and German, which he knew, which made him a little curious.

Barry Barish smiled and said, "Discovery, a journal that was established not long ago, this is its first publication."

Hearing this answer, Wilcox Gustav lost interest instantly, leaned on the sofa and looked at Barry Barish with a teasing look, and said disapprovingly:

"A newly established journal? When did you become interested in this kind of thing?"

Barry Barish glanced at his friend and handed over the Discovery journal in his hand.

Born into a British aristocratic family, Wilcox Gustav naturally has a sense of arrogance in his bones and looks down on most things.

The key point for him to become friends with the other party is Gustav's seriousness and pursuit of academics.

In the field of condensed matter physics, Gustav, who has achieved robust superconductivity in high magnetic fields through a new one-dimensional system and provided a new research path for the long-standing problems of condensed matter physics, is the strongest competitor for the next Nobel Prize.

How serious Gustav is in academics, how arrogant he is in his daily life and communication.

Unless you can conquer him in the academic field, this person will not pay attention to you at all.

"What is this? Which country's language? A newly established journal does not use English as the standard. Which backward country issued it? Is there no scholar who can speak English in their country?"

After taking the publication and taking a look at it, Wilcox Gustav began to complain constantly.

Barry Barish said lightly: "If you don't know what is written on it, I think your future academic career may end here forever."

"WT? What are you talking about?"

Wilcox Gustav looked over with a confused face, and he didn't understand why his friend suddenly said such a thing.

You know, he is the scholar who is most likely to compete for the Nobel Prize in the field of condensed matter physics in the next few years!

Barry glanced at his friend, took a sip of coffee and said, "Look who the author is."

"Xu Chuan?"

Wilcox Gustav frowned and followed the standard format of the paper to find the signature of the paper. He did not know Chinese characters, but he always felt that he had seen this name somewhere before. It looked very familiar.

Barry sighed and said, "The paper in the journal is called "Exploration", and the paper published in this journal is called "Strong Electric Unification Normative Theory and Related Coupling Constant Prediction"."

"Strong Electric Unification Theory?"

Hearing this answer, Wilcox Gustav was stunned and looked at Barry Barish with surprise and disbelief.

"????"

"He actually submitted such an important paper on the theory of strong electric unification to a newly established journal?"

Barry Barish: "'Exploration' was founded by Professor Xu Chuan from China. Is there any problem with him submitting his paper to his own journal?"

Wilcox Gustav frowned and said, "Isn't this a bit too casual?"

"Of course, Professor Xu may not care about the division of the journal and the reputation of the journal itself, but don't you think that a paper like the theory of strong electric unification is a bit too low-level to be published in a newly established journal?"

"Low-level?"

Barry Barish took a sip of coffee and said lightly, "I don't think so."

"For the academic community, I think you know very well that the most important thing in a journal is never how famous it is, but the specific papers and results it publishes."

"A truly excellent paper, no matter where it is placed, will shine and attract everyone's attention. Just like Perleman put the proof of the three-dimensional Poincare conjecture on a preprint website like Arxiv, it will not prevent it from being recognized by mathematics and the world."

"And a rubbish paper, even if you submit it to journals such as Nature and Science, will not be taken seriously."

"For the academic community, what is important is always academic achievements, not journals."

Wilcox Gustav frowned and said, "But no matter what, this is also a newly created journal, and it only uses pure Chinese, which seriously hinders the dissemination of the theory of strong electric unification."

"To be honest, I doubt whether Professor Xu Chuan did this on purpose. He did not want The theory of strong electric unification has been over-understood, studied and researched by scholars from other countries, so the obstacle of pure Chinese journals was set up. "

Shaking his head, Barry Barish glanced at his good friend and said, "You have almost forgotten your original intention of academic research, and you underestimated him too much."

"Or, you stubbornly believe in your heart that only scholars who use English can produce good results."

Wilcox Gustav shook his head and said stubbornly, "But you have to know that for the academic community, how long did it take us to unify a language that can be used globally?"

"We have been doing this since the 19th century, haven't we?"

"And now, he has to come up with another language, and he doesn't provide an English version. For the academic community, this is a split"

From the perspective of a traditional scholar, to be honest, Gustav thinks that Xu Chuan's purely Chinese version of the journal is not a good thing for the academic community.

If the "Exploration" journal is not established, it will be fine if it becomes popular. If it becomes popular, then it is not a good thing for the academic community.

Because there is no English version, it means that they can only learn Chinese and then read the journal. For many scholars, this is a very troublesome thing.

Perhaps some people will think, isn't there a professional translation?

But academic papers and traditional literary works are two completely different concepts.

The latter may be more outstanding and excellent after manual translation, such as "The Moon and Sixpence" translated by Fu Weici, "Fragments" and "Hamlet" translated by Bian Zhilin, etc.

After being polished by these literary masters, those foreign language masterpieces will be more suitable for readers in their own countries.

But for academic papers, it is not feasible.

For scholars who explore science and seek truth. Reading other people's translations is the worst, and it can even be said that it is a choice made only when there is no choice.

For academic papers, whether it is an expert translation or a layman's professional translation, it is almost impossible to completely translate all the views expressed by the original author.

A difference of one word can lead to a thousand miles of error.

So if there is a choice, it can be said that almost all scholars will choose to browse the original version. Then the only choice for everyone is to learn another Chinese language.

Although learning one more language is not a bad thing, from a long-term perspective, Chinese journals and English journals will tear the entire academic community into two halves, and then pull them repeatedly.

This is not a good thing for the prosperity of academia.

Especially the scholar who created the journal "Discovery" is that person.

Wilcox Gustav has no doubt that he can do this.

Let alone other things, such as in the field of physics, it is not impossible to require that all the results of the CRHPC organization must be reported in Chinese, or that at least a Chinese version of the theory should be attached when reporting.

And if the CRHPC organization really does this, the academic community that is barely unified now may really split.

This makes Gustav very irritated, and he doesn't like this feeling.

Across the sofa, Barry Barish shook his head and said, "It is undeniable that in the past few decades, English is indeed the most mainstream language in the academic world, and almost all top journals are in English."

"But no one has ever stipulated that top journals must be in English, other languages ​​are also acceptable."

"Chinese will not become an obstacle to the dissemination of the theory of strong-electric unification. For scholars who love physics, it is not difficult to learn Chinese after a period of effort."

"Unless you resist it in your heart."

Wilcox Gustav frowned and said, "Resist? If it is beneficial to academics, I never resist it, but..."

Barry Barish interrupted him and said, "No, you just don't realize your inner resistance. Chinese is not that difficult to learn, it's just that you don't want to accept it in your subconscious."

"Think about it carefully, do you really think that Chinese will hinder the dissemination of the theory of strong-electric unification, or because of some other stubborn ideas."

For scholars like them, learning a language is not a difficult thing.

Even Chinese and Mandarin, which are praised by others as the ‘language of the devil’, are only a few months and half a year for them.

In fact, the influence of Chinese is bound to expand.

At least it is bound in the physics community.

Because the world’s first large particle collider is in China, with a collision energy level of up to 130Tev+, it is destined to dominate the future physics community for at least thirty years, or even longer.

And for physicists who want to study their own problems and theories, it is impossible to bypass Chinese and Mandarin when going to the CRHPC institution.

The purely Chinese journals published by Professor Xu Chuan are just a further expansion and acceleration of some steps.

Barry Barish has a hunch that the national camp in the field of basic science will gradually shift step by step and fall into the hands of the red Eastern power in the future.

If he wants to say all the reasons for all this, apart from the increasing prosperity and strong national strength of China, the main reason is because of the appearance of that person.

His appearance has brought the work that might have taken at least twenty, thirty or even longer years to start to now.

Well, although his brain is far inferior to that of his youth, at least learning a language now is not a big problem.

It will only take a few more months.

If it really takes another 20 or 30 years, when he is in his 80s or 90s, it will be too late.

In fact, for the academic community, Wilcox Gustav is not the only scholar who subconsciously resists Chinese and thinks that Chinese is difficult to learn.

Maybe some people really think that Chinese is difficult to learn, or maybe some people are arrogant in their hearts, or maybe some people have other ideas.

Overall, the academic community is still confused and wavering about the acceptance of the journal "Discovery".

Maybe most of the top physicists, research institutions and laboratories, and universities have subscribed, but there are not many people who really want to try to seriously learn Chinese and read "Discovery" carefully.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the theory of strong-electric unification is not the first time it has been publicly published.

After all, it was officially published on Arxiv in English a few months ago.

So it is more like a paper with both Chinese and English versions. Most physicists will naturally choose the English version.

Just when the entire physics community was discussing the journal "Exploration".

The official website of the journal "Exploration" released a new message.

The sub-journal of "Exploration", "Exploration·Physics", will officially release the first issue of the sub-journal in half a month!

The content is still the theoretical physics paper "The Relationship between the Unified Framework of Condensed Matter·Strongly Correlated Electrons and the Mechanism of Room-Temperature Superconductivity!" completed by Professor Xu Chuan himself.

This is something prepared by Xu Chuan himself, combining some theories in "Condensed Matter Electron Localization Structure Theory" and "Room-Temperature Superconductivity Mechanism".

It does not involve the core room-temperature superconductivity technology, but it describes some of the formation mechanisms and relationships of room-temperature superconductivity from the perspective of physical theory, which is crucial to the development of theoretical physics.

Don't you all want to learn Chinese?

Then don't learn it if you have the ability.