Chapter 284 The Fanatic Outside World (Additional Chapter 710 for the Leader Gao Shan Liu Shui, Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 284: The Fanatical Outsiders (Additional update 7/10 for the leader Gao Shan Liu Shui, please vote for me)

For academics, if someone else posts a paper that has not been reviewed by a journal on Arxiv, even if they announce that they have proved the seven millennium problems, it will not cause earthquakes in several completely different fields.

After all, in today's academic world, few scholars will submit important papers to preprint websites like Arxiv. Top journals of various types are more in line with the choices of many scholars.

Although there are various restrictions on journal submissions, long review times and other problems, being able to publish a paper in a top TOP journal also represents a certain level of academic achievement.

If you can publish a paper in magical journals such as "Annals of Mathematics" and "New Advances in Mathematics", no matter what your original academic qualifications are, you are now qualified to enter a prestigious school and directly become a professor.

Preprint websites like Arxiv are not rated highly by many scholars.

The reason is simple. There is a mixed bag of good and bad things on this kind of website, and there are not many valuable things.

It is undeniable that there are indeed some interesting or valuable things above, but it is also undeniable that most of the papers or ideas above are basically dross.

There is no peer review and no review mechanism, which means anyone can submit papers and ideas to it.

In this case, those who are very interested in academics, or those who are interested in arguing with others, thinking that they are noble, willing to deny others, extremely confident, first in the universe, that's it, and can't make mistakes, etc. Scholars will definitely rush up like a beehive.

Not to mention the proofs of the seven millennium problems, they dare to put in the proof theory of grand unity, the theory of the ultimate form of the universe, and so on.

It can be said that this kind of theories and ideas that almost no one has a rigorous scientific theoretical basis and rely solely on personal imagination have almost no value to science.

Of course, sometimes, some special ideas and papers can indeed bring inspiration, but compared with various journal papers that have undergone rigorous peer review, this probability is too low.

Therefore, many scholars do not like preprint websites such as Arxiv.

But in recent years, a new geek has emerged in the academic world. Just like Perelman before, he likes to first dump his papers on preprint websites like Arxiv.

It would be fine if it were anyone else, but this is a Nobel Prize + Fields Medal winner. And every time he submitted a paper, it was eventually verified successfully and solved various world problems.

There is currently a saying in the academic world about this young master, that is, the papers that this master posted on Arxiv can almost be regarded as peer-reviewed papers.

At least, for now, no matter whether it is mathematics or physics, none of the papers posted by this boss are problematic.

And now, he has reached out to the chemical and material communities, and has uploaded a paper that solves the problem of lithium dendrites. This has shocked many people in the academic circle, and many bigwigs have turned their attention to it, thinking. See what this is all about.

If it is said, the mathematics and physics circles are not very clear about the value of this paper.

Then the chemical world, materials world and battery world are completely different.

They know only too well how much impact the lithium dendrite problem will have on the lithium battery industry.

At the invitation of some friends, industry leaders in the chemical, materials and battery industries turned their attention to this paper.

USA, MIT.

Professor C.T. McMullan, the 1998 Fields Medal winner, is sitting in the office of his friend Coverdale Enoch, waiting for him to read the paper in his hand.

After a long time, the other party finally put down the paper in his hand, and then asked impatiently: "Where did you get this paper?"

Professor McMullan asked curiously: "Is it possible that the things above are true?"

Coverdale Enoch replied quickly: "First tell me where you got this paper."

"On Arxiv."

"This is impossible! How can there be a paper of this level on Arxiv!" Coverdale Enoch retorted excitedly after hearing his friend's answer.

McMullan shrugged and said, "It was indeed downloaded from Arxiv."

"You really didn't lie to me?" Coverdale Enoch stared at his friend suspiciously.

"is it necessary?"

Hearing this, Coverdale Enoch, who was opposite, looked suspicious of life and muttered to himself: "How is it possible? Why would such a paper be posted on a website like Arxiv?"

McMullan looked at his friend in confusion and said: "This is something made by a math colleague I follow, but I can't understand it. After all, I study mathematics and don't know much about chemical materials, so I brought it over. show you."

"How? Is this paper correct?"

Coverdale Enoch came back to his senses, took a deep breath, and said: "Judging from this paper, it is indeed very likely to solve the problem of lithium dendrites."

"At least, I don't see anything wrong with it."

"Of course, I will repeat the experiment based on the paper to see if it really has such an effect."

McMullan asked: "How long would it take to repeat the experiment?"

Coverdale Enoch: "It doesn't take too long. If you make a complete battery, it may take half a month to test it, but if you just want to verify whether this artificial SEI film can solve the problem of lithium dendrite formation, three or four hours will be enough."

"I have all the materials in my laboratory. The only trouble is to make some artificial SEI films according to the above method."

"Do you have time now? I want to see the results. I can still wait for three or four hours."

Hearing that it only takes three or four hours to verify, McMullan asked quickly. He couldn't wait to see if the paper was correct.

If the lithium dendrite problem can be successfully solved, it would be incredible.

From mathematics to physics to astronomy, and now to chemistry and materials science, is there anything he doesn't understand?

What's more noteworthy is that the previous research results were basically theoretical, but this time, it was an application-level result.

From theory to application, this is a huge gap.

Coverdale Enoch nodded and said, "Of course, I also want to see the results."

"After all, if the lithium dendrite problem is really solved, the battery industry will usher in the biggest change in history."

What happened at MIT is just a microcosm of many universities, research institutes, and laboratories.

In the few days after Xu Chuan posted the paper on the Arxiv preprint website, as time fermented, more and more people noticed this paper, and more and more laboratories began to replicate the entire experiment according to the method in the paper.

For papers and research results in the materials industry, the most important judgment method is whether the research results can be replicated.

If it cannot be replicated, the research results are of no significance to the materials industry.

And because of the importance of lithium batteries and the name of the published paper, in less than a week, almost more than 80% of the universities or laboratories that study lithium batteries have repeated experiments on this paper.

For the academic community, when more than 50% of researchers in a certain field are studying this matter, it means that it is already known to everyone.

And when more than 80% of researchers are involved, it can only be said that this is the most crazy change!

The craze in the field of lithium batteries soon attracted the attention of the press.

As a well-known American technology media and the world's largest technology blog, TechCrunch will naturally not miss this news.

They quickly arranged for media reporters to come to the Santa Barbara area of ​​the University of California, the top university in the United States, and found Professor Alan Heger, the winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

This professor mainly engages in research in the fields of organic and conductive polymer materials and devices and low-dimensional physics. He was evaluated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences as a "pioneer in international conductive polymer research" and has made great contributions in materials science.

The technology blog wants to interview this Nobel Prize winner to see what he thinks about this matter.

Of course, they hope to make a big news.

Whether it is negative or positive, it is a very good heat.

After all, the one who made the paper public is the famous Professor Xu, the first Nobel Prize winner in history. Since entering the academic circle, his achievements are countless.

More importantly, the papers published by Professor Xu on Arxiv have all been verified to be successful.

If this time we can break the myth of his 100% success, I believe that writing a report with this as the focus will definitely be very hot.

If the other party still succeeds, the popularity of lithium batteries, plus the focus of 100% success, will also bring them a huge amount of traffic.

Of course, they must get ahead as soon as possible, because there are many other media also following up on this matter.

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