Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

USA, editorial office of Science.

Adam sat on a chair in the editorial office, yawning and glancing at the wall clock.

It was 5pm.

It was time to get off work!

He stretched and dragged the mouse to delete the files on the computer desktop.

As a Science editor, he needs to review a large number of manuscripts from all over the world every day.

And among these manuscripts from all over the world, it is conservatively estimated that only 10% of the manuscripts are truly valuable!

As for the reason... it's very simple.

Science is the world's top journal.

Countless scientific researchers hope that it can include and publish their papers.

This is not only an affirmation, but also a symbol of identity!

This also leads to a very helpless situation.

In addition to those serious scientific researchers, there are also many "wild" scientific researchers who will contribute to Science magazine.

These "wild" scientific researchers have a name that belongs to them.

Folk scientists.

Referred to as folk scientists.

It is no exaggeration to say that at least half of the emails Adam receives every day come from these folk scientists.

The conclusions in it are even more shocking than the last.

Atom cutting technology with water grinding knife, anti-gravity device, perpetual motion machine...

It can be said that in Adam's mailbox, there are only papers you can't think of, but there are none you can't see.

Adam dragged a file from his computer into the trash can and sighed deeply.

This article is a typical folk science paper.

The author of the paper claimed that he solved the Goldbach conjecture.

But when he clicked on the file and began to look carefully, he was horrified to find that the author didn't even understand what the Goldbach conjecture was!

"Oh my God... Michelle, you really should come and see this paper." Adam muttered to himself while deleting the paper.

As Adam finished speaking, a blonde editor sitting next to him smiled and turned to look at him: "What? What weird paper did you review again?"

Adam stopped what he was doing, turned the swivel chair under him, and complained to Michelle: "The author thinks that the Goldbach conjecture proves 1+1=2."

Michelle was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

"My God...Adam, I really don't understand why you can always review these weird papers!"

Adam shrugged helplessly: "Who knows?"

"Ding Dong!"

Just as Adam was about to get up and leave his seat, a crisp reminder sounded from the computer in front of him.

"Damn... Another submission!" Adam looked at Michelle who was doing nothing beside him indignantly, "This is unfair!"

"Today, I reviewed fifteen papers all day long!"

"Fourteen of them were waste papers!"

Michelle smiled and closed the computer in front of her, shrugged and said, "Really? Every time I get paid, I also feel it's unfair. How about we switch?"

Adam: "..."

"Then forget it..."

He sat back in his seat with a wry smile.

The moment he saw the title of the paper, his eyebrows suddenly raised.

"Wow! It's a paper about controlled nuclear fusion!"

"Michelle, let's make a bet. I bet this paper is a waste paper!"

Hearing Adam's words, Michelle raised her eyebrows and dragged her office chair to sit next to Adam: "What's the bet?"

"A dinner?"

Adam said as he clicked the mouse to open the file.

"If it's Michelin, I'll bet with you!" Michelle glanced at the email title and said after a moment of hesitation.

Adam paused slightly when he manipulated the mouse.

Michelin... this will cost a lot of money!

However, thinking of the experience of rejecting fourteen consecutive manuscripts today, Adam felt a little inexplicable confidence in his heart.

"Okay! Michelin restaurant!"

"I don't believe that I can still see a normal paper when I'm about to get off work!"

As he spoke, the file in the mailbox was opened.

Adam quickly dragged the mouse and dragged the paper to the signature column.

"...hiss!"

The moment he saw the signature, Adam took a breath of cold air!

"The second author of this paper is actually Xia Guo Sandaokou University Nuclear Physics Laboratory?!"

Adam's mouth twitched twice.

"You owe me a Michelin meal, don't forget it!" Michelle's smile was about to overflow.

Adam shook his head helplessly: "Michelin is Michelin... I am more concerned about the first author of this paper."

"This Lv Yongchang... I don't seem to have heard of this name in the nuclear physics community."

Michelle looked a little serious.

She frowned and thought carefully for a while, then shook her head slowly.

"I haven't heard of this name either."

"Is it a newcomer?"

Adam shook his head solemnly and wrote down the letters in a notebook beside him: "It shouldn't be. Do you think a newcomer can get the first author position on such a paper?"

"The second author of this paper is the Nuclear Physics Laboratory of Sandaokou University in Xiaguo!"

Michelle shook her head slowly: "I don't know... Let's take a look at the content of the paper first!"

Adam nodded solemnly.

When he learned that this paper came from Sandaokou University in Xia State, the look on his face became much more serious.

"...According to experiments, the stellarator device can effectively extend the maintenance time of controllable nuclear fusion?"

"Thirty-five minutes?!"

"WTF??!"

Adam quickly dragged the mouse and directly dragged the paper content to the experimental data section.

Looking at the dense experimental data in the paper, Adam's pupils dilated a bit.

He murmured to himself: "God... wasn't Xia Guo just kicked out of ITER?"

He could even imagine how wonderful the expressions of the people at ITER would be once this paper was published in the journal "Science"!

"etc!"

Michelle on the side suddenly exclaimed in a low voice: "Adam, have you noticed?!"

Adam looked at Michelle sitting next to him with a puzzled look on his face: "What's wrong?"

Michelle pointed at the last page of the paper with a look of disbelief: "Adam...don't you think the format of this paper looks familiar?"

Adam frowned and looked carefully at the last page of the paper.

"On the occasion of completing this graduation thesis, the first thing I want to thank is..."

Adam's pupils contracted violently!

"This, this is...undergraduate thesis?!"

…

the next day.

United States, Stanford University.

Professor Collins came to the office early as usual.

"Tuk-tuk-tuk!"

There was a rapid knock on the door.

Professor Collins, who had just put his butt on the chair, frowned slightly.

"Who?!"

Professor Collins shouted towards the door with a somewhat unkind tone.

"Professor! It's me!"

A somewhat panicked male voice came from the door.

This is the voice of his student Eden.

Professor Collins frowned and whispered, "Come in!"

The next moment, the office door was pushed open, and a young man in his thirties rushed into the office in a panic.

"What's going on?!"

Professor Collins said angrily: "Eden, I need an explanation!"

Eden walked up to Collins nervously and placed a document on the desk in front of him.

"Professor, this is a new paper published in Science."

"I think... you might want to take a look."

Collins' frown deepened.

He glanced at Eden dissatisfied: "Didn't I say not to disturb me before nine o'clock in the morning?"

Hearing this, Eden's eyes suddenly showed a hint of urgency: "Professor! This time is different! The Xia Kingdom may be close to mastering controllable nuclear fusion technology!"

Collins' expression suddenly changed!

"What did you say?!"

He quickly picked up the paper on the table and read it carefully.

"Professor...is this true?" Yiden asked with an anxious look.

Collins looked a little ugly and did not respond to the student's question immediately.

"How is it possible...that a stellarator can achieve controllable nuclear fusion for thirty-five minutes?!"

"This, this is impossible!"

You know, he was the one who initiated the proposal to eliminate stellarators in the United States!

Although he didn't want to admit it, the detailed data in the paper gave him one big mouth after another.

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