From black technology to super engineering

Oxford Doctoral Residence.

Zhou Xiangnan rubbed his somewhat messy hair, and found the pre-printed version of the paper on GTRGD materials on arxiv. After a quick read, he clicked into the somewhat lively comment area.

Frankly speaking, as far as the text is concerned, as he wrote under the number one question on Zhihu, his feeling is still...

I don't understand, I was shocked.

What he couldn't understand was not the previous experiment report, but the later part of the theoretical explanation.

The long paragraph behind is all speculative explanations, without the rigor that a nature journal should have at all, and it can be said to be completely conjectural - but it was actually published, and it is also related to another paper in the medical field. Published simultaneously back to back!

However... when he looked through the comments on the preprint and found that Professor Ezio was the first to reappear, Zhou Xiangnan was startled suddenly, with a strange expression on his face.

"Damn it, it's sloppy."

Materials science is an experimental science and can be proven.

The reason why Professor Ezio was able to kill the Quartet on the arxiv website, known as the face-slapping expert, is because he has the most precious talent of an experimental physicist-he can always meet the most accurate conditions and reproduce it with super high to repeat the experiment.

And he is also very serious. If you dare to say that it is because of the brand that the materials, reagents, etc. have problems and do not meet the results, he can really find the same experimental materials. If you still have an excuse, he can even take a plane to your laboratory, watch you do the experiment in person, and let you reproduce it yourself.

If such a serious and well-known professor expresses his opinion, if you can't do it, it is naturally not a problem with the paper, but a problem with the reproducer himself.

Thinking of what Professor Ezio said to himself before hanging up the phone, he suddenly regretted that he didn't take a look at arxiv earlier.

The expression on his face kept changing, Zhou Xiangnan clicked on Zhihu.

His answer is still at the top of the list, and he has been pushed to the top.

As a serious Dr. V with 150,000 fans, this data fits his identity very well.

While hesitating, he clicked on the comment.

Then he saw the latest message - "Excuse me, in the process of repeating the test, did the number of electrodes or the array method strictly follow the requirements, and did you modify the frequency on your own initiative?"

He was slightly startled!

He immediately thought that when he reproduced, he really didn't pay much attention to the electrodes. Besides, he could guarantee the accuracy of the solution and data.

After all, he subconsciously thought that this was an electrocatalysis experiment.

After thinking about it, he clicked on the account of this message, and saw that it was a small transparent account, and the latest update was an ACM teammate who answered the same question and claimed to be the talented undergraduate student from the provincial government...

After a few seconds of silence, he frowned and selected the edit answer.

"Just now, for verification, I had another phone call with the peer reviewer of Nature. I'm sorry, my conclusion that I failed to reproduce the success was a bit hasty. I will do another experiment."

"Then let the bullets fly a little longer."

...

On the second floor of the small cafeteria, Qi and Mo stared at Gao Zan Doireann's revised answer, and finally smiled.

"This looks much more pleasing to the eye than the yin and yang weirdness just now." Qi Yumo said with emotion: "It seems that this big V answerer is also a big boss, and he can actually contact the peer reviewer directly."

Ye Ming blinked: "Well, Dr. Niu Jing, maybe his mentor is a peer reviewer."

"That makes sense!" Qi and Mo gave the answer a thumbs up.

Ye Ming chuckled.

Although he doesn't know about Zhihu, this pretentious trick... is still very familiar.

After laughing, he quickly sent an email back to Professor Ezio, asking politely if he had any plans to come to China.

Then, he received another call from Professor Pan.

On the phone, although he felt that Old Tang was making a fuss...he still followed Old Tang's instructions and said that he would not be able to leave for two days, but he promised that he would be available online whenever he was called.

So Professor Pan asked him to find a place in half an hour and take him to a video group meeting.

Just like that, Professor Ezio also replied to the email, expressing his thoughts, but he couldn't bear it if he had to be quarantined. And also told Ye Ming that he was dealing with the damn WeChat... Let Ye Ming tell him the WeChat account.

This made Ye Ming very happy.

"You're so busy..." Qi Yumo kept watching Ye Ming answering the phone and replying to the email, and couldn't help saying quietly, "Professor is not as busy as you."

"And it's too busy to be serious." Ye Ming took it seriously. He grabbed his phone and took a look, then looked at the small cafeteria where people were gradually increasing: "It's unrealistic to even have a video here. I have to go back to the laboratory."

"Well, let's go. I'll check Zhihu again and help you slander people!"

"Haha, then tell me the result tomorrow!"

...

That night, Ye Ming and Professor Pan's laboratory had a video connection discussion until after 10 o'clock, but they still didn't discuss the reason. This is also normal, and Professor Pan's team belongs to the top team in terms of theory and practice. , They didn't do it well after several days, and it was pure luck to catch Ye Ming.

There is no reason for Ye Ming to solve the problem as soon as he joins the discussion, even if he is the designer of the device.

But one good thing is that Professor Pan never suspected that there was something wrong with Ye Ming's design - even when his colleagues tentatively asked Ye Ming if there was something wrong with the data.

It was almost eleven o'clock when we returned to the dormitory.

All the roommates didn't sleep or play computer games. All three of them curled up under the covers with their mobile phones, including Peng Xiaofei, the hard-working captain.

Seeing Ye Ming enter the door, Peng Xiaofei raised his phone at him: "Look at Zhihu's live broadcast."

"What are you doing? Are there beauties giving benefits?"

Ye Ming smiled as he took off his shoes. He knew that these old men in the dormitory, during certain periods of time, when the hormone secretion was strongest, they searched all over the world for things that were not suitable for children.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he knew it was not.

Because Peng Xiaofei tore off the earphones.

A tired man's voice came from the phone, um...it sounds a little empty.

"There are still ten minutes before the last step of the experiment can be carried out. I am too tired today, so I just need to take a rest."

"Forget it, take this opportunity, let me answer a few questions from everyone, let me see..."

"Someone asked what the principle of the experiment is... Well, I don't know what the principle is, otherwise how could it be called a subversive and groundbreaking experiment?"

"Will it succeed? I don't know, everything is unknown."

Ye Ming was completely confused: "What are you looking at?"

It was Zhou Xiaochun who spoke, and he also held up his mobile phone and said to Ye Ming.

"We are all watching the online experiments of Zhihu scientists, and I slapped you in the face."