"Mathematical Physics Journal?"
Edward Witten thought carefully for a while and asked hesitantly, "The ’Frontiers of Mathematics and Physics’ published by Oxford University?"
"No."
Zhao Yi shook his head, "It’s a dostic journal in our country, the host institution is our dostic Science Academy, I think? I don’t know the exact details."
Edward Witten nodded understandingly and did not continue to comnt.
Actually, he wanted to express so skepticism about submitting to an unknown journal, but when he heard it was a ’Chinese dostic journal’, he understood that Zhao Yi wanted to contribute to a journal in his own country, supporting the developnt of mathematical academia in his country.
This is a very normal thing.
Science has no borders, but every scientist would support their own country, wishing for the better developnt of science and technology in their own country.
If their country’s science and technology level and influence weren’t already world-leading, Edward Witten believed he would have similar thoughts.
Now Zhao Yi has this ability.
Although it is only a submission and publication of research findings, high-impact research can lead to increased influence of the journal where the research is published.
An important indicator of a journal’s global influence is the ’impact factor’.
The calculation of impact factor is based on the number of tis papers published in a certain period are cited, divided by the total number of papers published in a set period. According to this calculation, publishing higher quality, more noticed papers would undoubtedly increase a journal’s impact factor.
World-leading journals publish high-impact papers, thereby naturally having high impact factors.
Common academic journals rarely have high-impact papers submitted, making it difficult for them to improve their impact factors.
Similarly, when a paper is submitted to a low-impact factor journal, due to limited exposure, it may not be taken seriously.
Most scholars choose journals with higher impact factors for their submissions based on their own achievent, resulting in low impact factor journals receiving only ’inferior’ papers, making it difficult to increase their impact factors.
The two factors are mutually reinforcing.
Zhao Yi publishes his significant research paper in a low-impact factor journal, which is equivalent to supporting the journal, and in turn supporting the academic developnt of his own country.
After Edward Witten and Zhao Yi learned the full na of the journal and looked up relevant information about the journal, they ended their video call.
At this ti, as Edward Witten recalled his conversation with Zhao Yi, he suddenly felt a sense of ’being upstaged’. He didn’t know the term ’Versailles’, but the more he thought about it, the more depressed he beca.
He had proudly talked about his research findings, thinking Zhao Yi had no significant result. However, Zhao Yi casually ntioned that he had completed research on Supersymtry.
Indeed.
Zhao Yi didn’t provide direct proof for Supersymtry, instead, he used his particle Boundary Theory to provide verification, but Supersymtry itself can’t be directly proven!
Supersymtry, for now, is only theoretical.
In the existing quantum physics system, each basic particle has a matching particle known as its supersymtric partner. The spin of the supersymtric partner is one-half different from the original particle (that is to say, the supersymtric partner of a boson is a fermion, and the supersymtric partner of a fermion is a boson), their masses are the sa and there is a very clear relation between various coupling constants.
Supersymtry was proposed almost thirty years ago, but no supersymtric partner of any known particle has been observed in experints, and even solid indirect evidence has not been found. Despite this, the extraordinary appeal of Supersymtry in theory still keeps it continuously rising in the field of theoretical physics, and the concept of supersymtry can be seen in almost all frontier fields of physics.
A specific theoretical idea, in the absence of any experintal support, has survived nearly thirty years, and has grown lushly, which is rare in theoretical physics. The sensation that will be caused once it is experintally verified is self-evident. As Weinberg (one of the proposers of the electroweak unified theory) stated, it will be a "stunning achievent of pure theoretical insight".
Of course, on the other hand, if Supersymtry is unfortunately disproven, its domino effect would be disastrous, and the entire theoretical physics community would grieve.
Supersymtry has now beco the basis for many physical theories, but ’Supersymtry’ has never been experintally verified. Many mathematicians and physicists hope for a theory to support ’so-called symtry’ for ’Supersymtry’ with a fresh verification and explain ’why it cannot be discovered in experints’.
Zhao Yi said he had done it.
Edward Witten recalled the regretful expression of Zhao Yi as if he hadn’t directly confird it, he felt like vomiting blood. After forcibly suppressing the negative emotions in his mind, he imdiately felt refreshed. He quickly called the university’s relevant staff and said, "Watch out for the ’Journal of Mathematical Physics’ issued in China. Once the next issue is published, I need it imdiately, both in Chinese and English!"
"This is very important, very important, very important!"
Edward Witten emphasized it three tis in a row, leaving the staff mber mystified.
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