In the various scientific fields , animal scientist may claim to have an vantage in the romance stakes , since they deal with ( sometimes ) hot - full-blooded creatures capable of forming lasting pair - bonds . Then there are those who consider true dear to be about chemistry . However , Rui Long , a PhD scholar at Huazhong University of Science and Technology , China , is out to claim amatory status for physicists .
The cite ofa paperpublished in Physica A : Statistical Mechanics and its Applications included in its reference the word : “ Rui Long wants to give thanks , in peculiar , the patience , deal and support from Panpan Mao over the preceding years . Will you espouse me ? ” ( In recognition that science can not run on love alone , the acknowledgments also pay tribute to the National Natural Science Foundation of China as the source of backing for the three authors . )
The proposal was brought to the attention of the world byDr Jess Wadeof Imperial College London whotweetedlast calendar week : “ love affair is not dead , it ’s just enshroud behind a paywall . ”
Sadly , her commentary is exact , since Physica A is not an clear approach publishing . If you want to know about minimally nonlinear irreversible refrigerator at finite cooling office , and you are not part of a university with a subscription , you ’ll have to pay .
Nevertheless , the paper is a actual one , unlike thepseudo - paperwith which University of Sydney physics PhD student Brendan McMonigal propose to fellow physics major Christie Nelan , winning the world ’s center in the process , back in 2013 .
Other Twitter users responded to Wade by ask if the workplace had been quote by Panpan Mao in a subsequent composition , but since Long ’s study only just went online in advance of the April version of the diary , this is improbable , and we will all just have to hold back to learn her response . Given how long match review can take , this may be a deadening process .
It turn out , however , that the idea is not a fresh one . Three years ago paleontologist Caleb Brown suggest to his partner Lorna O’Brien ina paperon the discovery of a congenator of the Triceratops .
Even if plagiarize , Long ’s idea is much ripe than some of the unfeignedly awful acknowledgments that have been reported using the#thanksfortypinghashtag on Twitter , set off byexamplesof authors who thank their wives for type the paper ( and sometimes doing much of the research ) , but did n’t even mention to them by name .
