Monday is just gone. I have started working by looking at the reviewing paper. The paper is considered to publish in a physical journal. The journal is well-read in the community in condensed matter physics. Today, I just read through the paper, I got an impression that the paper is not good enough for publication. That was my first impression. From tomorrow, I will look into the manuscript carefully. Maybe it is because of my English reading skill or my background in physics but I felt I didn’t see much physics on their manuscript. I believe their skills of studying the material is right but I didn’t clearly understand what the problem of the research is. I can see they solve the structure better than before and detailed crystal structure revealed. However, I can’t see how this new structural information helps us to understand physics we haven’t solved so far. To be honest, I see similar things from my colleague’s paper recently. I don’t criticize them but I will raise my thoughts on this when I am replying to the editor and author. By doing this, I should be learning this kind of thing can easily happen to me. If I wanted to write a physics paper, I have to solve the physics problem by solving the structures. If we solved magnetic or crystal structure better than before, so what? What does it means to the physics of the material we are working on. What was solved?
This week just started but I feel already behind. This week I am attending the conference in Brazil. I don’t need to present my research so I am relaxed but I have to watch the presentation middle of the night since we have 13 hours difference. I really hope I can watch the recording later during the day here.
ASX200 went up 0.6 % today. However, my portfolio underperformed by about 2.3%. I didn’t see any particularly good news nor bad news so this is just fluctuation of the market. The gold price can be lower even though I see some come back today, it is not stable yet. One of my shares went down a lot I want to buy more if I have a chance. The global financial crisis is coming? I am not sure. Some say soon. Evergrande? I am not sure. At least Ray Dalio said this is not the case. But anyways, I will collect information as much as I can and try to understand what is happening. I personally I don’t care much how the economy goes, I just need to make sure of my understanding of the shares I have.
Vaccination in NSW keeps improving. So the NSW government started talking about reopening. I should do the 2nd dose by mid-October. But it seems 70% second dose is happening around October 11th and 80% by the end of October. It seems life in NSW will change completely at the beginning of November. The government now say it is time to plan travelling at Christmas time. I started thinking about what to do around Christmas time since I don’t have chance to come back to Japan to see my family yet. I am sure I can go back to Japan but I am not sure if I can come back to Australia after that. Also, I need to work on my visa in Australia so I don’t want risk them. Hope everything is fixed by early 2022.