Talk # 397

It's been a long time since I wrote last after 9/11. How true it is that time flies. I hope all lighters will be enticed by S.S.'s write-up and go to the re-union. The only item that I failed to recognize is "red(male) chicken vegetable bun"(雄雞菜包). I understood James' "moon lone" (朦朧)now, but still at a loss to "Tsing Si"(清晰)? I thought with my knowledge in dialects, I should be able to understand whatever James wanted to say. Tony's new contributions, I can see some of them. Some how my old NJ Star does not work full time anymore. May be some of my shared servers are acting up. Anyway, yen kuei jim chueng, (i.e., talk goes back to the real thing). The reason why I feel the time goes by fast is the following:

I am trying to submit a proof on "Goldbach's Conjecture". It is 250 years old from Goldbach, if not 350 years old from Descartes. If my proof is accepted by any of the journals listed in AMS' Mathematical Reviews by 3/15/02, and published by 3/15/04, the prize is $ 1,000,000. There are five more hard to solve problems, mostly from Hilbert's list since 1900, that carry same amount for prizes but no time limit. I have short listed from the sixty pages or so list down to twenty-three. I remembered the suggestion from S.S. and Tony at A-Chai's wedding banquet, that I should establish a foundation before I embark on following A-Chai's foot-steps half way, not marrying the ex. As of now, I don't have much for the foundation. If the prize comes in, then I need the foundation. According to my cousin, it is near impossible to have a paper accepted in less than two months. The short list I came up with, got journal from PRC, Taiwan, Singapore, in addition to U. S. A. and U. K. I am appealing to all Lighters is there anyone knows how to speed up the paper submission process. My cousin said all Chinese journals are very slow. I hope he is wrong.