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Firyuza Yanchilina
For the first time I learned about Vasily's discovery from our classmate Alexander Bulgakov. He told of his attempt to publish an article in "Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics". The editorial board replied only after nine months. It was a refusal with a short formulation: "It does not correspond to the state of modern science". How to understand this argument? Probably, this is a standard response to articles that reviewers do not understand. No analysis, no attempt to explain why they rejected the article, what they did not like in Vasily's discovery.
I also did not immediately perceive the global nature of the emerging knowledge. Having met with Vasily accidentally on the street of the Novosibirsk Academgorodok, where I lived, asked him to talk about his "theory of Chaos." I did not think that it would be interesting and, moreover, capable of turning the scientific world and answer problem questions. I was simply bored. At that time I had to do business in order to earn an apartment, communicate in the "buy-sell" sphere, so I experienced a large deficit in spiritual communication. I was ready to listen to at least about both the chaos and physics, from which I was tired during my studying at the university, just to get food for the mind and soul.
Vasily generously agreed to tell me about his scientific knowledge.
I remember from the first conversation only how he pointed a finger at his watch, then moved this finger towards the sky, which shone through the branches of the August trees. I disconnected. This movement was enough for me to enter the state of hypnosis. Then I just looked at Vasily. He, more and more emotionally, charging himself with inspiration from heaven, told me about the structure of the Universe. I looked at him, heard his speech, but did not understand anything at all. I was already in that, transcendental universe, where he jabbed his finger in the first minute of an improvised lecture.
Real understanding began to come later. One day, at a new meeting on the street, Vasily invited me to a soup, which he cooked himself. Such an invitation upset me. In Russia, I did not eat real soups. Delicious shurpa remained in the past, in Uzbekistan. Therefore, I refused Vasinly’s, the invitation.
But already after the first meeting, Vasily began to correspond with our classmate Oleg Antsutkin. Computers in those years were a luxury, many, including me, went online at work.
Oleg, who lived in Sweden for almost ten years, defending one thesis after another, undertook to translate Vasily’s article into English to offer it to some foreign journal. He translated five pages for several months. As Oleg admitted, he did it hearing the classical music. An interesting way. Apparently, Vasily’s theory inspired a romantic mood for a guy. I was aware of the process, periodically asking Oleg via e-mails how things are going with the translation.
Once Vasily called me, asking if there was another answer from Oleg. I decided not to miss the opportunity and asked to visit him, to finally learn about the theory. I was determined not to go into hypnosis anymore.
Vasily rented a room in the hostel for graduate students and trainees. Sitting on a creaking chair, he showed me his article, the same one. This time he pointed a finger not to the sky, but to the formula, very short formula, only two symbols: C and Ô. C squared is equal to minus Ô. He added that this is his basic formula.
At first I did not understand the meaning. I did not understand at all how such a tiny equation can turn something in science. I forgot that all the main formulas of physics are brief. Newton's second law, the Heisenberg uncertainty relation, the principle of the constancy of the speed of light in the special theory of relativity and so on.
I began to read the text. By that time I already had experience writing articles in local Novosibirsk newspapers, so I became to study Vasily’s presentation with a "specialist's look". I pointed to stylistic errors, offered my versions of construction of sentences. I advised him expressing ideas in a different way, more simply, without philosophy. Vasilylistened and listened to me, and then suddenly took and crossed out the entire text, leaving only one of his formulas.
I did not expect this! How come? There was a whole theory, an article that Vasily had been writing for months, polished for a long time. The text was read by his friends, and they made their comments. And suddenly after my criticism he refused the work done!
I was frightened: was there a theory? If only one single formula remained, can we speak about the truth (not to mention the revolution) of the discovery? That day I kept my thoughts to myself, only with fear looked at the outwardly calm Vasily.
I told him my fears later.
Vasya laughed. Vasya laughed for a long time. And then he said that his main discovery was not a text, but a formula. I pushed him to make it more literate and easier to set forth the conclusions that flow from it.