这个问题突然由中国研究者解决，由沈阳金属所的人解决，概率太低。按老外的话就是“Knowledge is accumulative. Chinese should not ignore the works of others.”

老外把张志东这件事看得很重，认为这是中国科学界的丑闻。不过他们想像不到中国科学界有多烂：

The situation is also painful and embarrassing to the Chinese science community, that no one could prevent this from going out of hand. It is terrible that something this wrong could be glorified in China.