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In any case, Henry only did two things on the forum, relying on a Kryptonian super-brain:
"I can't find any flaws in your answer," followed by categorization.
Or:
"Your mistake is right here. Rejected."
He never proactively contributed new theories or solutions of his own.
Over time, the forum gradually gained a reputation within certain academic circles.
Whenever Henry archived a paper written in a language other than English, he typically included both the original document and an English translation.
Since the collection covered Europe and North America, many of the forum's users were not native English speakers.
Making use of his proficiency in numerous languages, Henry combined that expertise with an AI language model to create a multilingual translation system.
A translation button appeared alongside every post and comment, allowing users to switch instantly between English and their native language.
In effect, he had gathered much of the Western academic community into a single place.
Anyone from high-school level onward—without any upper limit—who needed old theoretical science papers would eventually find themselves visiting the science forum established by the mysterious CK.
The forum operated under the top-level domain ".sci."
How that domain had been activated in the first place remained a mystery.
The United States had repeatedly attempted to eliminate the domain, even at the cost of sacrificing certain internet infrastructure privileges related to root-domain control.
Yet no matter what they tried, entering the address always connected users to a functioning server.
Eventually they abandoned the endless struggle.
The only restriction they managed to impose was preventing the creation of subdomains under the .sci domain.
The forum itself also evolved over time.
Its internal classifications were expanded repeatedly, becoming increasingly detailed and organized.
Entire tree structures emerged, with subcategories branching into further subcategories.
The content remained unchanged; only the indexing system became more sophisticated.
The search function was equally impressive.
It even included intelligent fuzzy-search options, allowing users who couldn't formulate proper keywords to still locate the information they needed.
Many people coveted the translation system Henry had built for the forum and wanted access to the underlying program and database.
Others attempted to hack into the forum's backend, either to sabotage it or steal information.
Compared to Henry—or Tony Stark—the abilities of those hackers were laughably inadequate.
Even if someone broke through the first firewall, they would immediately fall into a honeypot trap.
Even if they somehow passed two layers, seventy-nine more remained waiting for them.
CK had essentially given his own forum eighty-one trials and tribulations.
He even blocked web crawlers.
In that regard, he was truly one of a kind.
To ordinary users, the Science Forum was simply an online repository and discussion board for theoretical science papers.
To information-security professionals, however, it was more like a technological show of force.
Anyone who triggered its intrusion-detection systems received warnings in return.
The person responsible for transforming the forum from a mere archive into something more was none other than Tony Stark.
The flamboyant show-off.
Tony's three doctoral degrees all belonged to applied sciences.
Yet while researching artificial intelligence, he happened to solve one of the twenty-three famous mathematical problems proposed by David Hilbert in the process of tackling an algorithmic challenge.
Ordinarily, such an achievement would have easily earned publication in premier journals such as Annals of Mathematics or publications associated with the American Mathematical Society.
Instead, Tony registered an account on the Science Forum under his real name and posted the solution there.
As perhaps the only person in the world who had guessed CK's true identity, Tony had effectively tossed a bomb into Henry's lap.
Henry stared at the post and found himself in a difficult position.
In the end, he created a new category called "New Discoveries."
Tony Stark's paper was moved there.
A corresponding link was added under the section dedicated to Hilbert's Twenty-Three Problems.
The status of that particular problem was updated from Unsolved to Solved.
Henry tagged the paper as Verified.
He also granted Tony Stark's username a verified identity badge.
Because the forum's moderation system automatically deleted meaningless praise and off-topic comments, only academically relevant discussions remained.
To address this, Henry added a Like feature.
That way, authors could at least see how many people appreciated or supported their work.
Tony Stark's paper quickly spread beyond the forum into the real world.
Initially, mathematically inclined young researchers who already used the forum challenged Tony's solution through academic debate.
Eventually, senior figures behind those younger academics joined in.
Most registered using their real names and provided sufficient credentials for identity verification.
They all attempted to find flaws in Tony Stark's proof.
The result was predictable.
One by one, they were convinced.
They accepted the correctness of the solution.
And their usernames received verification badges as well.
With Tony Stark leading the way, others began posting papers claiming to solve famous longstanding problems.
Many submitted lengthy and elegant mathematical proofs.
Most promptly received a Disproved tag.
They didn't even get a chance to argue.
Henry simply replied to the first comment and pointed out the exact error.
If a mistake existed in the proof, then the two sides of the equation were no longer equal.
Everything that followed became meaningless.
Sometimes Henry simply linked to another paper.
A Verified paper that clearly demonstrated where the mistake occurred.
Occasionally he linked not just one paper, but an entire chain of them.
As more and more self-proclaimed solutions appeared, more and more Disproved tags followed.
Gradually, however, genuinely substantial mathematical research also began appearing.
Some earned Verified status.
The physics sections evolved similarly.
Researchers posted new findings.
Henry almost always delivered a Verified or Disproved judgment within a remarkably short time.
If a paper contained weaknesses without necessarily being wrong, Henry might assign a Controversial tag instead and explain the questionable points.
Sometimes such papers were later corrected and eventually upgraded to Verified.
When that happened, the forum carefully documented who contributed each correction.
Whether it was the original author or another user, everyone received proper credit.
Occasionally a Verified paper would also receive a New Solution tag.
This indicated that similar approaches already existed elsewhere.
Links to related papers were provided within the article.
Other times, a Verified tag was accompanied by Not Original Author.
In such cases, the original source and author were clearly cited.
Every paper on the forum contained a timestamp.
Determining publication order was therefore straightforward.
However, if someone could provide proof that substantially identical content had appeared earlier in another public publication, authorship would be reassigned and annotated accordingly.
Claims such as:
"I had this idea in my notebook years ago."
were ignored completely.
One only had to look at the famous dispute between Newton and Hooke.
People enjoyed gossiping about great scientists, but the academic community itself had little ambiguity regarding intellectual ownership.
Henry simply applied the same standards.
Thanks to these rigorous authorship rules—and the forum's ability to rapidly determine whether a result was correct or not—the quality of papers submitted under real names steadily increased.
At first, submissions resembled projects from high-school science fairs.
Gradually, bachelor's-level work appeared.
Then master's-level research.
Eventually, even doctoral-level papers began showing up.
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