As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 198 New Discovery
In fact, there have always been voices in the country wondering why Zheng Li, as the richest man in China, has to stay in Singapore.

However, Zheng Li has been producing a steady stream of results in scientific research, and Zheng Li has not changed his nationality.

Even without new production capacity, Ke Chuang Bio's R&D center is continuously publishing papers in various journals.

A large amount of output is strongly related to Zheng Li.

Therefore, this voice only exists in a small amount on social media.

Moreover, after downgrading the suspicion that Zheng Li was Merlin, they would not pursue whether Zheng Li himself was in China too much.

To some extent, Lion City is completely under control.

Zheng Li's safety in Lion City can be guaranteed.

Although Zheng Li is in Singapore, his scientific research results and outputs all belong to Ke Chuang Biology.

Most of Kechuang Bio's production capacity is located in China.

In recent years alone, brain-computer connectivity has brought a massive amount of jobs and output value to the entire upstream and downstream of the consumer electronics industry chain.

Especially after the launch of brain-computer connected VR, the electronics industry in the Pearl River Delta region has developed rapidly.

Its driving effect is no less than that of domestic electronics companies joining Apple's industrial chain back then.

Moreover, China can only make a small profit in the Apple industry chain by relying on electronic OEM, while the profits from brain-computer connection VR can all remain in the country.

Therefore, Zheng Liren does not have much influence in Lion City. For talents of this level, China will give a lot of freedom.

Zheng Li had also considered the issues raised by Li Xulin, mainly because many things in China were restricted.

Moreover, his stay in China means he has to participate in the daily operations of Ke Chuang Bio, and he also has to attend many unnecessary meetings.

In Lion City, Zheng Li only needs to do what he wants to do.

"I have gotten used to the climate in Singapore and plan to stay there for a few more years."

“There are not a few years in the prime of life to waste.”

The most valuable achievements in scientists' lives are generally produced between the ages of 20 and 40.

Li Xulin himself is also engaged in scientific research, and he has a deep understanding of Zheng Li's words.

In fact, after getting married and having children, a large part of a person's energy will be diverted.

By that time, it will be difficult for you to learn new things, and you can only rely on past experience and knowledge to open up new boundaries.

But without new knowledge and skills, it's hard to do major innovative work.

He hasn't made any big breakthroughs since the birth of his two daughters:
"That's right. Life is short, and the golden age of scientific research is even shorter."

"It's good to be in Lion City. There are no trivial matters to bother me, so I can produce more."

Li Xulin wanted to say something, but changed his mind and gave up. He changed the subject and said:

"Your paper on the laboratory production of endorphins published in Nature."

"Later, our Biomedical Polymer Laboratory did a lot of research on endorphins, and today I have the opportunity to ask you some related questions."

“Maybe it will bring us more inspiration.”

"Currently, the only peptide that can be synthesized artificially and in the laboratory is beta-endorphin."

"But there is more than just beta endorphins. Why can't other types of endorphins be made using similar laboratory methods?"

Zheng Li pretended to think and said: "β-endorphin is composed of 31 amino acid residues."

“Welcome to the first Heroes of Doom league. The teams participating today are TeamLiquid, Cloud9, CLG and TSM.”

“These two veteran American clubs will continue the war in the battlefield of Hero’s End!”

"Heroes of Doom", as the most popular game in brain-computer connected VR, has been vigorously promoted by Tencent.

With the experience of League of Legends, its e-sports league has been rolled out in major countries.

America has the highest per capita brain-computer VR ownership and the most complete e-sports market.

Therefore, the development speed of "Heroes of Doom" in the American e-sports league is second only to that of China.

This is Luo Shu's first time to watch the "Heroes of Doom" game live. Before that, he watched the game at home on Futureverse.

When watching at home, you can choose between the third perspective and the first perspective. Luo Shu usually chooses the first perspective. You can learn something from watching professional players from the first perspective.

Especially for devices like VR, the first-person perspective is more exciting.

Tencent has also specially made a flat game screen, which means that you can watch the "Heroes' End" game on a two-dimensional terminal such as an iPad or a computer.

Luo Shu rarely uses other devices to watch VR game live broadcasts because it feels weird.

Especially if you have played the game yourself, you will feel uncomfortable watching the two-dimensional images.

But watching the game live is another story.

It was a rare trip for him to California from Austin, the capital of Texas in southern America.

Luo Shu came to California this time mainly on a business trip to Cupertino, where Apple's spaceship headquarters building is located.

Apple's Astronomy Center is in Austin, and employees at the center occasionally need to travel to the headquarters on business.

This weekend, Luo Shu was thinking of going to Los Angeles to hang out and watch the game.

The atmosphere on the scene is above all else, especially at American competitions where there will be top DJs to liven up the atmosphere.

"Heroes of Doom" games are played twice every weekend, and there are a total of twelve clubs in the North American league.

There will be four teams competing on the same stage every day, for a total of four games.

Since today's four teams are all long-established American e-sports clubs, the venue was particularly full.

There were even people who bought standing tickets to watch.

"Nio was in great shape today. He once again killed Ash in the crowd. Liquid's leader fell! The remaining three are about to be defeated!"

The commentators' loud voices echoed throughout the stadium.

Luo Shu was talking to a Chinese-looking girl who was watching the game nearby:

"Hello, are you coming to watch the game alone too?"

The other party looked at him with a little surprise: "Yes."

Luo Shu smiled and said, "It's rare to see a girl come to watch a game alone."

“Although this is my first time attending a Hero’s End match, I have been to several League of Legends matches before.”

The e-sports industry has developed rapidly in recent years, and the one with the most complete ecosystem and the best development is undoubtedly League of Legends.

Even today, it is the world's top e-sports event.

In order to rapidly develop the e-sports ecosystem of "Heroes of Doom", Tencent specifically handed over "Heroes of Doom" to Tencent Esports, which previously operated LOL.

At the same time, Tencent did not port "Heroes of Doom" to other VR platforms.

However, Tencent has developed VR version apps for its live streaming platforms such as Youku, Yahoo, and Bilibili.

And the live broadcast rights of VR games have been opened to these apps.

Therefore, if you have VR equipment, you can't play "Heroes of Doom", but you can watch the live broadcast of "Heroes of Doom". At the same time, you can also use a tablet or mobile phone to watch the live broadcast of "Heroes of Doom".

The price of brain-computer connected VR is relatively high. The starting price of 10,000 yuan makes it unaffordable for many students and newly-entered office workers.

Tencent has spared no effort in winning over this group of people.

Because of this, Heroes of Doom has a lot of cloud players. I haven't played it, but I know the game content and e-sports players like the back of my hand.

"Nice to meet you, are you Chinese?"

The girl shook her head and said, "No, I am a second-generation Chinese."

Seeing that the other party was not very interested in talking, Luo Shu did not say much, but just handed him a business card.

Then continue to immerse yourself in the game.

There aren't so many bootlickers in the adult world; some are just brief attempts.

If the other party does not have a strong response, Luo Shu will usually stop there.

It was precisely this attitude of absolutely not licking that caused Luo Shu to be unable to find a partner.

But he himself is not in a hurry, as life is so wonderful that one person can feed the whole family.

"Neo used his ultimate and he survived! And Cloud9 was wiped!"

Free games are actually very popular abroad.

While domestic players are complaining about built-in charges, foreign players think that all content can be played for free, and you only pay for the game content if you are satisfied.

Even if you don't pay, you can still experience most of the game content, which is great.

Domestic players get a headache when they hear about built-in charges, and their first reaction is: They are trying to trick me into spending money again.

This doesn’t mean that paid games are not a rip-off. For many games, you spend dozens of dollars to buy them but the gaming experience is terrible.

However, the paid games that are well-known among Chinese gamers are the best of the best, and most of them have not been cheated by low-quality paid games.

So Chinese gamers think paid games are good.

Paid games are like opening a blind box. Most of the time, you don’t know whether they will satisfy players before they are opened.

Like "Heroes' Doom" produced by Tencent, it also has built-in game skins and charges for the skins.

This charging method is much better than charging for props.

After all, it does not affect the balance of the game.

The atmosphere on site is indeed much better than watching the live broadcast.

"Now only Neo is left on CLG's side, and all his teammates are dead.

But there are still three people alive on TSM's side, can Neo create a miracle? "

“I think it’s difficult, after all, the mage on the TSM side still has at least two chances to cast the spell.

It's too difficult to survive these two spellcasting opportunities."

Neo is a star player in the "Heroes of Doom" league and has many famous scenes of killing his opponents.

This time he was again in a one-versus-many situation, and the players present were looking forward to seeing him stage another miraculous comeback.

Luo Shu is no exception.

"Hey, what? Okay, I'll be right there!"

Luo Shu patted his head. It seemed that he would not be able to watch Neo perform another reversal in person today.

"Ro, you're here."

"You need to rush back to Austin as soon as possible. Once you get into work mode, you will know what the work content is."

"I guess you won't be able to communicate with the outside world for a while. You can tell your family on your way back."

Mining magic coins is a zero-sum game. If you mine them, others will have none.

Therefore, the giants have very high confidentiality requirements for the staff engaged in mining.

Whenever there is a new discovery, everyone must disconnect all means of communication with the outside world and work in the company until it is ruled out that there are valuable cosmic coordinates in this star field.

Until the magic coin is mined, or the cosmic coordinates are eliminated.

It is possible that there are no planets in this star field that could possibly harbor intelligent life, or it is possible that there are, but the magic coins represented by the cosmic coordinates have been mined by other forces.

Apple's mining team encountered this situation twice. The cosmic coordinates they found that satisfied the Heber algorithm had been redeemed during authentication.

This feeling of frustration is even stronger than not finding the magic coin.

Although they cannot communicate with the outside world, Apple will provide a large amount of entertainment content to employees living in the research base.

Luo Shu was not opposed to this because he received a considerable amount of compensation every time he was asked to work in a centralized location.

"Luo, the company has already bought you the nearest flight from Los Angeles to Austin, which will take off in two hours."

Luo Shu complained in his heart: What great discovery is this? They were in such a hurry to get me back that they only reserved two hours.

"Luo, this time there is a new discovery."

"We found a planet with a spectrum similar to that of the blue star."

"Now you need to observe whether his model spectrum shows good consistency."

This is due to the enhanced intensity contrast between wavelengths that are sensitive to the surface, such as 1.6 μm, and wavelengths that are insensitive due to strong molecular absorption, such as 1.4 μm.

The features formed are key characteristics for the presence of oceans on a planet's surface.

"If you successfully observe a consistent model spectrum, you can then proceed to calculate its polarization characteristics."

Polarimetry is another powerful technique. As expressed by the Fresnel equations, specular reflections (scintillation) from smooth liquid surfaces are highly polarized (approximately 100% when the angle of incidence equals the Brewster angle).

Cloudless planets with full ocean cover also exhibit very high peak polarizability (>70%), which is significantly larger than planets with other surface types. However, diffuse scattering from clouds, atmospheric Rayleigh scattering, and various other effects dilute the polarization signature of the ocean.

Most of these theoretical works calculated the scintillation intensity and polarization considering wind-driven sea surface tilt based on the Cox-Munk model.

Luo Shu nodded and said, "Okay, I hope the polarization eigenvalues ​​will have good results this time."

One benefit of polarimetry is that the degree of polarization is virtually insensitive to Earth extinction, which makes it applicable both in space and on the ground, due to the relative nature of the measurement (Stam 2008). In contrast, photometric and spectral features appear to be severely affected by Earth extinction and its variations, making them more suitable for space observations than for ground-based observations.

Another benefit is compatibility with high-contrast observations. Polarization differential imaging (PDI) is a widely used technique that enhances contrast performance to detect polarized objects (planets and disks) around an unpolarized central star.

The PDI technique can be used not only to detect planets, but also to measure their polarization.

Luo Shu prayed secretly in his heart that he would be able to discover something this time.

You have to know that their department burned through Apple's budget of tens of billions of dollars in two years.

If there is no output for a long time, Luo Shu cannot guarantee that their department will not be laid off.

If Merlin hadn't come out of nowhere last year, they would have had most of their budget cut.

After Luo Shu returned to his workstation, he immediately opened the relevant software and began to pull out the observation values ​​and process them.

(End of this chapter)