As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 60 Subsequent Impact
"The 2021 Ali Global Mathematics Competition announced an increase in prize money, with the gold prize increased from the original 2 yuan to 10 yuan, and the winner can directly join the DAMO Academy."

"Ali Dharma Academy is recruiting astronomy talents worldwide. Dharma Academy has established a new astronomy laboratory. Professor Zhu Zhaohuan from the Department of Astronomy at the University of Nevada has officially joined Dharma Academy as the head of the Dharma Academy's astronomy laboratory."

In addition to Ali, major Internet companies such as Tencent, Huawei, and Qiandu are all setting up their own astronomy laboratories and aggressively recruiting mathematical talents.

As a result, there is a shortage of PhD graduates in astronomy this year, and the demand is comparable to that of PhD graduates in artificial intelligence in the past two years when artificial intelligence became popular.

Even undergraduate students majoring in astronomy from 985 universities can get a salary of more than 20 yuan as long as their GPA is acceptable.

Some graduating students majoring in astronomy and mathematics who wanted to take the national civil service exam originally had very few options and could only take some positions that did not have any restrictions. However, they were surprised to find that the country temporarily organized a round of national civil service exams specifically for graduates majoring in astronomy and mathematics.

"Due to reasons such as immature technology, China's Sky Eye announced that it would stop accepting observation applications from astronomers around the world."

The China Sky Eye is the largest spherical radio telescope on the blue planet. Its observation range can reach galaxies outside the Milky Way and even the edge of the universe billions of light years away.

As soon as the announcement of the China Sky Eye came out, foreign astronomers couldn’t help but complain:
"We only announced in March that we would accept observation applications from astronomers around the world, but in May we stopped accepting applications due to technical issues."

"It's a technical problem, but don't we know what the actual cause is?"

In the two days after Magic Coin came out, China's Sky Eye received observation applications from scientists from all over the world.

Out of consideration for national interests, China does not care about its reputation at this time and just finds a random reason to stop opening China's Sky Eye to the outside world.

In order to prevent the China Sky Eye from being damaged by external forces, the China Sky Eye's tourism projects were completely stopped, and the local people's hope that the China Sky Eye would boost tourism consumption was also dashed.

“原定于2021年12月24日发射的詹姆斯.韦伯太空望远镜，提前到7月27日发射。

The James Webb Telescope is an infrared observation space telescope jointly developed by the American Aeronautics and Space Administration, the European Space Agency, and the United States Space Agency.

"We can't postpone the launch of James Webb any longer. China has the Chinese Sky Eye, and they are also preparing their own space telescope. We cannot tolerate giving the L2 space point to China." The newly appointed NASA Administrator Bill was blunt.

The person in charge of the James Webb Space Telescope project is also named Bill, this Bill is Bill Oakes, and the director of NASA is Bill Nelson.

Oaks said: "Impossible, China's space telescope project has just been approved, it will definitely not be launched so soon."

Bill said angrily: "I have heard about the Webb project since I was an astronaut, but it has not been launched yet!"

"The original plan was to launch it in 2007, but what happened? It's already 2021, 14 years later, and it's still lying at the base!"

"If China is determined to build a space telescope, will you delay it for another 14 years?"

"In 98, they said the launch would be delayed until 2008."

"In 2000, they said the launch would be delayed until 2009."

“In 2002, they said it would be postponed to 2010.”

"2003 was postponed to 2011."

"2005 was postponed to 2013."

“It was postponed from 2006 to 2014.”

"On average, you postpone it by one year every year. I'm really fed up with it. In 2018, you couldn't delay it any longer, but at the end of 2019, the damn epidemic came and you had another excuse!" "You said it would be this year, but now you want to postpone it? Do you think it's possible?"

Oakes explained: "The Webb telescope is a very expensive project. We have to be very careful. This project is the most powerful infrared space telescope in human history. We have invested $100 billion."

Bill looked at him seriously. "Your initial budget was 5 million US dollars, and now it has swelled to 100 billion US dollars. If you can't launch it by the end of July this year, the National Security Agency will come in and audit this project from beginning to end!"

"There are only five Lagrange points around the Earth, and L2 is the best-positioned Lagrange point that is most conducive to observation. If we don't occupy it, China's space telescope will go up there."

The Lagrange point is a gravitational equilibrium point where objects are unaffected by gravity and remain relatively stationary.

The L2 point is the Lagrange point farthest from the Earth, at a distance of approximately 150 million kilometers.

This is also the Lagrange point with the best observation effect.

"If we had known this would happen, we might as well have asked Merlin to help us teleport the Weber telescope to the second Lagrange point!"

Oaks' eyes lit up. "Really? Can we really contact Merlin? It would be best if we could get him to help. We can assemble it on Earth and launch it directly."

Bill was genuinely speechless: "I was just kidding. How could we possibly contact Merlin directly? Ever since they discovered that he could teleport, the FBI has basically given up on finding him."

"The Webb telescope must be launched in July!"

The Webb telescope is the successor to the Hubble telescope, with a huge collecting area combined with infrared (IR) optimization.

Originally, the main research topics of the Webb telescope were the first reionization of light, the initial formation of galaxies, and the birth of stars and planetary systems.

Planetary systems and the origin of life were originally just sub-topics under the main research topic of the Webb telescope.

Due to the design mechanism of Magic Coin, planetary systems and the origin of life have become the most important tasks of the Webb telescope.

The deep field of WFC3 inside the giant galactic nucleus was observed using the narrowband imaging capability of the Tunable Filter Imager.

L2, where the Webb telescope will be located in the future, will be affected by zodiacal dust and will also be limited by the observatory's own self-emitted stray light, so an active cryogenic cooler is designed for further cooling to achieve longer wavelength performance.

It will investigate the formation of planetary systems and the origin of life by studying the chemical and physical history of objects that formed the Earth.

The Webb telescope is uniquely suited for imaging studies of young, self-luminous planets and late-stage, transgressive planets.

It can carry out high-precision research on the atmospheres of gas giant planets and planets outside the solar system.

After James Simmons was injected with the standard magic brain, his vital condition improved, making people realize that the magic brain can prolong life.

Therefore, the American upper class reached a consensus to do their utmost to develop astronomy and mathematics and obtain more Magic Coins.

This is a common consensus between China and America.

As for the Webb telescope, it was jointly developed by Europa and the Maple Leaf Country. America intends to default on the investments of the other two countries. I will just return your investment money directly to you.

(End of this chapter)