As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 92: The Astronomy Doctor Who Could Not Graduate
2021 is almost over, and Luo Shu is wandering around the University of Hawaii, Hilo campus. He feels that this year has been particularly difficult for him.

He even doubted whether he could graduate normally.

The Mauna Kea Observatory of the Hilo campus has been taken over by the American government, and international students from China like him can no longer access astronomical observation equipment.

It is equivalent to being in the third year of doctoral study and suddenly having to change the topic and direction.

If I continue with the current project, I will not be able to publish an article without astronomical observation data, and it is even more unrealistic to compile the data myself.

Luo Shu's mentor could tell at a glance that something was wrong since he had no access to astronomical observation equipment to make up data out of thin air.

Luo Shu could only wait for his mentor to help him find direction.

In fact, at the doctoral level, the biggest role of a supervisor is to help you find a good direction.

The good here refers to the good in our utilitarian sense. It means that it is easy to publish articles, the research difficulty is moderate and you can accomplish it with your efforts, and the supervisor has a certain say in this field and can help you publish the article.

The degree of involution in the academic world is now no less than that of the Internet. People with academic backgrounds that could get into a 985 university ten years ago now have difficulty getting into a first-tier university.

It's very difficult to get a teaching position in one of the top 50 universities in America, both in China and abroad.

The academic world is a global phenomenon, not just a Chinese one.

Luo Shu's original plan was to complete his PhD in Hawaii and then go to an Ivy League school for a postdoctoral fellowship, even a public Ivy League school would be fine.

As it turned out, any American student who wanted to participate in astronomical observations needed a background check, not to mention his Chinese background.

It is now a problem to graduate with a Ph.D. successfully.

Luo Shu’s mentor told him that he might as well switch to astrophysics, as this field has sub-fields that do not require any observation or data at all, and can use physical models to explain the structures of celestial bodies observed in the past.

Luo Shu was speechless after hearing this. He said, "I have been studying for a PhD for three years and will graduate in another three years. You want me to do astrophysics, which is like starting over from scratch."

It is difficult to graduate safely in six years. More importantly, he came to the University of Hilo to study for a doctorate because of its advantages in observatory and astronomy. If he wanted to study astrophysics, there was no need to come here.

The astrophysics program at the Hilo campus is very average. As an undergraduate from a domestic 985 university, if Luo Shu comes to America to study astrophysics, he can still get into a top school in America.

The University of Hilo is ranked around 150th.

He sat on a chair on the campus, wearing a mask and watching the students coming and going. He was speechless again, "Md, none of you wear masks, which makes me feel scared every day even though I have been vaccinated and still wear a mask."

Luo Shu took out the Rice Mix 4 that he had specially asked his classmates to buy from China and had shipped across the ocean, and took out the brain-computer connection headphones from his pocket and put them on.

"If nothing else, brain-computer connection is really convenient. It is really convenient for browsing Weibo and reading novels."

Novels are a form of entertainment that can give you a strong sense of satisfaction using only your hands. With the brain-computer interface connected to your phone, you don’t even need to use your hands and can just click and flip through the pages with your mind.

China's brain-computer-connected mobile phones are best-selling among food delivery riders, who can completely free their hands while waiting or riding to receive orders.

Moreover, most food delivery riders are single and have high incomes, which means they have higher disposable incomes.

Although there is a demand for Didi drivers, most of them have families and have relatively little personal disposable income.

The price of rice mix 4 has been reduced one after another. After the delivery riders discovered the convenience of connecting the brain-computer to the mobile phone, many of them bought a rice mix 4, which is a cost-effective product among high-end ones.

"It was a rare leisurely day since I started my doctorate, so I basically read through all the books that had been on my bookshelf."

Luo Shu opened the domestic securities software through his brain to check yesterday's domestic market. Since Hawaii and Yanjing have a time difference of 18 time zones, Luo Shu can only operate in the medium and long term.

"I bought all my assets in Sino-Bio on the day it went public, and it turned out to be a good idea. It has been fluctuating upwards recently."

Almost immediately after its listing, Kechuang Bio was included in the Science and Technology Innovation 50 and Double Innovation 50 Indexes.

The Double Innovation 50 Index refers to an index composed of 50 representative companies in the ChiNext and Science and Technology Innovation Board. (I lost at least 10 points on this index)

Investors are talking about Kechuang Bio's performance after its listing: It is worthy of being a company called Kechuang Bio, and it is worthy of being the leader that the Science and Technology Innovation Board has been waiting for for so long.

"The price-to-earnings ratio of brain-computer connectivity alone is only about 100 times, which is not expensive at all."

Many chip stocks in the A-share market have a price-to-earnings ratio of more than 2021 times. In , there are even many companies with lithium mines that can be hyped up to a dynamic price-to-earnings ratio of several hundred times.

"Recently, countries have been investing a lot of money in astronomy and high-energy physics. I don't know why."

"Logically speaking, the chapter on will affecting reality should be about biology, so why is it developing high-energy physics?"

"Could it be that some new particle has been discovered?"

After taking a quick look at today's A-share market, Luo Shu saw while browsing the news that various countries have begun to build their own particle accelerators. He realized that there must be new discoveries in physics.

Otherwise there wouldn’t be such a huge investment.

In recent years, due to economic globalization and technological progress, as well as the fact that most regions are in a state of peace, the world's GDP has been increasing.

However, starting from a certain year, the proportion of scientific research investment in the gross domestic product has been in a fluctuating downward process.

It has been a long time since Luo Shu saw in the news that countries have invested so much in the research and development of basic theoretical disciplines.

China often calls for encouraging scientific research and the development of basic disciplines, but American media will never advocate these things and would rather the lower-class people indulge in entertainment.

Even the proportion of middle and senior management engaged in scientific research is decreasing, and most of them are keen on working in the financial, media and pharmaceutical industries.

As a result, international students from Bharata and China basically occupied most of the seats.

Even many professors have only Asian students under their supervision.

As he was unable to make academic progress and was in a state of complete stagnation, Luo Shu devoted most of his energy to enjoyment and studying the financial markets.

As for the magic coin, he realized that this thing was not something he could own. He finally figured out how to calculate the cosmic coordinate system, but all the observation equipment was unusable. Could he judge the position of the planets with his naked eyes alone?

"Today, the Nasdaq and S&P 500 are still as stable as ever."

"When will the A-share market be able to stand up to expectations? If America falls, you must fall too. If America rises, you selectively follow suit."

In addition to securities software, Luo Shu’s mobile phone also has futures and cryptocurrencies.

Seeing the high price of MC, Luo Shu realized that it must be a magic coin. The buyer offered a price of $1 million but no one was willing to pay for it.

He logged into the software and took a look, and found that there was still no sell order on the MC, and there was only a lonely buy order hanging on it.

"Alas, I don't have a magic coin, and neither does the boss, so now we're even."

(End of this chapter)