2021 is almost over, and Luo Shu is wandering around the University of Hawaii at Hilo campus. He feels that his life this year has been particularly unsatisfactory.
He even doubted whether he could graduate normally.
The Mauna Kea Observatory on the Hilo campus has been taken over by Amerikan officials, and international students from China like him no longer have access to astronomical observation equipment.
It is equivalent to studying for the third year of a Ph.D. and having to change topics and directions temporarily.
If we continue with the current topic, we will not be able to publish an article without obtaining astronomical observation data, and compiling the data ourselves will be even more unrealistic.
He had no access to astronomical observation equipment to compile data out of thin air. Luo Shu's instructor could tell at a glance that something was wrong.
Luo Shu could only wait for his mentor to help him find the direction.
In fact, at the doctoral level, the biggest role of a mentor is to help you find a good direction.
What is good here is good in our utilitarian sense. It is easy to publish articles, the research difficulty is moderate and you can do it with your own efforts, and the tutor has a certain say in this field and can help you publish articles.
Nowadays, the degree of involution in academia is no less than that of the Internet. It is now difficult for people with an academic background who could study in 985 ten years ago to even study in one.
It’s hard to get a teaching position at one of America’s top 50 colleges and universities, both domestically and abroad.
Volume in academia is a global phenomenon, not just in China.
Luo Shu’s original hope was to complete his PhD in Hawaii and then go to an Ivy League school as a postdoc, or a public Ivy League school.
As a result, there were unforeseen circumstances, and any student with Amerikan status who wanted to participate in astronomical observations needed a background check, let alone his Chinese background.
Now it is a problem to successfully graduate with a PhD.
Luo Shu's mentor told him that you should switch to the direction of astrophysics. This direction has subdivisions that do not require observations and data at all. Physical models can be used to explain the structures of celestial bodies observed in the past.
Luo Shu was speechless after hearing this. I have been studying for a doctorate for three years, and I will graduate in another three years. If you ask me to do astrophysics, it is equivalent to starting over again.
It is difficult to graduate steadily in six years. More importantly, he came to Hilo to study for a Ph.D. because of its advantages in observatories and astronomy. If he studied astrophysics, there was no need to come here.
Astrophysics at Hilo is very average. As a 985 undergraduate in the country, if Luo Shu comes to Americus to study astrophysics, he can still do it if he wants to go to Ameliken's top 50 schools.
Hilo is ranked 150th.
He sat on a chair on campus, wearing a mask and looking at the students coming and going. He was speechless for a while, "md none of you wear masks, which makes me scared every day even after getting vaccinated and wearing a mask."
Luo Shu took out the rice mix4 that he bought from a classmate from China and sent it across the ocean, took out the brain-computer connection headphones from his pocket and put them on.
"If nothing else, the brain-computer connection is really convenient. It's really convenient to browse Weibo and read novels."
Novels are inherently a form of entertainment that can provide a strong sense of satisfaction using only your hands. With the brain-computer connection to your mobile phone, you don’t even need your hands and you can just click and read with your mind.
Huaguo's brain-computer-connected mobile phones have the best sales among the group of takeaway riders, who completely free their hands while waiting and riding to take orders.
Moreover, most food delivery riders are single and have relatively high incomes, which means they have relatively high disposable income.
Although there is also demand for Didi drivers, most of them have families and their personal disposable income is relatively small.
The price of Rice Mix 4 has been reduced continuously. After takeaway riders discovered the convenience of connecting their brain computers to their mobile phones, many of them bought a Rice Mix 4, which is very cost-effective among high-end products.
“It’s been a rare leisure day since I started my Ph.D. program, so I basically scanned all the books on the shelf.”
Luo Shu opened the domestic securities software through his brain and looked at yesterday's domestic market.
Since there is an 18 time zone difference between Hawaii and Yanjing, Luo Shu can only operate in the medium and long term.
"I was right to buy one hand of Kechuang Biotech with all my net worth on the day it was listed. It has been rising with slight fluctuations recently."
Kechuang Biotechnology was included in the Kechuang 50 and Mass Entrepreneurship 50 index almost immediately after its listing.
The Mass Entrepreneurship 50 Index refers to an index composed of 50 representative companies on the GEM and the Science and Technology Innovation Board. (I lost at least 10 points on this index...)
The performance of Kechuang Biotech after its listing has been talked about by investors: It is worthy of being called Kechuang Biotechnology, 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, which is only about 100 times now, is not expensive at all.”
Many of Big A's chip stocks have a price-to-earnings ratio of more than 100 times. In 2021, there are even many companies with lithium mines that can achieve dynamic price-to-earning ratios of hundreds of times.
"Recently, countries are investing crazy money in astronomy and high-energy physics, and I don't know why."
"Logically speaking, the chapter on will affecting reality should be about biology. Why is high-energy physics developed?"
"Could it be that some new particles were discovered?"
After Luo Shu briefly read today's A-share market, he saw that various countries were starting to build their own particle accelerators while browsing the news. He realized that there must be new discoveries in physics.
Otherwise, there would not be such a large investment.
In recent years, due to economic globalization and scientific and technological progress, as well as the peace in most regions, the world's gross product has been increasing.
But starting from a certain year, the proportion of scientific research investment in gross product has been in a fluctuating and declining process.
It has been a long time since Luo Shu saw in the news that various countries have invested so heavily in the research and development of basic theoretical subjects.
China also often calls for encouraging scientific research and encouraging the development of basic disciplines. Media like Amerikan will not advocate these at all. They only wish that the people at the bottom can only indulge in pornographic music.
Even the proportion of middle and high-level employees engaged in scientific research is also decreasing, and most of them are keen on working in the finance, media and pharmaceutical industries.
So much so that international students from Bharat and China basically occupy most of the seats.
Even many professors have Asian faces.
Unable to progress academically and in a state of complete stagnation, Luo Shu focused most of his energy on having fun and studying 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 coordinate system of the universe, but the observation equipment was all useless. Can he judge the position of the planet with the naked eye alone?
"Today the Nasdaq and S&P 500 are as stable as ever."
"When will Big A be able to live up to its expectations? If Amerika falls, you will surely fall. If Amerika rises, you will selectively follow the rise."
In addition to securities software, Luo Shu also has futures and cryptocurrency on his phone.
MC’s price was high, and Luo Shu realized that it must be magic coin. The buyer’s price was US$100 million, but no one took action.
He logged into the software and took a look and found that there were still no selling orders on the MC, and there was still only a single buying order hanging on it.
"Oh, I don't have magic coins, and neither do the big guys. Now it's balanced."
