Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 142: Christmas eve

　　The impact of the breakthrough in lithium technology on the capital market continues to be fermented.

　　The world's largest producers of lithium materials are SQM of Chile, Arbor of the United States, and Kermitel of Germany, and these three companies have almost monopolised 80% of the world's brine lithium salt production.

　　The last trading day before Christmas, almost just opened, the investors of the three lithium mining giants, received an amazing Christmas gift.

　　The shareholders of the three companies themselves were all dumbfounded by this sudden surprise, when "Nature" and "Science" highlights that lithium dendrite paper, the market did not move at all, and no one thought that an MRS meeting would bring such an amazing effect.

　　However, with the industry's pioneering of lithium products has honoured people's expectations, the capital dividend brought about by technological breakthroughs, also began to enter the end.

　　After all, when the upstream of the industry chain are feeling the heat, no doubt it means that the downstream has begun to return to calm.

　　How the capital market on Wall Street was changing, Orion was not interested in these things for the time being, nor did he pay any attention to them.

　　For one thing, he hadn't studied the financial side of things, and for another, he probably wouldn't be that interested in the money thing for a while.

　　After financial independence, he could explore more purely within the realm of science without having to care too much about research funding, market value, and life in general.

　　To be honest, Orion now probably has some idea of how David Shaw felt.

　　Although Wall Street brought him the beautiful cars and houses that Columbia University couldn't give him, it couldn't give him eternal satisfaction.

　　It is true that the game of capital fluctuates up and down by ten million is exciting enough, but this kind of excitement often can not even last the first few years, it will be drowned in the emptiness like a tidal wave of sweeping, and finally just left to these unattractive figures of numbness, like a marriage to make do with the past.

　　Especially for an expert in massively parallel computation, this boring and monotonous game of numbers is no longer a source of pleasure for him.

　　But science is different.

　　The pleasure derived from science is more lasting than any money, beauty, luxury cars, or any other physical enjoyment.

　　Imagine the world being transformed by the results of a single study. Most people can't even feel the rotation of the earth, but you can feel that the whole world is turning because of you.

　　Emptiness after seconds?

　　Numbness after being used to it?

　　Doesn't exist.

　　Because the universe is like a Möbius ring that never ends.

　　And so it is with science.

　　......

　　With the arrival of Christmas, the entire town of Princeton was filled with a festive atmosphere.

　　In contrast, Princeton's campus was much colder.

　　As early as two weeks before Christmas, the winter holidays had already begun here, and would continue until the second week after Christmas.

　　Except for some international students, most of the students chose to go out for holidays or go home for the New Year.