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The red signal light kept flashing.
The engineer finally decided to terminate the program and the temperature of the processors was lowered.
The blue signal light of “hope” was then turned off.
“Experint number 31.”
David looked through the chassis in a radiation-proof isolation room, and his eyes appeared to be gloomy and hopeless.
31 experints.
This was undoubtedly a failure.
Other than the computing engineers who were still talking about technical problems, everyone inside the research institute was bored and quiet.
Even the supercomputer was tired.
Over the course of a month, the D.E Shaw Institute spent more than ten million dollars on this mathematical model.
During this period, the D.E Shaw Institute continued to improve the calculation process, and Lu Zhou also continued to modify the details of his theoretical model by using the data from the calculation.
However, no significant results were produced.
David looked at the engineers and sighed as he said, “Sure enough, it doesn’t work.”
Lu Zhou was embarrassed. “How about I pay for the costs?”
David said in a relaxing tone, “No, it’s fine, the money is nothing. Research is like gambling, we just went to Las Vegas and lost.”
His scientific intuition told him that this idea was worth exploring.
Therefore, he was willing to spend the money.
However, he couldn’t help but add on, “Although I’ve never lost this much at Las Vegas before.”
There was a summary eting at the end of the experint.
Everyone was silent at the eting.
Lu Zhou briefly talked about his own point of view. The heads of the two experint groups talked about the experint.
As for David, he stayed silent until the end of the eting.
“Do maintenance on Anton, and start the 32nd experint three days later.” David looked at the engineer closest to him and simply said, “Making sure Anton is running at its best before the next experint.”
The engineer nodded. “Yes, boss!”
“I need to rest, and I’m sure you guys are the sa.” David rubbed his eyes as he said, “That’s it, eting over.”
...
A little setback was nothing for scientific research.
Even though they failed thirty tis, no one talked about giving up.
After all, everyone knew that scientific truth wasn’t that easy to obtain.
Lu Zhou was prepared to fail a hundred more tis.
However, if the 50th experint still didn’t produce any results, he wouldn’t let David pay for the experint anymore.
Even though this money ant nothing to David, Lu Zhou felt that, morally, it wasn’t acceptable.
Lu Zhou left the research institute and didn’t return to his dorm. Instead, he walked around the Columbia campus.
It wasn’t just Anton that needed a break, Lu Zhou also needed ti to relax his overheated brain.
He planned to spend at least a day not thinking about the experint.
Lu Zhou walked past the library, subconsciously avoiding all of the academic buildings.
He didn’t know how long he had walked.
Without him knowing it, he was at the Columbia University philosophy building.
Lu Zhou couldn’t help but smile.
“Is this fate?”
Even though he had fate with philosophy, he wasn’t happy at all.
A bronze statue was erected on the lawn in front of the philosophy building.
The statue was of a man thinking while he was kneeling down, and his muscles were tensed as if he were imrsed in a depressing thought.
This was one of the four “Thinker” statues of the world.
However, this statue was in a more deserted area than the other three. Lu Zhou was the only one on the lawn.
He placed his hands on the bronze statue and felt the coldness on his fingertips.
“I can see myself in you.”
Thinking was a painful thing.
Especially endless thinking.
Suddenly, Lu Zhou had an idea.
If only soone could give him so inspiration.
Even just a little bit of inspiration...
But then, Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head.
Inspiration didn’t co that easy.
This was the theory that could change the chemistry world, it wouldn’t be cheap to buy inspiration.
Suddenly, sothing happened.
Sothing appeared in front of him.
A blue dialog box showed up in his field of view.
[Congratulations, user, for completing the reward mission!]
Lu Zhou: ...?
What the hell?!
...
Unlike the D.E Shaw Research Institute, the Materials Research Institute at Binghamton University was cheering.
“Now is not the ti to celebrate, the experint has been successful but don’t sink the ship at the last minute.” Stanley then said to his assistant, “Apply for patents right now!”
The assistant nodded excitedly as he said, “Yes, professor!”
Professor Stanley looked at the SEM images and couldn’t help but smile.
Preliminary analysis proved that the caged carbon molecule could inhibit the diffusion of polysulfide compounds to a certain extent, and the production costs were acceptable.
However, more experints were needed to test the effects of applying it to lithium-sulfur batteries.
For example, to mix sulfur elent with cage carbon molecules, they needed to find a suitable mixing ratio as well as a chanical dispersion thod. Also, they had to test out how much suppression effect that could be achieved.
However, this didn’t affect the patent application; it also didn’t affect the thesis submission.
The second they found a way to create caged carbon molecules, they had already succeeded.
Without a doubt, they had won!
They were the leading developers of lithium-sulfur batteries!
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