Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 1 01 The hero Lu Ying is here today

January 1923, 1, at six o'clock in the afternoon.

Sima Road, Ghaihai City, Public Concession Industry Bureau Building.

The auditorium of the training department of the Ministry of Industry is full of seats, and a unique seminar is being held here.

There were about three or four hundred people in the audience. In addition to the many members of the organizers, the "Hebrew Association for Young People" and the "Academic Research Association", there were also many prominent figures in the concession: directors of the Public Concession Industry Bureau, The general director of the French Concession Board of Directors, and even the consular officials stationed in Shanghai from various countries came here.

"Shenzhen" reporter Zhao Junhao sat in the auditorium, his brows gradually knit together.

As a reporter for a major newspaper in Shanghai, Zhao Junhao witnessed with his own eyes the grand occasion when the great American and British philosophers Dewey and Russell visited China a few years ago.

What he saw and heard in the arena today is completely different from that at that time.

Among the more than 300 audience members present, including Zhao Junhao himself, there were only a handful of three Chinese.

Although this seminar is only open to invitees in name, it is actually quite easy to get an invitation letter.

Zhao Junhao was able to sit in the venue today, and he didn't even make an official appearance through the "Declaration" pavilion.

Because "Shenbao" never thought of sending reporters to participate in this discussion, they planned to buy news from the foreigner's "Dalu Bao" or "Zi Linxi Bao" from the very beginning.

Zhao Junhao is a graduate of Nanyang University, and he is interested in scientific topics, so he tried to call a foreign professor of his alma mater, but he did not expect to get an invitation letter easily.

Qin Hui still has three friends, not to mention those celebrities who hang out in the upper class all day long?

It's not that they can't get tickets, it's just that they don't want to come.

The prolonged warm applause in the lecture hall interrupted Zhao Junhao's thinking.

A middle-aged man of medium stature, well-dressed, with fluffy gray hair, a bushy mustache, and piercing brown eyes stepped onto the podium.

Considering the large number of people at the scene and the difficulty of giving a speech, Chatterley, the chairman of the Problem Research Association and also the host of the discussion, suggested that it is better for the participants to ask the speaker questions directly and ask him to explain their doubts one by one.

At the beginning, the audience in the hall were still a little bit reluctant, until someone finally asked the first question: "Doctor, do you think that the Michelson-Morley experiment is accurate enough, and it can be assumed based on this experiment that the vacuum The speed of light in is a constant quantity?"

The speaker on the stage smiled and nodded. While drawing schematic diagrams on the blackboard, he talked about Fizeau’s basic experiments, aberration of light, and Maxwell-Lorentz’s theory of electromagnetism in German in a simple way. Finally, an affirmative answer is given to this question.

Next to the speaker was Deqiong, an engineer from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau, who was responsible for translating the content of the explanation into English.

After the first question, followed by the second question and the third question, the atmosphere in the venue quickly became active.

The host Chatterley also asked a question: "Not long ago, the American astronomer Professor Campbell led the Clark Expedition to observe the solar eclipse in Walar, Australia, and wanted to use the results to refute the theory of relativity. Excuse me, doctor, this solar eclipse observation What was the result?"

"The results have not yet been published, because it is very difficult to measure the slight deviation of a star on the scale of one hundredth of a millimeter on the photographic plate, and calculate the deviation rate from it, and it may take several months time."

"Doctor, can I use the Jupiter occultation phenomenon to prove the correctness of the theory of relativity?" This time the question came from Anthony, an engineer from the Electrical Department of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

"Of course, not only is it possible, but as far as I know, someone is already doing calculations on this problem, and the result may be obtained soon."

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Among the attendees, probably only half of them really love science.

The rest are arty people who want to get a glimpse of the world's most popular scientist. These people's enthusiasm for science is always short-lived.

The frequency of on-site questions gradually decreased until finally no foreigners raised their hands to ask questions.

So a fat Chinese youth with a round face and wearing small round glasses finally had the opportunity to ask his question.

He put down his hand that had been raised for a while, stood up from the back row of the auditorium and asked, "Doctor, what do you think of Sir Oliver Lodge's research on spiritualism?"

The two natural and man-made disasters of World War I and the Spanish flu took hundreds of millions of lives, most of whom were young and middle-aged people, and left many elderly people in Europe and the United States who have to bear the pain of losing their children in old age .

Therefore, spiritualism gradually rose during this period, and people all wanted to know the news of the relatives who had been separated from each other through this so-called "spiritual communication".

The two most influential representatives among its believers are the above-mentioned former president of the University of Birmingham, Rocky, and the other is Sir Conan Doyle, who wrote the famous "Detective Sherlock Holmes".

Lodge lost his son in World War I, and Doyle lost his son and brother in World War I and the flu.

While "talking" to their deceased relatives and friends, the two did not forget to express their compassion and try to help more people who share the same illness as them.

So Lodge and Doyle went to various parts of the United States to give extensive speeches, and spiritualism also became rampant.

Hearing this question, the speaker on the stage's face sank, and he changed his good temper before, and uttered a sentence in French with disdain: "Ce n'est pas sérieux!"

De Qiong was embarrassed for a while, and after waiting for a while, he found that the speaker had no intention of going on, so he said slowly in English: "The doctor said, this question is not enough."

Such a small episode did not lead to renewed enthusiasm in the arena.

Seeing that all the audience were less interested, Chatterley decided to end the discussion early: "If there are no more questions, we will... well, sir, what questions do you have?"

A tall young man stood up in the corner of the back row. He cleared his throat and said in not-so-fluent German: "Hello, doctor. In ancient my country, there was a philosopher named Hui Shi. He once proposed a The point of view is called "today is suitable for the past", which means that we only set off today to go to Yuedi, and we arrived there yesterday. This point of view contains an interesting question, that is, can people go back to the past, or like the British As in the novel "The Time Machine" by the writer Wells, take a trip through time and space."

After laying the groundwork, Chen Muwu paused briefly, and then asked his own question: "Mr. Einstein, do you think time travel back to the past or to the future exists?"

(End of this chapter)