Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 102 When 50 planets come out, the world is shocked
Before the press conference ended, Chen Muwu, Dyson, Eddington and Delaire stood on the stage and asked the photographers to take a few photos.

For a while, the white light in the conference room flickered, and soon after, white smoke and some pungent smells began to float above the head.

Disposable flash bulbs hadn’t been invented yet, and if you want to use flash when taking pictures, you must ignite a certain dose of a mixture of magnesium powder and potassium chlorate before each shot.

After taking the photos, the reporters left one after another. Now they should think about how to rush back to Fleet Street in London from Greenwich in the middle of the night to see if they can remove the headlines from the front page and replace them with the latest ones before the newspapers are sent to the printing plant. the big news.

There were also several major newspapers who sent more than one reporter, and the remaining ones planned to do an exclusive interview with Chen Muwu, the discoverer of the new planet.

Facing these uncrowned kings, Chen Muwu knew that it was not appropriate for him to offend anyone.So he asked Eddington to come forward, blasted away several media that smeared and spread rumors in the "Eddington beating" incident, and then asked the remaining few to conduct a joint interview with Chen Muwu.

In fact, Lao Ai didn't call the media that had smeared Eddington and Chen Muwu in the first place.

But there is no impenetrable wall in the world, and everyone's editorial offices are basically on Fleet Street, so they all got the news.

The reporters had long wanted to meet Chen Muwu, but every time they went to Cambridge, they were always stopped by the supervisor of Trinity College and the management staff of Cavendish Laboratory.

Today at the Greenwich Observatory, they finally got their chance.

Chen Muwu knew what these British people liked to hear, so he simply skipped over his early life in China, and focused on how he was discovered by Einstein in the sea, and how he was discovered by Einstein after he came to England. I have received a lot of care and help from senior teachers such as Old Thomson and Rutherford.

He also focused on the relationship between teacher and friend with Eddington. Before he came to the UK, Lao Ai helped him travel around the publication of his thesis. a huge help.

This business bragging made Eddington dizzy and embarrassed.

If just now, Eddington, like his family member Edison, took all the credit for discovering Planet X on himself, then Chen Muwu, as the actual first discoverer, would be absolutely indisputable, and he even had nothing to do.

If Eddington, like the Lowell Observatory in the original space-time, vigorously promotes the Observatory of Cambridge University as the first observatory to discover new planets, but deliberately ignores the contribution of Chen Muwu, the first discoverer, Chen Muwu still has nothing to do.

But Eddington followed the old tradition of Trinity College and did not take the credit for himself.

"Throw me a peach and repay it with Qiongyao", so Chen Muwu also praised Eddington without hesitation.

This kind of story of white people acting as saviors to save yellow people is very appetizing to the British people nowadays, so the reporters sitting in the audience are also writing like dragons and snakes one by one, quickly recording every word of Chen Muwu, for fear of missing a little bit key information.

After saying this, Chen Muwu changed the topic, and the expression on his face became serious.

"Gentlemen, the group of journalists who have just been kicked out by Professor Eddington, and their newspaper office, at the beginning of last year, because of the 'Eddington beating' incident, have treated Mr. Eddington and me, as well as my country. He and the nation have carried out very bad smears and slanders.

"I believe that everyone who stays here is a righteous person who still sticks to his own heart, so I also hope that you can record and publish the following words truthfully.

"After I came to the UK and entered Cambridge University, I did receive help from many teachers and friends, and I am very grateful to these people.

"However, just as real life is far less beautiful than fairy tales, as a Chinese, I have received far more discrimination and ridicule than the help I have received.

"Last December, my friend George Yeh, a top student at Magda Union College, Cambridge University, was walking home from school when he was abused for no reason by a drunk man because of his skin color. beaten.

"Afterwards, a British friend of mine told me that the drunk man was probably instigated by the fallacies and heresies advocated by watching the Fu Manchu movie played in the bar near the school. With this farce.

"I am here to tell you this matter today, not to complain, nor to complain, but to convey a real situation to you, and to appeal to the British people with conscience through you, and hope that they can treat China around them well. People, don't always look at people with colored glasses. Everyone has two eyes, one nose and one mouth. Except for hair and skin color, there is no inconsistency in other places.

"But at the same time, I also want to name these people headed by Saxon Romer. They have never even set foot on the land of the East, but they 'swear' and 'confirm' to discredit China and the Chinese people. I really don't like it. Know where the conscience of this kind of person is? They start lying to the sky just to make money, this kind of person has really seriously lowered my perception of the British in my heart."

Chen Muwu didn't say something like "why the Chinese can find this new planet, but the British can't", because such words are likely to be labeled as arrogant and conceited, which makes people hate, Have the opposite effect.

Moreover, Fu Manchu's literary image is also a big villain who has all kinds of high-end knowledge and has many doctoral diplomas. If he says the above words, he will probably be used by people with ulterior motives and make a big fuss.

Maybe he will arrange another son named Chen for Fu Manchu. In this time and space, Shang Qi will be replaced by himself.

Chen Muwu didn't know how much his sincere speech would be deleted and how much it would be kept when it appeared in the newspaper tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

But now it is rare to have an opportunity to speak out publicly. He can't complain about these blocks that have been pent up in his heart for a long time.

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It was not the Times or the Daily Telegraph that first reported the discovery of the ninth planet in the solar system to the world, but the British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC.

The BBC is now just a small radio station that has broadcast to the outside world for only one year, and its broadcast signals only cover the three major cities in England, London, Birmingham and Manchester.

At six o'clock in the morning, on the top floor of the Marconi Building in London, the studio of the 2LO radio station began to transmit radio signals to London and nearby areas through the equipment on the roof.

The first piece of news, not about the royal family, nor about new cabinet members, was that a ninth planet in the solar system had been discovered at the University of Cambridge Observatory in Cambridgeshire.

From the sound of the radio, or the headlines on the front page of the morning newspaper published today, the press stations of news agencies of various countries in London, all learned of this news that was enough to shock the whole world.

Therefore, all the wired telegraph machines and wireless telegraph machines in the various reporter stations were busy running.

The code carrying the news crossed the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel westward and eastward respectively, and radiated this exciting news around the world from London as the center.

"The ninth planet in the solar system was discovered yesterday, from the "Ramanujan" of physics, Chen Muwu from the University of Cambridge".

"A new brother in distant space, a new planet in the solar system found beyond Neptune".

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In the morning of the same day, Zhu Zhaoxin, Chargé d'affaires ad interim at the Legation of the Republic of China in the UK, once again read the news of the discovery of a new planet from the "Times" sent by the staff.

He has now grasped a rule, that is, whenever the staff sends a newspaper instead of a document, and the news enclosed in a red frame does not publish content related to politics, economy, military affairs, and the economy, then Most of this news is related to that Chen Muwu from Cambridge University.

Sure enough, as he expected, seeing Chen Muwu's name in the title, Zhu Zhaoxin had a subtle expression of "I knew it" on his face.

After reading the news, Zhu Zhaoxin asked the staff who sent the newspaper: "You said, how important is this new planet's status in astronomy if it can make the headlines of The Times?"

The staff felt that Mr. Chargé d’Affaires asked an extremely stupid question. You all know that it has already made the headlines of the largest newspaper in the UK. Do you still need to ask how important it is?

You know, even the news of the Great Kanto Earthquake that killed 10,000+ people didn’t even make it to the front page of The Times.

"So, this is a very important piece of news?"

"Yes, Mr. Chargé d'Affaires, this is equivalent to Chen Muwu discovering another planet with the same status as the earth under our feet."

Zhu Zhaoxin's attitude seemed to be that he was asking his subordinates for instructions: "Then should we report to the country?"

"The subordinates feel that the report should be sent to the country immediately. After all, this is something that can show the face of the country and grow the ambition of the people of the country."

The charge d'affaires waved his hand: "Okay, then do as you say!"

……

In the afternoon of that day, when the exclusive interview with Chen Muwu at the Greenwich Observatory last night began to appear in the evening papers in London, news of the discovery of new planets also appeared in the evening papers in the United States.

In the interview on the Evening News, there was indeed a large deletion. Chen Muwu said how he discovered the new planet, and thanked the various teachers at Cambridge University for their great help. These two parts were basically verbatim.

As for Ye Gongchao's beating, he didn't talk about it at all. Only at the end of the interview did he mention Chen Muwu's dissatisfaction with Saxon Romer and Fu Manchu's series of novels.

This interview, together with more detailed information about the new planet, was also reprinted in morning newspapers across the United States the next morning, becoming a hot topic of discussion on the North American continent that day.

Mr. Percival Lowell, the rich man in Boston who funded the construction of the Lowell Observatory in order to find the mysterious planet X, had passed away a few years ago, and her widow was having an affair with Lowell at this time because of inheritance issues. The Observatory is fighting in court.

It was precisely because of this inheritance dispute that the Lowell Observatory had to stop tracking the traces of Planet X, and at the same time gave Chen Muwu an opportunity to find Planet X in advance.

Lowell's younger brother, Abbott Lowell, president of Harvard University, read the news of Chen Muwu's discovery of the ninth planet in the newspaper. Yes, this planet was not discovered in the observatory built by Big Brother.

The Lowell family is rich, and Abbott even thought about donating another [-] US dollars to donate a larger-caliber astronomical telescope to the Lowell Observatory to help those astronomers complete their unfinished business.

Now that Planet X has been discovered and his elder brother's last wish has been fulfilled, Abbott thinks again whether to take out the 1 US dollars that he has prepared before as a reward for the discoverer.

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Just as the concept of time travel was proposed in China before, which inspired the creation enthusiasm of folk cults and witchcraft, the mysterious planet X discovered by Chen Muwu this time has further promoted the astrology industry in Europe.

As a Scorpio, Chen Muwu has never believed in horoscopes, but he has always known that, according to later astrology, the ruler of Scorpio is Pluto.

But in the original time and space, Pluto was not discovered until 1930. Didn't Scorpio even have a guardian star before 1930?

It wasn't until after traveling that Chen Muwu discovered that this was not the case. In the era when Pluto was not discovered, the ruler of Scorpio was still Mars.

However, since a new planet has appeared in the current solar system, European astrologers can also consider which constellation to put this new planet on.

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Three days later, "Nature" published a short paper on the orbital data of the new planet X. The author was naturally Chen Muwu. This time, his mailing address was changed from the Cavendish Laboratory to the University of Cambridge Observatory.

After the orbit data was released to the world, scientists all over the world began to put down their original tasks, adjust the orientation of the telescope in front of them, and observe the most famous planet X according to the orbital orientation given.

More and more astronomical data are published in professional astronomical journals, which increasingly support the correctness of Chen Muwu's orbit calculation.

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In China, the Lunar New Year is coming soon. Regardless of whether they have money or not, every family wants to have a good year and hope for a better life for the next year.

The fact that Chen Muwu discovered a new planet in a foreign country is far less discussed among ordinary people than the question of which market is cheaper for pork.

But in an intellectual family, the atmosphere is completely different.

It has been almost a year since Chen Muwu left home, and the old lady's desire to find a daughter-in-law for her youngest son has also grown from being very strong when he first left home, and has gradually become dispensable as time wears down.

But before and after the Spring Festival this year, in the name of New Year's greetings, there were even more matchmakers and lobbyists who came to Chen Muwu's door to propose marriage to Chen Muwu than when Chen Muwu just left home.

Although the big brother Chen Muqiao was very tired to deal with these people, but at the same time he was happy for his little brother from the bottom of his heart.

Although the third brother is far away overseas, he can still earn face for the family continuously.

The two-way railway administration building located at the North Railway Station of Ghaihai even worked overtime before the Spring Festival to make a new banner, which replaced the previously prepared " Happy Spring Festival" four words.

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In the inner city of Beijing, the Chinese Astronomical Society, which is located in the ancient observatory, has been extremely busy these past few days. Not only has the number of people visiting its door gradually increased, but also various institutions of higher learning in the capital have also sent invitation letters, hoping that the Astronomical Society can send out Experts, go to various universities to give a few popular science lectures, and talk about what the ninth planet discovered by Chen Muwu is all about.

Of course, their behavior was purely carried away by enthusiasm.

It will take at least half a month for the "Nature" magazine to publish the new planet's orbit to be transported to China via the Siberian Railway. Now, the relevant people in the Chinese Astronomical Society can only understand the new planet through the Chinese and English newspapers. Just a few words, they are not much better than ordinary people!
However, even after the "Nature" magazine is transported, it is estimated that they will not be able to start the observation work immediately, because there is no telescope with a large enough diameter to observe this planet X.

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Dr. Shulman, the US Minister to China, regretted it. Why didn't he offer more favorable conditions last year to invite Chen Muwu to study in Cornell?
After letting such a big fish go to the University of Cambridge in England, in less than a year, Chen Muwu has made countless new inventions and discoveries in physics, and this time he simply crossed over to astronomy !
Obviously, obviously it was me first!
Why, why did it become like this?
This Hu Shi from Bei University is really unreliable when he does things!
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Just as Schulman said, in the past year or so, Chen Muwu proposed in physics that there are two kinds of Chern scattering in gamma rays and visible light, and there is one Chern universe and two in the relativistic field equation. Chen Xie, Chen statistics in thermal radiation, and the electron wave hypothesis explaining the Bohr atomic model.

These new discoveries, in the eyes of physicists, may each be something extraordinary.

But in the eyes of ordinary people in the market, so many of his discoveries added together are not as shocking as the discovery of a new planet X in the solar system.

Because after all, things in the microcosm cannot be seen just by looking, but the starry sky above the head can be seen by looking up.

With this incident alone, Chen Muwu's influence in newspapers all over the world has been able to reach the time when the total solar eclipse in 1919 verified the general theory of relativity and overthrew Newton's classical mechanics.

Although Chen Muwu still has a certain distance to compare with Einstein, in the recent period, in the hearts of ordinary people, he is definitely the most famous physicist after Einstein.

Compared with Bohr, who is now ranked second in the hearts of physicists, he is much more famous!

(End of this chapter)