Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 117 65

While Chen Muwu was working hard in the Cavendish Laboratory, the new issue of "Nature" was quietly listed on the market.

Different people have different views on Chen Muwu's paper on "Chen's exclusion principle" plus "electron spin" published above.

Like Lorentz, Bohr had heard about the conjecture of the semi-quantum number a long time ago. Not only had he read the papers published by Lande, Sommerfeld had also written to him a few years ago.

Sommerfeld introduced that he had a student named Heisenberg. When he read the early papers, he thought that if a half-integer was introduced into the quantum number, the theoretical problems caused by the abnormal Zeeman effect could be solved.

According to Sommerfeld, this Heisenberg is also a genius. Like Pauli, Sommerfeld's former student and his former assistant, he only went to university for three years and got a doctorate directly.

After Kramers left, Bohr, who was short of an assistant, extended his claws to Heisenberg in Germany.

In March of this year, Bohr invited Heisenberg, who had already obtained a Ph.D., to come to Copenhagen during the vacation, and took him to hike in the Danish forest for three days.

During this excursion, Bohr showed the side of a good teacher and helpful friend.

Not only did he take Heisenberg to visit the palace where the legendary Hamlet lived, but he also talked freely with the young man, talking about everything in heaven and earth.

Bohr also has a recent worry, that is, the building of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, which was built a few years ago, has no vacant rooms as the number of students continues to increase.

He got another sum of money from the Carlsberg Foundation, and took a piece of open space next to the institute, planning to expand the institute.

So he had to stay in Copenhagen to oversee the whole spring, so he couldn't attend the Solvay meeting in Brussels at the end of April.

For him, this excursion with Heisenberg can be described as "stealing three days of leisure", allowing Bohr to temporarily relax from the pressure of the construction site supervisor.

It was also this excursion that convinced Bohr that Heisenberg was a good candidate for his assistant. He decided to apply for a scholarship for Heisenberg to come to Copenhagen for research.

Bohr's invitation made Heisenberg, who was in Germany, the center of the economic depression, very happy.

As long as he gets a sum of money from Bohr, besides his own daily expenses, he should be able to support other family members.

A few days after sending Heisenberg away and letting him go back to Germany to pack his luggage, Bohr received the latest issue of the journal Nature.

He read Chen Muwu's paper from the beginning to the end, only to realize that the fourth quantum number is not a half integer, but only two numbers, one-half and negative one-half.

Although there was some disagreement between Bohr and Chen Muwu in terms of the particle nature of light.

But now Bohr felt that his junior, whom he had never met, was simply his greatest blessing.

Chen Muwu first proposed that electrons have volatility, and made a perfect explanation for several assumptions in the atomic model he proposed.

Then, now he has come up with a fourth quantum number and explained it, further improving the explanation of electron orbits in the atomic model.

Bohr felt that although Chen Muwu was now a student in the Cavendish Laboratory, his theoretical achievements were far superior to his experimental discoveries.

Other experimentalists discovered a phenomenon by accident, repeating almost the same work every day, just to sum up a law, and then hope to find a corresponding explanation for this law.

But Chen Muwu is different, he basically puts the theory first every time, even if he can occasionally do a few experiments, these experiments are just for the sake of the theory.

Bohr felt that Chen Muwu followed his teacher Rutherford and stayed in Cavendish's laboratory.

He thought about whether he should brandish his little hoe and dig his direct junior into the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen?

But this time Bohr still only accepted half of Chen Muwu's paper.

He thought it was clever to come up with a fourth quantum number to explain atomic orbitals, but the concept of electron spin was stupid.

If electrons really have spin, isn't the linear velocity on its surface exceeding the speed of light?
Bohr did not attend the Solvay Conference, and Chen Muwu was lazy for a while because he was writing on the boat, so he did not include the relativistic explanation of electron spin in the paper.

So that made him make one, the same mistake that Lorenz made in the meeting.

But this time, fortunately, Bohr did not act impulsively again, and came up with an incident similar to the BKS paper, and publicly refuted Chen Muwu's theory in a magazine.

He chose to pick up his pen and wrote a letter to Chen Muwu, tactfully mentioning in the text of the letter that he had discovered a "little" error in his thesis.

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Pauli also held the same view as Bohr.

When he received a new issue of Nature, Pauli was still in the sadness of watching the film.

He was a Chaplin fan, so when he heard that the idol's new movie was going to be shown in a nearby theater, Pauli couldn't wait to see one.

As a result, in the film "A Woman in Paris" produced by United Artists, not only did Chaplin not appear, but he only became the director, and it is also a rare tragedy of Zhuo's family.

Although it had been two days since I watched the movie, Pauli still couldn't get out of that emotion.

So when he finished reading Chen Muwu's paper, he completely ignored the first half of the paper, which should have been named after him and belonged to his own theory.

Instead, it fired directly at the electron spin in the second half.

Pauli was very opposed to this seemingly absurd theory. He never believed that electrons would have intrinsic angular momentum, and he never wanted to retain any classical concepts in quantum theory.

Although he had served as Bohr's assistant in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pauli still didn't quite agree with Bohr's semi-classical and semi-quantum old quantum theory.

He even referred to Bohr's theory as "a heresy from Copenhagen" in a private letter with a friend.

As for this paper by Chen Muwu in the journal "Nature", Pauli even picked up a pen and wrote a note of "This idea is very clever, but nature can't be like this, NEW" in the blank space of the paper.

"NEW" does not mean new, but an abbreviation of "Not Even Wrong".

In addition to pride, a poisonous tongue is also one of Pauli's characteristics.

If he says to you, "Oh, there's nothing wrong with that," he's not mocking you, he's complimenting you.

Pauli also divided criticism of others into three levels, namely "Wrong" (wrong), "Very Wrong" (very wrong) and "Not Even Wrong" (not even wrong).

The score given to Chen Muwu's thesis just happens to be the last one.

Putting down the "Nature" journal, the proud "God's Whip" smiled.

He also said that Chen Muwu is a Chinese genius, but now it seems that he is nothing more than mediocre!

Einstein's vision is really as inferior as his physics level, even worse than his physics level.

Pauli always thought that he was smarter than Einstein when he was a child, so he always thought that Einstein was inferior to himself.

In his heart, there are only two and a half people who can be respected by Pauli.

One is his teacher Sommerfeld, and the other is Bohr in Copenhagen.

And the remaining half was another student of Sommerfeld, his junior fellow student.

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However, Pauli's younger brother and Bohr's upcoming new assistant, Heisenberg, became interested in Chen Muwu's paper.

He even wrote a letter to Chen Muwu in Cavendish's laboratory, expressing his approval of the exclusion principle and the theory of electron spin.

He also believes that it is a great work to be able to use electron spin and orbital coupling to explain the fourth quantum number.

But Heisenberg did not understand how to use this spin theory to explain the extra factor 2 in the double-line formula.

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When the two letters of Bohr and Heisenberg were still floating on the postal road, Chen Muwu and Kapitsa had already completed the Shi-Georg experiment using the ground state hydrogen atom.

It's really cool to do this experiment that doesn't need to be designed by yourself, but only needs to be improved on the basis of predecessors.

And no matter how poor the Cavendish Laboratory is, it is richer than Germany where Stern and Gerlach were two years ago.

Now that the experiment has achieved the expected results, Chen Muwu's next job is to complete this graduation thesis independently.

Before, Best came to the laboratory almost every day to find Chen Muwu and asked him to find time to swim in the Kang River to warm up.

Kapitsa also advised him to go, and just stay and stare at the vacuum pump. After all, this machine was the one that took the most time in the whole experiment.

But this is Chen's own graduation project after all, it's really inappropriate to just pat his ass and leave as a shopkeeper, so Chen Muwu always refuses Best's invitation time and time again.

As a result, Best, who never gave up, came to Chen Muwu's office every day before the Cavendish laboratory closed at six o'clock, so as to keep track of the progress of his experiments in real time.

Chen Muwu is the only face of their Cambridge University Swimming and Water Polo Club this year, so there must be no accidents.

Although Chen Muwu regretted it, there was nothing he could do.

Because at the beginning, he voluntarily asked to enter the Cambridge University Swimming Club, just for the 100 yuan athlete scholarship.

But now it is different now, he can spend [-] pounds to set up a publishing house, and after getting used to spending money lavishly, he doesn't care about the [-] pounds.

But he had promised Best before, and it was hard for him to change his words and refuse.

A few days later, Chen Muwu finally finished the hydrogen atom experiment, so he had no reason to escape.

Chen Muwu could only follow Best to warm up by the Kang River three days before the start of the competition.

(End of this chapter)