Reborn and become a Great Scientist

126 Chapter 74

It is important not to shave your head and get hot when doing things. It is important to travel around to participate in the Olympics, but you must also not forget your old profession of physics.

As soon as Chen Muwu returned to the Cavendish Laboratory from London, his teacher Rutherford called him to his office.

"Chen, you are such a busy man! I heard that you went to London to participate in a swimming competition a while ago?"

Rutherford was very happy to see his beloved disciple whom he had not seen for a few days again.

There was Bohr before him, and Chen Muwu later. His old Lu not only made achievements in academics, but also did not make much progress in teaching and educating people.

Chen Muwu thought that Rutherford wanted to ask about the swimming competition of the Cambridge-Oxford Joint Games, so before the teacher could speak, he told Rutherford all the ins and outs of this matter like beans poured from a bamboo tube.

Chen Muwu even said that he had registered for the Olympic Games.

"Excellent! I thought you were just an academic genius, but I didn't expect you to be a good athlete! I was wondering where to take my family for vacation this summer. Now I can just make a decision and go to Paris. By the way, cheer for your swimming competition!" The smile on Rutherford's face became even brighter.

"Actually, I came to you today, and I have another piece of good news to tell you. A few days ago, Victoria University in Manchester, which was my old employer before I came to Cavendish Laboratory, sent me a reply letter, agreeing to give I introduce past students, an opportunity for an entrance exam.

"That is to say, taking a step back, even if the compatriot you introduced failed to pass the entrance examination of any college of Cambridge University, now there is one more university that can cover him."

Rutherford really thought about his students. Chen Muwu just asked him for a place to study in Cambridge University. Rutherford not only nodded in agreement, but also thoughtfully found a way out for them.

"Thank you, thank you teacher, you really helped me a lot in this matter!"

"Chen, you don't have to be polite to me, train hard, prepare for the competition, and try to bring back an Olympic gold medal for our Cavendish Lab!

"Our lab has quite a few Nobel Prizes, but we nerds can't get any of the Olympic gold medals. It's up to you!"

That's what Rutherford said, but the "gold content" of a Nobel medal is much more than an Olympic gold medal.

The early Nobel medals were all made of gold with a purity of more than 23K from the inside to the outside.

The Olympic gold medals were pure gold only before 1912, and now they have been replaced with cheap gold-clad silver.

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Hearing that Rutherford asked him to let students study in the UK, Chen Muwu realized that after the party, he was so busy researching how to sign up for the Olympics.

Now it is not easy to find time to go back to Cavendish Laboratory to write a thesis. Chen Muwu has long forgotten that he applied to Rutherford for a quota.

Back in his familiar meeting room, Chen Muwu first picked up his pen and wrote a letter to Ye Qisun of National Southeast University in Beijing.

In the letter, he didn't write so many red-tape polite words, but went straight to the point and informed Ye Qisun that he had obtained a doctorate at Cambridge University and successfully stayed there.

Then he pointed out the purpose of writing this letter, which is to ask Ye Qisun to recommend one or two students with excellent academic performance, and he will subsidize a series of expenses for them to travel from China to the UK, study and live in the UK.

As for the candidates for the students, I entrusted Ye Qisun to decide on his own, and asked Chen Muwu to confirm without writing a reply.

In addition, there is also a boat ticket to the UK. If you can't afford it, you can go to Nanyang University in Nanhai and find Chen Muqiao, Chen Muwu's eldest brother, to find a way.

Chen Muwu wrote another letter home, telling his elder brother that there was another situation.

Don't panic when someone really comes to your door, just provide them with the ticket money.

I believe that the elder brother who puts the family and the country first, has absolutely no reason to refuse after seeing his letter.

Chen Muwu wrote this letter with a strong purpose. He did not cast a wide net on Bei University, Nanyang University, and Jueshan Jiaotong University. Instead, he wrote directly to Ye Qisun of National Southeast University. In fact, he fell in love with One of his students.

As the patriarch of his previous life, Zhao Zhongyao's failure to win the Nobel Prize has always been a difficult feeling in Chen Muwu's heart.

Now that he had an opportunity, Chen Muwu was naturally the first to think of him.

It should be no problem for him to get the positron physics prize this time.

And counting the time, Zhao Zhongyao should be following Ye Qisun as a teaching assistant at Southeast University in Nanjing.

It wasn't until he left Southeast University with Ye Qisun and went to the University Department of Tsinghua University that Zhao Zhongyao was admitted to the Boxer Indemnity to study in the United States.

There is still a year's time difference between these two things, if you don't stop at this time, when will you wait?

Sending telegrams from Cambridge to Beijing is too expensive. The price of sending these texts at the telegraph office is estimated to be able to pay for a boat ticket from Shanghai to Marseilles.

Anyway, Cambridge University only starts school in October, and this letter will reach its destination in more than 20 days at the latest by taking the Siberian Railway, which is ample time.

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After writing this letter, Chen Muwu took out his old buddy, the typewriter, from the cabinet.

The training to prepare for the Olympics cannot be slackened, and the writing of the thesis cannot be left behind.

So Chen Muwu was going to do it with both hands. The schedule he planned for himself was to write papers in the Cavendish laboratory every morning, and then go to the Kang River for training in the afternoon.

Chen Muwu was thinking in his mind that he would try to send at least one more paper to the Annals of Physics before leaving Cambridge for Paris.

However, regarding the content of this paper, Chen Muwu had a new idea.

So he pressed a new sheet of typed paper under the ink ribbon of the typewriter, and typed the German words "Zur Quantenmechanik (about quantum mechanics)" in the very center of the top.

The tone of this title is really big enough, as if telling readers directly that this will be a paper that starts a school.

But Chen Muwu did have the capital to write it down.

The wave equation and the like stood aside first. After thinking about it, Chen Muwu still decided to figure out matrix mechanics first.

Later, he carefully sorted out the development process of quantum mechanics, and found that the reason why Schrödinger was able to rely on his equations to leave a strong mark in the history of quantum mechanics was not only because of his half-dead cat, but also because of his relationship with The timing of this equation is relevant.

When Heisenberg proposed a theory about quantum mechanics, and Born and Jordan just thought of using the mathematical form of matrix to describe this new point of view, it can be regarded as a gift to the physicists at that time. Big math shock.

The matrix, which evolved from the process of solving multivariate linear equations, is basically a purely mathematical tool.

The birth of calculus itself is to solve physical problems.

Therefore, matrices are not as intertwined with physics as calculus, except when studying geometric optics, occasionally someone will take a slant and use matrix optics to perform some calculations.

But at other times, few people will introduce this mathematical calculation tool like a bible in physics.

So when I heard that a new theory that could explain the spectrum of hydrogen atoms was proposed, most of the physicists who were not so proficient in mathematics at that time rushed into the library like crazy, just to figure out the matrix. What kind of thing.

But everyone has studied for a long time, and they still don't know much about the mathematical tool of matrix.

At this time, Schrödinger's wave equation was born.

Although physicists are too unfamiliar with the matrix, they are very familiar with the wave equation, that is, the theory of partial differential equations.

Therefore, the wave equation proposed by Schrödinger was like a savior at the beginning, and it was not too much to make others shout "my superman".

After thinking about it, Chen Muwu still decided to write an article on matrix mechanics first, which would bring some shocking mathematics to physicists.

The line title he typed on the typewriter synthesized Heisenberg's first paper "Reinterpretation of the Quantum Theory of the Relationship between Kinematics and Mechanics" and Born and Jordan's second paper "On Quantum mechanics".

Chen Muwu intends to wait until the atmosphere of matrix mechanics is in place, and then let the papers on wave mechanics come out, and finally prove that matrix mechanics and wave mechanics are actually equivalent.

He was the one who tied the bell, and he was the one who untied it.

In this way, no one can shake Chen Muwu's position in establishing the new quantum theory.

Chen Muwu flew his fingertips up and down, typing one character after another on the keyboard.

"Theoretical quantum mechanics is based entirely on relations between observable quantities in principle, and this paper will attempt to establish its foundations on that basis.

"Everyone knows..."

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The writing progress of Chen Muwu's thesis is very slow compared to the previous ones.

On the one hand, this is because there are a large number of matrices and formulas in the paper that cannot be typed out by a typewriter, and he needs to write it by hand.

On the other hand, he only has half a day to write papers every day, and the remaining half day is devoted to Kang He's training.

During the period when Chen Muwu asked about the registration of the Olympic Games and went to the London embassy to go through the graduation procedures, Best took the members of the swimming club and spent a few days digging out a 50 A simple standard length swimming pool of meters by five meters.

They also pasted a layer of mosaic with cement on the wall of the pool, and introduced the river water from the Cam River into the pool through a waterway.

When Chen Muwu wore his new swimming trunks and was at the swimming pool by the Kang River for the first time, it also caused quite a commotion.

Although 90.00% of the students in Cambridge University are boys, and the swimming club is full of men, there are still many people who can't see his "indecent" attire.

Even the chairman, Best, couldn't help asking him why he came to the pool dressed like this.

Chen Muwu briefly explained the problem of friction, but then he thought that seeing is worth seeing, so he simply jumped into the swimming pool and asked Best to mark the time for him.

Facts speak louder than words. Whether this swimming trunks is helpful for improving swimming speed can be seen after a try.

(End of this chapter)