Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 143 91 Chen Muwu's New Student

Chen Muwu thought happily in his heart that at the dinner party in Paris a few days ago, the Duke of York said that he would allocate funds to the Cavendish Laboratory.

As a result, the money came down just a few days after returning to the UK?It seems that the action is quite fast!

The teacher Rutherford was also very well informed. He knew that the laboratory was about to receive such a large sum of money, and he also knew that he had come to Cavendish on the first day after returning from France.

As a result, after meeting his teacher, Chen Muwu realized that he was thinking too much, and being full of affection was not the same thing.

As soon as he entered the gate of the director's office, Rutherford's familiar loud voice rang out: "Chen, you are really amazing! When you told me to participate in the Olympics, I thought that when you arrived in Paris, you just focused on participate.

"I didn't expect that you won four gold medals by yourself. This has exceeded the number of Nobel Prizes in Chemistry in the Cavendish Laboratory, and is as many as the number of Nobel Prizes in Physics!"

When Chen Muwu thought about it, it really was like this.

So far, four people in the Cavendish Laboratory, Rayleigh III, Sr. Thomson, Bragg Jr., and Charles Barkla, have won prizes in physics, while only Rutherford and Aspen have won prizes in chemistry. Dayton two people.

However, my teacher definitely understands the comparison from the Olympic gold medal to the Nobel medal.

Seeing that Chen Muwu didn't understand his subtext, Rutherford simply stopped talking about the topic, and continued to talk about the Olympics: "The few games you participated in were really hot. I was in the countryside of France, and I could The local newspaper read that you won the 500-meter championship. But when I arrived in Paris and wanted to buy tickets to watch the race, I was told that the tickets had already been sold out.”

Chen Muwu smiled awkwardly. Before leaving the UK, Rutherford did say that he would go to see his match in person.

But Chen Muwu also underestimated the number of spectators in the last few games. If he knew in advance that the audience seats in the entire swimming pool would be so full, he would leave a few tickets for his teacher and his family no matter what.

"However, Chen, since you have returned to Cavendish now, I think you should also focus on your work from the swimming pool to the laboratory."

"Okay, Director."

The teacher is right. The reason why Chen Muwu rushed back to the laboratory just after moving house was also to get the last two wave equations out as soon as possible.

It's just that sum of money, why didn't the teacher mention a word?
Can the Duke of York be trusted?
Seeing that Chen Muwu seemed to be preoccupied and still didn't understand the deep meaning of his words, Rutherford finally couldn't bear it this time and called him a few words: "Chen, maybe you didn't understand what I said, I am It tells you to devote your whole body and mind to the experiment, and stop engaging in your useless theories.

"Do you know that even though I was on vacation, Bohr still didn't let me go, he even wrote a letter to France, just to complain to me, you actually said that the electron orbit doesn't exist.

"With Ralph's help, I also took a quick look at your latest paper, and apart from that irritating mathematical tool, I got a rough idea of ​​what you were trying to say.

"About whether your set of mathematical tools is correct or not, that is something that Ralph, Bohr and Einstein should consider.

"But I have to point out another point, that is, in the Cavendish Laboratory, as an experimenter, you should rack your brains to design experiments and do everything possible to find out this damn electron orbit!

"You can't swear that electrons don't exist just because you can't observe the orbit of electrons, you look like a coward!
"If you think like this, then the old director would not have discovered electrons, and I would not have discovered atomic nuclei!
"Your thinking is wrong, you must reverse it as soon as possible!"

Chen Muwu knew that Rutherford still thought that it was a very unprofessional thing for him not to do experiments well, but to think about some unreasonable theories all day long, so his voice also unknowingly became louder.

Chen Muwu, who was scolded for no reason, was obedient and didn't want to have more arguments with his teacher: "I see, Director, when I go back, I will start preparing for the trial production of that electron microscope."

He said he was going to start preparing, but how long the preparation time would last, isn't it up to him to decide!
Leaving Rutherford's office, Chen Muwu returned to the conference room where he had been away for more than a month.

Cavendish's concierge, carrying a large package of letters, had long been waiting outside the door of the meeting room.

"Dr. Chen, this is a letter addressed to you that was received in the Cavendish Laboratory during the time you left for so many days. Since you didn't leave a forwarding address, I can only collect it for you. Here it is."

"Thank you, thank you."

Although Chen Muwu went to Paris, his correspondence address has always been in the laboratory, so it is not surprising that he has accumulated so many letters in the past 40 days.

Not only that, a few days ago, when Chen Muwu was moving, he had already received a letter from Trinity College, which was similar to the current number.

But he was not free at the time, so he could only leave those letters in the room first, and now that he has received this batch, it seems that today he can only reply to these letters that have been accumulated for more than a month.

Most of the people who wrote the letter were physicists from all over the world, and the content discussed in the letter was also related to the two contents of electron spin and matrix mechanics.

The first paper on the wave mechanics equation is now estimated to have reached the editorial office of "Nature".

However, it will take a certain amount of time to convert papers into typefaces and circulate them with the publication of journals.

The most postmarked envelopes are not from England or Germany, but from Denmark in Northern Europe.

Bohr wrote one letter after another to Chen Muwu, first admitting that on the issue of electron spin, it was indeed his own inconsideration in calculating relativistic effects.

This should be the reply to Chen Muwu's last letter to him.

Then Bohr wrote in the second letter that the Stern-Gerlach experiment of the ground state of the hydrogen atom he had done verified that electrons have spin with irrefutable experimental phenomena.

While praising Chen Muwu, Bohr was also a little proud and boastful.

Bohr thanked Chen Muwu for proposing this novel but somewhat unacceptable new theory, determined the fourth quantum number in the electron orbit, and explained the physical meaning behind it. In this way, his proposed The atomic model of the model is finally perfected.

Bohr also said in the letter that he intends to suggest that this atomic model be eventually renamed the Bohr-Sommerfeld-Chen model to commemorate the contributions made by the latter two to the improvement of the atomic model.

Chen Muwu was a little dumbfounded. Presumably Bohr was quite excited when he wrote this letter, right?
Does he think that the edifice of the atomic model is about to be finally completed?

According to the chronological order on the postmark, Chen Muwu opened the third letter from Bohr.

The handwriting on this letter is much neater than the previous two, and there is neither a smell of tobacco nor a small hole scalded by soot on the letter paper, so it should not be written by the same person.

The contents of the letter well reflected Bohr's huge psychological gap.

Although the letter didn't say it clearly, Chen Muwu felt a strong sense of resentment from Bohr in the lines.

As if he was really a big scumbag, in order to propose the concept of electron spin, he introduced a fourth quantum number for the electron orbit, called Xiao Tiantian.

But in order to be able to create matrix mechanics, he abandoned the electron orbit without hesitation, and began to call others Mrs. Niu.

Then Bohr had to admit in the letter that the novel matrix mechanics proposed by Chen Muwu can indeed explain the spectrum of the hydrogen atom better than the atomic model, or that matrix mechanics is the correct way for electrons to follow at the microscopic level. law?

At the signature at the end of the letter, apart from Bohr, Chen Muwu saw another familiar name.

No wonder the handwriting of this letter has become neater and the layout has become more tidy. It seems that Heisenberg has arrived at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen.

A month has passed, and I have already sent three letters to Junior Brother Chen in England, but I have not received a single reply.

Could it be that there is a problem with the international postal system, and the letters are lost during the delivery process?

Just when Bohr was skeptical, he saw news about the Olympic Games in the newspaper.

It was only then that Bohr understood why Chen Muwu hadn't answered a single letter to him for so many days. It turned out that he went to the Paris Olympics to win a few gold medals quietly.

My teacher, Rutherford, is really strict. He obviously sent him a letter about Chen Muwu, but he never mentioned in the letter that he was going to participate in the Olympic Games.

So after seeing the Olympic news in the past few days, Bohr sent a fourth letter to Chen Muwu, which was also the last one from Denmark among the mountains of letters piled up in front of Chen Muwu.

Compared with the previous three letters, the content of this letter is very simple, and it does not involve any advanced knowledge of physics. Bohr just congratulated Chen Muwu for winning four championships in swimming competitions in the Olympic Games.

Chen Muwu suddenly felt that he hadn't been in Cambridge for more than a month. Although he didn't receive the letter in time, it actually had his benefits.

That is, he does not need to reply to Bohr's letters one by one, but only needs to express his gratitude to Bohr's congratulations in the last reply letter.

As for the questions raised by Bohr in the first three letters, there is no need for Chen Muwu to answer them one by one, because he has basically given the answers in previous papers one after another.

……

After Bohr's last letter, Blackett, one of the three BKC masters of the Cavendish Laboratory who left Göttingen, Germany, also sent Chen Muwu his first letter after arriving in Germany.

After attending the Solvay meeting at the end of April, he directly transferred from Belgium to Germany, so he did not know that Chen Muwu participated in the training of the swimming club after returning to Cambridge, and he did not know that he was in the Cambridge-Oxford Joint Games. won the championship in the swimming competition.

The words in Blackett's letter are not as shy as others in daily life. To use a more modern word, his situation may be called Mensao.

I don't know if it's because staying with Chen Muwu and Kapiza for a long time has changed his personality to a certain extent.

At the beginning of this letter, Blackett couldn't hide his shock at the fact that Chen Muwu won four gold medals.

After boasting to his friends, Blackett told what he had seen and heard at the University of Göttingen.

Thanks to the German economic downturn, he lives comfortably here with a pound in his hand. For a few pennies, he can eat a German meal.

Blackett also praised the academic atmosphere of the University of Göttingen. He said that Chen Muwu must be more suitable here than the Cavendish Laboratory.

Although the professors here are poor, their academic enthusiasm is absolutely high.

Although Blackett followed Professor Frank to use experiments to study atoms, other professors came to the door of the laboratory every now and then, pulling Frank to discuss various physics issues with himself.

Recently, everyone's discussions have become heated up to a mathematical tool called a matrix. Blackett thinks this sounds very profound, and he really can't talk about it.

Only one professor named Max Born was a little strange. Although he also discussed the matrix in the laboratory, after learning that Blackett and Chen Muwu were good friends, he would drag him to talk about Chen Muwu every time.

Blackett is a born experimentalist, and it is reasonable for him not to read his papers on matrices.

However, Born's approach shows that the drunkard's intention is not to drink.

As one of the few physicists who are good at mathematics, it is estimated that he should have passed the stage of being overwhelmed by Chen Muwu's matrix mechanics, and has entered the next new stage of research using matrices.

So Born and Blackett inquired about their own news, do they want to join hands with themselves and go further and further on the road of matrix mechanics?
……

Ye Qisun from National Southeast University also sent a reply letter to Chen Muwu from China.

This is also thanks to the resumption of postal and passenger transportation on the Trans-Siberian Railway, so that two people at the east and west ends of the Eurasian continent can communicate with each other once in more than 40 days.

If you still travel by sea as before, these 40-odd days are not enough for a letter to complete a one-way journey.

Ye Qisun first congratulated Chen Muwu in his letter for successfully obtaining a doctorate and successfully staying in Cambridge University to teach.

He also thanked Chen Muwu for being selfless and not forgetting the domestic education cause after he had achieved success in his studies. He also said that he had recommended two of his most proud students to him. They will rush to the UK before the start of the British university, and hoped that Chen Muwu could give him some help.

Two people?
This was somewhat beyond Chen Muwu's expectation.

The reason why he was a little surprised was not because if two people came, the expenses he would have to bear would double.

In fact, Chen Muwu was eager for Han Xin to send troops—the more the better.

Even if he is allowed to eat bran swallowed vegetables every day, he is willing to cultivate a few more talents.

Chen Muwu was surprised because when he first wrote the letter to Ye Qisun, he came here for Zhao Zhongyao. He didn't expect that he could "buy one get one free" this time?
Not only did Zhao Zhongyao appear in Ye Qisun's reply, there was also a man named Shi Ruwei behind his name.

Seeing this familiar name, Chen Muwu thought that this was another big shot, the master of magnetism in New China, but Chen Muwu didn't know that he was also a student of Ye Qisun.

Ye Lao is really full of peaches and plums.

It just so happens that Kapitsa has not yet turned to low temperature physics, but is still in charge of Cavendish's magnetic division.

Let Zhao Zhongyao study microscopic particles with him, and Shi Ruwei follow Kapiza to study magnetism. Isn't this a perfect arrangement?

……

Of course, among the letters piled up on the table, not all voices praised the several new theories put forward by Chen Muwu.

One of the most important letters is from Einstein.

Although his wording in the letter was very euphemistic, Chen Muwu could still feel Einstein's deeply skeptical attitude towards matrix mechanics from between the lines.

This time, Einstein and his teacher Rutherford held the same opinion.

Chen Muwu helped to summarize, the central idea of ​​this letter, in fact, is only one sentence, it is still, although the electron orbit cannot be observed, then it must not exist?
This was the first disagreement between Chen Muwu and Einstein regarding physics issues.

Faced with his Bole's questioning, Chen Muwu didn't dare to be negligent, and typed a brief reply letter on the typewriter.

He mentioned again the "observability principle" that Einstein used when he invented the theory of relativity, hoping to convince this stubborn little old man.

Since you think that the absolute space-time theory is unobservable, you have invented the theory of relativity that discards the absolute space-time.

Then I think that the electron orbit is not observable, so I think that the electron orbit does not exist, what is the problem?
In the letter, although Chen Muwu was a little upset because of being suspected, he still tried his best to maintain a humble and peaceful tone.

After all, in front of Einstein, he himself is still a junior.

After typing the last period on the typewriter, Chen Muwu put this reply letter and the previous reply letter to Bohr into brand new envelopes.

Then he put the envelopes that he had read on the table and the envelopes that he hadn't had time to read into bags. Chen Muwu took the bags and left the meeting room, returned to Trinity College, and took the letters back to his room.

He wanted to find a place to have a simple lunch, and then he would not go to the laboratory in the afternoon, but read the rest of the letters one by one.

Unexpectedly, he had just returned to his room when there was another knock on the door.

"Chen, are you in there?"

The voice sounded like Old Thomson, Headmaster of Trinity College.

"Sir, I am here."

Although Chen Muwu replied, there was absolutely no reason for him to wait indoors and let the old director push the door open by himself.

One is because old Tom Sun is highly respected, and the other is because he usually treats himself well.

So Chen Muwu rushed to the door in a hurry, and opened it before he could.

"How about it, are you still used to living in the academy?"

Old Thomson walked into Chen Muwu's room with a smile on his face.

"Thank you Sir for arranging such a sunny room for me, I like it very much."

"It's good that you live comfortably. A few days ago, I heard that you had returned from France, but you were moving at that time, so I didn't bother you.

"Today, the supervisor told me that you went out to the Cavendish Laboratory early in the morning. I think you should have cleaned up almost, so I came here to visit you."

Chen Muwu welcomed old Thomson to the sofa, and made him a cup of this year's top new tea given to him by Chen Lu, the Minister to France when he was in Paris.

Old Thomson's eyes fell on the wall behind the sofa, where Chen Muwu hammered four nails to hang four Olympic gold medals on it.

"Chen, this is the first time I've seen an Olympic gold medal, can you take one off and let me take a closer look?"

"Of course, if you please, sir."

Old Thomson took off a gold medal from the wall to look at it carefully, and continued to say to Chen Muwu: "Chen, I am very happy that you can win these for your country, Cambridge University, and Trinity College in the Olympics." Nice kudos.

"A few days ago, a servant of the Duke of York came to Trinity College to find me, saying that His Royal Highness wanted to donate a sum of money to Trinity College in his own name and award you a special scholarship.

"Not only that, the Duke of York will also donate £[-] to the Cavendish Laboratory every year as funding for scientific research.

"The royal servant also said that the reason why the Duke of York is so generous is that he watched your entire match at the Paris Olympics and hosted a banquet for you at the British embassy after the match.

"From when I was the director to now when Ernest is the director, the Cavendish Laboratory has been short of money.

"It is true that Trinity College is very rich, but because the laboratory is directly under the University of Cambridge, there are many students who are not from our college, so it is not realistic to directly allocate money to the Cavendish Laboratory from the college.

"So in the past, we can only give high scholarships to Trinity College students in the laboratory, hoping that they will have a better life in Cavendish.

"I didn't expect the royal family to allocate such a huge sum of money with a few gold medals from you. Chen, I really want to thank you for the Cavendish Laboratory."

"Sir, you're welcome, this is what I should do.

"It was indeed at that dinner that the Duke of York said he would give me a scholarship. Now the scholarship given to me by Trinity College every year is enough to support my life, so I truthfully explained to him that I met in the Cavendish laboratory. In the current situation, I originally wanted to see if I could get some money from the wealthy royal family, but I didn't expect His Royal Highness the Duke of York to be so generous."

While Chen Muwu was being modest, he suddenly felt a little strange.

Since Old Thomson knew about the extra funding for the Cavendish Laboratory a few days ago, why didn't his teacher Rutherford know about it until today?

Moreover, Rutherford's character is not like a person who hides and hides after knowing this. He will definitely praise himself with his loud voice.

But today, old Thomson found him just after he came back from the Cavendish Laboratory. Could it be that he just wanted to use the pretext of watching the Olympic gold medal to come to thank Chen Muwu?

That doesn't need to be troublesome, you just need to send someone to find him in the office like Rutherford did. Why do you have to come to the door yourself at your age?
If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. Sure enough, it didn't take long before Old Thomson said again: "Chen, I want to ask you something, and I hope I can get your help."

"Sir, you're welcome, as long as you tell me, I'll do my best."

Old Thomson was a little embarrassed: "Well, Chen, I want to introduce you to a student, let him follow you into the Cavendish laboratory to study and work."

Hearing this, Chen Muwu was full of question marks. Why did old Thomson find himself in this matter?How can he have this right?
"Sir, shouldn't you discuss this matter with Director Rutherford?"

"That's the problem. This student was rejected by Ernest. But I like him very much, so I thought of you."

Is the old dean confused?Since he is a student rejected by the teachers, why does he have the right to bring him into the laboratory?

Even if Rutherford's consent was barely obtained, wouldn't there be a rift between the master and the apprentice?
The old dean really put me on the fire to roast me!
Old Thomson saw Chen Muwu's expression was a bit embarrassed, so he didn't give him a chance to speak: "Chen, don't worry, Ernest will never make things difficult for you, because you are his favorite student. The Dish Laboratory has received a large amount of research funding, and I think Ernest would not refuse this request if you put it forward. Chen, please do me this favor!"

　Ask for a monthly pass, everyone, it’s the end of the month, and all the monthly passes in your hands are cleared up!
　　thanksgiving!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)