Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 157 105 Manhattan and the Uranium Project
Although he was still at Cambridge University, Chen Muwu had already sent Bohr a telegram in advance, in which he informed the departure time of the ship to Denmark.

But because of seasickness, Chen Muwu chose to live in Helsingoer for one day after disembarking, which disrupted all the plans that had been arranged.

So on the second day, after Chen Muwu took Oppenheimer to Copenhagen by train from Helsingor for four hours, there was no Bohr waiting to be picked up outside the train station.

Therefore, Chen Muwu could no longer reproduce the situation where Bohr and Einstein debated on the tram, and neither could convince the other.

But the consequences of no one picking up the station also emerged at the same time, that is, neither Chen Muwu nor Oppenheimer could speak Danish.

In the end, Chen Muwu could only take out an envelope from Bohr's previous letter from his bag. According to the address on it, the two of them inquired all the way in half-baked German, and finally arrived at the destination.

Even Oppenheimer's German is a little better than Chen Muwu's, after all, he is a descendant of German Jewish immigrants.

No. 17, Bredams Outer Street, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, is a three-story building with a red sloping roof and neoclassical style. There is a sign on the prominent position of the main entrance, which says "Universitetets Institut for Teoretisk Fysik" .

Although Chen Muwu didn't understand Danish, he could basically recognize the words. These words should be "University Institute of Theoretical Physics".

Next to the research institute were two other construction sites. As a newcomer, he didn't know that these two sites had also been taken by Bohr, and the scale of the research institute was constantly expanding.

Chen Muwu, who was standing on the side of the road, was just about to enter the building when he suddenly saw a small man with black hair and yellow skin coming out of the gate.

His brain is running fast. In this day and age, if a wealthy family son goes abroad to study abroad at his own expense, he basically studies either politics or economics, in order to enter the political arena or take over his own business after returning to China.

Only a few like Xu Zhimo are not good at politics and economics, but they are also obsessed with literature and philosophy such as literature and history, or art subjects such as painting and music.

But no one will study abroad at their own expense and study some thankless pure science and engineering subjects such as mathematics and physics.

So basically, all Chinese physics students studying abroad today are government-funded students who have taken Boxer Indemnity and studied in American universities.

It is difficult for him to meet Chinese students studying physics in Cambridge, or even in the UK, let alone Denmark, a small country in Northern Europe.

Chen Muwu concluded that this person must not be his compatriots, but himself.

It's really strange, not including those who competed with him in the Paris Olympic swimming competition, this is the first time Chen Muwu has seen a living Xiaoben.

Chen Muwu was still standing there, thinking wildly, but he didn't expect that Oppenheimer, who was more active, had already taken a step ahead.

He walked up to that person, greeted him politely, and then asked how to get to Bohr's office.

With Oppenheimer's character, he definitely regarded him as a Chinese, so he was so polite for Chen Muwu's sake.

"Teacher, your compatriot's English is really bad. Basically, I can only guess by guessing."

The first thing Oppenheimer said after he came back was to complain to Chen Muwu.

And Chen Muwu, who had just eavesdropped on the conversation between the two, was very sure that the person was definitely him: "Robert, that person is not Chinese, judging by his indistinguishable pronunciation of 'l' and 'r', it is definitely me." .You don't have to be so polite to him."

"Yes."

After all, Oppenheimer found the way. He carried his luggage and took Chen Muwu directly through the long corridor to the end of the first floor.

Unlike Chen Muwu’s former roommate Dirac who was ascetic as a Puritan, Bohr should be regarded as a representative of hedonism.

Although the entire research institute does not occupy a large area, he still built a magnificent office for himself on the first floor.

Shortly after the door knocked, the voice of "Kom ind." came from the room.

Thanks to the fact that Danish please come in is almost the same as English, two people can understand this sentence.

Like Kapitsa, Bohr is also a person with extremely terrifying social skills.

Sitting behind his desk, he was puffing, and when he heard the door being opened, he looked up and found a yellow man and a white man standing by the door, and immediately greeted him heartily: "Dr. Looking forward to everything, I finally brought you here."

Although he had never seen Chen Muwu himself, Bohr had already seen many photos of Chen Muwu from newspapers that published Olympic news.

"Professor Bohr, hello, I'm very sorry that I arrived one day later than the scheduled time. This is because I got seasick in the North Sea and had to rest in the hotel in Helsingoer for one night."

"I see. I said why I waited for a long time outside the train station in Copenhagen yesterday, but I didn't see you. Today I saw the news of the ship entering the port in the newspaper. If you didn't happen to show up now, I wouldn't have seen you." I wanted to send someone to Helsingor to look for you. But I didn’t expect that an excellent swimmer would still get seasick. Please take a seat, Chen.”

A young man was sitting on the sofa in the office just now, but when Chen Muwu and the others came in, he also stood up.

When Chen Muwu recognized Bohr, he also recognized that this person should be Heisenberg who is currently serving as Bohr's assistant in Copenhagen.

To be honest, Chen Muwu called him a young man in his heart, which was really too much, because after all, Heisenberg was a year or two older than him.

Although Heisenberg had written to Chen Muwu before, he never thought that Chen Muwu was so young.

After seeing the real person in the newspaper photos, Heisenberg felt a little unconvinced in his heart.

Moreover, the question about why the electron spin factor is 2 that I asked Chen Muwu in a letter was first solved by an unknown man named Dirac from Cambridge University.

This made Heisenberg even more angry. He felt that this British guy, who had never heard of the name before, must not rely on his own real talents and learning, but Chen Muwu secretly revealed the answer to the question to him.

Seeing a real person now, he feels that Chen Muwu is nothing special, everyone has the same nose and two eyes, how can he be smarter than himself?It's just a little bit of luck.

"Professor Bohr, this person is Robert Oppenheimer. He just graduated from Harvard University in the United States this year. He is a student of Bridgman and is currently studying as a graduate student in the Cavendish Laboratory."

"Chen, let me also introduce you. Werner Heisenberg, Professor Sommerfeld's student, is now working as a teaching assistant here. The three of you are all of the same age, and you should get closer to each other."

"Dr. Heisenberg, I have known you for a long time. We have exchanged letters before."

The three people shook each other's right hands in turn.

There was some arrogance in Bohr's words, and he unconsciously regarded himself as the teacher of the other three.

This made Oppenheimer on the side a little unhappy, because Chen Muwu and Bohr were both Rutherford's students, and it stands to reason that they should be of the same generation.

Now that Bohr has made such a move, doesn’t it mean that Oppenheimer has now become Bohr’s disciple and grandchild?

Fortunately, the physics community is far less sensitive than the Deyun Society in terms of seniority. In addition, Chen Muwu was invited after all, and he was just an accessory brought by the teacher in a good mood, so he didn't get angry in Bohr's office.

Perhaps in Oppenheimer's subconscious mind, he had already tacitly accepted that Chen Muwu was his own teacher, but he didn't realize that another meaning in Bohr's words was that the three of them were all equals.

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After chatting a few more words in this office, the sun has already reached directly above the head.

Bohr invited Chen Muwu and his party to have lunch, and by the way, he personally took the lead in introducing the layout of the building of the Institute of Theoretical Physics to the two new visitors.

Of the entire three-story building, only half is actually used for academic research.

Bohr not only built a spacious and bright office for himself, but also used the entire second floor as an apartment for himself and his family.

The third floor, located on the top floor, is the dining room, the dormitories for the maids, porters, and students, as well as guest rooms specially prepared for visiting scholars like Chen Muwu.

Like the open laboratory on the first floor of the Cavendish Laboratory, Bohr also gathered all the students in a large workshop, perhaps to allow them to have a flash of inspiration in brainstorming and collide with ideas sparks.

When a group of people passed by the workshop, the situation inside was indeed as Bohr imagined, and there were chattering discussions.

Although the English and German are not so standard, Chen Muwu can still feel the youth and vigor revealed from the crack of the door, which is completely different from the old-fashioned Cambridge University.

In addition to Bohr's office, there was this workshop, a well-stocked reading room on the first floor, and a lecture hall with six rows of wooden benches.

In the other corner of the corridor, there are two other small laboratories. At the end of the corridor, there is a staircase leading to the dark and damp basement, where Bohr set up the main laboratory.

As expected of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chen Muwu is glad that his teacher Rutherford did not choose to visit Copenhagen, otherwise he would have been pissed off by the layout here.

"Chen, I really don't know, you still don't drink alcohol. This is the most famous Carlsberg beer in Copenhagen, and even the whole of Denmark. My building was finally built with the money from the foundation left by Mr. Carlsberg. .”

Sitting in the restaurant on the top floor, Bohr raised his glass and said.

From the moment he walked all the way, Bohr was proud in his tone of introduction to the two. This building should be the achievement that Bohr was most proud of besides the atomic model.

Although the atomic model seems to have been overthrown by the Chinese genius in front of him, Bohr thought, at least in this building, Chen Muwu still has some difficulty in overthrowing him.

Although the two arrived here only this morning, Bohr still prepared a small family dinner for Chen Muwu and the others in a hurry.

In addition to the popular Heisenberg in front of Bohr's eyes, he was accompanied by his wife Margaret.

As usual, Chen Muwu didn't drink, and he wasn't interested in the Danish food on the table.

For more than three months after Ye Gongchao left, Chen Muwu always thought of his younger brother.

In addition to Chinese food, there are delicacies from mountains and seas that De Broglie eats every day at his home in France. Food from other parts of Europe basically does not catch his eye.

Chen Muwu only knows about Danish delicacies in his memory. If he is not careful, he may buy "Danish cookies" produced in Indonesia.

But Bohr was really calm. He was in the office just now, and the time was too short.

At the dinner table, he still didn't talk to Chen Muwu about the big bombs that Chen Muwu dropped recently on quantum mechanics, but just talked about his winning four swimming gold medals in the Olympic swimming competition.

"Chen, do you know? I almost participated in the 1908 London Olympics, but I was studying for a master's degree in mathematics at the time, so I rejected the invitation of the Danish national team.

"However, my younger brother Harald participated in the game that year as the captain. In the semi-finals, he beat the French team [-]-[-], but lost to the British team [-]-[-] in the final."

The martyrs are young and strong.

Although nearly 20 years have passed, Bohr still feels excited when he recalls the past.

"Mr. Bohr, maybe because you failed to participate, the Danish team could only win the silver medal."

Cannibals are short-spoken, and since Bohr talked about something exciting, Chen Muwu followed suit with a compliment.

Although he knew very well that even if Big Bohr really participated in the competition, he would not be able to recover.

Because in that era, as the birthplace of football, England's football level really swept everything.

Even the athletes they sent to the Olympics were amateur players, but even so, they still won the championship of that Olympic Games.

Of course, Bohr also knew that what Chen Muwu said was polite, so he didn't continue, lest he would humiliate himself in front of the Olympic gold medalist.

He naturally changed the subject: "How is the teacher's recent situation? It's been many years since I left, and I haven't returned to England for a long time to visit his old man's home."

"Sir Rutherford's body is as strong as a cow. If you use a cloth to cover your head, I think he looks more like a boy than me. It's just that the teacher is very dissatisfied with you now. He said that you can study the theory by yourself. That's all, why are you taking me astray?"

Chen Muwu did not lie. His early experience of growing potatoes in the countryside of New Zealand left Rutherford with a very tough body.

After coming to Cambridge University, he also did not fall behind in sports, often playing golf, cricket and swimming.

Rutherford also forced young people in the Cavendish laboratory who did not like sports to go out more.

So when he died of illness in 1937, Kapitsa, who was far away in Sulian, didn't believe it at all. Although he couldn't go abroad, he still wrote letters everywhere to ask his early classmates about the authenticity of the incident.

Rutherford's untimely death has always been a concern for Chen Muwu.

Although at the risk of making the teacher unhappy, he would always persuade Rutherford to smoke less every time they met, although with little success.

Bohr, who was punctured by the last nonsense sentence in Chen Muwu's words, was embarrassed for a while, but after thinking about it, he simply made his attitude clear.

"The teacher is right, Chen, I think the Cavendish Laboratory is good, but it's not suitable for you. You are still young, and you shouldn't devote your best youth to physics like those old guys who are depressed Experimentally, I believe that the future of physics must be a subject where theory is king.

"Chen, are you interested in staying in the Institute of Theoretical Physics? If you want, I can find you a professorship at the University of Copenhagen."

Bohr's words of making a wish made Heisenberg secretly a little jealous.

The same 22-year-old Ph.D. graduate, who is also a talented young man, why he came to Copenhagen by himself and could only work as an assistant in the theoretical research institute.But Chen Muwu had already arranged for him to be a professor without doing anything?
Chen Muwu didn't know what Heisenberg was thinking, but he was also not interested in Bohr's conditions.

The attractiveness of the professorship at the University of Copenhagen, not to mention the Lucasian Mathematics Professorship at Cambridge University, is even far inferior to the theoretical professorship that Rutherford said would be set up for Chen Muwu in the Cavendish Laboratory alone. Position.

Moreover, if he stayed in Copenhagen, his immediate boss could still scold Kramers for being depressed and Schrödinger for Bohr who had a fever. Chen Muwu didn't want to make this trouble for himself.

"Professor Bohr, thank you for your kindness. But this matter still needs to be considered in the long run. I still have a big project at the Cavendish Laboratory. We are currently developing the world's first electron microscope as soon as possible. I can't leave for a while."

Seeing that the proposal was rejected, Bohr still looked happy.

According to the previous discussion, his junior brother will still live in Copenhagen for a month or two, and he thinks that during this period of time, he can always find a way to let Chen Muwu stay.

The atmosphere at the table was still harmonious, and it was not until the end of the lunch that Bohr winked at his students again.

Holding the wine glass, Heisenberg stood up and faced Chen Muwu and Oppenheimer: "In order to welcome the arrival of the two, the young people of our Institute of Theoretical Physics have prepared a special dinner for Dr. Chen and Mr. Oppenheimer tonight. It's a ball, I hope you two can enjoy it, and everyone has long wanted to meet Dr. Chen, who is famous in physics recently."

Bohr's wife Margaret also echoed: "Werner is right, Mr. Chen, you young people should spend more time with young people.

"These young talents in our Institute of Theoretical Physics are the ideal lovers in the hearts of girls in Copenhagen. You can't imagine how popular these guys are in their eyes."

Bohr finally used his beauty trick, and his student Heisenberg and his wife Margaret were the accomplices of this trick.

Although Heisenberg is a little jealous of Chen Muwu now, when the teacher proposed to hold a dance party before, he agreed with both hands.

He is at the age of hormonal flooding, wishing Chen Muwu could come to Copenhagen every day.

Hearing about the dance party, Oppenheimer was also refreshed.

Although he is an honorary graduate of Harvard University, this does not prevent him from being a player at the same time.

After several months of depression at Cambridge University, although Chen Muwu, who is also a teacher and friend, has always been in front of him, making him admire and chase after him, Oppenheimer still wants to have a good time at the upcoming dance tonight. Indulge.

The indulgence he wants is nothing more than dancing with a girl in his arms at the ball, and feeling the breath of the opposite sex of the same age up close.

This is the most exciting thing for contemporary young people.

As for those things that go further, in Europe in the 20s, it was still an act that was to be cast aside.

But Bohr's beauty trick was doomed to fail.

At this time, Chen Muwu was sitting in the corner of the room, watching the men and women dancing in the arena to the sound of music, there was no wave in his heart.

The dance with Ive at de Broglie's house last time was always a hurdle in Chen Muwu's heart that he couldn't get over.

At first, he felt that he seemed to fall in love with that beautiful, enthusiastic and generous French girl.

The second is that I feel that my dancing skills are really bad, and I don't want to embarrass myself in any place, including today's temporary dance floor in the lecture hall on the first floor of the Institute of Theoretical Physics.

Moreover, with the Nordic aesthetics, Margaret invited beautiful girls from Copenhagen. In Chen Muwu's eyes, they were completely inferior to the two daughters of Madame Curie's family.

But Chen Muwu, who was sitting in the corner, discovered another very interesting thing.

That is, at this ball, the feelings between the two gamers Oppenheimer and Heisenberg quickly heated up.

In the original time and space, one of these two people was the person in charge of the "Manhattan Project" of the allied countries headed by the United States, and the other was the person in charge of the German "uranium project".

These two people and their teams once competed in the air to see which side can be the first to develop the most powerful weapon in human history, the atomic bomb.

And now, as the two young people with the best dancing skills in the audience, after the end of the song, they sat together shoulder to shoulder—it was rare for Oppenheimer to forget his teacher.

If everything goes according to the original history, then including Chen Muwu, on the dance floor of the dance tonight, there will be heads of the atomic bomb projects of three countries.

What a party of evil scientists!
But in fact, one thing Chen Muwu didn’t know was that apart from him, Oppenheimer and Heisenberg, in fact, among the people present tonight, there was a fourth person who also directly led their country in the original time and space. atomic bomb program.

　Congratulations, Lao Zhao is rarely on time today.Can no longer be lazy!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)