Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 180 Chapter 128 London Ghost Club

While walking out, Chen Muwu inquired with the visitor: "You just said that you are looking for me?"

"Sir Conan Doyle, Dr. Chan."

Having been in the UK for more than two years, Chen Muwu felt that the famous people around him basically started as jazz, and there may be lords at the top.

Older British upper-class people are embarrassed to greet others if they do not add a title of Sir (Sir) in front of their surnames.

Don't you, Eddington, Professor?
Of course, Eddington also became a knight later, but now he is still in the stage of ranking seniority, and he will have to wait a few more years before he can be canonized by the royal family.

That is to say, the Republic of China is a republic, and everyone is equal, and this is not a thing.

Otherwise, the medal he was awarded now, in the former Qing Dynasty, Chen Muwu himself would have to be a duke.

In contrast, the bald-headed Zeng shaved his head and exterminated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. What a great contribution, but in the end he was nothing more than a marquis.

And his student, Li Zhongtang, one of the ten sages of the Wang Temple, didn't even get a Marquis when he was alive. He was only an Earl, and was posthumously named a Marquis after his death.

Thinking about it this way, if the Beiyang government had not issued medals indiscriminately, causing the title inflation to be very serious, then Chen Muwu's status would have been very high.

Isn’t the second British prince who donates [-] pounds to the Cavendish Laboratory a year just a duke? (dog head)
There are always exceptions. Chen Muwu’s withdrawn former roommate, Dirac, voluntarily rejected the royal canon because he felt that his surname suddenly had a prefix in front of it. It always sounded a bit strange, which made him uncomfortable. .

Dirac not only rejected the royal canonization, he almost didn't even want the Nobel Prize.

The reason he told his teacher Rutherford was that he didn't want to be famous.

But Rutherford told him that if you don't go to Sweden to accept the award, then you will be more famous.

Confused by Rutherford's way, Dirac finally decided to go to Sweden to accept the award.

At that time, Rutherford also had his own thoughts in it. After all, Cambridge University has not awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics for a long time. Dirac must not just say no to it.

Hearing Doyle's visit, Chen Muwu, a fan of mystery novels, was of course very happy.

After all, he created the image of the most famous detective in the world, bar none.

But Chen Muwu didn't know why Doyle came to him.

Could it be that he already knew that he was Chandler York, the author of George Chen series?

In a certain room of Trinity College, Chen Muwu saw Doyle who was already waiting here.

"Sir Doyle, hello, it's the first time we meet, I'm Chen Muwu."

Doyle is already an old man who is almost 70 years old. He basically lived in the middle and late Victorian era and Edwardian era all his life, which was the heyday of the British Empire.

Although the sun never sets, the strong ships and guns of the empire knocked on the door of the closed Qing Dynasty time and time again.

But for China in the far east, Doyle has no prejudice. The Chinese elements that appear in the Sherlock Holmes series of novels are all neutral, such as tattoos and ceramics.

Of course, as the predecessors of detective novels, the Sherlock Holmes series does not need to be bound by the Knox Ten Commandments that have not yet appeared.

Now because of the existence of the Chen George series, it is estimated that the controversial fifth rule should no longer appear in the Knox Ten Commandments in this world.

Some people once laundered this rule, saying that Knox proposed that "Chinese people should not appear in mystery novels", which used Chinese people to represent mysterious phenomena.

But in Chen Muwu's view, the religious man named Ronald Knox wrote this article purely as a kind of racial discrimination. After all, the term "Chinaman" has never been a good word.

"Hi, Dr. Chen, nice to meet you too."

Seeing a Chinese person coming in, Doyle felt that this should be Chen Muwu.

He also took out the gift he brought with him: "I read the text of your debate with Dr. Einstein at the Royal Society published in the newspaper, and saw that you mentioned Sherlock Holmes and his policeman friend Lestrade. I think you should also be one of my readers, so I decided to give you a small gift.

"This is the first book in the Sherlock Holmes series, the first edition of "A Study in Scarlet". I even signed my name on it."

Chen Muwu took the book very excitedly and carefully. He opened the cover, and on the title page was written in cursive English calligraphy: "To Dr. Chen Muwu of Cambridge University, Arthur Conan Doyle. February 1925. "

The first edition of "A Study in Scarlet", which was published nearly 40 years ago in 1887, was older than Chen Muwu himself.

And the key is that there is the author's autograph on it. If this book can be passed on to the future, it is estimated that I can make a lot of money from myself.

"Thank you Sir, this gift is really too precious. I wonder if you are here at Cambridge University, what are you looking for from me?"

Chen Muwu felt that Doyle must have read the report about the parallel universe in the newspaper.

It's just that this theory and him, a writer of detective novels, should be in harmony with each other.

Could it be that Doyle had an epiphany after reading the news in the newspaper, and wanted to continue to shine in writing and switch to writing science fiction?
Doyle's answer directly made him a little dumbfounded: "Dr. Chen, what do you think about spiritualism in spiritual science?"

Uh, this question was asked to Einstein once by Chen Muwu, who saw Zhang Junmou, Zhang Jingjiang’s nephew, in the lecture hall of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in the Ghaihai International Settlement two years ago.

At that time, after Einstein answered various scientific questions about total solar eclipse and general relativity, he also gave the answer to this question very readily.

In a word, nonsense.

Chen Muwu did not expect that two years later, he would be asked this question, and the status of the person who asked this question was not low.

Chen Muwu remembered that Doyle was also a faithful believer in psychology and spiritualism, so he couldn't speak too seriously, after all, he had just accepted a very expensive gift.

"Sir, although I don't believe that ghosts really exist in this world, I respect this view very much. After all, ghost theory has a lot of popular support in rural China.

"It's just that the countryside is not like a city, much less like the United States and Britain. There is no such high-end thing as a camera that can record the soul.

"But they also came up with a set of soil methods, which is to let the paper soaked in turmeric water react with alkaline water, and then claim that the red color produced in this chemical reaction is the blood splashed when the ghost is killed by the sword. .”

Chen Muwu expressed his point of view very cryptically, that is, this is just a chemical reaction, not evidence of the existence of ghosts.

The psychic, which is very popular in the British upper class, cannot prove the existence of ghosts.

Be it ghosts or psychics, these things did not originate in the British mainland, but imported products that traveled across the ocean to Great Britain.

Its real birthplace is the United States in the last century.

A group of American swindlers is swindling across the Atlantic, claiming that their cameras are psychic and can take pictures of people with their dead relatives.

Mary Todd, wife of US President Lincoln, and Samuel Morse, who invented Morse code, are all faithful believers in soul photography.

It's just a simple trick like double exposure, but with the endorsement of these fools, psychic soul photography is very popular in the United States.

As these crooks made a lot of money on the American continent, there were gradually doubts in the United States.

Based on the principle of changing a place with one shot, they turned their attention to Britain, which was the richest country in the world at that time, and opened up a second battlefield for deception.

Just in time for the First World War and the Spanish Flu, young and middle-aged Europeans suffered heavy casualties, so the parents of these young and middle-aged people became faithful believers in psychics.

The same is true of Doyle in front of Chen Muwu, and the same is true of Zhang Junmou's teacher, Oliver Lodge, the principal of the University of Birmingham.

It's just because of the gradual development of photography technology, soul photography is not so easy to deceive, so after these scammers arrived in the UK, they changed a new method, that is, to continue to carry forward the psychic, not only can see their relatives in the photos, but also communicate with each other. Loved ones have simple conversations.

Isn't this the master of western dance?

I don't know if they sang "The sun declined westward and the sky was dark, Every house has closed doors" before they asked God..."

After spiritism flourished in England, it returned to the United States. Both Doyle and Lodge were often invited to give lecture tours in the United States to promote the existence of this miracle.

Doyle was also very excited after hearing what Chen Muwu said: "Yes, Dr. Chen, as you said, there are no ghosts in this world at all!"

Um?This is wrong!

This is not consistent with Chen Muwu's impression. Doyle should be a firm supporter of occultism. Doyle is one of the powerful driving forces behind the fairy photo incident that caused a sensation in the UK not long ago.

Was it because of a few words of his own that he changed his opinion?

While Chen Muwu was puzzled, Daoyer continued: "And the ones we recruit through spiritism are not the ghosts of the deceased, but their true self in another parallel universe!"

Well, it seems that I didn't convince him. After all, Doyle found me because of his parallel universe.

Chen Muwu didn't want to refute the statement made by Doyle, he was even willing to believe that what Doyle said was true, that people could really communicate with other people living in another parallel universe.

If this is the case, wouldn't we be able to find real evidence of the existence of parallel universes?
"Perhaps, it can also be explained in this way? But Sir Doyle, this theory is just a guess of mine. Up to now, it is only at the conjecture stage. There is no experiment to confirm it, and no one has observed the existence of parallel worlds."

"Then do experiments quickly and try your best to observe! Dr. Chen, I'm not flattering you. If this theory is confirmed, it will definitely be the twentieth century, oh no, it will be the greatest in the entire history of mankind." discovery!"

"Sir Doyle, of course I also want to do experiments to confirm it, but right now I don't have any idea, and there is no good way."

Nonsense, no one can do this experiment even after decades, this Doyle really thinks too highly of himself.

"Is it because of the money? If it's because the experimental funds are not enough, then I think our Ghost Club can provide some financial support."

Ghost club?
What kind of strange organization is this?

Seeing the puzzled expression on Chen Muwu's face, Doyle continued to introduce him: "Speaking of which, the Ghost Club and Dr. Chen's Trinity College, Cambridge University, have quite a relationship.

"In 1855, it was a few fellows of Trinity College, in this magnificent building, who began to discuss ghosts and psychics.

"As these researchers graduated and left Cambridge University, in 1862, the Ghost Club moved to London and was finally founded. The most famous writer at that time, Charles Dickens, was one of the founding members of the club. The backbone of the club.

"It was at Dickens's suggestion that the club established perpetual membership, that is, whether a person lives or dies, he will always be a member of our ghost club."

"Although the club experienced a period of slump in the 70s, it revived in the 80s and continues to this day.

"The members of the club are all interested in the occult and psychics, especially the research on ghosts, so they come together with like-mindedness."

With Doyle's explanation, Chen Muwu finally understood what this club was all about.

It's another group of high-class people who have money and leisure. They have nothing to do when they are full, so they set up such a club to pass the time.

No wonder Doyle said they could provide financial support for projects in parallel universes.

I just don't know how much money they can spend?

If he doesn't earn the money, it is estimated that he will be earned by the liar in the end.

But after thinking about it, Chen Muwu finally gave a negative answer.

Newton turned to theological research in his later years, and was ridiculed by the world.

He, Chen Muwu, would definitely not be able to reach the status of Newton, so it would be better not to get involved with these gods and ghosts.

"Well, Sir Doyle, I think it's better to let it go.

"On the one hand, it's because my current main research direction is not on this. On the other hand, my own level is not enough. I'm afraid I won't be able to make much progress. I can only waste money in vain."

Chen Muwu's refusal was considered very polite. If it wasn't because Doyle was a writer he liked, he would have let him go.

Although Daoyer also heard Chen Muwu's order to drive away the guests, he was still a little bit unwilling to give up.

If his new theory wants to flourish, it must have Chen Muwu, the creator of the parallel universe, to give him a platform.

"Dr. Chen, can I invite you to give a private lecture at the London Ghost Club? The content will not talk about ghosts or psychics, just talk about parallel universes.

"Please don't worry, the remuneration is definitely reasonable. I remember you just won the Hughes Medal from the Royal Society, and you got a prize of [-] pounds, right?

"As long as you can go to the Ghost Club to give a lecture, then the appearance fee we will give will definitely not be less than this amount."

　Today, I heard that several books whose grades are not as good as mine are not as good as mine, but are constantly recommended. It is another day of mental explosion.

　　I really don’t know why these operations at Qidian have not been recommended, alas.

　　I guess maybe it's the subject matter?But if this theme can be put on the shelves, there should be no problem.

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(End of this chapter)