Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 215 Chapter 163

Teachers, preaching and teaching karma to solve doubts.

The respect for teachers is deeply rooted in the Chinese people, so Chen Muwu has always regarded the matter of attending classes as sacred.

So invisibly, he put a lot of pressure on himself.

Fowler's words were barely a reassurance for Chen Muwu.

But he suddenly remembered that when he was in college, every summer before the new students entered school, there would always be various posts on the school's BBS that suggested course selection, and the seniors and sisters in the same department would also pass it on by word of mouth.

Most of the content is, for example, which class is assigned loose points, which class is called frequently...

There are also some complaints about the teachers: a certain teacher can only read the courseware on the computer screen in class, and a certain teacher makes many mistakes in class...

Basically, the vast majority of them are negative comments on teachers and professors.

Chen Muwu didn't believe in evil when he was a freshman. In order to finish the class quickly and continue playing games, he blindly chose the teacher of the professional course on the website without reading the post.

As a result, he met a strange mechanics teacher who not only couldn’t speak Mandarin clearly, but also spent most of his time in class bragging that he graduated from a certain school, went to a certain foreign school to study for a Ph.

In order to pass the exam that semester, Chen Muwu could only borrow the notes of other students and study by himself.

Later, he realized how important a good teacher is to students after he took that kind of class that is serious and responsible, instructive, and easy to understand.

Chen Muwu decided not to use the method Fowler taught him unless he had to.

He still had to prepare well for this class, to be worthy of the students and his own conscience.

Before the start of the semester, the staff of the Academic Affairs Office of Cambridge University sent a list of course selections. After reading the names of the students who had chosen the course "Linear Algebra", Chen Muwu finally let go of his worries.

As a time traveler, Chen Muwu's advantage is not only the knowledge of various disciplines in his brain that is 100 years ahead of this era, he can also remember the general trend of historical development, as well as the names of some celebrities who have appeared or will appear in the future.

These Cambridge University students are of course the best IQs among those of their age, but Chen Muwu searched through his own memory, but was unable to retrieve a famous physicist or mathematician in the future.

In this way, it would be very easy to handle. He even felt that he didn't have to do it himself when answering daily questions, and it was enough for Oppenheimer, who was transformed into an assistant coach, to go.

There is another thing before the start of the school year, that is, according to the usual practice, the professors, teachers, staff and students of the Cavendish Laboratory get together again, still borrowing the Bursas Garden belonging to the Eucharistic College, and standing on the lawn to take the annual group photo of the laboratory.

Chen Muwu appeared in this photo for the third time, but different from the previous two times, he sat on the chair in the first row this time.

Behind him stood Oppenheimer, Zhao Zhongyao, Shi Ruwei, and Cockcroft. Chen Shantou in the Cavendish laboratory had gradually begun to take shape.

Chen Muwu still underestimated his popularity in Cambridge University, he was too happy too early.

It is true that there are only about twenty people who choose his class.

When he walked into the classroom, these people were all sitting neatly in their seats.

However, in addition to the 20 or so students attending the class, there were more people who rushed over from other colleges of Cambridge University and wanted to sit in and watch the fun without taking a course.

Although Dr. Chen is a celebrity at the University of Cambridge, he is always on the loose. Basically, he only stays in the Cavendish Laboratory every day and doesn't show up in public. He is very mysterious.

Although he also gave lectures in the Kapitza Club and the Cavendish Laboratory before, it was a small area after all.

Now that Chen Muwu is finally going to give a lecture at Cambridge University, the news spread through word of mouth and soon attracted more people to pay attention to this matter.

Standing on the podium, looking at the heads of people next to each other under the stage, it would be a lie to say that you are not nervous.

Chen Muwu cheered himself up in his heart, did a lot of psychological construction, and after taking a deep breath, he said the opening remarks he had prepared a long time ago.

But everyone only gave him a chance to make an opening statement.

After introducing himself and the name of the course, Chen Muwu just wanted to talk about the history of linear algebra, so as to quickly cut into the formal content of the course.

He turned around, intending to write the word "History" on the blackboard, but just as he wrote the fourth letter, someone in the classroom boldly spoke up: "Dr. Chen, we didn't come here today to listen to mathematics. Why don't you talk about something more interesting than mathematics?"

Chen Muwu was very angry when he heard what this person said in his words, and how he rudely interrupted his class.

But hearing this person's voice, he felt very familiar.

Chen Muwu still stubbornly finished writing the history this time. He spoke while writing, then put down the chalk and turned his head. He was very unhappy from the beginning to the end: "Sir, you are very welcome to attend my class. I don't care if you don't want to listen to what I said. But what should be said in class is my business, not yours. If you don't want to listen, you can get out...Peter, why are you making trouble!"

Seeing the person who spoke, Chen Muwu was both angry and happy.

Kapitsa, the Russian guy, didn't stay in the Cavendish laboratory to do experiments, but came to the classroom to join in the fun!
He deliberately changed his voice and accent in order to prevent himself from being discovered.

If he hadn't turned back in time, he might have been fooled by him.

"This is not what I mean personally, but the people who came to this classroom today, everyone thinks so."

Kapitsa didn't even want to apologize for his recklessness just now, but instead poured the trouble on everyone present.

What's annoying is that there are still many people who nodded along, which is a kind of approval for him.

"Stop making trouble, Mr. Kapitsa, there are still so many students in this classroom."

As if trying to deliberately oppose him, this time a student raised his hand: "Mr. Chen, we have already learned the content of your course by ourselves."

Hey, Fowler was right!
The most basic linear algebra itself is not considered a difficult class. Chen Muwu even feels that the difficulty of this class is neither concepts nor theorems, but the huge amount of calculations.

"Have you all finished your self-study?" He asked.

This time the whole class nodded together.

You are so honest, Teacher Chen is very embarrassed.

After working so hard to compose lecture notes and preparing for so long, wouldn't this all become useless?

Chen Muwu was still a little worried, so he randomly selected a few students, and randomly selected a few after-school exercises, asking them to give the answers to the questions.

Because the difficulty level of the questions is different, the time it takes them to give the answers is also inconsistent.

But no matter how fast or slow, at least those answers are exactly the same as the results that Oppenheimer helped him calculate before.

It is said that taking classes in college is difficult.

However, teaching college students is not easy.

Especially college students at Cambridge University!
This made Chen Muwu lose another hope.

He gave lectures at Cambridge University, on the one hand, to comply with the requirements of Trinity College, and on the other hand, he also wanted to practice his hands for future lectures.

But who knows, these students have even done the exercises in the last chapter, so what's the point of talking about it?
It's a pity that he had prepared this linear algebra for a long time, but he died immediately after he was born!
It's not realistic to change the class temporarily, at least the first class today is not realistic.

Apart from linear algebra, Chen Muwu didn't prepare for anything?

Is it possible to tell everyone that I recently made a fun generator that can generate tens of thousands of volts of high-voltage static electricity. The market prospect is good, and everyone is welcome to invest?

Just throw this difficult problem to those who raised it!

"Since you don't want to hear linear algebra, what do you want to hear?"

After this question was asked, the audience gave various answers in a hurry.

Some people say they want to hear about relativity, while others want to hear about quantum mechanics.

There are also people who are interested in the expansion of the universe. Could it be that in ancient China, there really was such a Pan Gu with an axe, who split the world into two halves with a swing of the axe?

That must be no!
It's all said to be myths and legends, how can it be taken seriously?
However, this person's suggestion provided Chen Muwu with an idea to kill the rest of the class.

He used to carry out cultural export with some wicked taste, linking Pangu and the Big Bang together.

Then it can be done in the same way now. Wouldn’t it be good to talk about the development of physics in ancient China?

At this time, the "Mo Jing" of the Mohist school has become an inexhaustible treasure house.

In middle school physics textbooks, when it comes to the section "light travels along a straight line", there will always be an experiment of small hole imaging.

And in the introduction of this experiment, it will also be pointed out that Mozi is the first person in the world to discover this phenomenon.

But when it comes to those public accounts that like to exaggerate the facts, Mozi's achievements are magnified by all kinds of bottomless distortions.

It is all nonsense to say that "Mozi discovered the principle of leverage hundreds of years earlier than Archimedes", "Mozi discovered the essence of force hundreds of years earlier than Newton".

Take the principle of leverage as an example. Although Mozi did live in an era earlier than Archimedes, the statement in the "Mojing" that "if you are negative but not warped, you are winning; if you are balanced, you must be positive, you are gaining" is at best an experimental phenomenon.

Why is "Mozi discovered pinhole imaging" written in textbooks, but "Mozi discovered the principle of levers" is not found in textbooks?

This is precisely because textbooks are very rigorous and cannot tolerate ambiguity.

If the principle behind it can be said to be obtained only by observing the experimental phenomenon, then why not say boldly that Neanderthals discovered the principle of leverage a few hundred thousand years earlier than Mozi?

Although blind arrogance is not advisable, the gimmicks mentioned in these official accounts can be used by Chen Muwuhua to bluff people. Anyway, he doesn't know what this class is going to talk about.

So Chen Muwu's first class at Cambridge University changed from boring linear algebra to the release site of "Theory of Violence":
Discovered pinhole imaging earlier than Aristotle, discovered the lever phenomenon earlier than Archimedes, and defined the circle earlier than Euclid...

On his own, he abused three ancient Greek scientists.

This made Mozi and his book "Mo Jing" popular in the classroom, and gradually spread throughout the campus.

From that day on, Chen Muwu's linear algebra class was still going on according to the schedule.

It's just that what he said in class has nothing to do with linear algebra, but more like "History of Science and Technology in Ancient China".

In addition to Mozi's "Mojing", there is also the starting point of friction in Zhang Hua's "Natural History".

In addition to these classics that can barely be regarded as science books, there are also various idioms and proverbs.

"Drawing from the bottom of the pot": There are two conditions for a liquid to boil, one is that the temperature reaches the boiling point, and the other is that the liquid continues to absorb heat after reaching the boiling point.

"A pound of one foot, take half of it every day, and it will last forever": Is matter infinitely divisible?Democritus said no, Zhuangzi said yes.

Out of respect for a certain elder, Chen Muwu even said the last sentence emphatically, and grandly linked it with the Cavendish Laboratory.

"It is said that the atom is indivisible, but Sir Thomson, the former director of the Cavendish Laboratory, discovered the electron in the atom.

"Some people say that the nucleus is indivisible, but my teacher Rutherford discovered the proton in the nucleus, and has always believed that besides the proton, there is another kind of electrically neutral particle in the nucleus.

"Now some people say that the proton is the smallest kind of particle, and it is absolutely impossible to continue to divide it.

"Is this statement correct or not? I think protons may not be able to continue to be divided, maybe there are smaller things in him."

In this way, after a few years, can Chen Muwu become the No. 1 person who predicted the existence of quarks?

This course called "Linear Algebra" caused more and more repercussions at Cambridge University, so that even the classrooms were changed a few times during the semester.

That is, Needham has graduated from Gonville and Case College with a Ph.D. and is not in school recently.

If he had audited Chen Muwu's class, he would probably have started thinking about his "Needham problem" decades in advance.

The popularity of Chen Muwu's class also gave old Thomson some inspiration.

The proposal to establish a new professor at Trinity College was rejected by the review committee.

But if he applied in the name of the Sinology Department of Cambridge University, and asked Chen Muwu, a serious Chinese, to become a professor of Sinology, would he be able to pass this time?

(End of this chapter)