Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 224 172 Mathematics Is Also Incomplete

"Well, you two finish this bag first, and I'll come in after that."

Chen Muwu really wanted to say that in his heart, but he didn't dare.

Although the teacher came from the same school, Bohr was a guest, and Rutherford was his teacher.

If this kind of thing is really said, it is really too ignorant.

"Professor Bohr, isn't this a coincidence? We have corresponded many times in the past year, but we have not seen each other for such a long time since we left in Copenhagen. You are here at Cambridge University this time, and I also want to see Is there a chance to chat with you!"

While speaking, Chen Muwu pretended to be careless and walked step by step behind Rutherford, stood in front of the window, put one hand on the handle of the window: "The sky outside today is really nice! Before you came, Cambridgeshire The sky was cloudy and foggy for several days. After you came, the sun came out!
"There is a saying in China that calls noble people to come to the door. Even a simple house made of bamboo and thatch can shine like a house made of gold."

After finishing this set of compliments, Chen Muwu pressed the handle "inadvertently" and opened the window.

The fresh cold air in the winter morning finally poured into this small office.

His completely thoughtless remarks made Bohr sound very useful.

But after thinking about it briefly, Bohr felt something was wrong.

No, isn't Chen Muwu staying in London with Rutherford and himself these few days?How did he know the weather in Cambridgeshire?

Rutherford saw the puzzled expression on Bohr's face, and he had already heard the nonsense made up by Chen Muwu.

"Nils, don't be fooled by him.

"Academics, sports... In all aspects, Chen is doing well, all are very good, except for his mouth, as long as you don't pay attention, it will start to run around!

"What he said just now didn't have a few truths, he just disliked you and me, two big smoking guns, made the room too smokey, and wanted to open the windows to ventilate while others were not paying attention!

"Chen, don't worry, we won't smoke any more after this fight!"

"Teacher, it's certainly one thing that I hate the smell of tobacco, but this thing itself is not good for the human body. I advise you to smoke less on weekdays, so as not to cause a lot of problems to your body."

What Rutherford said made Bohr feel sympathetic.

He thought of one of the purposes of his trip to England to talk to Chen Muwu, which was to ask him why he lied to himself about superconductivity in the first place.

So Bohr also took over Rutherford's topic and continued to criticize Chen Muwu:

"Sir, you are right. Before in Copenhagen, Dr. Chen told me that he didn't want to see me in my theoretical research institute, so he tricked that Nishina into Leiden University in the Netherlands."

"Nishina?... Yoshio? Is that his name?" Rutherford recalled with some uncertainty, "He also stayed in the Cavendish Laboratory for a while before, and then left Cambridge University. I heard that he was going to Göttingen, Germany? Or Hamburg? Niels, is he now working under you?"

"I once studied in the Institute of Theoretical Physics. This Dr. Chen told him that the mainstream direction of future physics is low-temperature physics and superconductivity, and then turned to me and said, "The mainstream direction of future physics is absolutely It will not be cryogenic physics and superconductivity, he is lying to himself!

"As a result, in the second year, Dr. Chen published three papers in a row, and two of them contained major discoveries in physics or chemistry!
"One of the purposes of my visit to Cambridge University this time is to ask Dr. Chen how to explain this matter."

Bohr deliberately put on a sullen face, although he didn't care much about it in his heart.

Anyway, no matter what Chen Muwu said, he would not believe that superconductivity will become the mainstream in physics in the future.

"Professor Bohr, am I right? If the prospect of low-temperature physics is really so good, then why did I only stay in London for more than half a year, and then I went back to Cambridge University to study in Cavendish?" Xu's laboratory continues to study particles..."

"Kah, kah!"

"...continue to study particles."

Rutherford pressed two fingers to his throat, and coughed twice.

In the eyes of others, Rutherford seemed to have some phlegm stuck in his throat after smoking a cigarette.

Although science knows no borders, the teacher has always regarded the particle accelerator as the most confidential thing in the Cavendish Laboratory.

He probably wanted Cavendish Laboratory to be the first place in the world to make such a thing.

Perhaps part of the consideration is to keep the secrecy work well, and maybe they can make a lot of money by selling particle accelerators to outsiders in the future.

Rutherford also specifically told Chen Muwu that he must confess to his team members and pay attention to confidentiality, especially that unreliable American.

As a result, the unreliable American kept his mouth shut, but his favorite and smartest student revealed the news to his future mother-in-law.

However, Chen Muwu only told Mrs. Curie that they were building an accelerator, but he didn't dare to tell the reason behind it.

Apart from their group, only Rutherford and Chadwick, who was in charge of logistics, knew about the lab.

Others may know that Chen Muwu is busy, but no one knows why he is so busy.

Even though Kapiza asked once, Chen Muwu didn't say anything.

Rutherford designated another area in Cambridgeshire to build a particle accelerator. On the one hand, it was because the old laboratory building really couldn't accommodate this big guy. On the other hand, it was probably out of confidentiality considerations.

There are many people in the Cavendish Laboratory, and physicists from all over the world will come here every now and then to visit and exchange.

It seems that even in the face of Bohr, Rutherford did not want to reveal this matter to him.

Chen Muwu heard a different hint from the teacher's cough, which made him "forget" immediately. There seemed to be another word behind the particle.

"Professor Bohr, there is really nothing to study in low-temperature physics. Otherwise, why would I not agree to Sir Bragg's invitation and stay in London as the director of the soon-to-be-built Mond Laboratory?"

"But in this short period of half a year, you have published three papers. Doesn't this just show that low-temperature physics has a bright future?"

"You can't say that, Professor Bohr. In a few months, I also discovered the ninth planet in the solar system? Does this mean that astronomy has a bright future? Others can also use it in a few months. , to find the tenth star of the solar system again?

"No, it doesn't work, it just means that my luck seems to be slightly better than others.

"The most intuitive point is that you said that I didn't tell you the truth. I thought from the bottom of my heart that low-temperature physics is easy to achieve results, so I persuaded Yoshio Nishina to go to the Netherlands.

"But counting the time, that person has been at Leiden University for a year and a half, has he produced any results?

"It's still the same sentence, it just shows that I have thought a little more than others, and my luck is a little bit better than others."

No one believed what Chen Muwu said.

But I can't refute him. Luck is often the key to obtaining experimental phenomena.

Even more so for these folks at Cavendish Lab.

If it hadn't been for Roentgen's luck to accidentally put a few photosensitive negatives on his laboratory bench, there would be no X-ray discovery.

If Rutherford, his assistants Geiger and Marston hadn't been lucky enough to accidentally discover that when gold foil was bombarded with alpha particles, some would deflect or bounce back, and there would be no discovery of atomic nuclei.

The person involved is sitting in this office, so what happened to the student of the person who discovered some physics phenomena by luck?
Moreover, the discovery of the magnetic effect of superconductors, Wells, who later wrote science fiction novels, published a reminiscent article in The Times afterwards.

In it, he described in detail how Dr. Chen in David Faraday's laboratory discovered the magnetic effect of superconductors because of a mistake when he was chatting with himself about space travel.

As Wells has long been famous as a great writer, with his testimony, Chen Muwu can't fake it at all, and the key is that he doesn't need to fake it either.

It was Rutherford who discovered the other side of the matter.

"Chen, why are you lying to yourself? In my impression, that Nishina seems to be a nice young man, and he is very polite in dealing with others."

Chen Muwu started by sending envoys to the Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, and talked about his Muqiang culture.

In modern times, due to the decline of the East and the rise of the West, I began to learn from the West again, but I trampled on my old teachers, and I completely forgot the relationship between teachers and students.

If one day, there is another place in the world that is more advanced than the West, I will definitely do the same thing as before.

Then he explained to Rutherford what he had explained to Bohr and Heisenberg in Copenhagen before.

What he mentioned was still the matter between France and Germany, Alsace and Lorraine, and also said that in recent years, various world-class academic conferences will not invite German scientists to participate in this matter.

In order to prevent the teacher from saying that "scientists have national boundaries, but science has no national boundaries" like Heisenberg did at the time, Chen Muwu even gave an example in advance: "It seems that these scientists did not directly participate in the war, but in Europe The poisonous gas that was first used on the battlefield was developed on the experimental bench of these scientists."

After listening to Rutherford, he thought for a long time.

"Chen, you mean that because Ben has invaded a lot of Chinese territory, that's why he hates me and doesn't want to see them in the Cavendish laboratory, right?"

"Teacher, that's right." Chen Muwu nodded, and incidentally mentioned that Yoshio Nishina wrote a letter to himself, recommending his compatriot Huang Shengwen Ce to apply for the Cavendish Laboratory.

He begged Rutherford not to recruit this person into the laboratory, and to find a reason to send him away.

"I still don't understand, Chen. It is reasonable to say that Russia has also occupied a lot of Chinese territory, but why can you and Peter still get so close?"

Chen Muwu originally found a plausible excuse, and wanted to put this matter in a perfunctory manner and settle the matter.

But I don't know if Rutherford is getting old or something, but like a middle-aged and elderly person who "knows astronomy and geography" in a hard-seat car, he suddenly became concerned about the international situation.

How to answer this question?

It can't be said that it is because Yoshio Nishina will study the atomic bomb for himself in the future, but Kapica won't?
Not to mention why Chen Muwu can predict history, but what is the atomic bomb?
Oh, nuclear fission...

What is nuclear fission?
Oh, and bombarded with neutrons...

What is a neutron?
Now that he dares to reveal the neutron, Rutherford dares to lock him in the Cavendish laboratory, and if he does not find out the neutron, he will not be allowed to go out for a day!

Chen Muwu organized the language for a long time before he found a reason that could be fooled: "Uh, teacher, because I think I will never be content with the status quo, and they will definitely have other plans for my country in the future."

"Then how can you guarantee that Red Russia will not? They are also your neighbors."

Although Rutherford liked Kapitsa very much, this did not prevent him from being prejudiced against this emerging regime.

Talking about red is always taboo in the Cavendish Lab.

"Because Moscow is too far away from the Far East, even if Su Lian covets the territory of a neighboring country, it won't be the Far East. I think it might be...Poland?"

"Okay, okay," Bohr couldn't bear to see the topic getting more and more crooked, so he stopped the peacemaker, "Sir, if you agree to Dr. Chen's request, everything will be fine? Anyway Ten individuals are not as good as one Dr. Chen. If Dr. Chen does not want to work with him and leaves the Cavendish Laboratory because of the recruitment of a student, then I will definitely feel that Cambridge University Come, invite Dr. Chen to Copenhagen, and thank you from the bottom of my heart."

He turned his head to look at Chen Muwu who was still standing by the window breathing in the fresh air: "Dr. Chen, what have you been up to recently? Everyone hopes that you can make some new achievements in quantum mechanics. The result is hoped day by day." Looking forward to every night, there is not a single paper on quantum mechanics.

"Although our Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen is on your side, Professor Einstein in Germany doesn't think so. After he returned from England, he still insisted that quantum physics is incomplete. Although I can’t find it now, I will definitely find evidence to support this point of view in the future!”

"Complete? The Germans have always been superstitious about this. It started with Professor Hilbert, and now it has spread to Professor Einstein.

"I respect Professor Hilbert very much, but I am not very satisfied with the Hilbert plan he proposed two years ago.

"I don't know that his plan is not even solid, and even the mathematics that mathematicians are proud of is incomplete!"

Bohr felt that he had just tried to end the conversation between Rutherford and Chen Muwu on international relations and change the topic to the right track. It was successful, but not completely successful.

The current topic is indeed no longer about Ben and Russia, but it is not physics either, but has once again successfully turned to the more troublesome mathematics.

(End of this chapter)