Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 235 183 The Incompetent and Furious Jordan
100 years later, Rolls-Royce is the best car brand in the world.

The same was true 100 years ago.

100 years later, among the various models of Rolls-Royce, the most luxurious is the Phantom.

It was the same 100 years ago.

Phantom is a new model upgraded on the basis of the discontinued Silver Ghost. It was first launched last year, and it is still the top model among Rolls-Royce's various series.

Perhaps because of the restoration of the gold standard, the British pound is much stronger than before. The price of the upgraded Phantom is not expensive, and it still remains at a price of more than 2000 pounds.

It’s not expensive, but Kapitsa won the Maxwell Scholarship for three consecutive years in the Cavendish Laboratory. The sum of the money for these three years is less than [-] pounds.

How dare he want it!
However, Chen Muwu felt that Rolls-Royce was a better brand, and cheating from them, ah no, the difficulty of making money might be easier than that from Austin Motors.

He never knew how Baron Austin was involved with Cambridge University, and why he donated £25 to build a cyclotron at the Cavendish Laboratory.

Although Austin is British, he immigrated to Australia at a young age and never attended a day at Cambridge University.

But looking back at Rolls-Royce, this car brand has a lot of connections with Cambridge University and Trinity College.

One of the founders of Rolls-Royce, Charles Rolls, also known as Rolls among Rolls-Royce, happened to be an alumnus of Cambridge University, and he studied at Trinity College during his school days.

Rawls, who enrolled in 1894, is a direct student of Russell, who enrolled in 1890, and Moore, who enrolled in 1892.

He entered Cambridge University a year earlier than Rutherford, who traveled across the ocean from New Zealand to England in 1895.

However, when Rutherford came to Cambridge University, he directly entered the Cavendish Laboratory as a graduate student, unlike Rawls who started as an undergraduate.

But they are both students of Trinity College after all, just like Ramsey and Chen Muwu themselves, there is still some friendship between them.

It stands to reason that there is such a layer of connection between Rawls and Trinity College. After he develops, as an outstanding alumnus, he should donate some money to the college no matter what.

It's a pity that he died too early.

Because of the pursuit of extreme speed, Rolls chose to build cars with Royce.

However, the speed of early cars was actually very slow due to various factors.

So Rawls later turned his attention to the sky again. He first played with hot air balloons, and after the invention of the airplane, he became the first batch of crab eaters.

Rawls is the second person in the UK to get a pilot's license, and the first person in the world to fly back and forth across the English Channel.

Perhaps it was because one of the founders loved flying, which was also a factor that led Rolls-Royce to produce aero engines.

Unfortunately, he was also the first person in the UK to die in a plane crash.

In 1910, before World War I started, Rutherford had just returned to the British mainland from Canada to teach at Victoria University in Manchester, and Rawls had passed away.

It may be for this reason that the connection between Rolls-Royce and Cavendish Laboratory is not so deep.

I don't know if I can talk to Rolls-Royce through the relationship of my teacher Rutherford, so that I can sell the idea of ​​seat belts and airbags.

If this road fails, Chen Muwu actually has another way out, and that is to start with the Duke of York.

It is not only a local brand, but also a luxury model, and its competitor Bentley has been going downhill all the time. The time and place are favorable, and Rolls-Royce has long been recognized by the British royal family as the royal car.

The Duke of York, the "Prince of Industry" who often replaces his father in various factories, can introduce himself to Lord Mond of the Burneman Chemical Company before, so of course he can also introduce himself to the person in charge of Rolls-Royce.

Who dare not give the second prince face?

Chen Muwu decided to take the time to make a model of a seat belt after finishing his work, and bring it to London to continue lobbying his big benefactor.

"Peter, how dare you open your mouth. Do you know how much a Phantom costs?"

Chen Muwu pretended to be annoyed.

"Chen, I'm just kidding, just kidding. But if you want to buy a car, I recommend you to buy a Phantom, because this car is really good. After you buy it, you can borrow me to drive it once in a while. It's fun. All right. We're best friends in Cambridge, aren't we?"

"Let's talk again, let's talk again, I really don't have any plans to buy a car recently. Also, are you going to Paris? I'll pay for the ticket."

A best friend should look like a best friend. Anyway, the travel expenses to Paris are not too expensive, so Chen Muwu just thinks that he is spending money to find a travel companion for himself, so that at least the journey will not be boring.

"Since you have repeatedly invited me, my answer is, go!"

It's a pity that there is no such thing as a foster father in Britain now, otherwise Chen Muwu feels that Kapica would have to beat himself up.

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Dirac wrote this paper very quickly because he only did some copying work and basically did not add new content.

Within a few days, he wrote a paper proving the equivalence of matrix mechanics and wave mechanics.

At the very beginning, Dirac considered whether he should write the paper in German and then submit it to the German "Physical Yearbook" or "Physical Journal".

That's right, the "Journal of Physics", a German-language physics journal, has finally sprung up.

On the one hand, it is because Chen Muwu spent a whole year in the last year, and he did not send a single German paper to Max Planck in Berlin.

On the other hand, it was because Planck was about to retire, and he had no time to scruple so much.

The decline of the "Annual Review of Physics" is probably inevitable, but whether the "Journal of Physics" can reach the height of the original space-time, it is hard to say now.

Because Chen Muwu published those classic papers in the "Yearbook" a few years ago.

It was not only the two German physics journals that were messed up, but also the aftermath of Planck's retirement.

His professorship at Humboldt University in Berlin, like the Lucasian Chair in Mathematics at Cambridge University, is also a tenured professorship.

After retiring, however, his professorship became vacant.

One radish and one hole, the candidate for the new radish, according to the original direction of time and space, should be Schrödinger.

But now Schrödinger, he did not come up with wave mechanics, he is still just an unknown little teacher at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

So I chose and chose, and in the end the teaching position at the University of Berlin was sent to Pauli at the University of Hamburg.

Wolfgang had disliked Chen Muwu for so many years, and was even beaten up by the latter in Copenhagen.

But it was also this beating that made him a blessing in disguise. In the German physics field, it is a very honorable thing to be able to take over from Planck's class.

Pauli succeeded Planck, and Planck succeeded Kirchhoff. German physics has been passed down from generation to generation in this way.

Dirac's idea of ​​writing a thesis in German was directly denied by Chen Muwu.

Because there is really no need for it. Dirac is a doctor who has not graduated from Cambridge University. In the UK, his status may still have some influence.

But when it comes to Germany, no one will regard him as an onion.

If Chen Muwu were asked to write a recommendation letter to Berlin, maybe Planck would accept it and publish the paper.

But Dirac's father came from a French-speaking canton in Switzerland, and he spoke English and French fluently, but German was almost meaningless.

If the thesis is written in German, there will inevitably be some vocabulary and grammatical errors.

If you ask other people in the laboratory to review and correct mistakes, it will take a lot of extra time.

Rather than being so troublesome, why not publish it directly in an English-language journal?
Dirac had already put the paper in an envelope and dropped it into the mailbox, and sent it to the editorial office of the Royal Society’s Proceedings of Natural Sciences. Chen Muwu’s new paper was still on the typewriter.

Although Dirac was asked to write in English, he wrote this paper in German.

I have been a pigeon for Planck for more than a year, which can barely be regarded as a kind of compensation for Chen Muwu. I will give the old man a retirement gift. Love comes from the UK.

For this reason, he also specially replaced the beginning of the half-typed paper before, and changed all the content into German.

While thinking, Chen Muwu wrote and drew on the draft paper, looked up the English-German dictionary, and typed on the typewriter.

In addition, you also need to pay attention to leaving enough blank space to draw schematic diagrams and write formulas.

Coupled with the fact that there are a lot of diagrams and formulas that have not been drawn, his workload this time is very heavy, so it is normal that his progress is slower than that of Dirac.

After finishing his thesis, Dirac left the Cavendish Laboratory for a while, and the work of writing quantum mechanics lectures with Chen Muwu was temporarily put on hold.

The days are getting longer and the shadows under the sun are getting shorter every day. He is going to prepare for his Ph.D. defense first.

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In Göttingen, Germany, because of his curiosity about Chen Muwu and his longing for Cambridge University, von Neumann was also speeding up his progress.

He didn't dare to neglect the task assigned to him by his teacher Hilbert. After staying up for several days and using countless pieces of draft paper, he finally had an idea of ​​how to prove the mathematical relationship between the two methods of quantum mechanics. strict equivalence.

This proof process even has a certain relationship with my teacher, because Hilbert space is used in it.

However, only a small amount of work has been completed, and it is not the sixth of Hilbert's 23 problems, which is to axiomatize the physical theory. Von Neumann was embarrassed to take his own proof and went to Hilbert Burt discusses.

Fortunately, what I study can be said to be both a mathematical problem and a physical problem.

In the University of Göttingen, although there are not many mathematicians who understand physics, there are not many physicists who understand mathematics... It seems that there are not many.

Although there are not many, there are still a few after all.

Today Göttingen, the leader in theoretical physics, is Born.

Born's best student in mathematics was Jordan.

Von Neumann took his draft paper with his thoughts on it and went to Bourne's office.

After Chen Muwu founded quantum mechanics, he suddenly disappeared to study astronomy and low-temperature physics.

But Born's group continued to study quantum mechanics.

When Blackett received the Moseley Scholarship before and came to the University of Göttingen to conduct experiments under Professor Frank, Born once sent an invitation to Chen Muwu through him, hoping that he could come to the Exchange visit to Germany.

It's a pity that the concubine was intentional but Lang was ruthless, and Born did not receive Chen Muwu's reply.

He could only communicate with Chen Muwu of Cambridge University on issues in quantum mechanics by writing letters and telegrams.

Under this approach, Dr. Chen no longer showed such indifference, but could often see his unique insights in his replies.

Strictly proving the equivalence of the two mechanics is always an unavoidable problem in quantum mechanics.

After more than a year of accumulation, Born and his assistant Jordan felt that it was time to challenge this question.

So they did the same thing as Dirac and von Neumann, except that the progress of this group was the slowest of the three.

This is because although their mathematics level is considered good among physicists, it is completely incomparable with those majoring in mathematics.

Although Professor Hilbert has just encountered Waterloo in mathematics, his status at the University of Göttingen is still supreme.

So when von Neumann first entered Born's office, the mentor and apprentice of Aiwu and Wu were very polite to this young man who was favored by Hilbert.

Until he stated the purpose of his trip, and put the draft paper on the desk to explain his thoughts, Jordan's face quietly changed.

Colliding with other people's research topics is not terrible, but the scary thing is that not only colliding with research topics, other people's progress is much faster than you.

In this office, von Neumann got comments that satisfied him.

Born believed that his train of thought was very correct, and estimated that in less than half a week, he would be able to draw a specific and correct conclusion, and then write a good paper.

He promised to write a letter of recommendation for von Neumann later, and send it to the editorial office of the Journal of Physics together with the paper.

After the young man under Hilbert left, Born kindly comforted his student and assistant Jordan: "Pascual, since someone else has done this work before us, I think we should A new research direction should be changed.

"Not long ago, Professor Bohr wrote to me, saying that he has successfully lobbied, and perhaps Dr. Chen will soon publish a new paper on quantum mechanics. Maybe this paper of his will bring us some What a new idea!"

Jordan hummed repeatedly in front of Born, showing great respect and humility.

But when he left the office after get off work, he returned home and began to lose his temper and lose his temper.

He hated that Hungarian Jew von Neumann to death, so he insisted on jumping out at this time to make trouble for himself!

Such words had to be held back at home before they could be uttered, because Jordan’s teacher, Born, was also a Jew.

He felt very unhappy that he was hiding at home, incompetent and furious. After venting, Jordan sat down at the desk, spread out the manuscript paper, and wrote an article cursing the Jews to the "Göttingen Daily" under the pseudonym he just thought of. Contribute.

Although there is no Oppenheimer who transferred from Cambridge to Göttingen, the wheels of this world, inadvertently, seem to have returned to their original track.

(End of this chapter)