Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 257 The Stranger at the Dinner Party 205

Chen Muwu, who did not understand Russian, had no idea that such a wonderful little theater was being staged at this table in the canteen of Lezhigrad University.

Kapitsa, who watched the whole process, saw Landau's "beautiful front and respectful later".

He didn't want to lose face in front of his friends, but when he saw Chen Muwu in person, he immediately behaved respectfully.

Kapitsa really wanted to translate this episode to his good friend, but it seemed inappropriate in this situation, and there was no time for him to interrupt.

In order to pay tribute to Landau, Chen Muwu mentally graded the future fame of the three young men in front of him.

Langdao was like thunder, Gamov had heard about it, and Ivanenko knew a thing or two.

The reason why I say it is a tribute to Landau is because this gentleman is a real rating and scoring enthusiast.

Landau once used operators in mathematics to divide physicists all over the world into four categories.

The first type is the Laplacian operator, whose symbol is a triangle with an upward point, △.

This triangle is very vivid, representing the kind of physicists who are smart and can sit still, that is, can endure loneliness and do research, such as Einstein and Bohr.

The second type is D'Alembert operator, the symbol is a square, □.

This one represents people who are stupid but can sit still, such as some physics teachers at Moscow State University.

The third category is a rhombus, which represents people who are smart but can't sit still, such as Landau himself.

The fourth type is the Nebula operator, and the symbol is a triangle, ▽, just upside down with the Laplacian operator.

By analogy, this symbol represents stupid and restless people, such as Ivanenko.

Is Ivanenko really stupid?
Not so.

But because of his good friend, he later broke with Landau due to political reasons. Since then, he has naturally become the target of ridicule by this poisonous genius, and let himself always play the image of a fool in this physics joke. .

Chen Muwu also learned about Ivanenko from this joke, and met him today at Leleugrad University.

The subsequent fate of these three friends is really sad. Gamov left for a foreign country, while Landau and Ivanenko stayed in the country and had no contact with each other until they died.

It is said that Gamow liked to go abroad because he was influenced by Kapitsa.

In the 30s and [-]s, Sulian had a slang term called "Kapitsa State", which referred to a small group of people like Kapitsa who held Sulian passports but lived abroad.

Gamow felt that he was as smart as Kapitsa, so he should not be trapped in this barren domestic physics environment, but should go to various foreign physics academic centers to study with the world's most famous physicists Research.

Therefore, under the double guarantee of the teacher Professor Jove and the chairman of the foreign conference and the member of the French Communist Party, Professor Langevin, Gamow was able to go abroad to participate in the Solvay Conference, and he never returned.

Landau's love of categorizing others into classes doesn't stop there.

One of his most famous scores should be the "Landau Genius Scale" named after his surname.

He divided people, or just physicists, into five levels from 0 to 5 on a logarithmic scale. The physicists at each level made greater contributions to physics than the physicists at the next level. ten times.

In this genius scale, Newton, the founder of physics, has a level of 0, Einstein is 0.5, and the level of Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac, Schrödinger, Fermi and others is 1.

Landau's ranking for himself was 2.5 at the beginning. After he gained a certain academic status in Sulian, he raised it to 2. It was not until he won the Nobel Prize in Physics after the car accident that he finally set himself 1.5.

Although it has always given people a very arrogant feeling, Landau will still show a very humble attitude in the face of this kind of physics predecessor.

He not only puts science on a logarithmic scale, but also the appearance of women: from first highest to fifth lowest, a kind of night and coffee-style scoring standard.

Fortunately, he lived in that era and was not Chinese, otherwise...

According to Landau's genius scale, Chen Muwu in his previous life might not even score the lowest 5 points.

Because even if it is 5 points, it is still a physicist, but it has made "morbid" contributions to the development of physics.

I don't know which level Landau will rank himself in this life?

Chen Muwu was a little curious.

After greeting each other, Kapitsa followed Gamow to cook dinner, while Chen Muwu sat on the chair next to Landau and Ivanenko, staring wide-eyed.

He doesn't speak any Russian at all, and the remaining two English levels are only gestures and guesses. It's better not to speak.

It wasn't until Kapiza came back from cooking that there was such a pistachio that the atmosphere around the table eased.

Chen Muwu followed the teaching of his ancestors "Don't talk when eating, don't talk when sleeping", and he didn't talk much after the whole meal.

The main reason is that there is nothing to say. At first, he didn't know that the one who was one against five in the classroom was actually Gamow.

Chen Muwu, who originally wanted to communicate with him, lost interest. He didn't want to get too close to such a person who likes backstabbing.

While eating, all Chen Muwu could think about was how to take Landao out of Sulian.

How about organizing an exam at the end of the lecture, and then telling the Surian Academy of Sciences and Lezhigrad University that you like this student very much and hope to bring him to your side?
But in this case, there is no guarantee that Landau will be No.1 in the exam. If Gamow takes the first place, whether he wants it or not.

Taking Gamow abroad means that his guarantors have changed from Yue Fei and Langevin to Chen Muwu himself.

If he still followed the old path this time and stayed abroad and was still unwilling to return to China, he would be the one who broke his trust with the Su Lian government.

Well, it would be nice if Landau also went to his lectures, so that he could justifiably say that he found a young man in class that he was very sympathetic to, and hoped to take him to the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University .

By the way, why didn't he go to his lecture today?
Chen Muwu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked this question.

Kapitsa originally wanted to answer him directly, because Landau had already answered Gamow's same question just now.

But he mischievously translated Chen Muwu's question into Russian, hoping to see what kind of answer this tough-looking young man would give when asked the same question by different people.

After listening to Kapitsa, Landau blushed without heartbeat, and gave a completely different answer from just now.

"Dr. Chen, in order to listen to your lecture, I took the overnight train from Baku to Lejugrad last night. I was tired from the journey and I didn't get up this morning. I'm really sorry."

At the end, there was even a hint of guilt on his face, and Ivanenko beside him nodded calmly.

Kapitsa, who suppressed a smile, told Chen Muwu exactly what Lang Dao said.

The lunch was so dull that Gamow thought that Chen Muwu had understood what Landau had just said to him, so he looked unhappy and remained silent.

After leaving the cafeteria and parting with the Three Musketeers in Lejugrad University, Kapitsa couldn't bear it anymore, and completely relayed Landau's two different answers before and after to Chen Muwu.

Ganqing Lang Dao's sincere apology just now was all lying to him.

But what he said is not unreasonable. The early atomic model is indeed outdated, and you can find more detailed answers in any textbook of a university physics department.

Landau only complained to Gamow, but he changed his words to himself, which showed that he still respected him in his heart.

You must know that when facing other people, Landau has said even more exaggerated things.

Dirac put forward the hypothesis of positrons, and Bohr sent a telegram to Landau asking for his opinion. As a result, Landau only wrote one word and "nonsense" in the reply.

Einstein was not immune to Landau's vicious words. After one of his lectures, the host asked the audience if they had any questions.

Without permission, Landau stood up from his seat and said that Professor Einstein is not that stupid, but his second equation cannot be strictly exited from the first equation.

Einstein looked at his writing on the blackboard and thought about it for a long time, and finally he said sorry to everyone: the young man behind is completely correct, everyone, please forget everything I said today.

The only person who can cure Landau's arrogance is Pauli, who is even worse than him.

Once Landau went to Zurich to give a speech. As the local host, Pauli also appeared at the speech scene.

Landau was very humble during that speech. After the speech, he went to the audience abnormally and told Pauli that what he just said might be wrong.

Pauli also comforted others once in a while: "Oh, please don't worry, absolutely not, what you said is really a mess, I can't tell which ones are right and which ones are wrong."

Chen Muwu felt that he could get such an evaluation from Lang Dao, which was already very good.

He just wasn't sure whether it was because Landau respected him, or because Landau was just a student who had just glimpsed the fundamentals of physics and hadn't yet mastered the ultimate mystery of slandering others.

From the second day on, Lang Dao showed up in Chen Muwu's classroom on time every morning, and sat in the first row every time.

Kapitsa, who was in charge of the translation work, didn't understand why Chen Muwu had a soft spot for this prickly man who had deceived him. He would call Landau up every now and then to answer questions.

Every morning after the lectures, in the afternoon, the staff of Zhuogle City will always invite Chen Muwu to visit different places in the city, such as factories, power plants, printing factories...

Once, Chen Muwu was even invited to the telephone exchange room, only to find out after arriving that the Ericsson company he suggested to the Wallenberg family to acquire was the one responsible for production, maintenance and training of wiring workers.

Su Fang's move may be to let Chen Muwu leave to help publicize the real situation in Sulian's country, so that the world, especially those countries in Europe and the United States, will no longer portray them as a red terror country.

Chen Muwu didn't have much hope for this. Even if he gave up all scientific research after returning to the UK and traveled around, there would only be one result in the end, and that was that it would be useless.

Before him, both Russell and Wells had visited Soviet Russia, and they both practiced the mission of propaganda entrusted to them by the Soviet Union.

But at the end of the propaganda, the relationship between Britain and the Soviet Union is still tense, and it has reached the brink of severing diplomatic relations.

A visit is a visit, but Chen Muwu decided not to touch this bad thing after arriving in the UK, and just talk about it in a small area.

Dare to speak good words for the British public enemy Su Lian in Cambridge University, it will only make Belfort settle the old and new grievances together, and even the Duke of York may not be able to keep him this time.

Chen Muwu arranged his second lecture at Sulian Academy of Sciences to the last few days of his trip.

This is because the officials of the Swedish Consulate in Lleugla came to the door again, saying that their Royal Highness the Crown Prince also wanted to listen to this lecture and had decided to advance his departure date.

The Lezugrad side would neither reject Chen Muwu's reasonable request nor the Swedish side, so the matter of changing the lecture time was quickly approved by the Sulian Academy of Sciences.

Chen Muwu also took the opportunity to ask Yue Fei if he could take a few students to study at Cambridge University when he returned, just like his apprentice Kapica did.

Yue Fei did not readily agree, but only asked him to make a list, and then report to the leaders of the Academy of Sciences, and give a specific answer after a while.

Chen Muwu knew that what they were going to do in this period of time was to investigate the three generations of Lang Dao's ancestors.

If any doubts were found in it, maybe Chen Muwu would pass by Sulian again on his return journey, and he would never see Lang Dao's shadow again.

However, he was quite confident about this matter. If Landau could go abroad in 1929, then he should be fine in 1926 as well.

Oppenheimer "speaks must be believed, deeds must be resolute", he drove Chen Muwu to Sulian from the United Kingdom to "conquer the east" in the last few days in Leugrad.

He arrived in Leograd with him, and the Crown Prince of Sweden.

A very grand welcome ceremony was held in the port of Legegrad to welcome the arrival of Prince Gustav.

Although he is not the head of a country, he is also the heir apparent of the country. Su Lian will never let go of any goodwill towards him.

The Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs specially sent senior officials to Lejugrad, and held a grand welcome dinner on the first night of the arrival of the Swedish crown prince.

As a good friend of Prince Gustav and his companion on the next journey, the Swedish Consulate also sent Chen Muwu an invitation letter for the dinner.

After a series of welcomes and speeches, Chen Muwu thought he could have a solid meal, but then his appetite was interrupted by a short yellow man wearing a suit and tuxedo, holding a wine glass and walking toward him.

(End of this chapter)