Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 259 207 A Different Theory of Relativity

The playful expression on Tanaka Toyoshi's face seemed to be that he was determined to invite Chen Muwu to visit.

At a certain moment, Chen Muwu really felt that if he dared not agree, he would really dare to send someone from a special high school or the Black Dragon Society to kidnap him.

"Mr. Ambassador, it's easy to talk about it, then I look forward to contacting your people after I get back to China."

A hero doesn't suffer from immediate losses, he doesn't need to be so tough now.

Deal with it first, and it will be more maneuverable after returning to China.

When the time comes, the whole family will be sent on the ship to Europe, and he will be alone, and he will walk with the Swedes all day, so he can go wherever he wants.

Seeing that Chen Muwu's attitude was quite positive, Tokichi Tanaka readily picked up his wine glass and raised it towards Chen Muwu from the air.

"Then I won't bother you too much, Dr. Chen, I wish you a pleasant meal."

Chen Muwu also took up his wine glass to salute Tanaka Tokichi, although his glass was filled with water.

After I left, Chen Muwu couldn't enjoy the meal.

The Crown Prince of Sweden greeted him across the table, and talked to Chen Muwu several times when he arrived, saying that he was looking forward to his upcoming trip to China and Chen Muwu's second speech in Leugrad.

As the guest of honor at today's dinner, the Crown Prince of Sweden is busy with affairs, and it is very rare for him to be able to spare time to say hello to Chen Muwu.

Although it was nominally a banquet held to welcome the Crown Prince of Sweden, if nothing else happened, he himself should be the one who ate the least in the whole banquet.

Formalism kills people!

The dinner was coming to an end, and Chen Muwu had a full meal.

He was thinking about how he should leave the venue and return to Kapitsa's house.

Chen Muwu, who could not speak Russian, had his eyes darkened. He could only hope that the driver sent to him by the Sulian Academy of Sciences could find him smoothly outside the dark venue.

At this moment, someone came to him again, and he was still speaking Chinese.

Shouldn't I be wrong this time?
The person who came should be either the Consul General of the Beiyang Government in Liegler, or the ambassador in Moscow.

After all, the final destination of the Swedish crown prince's visit is China. If China does not send some heavyweight officials to welcome him, it will be inappropriate both emotionally and rationally.

"Dr. Chen, Dr. Chen! This old man is Fu Yangxian, Consul General of the Republic of China in Liegler. I have known you for a long time, and I finally met you today!"

Sure enough, it was just as Chen Muwu guessed.

"Consul General Fu, good evening, just call me Hanchen."

His desire to eat authentic Chinese food in Lejugrad failed, so he never went to the consulate general to report. Today is the first time he meets Fu Yangxian.

Fu Yangxian was around 50 years old, and nine out of ten members of the diplomatic department at this age were overseas students sent out in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Not long after he rushed to Lejugrad from China, Shui Junshao imitated Zhang Jiying and sent a resignation letter, and the Crown Prince of Sweden was going to visit China via Sulian, so Fu Yangxian could only make a temporary rescue.

But as soon as the consul general opened his mouth to speak, Chen Muwu felt a little unhappy.

Whether it's Zhu Zhaoxin, Chen Lu, Dai Chunlin or Chen Weicheng, most people come up to say some flattering words, praising Chen Muwu for being rich and famous all over the world at a young age.

Only this Fu Yangxian didn't follow the routine. After a few polite words, he asked Chen Muwu what year he was born.

What really made Chen Muwu a little angry was his next sentence after learning about his age.

"Dr. Chen, you are the same age as Quanzi."

Chen Weicheng from England should be about the same age as this Fu Yangxian, but when he was in London, he kept calling him "Brother Hanchen".

But when he arrived in Lejugrad, he said that he was as old as his son. Wasn't that clearly trying to take advantage of Chen Muwu?
This made Chen Muwu, who was already angry with him, even more upset. He asked in a strange way: "I don't know where Consul General Fu's Lin'er is tall?"

The meaning in his words is also obvious, that is, your son is as old as me, so can his achievements be compared to mine?

Unexpectedly, Fu Yangxian replied with a serious face: "After graduating from the University, Gouzi went to the United States by boat in 11 years of the Republic of China, and is now studying for a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Michigan - naturally, he is not as good as Dr. Chen, you are young and promising... "

It turned out that, at first, Chen Muwu thought that the old man was trying to take advantage of him, but he didn't expect that he just saw himself who was about the same age, and thought of his son who was studying in the United States.

Chen Muwu has a natural affinity for people who study science and engineering. Most of them will return to serve the motherland in the future. As for those who study politics, law and business...

Fu Yangxian continued: "You two are young people, you are the pillars of the country in the future, you should get closer to each other."

"That's natural, Your Excellency the Consul General, that's natural! When you find a chance, you give me Mr. Fu's mailing address, and when I return to England, I will contact him. If there is any need for help in the future, Mu Wu is obliged .”

Chen Muwu agreed a little excitedly, he felt sorry for his petty thoughts just now.

Although chemistry and physics are two disciplines, and the intersection is not that extensive, but if Mr. Fu comes to the UK, relying on Chen Muwu's connections to help him arrange food, clothing, housing and transportation, and solve some minor troubles, there should be no problem.

He even started to think about the long-term. If this Mr. Fu graduated, could he also be dug to Stockholm to help him teach students?
At the final stage of the dinner, the chat between Chen Muwu and Fu Yangxian finally became more and more enjoyable.

What he didn't know was that Fu Ying, the son of Consul General Fu, would indeed become an outstanding chemistry educator in China in the future, and even become the vice president of Beijing University.

The Crown Prince of Sweden changed his plan and came to Sulian from China two days in advance, just to listen to the second lecture given by Chen Muwu here.

This also means that his lecture at Lezugrad University is coming to an end, and it is time to take advantage of the only one or two days of free time to prepare for the second speech.

This kind of speech for the public, if you want to make it wonderful and popular, you must choose the content carefully.

Don't make a fool of yourself, tell something profound, so that audiences with different levels of knowledge can understand it.

If you take a shortcut, the easiest way to attract attention is to do experiments on the podium.

Galileo threw an iron ball down from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Whether this koan actually happened, or whether it was attached to Galileo by later generations' romances, researchers in the history of physics have their own opinions.

But another well-known physics experiment, the Magdeburg hemispherical experiment to verify the existence of atmospheric pressure, was able to attract a small town of Magdeburg in Germany in the seventeenth century.

——Although they didn't know who Torricelli was, and they didn't know what atmospheric pressure was, people still spontaneously appeared around the experimental site on the outskirts of Magdeburg, watching how sixteen horses could barely pull two iron rods. The magical sight of the ball.

Now is the nineteenth century, 200 years later, and basically people who have received elementary education know the existence of atmospheric pressure.

Chen Muwu definitely can't do this hemisphere experiment anymore.

It's a pity that the current low-temperature physics has only found niobium metal with a superconducting critical temperature of about Kelvin, and it was Chen Muwu himself who discovered it "inadvertently".

As long as there is a piece of material whose critical temperature is within the range of liquid nitrogen, Chen Muwu will definitely choose to demonstrate to the audience what is called the Chen effect of superconductors, and see how a piece of superconducting material placed on a magnet is heated by adding liquid nitrogen. After nitrogen, it was successfully suspended within the magnetic field.

Isn't this much more exciting than some circus and magic tricks?
Superconductivity can cause such a big Internet carnival in the 21st century, and Chen Muwu is confident that it can do the same in the [-]th century.

If you can't do superconducting experiments, you can only find other lecture topics.

Now the more popular branches of physics, only relativity and quantum mechanics.

The representative of the theory of relativity is Einstein, and the representative of quantum mechanics is undoubtedly Chen Muwu.

In this time and space, he completely followed Einstein's old path and "created" a physics subject by himself.

As for Planck, who first proposed the quantum concept, and his successors, Einstein and Bohr, the representatives of the old quantum theory, they are to quantum mechanics basically what Lorentz is to the theory of relativity.

Before Einstein announced the theory of relativity, Lorentz derived the Lorentz transformation, the purpose of which was to reconcile the contradiction between Maxwell's electrodynamics and Newton's mechanics, and try to find a reasonable explanation for the existence of ether.

Einstein's first paper on the theory of relativity was also titled "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies".

Planck proposed the concept of quantum in order to find a new formula to fit the experimental data. He never thought that he would open a new door.

Everyone thought that Chen Muwu's second lecture at the Sulian Academy of Sciences would be related to quantum mechanics, after all, he was the pioneer of this subject.

As a result, Professor Yue Fei, who was in charge of connecting with Chen Muwu, was surprised when he saw the lecture topic submitted by Chen Muwu.

"Chen... Dr. Chen, I thought you were going to talk about quantum mechanics, but I didn't expect it to be such a topic."

He stammered a bit.

"Professor Yuefei, what's the matter? Isn't this topic inappropriate?"

On the piece of note paper that Chen Muwu handed to Yue Fei, the first word written was relativity.

It is normal for Chen Muwu to talk about the theory of relativity. In addition to quantum mechanics, Dr. Chen also published several articles on the theory of relativity during his early academic career.

The Christmas lecture he gave at the Royal Institute last Christmas was also about relativity.

It came out 20 years earlier, and the mass foundation of the theory of relativity is much larger than that of quantum mechanics.

There is nothing wrong with Chen Muwu choosing this subject.

The second word on the paper is a meaningless conjunction "and", which is also fine.

The key is what follows the "and" in the title of the lecture.

In Joffe's mind, "Relativity and Quantum Mechanics", "Relativity and Classical Mechanics", even "Relativity and German Physics Education", these topics are all right.

But he never thought that Chen Muwu would give such a title as "The Theory of Relativity and Dialectical Materialism" which seems unrelated at first glance, but it is normal to hold a lecture in Sulian.

"It's...suitable! It's completely suitable, but I never thought that you also have research on materialism, and I even suspected that you are an idealist. It's just Dr. Chen, can your speech or the outline you prepared make me feel better? Take a look in advance?"

It’s no wonder that Yue Fei has such an idea. Chen Muwu is the pioneer of quantum mechanics, but in the eyes of people nowadays, quantum mechanics is completely synonymous with idealism.

Whether it's probability or collapse, there's that even more surprising and puzzling parallel world...

The explanations of quantum mechanics proposed by Chen Muwu are not very materialistic in any way.

However, these explanations are still very popular, and Eddington, who also supports idealism, is the one who advocates for them the most.

Eddington, who has written popular science books on relativity, also wrote a popular science book on quantum mechanics after Chen Muwu established quantum mechanics.

The influence of Eddington and Chen Muwu, as well as his vigorous promotion of these theories and explanations in the book, made readers of this popular science book mistakenly think that Chen Muwu was also an idealist.

That's why Yue Fei asked such a question. He didn't know what Chen Muwu meant by such a speech topic.

It would be fine if he agreed with materialism, but if Chen Muwu criticizes materialism in his lectures, then this is not an accident, but an accident.

It was also a huge, huge, super, super accident, and everyone couldn't eat it all.

"Professor Youfei, please rest assured. I will not say anything that should not be said. The central idea of ​​my lecture is to demonstrate that the theory of relativity is completely in line with dialectical materialism. If you are really worried, the speech I may not be able to write the full text for a while, but it’s okay to give you an outline.”

There are two farces in the history of Sulian science. The first is Lysenko's theory of using Lamarck-Michurin's genetics to resist Mendel-Morgan genetics. The second is the criticism of the theory of relativity.

Because Su Lian is the big brother, this kind of criticism was later spread to China, and there was something like "Einstein changed his nationality three times in his life, changed masters four times, was a mother if he had a milk, and knelt down when he saw money. One thing is always Unswervingly, that is to consciously act as a 'scientific mouthpiece' for the bourgeoisie to viciously attack Marxism", "(Einstein) frequently participated in anti-revolutionary political activities, and acted as an apologist for the aggressive ambitions of US imperialism" .

It was not until 1979, when hundreds of scientists in China met to celebrate the centenary of Einstein's birth, that the great physicist was officially "rehabilitated".

On Li Senke's side, Chen Muwu couldn't catch up.

But now he has an opportunity to speak at the highest scientific institution in Sulian, and he must try to do his best to prevent the second farce from happening.

"That's fine, that's fine..."

Hearing Chen Muwu's explanation, Yue Fei's hanging heart let go a little, but not completely.

"...Then you see, I will send someone to Kapitsa's house tomorrow to get the outline of your speech, okay?"

"no problem!"

(End of this chapter)