Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 275 14 Life Experiences of Scumbags

After another night of sleeping on the bumpy train carriage, the next morning after dawn, Chen Muwu and Oppenheimer finally arrived at the railway from Warsaw to Berlin, which spanned two countries and was more than 500 kilometers long. terminal station.

People always adapt to life slowly. After experiencing the long journey back and forth on the long Siberian Railway, Chen Muwu has learned from the various experiences he had when he took the train on the Shanghai-Nanjing-Jinpu-Jingfeng line for the first time. I am not used to picking and choosing, but now I have learned to enjoy it.

He temporarily forgot all the unpleasantness he had experienced in Poland a few days ago. That night, Chen Muwu slept soundly in his bunk.

As soon as he entered Germany, Oppenheimer was awakened by the movement of passengers boarding and alighting at Küstrin an der Oder station.

It is still more than 80 kilometers away from Berlin. According to the speed of steam trains, even the fastest train will take more than an hour.

After packing the luggage that the two of them had brought with them, Oppenheimer sat quietly on his bunk, looking out the window at the morning scenery of Germany.

He was now waiting to get off the train in Berlin at the estimated delay time informed by the conductor, pick up his luggage, and then buy a train ticket for Paris.

It wasn't until the train entered the city limits of Berlin and the buildings could be seen outside the window that Oppenheimer woke Chen Muwu up from his bunk.

If everything goes well, the two of them will be able to arrive in the French capital smoothly by this time tomorrow.

Even if you can't buy a ticket to Paris on the same day, you can still reach the destination of this journey within three days.

He means, if everything goes well.

Even if the Poles didn't buy the tickets for them, these two people would definitely buy the highest-end carriage.

Anyway, Oppenheimer won a very sufficient amount of travel expenses from the Swedish royal family. Even if they spent additional travel expenses for Wu Dayou, Chen Shengshen and Wang Ganchang from China to England, they would still have a lot of money left.

The advantage of the first-class carriage is that passengers can get on and off the train in the earliest batch. This train, which was delayed by more than half an hour during the night, was finally not delayed anymore and stopped "on time" at the exclusive platform of the Northern Express at the Silesia Railway Station in eastern Berlin.

Silesia Bahnhof, formerly known as Frankfurt Bahnhof, was named after Frankfurt, the terminal station that drives from here.

However, this Frankfurt is not that Frankfurt. It is not the large transportation hub in western Germany, but a small city in eastern Germany.

In order to distinguish the two cities with the same name, the Germans named the city after the river.

The one to the west is called Frankfurt am Main, and the one to the east is called Frankfurt am Main.

Later, this train line was extended eastward, reaching the historical Silesia region, and the name of the station was changed from Frankfurt Station to Silesia Station.

Chen Muwu, who had just been woken up and was still a little sleepy, walked out of the first-class sleeper car with Oppenheimer.

Suddenly he woke up and realized one thing, that was his previous error in judgment. It was not that the train platform of Tianli East Station was prone to random uninvited guests, but that it was possible that East Train Stations in cities all over the world were prone to random visitors on the platform. Uninvited guest on refresh.

The Silesian Railway Station leading to Frankfurt in the east is just in the eastern part of Berlin.

For a moment, Chen Muwu felt like he was dreaming, but then he felt that this was not a dream, but reality.

Because Oppenheimer next to him showed a very excited state for the first time. This was obviously because he also saw him standing in the center of the platform with messy hair and a mustache, smiling and waiting for him. Einstein as guests get off the train.

There is a jargon in the cross talk circle called "There is no one in the world who doesn't follow the horse".

This means that any actor who speaks cross talk will more or less imitate Ma Sanli and his Ma School cross talk style.

When it comes to physics, Einstein’s status in the circle should be similar to Ma Sanli’s status in the cross talk circle.

Although he is not the oldest physicist at the age of 50 this year, he is definitely the one with the highest status.

Because Oppenheimer wanted to do experiments in the best physics laboratory in the world, after graduating from Harvard, the best university in the United States, he came to Cambridge, the best university in the world.

Although things didn't go smoothly at first after arriving at Cambridge, he finally got to know the best young physicists in the world.

Now I saw the best physicist in the world on the platform of Silesia Railway Station. It would be absolutely false to say that Oppenheimer was not excited.

All the brain cells in Chen Muwu's brain were spinning rapidly, and he soon found a seemingly suitable reason for Einstein to come to the platform of this station.

Maybe he was going to take the next train from Berlin to Paris or Warsaw or Osko, and the two of them just happened to meet on this platform?
But Chen Muwu quickly denied his self-deception. No matter which of the above cities he went to, it could not be a short trip.

Einstein's hand that was hanging down was empty, and the other hand was holding the top of the hat and waving it toward him.

How does this look like you are going on a trip?He was obviously here to pick someone up from the platform.

And it seems that the guest Einstein is going to pick up is, if nothing else, Chen Muwu.

Although it was an unexpected encounter, since we had already bumped into each other, there was no need to act awkwardly.

Chen Muwu put down his luggage, first waved to Einstein in response, and then took two quick steps to reach him.

"Professor Einstein, long time no see."

"Doctor Chen... or professor?"

Einstein asked a little confused.

Chen Muwu smiled and replied: "Doctor, doctor..."

Einstein put the hat in his hand back on his head, stretched out his freed hand to Chen Muwu, and joked with him: "Dr. Chen, long time no see. I remember you have graduated more than two years ago? You Cambridge The university is so stingy that it won't even award you a professor title.

"Didn't Sir Rutherford and Sir Thomson help you fight for it?"

"Professor, both of them have worked hard on this matter, but the result...as you can see."

"Well, Chen, if you had come to Berlin instead of the UK, let alone the tenured professorship at the University of Berlin, I estimate that in a few days, Mr. Planck will retire when Mr. Planck retires in October this year. That position as chair of the physics department is yours too.

"Although it's not you, fortunately, his successor is also very good. That young man Wolfgang represents the future of German physics." German physics does have a future. If Mustache hadn't come on stage, then Maybe there will be more future.

The anti-Semitic policy caused many Jewish scientists to leave. It is estimated that Pauli will not sit as the chairman of the physics department of the University of Berlin for a long time. After all, his life is at stake.

"Professor, you are joking."

During the time when the two were being polite, Oppenheimer moved their luggage bit by bit to Chen Muwu and Einstein like ants moving.

"Robert, I don't need to introduce you too much, right?"

This was not the first time that Oppenheimer saw the real Einstein. In early 1925, after Einstein went to the Royal Society in London to receive the Copley Medal, he was invited to the University of Cambridge.

At that time, Oppenheimer once saw Einstein from a distance when he was accompanied by Rutherford to visit the Cavendish Laboratory. Just because he did not want to come face to face with Rutherford, he did not come forward to talk to him that time. Einstein said hello.

Even if a person has never met Einstein, he will definitely recognize this hot news figure whose photo frequently appears in newspapers.

Today, when I saw a living Einstein greeting me on the platform in Silesia, Oppenheimer did not feel that it was unreal, nor did he cover his ears like Chen Muwu.

He immediately figured out why Einstein appeared here. His purpose was definitely not himself, but Dr. Chen beside him.

Chen Muwu introduced to Einstein the man next to him who was nodding at the speed of light: "Professor, this is J.R. Oppenheimer. He is currently doing research with me in the Cavendish Laboratory. "

After greeting him politely, before Chen Muwu could ask, Einstein got straight to the point and mentioned the reason why he appeared on the train platform today: "Dr. Chen, I saw the news about you in the local newspaper in Berlin. I am very sorry and sympathize with what you experienced in Poland a few days ago, but I also checked the timetable of the train you took today, so I came to Silesia Railway Station and waited for you on the platform.

"Now that you have come to Berlin, you can't leave in such a hurry this time. I borrowed the key to a villa outside Berlin from my personal doctor, and now I invite you and Mr. Oppenheimer How about spending a week's vacation on the banks of the Harwell River together?"

From the moment he saw Einstein, Chen Muwu was ready to pause in Berlin.

Einstein could find the platform of the train station, so he could no longer turn around and leave like he did in Tianli.

According to the previously planned date in China, he should arrive in Paris around September 9.

Joliot and Irena's wedding is scheduled for October 10th this year. It would be a bit rude to rush back in early October.

You really think of yourself as a guest at the wedding, right?
Therefore, Chen Muwu advanced his return date to fifteen days before the wedding, leaving ample margin for the trip.

It's a good thing that he did this. If he hadn't rushed back so many days in advance and wasted these two days in Poland, he would probably not be able to get to Paris on the wedding day.

In that case, not only would he feel bad about his own face, but he would also probably not get a good look from Madame Curie.

In Chen Muwu's mind, the acceptable length of stay in Berlin was three days.

In this way, I can still return to France more than a week in advance to help with the final preparations before the wedding.

Einstein immediately asked him to live outside Berlin for a week. Chen Muwu really couldn't accept such a long time.

He did not agree to Einstein's invitation for the time being. Instead, he asked Oppenheimer to go to the luggage room of the train station to collect all their luggage, and then go through the storage procedure.

Chen Muwu also made an OK gesture to Oppenheimer, but Einstein had no idea what this gesture meant.

Although the English word OK appeared in the American newspaper industry in the early [-]th century, it is a homophony of the phrase "all correct".

But that hand gesture symbol that is universally used around the world had to wait for the start of World War II and be brought back to Europe from the North American continent by American soldiers.

Einstein would never have imagined that Chen Muwu actually made a "3" gesture to Oppenheimer, meaning that he asked him to temporarily store his luggage at the train station for three days.

In the UK, the most common gesture for the number three is to press the little finger with the thumb and hold up the other three fingers.

In Germany, it's the thumb, index finger and middle finger.

Chen Muwu was afraid that Einstein could figure out what he meant, so he didn't use the British expression but another Chinese gesture.

Others may not be able to understand it, but as a China expert, Oppenheimer would have no problem understanding it.

After Oppenheimer left, Chen Muwu began to bargain with Einstein: "Professor, one week is too long. I have some personal matters to deal with in Paris, France. In my opinion, the two How is the weather? Instead of going to the villa outside Berlin, how about I find a hotel near your apartment so that we can meet at any time? "

Einstein did not follow Chen Muwu's train of thought, but asked him: "Isn't the latest physics conference in Italy next year? Is there any conference in Paris recently? Why don't I know this? "

Einstein didn't know the relationship between Chen Muwu and Madame Curie's youngest daughter. He felt that Chen Muwu had no relationship in Paris, so what would happen if he went to Paris?

It has been three years since the Olympic Games ended. Is he just perfunctory?

That's why Einstein decided to break the casserole and ask the question.

Chen Muwu had no choice but to say that Madame Curie's eldest daughter was getting married and he had to go to Paris to help.

Hearing this unsatisfactory answer, the doubtful look in Einstein's eyes did not diminish.

Although he didn't say what he meant, Chen Muwu already understood that what Einstein wanted to express was, what does other people's marriage have to do with you, an outsider?
He had no choice but to tell the truth and told Einstein that he was in love with Madame Curie's youngest daughter.

Ask, you must ask!
Now that you know everything, when you get married in the future, will you, an old Jewish man, have the nerve not to pay for it?
It seems that sometimes it is not good for people to be too curious about knowledge, and they may lose money because of it.

After hearing this explanation, Einstein actually put away the smile on his face.

He even persuaded Chen Muwu with a serious expression: "Chen, as a person who has been through this experience, I want to give you a very sincere life advice: don't get married on impulse when you are young. Otherwise, You will regret it in the future. I, myself, am a living example."

Although he respected Einstein very much, when this old scumbag in his love life began to sadly teach Chen Muwu his life experience, Chen Muwu wanted to complain:
Fortunately, I won the Nobel Prize before I got married, so I didn’t have to divide the prize money with my divorced partner.

(End of this chapter)