Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 276 15 A wonderful thing
Oppenheimer, who went to take out his luggage from the luggage room and stored it in the check-in office again, arrived late. He didn't know what else Chen Muwu and Einstein had talked about after he left.

When he returned to the platform, he only saw Einstein with a serious face.

This made Oppenheimer regret it very much. He felt that he should not have picked up his luggage so quickly, but should have listened to the conversation between the two of them.

In this way, a lot of new content can be added to my travel diary.

If it were other physics students who wanted to get good grades, and saw Einstein and Chen Muwu chatting on the train platform, whose first reaction would be to write the content of their conversation into their travel diary?
Shouldn't we listen to what they say and see if there are any new discoveries in physics contained in what is being discussed?

After several months of traveling to China, Oppenheimer had somewhat forgotten what his old job was.

He now looks less like a physics practitioner and more like a [-]/[-] travel writer.

Whenever something happened during the trip, Oppenheimer would always make a draft as soon as possible, and fill in the story of these things in his notebook before going to bed at night or during other free time during the day.

His travel diary has been updated to include their Polish adventures.

In it, Oppenheimer criticized the country of Poland. From the border inspectors at the Soviet-Polish border to Piłsudski, who had just succeeded in seizing power, he was denounced as penniless in his travel notes. They were all not good things. .

Fortunately, the country of Poland was destroyed at the beginning of World War II. If Poland had won World War II and dominated the entire Europe and the entire earth, then Oppenheimer would have been judged as a He is a war criminal and has harmed Poland's national image.

Perhaps because he let himself go too much in his travel notes and wrote as he pleased, when his book was translated into various versions in different parts of the world, it would always be deleted based on local conditions.

Of course, the Polish version deleted this paragraph and changed it to say that Chen Muwu passed through and stopped in Poland on his way back to the city, and he was full of praise for the urban construction of the capital Warsaw.

As for the Russian version, Oppenheimer's supplementary explanation about the Eastern Railway and Vladivostok, as well as a series of unequal treaties signed between the two countries, was deleted after checking the information.

The domestic versions of Britain, France, the United States and other countries also deleted roughly the same thing. Not only did they delete the unequal treaties, but they also deleted some of the tyranny of their people in and outside the concessions. They all beautified their ugly faces as invaders. .

Most of the content has been deleted from the text version of the travel notes.

Oppenheimer complained too much about Ben in his travel notes. From the emperor to the common people, they became the most disgusting people in his eyes.

In particular, he was very disrespectful and uttered arrogant words to His Majesty the Emperor, who was still the Crown Prince at the time. He was even listed for execution after the future conquest of North America.

But the largest number of words has been deleted, not from the travelogue version, but from the Chinese version.

From the Beiyang government to the later Tengjing government, every time the speaker changed, they would delete words from the book that they thought were detrimental to themselves and slanderous to the country.

Therefore, there are no two versions of Oppenheimer's travelogue with exactly the same content in China.

Each time it is reprinted, some additions or deletions will be made to the previous edition.

But that's not all. The content deleted from the Chinese version is far more than that. All the above-mentioned content that may cause surprise to allies have been deleted.

——Of course, this does not include Poland, because Poland is not yet a great power.

Basically, the Chinese version is the intersection of the British, French, German, and Soviet versions, and then different contents are deleted according to different regimes.

Few Chinese people are interested in this travelogue written by an American about the Middle East, Southern Manchuria, Beijing-Fenghuang, Jinpu, Shanghai-Nanjing Railway and the Sihai region.

People who have never been to any of the above places are basically illiterate.

And those who have money to take the train and have lived in Wuhai do not need to read a foreigner's words to re-understand Wuhai.

Only people in cultural circles are willing to see how a foreigner views China, but after seeing it, they are always more disappointed.

"Only when things in China are done by Chinese people can we see the truth. For example, Oppenheimer, a student of Chen Hanchen, claims to regard China as his motherland. However, looking at his works, it is after all an American's position. That's all, it's just a superficial situation. Only when we do it can we leave a truth behind."

——A fellow villager of Chen Muwu with a mustache.

The only major impact that Oppenheimer's travels had in China was that Mrs. Pearl Booker, an American teacher in the Foreign Languages ​​Department of Jinling University, discovered this treasure in the ocean.

Born in a missionary family and raised in China since she was a child, she has always wanted to create some works about this ancient and mysterious country.

So Mrs. Booker bought back Oppenheimer's travel notes for reference. Originally, she wanted to see how Oppenheimer, an American and a first-time immigrant, viewed and described China from a different perspective. .

As a result, she found that there were very few descriptions of real scenes and things in this travelogue, and more pen and ink and space were used to record Chen Muwu's words and deeds.

What kind of travel notes is this? It's obviously more like the Analects and Mencius, which record the remarks of Confucius and Mencius!

However, Mrs. Booker still found some interesting things in her travel notes. He saw that during Chen Muwu’s trip to Fengtian, Oppenheimer had been repeating a novel.

After having this clue and following the clues, she also discovered that Chen Muwu was the author of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

Chen Muwu is the most famous young physicist in the world, and "The Condor" is the most famous popular novel in China.

Adding these two things together is a name added to a name.

If this novel could be translated from Chinese into English and then sold to publishers in the United States, I might be able to earn a lot of royalties.

As she said, Mrs. Booker temporarily put down another Chinese novel, "Water Margin", which she had initially planned to translate into English.

Her name Pearl, the corresponding English word is pearl. If the transliteration of Pearl is not used, but the literal translation is used, the meaning should be pearl.

Therefore, as Mrs. Booker, who grew up and lived in China for a long time, she also has another Chinese name, Pearl Buck.

Because the two of them had not yet finished their trip, Oppenheimer's travel notes were not finished, and subsequent publications were even less complete.

Since he had already returned to the platform, Einstein planned to wait until Chen Muwu settled down in Berlin.

He has to stay here for three days anyway. Although the time is not too rich, it is not too urgent and he will not race against time.

Under Einstein's guidance, Chen Muwu and Oppenheimer followed him, a local, out of the Silesia train station and got on the special car assigned to Einstein by the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics.

Because of the addition of Oppenheimer, an unfamiliar outsider, Einstein changed the topic after getting in the car and stopped teaching Chen Muwu his life experience on marriage issues.

He finally began to talk about academic matters with Chen Muwu beside him. Oppenheimer, who was sitting in the passenger seat, quietly pricked his ears, hoping that he would not miss a single syllable.

"Chen, you did a good job. I didn't expect you to achieve certain results in mathematics."

On the surface, Einstein was sincerely praising Chen Muwu, and the incompleteness theorem he proposed had no personal feelings at all.

But he felt that he was the only one who knew that he was secretly happy. Thanks to a good young student like Chen Muwu, Hilbert, a mathematician who always had eyes on the top of his head and looked down on physicists, could succeed in his own major. Big deflated.

In fact, Chen Muwu also knew about this, but since Einstein was acting, he had no choice but to accompany him to the end.

"Professor, it's just a trivial thing, and you're so complimentary."

Chen Muwu followed suit by being hypocritically polite and modest, while Oppenheimer took it seriously.

Although he does not know much about professional issues in mathematics, he knows the status of mathematicians in the mathematical world.

In the history of mathematics, the incompleteness theorem was also affirmed by Russell and denied Hilbert's major event. The importance of this theorem is naturally self-evident.For such an important theorem, Chen Muwu only received the evaluation of "insignificant".

Oppenheimer didn't think Chen Muwu was arrogant, but thought Chen Muwu was telling the truth.

He just gave a little or a half of his energy to mathematics and came up with such a theorem.

If Dr. Chen devoted himself wholeheartedly to mathematics, would the historical development of mankind take a completely different path?

At least for himself, if Dr. Chen went to study mathematics, he might go to the University of Göttingen instead of coming to the University of Cambridge, nor would he enter the Cavendish Laboratory.

If he is not in the Cavendish Laboratory, then he may not be able to enter the study here so smoothly, nor will he achieve some results in physics at the Royal Institution of London in the second year.

Oh, it is really lucky that Dr. Chen did not choose mathematics.

He saved physics and himself.

Oppenheimer sat in the passenger seat and thought wildly, while Einstein continued the topic he had just discussed with Chen Muwu.

"Chen, you said mathematics is incomplete, and this has been confirmed by the paper.

"Abstract subjects like mathematics are incomplete, and our physics is based on experiments and is a kind of observation, understanding and research of the entire universe. Then you say, there should be no such thing as incompleteness in physics. Something?

"I've been thinking about another question recently. Do you think it's possible to combine gravity and electromagnetism and unify them?"

After listening to Einstein's questions, Chen Muwu basically had a general understanding of why he stopped him on the train platform today.

The good news is that Einstein did not come to accuse him this time. He continued to pester him about quantum mechanics and designed various weird thought experiments in an attempt to use these experiments full of loopholes to refute the uncertainty principle, and then Refuting quantum mechanics.

The bad news is that he has to discuss unified field theory with himself.

Moreover, he pretended to start with the Incompleteness Theorem and brought up this topic inadvertently.

Einstein may have thought that his way of approaching the topic was novel, but he may not have known that a few decades after him, a well-known physicist named Hawking used the incompleteness theorem as an introduction and believed that All theories about the universe are "neither consistent nor perfect." It is impossible to establish a single theory that can describe the universe in a consistent and complete manner.

Hawking's lecture was delivered in Beijing in 2002. Chen Muwu was naturally unable to attend the lecture at that age.

However, Hawking repeated his own point of view many times in the future, and it was at that stage that Chen Muwu understood it.

Looking at Einstein, who was full of fighting spirit and devoted the rest of his life to the research of unified theory, but only found time to write a letter to the commander-in-chief of the United States, Chen Muwu didn't know what to say for a while.

Can all the laws of the universe be explained in a grand unified theory? Anyway, he was still doing this at the time when he came.

It’s just that Einstein’s lifelong research failed to get the results he wanted.

But when it comes to completeness and incompleteness, Chen Muwu also thinks that the reason why he went to make waves in mathematics and made a big news was that his original motivation was because Einstein first said that quantum mechanics is incomplete?
Then he attacked Hilbert, who was also a German, indiscriminately. As a result, Einstein came to ask him again whether physics was complete.

It's easy to refute what he said, just ask Einstein whether quantum mechanics counts as physics.

Quantum mechanics counts as physics, but if quantum mechanics is incomplete, then physics will also be incomplete.

If you want to make physics complete, can you put aside the unification of various forces? At least in quantum mechanics, there must be no incompleteness problems in the first place.

Chen Muwu, who was both angry and funny, suddenly wanted to say something like, "Professor Einstein, don't you want physics to become incomplete?"

But just think about it, but you can't really say it.

Chen Muwu could only organize his words secretly to see what words he could say without damaging Einstein's self-confidence, and at the same time try to see if he could change his research direction.

At this time, the car they were riding in stopped next to a building, which saved Chen Muwu's life and prevented him from being confined to the narrow space of the car compartment for the next time, facing people who had nothing to say. Awkward situation.

Einstein also felt that there was no reason why a person who had just finished a long train journey should not settle down quickly but continue to discuss the problem with him in his seat.

"Chen, we will discuss this issue later. Next, we will complete your check-in procedures."

Chen Muwu followed Einstein out of the car and walked into the hotel.

Oppenheimer, who was carrying luggage with the driver, followed closely behind.

Because of Planck's recruitment, Einstein gave up his teaching position in Zurich. After coming to Berlin, he began to serve as the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics, and also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Berlin.

His apartment in Berlin is also near research institutes and universities, so the hotel where Chen Muwu and Oppenheimer stayed this time was not far from the center of German physics.

This hotel is a cooperative unit of the University of Berlin, and has rooms specially reserved for visiting scholars like Chen Muwu.

So they checked in directly under Einstein's guidance without making an appointment.

The front desk of this hotel can also help book train tickets from Berlin to Paris in three days. This is a favor to Oppenheimer and prevents him from traveling to the train station in these few days. Buy tickets for one trip.

Einstein's hospitality ended there.

Chen Muwu only stayed in Berlin for less than three days, and he was pressed for time. He had no time to let this guest sleep in the hotel first before discussing the problem with him.

So Einstein sat on the sofa in Chen Muwu's room and took out paper and pen from his suit pocket.

"Chen, what do you think is the most beautiful formula in the history of physics?"

"Of course it's Maxwell's equations, professor. It's Mr. Maxwell's equations that unify electricity and magnetism."

In fact, in Chen Muwu's mind, the most beautiful formula is not Maxwell's equations, but the mass-energy equation proposed by the man sitting on the sofa, E=mc.

This simple and beautiful equation has given birth to many magical things, such as colorful blooming mushroom clouds.

If this mushroom cloud can bloom over Edo, it will better reflect the beauty of physical sorrow that I have always pursued.

You think that growing mushrooms in Edo is harmful to people, but you don’t know how far-sighted Chen Muwu is. Not only is he not harmful to people, but he is also saving his own life in the future, which will make all humans around the world grateful to him.

Maybe the energy released by the big mushroom can change the geological structure near the East Honkai Sea and release part of the accumulated energy in advance.

Maybe just making such a small change can prevent major earthquakes from happening decades later.

If it happens, the energy released will become slightly smaller, and it will no longer cause a level 7 accident at the nuclear power plant. TEPCO's management will no longer bow, and no one will take the risk of being Forced to drink nuclear waste water.

No one was hurt, which was a wonderful thing.

However, Chen Muwu knew the elegant meaning after hearing the string song. He didn't mind being a good compliment. Instead of talking about the mass-energy equation, he chose to answer Maxwell's equations and continued following Einstein's meaning.

Einstein was very satisfied with the answer given by Chen Muwu: "Yes, I also think Maxwell's equations are wonderful.

"But if we found a theory that unified gravity and electromagnetism, wouldn't you think that would be a wonderful thing?
"Chen, I want to hear your opinion on this issue."

(End of this chapter)