Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 278 17 Carrots Defend the Carrot Pit

It was late September 1926, the Mid-Autumn Festival had passed, and the autumnal equinox had not yet arrived.

Chen Muwu, who was sitting at a table by the window, looked out the window of this restaurant near the University of Berlin and saw a full moon hanging in the sky. He realized this belatedly.

Although he was not sure, Chen Muwu definitely couldn't take out his mobile phone to look at the calendar - of course he didn't have a mobile phone, and he didn't carry a perpetual calendar with the lunar calendar marked on him, so he didn't know when the Mid-Autumn Festival was.

He could only make a simple judgment from the shape of the moon. It should be around the Mid-Autumn Festival, but it must be before the autumnal equinox.

——Because it is basically a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar, around September 9rd every year.

If we calculate the time, Chen Muwu and Oppenheimer should have spent the Mid-Autumn Festival in Poland, but that doesn't matter. No matter where they are, he is a wanderer alone like duckweed.

There are still about ten days left before the wedding of Joliot and Irena in early October.

But more than one thing happened in October. At least at the University of Berlin in Germany, or rather the Department of Physics of the University of Berlin, the entire department was preparing to do something big.

Planck, the old director of the Department of Physics, received an invitation from Helmholtz in 1889 and resigned from his position as professor of theoretical physics at Kiel University. He instead came to the University of Berlin to accept the job of Kirchhoff, who died the year before. .

In 1892, he inherited Kirchhoff's tenured professorship and has been working at the University of Berlin for 37 years today.

Planck, 68, plans to retire in October.

The entire Physics Department of the University of Berlin plans to hold a lively retirement ceremony for this dedicated old department chair.

There are always two sides to the story. The old department chair is retiring to enjoy his old age, and Planck's tenured professor position is also vacant.

In today's Europe, whether in Germany or the UK, universities are still small but excellent elite education, and the farce of "the top 100 universities in the UK with a master's degree" will definitely not happen.

The number of students is small, the size of the university is small, and the number of professors and teachers in the school is also low.

Moreover, professorships are basically a carrot and a pit. They will not be easily increased or decreased.

In order to get Chen Muwu a new teaching position at Cambridge University, Old Thomson and Rutherford ran up and down, but they still failed many times.

Planck's radish pit at the University of Berlin was vacated, so it was natural to plant a fresh radish here.

In order to take over the position of tenured professor at the University of Berlin, Pauli had resigned from his teaching position at the University of Hamburg in advance and came to the German capital early to adapt to life here.

He has also entered the University of Berlin and is waiting to take over Planck's position in October.

Pauli is only 25 years old this year, which is the golden age of his life.

He felt that he had a bright future. In a few years, not only would he succeed Planck as a tenured professor, but he would also be able to hold the position of professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Berlin.

Although not long ago, a Chinese man named Chen Muwu had an incident at Cambridge University, causing physicists around the world to pay attention to his movements.

Some people also say that Planck, the chairman of the physics department, is about to retire, so it is better to invite Chen Muwu to teach at the University of Berlin.

If this matter finally becomes a reality, Chen Muwu comes to Germany, joins the University of Berlin, gets a tenured professorship, and becomes a professor in the Department of Physics.

This should have been a happy ending for everyone, except for the person who occupied the carrot pit.

The carrot pit occupied by Chen Muwu happened to be the one reserved for Pauli.

After getting the news, Pauli, who was still at the University of Hamburg at the time, had been on tenterhooks, fearing that the rumor would actually become a reality and that his wish to go to Berlin to pick up Planck's class would be in vain.

Fortunately, the final incident confirmed that Chen Muwu's coming to the University of Berlin was completely false and groundless.

Pauli came to Berlin from Hamburg smoothly, and the best period of his life was about to begin.

After a day's work at the workplace, Pauli, as a newcomer, invited his colleagues to have a gathering at a restaurant next to the school after get off work.

It is not easy for a proud and arrogant person like him to do such a thing.

If he had not just arrived and wanted to establish himself at the University of Berlin, Pauli would never have been able to treat guests to dinner to enhance the relationship between colleagues.

It's not that he's reluctant to spend money, he just looks down on people whose intelligence is not as good as his own.

With a sense of innate superiority, Pauli walked into the same restaurant where Einstein and the others were, chatting and laughing.

He once made a sharp comment on Einstein, saying that not all of what Einstein said was stupid.

——This is after learning that Einstein praised him for the good entries on the theory of relativity he wrote for the encyclopedia.

He came to the University of Berlin. It was not Pauli's honor to work with someone like Einstein in the physics department in the future, but it was the honor of Einstein and the University of Berlin.

While thinking about how to greet Einstein, Pauli's eyes accidentally glanced at Oppenheimer sitting opposite Einstein.

That American named Oppenheimer's greatest skill in his life was to hold Chen Muwu's thigh.

Apart from doing research with Chen Muwu and being the third author of two experimental papers, does he have any other abilities?

Paulisin said that Einstein was really unscrupulous. Maybe his time was not valuable, so he was willing to waste it on sitting down to eat with such a person who had no achievements.

Could it be that Oppenheimer's lack of knowledge and skills was finally exposed, so he was kicked out of Cambridge University by Chen Muwu, and he had no choice but to go to Berlin, Germany to join Einstein?

Pauli, who was filled with contempt in his heart, was about to look away when he saw another familiar figure next to Oppenheimer.

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive.

He stopped laughing immediately.

Scheie! (Shit!)
Why did Chen Muwu also appear in Berlin and have dinner with Einstein?

Aren't the two of them not dealing with each other?
Pauli, who was arrogant and arrogant, only had this impression of Einstein, but he was afraid and hated Chen Muwu, and he also had complicated feelings of a little recognition.

The source of these two emotions of fear and hatred is very simple. He really dared to hit himself in Copenhagen.

The slight sense of identity in his heart came from Pauli's feeling that the new theory of quantum mechanics proposed by Chen Muwu still had many merits.

A few years ago, during a meeting of the German Physical Society, Einstein took the stage to speak and raised his objections to quantum mechanics, which was still new at the time.

The people sitting in the audience had mixed opinions about this new theory proposed by Chen Muwu, and they didn't know who was right or wrong between Einstein and Chen Muwu.

Only Pauli stood firmly on Chen Muwu's side and brought up Mach's principle and other words to refute Einstein who refuted the view of quantum mechanics on the stage.

This was not because he opposed Einstein because he wanted to stand out at a gathering of physicists across Germany, but because Pauli really felt that there was nothing wrong with Chen Muwu's quantum mechanics.Nearly two years have passed since we said goodbye in Copenhagen before receiving the Nobel Prize and met Chen Muwu again today.

Pauli's first reaction after seeing him was not to feel a dull pain all over his body, but to fear that his enemy would be extremely jealous when he saw him. Fast forward to when he was beaten again.

Last time in Copenhagen, he and Chen Muwu were both considered foreigners in Denmark. Even if they called the police, they would probably get fifty hits each.

Moreover, he had to give face to his teacher Bohr, so Pauli could only swallow the sigh in his heart.

After returning to Hamburg from Denmark, Pauli learned his shame and became brave. While improving his physics research, he also did not forget to engage in physical exercise. He practiced fencing whenever he had time, in order to avenge his shame.

I saw Chen Muwu again in Berlin today. The confidence that physical training gave him made Pauli not afraid of playing against Chen Muwu again.

Even if you lose the fight, so what!
This is not Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, but Berlin, the capital of Germany.

The law will protect the legal rights of every German. Who are you, a foreigner, or the Chinese, the sick man of East Asia from the Far East, who is the elder in Berlin?

This time, no matter what, Chen Muwu will be sent to the police station.

However, Pauli, who was still tough but was ready to be beaten again, suddenly had an unoptimistic premonition: at this juncture when Planck was about to retire, Chen Muwu suddenly appeared. Near the University of Berlin, I even sat with Einstein.

Thinking back to the previous rumors, is it possible that Chen Muwu has really left the University of Cambridge and will soon replace him and become a professor at the University of Berlin?
Cooked duck, fly?

Pauli didn't know whether the truth of the matter was what he thought, so he stepped forward and wanted to ask directly.

Whether it's true or false, give yourself a break.

"Professor Einstein, good evening!"

After entering the restaurant, he first walked to the table and pretended to say hello to Einstein.

Einstein nodded to Pauli. He was about to respond, but the other party didn't give him the chance.

Pauli pretended that he had just seen Chen Muwu, and forced an expression of surprise on his face: "Ah, Dr. Chen! When did you come to Berlin? I didn't expect to see you here today by such a coincidence!"

Oppenheimer looked up when he heard someone greeting Chen Muwu.

Soon after he arrived at Cambridge University, he went on a business trip with Chen Muwu to Copenhagen, Denmark.

Although Oppenheimer was not present when Chen Muwu and Pauli started fighting in the guest room of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, since then, he has always hated Pauli in his heart - even if Chen Muwu took advantage of it.

Oppenheimer's heart was immediately filled with vigilance, and he calmly and quietly held the fork next to the plate.

He even adjusted his hand shape to find the easiest position to exert force.

If a fight breaks out later, this will enable him to strike first and kill him with one blow.

"Ah! Professor Pauli, long time no see! I heard that you will soon take over Professor Planck's teaching position and join the Department of Physics of the University of Berlin. Congratulations!"

Pauli was a little confused.

From what Chen Muwu said, he already knew about his job change.

He also knew very well that his reputation in Chen Muwu's heart was definitely among the last among the worst.

What does he mean by these words at this moment?
Are you sincerely congratulating yourself, or are you saying a few sarcastic words to him before telling yourself the cruel truth?

Pauli quickly thought about the situation in his mind. If it were him, the situation would undoubtedly be the latter.

This Chen Muwu is really nothing!
On the surface, he let out the news and said that he would not come to the University of Berlin. At the same time, he also disguised himself very well. After the incident was over, he remained in Cambridge, England.

Who would have thought that this thoughtful Chinese actually adopted a roundabout tactic. On the surface, he was going to Soviet Union to give lectures and brought back home, but on the way back, he killed someone and suddenly appeared in Berlin.

The anger in his heart had been ignited, but Pauli's face remained calm: "Thank you Dr. Chen! I wonder why Dr. Chen came to Berlin this time?"

"I didn't plan to come to Berlin. I just passed by here when I went back to Cambridge." Chen Muwu smiled and looked at Einstein opposite. "It was Professor Einstein who personally went to the train station platform to pick me up." After the disaster, he invited me to stay in Berlin for a few days and discuss some physics issues."

It seemed that Chen Muwu's answer was sincere and it didn't look like he was lying to himself.

But Pauli was still a little worried: "Professor Einstein kidnapped you? What does this mean?"

"Wolfgang, haven't you read the newspapers these days?..."

The talkative Einstein took up the topic and told in detail Chen Muwu's "adventure" in Poland that was published in the newspaper.

"...So after reading the newspaper, I went to the platform at the right time today and stopped Dr. Chen. I wanted to discuss some issues with him."

Chen Muwu said this, and Einstein said the same. Now Pauli is finally relieved.

The tension finally relaxed, and he felt better, finally showing the instinct of an excellent physicist.

"What interesting issues are you two discussing?"

Sooner or later, Einstein's unified theory will be written into a paper and published, and he will discuss it with Chen Muwu in order to broaden his thinking.

Pauli was also a smart young man. Although he was often rude to himself, Einstein still had a good impression of him and believed that Pauli represented the future of German physics.

So Einstein took advantage of this meeting to tell Pauli, who was standing at the dining table, about his idea of ​​unifying electromagnetism and gravity, hoping to hear his opinion.

Pauli is not as hypocritical and submissive as Chen Muwu. What he focuses on is his true temperament.

After listening to Einstein's description, he had long forgotten the fear and worry in his heart when he first met Chen Muwu, and now he became confident again.

"Professor Einstein, why are you still obsessed with unifying the two fields?
"With all due respect, I think your change of mind this time will not escape the result of the 'affine theory' that you firmly believed in a few years ago."

Chen Muwu thought to himself that Pauli was indeed Pauli, and his sharp-tongued style remained unchanged.

Pauli thought to himself that Einstein was indeed Einstein, but the questions he was thinking about were still so boring and wrong.

Einstein thought to himself, Chen Muwu said that his idea was very interesting, but Pauli said that this would definitely be a mistake. Who was right and who was wrong?

Oppenheimer thought to himself that it looked like he wouldn't be able to fight today, so he quietly loosened his grip on the fork.

(End of this chapter)