Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 279 18 Department of Physics, University of Berlin

Because the restaurant is close to the University of Berlin, this small restaurant is similar to the small restaurant where von Neumann treated him to steak when he went to Cambridge University.

Even Chen Muwu, who became famous at a young age, was no different from ordinary people in the eyes of the waiters in that restaurant.

The waiters at the Berlin University hotel are basically used to having all kinds of people discussing all kinds of issues.

The middle-aged and elderly men among the diners, who are ordinary-looking, bald, wearing thick glasses, and wearing wrinkled suits, are probably professors, experts, and scholars from nearby universities or research institutes.

But unlike the restaurant at Cambridge University, the restaurant in Cambridge County basically only serves teachers and students of Cambridge University, plus a small number of residents of the county who don't even look up from their sight.

The University of Berlin is located in Berlin, the capital of Germany. In addition to the school's teachers, students and nearby residents, there is also a large floating population.

In the restaurant today, in addition to the usual regulars, there were also new customers who walked by casually and happened to be hungry, so they casually walked in to eat.

It was indeed a surprise to meet Einstein, whose comments and photos often appeared in newspapers, in such a hidden restaurant.

Even though most people did not like to see this great Jewish physicist in their daily chats, this was because no one had ever met him in real life.

After actually meeting him, the feeling in my heart will be different.

It is not an honor or an honor to be able to eat in the same restaurant as the best physicist in the world. I can only say that no one else would have this opportunity.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a mobile phone or internet, so I can’t take out photos, videos, and post on Instagram all at once.

So I had to wait for the waiter to pass by my table next time, and then ask him to borrow paper and pen. When Dr. Einstein finished his meal and was about to leave, he asked him to sign for him again.

However, however.

Before the waiter came, I saw a young junior walking directly to Einstein's table. He seemed to be saying hello, but he stood there for a long time and refused to leave.

Dr. Einstein was also very kind and said something to the young man.

No one expected that at the end, the young man suddenly raised his voice,
Although I don't understand what "transformation" or "affine theory" means, you can still see the bossy way he talks and the full of sarcasm in his tone can still be understood.

What kind of class is this young man who dares to reprimand Einstein in person?
It's just this table in the center of the storm. I don't know what other guests in the restaurant think of them now.

After Pauli expressed his disapproval of the unified theory, Einstein wanted to know more about what the future head of the physics department at the University of Berlin thought of him.

So after asking the two guests for their opinions, he invited Pauli to sit down, eat at the same table with them, and chat by the way.

Chen Muwu had no objections to this. Judging from today's situation, Pauli would probably have to discuss his unified theory with Einstein all night, and the flames of war would not easily reach him.

Then you can eat with peace of mind. If Einstein is willing to spend more money to treat someone to dinner, it is also his business and has nothing to do with him.

Anyway, Germany has gradually emerged from the economic crisis caused by various reasons such as the failure of World War I, and the purchasing power of the mark has long since recovered.

To put it another way, even if Einstein is unwilling to pay, it is not impossible to help pay for it himself.

Oppenheimer was reluctant in his heart, but since Chen Muwu had no objection, he was too embarrassed to say anything else.

On this table, I am the one with the lowest academic status.

Although he looked down upon Pauli, he was, after all, a quasi-tenured professor at the University of Berlin.

A Chinese proverb says that the dragon that rides the wind and waves in the sea is teased by shrimps in the shallows; the tiger that dominates the mountains is bullied by puppies on the plains.

Oppenheimer increasingly felt that he was that dragon, that tiger. He was born in 1904, so according to his zodiac sign, he was born in the year of dragon.

China's traditional culture is really broad and profound.

Pauli sat down, and the two colleagues who were hosted by Pauli today could only sit down as well.

They were both faculty members of the Department of Physics at the University of Berlin. Their relationship with Einstein could not be said to be close or close, but they always saw each other in the department every day without looking up.

What really surprised these two people was Chen Muwu who appeared at the table.

They also read in the newspaper about the unreasonable disaster Dr. Chen suffered in Poland, but no one expected that Professor Einstein was so powerful that he could cut off Dr. Chen's beard at the Berlin train station and invite him to the University of Berlin.

It is a generally recognized fact that German food is much more delicious than British food.

Oppenheimer felt that the dishes on the table seemed somewhat similar to the dishes he had eaten at the Fengtian Zhangfu Banquet.

Although it is not as exquisite as the latter, given the price and environment, the cooking techniques and taste of the ingredients are exactly the same as Northeastern cuisine in China.

As for eating, Chen Muwu is pessimistic.

The food in Germany was quite satisfactory, but in France I could still eat delicious food for more than ten days.

After leaving France and returning to England, endless torture awaits him.

At the dinner table, the Germans Einstein and Pauli had no special feelings about their meal tonight.

For them, it is just a daily meal. They have been accustomed to the taste of their hometown since they were little.

These two men devoted all their energy to the debate on the unified theory.

The father-in-law said that the father-in-law was right, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was right. Neither of them could convince the other, so they had to find a third person on the sidelines to comment.

The third person, Chen Muwu, could only eat and practice Tai Chi on the side.

He had to lament how terrible Pauli's physics intuition was.

For a while, although he couldn't tell what was wrong with Einstein's transformation theory, he kept insisting that it was absolutely impossible for electromagnetic force and universal gravitation to be unified, and maybe, between these two In addition to force, there may be other third forces.

I heard this novel statement put forward by Pauli in order to deny Einstein's theory.

Chen Muwu, who was eating, was stunned, and the black bread he was chewing got stuck in his throat.

"Chen, what's wrong with you?"

The host, Einstein, was somewhat at a disadvantage in the verbal exchange, so he chose to avoid the fight and turned around to care about his guests.

"No, it's nothing..."

Chen Muwu also picked up the wine glass in front of him. Einstein's glass of non-alcoholic punch opened up a new way of thinking for him.

So he followed suit and ordered a glass of zero-alcohol punch, but it was apple-flavored.

Chen Muwu took a few sips of apple juice, soaked the piece of black bread stuck in his throat, and finally swallowed it.

"I think Professor Pauli's point of view is somewhat interesting. After all, we haven't figured out yet whether it is electromagnetic force or gravity that brings together those positively charged protons that repel each other in the nucleus. One kind. Maybe it’s none of them, but there is indeed a third kind of force..." Pauli was surprised. He didn’t expect that the Chinese, who he thought he would never deal with, actually turned out this time. Stand on your own side, agree with your own views, and speak for yourself.

Just seeing that the smile on Einstein's face disappeared and the wrinkles between his eyebrows grew a little more, Chen Muwu, who had a flat glass of wine, could only continue to change his words and said: "However, even if there is a third force, maybe this third force exists." The three can still be unified with electromagnetic force and universal gravitation.

"Failing to confirm and discover the existence of the third force, I think it is not a bad idea for Professor Einstein to try his idea. First find a way to unify electromagnetic force and universal gravitation, and then wait for the third force. After the discovery of Zhongli, this method was substituted and applied."

I just knew it, I just knew it!
Pauli complained secretly that the good impression he had just had on Chen Muwu disappeared.

This method of overt praise and covert criticism is used so skillfully, it is indeed something that only Chen Muwu, his lifelong enemy, can do.

In fact, Chen Muwu didn't agree with Einstein's ideas from beginning to end, but he just didn't want to be like Pauli, who didn't care, went straight to the point, and unintentionally hurt others' hearts with his words, but he didn't know it yet.

Hearing Chen Muwu speak for him, Einstein at the dinner table may have been very happy for a moment.

But as long as Einstein thinks about it carefully after he goes back, he can figure out what is wrong with this matter.

There are sixteen independent components in total, and gravity alone accounts for ten of them.

The remaining six, initially assigned to the electromagnetic force, may be okay. Although it is not equal to the number of gravity, it is still reasonable.

But what if there really is a third force?

The electromagnetic force and the third force grab six indicators together, but gravity takes over the other ten. This makes no sense.

Chen Muwu just said it in a very cryptic way, not as ruthless as Pauli. What he wanted was to at least finish today's dinner well.

After all, as soon as he got off the train, he was stopped by Einstein to discuss the problem. He hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch. If he didn't eat dinner well, Chen Muwu would really start a crime.

The meal was finally finished, Einstein paid the bill, and Pauli led the two guests he wanted to invite away first.

Einstein meant to continue going to Chen Muwu to talk about his unification issue, but Chen Muwu politely refused on the grounds that he was tired from the journey, the day was long, and there was not much time left.

Thinking that Chen Muwu had been wasted all day today, although he was reluctant, Einstein could only leave temporarily.

Oppenheimer also said that he wanted to go shopping in Berlin, but Chen Muwu just wanted to beg him to let him go.

Being tired from the journey is really not Chen Muwu's reason for rejecting Einstein, but his true state now.

And after such a long journey, it is estimated that the young master's heart has already been restless.

He said he wanted to go shopping in the city, and the place he probably ended up going to was either a bar or a dance club.

Anyway, after sending Oppenheimer away, Chen Muwu lay on the bed and fell asleep after taking a bath.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already dawn the next day.

I don’t know what time Oppenheimer ended his gaming life and returned to the hotel last night. Chen Muwu decided to have breakfast first, and then come back to wake him up and wait for Einstein’s arrival.

As a result, when he arrived at the restaurant on the first floor, he found that the other party was already sitting at a dining table waiting for him.

It seems that Einstein's expression seems a little unhappy.

Could it be that after we parted last night, he had already thought of the unreasonableness of his changed views?

"Chen, how did you sleep last night?"

"Thanks to you, Professor, I probably had the best sleep I've ever had on the way back."

"But I didn't sleep very well," Eins made a helpless expression on his face, "I really should have stayed last night to continue discussing the problem with you. As soon as I got home, I received a notice from the Department of Physics. I hope you will go to the University of Berlin and take a walk around."

Oh, this is what made Einstein so unhappy.

He felt that visiting the Department of Physics delayed his discussion with Chen Muwu. Originally, Dr. Chen only stayed in Berlin for three days.

The reason why Einstein confessed this matter to Chen Muwu was that he hoped that he could refuse the invitation from the Department of Physics and then discuss the unification plan with him.

Physics departments around the world are similar. Chen Muwu from other schools could refuse invitations to visit, but not the University of Berlin.

No way, Planck, the head of the Department of Physics at the University of Berlin, was kind to him.

Even if Einstein sent a telegram to recommend it, if Planck, as the editor-in-chief of "Annals of Physics", had not made the decision, Chen Muwu's first paper would not have been so easily published in the top European physics journals.

As early as three years ago in 1924, when Chen Muwu followed Rutherford to Brussels to attend the Fourth Solvay Conference, he wanted to follow the French physicists headed by Langevin to Germany after the conference. visit.

Just because Rutherford urged him to return to Cambridge to do experiments and prepare for his doctoral thesis, Chen Muwu was not able to make the trip that time.

This time I was finally able to meet Planck before he retired and expressed his gratitude in person. Chen Muwu said he would never miss the opportunity.

So he pretended not to see it. Einstein, who had been waiting for him to express his position, finished his dinner hastily and went back upstairs to call Oppenheimer.

He also asked Oppenheimer to take out two bags of tea brought from China as gifts from his luggage as a gift for meeting Planck.

——The reason why I didn’t give Einstein a gift yesterday is because he doesn’t even drink caffeinated coffee.

Oppenheimer, who had just woken up, found some tea leaves and dressed himself up at the speed of light.

When he walked out of the door still dressed like a rich man, Chen Muwu saw something on Oppenheimer's neck that had never appeared before - a camera.

Although Chen Muwu is not very interested in photography, he has no research on cameras.

But he still saw the too classic five letters on the lens cover, "Leica".

Come to Berlin, can Oppenheimer still find such a treasure?
Although I don’t remember when the Leica brand was founded, the model Oppenheimer bought should be one of the company’s early models.

If you keep it in the future, it will be regarded as an antique. Chen Muwu feels that he should buy one to play with, not for future appreciation, but to take more photos to record history.

"Robert, your camera is great! How much did it cost?"

"Not bad, right? I think it's good too! Last night I was wandering the streets of Berlin and suddenly wanted to buy some local souvenirs, so I entered the department store building. After looking around, I chose a camera made in Germany. And the United States Unlike those bulky products, the more I look at this small and exquisite camera, the more I like it. It only cost me a trivial amount of money. If I had had a camera before going to China, I don’t know how many photos I could have taken along the way. . Oh, what a pity.”

Anyway, as long as he doesn't buy the Woolworth Building, the tallest building in the world, it's not a lot of money for Oppenheimer, a wealthy man.

Unable to find out the price, Chen Muwu had no choice but to give up and took Oppenheimer to the restaurant downstairs to meet Einstein.

On a whim, Oppenheimer asked Chen Muwu to stand side by side with Einstein. The first photo taken by his camera recorded an excited Chen Muwu and a depressed Einstein.

(End of this chapter)