Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 282 21 Chen Muwu’s empty joy

Originally, traveling long distances by train was boring.

Now, in the last part of this journey, in addition to Oppenheimer, one more Einstein was added to the traveling companions. This journey...

...it’s even more boring.

If Einstein hadn't interfered like this, Chen Muwu would have planned to write a paper on why transformation theory cannot unify electromagnetic force and universal gravitation on the train from Berlin to Paris.

But now, in front of the parties concerned, Chen Muwu can no longer act according to the original plan.

Oh, before getting on the bus, he, Chen Muwu, also vowed to tell others that using transformations to conduct research on unified theory was very promising.

As soon as I got in the car, I started to turn my back on the person. I turned around and wrote on the paper "Why can't the transformation theory be used to unify the two basic forces?" 》this title.

If Einstein took a curious look at the title and content written by Chen Muwu on the manuscript paper, would he feel that he had been stabbed deeply in the back?
Since he couldn't pass the time by writing papers, Chen Muwu adjusted himself to another mentality. He was ready to fight Einstein on the train at night.

Well, don't get it wrong. The so-called night battle is just discussing physics problems on the train all night long.

Otherwise, what else can we fight?
But when the check-in office picked up the large luggage that had been stored here three days ago, went through the check-in procedures again, checked the tickets, entered the platform, and finally got on the train, Einstein had no intention of renewing his relationship with Chen Muwu. This is followed by a discussion of what is meant by a unified theory.

He just put his arms on the table, turned his head and looked quietly out the window at the platform, then slowly backed up.

Oppenheimer, on the other hand, was tinkering with the new toy he had just acquired, the Leica I camera.

Chen Muwu also wanted a camera to record his life, so the next night when he arrived in Berlin, he went out with Oppenheimer and bought one for himself. However, his camera had not yet been unpacked and used. Now it's being put away with those carry-on luggage.

Chen Muwu felt that just taking photos was not enough, and he even wanted to buy another camera.

But in German department stores, this gadget, which is even rarer than cameras in daily life, is not sold.

Then I can only wait until I return to the UK and go to Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, London, to try my luck.

"Professor Einstein, Dr. Chen..."

Chen Muwu still felt a little uncomfortable without Einstein to continue discussing the unified theory with him.

When he was bored and panicking, Oppenheimer, who had been playing with the camera, spoke first:

"There's only one photo left in this roll of film that hasn't been taken yet. How about you let me take a photo of you two?"

"No problem at all."

Einstein, who often interacted with reporters, had long been accustomed to being asked to take photos.

Hearing Avenheimer's words, he turned his head that was looking out the window back into the carriage.

Looking at Einstein with messy hair and unkempt appearance, Chen Muwu suddenly remembered a very famous photo in history.

"Professor, shall we take a different group photo this time?"

"A different group photo? What do you mean?"

"Like this, facing the camera..."

Chen Muwu began to patiently teach Einstein how to pose.

"...Open your eyes wide, raise your eyebrows, and most importantly, stick out your tongue..."

While Chen Muwu was directing, he was doing it simultaneously with Einstein, and he also made an expression on his face, sticking out his tongue and making a face.

Because he also stuck out his tongue at the end, the few syllables at the end of the sentence came out loud.

Einstein followed Chen Muwu to the last step. It wasn't until he was asked to stick out his tongue that he felt something was wrong.

"Chen, are you trying to trick me because you think I got on the train to Paris with you without telling you in advance?"

he questioned.

of course not!

Chen Muwuxin said, you don’t know how popular the photo of you doing this action will be in the future.

Not only is it the most popular photo of a physicist, but even the photo of the most famous person in the world, Einstein sticking out his tongue, will definitely be on the list.

He temporarily retracted his tongue and explained to Einstein: "Professor, of course that's not the case. I just want to change the stereotype that people have about us when they mention physicists. Everyone. Those of us who study physics are said to be smart, but we always look serious and boring.

"You are the most famous physicist in the world and one of the smartest people of our time.

"If you can take the lead in taking such a photo, I think it can greatly improve the perception of us physics students in the eyes of others..."

Anyway, Chen Muwu talked about a lot of fallacies inside and outside. Although Einstein was doubtful, he was still reluctantly persuaded by him.

Chen Muwu promised him that after the photos were developed, the first one would be shown to Einstein. Only if he nodded in agreement would the photo be released. Otherwise, the photos and negatives would be completely destroyed on the spot. Never leave it out.

In this way, the last photo of Chen Muwu and Einstein sticking out their tongues together was completely recorded on the first roll of negatives of Oppenheimer's new camera.

Chen Muwu even quietly made a V-shaped gesture on the top of Einstein's head.

The length of the train route from Berlin to Paris is more than 1000 kilometers.

This does not include the time spent passing through French border inspection at the border between the two countries.

Their highest-level evening express train had been on the road for a total of thirteen or four hours, with an average speed of about eighty kilometers per hour.

It is also a journey of more than 1000 kilometers, it is also a main road-level railway, and it is also the fastest train on the road.

But the train from Pu to Tianli takes a day and a night, a full ten hours longer than this journey.

The time difference between the two will of course be affected by the difference in locomotive power.

But the more important point is the road condition, that is, the gap on the rails.

As the main artery connecting the European continent, the connection line between Germany and France not only uses high-quality locomotives, but also high-quality rails.

On the other hand, in China, when the railways were first built, some inferior steel materials bought from abroad at a huge price were definitely not as good as those in the UK, nor as good as the rail materials for the main arteries from Berlin to Paris.

Later, Zhang Xiangshuai set up an iron factory in Hanyang and began to make steel and produce rails domestically.

Regardless of the place of origin or freight, Hanyang rail is certainly cheaper than imported rails, and much cheaper.

When new railways were built after this, especially private railways like the one from Wuhai to Ganzhou that were built with funds raised by wealthy businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, in order to save money, the board of directors thought of buying domestically produced goods instead of importing them from abroad.

Because the route and construction of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway were handled by the British chief engineer Greenson, the board of directors also followed the chief engineer's advice and sent the rail samples purchased from Hanyang Iron Works to the UK for testing. , to see whether the material of the rail meets the railway construction requirements.

A few months later, the test results sent back by the British were of course unqualified. They said that the carbon content of the rails produced by Hanyang Iron Works was too low, so the hardness was not enough; and the phosphorus content was too high, making the rails brittle.

Generally speaking, the data is not up to standard. If you want to repair the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, you cannot purchase rails from the domestic Hanyang Iron Works. You must spend a lot of money to buy imported goods from the UK.

So the wealthy businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who were deceived did not care whether the test report was true or false, and directly spent a lot of money to purchase a batch of second-class steel rails from the United Kingdom and laid them on the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway.This is true for the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, as well as the Beijing-Fenghuang and Tianjin-Puzhou Railways.

The rail material is not up to standard, which also affects the speed of the train to a certain extent.

Therefore, for the same distance, train locomotives with very different performance can pull the train to run at two completely different speeds.

Perhaps the only great power that has a conscience and does not fool others about the material of the railway tracks is me.

They were indeed sincerely building railways in the Northeast, using high-quality steel to make rails, and developing the Asia, the fastest train in the world at the time.

It's just that their investment and dedication are not to better serve the Chinese people, but to better rule and enslave the Chinese people.

The purpose of building better and higher-quality railways is just to make the road of aggression smoother.

The customs clearance process at the French-German border is much faster than that at the Soviet-Polish border.

Just through the simple matter of passing customs, you can see how big the gap in fame between Chen Muwu and Einstein is.

After the customs officer looked at the passport, he nodded thoughtfully and said, "So you are the famous Dr. Chen Muwu."

But when he saw Einstein in person, he didn't even need to take out his passport. Anyone around the world who had read newspapers would recognize Einstein's messy hair.

Then be polite to him and open the door to advantages along the way.

Therefore, they did not encounter any difficulties when they left Germany. When they entered France, they also enjoyed high-level reception.

Chen Muwu took advantage of Einstein's reputation on the European continent and followed the little earthly fox to pretend to be a tiger.

When the group arrived in Paris, they were picked up at the train station. Not surprisingly, it was their old friend De Broglie.

Looking at the luggage being sent out one by one from the luggage room, De Broglie felt a little shocked.

"Chen, are you moving all your belongings in China to Europe?"

"No, no, no, this is just a gift for you."

No one expected that the private wedding of Irena and Jolio, which was not open to the public, would turn out to be an extraneous incident in the end. Chen Muwu attracted Einstein as a distinguished guest.

But this was far from over. A few days later, taking advantage of Irena's marriage, Kapitsa ran away from Cambridge University to Paris again.

He came to attend the wedding. On the one hand, he was conveying the congratulations from Rutherford, director of the Cavendish Laboratory, and colleagues in the laboratory on the wedding of Madame Curie's eldest daughter. On the other hand, the main point was that he came to see him. Love Anna.

In the past few days in Paris, Einstein, in addition to continuing to discuss the unified theory with Chen Muwu, also visited old friends in the physics community such as Langevin and Brillouin.

Everyone was surprised that Einstein suddenly appeared in Paris without warning.

Then after listening to his explanation, I found out that the eldest daughter of Madame Curie's family was getting married.

After a series of connections by the restless Einstein, a good private wedding turned into a small-scale academic gathering in Paris.

The gifts that Chen Muwu brought all the way from China were also very popular.

Needless to say, there is no need to mention a pair of pastel vases given to the newlyweds. Marie Curie especially liked the large blue and white plate with radium and polonium elements painted on it.

The two major discoveries of her life are printed on the traditional Chinese porcelain. Except for the delicate and thoughtful Chen Muwu, no one can give her such a gift that she likes so much.

Madame Curie couldn't put it down these two blue and white dishes that had just come out of the kiln. She also liked Chen Muwu, her prospective son-in-law, the more she looked at them.

Both her mother and sister got their own gifts. As Chen Muwu's real girlfriend, Ai Fu looked on with envy.

She secretly pulled Chen Muwu aside and asked him where her gift was.

Xiao Chen said with a malicious smile, in China, the gift given to the unmarried wife is called betrothal gift, which can only be given to the woman before the marriage.

"So, when are you going to marry me?"

Although foreign women are warm and open-minded, Eve still blushed at Chen Muwu's words. She found an excuse and left him in a hurry.

After being praised by Madame Curie for her thoughtfulness, how could Chen Muwu not prepare a gift for Eve?

The reason why he said this was just to give a beautiful smile like King Zhou You.

The wedding of Irena and Jolio ended smoothly, and in a blink of an eye it was time to say goodbye again.

Chen Muwu felt that he had been discussing issues with Einstein for so long, and he had always given people confidence.

It is unreasonable to use a paper to destroy the strong self-confidence that I personally helped Einstein build after returning to the UK.

So in the past few days in Paris, he has been guiding, consciously or unconsciously, in the direction that transformation is impossible to solve the unified theory.

Before Einstein left France, Chen Muwu finally explained to him why transformation could not save the unified theory.

After a series of preparations in the past few days, Ai Weng had already had such a premonition in his heart, but after Chen Muwu pointed it out, he still felt a little sad.

Even when he was boarding the train on the platform of the Paris train station, his back was hunched over.

After bidding farewell to Einstein, Chen Muwu also rushed back to the UK without stopping.

On the one hand, he wanted to prepare for receiving the whole family who was about to come to the UK from China. On the other hand, he also wanted to return to the Cavendish Laboratory as soon as possible to participate in the first experiment after the successful development of the particle accelerator.

Kapitsa, who came from the UK, had already told him that in the past few months since he returned home, although the particle accelerator had not yet been successfully developed, it had entered the final stage.

Maybe in a few days before or after this, a complete success can be announced.

So Chen Muwu rejected Madame Curie, Ive and de Broglie's attempts to stay, and hurried back to England with Oppenheimer and Kapitsa, who was unwilling to leave Paris for the time being.

After traveling to Paris, Calais, Dover, London, and Cambridge for more than a day, the three people, still carrying a lot of luggage, appeared at the Cambridge train station outside Cambridgeshire.

Chen Muwu felt that the platform of the train station was really destined for him. He saw unexpected people on the platform of Cambridge Station.

Rutherford, the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, and his deputy Chadwick stood on the train platform and waited eagerly.

This made Chen Muwu quite touched. He thought that even though there was no advance notice, the teacher still came to the station to pick him up after not seeing him for several months.

As a result, after I went up to say hello, I realized that his emotion was just self-impression.

There was no notice in advance, so how could Rutherford come to Cambridge train station to pick up Chen Muwu who had returned from visiting relatives in China?

However, what he picked up had something to do with Chen Muwu.

"Chen, I didn't expect that we actually met for the first time at the train station. James received a notice that today the last part of the particle accelerator will be transported to Cambridgeshire by train.

"How about you go back to school first, put your luggage and belongings away, and then we gather in the room where the generator is turned on?"

Seeing that the teacher's enthusiasm for the particle accelerator was much higher than his enthusiasm for his beloved disciple whom he had not seen for several months, Chen Muwu really felt that his joy was in vain.

(End of this chapter)