Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 287 26 generations have suffered from Chen Muwu

After Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, began to vigorously promote the imperial examination and achieved certain results, he once said with great pride that "all the heroes in the world have come to my rescue."

Standing in front of his office, which he had not seen for several months, Chen Muwu suddenly thought of what Li Erfeng once said.

Li Shimin passed the imperial examination and obtained a large number of bureaucrats who were helpful in maintaining his feudal rule.

Chen Muwu, on the other hand, relied entirely on his personal charm to attract a group of young and promising young scholars who will grow into world-renowned physicists in the future.

One relied on high-ranking officials and generous salaries, while the other relied on personal influence, which gave Chen Muwu the illusion that he was better than Li Er.

Moreover, in the high school history textbook, when introducing the chapter on the imperial examination, a poem by Zhao Gu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, was quoted, which is called "Emperor Taizong's great strategy makes heroes grow old".

The meaning of this poem seems to be that the imperial examination promoted by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty can make scholars all over the world obsessed with it until their hair turns gray.

But Chen Muwu, who was in school at that time, once made a crooked comment on this poem when he was bored, thinking that the content was about the imperial examination examination, preparation, failure, and then taking the examination again, which caused scholars all over the world to waste a lot of time, so that in the end The names on the gold list are all old men.

After such a comparison, Chen Muwu felt that he had won again.

Because among the young talents around him, the oldest one is only in his thirties, and he still has 20 to [-] years before his hair turns gray.

Perhaps for some of the British people, they don't even know what it is like to have gray hair.

Because before their hair turns gray, they may already be bald, resulting in not a single hair left on their heads. This is true as the saying goes, "No grass grows on a busy street, and no hair grows on a smart head."

Pushing open his office and walking in, the four people in the room, except Chen Muwu, actually spoke German to each other.

After Chen Muwu and Oppenheimer returned to China, there were only three permanent personnel left in this office, namely Dirac, Heisenberg and von Neumann.

Each of these three people has been learning a new language recently.

The language genius von Neumann was proficient in the languages ​​​​of many European countries. Because he was ordered by his teacher Hilbert to come to Cambridge University to join Chen Muwu, so like Oppenheimer, he also had a deep understanding of Dr. Chen’s mother tongue, Chinese. Intrigued.

There happened to be two Chinese students in the Cavendish Laboratory, so after temporarily separating from Oppenheimer, Zhao Zhongyao and Shi Ruwei accepted a new Chinese student like von Neumann.

Dirac, the descendant of immigrants from French-speaking Switzerland, often spoke French at home. He had lived in Bristol since he was a child, and English was his mother tongue.

As an Englishman, he is a bit arrogant and always feels that Germany is the academic center of Europe. Therefore, when he was studying at the University of Bristol, he began to treat German as a second foreign language, thinking that he would make great achievements in academic research in the future. These results were obtained and a paper was published in German.

Even Chen Muwu, a man born from heaven, published many high-level English papers in "Transactions of the Natural Science" and "Nature" magazines, suddenly raising the academic level of the UK to a higher level.

But not long ago, when Dirac wanted to write the paper demonstrating the equivalence of the two modes of quantum mechanics, he subconsciously wanted to use German.

Then I was persuaded by Chen Muwu for a long time, and finally decided to do the same as my good friends, and submit the article to the "Proceedings of the Natural Science" after finishing it in English to save time.

Of these three men, the most unlucky was Heisenberg.

He is a native German, and his family is not related to the aristocrats who like to speak French. He has only spoken German since he was a child, and only has a superficial taste of English.

As a result, after obtaining his doctorate, he accidentally arrived at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, where he studied with Bohr and became his assistant. Therefore, the second language he learned was Danish, the smallest language among the three.

Heisenberg's English proficiency was much worse than Dirac's German proficiency, so the three people's daily communication in Chen Muwu's office could only be in German. If there was any communication failure, It was translated by von Neumann.

Oppenheimer got up early today so that when he entered the Cavendish Laboratory with a lot of gifts, he would not be discovered by Rutherford, the laboratory director who always disliked him.

After all, he was also someone who could chat and laugh with Einstein, and he was invited by him to teach at the University of Berlin. So Oppenheimer, who joined the threesome in Chen Muwu's office, also spoke in German.

He was happily talking about what he had experienced while traveling east and west with Dr. Chen.

Because he was facing three physics colleagues, Oppenheimer focused on the question raised by Professor Einstein in Berlin: whether a transformation method could be found to unify electromagnetic force and universal gravitation.

Chen Muwu suddenly realized another thing, that is, he was surrounded by young talents from the Cambridge department like Kapitsa, Blackett and Cockcroft, who were the mainstays of the original "Copenhagen School" Many of them have already come to him, such as Dirac, Heisenberg and von Neumann.

A few years ago, Bohr had always wanted to move himself from the Cavendish Laboratory under his teacher Rutherford to the University of Copenhagen, but he had never succeeded.

But now, Chen Muwu unintentionally gained a lot of leverage from Bohr.

In this time and space, Dirac and von Neumann will definitely not go to Copenhagen again, and Bohr's current assistant Heisenberg is expected to travel between Denmark and the United Kingdom in the future.

As for Pauli, another general under Bohr, he finally succeeded the retired Planck and became a tenured professor at the University of Berlin after Irena got married.

In a few years, Pauli might be able to become a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Berlin and move from a scientific research position to a management position.

Will there be a Copenhagen School in the future?Chen Muwu felt that this matter was not easy to talk about.

But he also felt that there was the local Cambridge department, plus the corners poached from Bohr, plus his compatriots.

In the time and space that I am now in, it is very likely that a giant school of thought, the Cambridge School, will emerge with Chen Muwu as the center.

Of course, if Balfour eventually drives Chen Muwu out of Cambridge University or even out of the UK, this school may also be called the Stockholm School.

It's also in Northern Europe like Copenhagen, just in a different country.

——At least let the Swedish Crown Prince, or the Wallenberg family’s money not be wasted.

A grove of sycamore trees was planted, attracting countless phoenixes.

Seeing Chen Muwu walking into the office, the group hurriedly said hello to this friend or teacher they hadn't seen for a long time.

It's just that everyone subconsciously speaks German.

A small office in the Cavendish Laboratory, like Buckingham Palace from 1714 to 1727, became the place with the highest German concentration in the small kingdom of Cambridge University.

Oppenheimer, who came first, had already given gifts to these three people, and Chen Muwu also brought his tea.After the polite greetings, it was von Neumann who spoke first and talked about academic topics: "Dr. Chen, just now Mr. Oppenheimer said that Professor Einstein wanted to unify electromagnetic force and universal gravitation. This What do you think about this?"

The reason why when they first met, he did not tell the other three about his various experiences in Soviet Union and China, but directly talked about this matter.

It's because on the one hand, Oppenheimer wanted to brag to everyone that he had been praised by Einstein, and on the other hand, he wanted to deny it and finally made Einstein agree with this view. Chen Muwu was indeed more powerful than Einstein. .

However, the arrival of Chen Muwu interrupted Oppenheimer's vivid description. Before he could talk about his last day in Paris, Dr. Chen finally found a way to deny Einstein's idea.

Von Neumann's academic sense of smell was extremely sensitive. He did not hear Oppenheimer's last words and thought that the matter proposed by Einstein had great potential.

After hearing this question raised by him, Chen Muwu remembered that he still owed Planck a German paper that he had not yet written.

Originally I wanted to write about why transformation cannot promote the unification of electromagnetic force and universal gravitation, but this has been clearly explained to Einstein. If it is published as a paper, wouldn't it be a slap in the face?
Chen Muwu could only briefly explain to these three people again why it was not possible, and then began to worry about the paper again.

His main character, Xiao Chen, is to "be true to his words and be resolute in his actions." He must not let Planck go just because he is about to retire.

It is reported that Planck is also going to Como, Italy to attend the physics conference commemorating Volta. Chen Muwu does not want to experience the pain of being pushed for manuscripts in a resort area.

Thinking of the meeting in Italy, Chen Mu suddenly changed the topic to this.

Because Kapitsa informed Chen Muwu about the meeting in front of Oppenheimer.

So there may be only three remaining people in this office who don't know about the meeting.

"Have you three received an invitation to the meeting in Italy next spring? Are you going?"

Historically, these three people all received invitations to the Como Conference because they all had achieved results in physics before the conference began, and Heisenberg was even more popular among the younger generation.

Perhaps only von Neumann was still a newcomer with no results, but he still went to Italy with those at the University of Göttingen, headed by Born and Jordan.

However, isn't this because there is a Chen Muwu in this life?
Of the three people in the office, Heisenberg picked up the most wool from his body.

Whether it is matrix mechanics or the uncertainty principle, the surname is now Chen instead of Hai.

The most famous among the three was Dirac, because he was Chen Muwu's best friend at Cambridge University and they had jointly written several papers together.

Chen Muwu was not sure whether they would receive an invitation from Italy, so he asked.

Sure enough, just as he thought, all three people knew about such a meeting, but no one was invited by the organizer.

How about that!
Chen Muwu felt that he must bring all his right-hand men to Italy.

The upcoming Como Conference will be the first stop for his Cambridge School to establish its sect.

He even thought about what he would present a paper about at a conference.

If we can successfully bombard lithium atoms with protons before the meeting starts, we will focus on the verification of Einstein's mass-energy equation and the prospects for artificial nuclear transmutation.

If this experiment is not completed or is not done well, then the content of the paper should be replaced by quantum field theory, right?
With so many physics geniuses under his command, I would be sorry if I didn't take advantage of them.

The content of the paper that had just been promised to Planck was finally settled.

Just do it!

Chen Muwu not only poached many of Bohr's generals, but also unknowingly took away the fortune of the Copenhagen School.

The Como Conference in the original time and space was Bohr's battle of standing sticks.

Although he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922, it was not until this meeting that the Copenhagen School headed by Bohr finally took shape.

Because he opposed the legal policy implemented by Baldheads in Italy, Einstein refused to participate in the Como Conference.

Perhaps because he knew that his old enemy would not attend, Bohr published his complementarity principle first when preparing for the Como Conference.

Then when the conference was held, he sang with his disciple Heisenberg and introduced their uncertainty principle to everyone attending the conference.

After the Como Conference, there was the most famous Fifth Solvay Conference in 1927.

The Solvay Conference was held in Belgium but not in Italy, so Einstein attended and repeatedly made counterattacks against the uncertainty principle at the conference, although they all failed.

Bohr achieved great success in two consecutive international physics conferences.

The Copenhagen School achieved staged victories in battles with Einstein, Schrödinger and de Broglie, and subsequently became famous.

But now, the uncertainty principle has been brought up by Chen Muwu, and the two parties in the debate have become him and Einstein. It has happened a long time ago and is already in a state of suspension.

He is going to read out his paper on nuclear transmutation or quantum field theory at the Como Conference, which basically declares that in this time and space, the Copenhagen School will no longer exist.

Chen Muwu thought of another thing. Since the Copenhagen School no longer exists, Bohr cannot be the person he preaches.

In this case, can Bohr be poached into the Cambridge School?

He was a student of Rutherford, and he briefly studied with the elder Thomson at Cambridge University for a period of time. This identity is consistent with a member of the school.

Another thing is that if there was no Copenhagen School, then there might not have been the unknown secret conversation between Heisenberg and his teacher Bohr in Copenhagen after occupying Denmark.

Or is it that even so, the secret talks may still happen, but the person talking to Heisenberg will change from Bohr to Chen Muwu?
and many more!

Is it possible that the one who was transported from Stockholm to Edinburgh in a Mosquito bomber also changed from Bohr to himself?

Is Chen Muwu going to suffer for someone else again?
(End of this chapter)