Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 297 36 Voting in the Academy of Sciences

Why do I encounter so many abnormal people and abnormal things at the end of the year?

Chen Muwu thought that maybe he was not normal and his brain was crazy, so he thought of running to Doyle's house and encouraging him to use the medium's mouth to announce the shocking news, so that he could get a hush money.

Now reviewing the story again, Chen Muwu felt that he should tell Doyle directly that he was indeed a psychic medium with great supernatural powers, but because it was inconvenient to reveal his identity, he revealed the news to him, hoping to use his mouth to inform the outside world. Pass it on.

Only in this way can we avoid causing such big trouble as today.

But if you had done this in the first place, you would have faced another problem.

That is, Doyle may not give him money for this unless Chen Muwu asks for it.

However, he was so obsessed with face that he would never open his mouth like this.

So it would be difficult for him to get any money from Doyle anyway.

Chen Muwu finally realized what a big mistake he had made.

It seems that he should not have been involved in this matter in the first place. Whether he makes money or not is a trivial matter, but this situation will never happen.

Regardless of all the rumors outside, Huxley, who has eager expectations in his eyes, is not having a good time now.

According to the course of historical development, the Duke of York will definitely become the King of England in the end, but not now, he will have to wait for another ten years.

But the Huxley in front of him was a little too impatient and extreme. He wished that the current King George V would immediately control Bintian, and then immediately announce the exile of the Crown Prince Edward and let Prince Albert ascend the throne as the king.

Chen Muwu would never accept the fact that he had given himself the title of a great magician like Merlin because he could prophesy.

So he explained it to reporters at the beginning, saying that he didn't know how to do psychics at all. He could point out the pseudonym Agatha used when she stayed in the hotel. It was all a result of his brain's Sherlock Holmes-like reasoning. The result of killing a rat.

However, this explanation, which had already appeared in the newspapers, was obviously not very convincing to Huxley.

The latter had an "I understand" expression, as if he had misunderstood something:
Dr. Chen must have said this deliberately because he did not want to reveal his hidden identity in front of the news media.

Sir Doyle was old and a little confused, so he did the ridiculous thing of revealing Chen Muwu's true identity to the media.

Seeing that his explanation had no effect, Chen Muwu had no choice but to expose his vest in front of Huxley, who could be regarded as a friend for the time being.

Of course, what he meant by this explosive vest was not to confess to the other party that he was a "traveler", but to mean something else.

"Professor Huxley, I hope you can keep the secret of what I'm going to tell you next."

Hearing these words, Huxley straightened up in his chair. He once again misunderstood the master's meaning, thinking that he was going to hear some "unexpected and reasonable" explosive content next. .

"Dr. Chen, please rest assured that I will keep it confidential."

"Professor Huxley, first of all I have to continue to state my previous point of view. I even guarantee with my personality that I don't know any psychic skills at all. The reason why I can come to the correct conclusion is entirely based on my brain. Think about the results of your reasoning.

“But at the same time, I also admit that what I just told you and what I said to the media a day ago did conceal some information.

"That is, I am not only a loyal reader of the Sherlock Holmes series written by Sir Doyle, but I am also a creator of detective novels. I wonder if you have read George Chen, who was very famous a few years ago? I am that series of detectives The author of the novel.”

As Chen Muwu finished speaking, the expression on Huxley's face changed from excitement to one of complete loss.

But when he heard the last part of the words, he was suddenly shocked again.

George Chen?Chen Muwu?
Although he was surprised, Huxley became more reasonable the more he thought about it.

Since the George Chen series became popular all over the UK and even all English-speaking countries, the character setting of the protagonist George Chen has been talked about.

Everyone always has a reasonable suspicion that because Cambridge University produced a talented Chinese student Chen Muwu, Chandler, an originally unknown writer, became popular and copied Chen Muwu as the prototype in the novel. A George Chen came out:

Both of them came from China in the far east, and they were both international students at Cambridge University. They were both extremely smart.

Now that Chen Muwu said that he was not only the prototype of George Chen, but also the author of this series of detective novels, Huxley felt it was more reasonable.

Even if the George Chen series is indeed well written and is indeed a best-seller, it is still not enough to invite Conan Doyle, who has been writing for many years, to come out and write an article about Sherlock Holmes and George Chen, making the smartest detective novel A British man endorsed this smartest Chinese.

But now that Chen Muwu suddenly blew up his vest, and thinking about the relationship between him and Sir Doyle, this inexplicable linkage between Holmes and George Chen suddenly became reasonable.

Huxley only read some popular detective novels when he was bored to relieve his boredom. He was not a loyal reader of the Sherlock Holmes or George Chen series.

But there was a die-hard fan of the George Chen series around him. This person was no one else. He was the link that connected him with Chen Muwu. He was a common friend of the two of them, and the main reason why he hurried to Cambridge this time. , Duke of York.

Since Ye Gongchao returned home in glory, Chen Muwu could not find a suitable swordsman, and the update speed of the Chen George series immediately stagnated.

Although Penguin Press promptly launched the new female writer Agatha to the rescue, the readers who had accumulated a long history of the George Chen series were still quite disappointed that such a good book suddenly stopped updating without warning. There are criticisms.

The Duke of York was also very dissatisfied with this matter. He even used his connections to go to Penguin Publishing House to find out who the author was. Unexpectedly, the other party remained tight-lipped, even if the noble Lord Tianhuang came. Let go.

There is no way. The novel that I have been following suddenly stops being updated. It feels like there are ants crawling on me.

The Duke of York could only tell those around him that if Chandler publishes any works again, they must be delivered to him as soon as possible.

"Uh, I, I want to ask, Dr. Chen, if you have any new works recently. Of course, I mean in terms of detective novels, not in your academic research."

Huxley suddenly asked about Chen Muwu's latest work, and also added the last sentence because he had learned from the past.

More than 60 years ago, in 1865, a fairy tale book suddenly appeared on the British market called "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

The book tells the story of a little girl named Alice who fell into a rabbit hole in pursuit of a talking rabbit with a pocket watch, and experienced various adventures in a magical country.

The British head of state at that time was Queen Victoria.

Her Majesty the Queen liked this book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" very much, so she ordered the royal servants around her to send it to her as soon as possible if the author of this book wrote a new book.

Royal servants are loyal to Her Majesty the Queen and are responsive to Victoria's requests.So, it didn’t take long for Queen Victoria to receive the latest book by her favorite author Lewis Carroll, "Essential Essays on Determinants".

In addition to being a fairy tale writer, Carroll also has another identity as a mathematics teacher at Christ's College, Oxford University.

The name Lewis Carroll was actually a pseudonym. He got his real name, Charles Lutwidge, by transcribing it into Latin, transposing it, and then re-translating it.

Although Carroll denied that this incident had ever really happened, everyone still talked about it.

Huxley knew that the Duke of York had been thinking about the new book in the George Chen series. Who would have thought that not only was George Chen based on Chen Muwu, but the author was actually Chen Muwu.

The joke that happened between Queen Victoria and Carol almost became a reality for the Duke of York.

If he really brought a copy of "Lectures on Quantum Mechanics" published by Cambridge University Press to the Duke of York, saying it was a new book by the author of the George Chen series, Huxley would think that the picture was so beautiful.

Although the Duke of York is also nominally a graduate of Trinity College, can he really understand Chen Muwu's latest masterpiece?Huxley had no hope.

"Oh, you mean a new book, right? There is one, but the manuscript is not with me. It has been handed over to the publisher. I think it won't be long before it can be published, right?"

Penguin Publishing has indeed delayed the update for too long, and it would be inappropriate not to give an explanation to the readers.

So when he returned to China not long ago, he finished handling various things, including naturally picking up a new piece of wool from Ye Gongchao, "ABC Murder".

Of course, he would not choose to write the new book in George Chen's series by himself, but he would provide a very good idea. It was already a lot of work and effort, okay?

This time when he came to Cambridge University, Huxley did not get the results he wanted, but he exposed one of Chen Muwu's vests.

Before leaving, he asked again without giving up: "Dr. Chen, are you really not a psychic? Is it really possible for His Royal Highness the Duke of York to ascend to the position of King of England?"

Chen Muwu felt helpless looking at the hard-core second prince in front of him.

But his first bottom line after time travel is to never tell others the truth that he is a time traveler.

Not even his own family and Eve Chen Muwu would say it, let alone Huxley in front of him.

He suddenly thought of a once-popular lyric and quoted it as his answer: "You will find it in the future, time will give you the answer."

Chen Muwu, who sent Huxley away by singing "My Skateboard Shoes", felt that it was not appropriate to stay at Cambridge University for a long time because of the big bastard he had brought out.

Anyway, Christmas and New Year were coming soon, so he might as well leave the UK for a while and go somewhere else to avoid the limelight.

There are two options before Chen Muwu. One is to take a boat north to Sweden to see how the school that will be completed next year is doing now.

But there are two obstacles in front of this choice. One is that the Crown Prince of Sweden, who is on a global tour, has just left Japan and arrived in the United States. He is not in Sweden, and Chen Muwu does not have many acquaintances in that country.

The second is that Chen Muwu is seasick. Although he can go directly to Sweden by land, it is far less convenient than going directly to the sea from Norwich.

In the end, he decided not to go to Sweden and instead went to Paris, which was closer.

Although Chinese traditional custom is that newlyweds should not meet each other before getting married.

But this is France after all. For Chen Muwu, it is not impossible to stop being so stubborn and do as the Romans do.

Oppenheimer took advantage of the holidays to return to the United States for Christmas, but Chen Muwu still had no shortage of travel companions on this trip.

As long as he is willing to spend money, he can drag Kapitsa to accompany him to France, and he can also be called "adopted father" by this Russian whose girlfriend is in France but has little money.

Even Chen Muwu, who "escaped" in a hurry on the way to France, could not escape the teasing and ridicule of his good friend Kapitsa.

"Great Psychic Master, since you have superb spiritual power, why didn't you predict that you would be in such a mess now?"

Faced with Kapitsa's eccentric attitude, Chen Muwu really wanted to kick him off the boat crossing the English Channel.

"First, you are a physicist.

“Second, you are a physicist from a redist country.

"Anyone can believe this nonsense, but you can't believe it!"

"Hey, I just think it's very interesting. I shouldn't. Why are you provoking reporters from those British newspapers?
"The most uncomfortable thing now is not you who has run away. I think it is the old crocodile who is still in Cambridge. If those reporters can't find him, they will definitely interview him and ask him how he taught such a magic stick. Students are here.”

Kapitsa was right. Chen Muwu not only caused trouble for himself this time, but also for Rutherford, the Cavendish Laboratory, and the entire University of Cambridge.

I guess that Mr. Belfort, the school supervisor, must be secretly happy now.

Unless there is a big news in the UK or around the world that exceeds the popularity of the fake news about Chen Muwu's spiritual practice, the bored British people will be attracted by new things and forget about Chen Muwu's conspicuous package.

Obviously, the news that the mentally ill Emperor Taisho passed away far away in Eurasia and that the new Emperor Hirohito ascended the throne was not enough to cause much excitement in the UK.

At most, the flag of the embassy in London would be flown at half-mast as a tribute, and the Foreign Ministry would send a minister there to go through the motions.

Because it was an impromptu trip without prior notification, De Broglie did not make preparations for Chen Muwu's arrival.

Although he was extremely busy, de Broglie still thoughtfully arranged an itinerary for Chen Muwu to pass the time: he would go with him to the French Academy of Sciences to attend the Academy's year-end summary meeting.

So on the last day of 1926, Chen Muwu, who appeared in the audience, personally witnessed a funny scene in the French Academy of Sciences:
These academicians voted, and with a final vote of eight to five, they announced the adoption of the issue of "whether animals have souls."

With Chen Muwu, a great psychic, as a witness, this issue seemed to be passed with more confidence.

Such was the state of science at the beginning of the twentieth century.

　The incident at the French Academy of Sciences really happened, but the reference was a Chicago newspaper, which was much harder to find than the New York Times, and I couldn't find the book.

　　(The book was already cut yesterday when I pushed it. I did this right after I pushed it. This backstab is really awesome)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)