Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 298 37 Chen Muwu takes office

Chen Muwu entered 1927 with great reluctance.

Whether it is the Beijing government or the Yunjing government, although the Republic of China has existed for more than 40 years, it has been in bad shape every year during its lifetime, and this year is especially true.

The only gratifying thing at the beginning of the year is that the people forced Britain to give up the British concessions in Han and Jiujiang. It seemed to have given a good start to 1927. The Republic of China under the leadership of the southern government was about to get on the right track. Thriving.

But this was just a desire to suppress, because not long after the incident happened, the British government, which had lost two colonies, sent a large number of troops to the public concession in Jihai to defend it to the death out of revenge.

Then the weak capitulation of a certain class appeared again. In order for the newly formed government to gain support from the European and American powers, the South had no choice but to turn a blind eye, close one eye, and acquiesce to this trampling by the British. acts of sovereignty.

Then, in April...

Don't say such nonsense as "a grain of sand in the era, a mountain above the head of an individual".

Even if he is a grain of sand, he, Xiao Chen, is determined to be a grain of gold sand and must change something.

But in the coming year of 1927, Chen Muwu did not expect to make any changes at all.

It's not that he doesn't have that ability. Big changes are not enough. It's still possible to be a little boy who throws stranded fish back into the sea as best he can on the beach.

But he can't do that yet, because in addition to fish and sea water, there is also a domineering crab named "He" on this beach.

As long as you do something slightly out of line with the process, the crab will wave its pincers and run towards you arrogantly and pinch it off.

In this case, Chen Muwu had no choice. He could only be an ostrich escaping from reality, pretending that he didn't know what to do, and burying his head deeply in the sand, just like waiting for the heat of the psychic thing to pass.

It seems that in recent years, Chen Muwu has spent every Christmas and New Year's Day in Paris instead of Cambridge, England. It seems that France has become his second home.

After more than half a month of delicious food and drinks at De Broglie's house, although he didn't know how the limelight in the UK had dissipated, Chen Muwu still took Kapitsa, who was somewhat reluctant to leave, back to Cambridge before the start of school. University.

The best way to dissipate the heat is not to respond, because there are always new hot events emerging every day, attracting the attention of the general public again and again.

Facts have proved that what Chen Muwu did is indeed good. Although after returning to Cambridgeshire, he still occasionally gets sideways glances from pedestrians passing by when he walks on the road, but the discussion on this matter across the UK is much different from the previous crazy times. It has dropped a lot.

But this does not mean that Chen Muwu will not be ridiculed by acquaintances. Even if his teacher Rutherford has left Cambridge University, he, the acting director of the Cavendish Laboratory, has taken up his post and met Chadwick, the chief steward of the laboratory. After that, the first words the other party said to Chen Muwu were also...

"Director Chen, before Director Rutherford left, he specifically told me that if I meet you, I must ask you something: 'Chen, since you are already a great psychic with boundless power, then I would like to know something. One thing, does the electrically neutral particle in the atomic nucleus exist? If it exists, can our Cavendish Laboratory be the first to give it to us in this hide-and-seek game in which physicists all over the world are participating? Find out?'"

People who have always wanted to find neutrons entrusted the people who discovered neutrons in their previous lives to ask themselves whether neutrons can finally be discovered.

The interpersonal relationship involved in this question is really strange. Chen Muwu definitely gave the answer without hesitation, "Yes".

He felt that the scene in front of him was very similar to the imperial envoys from afar in the TV series of the Qing Dynasty, conveying the emperor's oral instructions to local officials. It was almost like the plot in it. The next sentence he should say was "Respectfully greet the Holy Ann" , and Chadwick replied "Holy greetings."

After the "pair" was completed, Chadwick, who had been imitating Rutherford's tone and sullen face, finally relaxed, showing the rare humorous side of the British.

"The director has said that he wants you to ignore the rumors, do your experiments well with peace of mind, and let the Cavendish Laboratory produce more results. This is more important than anything else.

"In the past few months, you have been the big boss, and we are all taking orders from you."

Arrogance and complacency have never been Chen Muwu's character. He hurriedly returned politely: "I was just lucky enough to gain the teacher's love, so I temporarily took over the management of the laboratory. But I have only been in Cambridge for a few years and basically have nothing." I understand, if I encounter anything, I hope you can help me more."

"Easy to say, easy to say."

You must not offend the big butler in front of you, otherwise he may not be able to spend most of the funds he raised.

Chen Muwu did not choose to exchange the shot with the gun. When Gao Sheng entered Rutherford's office, he went to the room he was familiar with.

The teacher is just gone, not dead. There is no need for him to satisfy his vanity by improving the level of the office.

Moreover, from 1919 to 1926, the smell of tobacco had already filled every corner of the office.

Chen Muwu, who does not smoke, even feels that if he has a big smoking gun and cannot find tobacco for a while, he only needs to enter this office and take a deep breath to temporarily calm his aroused craving for cigarettes.

From the trajectory of the cloud chamber photos taken long ago, it is not difficult to calculate what the new material is and how much kinetic energy this new material has.

Even the physical calculation questions in future college entrance examinations will be more difficult than the above two tasks.

Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft had long followed Chen Muwu's idea and used the mass loss before and after the reaction and the kinetic energy difference between the incident proton and the outgoing alpha particle to verify the correctness of Einstein's mass-energy equation.

There was only one last step left before the two of them published their first significant physics paper, which was to translate the draft written in English into German word for word.

According to Cockcroft, since Dr. Chen, of course he should be called Director Chen now, agreed to help translate this paper and recommended it to Planck in the German "Annals of Physics", they have already done what they should do Now that everything is done, all we have to do is wait for Chen Muwu to return to the UK.

Although Zhao Zhongyao had different opinions, he did not express them at the time.

Excluding Oppenheimer, who occasionally came in to make soy sauce, their research team only consisted of themselves and Cockcroft.

It's not worth it to have a disagreement over a trivial matter.

So while Cockcroft, a native of England, went home to celebrate Christmas and New Year's Day, Zhao Zhongyao, who stayed at Cambridge University, looked at the English-German dictionary, word by word, and sentence by sentence in the English draft, and came up with a German article. First edition of the paper.

Knowing that Chen Muwu had returned to Cambridge, Zhao Zhongyao took the time to send this German edition this morning.

According to what he meant, they would rush back to the particle accelerator immediately after delivering it. Following Chen Muwu's suggestion, they would change the lithium target to a beryllium target and a boron target, continue bombarding with protons, and use a cloud chamber to take pictures.

After all, unlike "geniuses" like Chen Muwu who only do groundbreaking work in a certain area and then turn around and invest in new fields, it is not easy for them to achieve outstanding results on a topic. The work to be done next We will definitely continue to work hard here and see if we can achieve greater results.

And among all the universities today, the particle accelerator of the Cavendish Laboratory is unique to Scorpion. If you seize this time gap to get ahead of others, you may be able to lead step by step in the future.

Zhao Zhongyao, who was anxious to go back to do experiments, was about to leave, but Chen Muwu kept him behind.He entered school in the same year as Oppenheimer, and this year it’s time to get a PhD diploma and wear a PhD hat.

Moreover, Zhao Zhongyao now has this experiment and this series of papers in hand, so graduation will definitely not be a problem.

But another question arises, that is, his whereabouts after graduation.

Zhao Zhongyao was Chen Muwu's student from Ye Qisun. Although they were students, the two were about the same age, with the former even several months older than the latter.

Without Chen Muwu, after working as a teaching assistant at Tsinghua University with Ye Qisun for several years, Zhao Zhongyao would not leave China until this year and go to the United States to do experiments with Millikan, and then finally return to China at the end of 1931.

Now there is a four-year time difference, and Chen Muwu really wants to keep Zhao Zhongyao. Swedish schools are in the start-up stage, and every teacher is precious.

Moreover, Zhao Zhongyao is not an ordinary person. He was a master of physics education in his previous life. If nothing unexpected happens in this life, he should be able to win a Nobel Prize in Physics.

Chen Muwu would feel it was a pity if he couldn't keep him by his side.

But after all, we have to respect other people's personal wishes. From the time I went abroad in 24 to the time I graduated in 27, it has been more than three years since I left the country.

Now I finally got my doctorate, but after graduation I won't even let others go back home, which is a bit unkind.

Even a young man like Ye Gongchao, who had long been accustomed to having fun, couldn't help but return to China. How could Chen Muwu have the nerve to leave Zhao Zhongyao behind?

So he could only tell the truth and gave Zhao Zhongyao two choices.

If you stay in Cambridge and follow you to Stockholm in the future, you will definitely be guaranteed a teaching position.

If he doesn't want to continue wandering abroad, but returns to his hometown in fine clothes, then Chen Muwu can also help him write a letter of recommendation to the best and richest school in the country - this is the richest and best school, and of course Mr. Zhang has invested a lot of it. Northeastern University is full of energy.

Of course, at Zhao Zhongyao's level, it doesn't matter if he has a recommendation letter from Chen Muwu.

A Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge is a hot commodity in any university in the country.

Moreover, his teacher Ye Qisun is still the dean of the physics department of Tsinghua University. After returning to China, it will be easy to become a physics professor at Tsinghua University.

Both options seem to be good, and in comparison, the Northern Expedition in the south is winning steadily, and the domestic situation is very good. Who would want to go to a bitter cold place like Sweden, which is close to the Arctic Circle?

After putting forward these two conditions, Chen Muwu also played the emotional card, saying that he hoped that Zhao Zhongyao could stay in Europe and help him more.

He was very nervous here, but he didn't expect that it wouldn't be a big deal at the other party's place.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhongyao's choice was to stay in the UK. He wanted to make use of these advanced foreign equipment and achieve some academic achievements before returning to China.

Especially since the University of Cambridge has just built its particle accelerator, and the peach-picking season is about to begin.

If you return to China at this time, you will have to start everything over again.

And even if there are enough funds in the country, the industrial level is far from comparable to that in the UK. Building a new particle accelerator in a domestic university will definitely require much more time and energy than here in the UK.

After hearing Zhao Zhongyao's choice, Chen Muwu finally felt relieved.

The former hurriedly returned to the ion accelerator to continue his experiments, while the latter calmly took out his typewriter and began to translate and polish this German paper.

Before leaving in Paris, Einstein, who was rejected by Chen Muwu for his idea of ​​using transformation to unify electromagnetic force and universal gravitation, has been depressed since returning to Germany.

His low mood did not improve until he received a letter from Chen Muwu not long ago.

Although the content of this letter was not the unification issue that Einstein most wanted to see, it could be regarded as helping him solve a big trouble.

The mass-energy equation is derived from the special theory of relativity and is influential in other ways.

For example, the matter wave experiment conducted by Chen Muwu and de Broglie used the mass-energy equation in the process of deriving the matter wave formula.

However, this formula has never been verified experimentally, but it has always been used by physicists conventionally.

Chen Muwu said in the letter that he has conducted verification experiments on the most advanced equipment at the University of Cambridge and will submit an article to the "Annals of Physics" in the near future.

So since receiving this letter, Einstein went to the editorial office every now and then to inquire about the situation.

Seeing this abnormal behavior, Planck couldn't help but tease him: "Albert, what do you mean, do you want to contribute to us, or do you want to poach people from us?"

The two were colleagues at the University of Berlin.

But in the German physics journal world, these two are rivals.

Einstein was one of the initiators behind the Journal of Physics, which adopted a reviewer system and slowly surpassed the Annales.

Most of his recent papers have been published on it.

That's why Planck asked this question. He couldn't figure out what it meant that Einstein, who had not contributed to the "Annals" for a long time, suddenly came to the editorial office.

"Where can I find any papers to write recently? I finally came up with an idea, but Chen Muwu rejected it. I came to you this time because Dr. Chen wrote to me saying that he had a paper related to me. , to be submitted to the Yearbook.”

Planck smiled knowingly after hearing this: "Before leaving Germany, Dr. Chen did tell me that he had a paper to submit to me recently.

"As long as Dr. Chen can consistently contribute to the "Annals of Physics", it will probably not be easy for your "Journal of Physics" to surpass us."

(End of this chapter)