Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 300 39 Bohr looked unhappy
Since the current mainstream view is that astronomy is not included in physics, then astronomers cannot be counted as physicists.

If the physicist Italy wants to commemorate is Galileo, who also made great achievements in astronomy, then perhaps Hubble may be on the list of invited participants.

It's a pity that the other party commemorated not Galileo but Volta, an out-and-out physicist.

Even the "marginal astronomer" Hubble was not invited to the general meeting of the International Union of Astronomers held in Cambridge a few years ago, let alone the next meeting of physicists held on the shores of Lake Como.

Therefore, Hubble's next schedule is not in sync with Chen Muwu. It is impossible and unnecessary for him to stay at Cambridge University all the time, waiting to go to Rome with Chen Muwu who is busy with various things.

Hubble plans to use this time to visit other major observatories and well-known astronomers in Europe. When the date is close, he will go to Rome to join Chen Muwu.

Before leaving, Chen Muwu specifically told Hubble that if time permitted, he must go to Sweden for a visit.

Although after the war, the overall economic situation in Europe was not as good as that of the United States.

But there is a big financial backer in Stockholm after all. Even if it may not be possible to build the world's largest astronomical telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, it is still not a problem to build one that meets Hubble's observation needs.

The worst case scenario is that Chen Muwu would just give away part of the profits of the Geely Automobile Factory, which is still in a state of turmoil.

The Crown Prince of Sweden is happy, the Wallenberg family is making money, and Chen Muwu has obtained advanced experimental equipment to recruit talents. He kills three birds with one stone and no one suffers.

Even after sending Hubble away, Chen Muwu's work in the Cavendish Laboratory has not diminished one bit.

Every day when I arrive at the office, there are always people waiting outside the door who want to chat with him about experimental ideas, or there are colleagues in the physics community who come from all over the world to visit and interview during the winter vacation and want to say hello to him. .

Naturally, there will be other people accompanying you when you are welcomed and sent off, but if the other party asks by name and wants to meet Chen Muwu, it is not easy to refuse, so you can only be respectful and obey.

However, being the acting director is not without its benefits.

On February 1927, 2, the University of Cambridge celebrated the first Spring Festival in its more than 1 years of existence.

It is not that there were no Chinese students in Cambridge before, and people did not often celebrate in private. However, this is the first time that an official has come forward to organize celebrations and promote Chinese culture.

The so-called official must be the Cavendish Laboratory controlled by Chen Muwu.

Although he brought in more than half of the funds in the laboratory, in order to prevent others from gossiping about him abusing his power, Chen Muwu still paid for this event out of his own pocket.

The number of Chinese students in the Cavendish Laboratory has been rising steadily, from one in 1923 to three in 1924, and then to five this year. Even if it cannot be compared with the absolute number of British professors and students, But it has gradually become something that cannot be ignored.

In addition, everyone has always had a good impression of Director Lao Lu’s student, Director Xiao Chen. When Chinese people celebrate festivals, everyone is willing to come and support them.

Chinese people from other disciplines at Cambridge University, people from the Department of Sinology and the Apostolic Society who are interested in Chinese culture... all of them spent a lively Spring Festival in the Cavendish Laboratory.

There is no second option on the banner hanging out. If it doesn't say "Happy Chinese New Year", what else can it say?
Is it possible to consider the feelings of Koreans and change it to "Lunar New Year"?

But where is South Korea on the current world map?
I don’t know which one is smaller, their ambition or desire.

Everyone is celebrating the festival happily in the Cavendish Laboratory, but in the eyes of some people, this is tantamount to a face-dancing behavior.

Belfort felt that he had finally caught those extremely annoying Chinese people, especially Chen Muwu, and sent someone to investigate whether there was any embezzlement of public funds during their celebration.

Despite all the efforts and efforts that almost turned the laboratory upside down, in the end it was all in vain.

After the Spring Festival, my family members who are far away in Jihai will prepare to board the ship to Europe.

After a brief moment of relaxation, Chen Muwu became busy again.

The paper on the particle accelerator has been published, and the Como Conference is approaching day by day. Chen Muwu, who wanted to have a two-pronged approach at the conference, devoted all his little energy after handling laboratory matters to quantum field theory. side.

During the two festivals at the end of last year, his group with a good theoretical level was completely broken up.

After the New Year holiday, only Dirac and Oppenheimer came back to Cambridge.

Although Dirac's level of physics is sufficient, and with the addition of Oppenheimer, there will be no problem.

However, these two people had stayed at Cambridge University for such a long time, and they had long developed the "good" habit of following Chen Muwu's lead. When they came up with something new, they could not help but discuss it with Chen Muwu in front of him.

In doing so, I occasionally get some new inspiration from Chen Muwu, but most of the time I can only get his approval.

However, Dr. Chen's affirmation is enough, which at least shows that their research direction is generally correct.

Lao Chen was so busy every day that Dirac, who was obsessed with academic research, couldn't see it. It didn't mean that others couldn't see it.

Quantum field theory is a big topic, and there are many research contents under its name.

Oppenheimer, who had always been involved, no longer worried that he would not be able to obtain a doctorate at Cambridge University because he could not complete his graduation thesis, so he became concerned about Chen Muwu, who had been a boon to him.

One day, after work, Chen Muwu was worrying about where to go for dinner. Oppenheimer said somewhat mysteriously that he saw that Chen Muwu had been working very hard recently, so he wanted to treat Chen Muwu to his dormitory at Christ College with him today. .

dinner?

And also going to the dormitory of Christ College?

Thinking back to Oppenheimer's motivation for treating guests, Chen Muwu suddenly had a bad premonition.

Is he so obsessed with Chinese culture that he is no longer satisfied with learning Chinese, so he starts researching dietary supplements?
On the way back with Oppenheimer, Chen Muwu kept thinking about the persuasive words in his mind, and how he should put it to him tactfully later. Even if he really loved Chinese culture, there was no need to do it to this extent.

Now he dares to study dietary therapy, and in the future he will dare to refine elixirs and cultivate immortality.

When he arrived in Oppenheimer's room, Chen Muwu felt that he seemed to be thinking too much.

What was on his table was not dark food with strange colors, but several tin cans with colorful wrapping paper on them.

A little familiar.

Chen Muwu felt that his thoughts were jumping from one extreme to the other. Although the strange ingredients he had just imagined did not appear, he said he wanted to treat a guest, but ended up eating canned food... Is this the UK, or is he rummaging through the garbage dump to find residents? South Korea supplied by South Korean and American troops?

Oppenheimer did not feel that these cans were shabby or embarrassing at all. On the contrary, he proudly introduced them to Chen Muwu: "Dr. Chen, how about it? This is the most popular food in the United States now, canned spinach! It is said that spinach contains The iron content is more than ten times that of other vegetables, which can effectively replenish energy and relieve fatigue. Now in various high-end restaurants in New York, young ladies from wealthy families are proud to eat this. So this time I started from When the United States came back, they also brought a few cans back for everyone to have a try.”

Well, things are getting even weirder.

It is true that spinach has high iron content, and it ranks among the top among green leafy vegetables. However, the iron content is ten times higher than other vegetables, which is completely a lie.

Some people say that in the mid-to-late [-]th century, a German scientist made a mistake when calculating the iron content in spinach. He placed the wrong decimal place, so the iron content of spinach was ten times that of other vegetables. statement.

Regardless of whether this statement is true or false, this data has long been corrected by other scientists.

However, decades later, the rumors traveled across the ocean to the United States, where an agricultural company specializing in the production of spinach sensed a business opportunity.

In order to be able to sell their own company's canned spinach, they spent a lot of money to promote this statement, and successfully made spinach a new favorite on the tables of wealthy people in big cities in the United States.

In the end, the company was still not satisfied, so it went a step further and hired a cartoonist to create a cartoon character that would become popular in later generations, Popeye the Sailor.

Chen Muwu never expected that others in the UK could catch up with the craze for eating spinach in the United States.

Moreover, eating spinach is still a healthy way of eating for rich people. If Oppenheimer were not a young man in New York, he might not have the chance to taste this "deliciousness".

Oppenheimer was staring at him eagerly, and he couldn't help but eat the canned spinach.

Although there are no peanuts, no vinegar, and no pepper oil, the heated and stored spinach in the can has become as soft as mud, tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to throw it away.

But this kind of stuff can still be eaten as long as you work hard, and indeed, as the rumors in the United States say, it not only does no harm to the body but also has benefits, but the specific values ​​are not so exaggerated.

If what Oppenheimer brought back was not canned spinach, but the more notorious but more expensive and more popular radium thorium water, how should Dr. Chen respond?
He ate the imported food that Oppenheimer had "thoughtfully" prepared for himself without changing his expression and without skipping a beat, and then expressed his gratitude to him.

Seeing that Dr. Chen still seemed to be unsatisfied, he took a new can in his hand.

"No, no, no, no, I'm full, that's enough, Robert. This thing is very valuable, so you'd better eat sparingly."

I finally finished this can out of politeness.

If he opens a new can for himself, Chen Muwu is not sure whether there will be a drama of turning against each other.

On the way back to his residence after leaving Christian College, Chen Muwu kept checking to see if the biceps on his arms had suddenly swelled.

A somewhat funny episode temporarily relieved Chen Muwu from the pressure of managing the entire laboratory.

Another half month later, the Cambridge delegation attending the Como Conference set off in a grand manner.

Rutherford, the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, returned to New Zealand across the ocean, and Chen Muwu, the acting director, was on the other party's invitation list again.

A country cannot live without a king for a day, and a laboratory cannot live without a manager for a day.

Then we can only let Chadwick stay in Cambridge and take charge of the rear.

This may be Chadwick's fate. Whether historically or in reality, he will never attend various international physics conferences outside the UK.

When he left Cambridge University for the first time and went to Brussels, Belgium to attend the triennial Solvay Conference, it was already the seventh session in 1933.

Chadwick had just discovered the neutron the previous year and made a major contribution to the development of physics. This forced him to temporarily put aside his work managing the laboratory for Rutherford, who was not in Cambridge, and cross the English Channel. Continental Europe meets with colleagues in physics.

And the elderly Thomson, who is over 70 years old this year, has been raised in Cambridge for several years. With his old arms and legs, he can only go to London, which is [-] miles away, only a handful of times a year. Count, let alone go to Europe across the sea.

Therefore, the people sent by Cambridge to attend the meeting this time were basically the young group headed by Chen Muwu, with an additional Eddington added.

As the de facto leader of their British delegation, Chen Muwu had already established contact with De Broglie. After arriving in France, physicists from the two countries set off together.

As a result, when we arrived in Paris, waiting here were not only French physicists such as Langevin and de Broglie, but also Planck, Sommerfeld, Born and Pauli from Germany, and some from the Netherlands. Lorenz, Bohr from Denmark, etc., and some people Chen Muwu didn’t know either.

According to the map, the shortest route from the UK to Como should be to go to France first, then to Switzerland, and then cross the border between Switzerland and Italy to reach the destination directly.

However, these two countries are separated by the Alps. The infrastructure level of these two countries is definitely not enough to build a train across the mountains.

So everyone had to take a long detour, from Paris to Lyon, then to Turin, and finally to Como at the southern foot of the Alps.

Physicists from other countries gathered in Paris for the same reason.

On the platform of Gare de Lyon in Paris, basically all the physicists who were going to Italy to attend the conference were gathered, except for a few native Italians.

Looking at this, it might be a good idea for everyone to hold a meeting in Paris. The Como meeting held by Italians at a huge expense of people and money has no other meaning except to mobilize troops and mobilize people.

Heisenberg and von Neumann were originally on the fringes of the German delegation. After seeing Chen Muwu, they hurried over to greet each other.

When the two people turned back to pick up their luggage, an English sentence with a Danish accent suddenly sounded in Chen Muwu's ears.

"Dr. Chen, I tried to poach you from the teacher but failed, but why are you poaching my people now?"

Without looking back, he knew who the speaker was.

Chen Muwu adjusted his facial expression before turning around, and sure enough he saw the senior brother from Northern Europe staring at him with an unhappy expression.

"Oh Professor Bohr, it's been such a long time!"

In the process of saying hello, from the corner of his eye, he saw Heisenberg standing in the German team with his hands in his pockets as if nothing had happened. He was pretending to chat with von Neumann, glancing here from time to time.

It was obviously a normal meeting, but now Chen Muwu felt inexplicably like a master.

(End of this chapter)