Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 306 45 Unpleasant Americans

It is better to doubt Chen Muwu's physics level than to doubt Dirac's ability to walk and hike.

I don’t know how many miles they walked on this so-called leisurely walk. Anyway, the three of them walked from the edge of Lake Como to a mountain pass in the Alps.

In this inaccessible place, the further you go, the deeper the snow on the road becomes.

The signs on the roadside indicate that as long as you cross this mountain pass and walk further, you will reach a small town in Switzerland called Chiasso in a short time.

The late-night terror in Poland made Chen Muwu not want to be a stowaway who crossed the border privately again.

He successfully persuaded Dirac to return with some reluctance on the grounds that he did not have a Swiss visa and there was too much snow on the road ahead. If he continued walking, he might be trapped up to his ankles in the snow. Go back.

On the one hand, he didn't want to cross the border illegally, but mainly because Chen Muwu saw that Femi, who was accompanying the two of them and acted as a "tour guide", seemed to have insufficient physical strength.

Femi, who was already exhausted, felt as if he was hearing the sound of nature when he heard Chen Muwu's proposal.

In order to end this walking trip as soon as possible, he just held back the words that were on his lips.

Femi actually wanted to tell Chen Muwu, who was worried about being detained by Swiss police officers for not having a visa, that border towns like Como and Chiasso, where two countries share a border, could be fine even without a visa according to the laws of Italy and Switzerland. walked over.

But he was afraid that after telling this fact, Chen Muwu would suddenly become interested and continue to move forward with Dirac, which would really cost his life in his 20s.

Now seeing Chen Muwu doing this, Femi felt that he was judging a gentleman with a villain's heart. The other party was so considerate, but he was so lazy and incompetent.

Dr. Chen is not only able to achieve so many academic achievements, but his character is also beyond words.

On the way back to the hotel, Femi did not forget to take pictures of the two people, saying that he knew that Chen Muwu was a swimmer who participated in the Olympic Games, so he was naturally very strong.

Little did he know that the people around Chen Muwu were also Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons, and even Dirac was a good athlete. He walked such a long way back and forth without changing his face or heartbeat.

Fermi's words made Dirac feel very comfortable, and he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

When I came to Italy, I naturally chose the world-famous pizza for dinner.

Although the pizza in northern Italy is not as authentic as the pizza in the south, Chen Muwu felt that the pizza that night was not only much better than the pizza in the UK, but also much better than the chain American pizza he had eaten in his previous life.

In front of so many Italians, Chen Muwu was too embarrassed to talk about the fallacies he had heard from nowhere in his previous life, including that pizza was a delicious pie that Marco Polo tasted in China, but wanted to eat but failed when he returned to Italy. I couldn't eat it, so I asked the most famous local chef to make a replica of it. However, the chef couldn't wrap the fillings into the thin dough, so he had to leave it exposed and bake it in the stove. Unexpectedly, this created the pizza. tasty.

If he really said this, I wonder if Italians, who are proud of their country's cuisine, would be rude to Chen Muwu.

After being full of wine and food, tired from the journey, and running wild all day long, Chen Muwu returned to his room, took a shower, fell on the bed, and fell asleep.

Dirac was almost in the same state. Among the three people participating in today's excursion, only Fermi was tired and sleepy, but he couldn't sleep, so he had to sit at his desk, under the dim lamp, using pen and paper to think and calculate during the day. Shi Chen Muwu used Bao's joking tone to talk about the question of whether aliens exist.

The next morning, the Como meeting opened on time according to the scheduled time. However, as the morning passed, Chen Muwu, who participated in the entire meeting, felt that he seemed to have listened to everything, but also seemed to have listened to nothing. .

At the beginning, it must be the person in charge from Italy who made a welcome speech to the physicists from all over the world.

The speech was full of meaningless empty words and clichés such as "Thank you all for coming" and "I hope to achieve new results in the few days of the meeting." It seems that no country can escape this kind of bureaucracy. of poison.

After the Italian representative on the stage finished speaking, representatives from various countries took turns to take the stage to give speeches.

The content of their speeches went straight to the theme of the meeting, and they all praised the central figure of the meeting, the great Italian physicist Volta, for his outstanding contributions to the development of physics in the early nineteenth century.

——After all, the meeting held today is to commemorate the centenary of Volta’s death.

The one who spoke on the German side was Planck, while the one representing France was Langevin, the one from the Netherlands was Lorenz, and the one from Denmark was Bohr, all of whom were the most famous physicists in each country.

Now it can be explained why old Thomson and old Bragg did not come, and when Rutherford returned to New Zealand to visit relatives, Eddington came forward to cross the English Channel with a group of young people from the Cavendish Laboratory. , went to Italy to attend this meeting.

Although Chen Muwu was "trained" in the UK, he was not British after all.

Neither Italy nor the UK wanted him, a young Chinese, to come forward to represent the number one empire of old capitalism.

Of course, Chen Muwu was happy and free, but sitting in the audience for so long made him feel very bored. He always felt like he was listening to a cross talk on the Spring Festival Gala. Although everyone was not commemorating the 130th and ninth anniversary of Pavlov's birth, waiting After these "leader, colon" reports are over, the next step is to eat roast duck.

No matter which young person he is, facing this boring situation, he will definitely not be able to sit still in the audience.

So the top was speaking loudly, and the bottom also secretly made small movements, just like what often happens in the classroom.

Pauli, who had complicated feelings for Chen Muwu, couldn't help but get closer to him: "Dr. Chen, do you really think that Wegener's fantastic theory of continental drift is correct, and that we can use it to find what's hidden under the earth's surface?" Oil?"

If the enemy does not attack me, I will not attack others. Since Pauli asked the question sincerely, Chen Muwu compassionately told him: "Yes, yes, you can."

Be concise and concise, don’t say a word too much, don’t want to waste it.

Okay, okay, this Dr. Chen is still as blind and arrogant as before. He is really the same young man as before, without any change.

As if he had received a satisfactory answer, Pauli actually smiled.

He felt that it wouldn't be long before he saw irrefutable facts slap Chen Muwu in the face. The positron a few years ago was once, and the current continent was drifting in search of oil again.

Chen Muwu seemed to be able to read minds, or maybe he didn't want to see a smile appear on Pauli's face.

After answering, he asked again: "Dr. Pauli, are your ten Sovereigns ready?"

The title doctor was just something Chen Muwu said smoothly.

But when Pauli heard it, the words changed their taste.

He is now a professor of physics at the prestigious University of Berlin, and if nothing happens in the next few years, he will be able to obtain tenure immediately, but he actually still calls himself doctor.

If this is not made clear, he is looking down on others, or he is satirizing himself, saying that his position as professor came from a shady background, and that it is something he does not want, but he is holding it in his hand like a treasure.

Pauli didn't feel at all that he was over-interpreting it. He wanted to have a fit, but he always felt that the occasion was not appropriate.The ten Sovereigns mentioned in Chen Muwu's words were the bet he and Pauli made before in Copenhagen because of one thing.

That matter is whether positively charged electrons will exist in this world. Until now, Pauli still holds a negative view.

"Ten Sovereigns? Dr. Chen, I think you should be the one to prepare this, right?"

Although he could not get angry, Pauli was tit-for-tat and merciless in his words.

"I don't think so. Otherwise, let's raise the stakes a little. The current price of ten pounds seems a bit too little for you, a professor at the University of Berlin."

Chen Muwu really thought so. Although Sovereign was a currency made of pure gold, the face value and value of one Sovereign was only the same as one pound.

Ten pounds was not enough to make Pauli bleed to the point of heartache. He wanted to take this opportunity to raise the price a bit to make Pauli feel heartache unforgettable.

If possible, Chen Muwu even wanted to increase the price to one thousand pounds, but he was afraid that Pauli would not agree.

So, he made a mistake in this matter.

The change of title in Chen Muwu's words just now, calling him Professor instead of Dr. Pauli, made this man feel better instantly.

At this time, let alone mentioning one thousand pounds, Pauli might be able to agree even if it was two thousand pounds.

"Okay, one hundred pounds is one hundred pounds, we can make a deal this time!"

Pauli readily agreed to Chen Muwu's proposal to change the bet. Anyway, in his heart, positively charged anti-electrons would never exist.

Since Dr. Chen is willing to give him money, it doesn't matter if he gives more.

But Pauli never thought that he might also be able to pay this amount of money.

After the exchange, both of them were in a good mood. They even felt that even the insincere compliments uttered by the people on the stage to express their gratitude to the organizers for their warm hospitality became a little pleasant to their ears.

The boring first day's meeting finally ended just before lunch.

That's right, the meeting only held one morning every day, and the afternoon was devoted to introducing Como and Italy's leisure time to the participating delegates.

Many young physicists from Cambridge, as well as young German scholars who had been excluded from the international community due to the defeat in World War I, came to participate in such an international academic conference for the first time.

Even Zhao Zhongyao, who has always been calm and mature, couldn't help but find an opportunity to ask Chen Muwu after lunch whether other international conferences were as relaxed as this one in Italy.

There is no way to guarantee this. The reason why the Italians did this is just to "make a fool of themselves". In order to leave a good impression on physicists from various countries, they asked them to help spread the word when they go back, so that people all over the world can Everyone knows how prosperous the academic atmosphere in Italy has been under the governance of the Montenegrin Party.

The organizer of the conference organized a visit to the local silk factory in Como that afternoon.

Because it guards an Alpine pass leading to Europe - in ancient times, this was a battleground for military strategists mentioned in the Art of War books - Como had earlier made its industry selling silk imported from China.

Later, the locals were no longer satisfied with being second-hand dealers who resold, so they went a step further and learned the techniques of raising silkworms and growing mulberries from China, and opened a local first-hand processing factory.

Over time, Como became a silk center in Europe, and the silk produced here became a representative of Italian handmade manufacturing and became more and more famous.

After the tour guide’s introduction, Chen Muwu learned that there was such a thing.

He didn't know whether the organizers arranged it this way because he was Chinese, or whether it was already part of their plan.

In short, the Como meeting was carried out in an atmosphere of "catching fish in the morning and paddling in the afternoon", but as time moved forward, the moment for Chen Muwu to take the stage to speak was finally ushered in.

Everything is going according to his original plan. Cambridge University will publish two different contents at the conference, one is quantum field theory, and the other is the particle accelerator that Rutherford has always been thinking about making a lot of money.

The former is considered a purely theoretical thing, and is handled by Dirac, Heisenberg and von Neumann. They are also responsible for answering all kinds of inquiries from the big guys here.

And the other thing was taken so seriously by his teacher, so naturally it was Chen Muwu's turn to take the lead.

Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft took the stage to introduce how their group used a particle accelerator to complete the first artificial nuclear reaction experiment, and received constant applause at the scene.

It was certainly a landmark invention, and since then, physicists have been itching to bombard themselves with something other than alpha particles.

After they finished their report and gave the Cavendish Laboratory a loud advertisement, Chen Muwucai Shanshan came on stage and pretended to say something like "the spirit of sharing" and "science without borders".

He first placed himself on the moral high ground, and then sold the world's most advanced and high-end particle accelerator to his colleagues.

Planck in the audience became more energetic. He had been waiting for Chen Muwu to tell the public the price of the particle accelerator for so many days, and then he was attacked because the price of six thousand pounds was too high. In the end, he was forced to modify the price. .

However, things didn't seem to be going as Planck expected.

As soon as Chen Muwu finished saying that his Cavendish Laboratory was going to sell particle accelerators, someone in the audience eagerly raised their hands.

"Dr. Chen, how much does your particle accelerator cost?"

Chen Muwu, who thought it would be a hard-fought battle, did not expect it to go so smoothly. He was also a little stuck: "Eight, eight thousand pounds. This is the price set by our director."

Hearing what he said, Planck was even more happy. He felt that six thousand pounds was already ridiculously high. Unexpectedly, Chen Muwu dared to quote a higher price.

This time, the physicists here would be merciful if they don't scold him as Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice".

"Our school will order one first. After today's meeting, I will send a telegram to the United States and ask Harvard University, University of California and Princeton if they need it."

Why doesn't this person play cards according to the routine?
Planck followed the sound and found that the person standing on the seat behind him was Compton of the University of Chicago who had come to the meeting in place of Michelson.

Americans, nasty Americans again!

Because they won the world war, it was not enough for them to continuously suck blood in Germany, and now they actually jumped out to ruin their good deeds!
(End of this chapter)