Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 315 54 Chadwick’s Question

Facing a suspected atheist who firmly supports Red Sulian, and who also holds all kinds of weird views, saying weird things like "aliens may exist" and "human beings can practice spiritualism", etc. Chen Muwu, even if the Pope himself preached to him, he probably wouldn't be able to persuade this lost lamb to turn back.

And Chen Muwu, who has no idea that he has been transformed into a magic stick by one of the world's biggest magic sticks, will certainly not be able to explain to the Pope, who is obsessed with superstitious belief in God's creation of the universe and God's creation of all things, what science is and what physics is. .

How to talk about this thing?Did it start with ancient Greece, or with Copernicus and Galileo?
I'm afraid that as he talks, Chen Muwu will tell the Pope about a blood feud, settle the old and new grudges of the past centuries with Pius XI for his predecessors, and do a "Five steps of bloodshed, the world" on the spot. "Only element".

Therefore, the whole conversation between Chen Muwu and His Majesty the Pope was basically "you talked about the front door, he talked about the hip axis", a chicken-to-duck talk, which was boring.

This meeting between him and the Pope in the Vatican City in Rome, without anything happening that shouldn't have happened, was considered a major success.

It's just that some pity Hubble, who traveled all the way from the United States across the Atlantic to Europe, took advantage of his excitement and got such a result.

However, Hubble's few months in Europe were not completely fruitless. At least he visited various universities and observatories in Europe. He also met Chen Muwu and began to consider whether to leave the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, USA. , bet your future on what kind of waves Chen Muwu can make in Northern Europe.

Compared with the meeting with Mussolini at the Prime Minister's Residence in the Palazzo Venezia from the afternoon until he left after the dinner, Chen Muwu's current meeting with the Pope was much shorter.

Everyone talked to each other for almost half an hour, and then the other party served tea to see off the guests on the pretext that His Majesty the Pope had other things to do.

Before parting, it was still a photo session. Until now, Chen Muwu, who had been a little depressed throughout the whole process, finally regained his energy.

Because when he stood at Pius XI, he suddenly thought of an old friend he had only seen in the news.

Chen Muwu wanted to gently scratch the back of the Pope's hand with his fingers when they stood side by side to see if His Majesty the Pope would slap his naughty hand.

After leaving the Vatican City, the two of them completed their mission in Rome.

Hubble also wanted to invite Chen Muwu to go to Pisa, which he passed by on his way to Rome but did not get off the bus, to see the legendary place where Galileo threw the iron ball.

Chen Muwu also wanted to go there and use his camera to take a photo of him stretching his arms diagonally upward to "hold" the leaning tower. However, thinking about this time period, making this gesture in Italy is a bit sensitive. Maybe He will be mistaken by a certain party for being a fellow traveler of theirs.

And there is another thing that he has to consider, that is, the Como meeting and the trip to Rome. Although it has achieved good results, it has also made him leave Cambridge University for more than half a month and almost a month. time.

Chen Muwu's current identity is not only a carefree student under the shadow of Rutherford, but he also bears an additional burden, that of the acting director of the Cavendish Laboratory.

Did anything happen in the Cavendish Laboratory during these nearly a month?
The teacher trusted him so much that he entrusted the entire laboratory to him. Chen Muwu felt that he must not let anything go wrong in the laboratory in his hands, otherwise it would not be easy to explain to the teacher when Rutherford came back from New Zealand.

So he could only refuse Hubble's invitation and asked the hotel receptionist to buy him the earliest train ticket from Rome to Paris.

At the same time, they were asked to send a telegram to De Broglie in France after buying the tickets, and ask them to buy the subsequent train and ferry tickets from Paris to London for them.

Although he passed through Paris, where Eve and de Broglie were, he still couldn't stop in this city. He could only meet everyone briefly during the few hours after arriving while waiting for the train to depart.

Of course, it won't be long before Chen Muwu will return to Paris again.

Taking advantage of his last moment in Rome, he asked Fermi to take him shopping in the city, and brought back a lot of local specialties, tobacco, from Italy.

——This kind of cash crop is one of the few things in Italy that can be exported in large quantities, and it is famous throughout Europe.

Chen Muwu brought so much back, of course, not for his own enjoyment, but for his teacher Rutherford and the many heavy smokers at Cambridge University to taste the quality of Italian tobacco.

His intention was good, and he felt that since he had finally arrived in Italy, he must bring some specialties back to others.

But the consequence of bringing specialties was that when Chen Muwu entered the British Customs from Dover, he was called "Dr. Chen" and "Huishi Chen" by the customs staff, and he was charged a heavy sum for tobacco. Heavy taxes.

It's hard to be a good person!
When in Rome, Chen Muwu only considered the worst case scenario.

Fortunately, when he returned to Cambridgeshire from London, he found that the Cavendish Laboratory was still the Cavendish Laboratory, and any possible changes that he imagined had not happened.

He put his luggage and gifts back to Trinity College. As soon as he entered the laboratory and walked to his office, Chadwick came to the door.

"Director Chen, is your trip to Italy going well? I can see the British media reprinting news about you in newspapers every day these days."

Perhaps Chen Muwu alone was not enough to win such high attention from the people in Fleet Street.

But for more than half a month, who were the people who met him?

One is the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy, and the other is the supreme leader of Catholics around the world.

Not only are the two big figures on the Apennine Peninsula, but the most terrible thing is the little-known theoretical physics professor Fermi from the University of Rome.

The way he attracts attention is even more unexpected.

Chen Muwu said that the universe is not static but constantly expanding, which is shocking enough.

However, Professor Fei was even more ingenious. He actually said that under the guidance of Dr. Chen, he calculated that aliens may exist and should have visited the earth. However, for some reason, he could not leave any trace of their visit on the earth. trace.

Once this ground-breaking theory was put forward, no matter who Chen Muwu met again, it was not worth mentioning.

Rich people listen to the radio, and poor people read newspapers.

But no matter what channel they use to obtain news information, they can all learn that Dr. Chen of Cambridge University, in addition to showing powerful psychic skills in the recently concluded Agatha disappearance case, has also created a new Big job - aliens may exist.Because broadcasts deliver news by reciting the news aloud, announcers must read the contents of the broadcast script into the microphone word for word.

But newspapers don’t have to be like this. In a piece of news on the newspaper page, the most eye-catching thing is of course the headline with a larger font size.

When reporting this news, media outlets across the UK all chose the same headline, "Aliens Exist."

Some reporters with a little conscience will add a slightly smaller font size of "maybe" between these two words;
But there are also some irresponsible Anglo-Saxon journalists who have always disliked Chen Muwu and directly added "Chen said:" in front of the title.

——You want me to live on the fire?
In today's era, people's entertainment activities are already scarce.

Rich people can of course choose to travel, play golf, play cricket, watch opera, ballet, football, watch the recently launched talkies, hold them in their own homes, or attend salons and parties held in other people's homes. .

But people without money have very few entertainment activities. Reading every word in every piece of news in the newspaper is one of the indispensable entertainment contents in their daily life.

But since this news came out, everyone suddenly had one more entertainment activity.

Didn't the Italian say that after his calculations, there may be aliens in the universe who have visited the earth, but the earth lacks traces of these aliens?
Can this sentence also be understood from other aspects?

As long as those mysterious traces can be found on the earth, can the existence of aliens be confirmed?

So the British, or the idlers and adventurers from all over the world not limited to the British, began to embark on a journey to find traces of aliens.

The first place to suffer their abuse was Salisbury Stonehenge, one hundred miles southwest of London.

Although historians and archaeologists have long focused on this place, they want to confirm that it is the work of early humans living here, and to explore the true use of these huge stones stacked together.

But the public doesn't care whether it is a historical site or not. They drive or take public transportation to Stonehenge to observe the traces left by aliens.

Some business-minded people also spend a lot of money to hire photographers from surrounding cities to provide photo services for visiting tourists.

They are the ones who most firmly declare the existence of aliens among them: they describe the huge long strips of stone as the carriages of the galactic train that aliens ride on when they visit the earth.

The reason why these stones are piled on the ground in a disorderly manner is because the train derailed and lost control when it was about to reach the earth, so it happened to hit this piece of ground. After a long period of natural action, the carriage turned into a fossilized carriage. .

And the aliens lurking in the earth may use these piled up boulders to repair the train at some point, leave the earth, and return to their own planet.

Therefore, I don’t know which day these huge rocks will disappear from the earth. They are something that can only be seen once.If you visit this place without taking a photo, you may have lifelong regrets.

These people made a quick buck near Stonehenge with a few photo booths.

But people with more business acumen don't mind getting up early and going to the wilderness at night to earn some hard money by shouting at the top of their lungs to take photos for others.

They directly claim that they are the descendants of aliens and have superpowers that people on earth do not have. Just like the spiritualists make money from people like Conan Doyle, they also reap a wave of profits. The leeks of rich people who are superstitious about aliens.

Explorers from all over the world also took this incident as an opportunity to once again embark on adventure journeys to various continents.

The Great Rift Valley in eastern Africa – split open by aliens;
Mexico’s Pyramid of the Sun – an altar to aliens;
Stone faces on Easter Island - alien self-portraits;

……

Since Stonehenge is the carriage of the galactic train that aliens took when they came to the earth, it is natural to think that the train also needs rails when it lands and moves forward.

It seems that the shape and material of the Great Wall, as well as its continuous length of thousands of miles, are very suitable for the alien gimmick.

But no one doubts that the Great Wall is a trace of aliens visiting the earth. It is not because there is half a world between Britain and China, and the train derailed too far when it landed, but because China has never had such a phenomenon in its thousands of years of history. Intermittent, it clearly records the time when the Great Wall was built several times.

This time, the storm caused by the news reprinted in the newspaper did not hit Cambridge University like the last time the spiritualism happened.

No one had the same idea as Dirac in Como, Italy, who regarded Chen Muwu as an alien and should capture him for scientific research.

Chen Muwu, who had just returned to the Cavendish Laboratory, didn't even know that such a thing was happening in the UK. When Chadwick came over to greet him, he said that Chen Muwu had appeared in British newspapers several times, and he thought he was referring to it. The two times he met with Mussolini and Pius XI.

——After all, photos were taken of both meetings, and if nothing else goes wrong, the photos will definitely appear on the front pages of Milan's Corriere della Sera and the Papal State's "Osservatore Romano".

He was so busy these days that he even forgot that he echoed Fermi and said something about aliens in the newspaper.

"What was the outcome of the Como meeting? How many particle accelerators were sold?"

Chadwick thought for a while and then added the latter question.

He didn't want to hear Chen Muwu describe the impact that several papers from the Cavendish Laboratory had on a gathering of physicists. He just wanted to know whether the fortune that Rutherford had been talking about before setting off was actually made. If you send it, how much will it send?

Before Chen Muwu could answer, Oppenheimer, who had not seen him for many days, opened the door and ran in.

He did not express his longing for Dr. Chen, but got straight to the point and talked about another matter.

"Director Chen, someone is looking for you outside. He claims to be a staff member of United Artists Pictures. United Artists! Chaplin's house!"

(End of this chapter)