Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 323 62 Another smart man
The top priority of the Cavendish Laboratory was not to solve Kapitsa's passport problem, nor to allow Chen Muwu to single-handedly restore diplomatic relations between Britain and the Soviet Union, which had just severed diplomatic ties.

These two things are inextricably linked, and they can't do anything. All they can do is "slowly figure it out", in other words, just wait.

The only thing they can do now and must get results immediately is to consider how to send the particle accelerator that is about to be manufactured to Sulian.

Although the total ex-factory cost of this machine is only a few dollars, it will still make people feel very unhappy if it cannot be sold and is thrown into the hands.

However, as the bridgehead of the Soviet physics community in Britain, Europe and the United States, Kapitsa had no good solution for this.

He thought for a long time and only came up with one sentence: "How about... how about I write a letter to my teacher, Professor Yofei?"

Chen Muwu looked at his sincere good friend with a somewhat dumbfounded expression on his face.

Peter's clever plan was to bring peace to the world, but he lost both his wife and his army.

——Although he does not have a wife yet, Kapitsa, as a Soviet man who still remains in the UK and has a certain status and social influence, will definitely receive the focus of surveillance and care from the British authorities.

On the one hand, we must be on guard against Kapitsa and his compatriots, as well as the Soviet Union far away in Eastern Europe, from getting in touch with each other, secretly communicating with each other, and sneaking in academic information and other information from the Cavendish Laboratory and Cambridge University. Pass it on.

On the other hand, the British never gave up and wanted to take this opportunity to naturalize Kapitha.

So no matter what the reason was, Kapitsa had been under surveillance by the British authorities from the moment Britain and the Soviet Union severed diplomatic relations. At this time, he contacted Professor Yofei in the Soviet Union. Whether you write a letter or send a telegram, the content will be checked first at the telegraph office and post office before being allowed to be sent.

Yofei will also receive this kind of treatment when he calls or writes back to Kapitsa.

If the British authorities knew that the Cavendish Laboratory wanted to make a deal with the Surian Academy of Sciences in Lezhigrad, and that it was about the most sophisticated experimental equipment in cutting-edge physics, they would not even think about it. , knowing that they will definitely obstruct it behind the scenes, and the final conclusion of this deal will probably be a disaster.

This is what the British are like. When they hate the Sulians, they will say that you, Kapitsa, are spies.

And when they hate Sulian, they will say that you are a great scientist who was forcibly detained by the Soviet authorities because you returned to China to visit relatives.

Thinking that Kapitsa would be treated with double standards in the future, Chen Muwu felt sympathy and even had some strange thoughts:

Should he be grateful that it is precisely because the motherland behind him, the Republic of China, is not strong enough that he has never been suspected by the British of being an academic spy or an intellectual thief?
However, after thinking about himself and China, Chen Muwu finally found a good idea to successfully transport the particle accelerator to Sulian.

The British blocked Soviet Union, but did not block other countries except Soviet Union.

So in fact, all it takes is to sneak out of British customs in the name of exporting particle accelerators to other countries. No matter how things develop after customs clearance, the UK will be beyond its reach.

Chen Muwu expressed his thoughts. Although Chadwick felt that this method of deceiving the British government seemed to be a bit "treason" for him, an old Cheshire man from the Zhengmi Banner.

But for a while, it seemed that there was no other way to reasonably and legally transport the particle accelerator to Sulian.

So Chadwick felt that he could simply pretend that he didn't know these things and turn a blind eye.

Kapitsa expressed great enthusiasm for this, and wanted to give Chen Muwu a bear hug, but the latter dodged it deftly.

"Chen, I really don't know how to thank you. You have really helped Su Lian's scientific career a lot! For this matter, I think you should be awarded a medal!"

No.

Su Lian's medals indeed look impressive, but they were not popular in China for a long time.

If you label yourself as a "Su*", wouldn't it be worth the loss?
Fortunately, Kapitsa does not have the right to award medals to people, he just said it casually.

But you should be polite when you should be polite: "Peter, you don't have to take it too seriously. After all, I am also a member of the Sulian Academy of Sciences. I have the obligation and responsibility to help the Sulian Academy of Sciences obtain the world's advanced physics technology."

Chen Muwu, who went to Lezhigrad to give lectures, was one of the first people to receive the honor of being a foreign academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Even Kapitsa, a native of the Soviet Union, could still enter the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Chen Muwu slightly hinted at Versailles' speech and asked Kapitsa to continue joking with him: "Then I'm not grateful to you now. Instead, I'm a little jealous of you."

So just like that, the country to which this particle accelerator was sent changed from the Sulian Academy of Sciences to Beijing University in China.

However, due to the long-distance transportation of goods, it is never possible to deliver everything [-]%, and occasionally the goods may be damaged or even lost.

The staff of the Cavendish Laboratory who later went to China to install the particle accelerator reported this very unfortunate news after returning to Cambridge University.

That large box of goods, ever since it left Poland and entered Soviet Belarus, disappeared because of a trance of my own.

So this mission to China to help them install the particle accelerator failed. But luckily, when he went to check the "lost" matter in the carriage where the particle accelerator was originally transported, he picked up an unclaimed package containing The money was full of pounds, which could be regarded as an "accidental mistake" that saved the Cavendish Laboratory's losses.

The thrilling process and the happy ending are things for later. Now that we can find a solution to the matter, it is already a happy thing for the Cavendish Laboratory.

Kapitsa said he wanted to treat the guests to drinks and go out to celebrate.

Chen Muwu would definitely not agree to his invitation and advised him to stop spending so much money and save the money for his wedding.

In addition to being busy with official matters at the Cavendish Laboratory, Chen Muwu also has a personal matter to be busy with.

One day he read the news of the arrival of a ship in the Times and rushed to London from Cambridge a few days in advance.

The Royal Victoria Pier, since it is given the name of a royal family, must have its own merits.

Not only is it a deep-water port in London's Thames River that can accommodate ocean-going ships, it also has various supporting facilities around the pier and the transportation routes to this place are also very complete.

After nearly two months of wandering at sea, his family finally arrived in the UK from Sihai. The eldest brother, Chen Muqiao, would occasionally send a telegram to his younger brother when he stopped in port, telling him not to worry, his family were all on board. safe and sound.During the rest of the time, the two sides were basically in a state of audio isolation.

Now that the ship is about to enter the port, Chen Muwu is not only more timid because of the close proximity to his hometown, but he is still more or less excited and nervous in his heart.

The chimneys emitting black smoke were getting closer and more obvious. The ship followed the guide ship and slowly came from the mouth of the Thames River. The whistle blew twice to signal the dock to request berthing.

The ship slowly lowered its anchor, and the cables were tied one by one to the piles on the shore.

After the ship stopped, the gangway slowly descended, and the passengers in the most expensive dining room were the first to disembark. After drifting at sea for more than 50 days, their feet finally stepped on the ground again.

Although they had just parted in Luhai more than half a year ago, after being separated by half a world, the whole family was still excited and couldn't help themselves when they met again.

Needless to say, there was no need to elaborate on the circumstances of the meeting. After a brief reunion at the pier, the whole family got into two cars respectively, with another car following behind to load luggage.

In the past, when Chen Muwu came to London from Cambridge, if he wanted to stay overnight, he would choose a place for himself to stay, either at the Chinese Legation on Portland Street or in a room prepared by the Royal Society.

But today is different from the past. He is no longer alone but a big family. It is inconvenient to disturb him no matter where he goes.

And Chen Muwu didn't buy a house in London or Cambridge - it wasn't that he didn't have money, but he didn't want to buy it, and he had no plans to stay there. During World War II, London was taken care of every day by the air force of the hair-washing men every day. This kind of bombing was considered a purchase. Insurance will definitely be classified as force majeure and the insurance company will refuse to pay compensation.

Besides, their family will move to Sweden sooner or later, and return to their motherland sooner or later.

Fortunately, Chen Muwu still has the connections he has accumulated through his own charisma in the past few years. Mr. Montagu, the chairman of the ITTF, has given his home an unused house in central London, close to the Chinese Embassy and Chinatown. , rented to him.

Because he helped the ITTF at the first World Table Tennis Championships at the end of last year, Montagu wanted to rent the house to Chen Muwu at a rent lower than the market price.

Although he knew that the other party was from an aristocratic family and had a large business, Chen Muwu did not take advantage of it.

Being able to provide a house in the center of London is already a big help, and asking others to lower the price is unjustifiable.

Chen Muwu also had his own considerations for arranging his family in London instead of Cambridge.

First, the house in London is close to both the Chinese Embassy and Buckingham Palace, the center of British power, such as Downing Street.

People of the older generation always have an illusion that the closer they are to these government offices, the safer they are.

Although the Chinese embassy is now "a clay Buddha crossing the river - it is difficult to protect itself", it seems that the Chen family does not care too much about this matter.

In their hearts, they still regard the government in the north as the authentic one. After coming to the UK and seeing the tragic scenes of massacre and destruction by the southern government in Sihai and Tingjing reported in the newspapers, Mrs. Chen still believed in her heart that it was her younger son who Inadvertently, their whole family escaped another disaster.

The second reason for living in London is that it is the second largest city in the world. Not only is life convenient, there are also many Chinese people in London.

It is inevitable that you will miss home when you leave your hometown. Although you cannot go back, it would be nice to see more of your compatriots with yellow skin and dark eyes.

If you go to Cambridgeshire, except for Chen Muwu and a few international students from China, there are no Chinese faces.

If the old lady was allowed to live there for a long time, Chen Muwu was afraid that she would be depressed all day long.

After settling his family in London, Chen Muwu hurried back to Cambridge.

Next, he estimated that he would have to travel back and forth between the two places constantly, taking the train every day, and being on the rails with junctions of more than ten meters, it would be too much for his body and bones.

It seems that buying a car is really going to be put on the agenda. What kind of car should I buy?

Forget about the Rolls-Royce. It's not that I can't afford it, but I approached them for cooperation through the Duke of York. The other party's attitude made Chen Muwu very unhappy.

Should he buy the Lagonda of Austin and Kapitsa, or should he wait for Volvo in Sweden to mass-produce it and let Marcus give him one as a gift?
After returning to Cambridge University, Chen Muwu attended a meeting of the Apostolic Society after a long absence in order to express his gratitude to Montague.

It had been a long time since he had come to attend the daily meetings on time every Saturday, but the other members of the Apostolic Society didn't say anything about it.

After all, Chen Muwu is no longer a college student doing nothing but studying at Cambridge University every day. He has recently been promoted and became the acting director of the Cavendish Laboratory. He has a lot of work to do every day.

He is now in the Apostolic Society, and he is basically on the same level as Russell, who also teaches at Cambridge University. If he does not participate in activities, no one will have objections; if he has time to participate in activities, there will be many new people queuing up to get acquainted with him. .

When Chen Muwu arrived at the Apostolic Society's weekly gathering, one of the things everyone inside was talking about was the first non-landing solo flight across the Atlantic in human history.

Driving the "Spirit of St. Louis", I took off from Roosevelt Airport in Long Island, New York on the morning of May 5. It took more than 20 hours and flew nearly 30 kilometers non-stop, and finally landed in Paris on the evening of May 5. Charles Lindbergh, the US postal pilot who accomplished this feat at Le Bourget Airport, has recently become a hero around the world.

The treatment Lindbergh received at home and abroad was similar to that of Yuri Gagarin who completed the first space flight.

Chen Muwu regretted that this hero could not complete the feat of crossing the Atlantic earlier. Otherwise, he could just use this example to explain to young Marcus that airplanes will become more and more important in human society in the future and let him return to China. After that, Saab's aircraft manufacturing industry also began to be established.

But since Chen Muwu arrived at the meeting, everyone in the Apostolic Society who attended the meeting temporarily put aside their enthusiasm for Lindbergh, and instead welcomed Dr. Chen, oh no, Director Chen, whom they had not seen for a long time.

The concept of aliens proposed by Fermi in Rome under the banner of Chen Muwu was a hotly discussed topic in the Apostolic Society before Lindbergh.

Now that one of the parties involved has appeared at the meeting, everyone must have a few words with him.

But even if you want to say hello to Chen Muwu, the order must be based on distance and distance.

Ramsay, a professor of philosophy at King's College, ignored the order of the queue and walked directly to the front: "Brother Chen, it's been a long time! You came just in time. Let me introduce you to another smart person in the world!"

(End of this chapter)