Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 327 66 Shooting yourself up

When it came to telegraphs, Chen Muwu suddenly remembered that the telegraph paper system that Bohr was promised to create in Como, Italy, had a first version, but it had never been tested, let alone put into use.

Bohr even proposed that the Cavendish Laboratory set up a separate telegraph sending and receiving device. In the future, all telegram exchanges would no longer go through the Cambridgeshire telegraph office, but would be sent and received directly by the laboratory. , Chen Muwu, who returned to the UK, had not yet had time to turn it into reality.

To be honest, the formula system he designed together with Bohr was not very compatible with the Cavendish Laboratory.

Every time a laboratory conducts an experiment and publishes the results, a large amount of data and pictures are required.

It's okay to use telegram to send data, it just greatly increases the workload, and there is no big difficulty.

But using telegram, it is completely impossible to send pictures.

Although people have invented the fax a long time ago - the fax was invented decades earlier than the invention of the telephone, and only slightly later than the telegraph - this thing has only been invented. .

Due to various reasons, it has been more than 80 years since the invention of the fax, but its practicality is basically zero. It is occasionally used in the news industry to transmit newspaper photos, and is also used by the meteorological department to transmit Weather map.

If you use the current fax to transmit physics experiment pictures, it will take a long time to transmit, and what you will get is just an appalling image with low definition.

Instead of faxing it, it would be better to print it directly into a paper and then send it by mail.

Although this method takes a little longer, it may allow the other party to understand it clearly after reading the paper and not be suspicious because the image is not clear.

If the telegraph paper formula system conceived and designed by Bohr was really installed in the Cavendish Laboratory, its role would only be to allow Copenhagen to quickly get in touch with Chen Muwu and exchange theoretical physics. information above.

In the entire laboratory, only Chen Muwu and a handful of people around him, such as Dirac, were doing research on theoretical physics while doing experiments.

Not to mention whether this telegraph machine will become a private use situation after it is installed.

Chen Muwu felt that he could never bring this machine into the Cavendish Laboratory when he was acting as the laboratory director.

In that case, it would be easy for others to say that he, Director Chen, was using his power for personal gain and spending the laboratory funds to install a telegraph machine for the convenience of his own communication.

——Although a lot of the laboratory funds were obtained by Dr. Chen through his own talents and contacts.

But if Rutherford returns to the Cavendish Laboratory from New Zealand and insists on arming Chen Mu with this telegraph machine, then things will go differently.

Chen Muwu was Rutherford's confidant. As a teacher, he couldn't bear to see his students suffer, so what's wrong with installing a machine for him?
I can only feel aggrieved to the master Goboer who was impatiently waiting for Chen Muwu to send him a paper in Copenhagen. Chen Muwu will install this machine only when Rutherford returns to Cambridge.

Before that, even if he made some theoretical research results, he would not go to the telegraph office in Cambridgeshire and pay for Bohr's telegram at his own expense.

——Chen Muwu felt pain in paying for the sky-high telegram fee.

After receiving his telegram from the supervisor of Trinity College, Chen Muwu looked at the sending address and found that it did not come from Denmark in Northern Europe. In other words, it was not Bohr who urged him.

The telegram came from Paris, France, on the other side of the English Channel. It was not the Sorbonne University where my good friend de Broglie was, the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, or the radioactive laboratory run by Chen Muwu’s future mother-in-law, Marie Curie.

This immediately raised his attention to this telegram to the highest level.

Chen Muwu returned to his room in Trinity College. Not only did he burn incense, fast, bathe and change clothes, he also respectfully opened the telegram envelope.

The content written in the telegram was very simple and not too difficult for Chen Muwu to accept.

Marie Curie said that her eldest daughter Irena and her son-in-law Frederic would be traveling from Paris to London, England in a few days. The newly married couple wanted to arrange a make-up honeymoon trip.

Well, now that's good, Chen Muwu, who just returned from London, is about to return to London again.

It was natural to go to London to receive her sister and brother-in-law, there was no problem, but Chen Muwu always felt that for Irena and Frederic, coming to the UK was definitely more than just a honeymoon.

Otherwise, why would they have spent their honeymoon early and late? It was only after the Chen family arrived in England that they suddenly came up with this plan.

Chen Muwu felt that the visit of the younger Curies and his wife was more like a return visit to the Curie family when his eldest brother Chen Muqiao visited a few years ago.

By the way, the two families were also brought together to discuss various matters regarding Chen Muwu and Ai Fu's wedding next year.

In the next few days, Chen Muwu communicated with Madame Curie several times by telegram, and finally confirmed the date and specific shift of Irena and the others' arrival in the UK.

After leaving the telegraph office, he went straight to the suburban train station and booked a ticket to London one day earlier than Curie and his wife.

Running around like this every day, whether from Cambridge University to a train station outside Cambridgeshire, or from Cambridge train station to London, Chen Muwu felt more and more that he needed to buy a car.

I don’t know if there are any traditions when they get married in France, and whether their parents’ family will give them a car or something as a dowry.

While Chen Muwu was dreaming about his spring and autumn dreams, he seized the last few days at Cambridge University to help his colleagues who were conducting experiments operate the particle accelerator.

Cockcroft and Zhao Zhongyao went west and east. After they left England, they would not be able to come back in a short while.

Chen Muwu is also considering whether he should continue doing this or find an opportunity to open a training class within the laboratory to first cultivate a group of people who are interested in doing experiments on his own, and then liberate himself.

If it doesn't work, just teach Kapitsa and Blackett first, starting from these two closest friends.

Unlike ferry tickets from the UK to China, which need to be booked months or even half a year in advance, the transport capacity between Britain and France is very sufficient.So Chen Muwu didn't stay in Cambridge for a few days before he returned to London early and lived in his own home.

Seeing her son again so soon, Mrs. Chen's first reaction was not happiness, but worry.

She called Chen Muwu to her side and patiently gave instructions for a long time, telling her youngest son not to worry about her. He ran from his workplace to home every two days, especially since he had become an official in his laboratory. You cannot leave your post at will, you must bear the responsibility of being an official.

Yes, to Mrs. Chen, Chen Muwu has become a negative example of dereliction of duty and abusing power for personal gain.

In order to prevent the misunderstanding from deepening, he had to find a gap to talk and tell the reason why he returned to London this time.

When she heard that her daughter-in-law and son-in-law were coming to England, Mrs. Chen immediately became concerned.

She didn't bother to criticize her younger son for "leaving" his job without authorization. Instead, she ordered her older and younger sons to quickly clean the room and buy things for her family members who "came from afar" and had never met before. Take the wind and wash away the dust, and do your best to be a landlord.

——Although their family has just arrived in the UK not long ago.

After arriving in the UK, the Chen family no longer had a large number of housekeepers and servants like they had in Sihai. Many people still followed more traditional concepts and were unwilling to travel across the ocean with their boss to a foreign country.

The Chen family didn't force it. Only a few people were left to look at the house in Jihai, and the rest paid a large amount of severance pay so that everyone could get together and go away.

Although two or three trustworthy old people who have lived together for decades followed them to the UK, the manpower is still much smaller than in China. Many things need to be done by themselves, such as buying groceries and other needs. Communicate with people who speak English, etc.

Chen Muqiao followed his younger brother and on the way to buy groceries, he kept praising Chen Muwu for once again keeping the Chen family away from the troubles of the war and leaving Shanghai for Europe several months in advance.

He also expressed his concern about the chaotic situation in the country. This kind of situation where artillery fire is everywhere and bullets are everywhere. You sing and I come on stage. I don’t know when it will end. Whether the newly-installed southern government can turn around the bad government in the north. To end the situation of more than ten years, expel the foreigners who have dominated the Chinese soil and establish a new country that makes the Chinese people feel proud and proud.

Chen Muwu smiled and said nothing. He did not tell his eldest brother after all. Optimistic estimates suggest that the whole family will live in Europe for more than 20 years.

There was nothing wrong with Irena and Frederic's trip to the UK. Chen Muwu picked up the couple from Paris at Victoria Station according to the scheduled arrival time of the train, and accompanied them to his home.

After the Chen family moved to London from Sihai, one of the great benefits for Chen Muwu was that after Zhu Zhaoxin went to Italy to be the minister and the Beiyang government had no funds for these embassies and consulates abroad, he could finally have a full meal. To authentic Chinese food.

Even Irena and Frederic were full of praise for the Chen family's food, saying it was much more delicious than the Chinese food they had at the Duke de Broglie's house in Paris, France.

There are three members of the Chen family and two members of the Curie family. Among these five people, only Chen Muwu is the only one who can speak Chinese and half-assed French at the same time.

So the dignified acting director of the Cavendish Laboratory started working as a translator at his own home, but he couldn't bear any resentment.

In this way, Irena and Frederic stayed at Chen's house for who knows how many days. Anyway, they ate, talked, slept and ate every day. The originally agreed honeymoon in England turned into a honeymoon in London. honeymoon.

The scope of activities in London does not exceed a circular area with a radius of two miles with the Chen family as the center.

The old lady of the Chen family and her eldest brother Chen Muqiao could always find various topics to talk about with the foreign relatives, and the same could be said for the young Curie couple.

Chen Muwu felt that he couldn't let things continue like this, so he found an opportunity to quietly ask Irena and Frederick, apart from London - he originally wanted to say apart from his own home, but he was embarrassed - —Is there any other place you want to visit in the UK?

"Chen, there is really a place we want to go to, but your family is too enthusiastic, so we are embarrassed to say it."

Irena showed a somewhat embarrassed look on her face.

After hearing the other party's affirmative answer, Chen Muwu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He asked eagerly: "Where?"

"Cambridge University, before we left France, my mother specifically told us to go to your place to see how the particle accelerator operates."

Chen Muwu wanted to give himself a slap on the face. Why do you say that I talk so much when I have nothing to do?
Well, now, we can no longer go to the Cavendish Laboratory, and their expensive particle accelerator has to be displayed to the outside world.

Chen Muwu was a little reluctant to let Irena and Frederic see the particle accelerator. The reason was not that he wanted to make money for his own family, and sold the particle accelerator to the University of Paris at a high price like he did to other universities and research institutes. Institute of Science.

Although at best, the stingy University of Paris may not allocate this funding to allow the Radium Institute to purchase the particle accelerator as it wishes.

But if the Radium Research Institute raises enough funds through various methods to buy back the particle accelerator, Chen Muwu will not be happy that he has made another sum of money on his face. On the contrary, he will still be a Big trouble.

When he was at Madame Curie's house in Paris, he promised his mother-in-law that he would give her a particle accelerator, but he did not say where he would put the machine.

The explanation given by Chen Muwu at that time was that the particle accelerator occupied a large area, and the University of Paris did not even provide funds for running the school, let alone set aside a separate area for them to build the accelerator.

In his heart, he also hoped to see an accelerator with a higher accelerating voltage in Stockholm. With this precious weapon, Marie Curie and her family were willing to move from France to Sweden.

But now, if I take Irena and Frederic to visit the particle accelerator at the Cavendish Laboratory, let them see that this machine does not take up a lot of space. When they return to France, To explain to Marie Curie what she experienced during her trip to Cambridge University, it would be indispensable to introduce the accelerator.

If the Radium Institute wants to purchase from the Cavendish Laboratory or start construction after this, Chen Muwu does not want to see either of these two situations.

This time, he kind of shot himself in the foot.

(End of this chapter)