Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 328 67 Consequences of Knowledge Realization

A few minutes ago, it was Chen Muwu who asked Irena and Frederick where they wanted to go besides London.

After getting the answer from the other party, I felt very regretful. It was Chen Muwu who didn't want to take them back to Cambridge University to visit the particle accelerator in the Cavendish Laboratory.

But regret is regret, Chen Muwu simply couldn't refuse the answers given by these two people.

Because the matter proposed by Mr. and Mrs. Curie is very reasonable, and everyone is a family, it is natural for them to agree. Only if they disagree with their request, it will be unreasonable.

"Well, since you want to visit the Cavendish Laboratory, we will stay in London for a few more days, and then I will accompany you to Cambridge University."

In the end, Chen Muwu had no choice but to grit his teeth in his heart and agree to his future wife's sister and brother-in-law.

Seeing her youngest son and these two foreign relatives sitting on the sofa, muttering and biting their ears for a long time, Mrs. Chen wanted to know what they said.

But after waiting for a long time, she still didn't see Chen Muwu translating for her, so she was a little anxious.

"What are you talking about? Translate, translate!"

Upon hearing his mother's question, Chen Muwu suddenly felt that this seemed to be the last straw to save himself.

So he quickly spoke out the problem he encountered: "Mom, Irena and Frederic want to go back to Cambridge University with their son and visit where I work."

The implication of his words is that he hopes that Mrs. Chen can say something to persuade her to stay, such as "It's not easy for you to come here. Don't go to that kind of country place and stay in a big city like London for a few more days."

But the bad thing about this matter is that Mrs. Chen is too reasonable.

On the one hand, she felt that there was nothing wrong with the request made by these two foreign relatives.

On the other hand, Mrs. Chen also realized that her younger son had been at home for a long time this time, which meant that his work at school had also been delayed for the same amount of time.

If you don't go back, the official you finally became an official may be kicked down the drain because you have been away from your post for too long.

The latter situation was the last thing she wanted to see.

"Yes, yes! I should have gone to your place a long time ago." Old Mrs. Chen nodded seriously, "I am just too bored to stay abroad alone, so I finally got my relatives here and wanted them to Stay a few more days. I guess Xiaoyi and Xiaofu have long been tired of living at home in London, but they are too embarrassed to say it because of their face. You can go buy the tickets now, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

Mrs. Chen's statement was completely opposite to what Chen Muwu wanted from her.

If someone asks, is it good or bad for children to have liberal parents at home?

Chen Muwu has a lot of experience on this issue. Most of the time, parents' open-mindedness is very important to their children; but there are also times when parents are too open-minded. Sometimes it is out of good intentions, but it is easy to do bad things with good intentions.

Like, for example, right now.

The last trump card that Chen Muwu had high hopes for failed, so he could only accept the reality.

"You two, when do you plan to go to Cambridge? It's best to give an approximate time so I can go to the station in advance to buy tickets."

"Of course, the sooner the better. If I continue to live in your house, I feel that Frederick and I will get fatter and fatter."

Irena joked complainingly.

Now that the departure time has been determined, Chen Muwu can only go out in person, go to King's Cross Station, which is not too far from home, and buy three first-class carriage tickets from London to Cambridgeshire the day after tomorrow.

After buying the ticket, he did not rush home. Instead, he turned into the telegraph office next door and sent a telegram to Chadwick.

The content of the telegram was not a semi-official statement like "The eldest daughter and son-in-law of the internationally renowned radioactive physicist Madame Curie are going to visit the University of Cambridge. Please be prepared to receive them."

Chen Muwu told Chadwick in the telegram that he would return to Cambridge University the day after tomorrow.But this is not the point. The point is that after such a long period of continuous use, the particle accelerator needs to be inspected for the first time immediately.

Chen Muwu asked Chadwick to inform everyone in the Cavendish Laboratory that the particle accelerator would be unavailable in the next few days, and there was no need for everyone to make a wasted trip there.

He also specifically stated that this matter did not require a hard copy of the notice, but only needed to be communicated orally.

After doing all this, Chen Muwu returned home with the train ticket he bought.

Two days passed by in a hurry. On the morning of the third day, Chen Muwu, who looked helpless, appeared at King's Cross together with Irena and Frederic, who were excited about visiting Europe's top physics institution. On the station platform.

This time they packed lightly and left most of their luggage at home in London.

After more than two hours on the train, Chen Muwu still couldn't get any free time of his own.

No one was chatting casually with Irena and Frederic's parents. These two young physicists, who inherited the legacy of Madame Curie and devoted themselves to the research of radioactive physics, began to talk to Chen Muwu about some academic matters. matter.

Finally, we arrived at the train station in Cambridgeshire. After getting off the train, we all got on the bus to the university.

In the telegram sent to Chadwick, Chen Muwu also specifically stated that there was no need to send a car to pick him up at the train station.

His purpose in doing these things was to create the illusion that he suddenly returned to Cambridge instead of notifying him in advance.

After another 10 minutes on the bus, the group of three finally arrived at the area with the highest concentration of intellectuals in the UK.

"Do you want to visit the Cavendish Laboratory first, or go directly to the particle accelerator?"

Chen Muwu gave up the opportunity to choose.

After the couple had a brief discussion, Frederick gave the answer: "How about we go to the machine first?"

"That's fine. I won't be in school these days. I guess there are a lot of things waiting for me to deal with in the laboratory. If I go to the laboratory first, I'm afraid I won't be able to accompany you around the school." "Chen, really Sorry, you are so busy, but I still ask you to stay with us all the time."

"Yes, no, let's go to the particle accelerator."

They did not take a car or other means of transportation this time, but walked along the riverside of the Cam River.

Chen Muwu saw the laboratory where the accelerator was located from a distance. Chadwick lived up to his trust and handed over the notice. Even if Chen Muwu had returned to Cambridge University, there were no people queuing up to do the experiment. It is empty.

"Well, here it is."

Walking to the laboratory, Chen Muwu took out the key and opened the door.

There is a story recorded in the "Book of Rites": Zhao Wu, the Shangqing of the Jin State, also known as the particularly famous "Zhao Orphan", once had a palace completed, and all the officials of the Jin State went to the new house. congratulate.

One of them, a doctor named Zhang Meng, couldn't help but exclaimed after seeing the tall house, "What a beautiful wheel! What a beautiful wheel!" His words were later simplified into an idiom called "Beautiful Wheel". Beautiful.

After Irena and Frederick saw the particle accelerator in the Cavendish Laboratory, Chen Muwu felt that he seemed to have seen the reappearance of Dr. Zhang Meng of Jin State after seeing Zhao Wu's palace. .

"Chen, you are really capable of designing a device that uses voltage to accelerate particles. The Cavendish Laboratory is also really rich and can use real money to transform this machine from a blueprint design into a real-life application." A real thing that exists.”

The couple didn't have any doubts about the particle accelerator's footprint. They were probably just looking at the new gadgets they saw for the first time and hadn't noticed the problem yet.

After Irena sighed, her husband Frederick echoed: "It seems that not only knowledge is important, but money is also important. There is money in the Cavendish Laboratory, and there are geniuses like Chen , it’s not surprising that we have produced the world’s leading physics instruments. Unfortunately, the University of Paris does not allocate funds to our Radium Research Institute, so when we want to use money, in addition to raising funds everywhere, we can only think of Here are some ways to monetize knowledge. Chen, do you have any good suggestions?"

Listening to the couple singing together beside him, Chen Muwu was a little confused at first, wondering if they were crying about poverty or what they were doing.
I had already said that I would give Marie Curie a particle accelerator. Although I didn’t say when I would give it to her at that time, it didn’t have to be like this, right?
After hearing the last sentence, he realized that he had just overthought it.

Irena and Frederic didn't want to cry poverty and ask Chen Muwu to lower the price of the particle accelerator, they just felt emotional about the situation.

Chen Muwu has always felt that compared with the American universities that spend money lavishly, the Cavendish Laboratory is the one that is so poor that it shows its limitations.

Now it seems that he is still blessed amidst the blessings. In the eyes of the young Curies, the Cavendish Laboratory is much richer than Madame Curie. They even began to ask him for advice on how to monetize their knowledge and make money. money.

In terms of knowledge realization, Chen Muwu does have a lot of say.

The wealthy Cavendish Laboratory, which was envied by the couple, was partly funded by donations from those who were deceived by Chen Muwu, but most of it relied on Chen Muwu's later patented technology to advance its development by more than ten or decades. I took out my time and got it back at a low price.

But the stories behind these must not be told to his two guests.

However, Chen Muwu's strengths have always been to mess around and ramble, so after a brief thought, he started to tell the story to the two of them.

"Frederick, it is actually not easy to realize knowledge. Moreover, knowledge is priceless. If you sell less, you will suffer a loss. If you sell more, others will not recognize it. Do you know the Bernoulli principle in fluid mechanics? ?”

The flow speed is high and the pressure is low. This is what Chen Muwu learned in junior high school.

I don’t know if foreign education teaches it, but for Xiao Di and his wife, they should be very clear about such basic physics knowledge.

"Of course, but what does this have to do with knowledge realization?"

"The person who proposed Bernoulli's principle was Daniel I Bernoulli of the Bernoulli family, and the great mathematician Euler once served as his assistant.

“The father of Daniel I was John I Bernoulli, and Euler also studied with John I at the University of Basel.

"John I also had an older brother named Jacob I Bernoulli, who was also a mathematician. Jacob I, John I and Daniel I were the Bernoulli family, a famous academic family in Europe. , the three most famous.

“One of the most famous things that happened between the brothers John I and Jacob I was that they openly solicited the equation of the line of steepest descent from mathematicians all over Europe, and even attracted the likes of Newton and Leibniz. A series of great mathematicians come to participate.”

Seeing the puzzled expressions on the faces of Mr. and Mrs. Curie, Chen Muwu decided not to talk about it, but to get to the point.

“What I want to talk about today is the man in the middle, John I, who connected the past with the future. Among his students, apart from Euler, there was also one of your French nobles, the Marquis de Lópida, who was famous.

"John I wanted to get married at the time, but felt that he didn't have enough money, so he had the same idea as Frederick, and realized the knowledge.

"I just happened to meet this rich young prince in France who wanted to study science, so Lópida approached John I and told him that I will give you money, but you have to give me some of your achievements.

"The two happily reached an agreement. John I regularly mailed his research findings to Lópida, and while the latter regularly sent money to the former, he also did not forget to study and organize these research results of John I. In the end, he He even published a book. That book recorded a very famous law, which is the 'Lópida Law'.

"After Lópida's death, John I took out the correspondence between himself and Lópida and tried to convince mathematicians all over Europe that he had discovered this law through his own research, not Lópida who spent money to buy the paper. found.

“But firstly, because everyone has become accustomed to the name of the Law of Lópida, and secondly, because everyone does not recognize the letter that John I produced, so the name of this law was not changed in the end, but it is still called this name to this day.

"Obviously it is a discovery that can go down in history, but just for a few dollars, I put someone else's name on my research results.

"This is what I said, if you want to use your knowledge to monetize, you must be cautious."

After listening to Chen Muwu's tirade, the couple had different reactions.

Frederick felt that his future brother-in-law was like Aesop, who stopped studying physics and started telling fables.

And Irena was even more direct: "I think it's good to call it Lópida's Law. This is not because I am also a Frenchman. It's because there are too many capable people in the Bernoulli family. Research has found that There are countless theorems and formulas. If they are all named after Bernoulli, it will be difficult for future students and scientific workers to distinguish which one is which.

"Furthermore, if there was no Lopida, this John I would not have the money to get married. If John I had no money to get married, the Bernoulli family would not be able to further expand its branches. There would be no Daniel I later, and there would be no Daniel I. Then Fluid mechanics will also lose one of its most basic formulas.

"I don't think Lópida stole Bernoulli's things, but he saved Bernoulli's family."

Facing Irena's absurd reasoning, Chen Muwu was speechless for a moment.

(End of this chapter)