Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 342 81 Dr. Chen’s Olive Branch

Just after they met, Yan Jici made the request to visit the particle accelerator laboratory.

But this request is not excessive at all, because not long ago, Chen Muwu was also thinking about whether he should help build one in China, and now he met the compatriots in his hometown, so he naturally agreed to Yan Jici's request .

"Of course, Brother Huating, even if you don't mention this, I have exactly what I mean. After all, the particle accelerator can be regarded as the only experimental result that the Cavendish Laboratory has recently obtained. It must be Let the guests who come here have a good look.

"After all, didn't the Overlord of Western Chu say that wealth and honor will not return to your hometown, but you will travel at night like embroidered clothes? I finally came from my hometown to accompany you, so you must show it well in front of him."

Chen Muwu invisibly gave Yan Jici a step forward, telling him not to think that he had just made an unreasonable request.

On the way out of the Cavendish Laboratory and towards the Particle Accelerator Laboratory, the two people were still discussing this big guy who had quoted an external price of eight thousand pounds.

"I heard Professor de Broglie say that at the physicists' conference held in Italy this spring, Brother Hanchen demonstrated the world's most advanced machine to physicists from all over the world for the first time. particle accelerator.

“He said that Professor Compton from the University of Chicago in the United States had decided to order one at that time, and he also said that he would help ask if other universities in the United States were willing to order the machine.

"Professor de Broglie said that he had contacted you privately at that time and wanted to buy one for the University of Paris. Firstly, he wanted France to have the most advanced instruments in the world. Secondly, he also wanted to help you. It means a good friend.

“But Professor de Broglie doesn’t understand why you refused his purchase request.

"Then there are Frederic and Irena, who have just finished their visit to the UK. They also came to Cambridge University to visit this particle accelerator. They also praised this machine, but they also received your objections. , saying that the cost of this machine is extremely high, and the current situation in the Cavendish Laboratory is that no one cares about it, so they should carefully consider introducing it.

"So Dr. Chen, I want to know what is the actual situation of this particle accelerator you built?

"Why have you always resisted the installation of a particle accelerator in France? Is it necessary for this machine to be introduced into our own country?"

Although Yan Jici's tone was calm, the questions he raised were sharp. Basically, every question Chen Muwu didn't want to face.

Why do you refuse requests from good friends and relatives?

Why don't you even ask for the money that was delivered to your door?
Of course he wanted to invite Madame Curie and her family to Sweden!

Of course Chen Muwu's idea was good, but something unexpected happened.

Even if Madame Curie did not listen to the words of de Broglie, who returned from Italy in March, as a family member, she would definitely listen carefully and think about the words of the young Curies.

What if Marie Curie really listened and thought it was necessary to build a particle accelerator, and got land from the University of Paris, and decided to add a new experimental instrument to the Institute of Radium Science? manage?
Chen Muwu had previously promised that after the particle accelerator was successfully developed, he would give one to Marie Curie.

He even said jokingly that in their hometown, this thing was called betrothal gift and it was an essential step before marrying a wife.

If Marie Curie really wanted a particle accelerator, Chen Muwu was not worried about the small money, but was afraid that this sudden incident would disrupt his previous plans.

It seems that the construction of a cyclotron in the school in Sweden must be put on the agenda.

Otherwise, just wait until after attending this year's Solvay Conference, not return to the UK, but continue north to Sweden.

It was said that he had accepted the invitation from the Crown Prince of Sweden to attend this year's Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, and met with Prince Gustav to discuss the construction of a cyclotron in Stockholm.

At that time, teacher Rutherford also returned to Europe from New Zealand. After the Solvay Conference, he could return to the Cavendish Laboratory to preside over daily research work, and he could also step down as acting director. It's a heavy burden.

As soon as the cyclotron project is established, if Marie Curie asks for an electrostatic particle accelerator from him again, Chen Muwu can use you, a higher-end and more advanced machine in Stockholm, to divert his future mother-in-law's energy. sight.

This impromptu idea, which was not yet perfect, could be regarded as a patchwork for the changes brought about by de Broglie and the younger Curies.

But Chen Muwu definitely couldn't tell all his thoughts to Yan Jici. Fortunately, the latter asked more than just this question.

So Chen Muwu chose to ignore his previous questions and answer the last one specifically.

"Of course! It may be a coincidence. Brother Huating, before you arrived at Cambridge University, I was thinking about this issue. Should we install a particle accelerator in China? If so, , which university or institution should I choose?

"Since you also brought up this matter today, we might as well discuss it together."

While talking, the two people had walked from the Cavendish Laboratory to the door of the Particle Accelerator Laboratory.

"We're here, the particle accelerator is here."

Chen Muwu took out the key, opened the door, and invited Yan Jici into the laboratory preparation room.

"Amazing, Dr. Chen, you really built an amazing thing. Is this big round thing the place where particles are accelerated?"

"No, no, no, that's just an electrode. The place where particles are actually accelerated is the long track next to it.

"..."

Chen Muwu began to act like a tour guide again, giving a brief explanation to Yan Jici who came here to visit.

However, his explanation was only a superficial taste, and now he couldn't put on an electrostatic isolation suit, go to the machine in person, turn it on, and demonstrate it to Yan Jici.

“Now I finally know why Frédéric was full of praise for this machine when he returned to France.

"No matter what experiments this machine can perform, just placing it here is like an exquisite physical work of art. Especially this large, almost spherical electrode. If our country has one, it will definitely Attract more young people to invest in physics research."

Yan Jici sighed for a long time, and finally returned to the original question. "Brother Huating, you returned to China after getting your doctorate this time, but did you receive an invitation to teach from any university?"

Even if Yan Jici will be the director of the Institute of Physics of Bei Research Institute in the future, he cannot be so now because neither Academia Sinica nor Bei Research Institute has been established at this time.

That's why Chen Muwu raised this question. He wanted to know which university Yan Jici went to after returning to China. Was it Bei University?Escape?Or a private school in Jihai?
"Brother Hanchen, I'm not afraid of your jokes. When I return to China this time, I mainly want to go home and get married. I haven't considered teaching in a university yet."

"Congratulations, congratulations to Brother Hua Ting."

Yan Jici and Chen Muwu were about the same age, and they were both about to get married.

Chen Muwu continued to ask: "But, you said you haven't considered teaching in a university, so what's the matter?"

“If I have the chance, I would like to return to Europe to further my studies in physics after getting married.

"I was studying the piezoelectricity of crystals with Professor Fabry at the University of Paris, which is of course also a very important branch of physics - at least it was very important when I studied abroad in 1923.

"But in the past few years of studying abroad, I have experienced in Europe that Dr. Chen, you have single-handedly created a new subject, and you can also develop this new subject called quantum mechanics in a short period of time. .

"I have only read a few papers in journals about quantum mechanics, reflectivity, and things inside atoms. I have a brief understanding of it, but it is not in-depth at all. If there is a chance, I would like to come to Europe again and study it carefully. Let’s talk about this new subject you proposed, Dr. Chen.”

In the original time and space, after Yan Jici got married in 1927, he was able to return to France to study for the second time because he accidentally received a study abroad fund from a certain organization.

Chen Muwu was not sure whether he would encounter any changes when he returned this time, so he simply sent an invitation directly to Yan Jici.

"Brother Huating, if you don't mind it, after your wedding, would you like to take your wife to Cambridge University and come to the Cavendish Laboratory?"

Shi Ru asked why Oppenheimer left one after another, and Chen Muwu arranged for Yan Jici to come to Cambridge University. There should be no problem.

And if an electrostatic particle accelerator could really be built in China, Yan Jici would still be a good candidate.

It takes a long time to return to China from the UK. He cannot let Zhao Zhongyao waste a lot of time on the round trip just to install a particle accelerator in China.

If Yan Jici wants to study abroad for the second time and returns to China sooner or later, he can be asked to install a particle accelerator in China.

It is best to install the accelerator in Xiyi, Sichuan, Chongqing or Kunshuang. Of course, there is no problem even if it is installed in Beiping.

Chen Muwu was not worried at all that he would interfere with it, occupy and use the machine after the war broke out, or simply dismantle the machine, pack it and transport it back to Imperial University in Tokyo.

Because first, the actual value of this particle accelerator is not high, so it won’t hurt even if it is lost.

Second, by that time, this 100 million volt particle accelerator will have already become an obsolete product.

Maybe the Imperial Universities in Tokyo and Kyoto have already spent a lot of money to buy accelerators from the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University, and have copied countless of them.

All in all, the electrostatic particle accelerator can only be regarded as an experimental product that is simple to build and low-cost. The real killer is the cyclotron that Chen Muwu is about to build in Stockholm.

In the original time and space, the world's first cyclotron was built by Ernest Lawrence of the United States in 1932. Therefore, the United States became the first country in the world to independently build a cyclotron and successfully operate it.

The second country to independently build and operate a cyclotron was not the United Kingdom, to which the Cavendish Laboratory belonged, but Ben, located on the Pacific coast of the Far East.

Five years after Lawrence's success, Yoshio Nishina also successfully built a cyclotron at Japan's Institute of Physics and Chemistry in 1937.

This is more than a year earlier than the successful cyclotron in the Cavendish Laboratory, which was donated by Lord Austin and cost 25 pounds to build.

More importantly, Ben's cyclotron was a behemoth of 36 inches, while the one the Cavendish Laboratory spent a lot of money to build was only [-] inches.

Not only that, in the second year after he built the cyclotron, Yoshio Nishina also built an isotope separator.

These two machines both occupy a very important position in the process of hand-rolling mushroom eggs.

Because these machines were built very early, and intelligence showed that there might be uranium mines on the peninsula, Japan's Ministry of War had great confidence that it could build a machine. A kind of mass murderer that uses nuclear fission to generate huge energy.

It was at the same time that Nishina Yoshio transferred the cyclotron and isotope separator from civilians to the military and started his "Nishite Project".

After the Tamone broadcast in 1945, Japan surrendered, and Five-Star Emperor MacArthur landed on the island, Yoshio Nishina was approved to continue using the cyclotron for scientific research.

However, this approval was changed day by day. In less than a month, a higher-level order came from Washington, asking the military stationed in the city to destroy all the cyclotrons in the territory, gather them together, and throw them to the bottom of Tokyo Bay.

It can be seen that the cyclotron is much more advanced than the electrostatic particle accelerator, and the danger of falling into one's hands is also much greater.

Chen Muwu was even thinking about whether the cyclotron to be built in Stockholm in the future should be done secretly, not publishing papers or attending meetings, and delaying the results as long as possible.

Yan Jici's original plan for this trip to Cambridge was to come to the UK to meet Chen Muwu and learn about the specific conditions of this particle accelerator before returning to China to get married.

Unexpectedly, after meeting, he received an unexpected surprise. Chen Muwu actually extended an olive branch and invited him to come to the Cavendish Laboratory to study abroad again after his marriage.

Faced with such a big gift that came to his door, he would be a fool not to accept it. Yan Jici quickly agreed to Chen Muwu's kindness.

(End of this chapter)