Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 363

Before Chen Muwu came to attend the Solvay Conference this time, he specifically asked for an autographed photo from Chaplin, who was visiting him at Cambridge University, just so that he could bring it to Brussels and build a good relationship with Pauli, who was also attending the conference.

In the first half of his ice-breaking trip, everything went very well.

Including meeting three young people from Germany in the room where Heisenberg and the others lived, everything was moving forward according to the ideas envisioned by Chen Muwu.

In the end, because the two people - mainly Pauli - wanted to take advantage of their words, they said a few harsh words, which made the two people who had always disliked each other start talking again. A tit-for-tat confrontation began.

Before Chaplin's autographed photo was sent out, the bet made three years ago had inexplicably doubled by more than 800 times. It can basically be regarded as the most expensive bet between scientists in history.

Heisenberg was also quite unlucky, because he unfortunately happened to appear at the scene when Chen Muwu and Pauli made bets twice, and each time, he was the witness that neither party could offend.

This was the first time for von Neumann to see such great fun with his own eyes. Among the younger generation of physicists, some people actually dared to challenge Chen Muwu.

Fortunately, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had been divided and disintegrated into so many small countries because of its defeat in World War I.

Pauli became an Austrian and he became a Hungarian.

If the Austro-Hungarian Empire still existed in this world, and this arrogant man belonged to the same Austro-Hungarian Empire, von Neumann would feel somewhat embarrassed.

Seeing Pauli's face flushed with anger and excitement, von Neumann always had the urge to add fuel to the fire.

He wanted to pretend to be kind and pat the former on the shoulder.

But at that time, what von Neumann said was definitely not comforting words, such as asking Pauli to "don't be the same as this Chinese who talks about cheating".

Instead, he advised him to quickly find one or more teaching jobs in addition to his position as a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin, and start saving money now for the eight thousand pounds bet that he will have to repay in the future. Prepare.

On the side of the middle-aged and elderly Germans, Einstein wanted to drag Chen Muwu to continue the mysterious debate on quantum mechanics.

On the German young people's side, Chen Muwu had a very unhappy time with Pauli.

He felt that when he went on a long trip this time, he seemed to have not looked at the almanac in advance. Maybe it said on it that "it is not appropriate to meet German-speaking Jews on such and such a day."

If Chen Muwu stood up and said goodbye as soon as the bet was made, it would give people the impression that he ran away in despair with his tail between his legs.

So after Heisenberg carefully put away the updated bet between him and Pauli, Chen Muwu lingered here for a while, and said a few words to von Neumann, seemingly deliberately or not, before he raised his head. He stood up and left with his head bowed.

"Tsk, look at his incredibly miraculous look, as if he had already pinched a positively charged anti-electron with his own hands and had seen it with his own eyes.

"If he could confidently point out the existence of anti-electrons in the world just by relying on the formula he calculated on a few scraps of paper, which he didn't know whether it was correct or not.

"Then can I make up a formula out of thin air and then claim that I have used this formula to infer that God must exist?
"What a arrogant guy with eyes that reach the top of his head!"

Pauli complained dissatisfiedly to Chen Muwu who had just left.

Because of the not-so-deep friendship with fellow countrymen, von Neumann always stood by with a serious expression and suppressed laughter.

Is Professor Pauli of the University of Berlin talking about Chen Muwu, or is he looking in the mirror and blaming himself?
If the faculty and staff of the University of Berlin are of this level, then this school built in the capital will never surpass the University of Göttingen where we respect truth and are rigorous in scholarship.

Even his teacher Hilbert quickly admitted that his previous idea was indeed wrong after Chen Muwu pointed out his mistake.

What level of Pauli is he, how dare he look down on Dr. Chen Muwu!
After I attended the Solvay Conference this time and returned to the University of Göttingen, I looked for physics experiments as my specialty. In the past two years, I won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the physics experiment named after myself and my collaborators. Professor Frank who won the academic award.

Tell him carefully about Chen Muwu's point of view, and see if you can design an experimental device in the laboratory of the University of Göttingen, be the first to find the anti-electron that is said to be positively charged, and help Dr. Chen.

In the past few years in Europe, Chen Muwu, in addition to staying at the University of Cambridge in the UK for a long time to do research, has also visited other countries one after another, including France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union and Germany, as well as Italy and The physics community in Belgium and other countries have had contacts.

——These are basically all the countries in Europe that have a certain level of physics research.

Although there is the United States on the other side of the Atlantic, and Japan, which is separated by the entire Pacific Ocean from the United States, Chen Muwu has never been there, and has no plans to visit in the future. However, physicists from these two countries, and Chen Muwu, There are many connections and intersections between them.

After a few years, he has grown from a little-known railway bureau employee in Bitan to a young physicist who has gained a high reputation in the physics community and is well-known around the world.

After leaving Heisenberg's room, Chen Muwu originally planned to visit more physics colleagues.

But as soon as he walked out of the room, he "encountered" his future mother-in-law, Madame Curie, in the corridor.

The Solvay Palace has limited rooms for guest accommodation, and the number of physicists from each country who come to Belgium to attend the conference is not large. Therefore, there is no ability and no need to accommodate only the same person on each floor. country people.

Just now Pauli showed a very excited attitude at the end, and his voice was inevitably a little louder.

If nothing else, many people should have heard the quarrel.

It happened that physicists from France also lived on this floor, sharing a room with Madame Curie. Her eldest daughter Irena, who took care of her daily life, heard someone seem to be arguing about some academic issues, and she was a little curious. I went out and looked for the source of the quarrel. I basically understood the ins and outs of the incident and recounted it to my mother exactly as it was.

Brussels, Belgium, is where the youngest daughter Eve and Chen Muwu met. It was on the grass in front of the Solvay Palace that they began a fate.

However, at the Fifth Solvay Conference three years later, Madame Curie forcibly left her youngest daughter Eve at home.

She is already a big girl who will get married next year, so she must be more reserved.

Madame Curie had no prejudice against Chen Muwu, her prospective son-in-law, and she also favored her youngest daughter Eve, but she just accepted death a little.

The Solvay Conference can be regarded as the highest level physics academic conference in the world. It is a place for everyone to study physics and discuss ideas, not for young daughters to fall in love.

Marie Curie felt that after the meeting was over, she would invite Chen Muwu to go to France and live in Paris for a good time. This was the right way to deal with the problem.

After Irena came back, she said that Chen Muwu seemed to be in a certain room, arguing with others over academic issues. After that, Marie Curie put down what she was busy with and walked out to find out.

By the time she followed the sound, the debate in the room was coming to an end.

Chen Muwu, who stood up to leave, just opened the door and came face to face with Madame Curie standing in the corridor.

"Uh, husband, madam, long time no see."

Chen Muwu initially thought of visiting his mother-in-law, but he didn't expect to meet her in the corridor.

——How did he know that Madame Curie was waiting for him here on purpose. "What's going on?"

Madame Curie turned her head, pointed with her eyes to the door that Chen Muwu had just walked out of, and implicitly asked him why he was quarreling with others.

"It's nothing serious. It's just a normal academic debate. The young man named Pauli is a guy with good academic standards. He just has a bad temper, so he looks down on others."

Marie Curie was not interested in petty quarrels between young people, and one of the parties involved was her future son-in-law.

If Marie Curie had intervened to help mediate the problem as a senior, even if she dealt with it impartially, she would probably be labeled as "helping relatives but not taking care of others" behind their backs by these young people.

——Even if Chen Muwu is on the other side, it will not work on either side.

Madame Curie nodded and skipped the topic.

"Chen, do you have time now? Do you want to come and sit at my place?"

This sentence seems to be a question, but it also depends on the identity of the speaker.

Coming from Marie Curie's mouth, it was an invitation that couldn't be refused.

Moreover, Chen Muwu did not do anything wrong and was not afraid of ghosts knocking on his door. What’s more, didn’t he have such a last word?
Mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law - the more she looks at her, the happier she becomes!

"Of course! Even if I don't meet you today, I still want to find time to visit you before the meeting starts."

Madame Curie and Chen Muwu walked back to her room on the same floor.

"What exactly is the 'anti-electron' you have been talking about just now?"

As soon as Chen Muwu sat down, he received the first question from Madame Curie.

He briefly talked about the equation he derived from quantum mechanics. Because there is a square root problem in this equation, it leads to the existence of a positively charged particle.

"Then do you have confidence in this so-called anti-electron?"

Irena, who was also in the room, asked curiously. She also felt that this anti-electron theory was really unreasonable.

"I think particles like anti-electrons still have a high probability of existing in our world, because this equation can achieve very good results in explaining some other physical phenomena. It can be said to be the most effective one at present. A theory that is close to microscopic physics experiments.

"If the agreement is perfect in other aspects, then I think there is no reason for any moth to appear on positively charged particles. I think when astronomers discovered Neptune 80 years ago, didn't they also write pen on paper first? Did you calculate the orbit of Neptune and then observe that planet in an astronomical telescope?

"There is also the 'Poisson bright spot' calculated by French Poisson in order to deny the wave nature of light. At that time, believers in particle theory also felt that it was unreasonable to have a bright spot on the back of a disk. But the result is What? That bright spot silently appeared where it was supposed to appear.

"Aren't Einstein's 'Light Quantum Theory' and his mass-energy equation also first theories and then verified by experiments?"

These examples given by Chen Muwu are all very appropriate. They are all calculated through theory first, and then the corresponding results are obtained through observations and experiments.

There's no reason why they could succeed this way but Chen Muwu couldn't.

Just before Neptune was discovered, people already knew that there were seven planets in the solar system.

Before the Poisson bright spot was observed, people had also done diffraction experiments.

Only Chen Muwu's anti-electron has no clue to current physicists because there has never been any precedent before. This is similar to Einstein who shocked the world at the beginning.

If anti-electrons can be successfully discovered, then Chen Muwu will be the first to try it.

"However, Einstein's light quantum theory also provides an experiment of the photoelectric effect for others to test. As for the experiment of how to discover antielectrons, I don't think current physicists have a clue. Chen, could you? Is there any good way?"

Irena herself was also a person who embarked on the path of experimental physics under the influence of Madame Curie. She also wanted to ask her future brother-in-law more about anti-electrons.

Any good ideas?

Not only is there a way, but the positron has also been found.

The photo of the trajectory taken in the cloud room is now in a cabinet in a certain room of Trinity College.

But Chen Muwu himself shook his head: "I think we can only work slowly and carefully, and carefully check every photo of the cloud chamber, and maybe we will find its traces inadvertently."

"Okay, Irena, stop asking blind questions without any clue."

There were things Marie Curie was more interested in than this ethereal positively charged particle.

"Chen, thank you for taking care of Irena and Frederic some time ago, allowing them to spend an unforgettable honeymoon in the UK."

"Madam, we don't speak the same language as one family. These are all things I should do, so naturally I will do my part."

"After the two of them returned to France, they told me that during their trip to the UK, what impressed them most was the particle accelerator at the University of Cambridge, and they asked us to quickly build one at the Radium Institute of the University of Paris. You look……"

Yes, what is supposed to come will always come.

From the moment he walked out of Heisenberg's room and saw Madame Curie in the corridor, Chen Muwu felt that he was likely to be asked this question.

And when Madame Curie mentioned Britain and honeymoon, his conjecture was completely confirmed.

It seems that the deliberate efforts to create the illusion that the particle accelerator was almost abandoned when the Curies visited the Cavendish Laboratory had no effect.

The only one to blame is the American astronomer Hervey, who insisted on making nonsense about the sun exploding.

We also have to blame those unscrupulous reporters who exaggerated the horror of this incident in newspapers for the sake of sales, regardless of how much negative public opinion these reports would arouse.

So Chen Muwu had to use a particle accelerator to discover two new particles under Eddington's eager expectation.

The publication of these two experimental results made all Chen Muwu's previous disguises useless.

He had to think seriously about how to face this question raised by Madame Curie.

(End of this chapter)