Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 367 106 Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and Ma Chao

In the early decades of the [-]th century, Cambridge University was an important base for the left in Britain.

The more the British government blocks the country, the more it slanders it. Those young men in school who have both money and a lot of time become more curious about the mysterious country of Sulian.

Although many teachers and staff at the University of Cambridge, like Rutherford, the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, have repeatedly emphasized that politics is politics and learning is learning, and we cannot let the former affect the latter. Students must put academics first.

However, the atmosphere in the school indirectly affected Dirac at that time. In addition, the classmates and teachers in the Cavendish Laboratory also had a good understanding of each other, which made him more and more aware of the country Sulian. interest.

When the Sulian government, disguised as the Sulian Academy of Sciences, invited Dirac through Kapitsa to give lectures and visit in Sulian, the latter agreed to the invitation without hesitation.

Now Dirac was surrounded by Chen Muwu, who had close contacts with the Apostolic Society and had supported the 1926 general strike with great fanfare.

Influenced by his good friend, Dirac was far more curious about the mysterious Sulian than he was in the original time and space.

After listening to Zhao Zhongyao describe what he saw and heard when he went to Sulian, he even wanted to go to that huge country in Eastern Europe to see it with his own eyes.

"If you really want to go, I can help you contact the Sulian Academy of Sciences and ask them to send you an invitation letter to Lezhigrad for a lecture visit.

"But the difference between you, Dr. Zhao and me is that you are an authentic British national, and Britain and the Soviet Union have severed diplomatic relations. The British government will probably not let you go, and once you If you encounter something over there in Sulian, no British embassy or consulate will provide you with corresponding help."

Chen Muwu felt that Dirac just said it casually. He would definitely make sufficient plans and preparations before doing anything.

So he answered casually, and the severance of diplomatic relations between Britain and the Soviet Union was a very serious matter for an individual. In his subconscious, the cautious Dirac was curious about Su Lian, but he was not prepared under all conditions. If enough, he shouldn't head to that mysterious place rashly.

If Dirac had to go, then he could delay the matter for a while by using the excuse of contacting the Sulian Academy of Sciences.

It's just that Dr. Chen didn't think too comprehensively about the problem, and he forgot one thing.

In addition to being an honorary member of the Sulian Academy of Sciences, Kapitsa, who is also at Cambridge University, has closer ties with his native Sulian than he does.

Dirac and Kapitsa were also good friends, and it was through Kapitsa's invitation in the original time and space that he finally visited Sulian.

If Dirac now wants to establish a relationship with Su Lian, he still has another way to choose without going through Chen Muwu.

Chen Muwu exchanged a few words with Dirac, then the two got dressed and left the room, heading to the restaurant in the Solvay Palace for dinner.

In addition to the venue, eating is also a very important social occasion.

Most of the physicists from all over the world who appeared in the restaurant were Chen Muwu's old acquaintances.

Either we met at the last Solvay meeting, or we just met at the Como meeting in Italy at the beginning of this year.

There were basically no new faces attending this Solvay meeting.

Except for some physicists from Germany, who, like Einstein, did not attend the Como Conference, this Solvay Conference was their first attempt to re-engage the world academic circle after the First World War.

In a corner of the restaurant, after a few bites of food, Chen Muwu took Dirac and left the scene quickly.

He had socialized enough for the day, and it was his first day off the train in Brussels.

Chen Muwu didn't want to be caught by others in the restaurant again, chatting with him about various topics, and he didn't want to make himself even more exhausted physically and mentally.

……

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day was October 1927, 10.

At nine o'clock in the morning, in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, in the grand lecture hall of the magnificent Solvay Palace in front of a lawn in Leopold Park, the chairman of the Fifth Solvay Conference, a physicist from the Netherlands, Lorenz sat on the rostrum and announced the official start of this Solvay Conference.

This was the last Solvay Conference that Professor Lorenz participated in and served as chairman. Starting from the next one three years later in 1930, the chairman of the Solvay Conference became Professor Langevin of France.

When he was in Como, Italy at the beginning of this year, Lorenz also invited Chen Muwu to go to Amsterdam to participate in the ninth Olympic Games held there in the summer of 1928. He also jokingly said that he wanted to compete in the swimming pool track in Amsterdam. See with your own eyes Dr. Chen's heroic figure while swimming.

But even if Chen Muwu did go to the Netherlands upon invitation, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to meet Professor Lorenz again.

Life is inherently full of regrets. You know the outcome but can't make changes. In the end, you can only sigh one after another.

In the original historical time and space, the theme of this year's fifth Solvay Conference was "Electrons and Photons."

This is because around the time of that meeting, Professor Compton of the University of Chicago conducted the scattering experiment named after his own surname, which proved that gamma rays—that is, light—are a type of particle and verified Einstein's light quantum hypothesis;
  And de Broglie, a small French aristocrat, also put forward a bold hypothesis through his own theoretical calculations based on Einstein's work: electrons are a wave.

These two achievements can be regarded as relatively representative discoveries in the early stage of quantum mechanics, and both of them have a great relationship with Einstein.

Therefore, under the theme of "electrons and photons", the Solvay Conference basically became Einstein's home field.

One of the most famous scenes during the entire conference was the academic debate between the faction led by Einstein who opposed quantum mechanics, and the Copenhagen School led by Bohr and whose main members were staff and students of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, who supported quantum mechanics. .

But because of the emergence of Chen Muwu, both the gamma ray scattering experiment and the electron wave hypothesis appeared several years earlier than they should have in history.

Although Einstein was invited to attend the Fourth Solvay Conference three years ago, he personally boycotted the conference because other physicists from Germany, his home country, were boycotted from the conference. Able to appear at the meeting.

However, Einstein found many occasions and channels during this period, and even personally went to London, England, to challenge Chen Muwu again and again on academic issues related to quantum mechanics.

But in the end, he didn't take any advantage, and was even rendered speechless by the latter's arguments several times. Because the two groups headed by Chen Muwu, who proposed quantum mechanics, and Einstein, who resisted quantum mechanics, have discussed various issues, even more in-depth than the original space and time, so it should have appeared in the first chapter. The great debate on quantum mechanics between Bohr and Einstein, which occurred at the fifth Solvay Conference and continued until the Sixth Solvay Conference in 1930, did not appear this time.

Not only that, even the theme of this Solvay Conference has been changed. It is no longer "electrons and atoms" but has been changed to "atomic nuclei and nuclear reactions."

——This is similar to the topic "Structure and Properties of Atomic Nucleus" of the Seventh Solvay Conference in 1933 in the original time and space.

The only difference is that the neutron had been discovered in 1932, and people had a better understanding of the structure within the nucleus.

Now that Chen Muwu has not announced the killer weapon of neutrons, physicists naturally do not know what else is in the nucleus besides protons.

As an aside, the group photo of the [-]th Solvay Conference in the original time and space was hailed as a gathering of talented people and a gathering of young and old. It was a star-studded gathering of physicists.

Many people also made a fuss about the fact that [-] Nobel Prize winners appeared in the group photo of this conference and won [-] Nobel medals, saying that this conference brought together the smartest people in the world.

But in fact, the conference with the largest number of Nobel Prize winners was not the fifth conference in 1927, but the seventh conference in 1933 six years later.

At the seventh Solvay Conference, a total of twenty Nobel Prize winners who had won twenty-one Nobel medals participated in that conference, three more than the fifth Solvay Conference.

And if we add in that Einstein was invited, but because of the persecution of the German Mustache who came to power in the same year, he had to go to Princeton in the United States to take refuge in the name of lecturing, and did not dare to take a step closer to the European continent again, then the seventh session The number of Nobel Prize winners invited to the Solvay Conference will become twenty-one.

Although the number of Nobel Prize winners is not the highest, the reason why the group photo of the [-]th Solvay Conference is more famous than that of the [-]th Solvay Conference is probably not because the chairman of the [-]th Solvay Conference, Lorenz Langevin, the seven-term chairman, is more famous, precisely because Einstein, the top star in the world of physics, did not attend the subsequent meeting.

Whether it is for physicists or the general public, a group photo without Einstein's meeting is equivalent to a pound coin without the king's face. It is ultimately incomplete.

The Solvay Conference is not a formal meeting with a strict hierarchy. It just provides a place for physicists from all over the world to come together to discuss issues.

Therefore, in the auditorium of the venue, the seats are not arranged according to academic level and ability based on seniority. Instead, everyone can sit wherever they want.

The highly respected Rutherford was the focus of the audience. He sat down with everyone from the Cavendish Laboratory, as well as his former disciples such as Bohr, as well as his disciples from the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. .

The other faction in the meeting was no longer centered on the highly respected Marie Curie like the previous meeting, but all physicists from Germany, surrounding Planck, who was retired but still the spiritual leader. .

Britain and Germany are still the two most powerful countries in the world in terms of physics, so it is normal for the venue to be naturally divided into two groups.

Before the first day of the meeting, Chen Muwu walked directly to the German side, attracting the attention of many people.

Some people even secretly speculated on his intentions: Could it be that Dr. Chen finally could no longer tolerate the suppression of him by Cambridge University and chose to leave the UK and go to Germany to continue his academic research?

To everyone's disappointment, Chen Muwu just took out the signed photo of Chaplin with his gratitude and blessings to Pauli from the notebook he carried with him, and handed it to Pauli.

He must do what he promises others. He is not a person who goes back on his word.

Pauli accepted Chen Muwu's gift, but the expression on his face was not so natural, but rather uncertain.

Yesterday, he had some unpleasantness with Chen Muwu because of the anti-electronics matter, so much so that the bet between the two of them was directly upgraded from ten pounds to eight thousand pounds.

Unexpectedly, today, Dr. Chen acted like a normal person and sent the signed photo of Chaplin over with a smile.

How could he be so thick-skinned?

However, Pauli finally took the photo handed over by Chen Muwu and managed a smile on his face.

"Dr. Chen, thank you, thank you for your gift."

After doing this series of things, Chen Muwu turned around and left the German phalanx.

But he did not choose to sit with his teacher Rutherford and the series of physicists from England. He still found a well-ventilated seat near the door of the venue.

Chen Muwu did this not to reduce his sense of existence, but because he did not want to be crowded among the crowd and feel the smoke of those big smokers.

As a result, not long after he sat down, another person approached him: "Dr. Chen, why are you sitting in such a corner?"

Hearing that the speaker was speaking German, Chen Muwu already had a vague guess in his mind.

Turning his head and looking up, sure enough, the first thing that caught his eye was a suit that fit well but was not very flat. There was a messy and fluffy hair on his head. Compared with last year, there were more white hairs in these hairs. Quite a few.

There is still a trademark beard above the lips, and the eyes on both sides of the nose reveal wisdom and a hint of cunning.

"Professor Einstein, good morning."

Chen Muwu also seamlessly switched to German mode.

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive.

Although he sensed Einstein's bad intentions, Chen Muwu was not Yuan Shao who burned Wuchao on fire, but Jin Machao who asked Cao Cao to cut off his beard and abandon his robe.

　Go article + a violent fight against the old man at the beginning.

　　
  　
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