Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 368 107 White and hard stone

Einstein came to Brussels, Belgium to attend the conference this time for two main purposes.

On the one hand, as the most watched physicist in the world, he wants to support his country, Germany, just like Planck.

Germany has finally been accepted by the world again and returned to the embrace of the mainstream physics community. It cannot be said that German physics has maintained its top position for many years after being isolated from the world for nearly ten years. Lost in the hands of people of my own generation.

On the other hand, Einstein still came for Chen Muwu.

In recent years, the UK has made one achievement after another in physics. It is difficult to say whether this is because British physicists suddenly enlightened at the same time and worked together, or because a catfish like Chen Muwu suddenly appeared. The physics community in the UK was stirred up, and other British physicists also became active.

However, Einstein found Chen Muwu this time not to have a fight with him, so as to help Germany once again defeat the United Kingdom, which had the potential to overtake in a corner, and reshape its dominance in physics.

The reason why he came to argue with Chen Muwu was related to quantum mechanics.

To be honest, Einstein was not that interested in the theme of the fifth Solvay Conference, which was what was in the nucleus.

He even wanted to persuade Chen Muwu, the originator of the heresy of quantum mechanics, to let him, as a founder, voluntarily give up this mysterious and mysterious physics discipline, and stop basing the laws of the universe on unfounded uncertainty. Sexually.

Before the meeting on the first day, Einstein deliberately did not come to the main venue of the lecture hall early in the morning like Planck did.

He did not want to miss the opportunity to exchange quantum mechanics with Chen Muwu because he was surrounded by many colleagues from all over the world who wanted to talk to him.

So Einstein came a few minutes later than the German army, and arrived at the venue just as the meeting was about to begin.

After entering, he stood in front of the gate of the venue and looked at the group of people sitting in front. After searching for a while, he could not find Chen Muwu.

After searching the crowd for thousands of times, I suddenly looked back and saw that man sitting in the corner beside the gate.

This made Einstein feel angry and funny. There were obviously many empty seats in the venue, but why did Chen Muwu sit in such a corner that could easily be ignored?

That's how the words that just rang in Chen Muwu's ears came about. After speaking, Einstein took the opportunity to sit next to him.

"Good morning, Chen. Why don't you go sit with everyone and choose a corner like this?"

He also responded politely to Chen Muwu.

“Those people, especially my teacher Lord Rutherford, Lord Bragg from London University, and Professor Bohr from Copenhagen, they smoked too hard.

“I don’t smoke myself, and I really can’t stand the smoky smell produced when burning tobacco, so I chose this location that is far away from the crowd and has good ventilation.

"Professor Einstein, as the physicist who gets the most attention at this conference, why don't you sit among the crowd?"

Chen Muwu knew the answer and kicked the ball back again.

“Studying atoms, their nuclei and what might be in them is what you love most about the Cavendish Laboratory.

"My hands-on skills have always been terrible, not even at the experimental level. I prefer to use my brain to think instead of doing things myself."

As Einstein spoke, he extended the index finger of his right hand and pointed at his head.

The content of his words and the manner in which he spoke made Chen Muwu feel as if he had seen Sheldon in "The Big Bang Theory" when he laughed at Leonard.

But he was not sarcastic. In fact, Einstein really didn't have the ability to do experiments.

For the photoelectric effect experiment, he even gave a design plan for the experiment in his paper, and the instruments and materials required were not complicated.

But unfortunately, he did not do this experiment himself, thus handing over a result that would win the Nobel Prize in Physics to Millikan in the United States who questioned his theory.

"Please."

Chen Muwu nodded politely towards Einstein, who had just sat down, and continued to lower his head and pretend to look at the empty white paper in his hand.

He knew that when Einstein came to see him, he definitely didn't just come to say a few words, but was about to get to the point.

Sure enough, Einstein, who had not been quiet for even half a minute, started his next topic just as Chen Muwu guessed.

"Chen, what are you doing? Why are you staring at a blank piece of paper?"

"Oh, that's it, Professor Einstein. Before coming to Belgium, Mr. Chaplin and Mr. Fairbanks from the American film industry once visited Cambridge and invited me to help them write some information about aliens. Taking advantage of the meeting It hasn’t officially started yet, I’m just thinking about where to start with this material.”

He had long developed the excellent quality of lying without blushing or heartbeat. He was obviously waiting for the question Einstein was going to ask him next, but he deliberately told the story in a high-sounding way.

"Do you still remember that when we met yesterday, you once said that you recently met a new friend who has unique research and insights into quantum mechanics. So, where is your friend?"

Einstein felt that what Chen Muwu said yesterday was just deceiving him.

He himself is the proposer of quantum mechanics theory. How could he have a friend who studies quantum mechanics more deeply and thoroughly than he does?

But yesterday, there were not only Chen Muwu and him, but also Professor Planck who was in the same room with him.

The old man who was deceived by Chen Muwu actually kindly spoke for Chen Muwu, which made Einstein reluctant to continue questioning.

Today Professor Planck sat in the middle of the venue, while Chen Muwu sat in a corner.

This was definitely an opportunity given to him by God, allowing him to torture Chen Muwu in terms of quantum mechanics.

If he can be successfully persuaded to make Chen Muwu realize his mistake and give up the ridiculous and uncertain parts of quantum mechanics, he will be able to live up to the various preparations he has made in the past year.

"Oh, are you asking about my friend? He is an extremely punctual person and always shows up at the right time."

Another reason why Chen Muwu sat in the corner of the conference was that he was afraid that Wittgenstein, as an outsider who did not understand physics, would feel lonely sitting alone in the Solvay Conference.

Although he had been studying quantum mechanics for a while under Chen Muwu's "instigation", the theme of this conference was more related to physics experiments.

Since Chen Muwu had invited the great master Wittgenstein from Cambridge University, he would be responsible for "sending Buddha to the east", asking him to give Einstein a good lecture on philosophy, and let Wittgenstein think that he was on the right track this time. The trip to Belgium was well worth it and I returned to Austria happily. He also did not tell Wittgenstein that the person with whom he wanted to discuss the philosophy behind quantum mechanics was Einstein, because he was afraid of putting pressure on Wittgenstein.

Einstein did not expect that the friend Chen Muwu mentioned was not himself, but actually someone else.

Just when Chen Muwu was explaining to him, Dr. Chen's friend also appeared at the door of the venue on time five minutes before the meeting started.

"Ludwig, here!"

Upon hearing the call, Wittgenstein turned his head and looked towards Chen Muwu. At the same time, he also saw the world's most famous physicist, Einstein, sitting next to Chen Muwu.

The ancient surname Wittgenstein means "white (Wittgen) stone (stein)" in German.

The meaning of the surname Einstein in German is "a (Ein) stone (stein)".

Chen Muwu suddenly remembered that Gongsun Long, a representative figure among the hundreds of schools of thought during the Warring States Period and a disciple of Lord Pingyuan of Zhao State, once put forward a famous conclusion in his book "Gongsun Longzi", called "Jian Bai" Argument".

The general meaning of this theory is that for a white stone, you can say that the stone is white, or you can say that the stone is hard, but you cannot say that the stone is both white and hard at the same time.

Because the color of the stone can be seen through sight, and the hard touch of the stone can be felt.

The hardness of the stone cannot be seen with the eyes, and the color of the stone cannot be felt with the fingers, so he said that the two attributes of the stone, white and hard, can be combined together, but they cannot be combined directly at the same time.

Those in later generations who like to make far-fetched claims and boast about the wisdom of their ancestors often mention a fallacy theory, saying that the theory of whiteness proposed by Gongsun Long is similar to the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics.

It's just that these two theories, except for the limiting condition of "not at the same time", are simply the North Sea and the South China Sea, and they are completely unrelated.

Chen Muwu just accidentally thought of the last names of these two people, one white stone, one stone, and then inexplicably remembered the theory put forward by Gongsun Long.

I don’t know whether Wittgenstein, the white stone, can successfully defeat Einstein, the hard stone?

Taking advantage of the few seconds when Wittgenstein walked towards the two of them, Chen Muwu took the time to introduce Einstein beside him: "Professor Einstein, this is the friend I mentioned, who was in Cambridge several years ago. At university, he studied mathematics and philosophy with Professor Russell.

“Mr. Wittgenstein is Austrian, so we can communicate with each other without any barriers in German.

"Ludwig, this is the smartest man in the world today, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics in Berlin, Professor Einstein."

While talking, Wittgenstein also walked up to the two of them.

It's not that Einstein didn't pay attention to philosophy, it's just that he didn't have the energy to pay attention to the forefront of today's philosophical research.

So he had only heard a little bit that there was a Professor Russell who studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England, but he didn't know that Russell also had a student who wrote a "Tractatus Logico-Philosophica".

Einstein stood up and shook hands with Wittgenstein. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Muwu secretly moved his seat inside.

Since everyone can speak German, there is no need for Chen Muwu to act as a translator in the middle and accept the collision of opinions from the left and right.

It was the wisest way at this time for him to give up his position and escape from the main battlefield where the two thoughts were clashing.

After sitting down again, Einstein did not rush to attack Chen Muwu and his friends, but looked at the rostrum without saying a word.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, the fifth Solvay Conference officially began. Professor Lorenz, the chairman of the conference, first took the stage to make the opening speech of this conference.

In his speech, Lorenz did not hesitate to praise him, pointing out the achievements Chen Muwu had created one after another in his research on atomic nuclei in the past three years:

First, together with his laboratory colleague Blackett, he observed the first nuclear transmutation process in the history of physics from the photographic films recording the trajectory of the cloud chamber.

Then the first isotope of hydrogen was separated from liquid hydrogen in a low-temperature environment.

He built the first particle accelerator in human history at Cambridge University and guided students to use this particle accelerator to complete the first nuclear reaction completed by artificial intervention.

Also, not long before the opening of this Solvay Conference, Chen Muwu once again conducted experiments on a particle accelerator and achieved new research results.

He also discovered superheavy hydrogen, an isotope of hydrogen, and completed mankind's first nuclear fusion, giving a guess about possible nuclear reactions in the sun and stars similar to the sun.

As Lorenz described one thing after another, the participants looked at Chen Muwu again and again.

Under the gaze of everyone, Einstein was a little embarrassed just because he wanted to debate with Chen Muwu and Wittgenstein on issues related to quantum mechanics.

After finally waiting for Lorenz to finish his speech, he announced the official start of this Solvay Conference.

Einstein finally had a chance to speak. Unexpectedly, Lorenz on the podium did not leave. Instead, he called Chen Muwu, the focal figure in the corner, and asked him to come on stage and be the first to speak.

Just like the participants can sit wherever they want in the auditorium, the order of speeches at this meeting has not been determined in advance. As long as someone wants to express their views in front of all the physicists at the meeting, they can All you need to do is raise your hand before speaking, and you can get on the podium and speak freely.

If no one wants to go on stage, Lorenz, as the chairman of the conference, also has the right to ask the participants for their opinions and invite them by name to come on stage to express their academic research results or opinions.

Letting Chen Muwu be the first to speak on stage can show that Professor Lorenz attaches great importance to him.

But at the beginning of the conference, this situation occurred, which no one present had expected.

Of course, after hearing this invitation, the one who was most confused was Einstein.

Before he had time to challenge Chen Muwu on quantum mechanics, why was he the first to go on stage to give a report?

When Chen Muwu heard Lorenz calling his name, Chen Muwu's first reaction was that he was also shocked.

But he himself did not panic at all, because he had already completed all the preparations for his speech under Eddington's urging and supervision.

And speaking on stage this time was simply an opportunity given by God to escape. I didn’t have to listen to the two people next to me chatting endlessly about quantum mechanics.

Chen Muwu took out a notebook and several slides that he had completed while still at Cambridge University in the briefcase he carried with him.

He stood up from the corner of the venue, smiled at Einstein and Wittgenstein and said: "Professor Lorenz called me to come to the stage to speak. I'm really sorry that I can't be with you two. Please feel free to discuss it." For questions about quantum mechanics, it doesn’t matter whether I’m present or not.”

(End of this chapter)