Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 375 114 Einstein refused to give up

The conversation with Wang Jingqi passed by without realizing it.

So much so that for the upcoming dinner at the Solvay Palace restaurant, everything had already been prepared, except for one of the protagonists of today's dinner, who was still meeting the guests in the reception room.

This is equivalent to attending a wedding banquet. The venue has already been filled with guests.

It turned out that the bride was unable to arrive at the wedding venue because of traffic jam.

Chen Muwu frowned and lowered his head as he walked into the restaurant of Solvay Palace, and suddenly found that almost everyone in the room was looking at him, as well as Zhao Zhongyao behind him.

He quickly apologized to the physicists present for the two of them: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. The Chinese Minister in Belgium just came to visit and congratulated Dr. Zhao Zhongyao on winning the Nobel Prize in Physics. The other party's kindness was hard to refuse." So it was delayed a little bit.”

There are not many free seats at the long table in the restaurant. Among them, the obvious one next to Cockcroft must be the seat where Zhao Zhongyao, the other protagonist today, is sitting.

After observing the situation in the venue, Chen Muwu walked directly to the other side and sat next to his teacher Rutherford.

"Chen, what happened just now? Why do I see a gloomy expression on your face?"

As soon as he sat down, Rutherford began to care about his precious student who had just brought another Nobel Prize to the Cavendish Laboratory.

"It's nothing." Chen Muwu shook his head. He couldn't explain the ins and outs of this in a few words. Today was another happy occasion, so Rutherford couldn't let him get angry with him. "Hey, they're just a bunch of bureaucratic people. , I am not very suitable for dealing with officials. The British government doesn’t like me very much, and now it seems that the Chinese government may not like me very much in the future.”

Chen Muwu laughed at himself as if he were joking.

"How is that possible? Didn't you win the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Olympic gold medal? In my mind, you must be one of those national treasures in China. How could they not like you?"

"Teacher, today is the celebration dinner for Dr. Zhao and Dr. Cockcroft after they won the Nobel Prize in Physics. You will also give a speech later. I don't want to ruin your good mood before that. This matter is Please don’t worry, I have my own sense of discretion.”

Since Chen Muwu didn't want to say anything, Rutherford knew it and didn't ask any more.

But this matter did not just go away in his mind. Rutherford decided to use his influence to do a good job for his student when he was interviewed by media reporters after attending the Solvay Conference and returning to the UK. Say a few words.

Chen Muwu was wronged in China, and Rutherford had neither control nor control.

But if he wants to be wronged in the UK, Rutherford must stand up and speak out.

The Chinese hate Chen Muwu, and Chen Muwu can choose to stay in Europe and not return to China.

But if the British also hate Dr. Chen, then Dr. Chen is not a masochist. He can naturally stay away from the UK just like he stayed away from China and go to France, Germany or even the United States to continue his scientific research work.

We must not let these ignorant and arrogant British guys force the most talented young people in the world to leave the Cavendish Laboratory.

Rutherford forgot where he had heard of a passage by Bernard Shaw, the great Irish playwright who had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, saying that the British had always been hypocritical and sanctimonious:

Nothing these British people do is very good, and nothing is very bad; but you can never find a single thing that the British did badly. He is very principled in what he does. When he wants to beat you, he advocates patriotism; when he wants to rob you, he advocates the doctrine of business; when he wants to enslave you, he advocates imperialism; when he wants to bully you, he advocates heroism; Supporting the king is a matter of loyalty to the king and patriotism, but wanting to chop off the king's head is also a matter of republicanism. His motto is responsibility; but he never forgets that when a country's responsibilities and interests conflict, it will be serious.

Although the master and the apprentice were thinking about things in their hearts, the Nobel Prize celebration dinner was still held on time.

It’s not necessarily that the moon in foreign countries is rounder. In this so-called social occasion, there is not much difference at home and abroad.

The first thing is still like this morning at the opening of the Solvay Conference, Professor Lorenz, the chairman of the Postal Conference, stood up and gave a toast.

After Lorenz finished speaking, it was Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft's turn to stand up one after another and express their gratitude for everyone's congratulations.

There were not many physicists who came across the Atlantic from the United States to attend the Solvay Conference this time, but because it was the first time to return to an international academic conference, there were quite a few people from Germany.

In particular, the University of Berlin, where Planck and Pauli worked, and Professor Joffe from the Sulian Academy of Sciences, who came from Sulian Lieggler, had worked with the first professor not long before the conference. I met Zhao Zhongyao who took the stage to express his thanks.

At that time, Zhao Zhongyao's identity was just an installer who came to install a particle accelerator. After the University of Berlin and the Sulian Academy of Sciences ordered the particle accelerator from Cavendi to the laboratory, they transported the materials to the site and left them here to install a particle accelerator. Just a product.

Unexpectedly, only a few months later, Zhao Zhongyao's identity would change and he would become a new Nobel Prize winner in physics.

Veteran Nobel Prize winners like Planck, who have seen a lot of big things in the world, are quite tolerant of Zhao Zhongyao's changes that are too far behind.

But for the younger generation of Pauli, he was still in the stage where he had just become a professor at the University of Berlin.

That's why he still looked down on Chen Muwu, who was still a doctor. Yesterday, he was forced to do that in a hurry, and for the sake of face, he gritted his teeth and agreed to increase the bet to eight thousand pounds.

Zhao Zhongyao and Pauli were the same age, but the former had already won the Nobel Prize, and he was only complacent about a professorship at the University of Berlin.

The key is that in his speech before the dinner, Zhao Zhongyao repeatedly mentioned that the person he wanted to thank was Chen Muwu, saying that he was able to achieve today's results only under the guidance of Dr. Chen.

Cockcroft, who spoke after him, mentioned similar content and views as Zhao Zhongyao, and also thanked Dr. Chen for helping him win the Nobel Prize.

In just three or four years, Chen Muwu not only won the Nobel Prize himself, but also guided others to win the Nobel Prize. This was the real reason that made Pauli jealous and a little angry.

Pauli was a smart man. Even though he was very jealous of Chen Muwu, while he was jealous, his brain never stopped thinking.

Chen Muwu himself won the Nobel Prize not by luck because of a certain experiment or theory, but because he made many achievements in physics and other related disciplines in just over a year from 1923 to 1924. new results.

Three years later, two students mentored by Chen Muwu won the Nobel Prize after him.

This efficiency, throughout the thirty years of the Nobel Prize, cannot be found second.

Chen Muwu must have great abilities. No wonder Heisenberg began to speak favorably to everyone he met after returning from Cambridge University. Pauli was murmuring in his heart, shouldn't he continue to be an enemy of Chen Muwu, but should he show favor to him?

Although Chen Muwu is a bit arrogant, he has a delicate mind and has done a lot of good things.

For example, if he had brought the signed photo of Chaplin to him, if he had put himself in his shoes and changed the position, he would never be able to do such a thing with his own magnanimity.

——Pauli was quite self-aware.

After all, this is Brussels, the capital of Belgium, where the Solvay Conference was held, not Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, where the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded.

This small-scale celebration dinner did not last long because meetings will continue according to the agenda tomorrow.

The dinner party ended at about eight o'clock in the evening. After dealing with the waves of people who came to congratulate Rutherford and his Cavendish Laboratory for their new achievements, Chen Muwu stood up and was about to leave the dinner. He was thinking, What should I do tonight.

Just at this moment, a person stuck up like a shadow.

Before this person could speak, Chen Muwu had already made a close guess about the identity of the visitor.

After he spoke German, it was completely consistent with Chen Muwu's guess just now.

"Dr. Chen, it's still so early for you. You have plenty of time tonight. How about I go to your place as a guest and let's have a chat?"

"Of course not, Professor Einstein."

Chen Muwu turned around with his iconic fake smile on his face:

"I heard from Mr. Wittgenstein that you asked him several very tricky physics questions, but he couldn't answer any of them.

"I'm curious about what questions you asked him, and I don't know if I can answer them. How about calling Mr. Wittgenstein and let's study your questions together?"

Einstein suddenly felt that Chen Muwu was smiling with some evil intentions.

"Dr. Chen, I don't think it's necessary. Our discussion is purely about physics and does not involve any philosophical issues. To be honest with you, when you were giving a report on the podium this morning, I was talking to him below. The discussion was very painful.

"Physics belongs to physics, and philosophy belongs to philosophy. From now on, I will never let the two be connected again."

"What a coincidence, I just heard someone say something similar to yours today. Mr. Wittgenstein told me that he would never read physics or quantum mechanics again, and would rather study philosophy with peace of mind. ”

Chen Muwu's words made Einstein feel a little embarrassed: "When I meet that young man tomorrow, I will apologize to him in person.

"But we'll talk about tomorrow. Can we go to your place tonight? I still want to talk to you about some issues related to quantum mechanics. You just said that Mr. Wittgenstein doesn't understand what I'm saying. What."

"Of course, of course," Chen Muwu nodded, "I want to talk to Sir Rutherford about something first. In this way, Professor Einstein, I will be waiting for your arrival in the room on time in half an hour.

"Or just go to my place and wait for a while. Dr. Dirac, who lives in the same room as me, is also very accomplished in quantum mechanics."

"Are you sure he majored in physics, not philosophy?"

Once bitten by a snake, and fearful of ropes for ten years, Einstein felt a little disappointed.

"Professor, you can rest assured. Dirac is Professor Fowler's disciple, and he is also the only two people in the Cavendish Laboratory who focus on theoretical physics research. He could have received a sum of money from the British government He received a scholarship to study abroad at the University of Göttingen in your country, but for some unknown reason, he gave up his study abroad trip.”

"You'd better not lie to me," Einstein said suspiciously, "then does he speak German?"

"This one……"

This question really stumped Chen Muwu.

Because he wanted to read some German physics literature and tried to contribute to the German "Annals of Physics", Dirac learned German as a foreign language during his years at Cambridge University.

Chen Muwu knew about this because Dirac once showed him the first draft of a paper written in German. He hoped that Chen Muwu could improve the grammatical errors for him and then send it to Planck for publication.

Later, Chen Muwu rejected Dirac's request because he had other things to be busy with—not because he was lazy—and instead asked him to publish it in a British physics journal.

Chen Muwu knew that Dirac could write German, but he didn't know whether he could speak German. Einstein's question gave him some difficulties.

He did know that Dirac came from a Swiss immigrant family. His father was a French professor, so speaking French would definitely not be a problem.

And Einstein's second foreign language was not English, but the common aristocratic language in Europe.

When Langevin and de Broglie went to Germany to visit those physicists three years ago, they used French.

"Professor, I don't know what his German level is. Is he a mute who can only write but cannot speak. But between you two, I think you should be able to communicate in French."

Einstein was still a little worried and felt that Chen Muwu was still deceiving him.

"Then you must go back as soon as possible to talk to Sir Rutherford. If you don't come back tonight, I will never leave your room."

"Go back, go back, go back! Please don't worry, I will definitely go tonight, and it will be very soon, it won't take half an hour!"

Good guy, in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", when a poor scholar studies alone in a temple at midnight, he will be accompanied by a fox who has practiced Buddhism for hundreds of thousands of years and transforms into a beauty.

Why did this beauty turn into an old man with a white beard when he came to me, and he always wanted to point out his mistakes and point fingers at himself?

(End of this chapter)