Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 379 118 Rutherford who protects the calf

Chen Muwu handed over his secrets, leaving Dirac stunned.

He didn't expect that such an operation could be possible. Chen Muwu would rather lose his reputation than publish such a paper.

"Chen, have you ever thought that after your paper was published, there would be many people like Professor Einstein who would start to promote quantum mechanics as a wrong theory and give up on continuing to study it?"

Chen Muwu shook his head and said: "I don't think so. What I proposed is just a paradox, and it has neither been confirmed nor falsified.

"And even if it is confirmed, so what? What I brought up was just to guide Einstein and make him think that the uncertainty principle is wrong, but not that the entire quantum mechanics is wrong.

"I believe that in the future, people will still be able to use quantum mechanics to calculate experimental phenomena at the microphysical level to produce a completely consistent result, and then continue to prove the correctness of this subject."

Chen Muwuxin said that the paper he and Einstein "collaborated" on would not become a scientific hot topic for a few months.

When Stockholm Prince's College is finally completed and put into use next year, the big discovery he will announce at the opening ceremony will be a truly shocking event.

At that time, the world of physics will be able to see what amazing predictive power is. Chen Muwu can deduce from his equations something that people think will never exist based on common sense and cognition, but it actually exists. .

Historically, it was because something predicted from the formula of quantum mechanics was successfully discovered that the Nobel Prize in Physics officially entered the era of quantum mechanics.

Dirac was still amazed by Chen Muwu's magical operation. He also imitated an action that Chen Muwu often did, placing the tip of his tongue at the seam of his teeth and making a "tsk, tsk" sound.

After a long while, he said to Chen Muwu seriously: "Chen, this move of yours is really amazing. I believe it must be the philosophical wisdom from the far East. It is the Chinese people who have spent five thousand years to figure out how to be a human being." A way of being in the world.”

Chen Muwu felt that Dirac's hat was too high on him.

He just no longer wanted to continue to quarrel with Einstein on meaningless physics issues and argue about right and wrong.

That's why I came up with such a strategy of retreating to advance, which was not as much as Dirac thought.

But the other party had already said it, so Chen Muwu couldn't say unceremoniously and humbly that this had nothing to do with the wisdom of the Chinese people, and was all an idea he came up with.

So he nodded vaguely and agreed with Dirac's view, and finally brushed the matter off a little.

In the next few days of the Solvay Conference, Chen Muwu basically did not listen to the speeches given by other participants from all over the world on stage. He still sat in the corner of the venue and kept writing. The paper he promised Einstein.

When Master Chen writes in languages ​​such as English and German that are composed of Latin letters, he always likes to use the typewriter that is almost exclusively his own in the Cavendish Laboratory to type out each word.

Because he did not know that he would actually write a paper at the Solvay Conference, Chen Muwu did not pack his typewriter in his luggage and bring it to Brussels.

The organizer of the conference, the Solvay Foundation, will definitely have a typewriter. If Chen Muwu goes to borrow it, he will definitely be able to borrow it.

But he was worried about others making carefully prepared reports on the podium. He was tapping the keyboard in the audience below, which would definitely attract other people's attention and disgust.

The above-mentioned reasons led Chen Muwu to abandon computer typing for this paper, and instead completed the entire paper by handwriting.

Although he has a typewriter, Chen Muwu usually does not write by hand. However, most of the time he just calculates some values ​​and formulas on scratch paper, or records some experimental data, everything is not very formal.

Now that he suddenly has to write a more formal paper with pen and paper, Chen Muwu always feels a little awkward and uncomfortable.

And the progress of his paper writing has not been smooth. After the free speeches and speeches in the past few days, the Solvay Conference has entered the second stage of the meeting, and will usher in two days of free discussions. .

Three years later, Chen Muwu has gone from a rising star at the last Solvay Conference to a central figure at this Solvay Conference.

Many people hope to chat with Chen Muwu about academic matters during these last two days.

There are also some people, even if they don't have anything to talk about with him, they still want to come over and say hello to Chen Muwu, become familiar with him, and deepen the other person's impression of them.

Chen Muwu's time suddenly became less abundant than when he was fishing a few days ago. He could only spare some time to write two papers, and after the meeting in the evening, he had to continue to work overtime. Write the thesis with emphasis.

Fortunately, he did this and was able to complete the paper on the last day before the end of the conference, and handed the first draft to Einstein, who suddenly changed his temper one day during the conference and became high-spirited.

The reason why the latter changed like this was precisely because the night before that day, in Chen Muwu's room, the young man who had been prospering in the physics world for several years finally admitted his mistake to Einstein.

The years he spent fighting against quantum mechanics were not in vain.

After getting the paper written by Chen Muwu on time, Einstein became even happier.

He wanted to announce the exciting news on the spot, but after thinking about it, he still felt that it was not enough.

This paper must be published in the "Annals of Physics" so that physicists around the world can see the mistake Chen Muwu admitted.

Although he could not see with his own eyes the expressions of those who had firmly supported Chen Muwu, including Bohr and Eddington, after learning about the incident, Lovely Einstein still felt that it was worth it.

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Because he knew that he was about to lose one of his favorite good students after Bohr, to be honest, Rutherford was always surrounded by a sense of powerlessness these days.

However, he did not feel resentful towards this good student because of Chen Muwu's imminent departure. On the contrary, he felt that he should seize this last period of time and say goodbye to Chen Muwu.

So in the past few days of the Solvay Conference, Rutherford was very interested in Chen Muwu.

After he saw Chen Muwu's physical fatigue and the dark circles around his eyes, he couldn't help but stepped forward and asked with concern: "Chen, what's going on with you these days? I think your state is a little abnormal."

"Teacher, it's not a big deal. I just rushed out another physics paper between meetings."

Chen Muwu's narration is calm and gentle. “I saw that you got very close to Professor Einstein during the conference. Could it be that this paper of yours is something new in theory?”

Rutherford's observation and reasoning skills are really good, and he discovered them all.

"Well... it has something to do with theory, and it also has something to do with experiment. It's quite similar to the first physics paper I published in my life.

“In that paper, I explained some experimental phenomena theoretically and also designed an experiment.

"It was just because of the poor experimental environment in China at the time that I couldn't conduct the experiment there, so I marked the designed experiment at the end of the paper. The same is true this time."

Chen Muwu had nothing to hide in front of the teacher, but Rutherford misunderstood his words and was a little happy.

"Oh, this is normal. The Solvay Palace here in Brussels only provides a platform for academic exchanges for those of us who study physics. There are basically no experimental instruments and equipment here.

“If you want to do experiments, yes, to verify the theories designed in your paper, I think it’s better to wait until the conference is over and then go back to Cambridge University with the big team.

"After this experiment is completely completed, it will not be too late to go to Stockholm to attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony."

Rutherford felt that he had found a reason to temporarily lure Chen Muwu back to Cambridge University, so he became very concerned about this matter.

Chen Muwu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Teacher, I think you may have misunderstood me. The experiment I designed is not because Belgium does not have experimental equipment, so it cannot be done: and the Cavendish Laboratory has experimental equipment, so it can be done Complete the experiment with ease.

"This time I felt that this experiment could not be done no matter where it was, even in the beautifully decorated laboratories decorated by the rich Americans.

"The reason why I couldn't do the experiment in Jihai before was because China's strength was limited. But the experiment that I couldn't do this time was definitely because the experimental design was too advanced. The entire physics community, or the entire human race, has not yet done this. kind of level.”

The more Chen Muwu played riddles, the more Rutherford became curious about the experiment in Chen Muwu's words.

He thought of another possibility, that is, Chen Muwu didn't answer because he didn't have such an experiment at all, and it was just an excuse for him not to follow him back to the Cavendish Laboratory.

Rutherford must break the casserole and get to the bottom of it.

Chen Muwu saw that no matter what he said, the teacher would not let him go, so he finally had no choice but to confess to Rutherford that the paper he wrote, including the experiment annotated at the end of the paper, was like this, This and that.

Rutherford was very surprised after hearing this, because he was in the venue and there were other people around him besides them.

He knew very well that he liked to unconsciously amplify his voice when speaking. In order to prevent others from hearing the subsequent conversation between their master and apprentice, he simply pulled Chen Muwu to a corner outside the venue.

"Chen, are you saying that you admitted your mistake to Einstein? Do you think it was really you who made the mistake?"

"Teacher, I don't think I made any mistakes at all, but I have to do this."

"Did that German guy Einstein force you to do this?"

Although Rutherford was born in New Zealand on the other side of the world, he has stayed in the UK for so many years, and New Zealand is a British territory in the Pacific. He has long regarded himself as an old England with the Union Jack.

The British not only look down on the Americans and the French, but they also look down on the Germans.

I just felt that Chen Muwu and Einstein had collaborated and achieved new results in physics. At that time, Rutherford could still call Einstein, who was younger than him, a professor.

But now after hearing Chen Muwu's description, Rutherford believed that Einstein used his power to suppress others, acted like a scholar, and forced his best student to apologize, so he also called the latter He went from being a professor to a German guy.

"No, no, teacher, this is not at all what you imagined."

Chen Muwu was afraid that Rutherford's misunderstanding of Einstein would deepen, so he quickly explained to the teacher what he said to Dirac that day.

"Chen, then you think you are right, and Einstein didn't force you, so why would you do this?"

"Teacher, I just don't want to waste time on these things anymore.

"Ever since I proposed the subject of quantum mechanics, every time I met with Professor Einstein or received letters from him from all over the world over the years, there was always a discussion between the two of them about quantum mechanics, right? Debate over the correctness of the deterministic principle.

"I think Professor Einstein should use his precious time in more advanced and more beneficial areas for the development of physics and human progress, instead of worrying about whether quantum mechanics is right or wrong every time, so he made this decision. concession."

Rutherford pondered for a long time, and finally chose to respect Chen Muwu's opinion.

"Well, since that's what you think, I won't say anything else. Chen, your time is also valuable. Ming Jin's retreat is a good choice for both of them.

"But you must not wrong yourself. If someone out of the blue attacks you academically because of this matter, I will be the first to jump out and ask for an explanation for you."

Rutherford is worthy of being Rutherford. He looks carefree on the surface, but in fact he is both rough and subtle.

How could he not hear that on the surface Chen Muwu was saying that he did not want to waste Einstein's time, but in fact he meant that he did not want to waste his own time.

Chen Muwu is good at everything, but he always has a Chinese implicitness that cannot be discarded.

Of course, if this layer of subtlety was abandoned, he would no longer be the Chen Muwu he knew.

Now that Chen Muwu has said this, Rutherford no longer has to stand up for the good students who he mistakenly thought had been wronged.

The master and apprentice chatted casually for a few more words before they returned to the venue one after another.

(End of this chapter)