Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 380 119 I will be your witness

While Chen Muwu and Rutherford were communicating outside the venue, Einstein was also grinning and chatting and laughing with Planck in the venue.

Being able to get Chen Muwu to admit that he had made mistakes in quantum mechanics was the biggest gain for him during his trip to Brussels to attend the Solvay Conference. The paper by Chen Muwu that he had just handed over to Planck was his gain. Certificate.

The Solvay Conference is coming to an end. While waiting for a group photo to be taken, scientists from all over the world, such as Rutherford and Chen Muwu, Planck and Einstein, are doing things inside and outside the venue. Final exchange.

In an era when there were basically no passenger planes, European scientists could still take a train to visit each other and meet each other within three to five days.

For these scientists from the Americas, if they want to visit Europe, they will need to spend at least ten days or as much as fifteen days on the road.

Therefore, when they have a rare chance to meet, they must explain all the things that they can think of or cannot think of before it is worthwhile.

Kapitsa, who was familiar with him, used his "Kapitsa language" that mixed Russian, English, French and other languages ​​to find his senior brother Bohr.

As a newly married man, he always took his wife Anna to sightseeing in Brussels during every break during the Solvay Conference.

After the Solvay Conference, he also wanted to take Anna to Denmark.

As the host, Bohr established a good relationship with him, and the two of them arrived in a foreign country in a few days. If something happened, they would at least get help from such a local.

Bohr, however, was not as interested in Kapitsa, who was also his junior brother, as he was with Chen Muwu.

Because the research institute he founded under the University of Copenhagen is called the Institute of Theoretical Physics, and the academic research he conducts is more focused on physics theory.

Kapitsa was an experimenter in the Cavendish Laboratory. His achievements in theoretical research were not comparable to those of his other junior brother Chen Muwu. Even the dull British man next to Chen Muwu Even Dirac is inferior to him.

Bohr was thinking, since Chen Muwu couldn't get to Copenhagen, should he find an opportunity to dig up Dirac?

Both students were going north, and Rutherford was very relieved about Kapitsa.

Because he had settled his family near Cambridge University before and after his marriage, and he had made it clear that he would continue to work at Cambridge University. This departure was just a short vacation.

But Chen Muwu's going to Sweden has always been a worry for Rutherford.

He didn't know if he could still persuade the prodigal son to turn back and make Chen Muwu change his mind.

At the same time, he was still resenting his lack of ability. Why couldn't he help Chen Muwu build a school at Cambridge University like the Crown Prince of Sweden?

On the other hand, Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft, the new Nobel Prize winners in physics, have issued sales orders for several single particle accelerators for the University of Cambridge.

This is not only because their award is related to the particle accelerator, but also because Chen Muwu was the first to give a speech at the beginning of the conference and made an outstanding advertisement for the particle accelerator.

Except for the Radium Institute of the University of Paris in France, scientists led by Marie Curie showed no interest in particle accelerators.

This is because her prospective son-in-law has already told her that particle accelerators are backward products and newer and better cyclotrons will soon appear.

Chen Muwu did not refuse the behavior of other universities and laboratories rushing to send money to the Cavendish Laboratory.

He felt that if after helping others install the particle accelerator, he would soon complete the construction of the latest cyclotron in Stockholm. He might have spent a lot of money and the physics colleagues who had been taken advantage of might curse him.

But curse as you wish, the money earned from selling the particle accelerator will be your last contribution to the Cavendish Laboratory.

He also felt a little sorry for his teacher Rutherford, for old Thomson, and for those who had helped him in the Cavendish Laboratory and Cambridge University. other people.

This time I came to the Solvay Conference with a mission. During and before the conference, I went to make connections with physicists from various countries, hoping to get them to visit the Solvay Academy of Sciences in Lezhigrad. Kapitsa’s teacher, Professor Yofei, also found Chen Muwu while waiting to take a group photo.

Chen Muwu was shocked by the Su Lian people's visit.

It wasn't that he was afraid that Yofei would invite him to go to Sulian again, and he couldn't refuse.

Chen Muwu just remembered that Dirac had become very interested in this country after communicating with Zhao Zhongyao who had just returned from Sulian a few days ago. He was afraid that Yofei would abduct Dirac.

Fortunately, Yuefei stepped forward and did not talk about anything that Chen Muwu imagined in his mind.

He just thanked Chen Muwu for being able to break through the British government's blockade this year and send the particle accelerator to Lezhigrad in the name of selling the particle accelerator to China.

Yofei also expressed his gratitude to Chen Muwu for Zhao Zhongyao who delivered the machine and came to install it.

He also asked at the end how the student named Landau, who was brought to the UK from Lezhigrad University by Chen Muwu last year, was doing with his studies at Cambridge University.

He has successively trained Kapitsa and Landau, as well as some physicists in the Soviet Union. Yoffei is a well-deserved pioneer of physics in the Soviet Union.

Chen Muwu respected him very much, so he answered all the questions raised by Professor Yofei one by one in detail.

After Professor Yoffei thanked Chen Muwu in return, the staff of the Solvay Foundation came to the venue in the lecture hall again, ruling on the lawn of Leopold Park, and all the photography equipment was in place , asking the physicists attending the conference to move outside.

Unlike the last time, this staff member also specifically reminded everyone not to rush out of the Solvay Palace gate in a swarm. It is best to stay in groups of two or three and stay at the door for a while.

Everyone was a little confused about this somewhat puzzling request, but no one raised any objections, and in the end they all complied with it.

When Chen Muwu walked out of the door, he happened to be followed by von Neumann, whom he had only met once and had an in-depth conversation with him the day before the meeting.

As a Jew, von Neumann was not only smart, but also shrewd.

He was like a representative figure among the refined egoists of this era, and he was planning to express to Chen Muwu his intention to go to Cambridge University next year and stay for the first half of the year.

Von Neumann’s academic arrangements for the next few years: stay with Professor Hilbert for half a year every year, studying mathematics at the University of Göttingen;

In the remaining half of the year, he went to Cambridge University to study physics with Chen Muwu, as well as the "Chen Machine" that interested him more.

As long as you follow the two top scholars in mathematics and physics today, you won't have to worry about not being able to produce research results in these two subjects.

Because of this, von Neumann caught up with Chen Muwu behind his back and wanted to talk to him about this matter.

At this time, the two people happened to walk out of the gate of Solvay Palace one after another. The expressions on their faces and body movements were completely recorded by the camera set up outside the door.

Chen Muwu said that he had seen a black-and-white video that recorded the images of scientists who came to attend the Solvay Conference.

Unexpectedly, this camera would be waiting for them here. It can only be said that the staff of the Solvay Foundation were thoughtful and left a rich piece of image data for future generations of researchers in the history of physics.

This time, Chen Muwu and von Neumann also became those to be studied in the future.

Many people have seen movies shot on video cameras, but this is their first time standing in front of a camera.

Most physicists behave very shyly in front of the camera. When they are pretending to talk, their eyes always glance back and forth towards the camera lens inadvertently.

Only Chen Muwu, who has experienced many battles and has seen a lot, did not show any stage fright. Not only did he behave gracefully, he even waved towards the camera after putting his hat on his head.

He thought that when the shooting was over, he would ask the photographer where he bought the machine that could be paid on credit and if there was any way to do it.

Chen Muwu once made a special trip to Harrods Department Store in London. It makes no sense that cameras can be bought in Belgium, a small country that cannot be bought in shopping malls in the UK.

In fact, this was a film crew from Belgium specially invited by the Solvay Foundation. Their machines were also imported from abroad through some channels.

"Dr. Chen, I want to go to Cambridge University in the first half of next year and do academic research with you. Is it possible?"

Chen Muwu was still thinking about how to talk to the photographer, but von Neumann took advantage of the opportunity.

Ok?

"Next year...I'm afraid it won't work next year. I have something to do in the first half of next year."

Seeing the obviously unhappy expression on von Neumann's face, Chen Muwu continued to add: "But it should be possible in the second half of next year."

After being interrupted by von Neumann, Chen Muwu forgot about chatting with the photographer and walked directly to the lawn.

The staff of the foundation had already set up a row of chairs on the lawn with the Solvay Palace in the background.

Opposite the chair, a camera covered with cloth was set up.

Obviously, this group photo was taken in front of the camera.

As one of the taller people attending the meeting, Chen Muwu consciously walked to the middle of the last row because he was standing in this position last time.

But this time the situation was different. As soon as Chen Muwu stood still, another staff member walked up to him and whispered: "Dr. Chen, your place is not here. Please follow me."

Chen Muwu was very surprised. Among the physicists who came to attend the Solvay Conference, there should be few who were taller than him.

If I don’t stand in the middle of the last row, where should I stand?

Doubtful, but as guests did as they pleased, Chen Muwu set off to follow the staff.

He was led to the front of the row of chairs and watched as the staff pointed to a chair closer to the side: "Dr. Chen, you should sit here."

This is really an unexpected location.

Logically speaking, the first row in the Solvay Conference photo should be reserved for older and respected physicists. In the middle of the first row is Lorenz, the chairman of the conference, and on either side of him are Luther. Fo and Marie Curie, and beyond that are Planck and Einstein.

There was nothing wrong with the seating arrangement of these people, but Chen Muwu didn't expect that he would still have a seat, sitting next to Einstein.

In Chen Muwu's mind, he was just the guy who "stood at the school dance when I was 18".

But he didn't know that in the eyes of others, his various achievements in physics had already earned him a place in the first row of the Solvay Conference photo.

Guests and hosts do as they please. Since the other party has arranged a seat for him, Chen Muwu will no longer refuse.

After he sat down, the smile on Einstein's face became even brighter.

He felt that he had succeeded in making Chen Muwu realize the mistakes he had made in quantum mechanics and abandon his unrealistic uncertainty principle.

What he has to do next is to ask Chen Muwu to shift his research direction to his own unified theory.

Einstein picked up a physics genius like Chen Muwu from China, but because of the incompetence of his German physics colleagues, Rutherford of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom enjoyed his life for several years in vain. Not only did he replace Cavendish The laboratory has made one result after another and won two Nobel Prizes in Physics.

Chen Muwu, a young man who is smart, practical and obedient, now finally has his turn to feel good.

Einstein felt that he was about to become King Arthur who met Lancelot, and that he would be able to unify the world of physics just around the corner.

He was in a good mood. Before everyone arrived and the photographer was still adjusting his camera, he struck up a conversation with Chen Muwu who was beside him.

"Dr. Chen, when are you and Madame Curie's daughter going to get married?"

Chen Muwu answered all questions: "If nothing else happens, it should be next year, Professor."

"Where will the wedding be held? In China, England, or France?"

"Well, it's not confirmed yet, but there is a high probability that it will be in the UK..."

— or possibly in Sweden.

Chen Muwu had such an idea in his mind, but he didn't say the second part.

"Then who are your witnesses? If you haven't found one yet, I should be able to make time next year to attend your wedding and be a witness by the way."

Einstein meant to give Chen Muwu some benefits, especially for a major life event like marriage. If he not only showed up but also helped, Dr. Chen should be very grateful to him and do academic research in physics together in the future. You will be able to work harder.

"Uh, professor, I'm sorry. The witness has been decided a few years ago. He is my teacher, Sir Rutherford."

Chen Muwu was very grateful that Einstein volunteered to serve as a witness.

But a few years ago, after attending Chadwick's wedding in Liverpool, he promised on the train back to Cambridge that Rutherford would be the witness when he got married in the future.

Including the deepening relationship with Eve in the future, Rutherford has always been preparing to serve as their matchmaker.

When things get tough, you can't refuse your teacher, right?

Einstein was very angry. Why was it that every time he showed kindness to Chen Muwu, Rutherford always got the first advantage?

(End of this chapter)