Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 381 120 Return to Stockholm

"No matter what, I will inform you Professor Einstein as soon as the wedding location is decided, and you are welcome to attend my wedding."

Chen Muwu didn't know that Einstein was a little depressed now. He just felt that Einstein had gone to Paris to attend the wedding of Irena and Frederic last year because of Madame Curie's face.

Then when he and Ive get married, there is no reason for Einstein not to come, because this time, regardless of Mrs. Curie, who has a good relationship with Einstein, and myself, whose relationship with him has "relaxed" again .

"It's easy to say, easy to say. When you get married and hold a wedding, I will definitely go to attend."

This problem of the witness is much simpler than quantum mechanics.

The main reason is that, as Chen Muwu said, of course he has made a lot of achievements for the Cavendish Laboratory, and he has been wandering alone at Cambridge University for several years. Rutherford has also taken great care of this foreigner from China. .

We cannot blame Chen Muwu, nor Rutherford. If we are to blame, we can only blame Planck for not listening to his old advice and failing to resolutely win Chen Muwu to Germany.

Einstein quickly thought about it. It didn't matter whether the witness was a good one or not. The main thing was that he had to attend Chen Muwu's wedding.

The Chinese say that if a sheep is lost and the hole in the sheepfold is repaired, it will still be effective. This is the truth.

The old, middle-aged and young physicists who attended the meeting walked out of the Solvay Palace one after another, and sat or stood at the location where the group photo was taken.

Under the direction of the photographer, everyone quickly got into a shooting position, and the former also pressed the shutter, using light to record the people in front of him on the photographic film.

From this moment on, they became part of history.

After the group photo ended, some physicists who had already bought their return bus and boat tickets and wanted to leave early said goodbye to this year's Solvay Conference one after another.

The remaining people who have plenty of time can also attend the farewell dinner held at the Solvay Palace tonight, and then set off according to the time printed on the ticket.

Chen Muwu and his party belonged to the latter group. Unknowingly, when he went to Stockholm this time, he was followed by a group of people, including not only Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft from the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University, but also the Radium Institute of the University of Paris. Irena and Frederic of the Institute.

Before the opening of the Solvay Conference, in Madame Curie's room, in front of his future mother-in-law and future natal sister, he told the whole story about his plan to build a cyclotron in Sweden. He especially mentioned inviting Irena and Frederic. Let’s join in the building together.

After the matter was told, Irena immediately showed great interest. After considering various factors, Madame Curie finally nodded and agreed to Chen Muwu's invitation, as well as her eldest daughter Irena. side request.

She wanted to first let her daughter and son-in-law learn a lot from Chen Muwu, and secondly, she wanted them to learn the experience of building a cyclotron. After returning to France, she would see if they could build one at the Radium Institute.

They have already missed an electrostatic particle accelerator, and they must not miss this more advanced cyclotron again.

As for the fact that there were three of us when we came, there was no need to worry about the fact that Mrs. Curie was the only one left when we returned to France.

Because although the level of physics research in France in recent years is not as good as that of Germany, which produced Einstein, and the United Kingdom, which produced Chen Muwu, after all, it is the second-ranked country in continental Europe and the third-ranked country in Europe. This time it also sent many Few physicists came to the Solvay Conference.

Marie Curie was the most respected member of the French delegation. Surrounded by everyone, she had no problem returning to France safely and securely.

After meeting again, Frederick was very excited. He knew that Chen Muwu was surrounded by opportunities. As long as he grabbed one, he would be blessed with countless glory and wealth in the future.

"Dr. Chen, thank you very much for inviting Irena to join me in your next work."

Chen Muwu smiled and responded: "Frederick, don't be so polite. I never call my family members 'you', nor do I include his position when calling him, such as 'Frederick.'" 'professor.

"Of course, I want to make it clear in advance that I invited you, sister and brother-in-law, not because you two are my family, but because of your outstanding scientific research abilities."

Although Chen Muwu said this, Frederick still thought that he was being polite, and he became even more grateful to Chen Muwu in his heart.

After attending the farewell dinner at the Solvay Palace that night, Chen Muwu had a good sleep in his own room.

——Dirac had already left Brussels that night with the large army of Cambridge University and returned to Cambridge University in England.

However, the train tickets for their group to go north to Stockholm were scheduled for the afternoon of the next day.

Belgium and Sweden are not neighboring countries. You have to go from Brussels to Stockholm first. Naturally, you cannot take a plane in this era. You can only choose other methods - taking a ship and a train, or taking a train and a ship.

The former must first drive from Brussels to the neighboring Belgian port city of Antwerp, then get on board from here, still crossing the North Sea, and then arrive at Gothenburg, a port city on Sweden's west coast next to the North Sea, and then transfer to a train from Gothenburg to travel from west to east. Travel across Sweden to the capital, Stockholm.

As soon as this path was proposed by the Solvay Foundation staff who were responsible for buying return tickets for the physicists who came to the conference, Chen Muwu immediately rejected it.

The mention of Beihai reminded Chen Muwu of the time when he almost died in the stormy Beihai because of taking a boat.

When it came to taking a boat on the North Sea, Chen Muwu wanted to vomit on the floor of Solvay Palace on the spot.

So they could only choose another way, which was to take a train to a port in northern Germany, and then cross the sea to land in Northern Europe in a relatively narrow strait.

Therefore, the five people in this group returned to Germany with a delegation of German physicists who came to attend the Solvay Conference.

The Cavendish Laboratory trio of Chen Muwu, Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft planned to go to Stockholm for an exchange visit and attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony a month later.

As for the young couple Irena and Frederic, they repeated their old tricks and announced that they were going to the Nordic continent for a honeymoon trip, and they would go there to see if they could be lucky enough to encounter the aurora in winter. Everyone tacitly did not announce the true purpose of their trip north to anyone other than the five people.

After the train left Berlin, Chen Muwu and the other five were the only ones left on the seats.

Chen Muwu finally no longer had to hide and tuck, but took out paper and pen, and took advantage of the last period of time before the journey was over to explain to the remaining four people what the principle of the cyclotron was.

To be honest, the principle of this accelerator is even simpler than that of the electrostatic particle accelerator in the Cavendish Laboratory. It uses an electric field to continuously accelerate charged particles section by section.

And because the addition of a magnetic field can restrain charged particles within a certain range, it also greatly saves space and the amount of electric fields generated, making the linear accelerator proposed by Swedish scientist Ising three years ago feasible. sex.

The train was running on the rails at a speed of dozens of kilometers per hour. Before it left Berlin and reached its final destination, Chen Muwu had already clearly explained the principles of this cyclotron to the other four people present.

Frederick was grateful to Chen Muwu for bringing him and Irena to participate in scientific research activities. However, when this journey first began, he was still a little embarrassed.

Because apart from him and his wife, the remaining three people have either won the Nobel Prize in Physics or are about to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. They are the only two who are academically useless.

However, after personally participating in Chen Muwu's scientific research on the train and understanding Dr. Chen's explanation in simple terms, Frederick suddenly became very confident again.

As long as I follow my future brother-in-law to do academic research in physics, there will be no worries that they will not be able to achieve great results in academic research like Dr. Zhao and Dr. Cockcroft.

The train finally arrived at the port, and the five people in the group bought their tickets for the ship across the sea as soon as they got off the train.

From northern Germany to southern Sweden across the sea, the ferry journey takes less than two hours.

After getting off the boat and returning to land, they were getting closer and closer to their destination.

Three years ago, when Chen Muwu came to Sweden with his family and friends to receive the award, he was surrounded by local reporters in Malmö, a port city across the sea from Copenhagen, the Danish capital, targeting him for winning the Nobel. Asking questions about the prize.

Fortunately, Bohr had warned him in advance, so Chen Muwu did not make a fool of himself by failing to answer their questions in front of reporters without preparation.

But they came to Sweden more than a month early this time, before the Nobel Prize award season.

Moreover, their group was very low-key, so at this port in southern Sweden and Germany, only a small number of people saw the combination of four men and one woman, three white people and two yellow people, and felt strange about it. .

Before getting on the train again, Chen Muwu hung up a phone call at the train station to Marcus, a close friend of the Wallenberg family, and informed him of the train number he was going to take this time.

He also specifically asked little Marcus on the phone that they were coming here in a low-key manner this time, so the person picking them up must also be low-key and not cause any big scene.

This is why Chen Muwu called his business partner instead of calling his best friend in Sweden, the Crown Prince of Sweden.

Because if he informed the latter about his coming to Sweden, even if he was repeatedly told to keep a low profile and not hold those fancy and flashy welcome ceremonies, he felt that His Highness Wang Chu would definitely handle the matter satisfactorily. Everyone in the city knows it.

It would be better to wait until we get to Stockholm and meet this good friend again.

The invention and popularization of the telephone improved people's lives to a certain extent.

If it were placed in the telegraph era, in order to let the other party know that he was about to arrive in Sweden, Chen Muwu had to send the telegram at the German port at the latest. He had to leave sufficient translation and translation time for the staff of the telegraph office. Dispatch time.

But now he only needs to make a call in the telephone room of the train station, and he can explain everything clearly to the other party in time, and he no longer has to cut out the words in the telegram in order to save a few pfennig coins.

On the train in Germany, Chen Muwu had roughly explained the principles of the cyclotron.

So on the train in Sweden, Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft began to design the electrostatic particle accelerator model just like they had done before with the electrostatic particle accelerator model made by Chen Muwu for less than one pound. Brainstorming began with the drawings of this cyclotron.

Irena and Frederic were a little reluctant to let go at first, but they were gradually infected by the academic atmosphere on the train and slowly became involved in this collision of ideas.

Chen Muwu was sitting in his seat with his eyes closed, thinking about how to arrange his time for more than a month after arriving in Stockholm today.

Occasionally, he would open his eyes and discuss a few words along with the other four people's thoughts.

"I would also like to remind you that when particles are accelerated to close to the speed of light, the relativistic effect must be considered. At this time, the switching frequency of the accelerating electric field will be different from the previous one, so there are two The options are, one is to directly eject the particles, and the other is to change the frequency so that the frequency of the accelerating electric field and the accelerated particles become synchronized.

"But I think the second method is cumbersome and unnecessary for our cyclotron prototype to build. We only need to follow the first method and build a machine that does not need to consider the effects of relativity first. ”

The cost of building a cyclotron is already so high, so why bother launching a synchronized cyclotron project in one go?

Irena felt comfortable sitting together with her brother-in-law and the two young men he led to discuss the article.

Frederick's idea was to go one step further. He suddenly realized that physics problems should be discussed with more energetic peers. Because the brain is more flexible, sparks are more likely to collide when thinking about problems.

The train traveled to Stockholm, and outside the station, little Marcus sent a car to greet these guests from the south as promised.

The five people got into three cars respectively, and little Marcus and Chen Muwu squeezed together.

As soon as he got in the car, he reported good news to Chen Muwu.

(End of this chapter)