Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 414 153 The husband caught cheating

Kapitsa told Chen Muwu the whole story of how he came to Stockholm from Cambridge.

Including how he was notified by Chadwick to send Rutherford and Chadwick to Norwich Port temporarily, and how the two people persuaded him to stay in the UK and take good care of the Cavendish Laboratory, and not to come to Sweden. Create trouble for Chen Muwu.

And how did Kapitsa himself discover clues from the luggage that Rutherford carried, and thus judged that the two of them went to Stockholm not just to attend the ribbon-cutting event of Prince's College, but to have other things.

And after the sale of steamer tickets to Stockholm stopped, Kapitsa bought a ticket to Copenhagen at Norwich Port under the command of the ticket office staff, and then switched to a land route to save the country.

After saying all this, Kapitsa said very proudly: "How about it, Chen? My ability to see things from the smallest detail and my reasoning are pretty good, right? When will you write that George Chen words again? Can it be in the book?" Add to him a second-in-command, a fellow Cambridge student from Russia, Peter Novovich?”

Now readers all over the world basically know that the prototype of George Chen, an international student at Cambridge University, is Chen Muwu. If you add Peter Novovich, a Russian student at Cambridge, you are afraid that others will not know that this Peter is you!

Chen Muwu smiled and said nothing. He turned his attention to Bohr, who appeared with Kapitsa in Sweden.

"Professor Bohr, long time no see, why did you come to Stockholm too?"

There was no accusation in Chen Muwu's words at all, but the implication was that Kapitsa was just messing around. Why are you, your dignified director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, messing around with him?

"I heard from Mr. Kapitsa that my teacher, Sir Rutherford, was also coming to Stockholm, so I wanted to come here and meet him.

“We haven’t seen each other for over a year since last year’s Solvay meeting.

“Every time we say goodbye, I always think there will be many opportunities to meet again next time.

"But who can guarantee that their meeting will not be the last time?"

There was a sad atmosphere in Bohr's words. This was not because he suddenly became artistic middle-aged, but because he was deeply moved by the sudden death of Professor Lorenz, the chairman of the Solvay Conference at the beginning of this year.

"Dr. Chen, I see there is a construction site near this school. In this case, is it really possible to cut the ribbon?"

Bohr raised his doubts.

In fact, in order to celebrate the 70th birthday of King Gustaf V of Sweden, the first phase of the entire school project has been completed under such circumstances.

However, this incident was only published in the local newspaper in Stockholm and did not spread around the world.

Unexpectedly, Rutherford would come up with such a strange reason to reject Kapitsa, and he never expected that seeing the bustling building scene around Prince's College, Bohr would actually believe Rutherford's lie.

"Hey, Professor Bohr, teacher, he is indeed not here to cut the ribbon, but has other things to do."

"I knew it!" Kapitsa said proudly, "I knew it!"

Bohr asked carefully: "Then what did Sir Rutherford come to Sweden for?"

"This...I'm sorry, Professor Bohr, I can't say it yet."

From what Kapitsa just said, Chen Muwu already knew that teacher Rutherford and his assistant Chadwick left Norwich Port one day earlier than Kapitsa.

Even if the ship traveling on the sea is slightly slower than the train traveling on the road, the path of the ship has to go around the entire Scandinavia Peninsula, which is a little further than the path of the train passing through.

But it is estimated that in another day and a half, the teacher and the others will arrive in Stockholm.

Chen Muwu didn't want to explain a problem twice in a short period of time, so he told Bohr and Kapitsa that he would inform everyone about this issue after the teacher and the others got off the ship.

Prince's College does not yet have guest room accommodation like the Institute of Theoretical Physics.

Chen Muwu could only arrange for Bohr and Kapitsa to stay in a nearby hotel.

The arrival of Bohr and Kapitsa made Chen Muwu realize that time was running out.

He seized the last period before the arrival of Rutherford and Chadwick, and in the laboratory of Prince's College, using the alpha particle source borrowed by Frederick from Uppsala University, he made his own from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The obtained crystalline boron and paraffin blocks, as well as the cloud chamber, were combined to build the experimental equipment needed to "discover" neutrons.

The next day, Rutherford and Chadwick, who arrived first, also got off the ship at the Stockholm Passenger Terminal.

Chen Muwu had already inquired about the passenger transportation information from the port, and drove his car early and waited outside the customs gate.

From a distance, he saw a tall, muscular man followed by a polite British gentleman, so he quickly ran out of the car and took the suitcases in Rutherford's hands.

"Teacher, Mr. Chadwick. Have you had a hard journey along the way? The wind and waves in the North Sea are much stronger than those in the English Channel. The last time I took a boat to Denmark, I almost died on the ship in the North Sea."

Rutherford didn't want to chat with Chen Muwu, the expression on his face was serious.

"Chen, you said that neutrons were discovered. Is it true or false?"

"Really." Seeing the teacher like this, the expression on Chen Muwu's face became serious.

"But it's useless for me to say it with my mouth. You and Mr. Chadwick come to the laboratory together and you can find out the experimental phenomena after you see them."

"Chen, you don't have to be so polite, just call me James."

After putting their luggage in the trunk of the car, the three of them got in the car.

This time, Rutherford did not squeeze into the back row with Chadwick as he had done from Cambridgeshire to Norwich, but sat directly in the front passenger seat of the car.

Because the driving directions of Britain and Sweden were different, he first opened the left door of the front seat and realized that he had made a mistake after finding the steering wheel.

"Teacher, please put on your seat belt."

Chen Muwu pointed to the strap on the wall of the carriage.

"What is this new gadget of yours? Is it found on all Swedish cars, or is it something you modified yourself?"

Rutherford followed the owner's instructions and fastened the seat belt according to Chen Muwu's demonstration while asking what this thing was.

While driving, Chen Muwu explained the origin of the seat belt to the teacher, explaining in detail how he was rejected by Rolls-Royce Motor Company and how he applied this invention patent to Volvo cars.

Rutherford smiled on the surface, but in his heart he had cursed the Rolls-Royce car brand countless times. Their managers are so fucking ignorant. How much trouble would it take to install a seat belt module on a car?

They were also one of the culprits who pushed Chen Muwu from the UK to Sweden!

After the three of them arrived at Prince's College, Bohr and Kapitsa, who arrived a day early, were already waiting here.

Bohr, who had not seen each other for a year, exchanged pleasantries with Rutherford and told the latter to take care of himself.

Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft, Irena and Frederick, and Professor Bierman from the University of Copenhagen all came out and greeted everyone one by one.

After the greeting session, according to the protagonist's intention, he took Rutherford directly to see his experimental device.

But the teacher rejected his arrangement and wanted to see the entire physics laboratory building of Prince College.

Rutherford knew that this laboratory was built under the leadership of the protagonist. He wanted to see what the protagonist had learned from him and what improvements he had made based on the Cavendish Laboratory.

The protagonist doesn't know if teacher Rutherford heard something, or why he would be exported to visit his physics laboratory.

As a result, his big baby probably can no longer be hidden away.

The protagonist thinks that it won't be long before his "Journal of Prince College" is published and released, then people all over the world will know that the protagonist and his research team have found, or "created" a brand new No. 43 element and element 85, and will also know that the instrument that created these two new elements is called a cyclotron.

So the protagonist simply took the four new guests directly to the laboratory equipped with the original accelerator.

Except for a few people who had worked and lived at Prince's College for a long time, no one of the four guests who came to Stockholm in the past two days knew what the cylindrical iron machine in the middle of the room was.

But the more Rutherford looked, the more familiar this situation became:

The floor, walls and ceiling of the entire room are covered with thick insulating mica sheets, and in the corner of the room is a cloud that was born in the Cavendish Laboratory more than ten years ago and has been improved countless times. room.

"Chen, this machine of yours is also a particle accelerator?"

Rutherford expressed his doubts.

"Yes, teacher, it is also a particle accelerator."

"Then why does it have this shape? Where are its accelerating electrodes? How high a potential difference can it provide?"

"Teacher, this structure is different from the electrostatic particle accelerator at Cambridge University.

"..."

Chen Muwu began to explain the specific principles of this machine to the four people. It uses electric fields to accelerate charged particles, and then uses magnetic fields to confine these charged particles to a small range, making them move in circles.

"When the charged particles are accelerated to a high enough speed, the radius of the circular motion will become larger and larger, so in the end they will be emitted from here, and they can bombard the target on the target or enter the cloud chamber. Make observations to end an acceleration effect."

After Chen Muwu's explanation was completed, no one of the four guests spoke first.

Bohr, who is "a gentleman far away from the laboratory", has the most relaxed expression on his face.

The remaining three people who have been at the forefront of the Cavendish Laboratory all know what the latest particle accelerator developed by Chen Muwu means to experimental research in microphysics.

Electrostatic particle accelerators must continuously repeat the "charge-discharge-recharge" pattern before each acceleration, so their efficiency is limited.

Chen Muwu's new particle accelerator can use AC electric fields to quickly accelerate charged particles as long as there is electricity.

Far away from the original Cavendish Laboratory, he went out to build a new, more high-end gadget.

The more Rutherford said nothing, the more Chen Muwu felt like he was the husband who had been caught cheating on her.

Fortunately, after pondering for a while, Rutherford did not ask questions such as "Why don't you go to Cavendish Laboratory to build this accelerator?"

Perhaps he may also have thought of a situation in his mind, that is, the construction of this cyclotron particle accelerator may require higher costs, and the Cavendish Laboratory cannot afford it, or even if it can afford this In terms of funding, I would not necessarily approve this funding to Chen Muwu at that time.

"Chen, you said you discovered neutrons, did you discover them on this machine?"

If after listening to Chen Muwu's explanation of the cyclotron, the only ones who were surprised were the four guests who came to Stockholm from Denmark and the United Kingdom.

But when Rutherford asked this question, except for Rutherford himself, Chadwick and Chen Muwu, everyone present had a look of shock on their faces.

neutron?

Dr. Chen has never said anything about this?

With his appetite whetted, Chen Muwu quickly explained: "That's right, I didn't want to use this particle accelerator to discover neutrons at first. What I wanted to discover were two new chemical elements..."

Chen Muwu also reported to Rutherford and others that he bombarded bismuth metal with accelerated alpha particles and bombarded molybdenum metal with accelerated deuterium nuclei to obtain element 85 and element 43 respectively. Briefly explained.

"I also specially invited Chairman Bierman from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry to test whether these two experimental products are new elements."

Because Biermann sent the telegram from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Bohr knew about it.

"The discovery of neutrons is a coincidence.

“It’s because this Mr. Frederic is Madame Curie’s eldest son-in-law, and beside him is Madame Curie’s eldest daughter Irena.

"Mr. Frederick discovered a problem, that is, the relative atomic mass data before and after the nuclear reaction did not match.

"Bismuth-209 plus helium-4 produces an iodine-like 211, with two relative atomic masses missing.

"Similarly, adding deuterium-96 to molybdenum-2 produces a manganese-97-like substance, which still has a relative atomic mass that is missing.

"So I thought of the half-finished experiment before. The one or two missing relative atomic masses are probably the mysterious neutron that you have been looking for for more than ten years, teacher!"

(End of this chapter)