Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 5 05 Cangzhou Hotel Thinking

Early the next morning, Chen Muwu sat in the coffee room of the Cangzhou Hotel [1], ordered a cup of coffee and some refreshments, and waited for the arrival of reporter Zhao from the "Shenzhen" office.

It seems that in this day and age, coffee has not flowed into the blood of Ghai people like later generations, because there is no one Chinese in the whole coffee room except him.

It has been almost two months since I traveled to the Republic of China, and basically everything is proceeding step by step according to Chen Muwu's plan.

More than two months ago, Chen Muwu, who failed to stay in school, was just a fresh Ph.D. in nuclear physics who never missed every campus job fair. He started to worry every day from the moment he opened his eyes. What would he do after graduation? Is it true? Are you going to go into a nuclear power plant and follow in Homer Simpson's footsteps?

Unexpectedly, upon waking up, he inexplicably traveled back to 100 years ago and obtained his current identity.

Although he got a job that fell from heaven, Chen Muwu never wanted to be a clerk in the Railway Administration for the rest of his life.

Because he is familiar with the direction of history, he knows how chaotic the future will be, the domestic warlords are fighting, Ben invaded Shanghai twice...

What's more, in a small Haihai city, there are foreigners, hooligans, hooligans, green and red gangs, demolishing the white party... All kinds of forces will come on stage after you sing. too difficult.

Take the North Railway Station building where the Railway Administration is located, for example, it was bombed by devils once on "January [-]", and again on "August [-]".

These sons of bitches are nothing but his mother's!
Chen Muwu, who was eager to change the status quo, accidentally found such a news published in the "Republic of China Daily" when he was reading a newspaper in his office.

"Dr. Ernstein Comes to Shanghai and West News": ""Mainland Daily" said that Dr. Ernstein, who invented the theory of relativity, arrived in Shanghai yesterday on the Kitano Maru and will give a speech here.... The doctor is still going to Kobe on the Kitano Maru early this morning. , plan to come to China Cloud again after seven weeks of stay.”

Chen Muwu immediately realized that this news was a great opportunity for him.

Write a paper that would interest Einstein, get a letter of recommendation from him, and secure publication in a European physics journal.

In this way, even if he has established contact with the top physicists in the world, he will be able to write a paper with the physics knowledge stored in his brain 100 years ahead of the world in the future, and it will be much easier to publish.

That's why Chen Muwu had to say something amazing at yesterday's seminar. He had to attract Einstein's attention before he could hand over the paper he had written.

As for why you have to be recommended by Einstein?

Because just like what he said to Einstein yesterday, if there is no celebrity endorsement and the paper is sent to Europe single-handedly, those reviewers who look down on others, as long as they see the postmark on the letter is from China, will directly Throw the letter straight into the wastebasket without even glancing at its contents.

The prejudice engraved in their bones told them that even if one day the monkeys typed out "The Complete Works of Shakespeare" with a typewriter, the backward feudal and ignorant oriental barbarians would not be able to express any brilliant opinions on physics.

This is not Chen Muwu's alarmist talk, because it was the arrogance of the Westerners that made the Chinese miss the first Nobel Prize in Physics in the 30s.

Zhao Zhongyao published two papers of great significance in succession in 1930, but because the experimental results were inconsistent with those made by Europeans, they were directly ignored by the mainstream of physics.

Although it was later confirmed that only Zhao Zhongyao's experimental results were the most correct and reliable, it was no longer helpful.

If Zhao Zhongyao's students Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao hadn't traveled around after winning awards and becoming famous, they would have been buried in the long river of history until today.

It is from this public case of later generations that Chen Muwu knows how much the European academic circle looks down on Chinese people today.

Zhao Zhongyao's grievances happened in the 30s, but he is now in the 20s, and white people in Europe and America will only look down on him now than ten years later.

But they have to deal with them. After all, white people still have the right to speak academically. If they want to enter the physics world, Europe is a hurdle that cannot be avoided.

That's why Chen Muwu took advantage of the experience he had learned from the old-timers of the Westernization Movement, used the barbarian to control the barbarian, and used Einstein's recommendation letter as a stepping stone to attract those defiant reviewers.

In time, until the day when I make my promise in the physics world, I must publish a pure Chinese physics journal, and let those ghosts also experience that learning a foreign language is still the most difficult language in the world. What a pain.

It was determined to write a paper that Einstein would be interested in, but Chen Muwu finally chose not to write the current popular theory of relativity.

There are three reasons. One is that he only took a semester of general relativity as an undergraduate, and then devoted himself to nuclear physics. The follow-up knowledge of relativity is seriously insufficient.

The second is that it is very troublesome to verify the theory of general relativity. Now there are astronomical telescopes that can observe redshift in the world, but radars that measure echoes and extremely accurate cesium atomic clocks are still in the stage of magic.

Third, and most importantly, quantum theory is about to usher in a big explosive development. Chen Muwu has solid basic skills in quantum mechanics. It is like losing a watermelon to study general relativity instead of writing a paper on quantum mechanics. Pick up sesame seeds.

Fortunately, Einstein is not only an expert in relativity, he also has a lot of achievements in quantum theory.

Of the five papers published by Einstein in the "miracle year" of 1905, the first was on the theory of the photoelectric effect.

This paper is one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics. The future development of quantum mechanics is largely due to his planting a "light quantum" seed.

So Chen Muwu finally wrote a paper on "light quantum". The theory contained in this paper was called "Compton Effect" in his previous life.

However, today, it is estimated that it will be renamed "Chen Effect", or "Chen-Compton Effect".

The unexpected joy of meeting Einstein this time was to receive an invitation to study abroad.

Chen Muwu naturally has plans to study abroad, but the destination he designed for himself is not Germany, but England.

He didn't know German in his previous life, and the reason why he can communicate in German now is because the original owner learned a second foreign language in college.

He always felt that he could use English more easily, so he didn't think about studying in Germany at all at the beginning.

Now that there is such a small change, Chen Muwu has to rethink where he should go in the future.

The foreman in the lobby of the Cangzhou Hotel led Zhao Junhao to the coffee room, and when the two met, it was inevitable to exchange pleasantries.

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[1] Note from the author: Please note that here is "zhou" instead of "state", which is also the case in Lu Fangweng's "Admonishing Heartfelt Love: Years of Thousands of Miles Looking for a Marquis".

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