Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 53 02 One Punch Man Eddington
After get off work, Chen Muwu came to the Great Northern Telegraph Office on Aiduoya Road and sent a telegram to Eddington.

The price of one yuan and five cents per word is a pain in the ass to spend.

But the money had to be spent, because my second paper was still sent to the editorial department of the "Journal of Philosophy".

Chen Muwu didn't know why the first paper was rejected. If it was really because the editor discriminated against Chinese people, then the second paper would also not be published.

So helpless, he could only send such a telegram to Eddington. One was to thank him for his help when the first paper was published, and the other was to inform him that his second paper on the theory of relativity had been sent to the Philosophical Magazine editorial department.

Chen Muwu didn't dare to make a request directly, and asked Eddington to go to the editorial office again to withdraw the paper from the "Journal of Philosophy" and resubmit it to the "Proceedings of Natural Science".

Because although Einstein was in it, he was not familiar with Eddington after all, and it was even the first time that they had communicated with each other. It is neither appropriate nor polite for an old-timer to run around.

I can only hope that Eddington can understand the voiceover in his telegram, and don't let his dozens of dollars go to waste.

Eddington never expected that this young man from the Far East named Chen Muwu would send him a telegram.

In the story he conceived, it was his good friend Einstein who discovered a physics genius in the slums described in the newspaper when he was giving lectures in the Far East, and he helped and supported him selflessly.

Of course, this young genius lived up to expectations, and the first paper set off a bloody storm in the physics circles in Europe and America.

Eddington just finished reading February's "Annals of Physics" yesterday, and many of the above papers initiated discussions around the question of whether light is a wave or a particle. The intensity can be said to be a fight between gods and gods.

Bott of Humboldt University in Berlin, Compton of the University of Chicago in the United States, ...all qualified university laboratories have published their own experimental data and results on it, and these results are all the same as those of Cavendish Laboratory , exactly as predicted by Chen Muwu in his paper.

Debye of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich even wrote a paper to strongly support Chen Muwu's theory.

The vision of my old friend Einstein is really good!
Of course, there are also many voices of opposition, such as a newsletter just sent by the Royal Society today to the Journal of Natural Sciences, from Bohr, the newly promoted Nobel Prize winner in physics at the University of Copenhagen.

In the communication, he criticized the absurdity of the photon theory proposed by Einstein and Chen Muwu. If light is a particle, it will inevitably destroy the electromagnetic system created by Maxwell.Then he raised it to a philosophical level and said some things that were vague and unclear.

Eddington had long been dissatisfied with Bohr because of his speech at the Nobel Prize award ceremony.

Now, in this newsletter, Eddington pouted contemptuously when he saw him making irresponsible remarks on Einstein's theory.

If he is familiar with Tang poetry, then the sentence "Er Cao's body and name are broken, and the rivers and rivers will not be abandoned forever" should have popped out by this time.

Mr. Eddington likes to challenge authority. During the First World War, he once refused the British government's request for military service, and there was more or less angry blood in his bones.

Otherwise, he would not be the first to jump out and support the correctness of the theory of relativity with great fanfare.

Because he had heard several speeches by Lord Kelvin when he was young, and had entered the Cavendish Laboratory to study thermal radiation after graduation, one of the laws of physics that Eddington admired most was the second law of thermodynamics.

He once said something like this: "I believe that the principle of entropy increase, that is, the second law of thermodynamics, is supreme among all the laws of nature.

"If someone points out that your theory of the universe does not agree with Maxwell's equations, then there is probably something wrong with Maxwell's equations;

"If your theory of the universe contradicts the observations, well, the observers sometimes get things wrong;
"But if your theory violates the second law of thermodynamics, I dare say that you have no hope, and your theory can only lose face and collapse."

So Eddington didn't care at all whether, as Bohr said, if light is really a particle, it will break Maxwell's equations, as long as it doesn't break the second law of thermodynamics.

Eddington was shocked when he received the telegram from the postman.

This telegraph fee worth a few pounds, he had to think carefully before sending it himself. How could this young man surnamed Chen make such a big deal!
But seeing the content of the telegram made Eddington very excited.

The relativity genius praised by Einstein finally sent his relativity paper!
It was just seeing the name "Philosophical Journal" again, which made Eddington vaguely unhappy.

He still clearly remembered how embarrassing he was by the defiant editor the last time he went to the editorial office in London to inquire about the situation.

Well now, I don’t know whose loss it is if I miss a paper that caused a sensation in the academic world!

Eddington thought about it, and decided to make another trip to London.

Since this young man sent himself a telegram, it shows that he trusts himself very much, not to mention that it is an excellent article on relativity, and Mingzhu can't let Mingzhu secretly vote.

The next day, Eddington came to the editorial office of the Philosophical Journal again.

The enemy's road is narrow, and the one who received him this time was still the editor who looked at people with his nostrils last time.

Even if he missed a phenomenon-level paper, he showed no sign of repentance, and he still looked like a fool.

When he learned that Eddington came to look for the Chinese paper again, he said even more eccentrically: "Master Eddington, we have received the Chinese paper again. Out of respect, we specially invited the relevant Chinese Expert review.

"Unfortunately, he may have written his first paper only after a flash of inspiration, and now this one has been revealed. Experts commented that the content of the paper is nonsense.

"If you want this paper, look for it on the shelf marked 'Monkey'.

"I really don't know why you have to go to our editorial department over and over again for a Chinese. Could it be that this Chinese monkey is the illegitimate child you left after you went to Chinatown to have a good time when you were young and ignorant?" Huh? Hahaha... Whoops!"

No matter how mild-tempered a person is and how gentlemanly his behavior is, he can't stand such ridicule and ridicule.

What's more, Eddington is not a very gentle person.

He smashed the editor's glasses with one punch, then took out a white five-pound note and threw it on the editor's face: "I reward you with five pounds to see your eyes, and you'd better take the rest of the money." Look at your brain!"

After all, the furious Eddington strode out of the office of the Philosophical Journal.

(End of this chapter)