Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 55 Rutherford in One Word
After getting the paper yesterday, Eddington was not in a hurry to return to Cambridge. Instead, he came to the Royal Society in London and asked the secretary of the society to arrange a room for him to stay overnight.

He wanted to see what Chen Muwu wrote in this paper on the theory of relativity, so that his old friend Einstein praised it so much that he even sent a telegram to recommend it to him in the Far East.

If he thinks there is no problem with this paper, Eddington will continue to send the paper to the editorial department of the Journal of Natural Sciences as before, asking them to help publish it.

In fact, Chen Muwu's second paper on general relativity is not very profound.

He just solved the exact solution of this equation under several specific conditions based on the gravitational field equation proposed by Einstein in 1917.

Eddington's mathematical level made it easy for him to understand the derivation in Chen Muwu's paper, and he also very much recognized Chen Muwu's paper, Chen's first solution and Chen's second solution for field equations .

only……

This Chen Muwu, in the last part of the thesis, what exactly is the "Chen Yuyu" mentioned!
Chen Yuyu's derivation is as impeccable as the previous two solutions.

Eddington was afraid that he might have misread the steps, so he wrote on the paper himself and did some calculations, but the result was still correct.

It's just that the conclusion he came to after some extrapolation, in terms of common sense, seems very absurd.

In this spinning universe, past and future are inextricably entangled.

As long as a person can make a long enough round trip with the help of a galactic train whose speed is close to the speed of light, he can go back to any time point in his own past!

But Eddington always felt that this theory was extremely awkward.

Because according to his belief in the second law of thermodynamics, entropy, or randomness, always increases, and time can only flow in one direction.

In other words, there is no way for people to restore several slices of bacon into a whole pig.

The time travel proposed by Chen Muwu in Chen Universe is to go from the current high-entropy state to the past low-entropy state, which is impossible!

Chen Yuyu in the last part of the thesis completely drove Eddington into a frenzy.

On the one hand is the second law of thermodynamics that he has believed in since he was a child, and on the other is the theory of relativity that he firmly advocates now.

However, these two theories have fallen into contradictions in the universe proposed by Chen Muwu and cannot be reconciled.

If he supports one, he has to give up the other.

Eddington didn't know what to do.

During the night he stayed at the Royal Society, Eddington slept very restlessly. He didn't know whether it was because he didn't think his bed was a deep sleep, or because Chen Muwu's paper gave him nightmares.

Early the next morning, he woke up from the bed, ignoring his tired body, and took the train back to Cambridgeshire from King's Cross Station again.

Eddington felt that he could no longer understand whether the last part of the thesis was wrong or right, and he needed to go back to Cambridge to send reinforcements.

Ralph Fowler, who is both a mathematics lecturer at Trinity College and the only theoretical physicist in the Cavendish Laboratory, is responsible for providing corresponding data calculations and theoretical support to the experimenters.

Fowler is much loved by Rutherford. Two years ago, he married Rutherford's only daughter, Irene Mary, and became the consort of the Cavendish laboratory.

Fowler was Eddington's junior at Trinity College, and the brightest of their class.

This gentleman has advanced mathematical ability, so at the first time, Eddington thought of Fowler.

Hurrying into the Cavendish Laboratory, the first thing he met was Rutherford with the big beard.

Seeing that it was Eddington, Rutherford smiled and said, "Arthur, why did you leave in such a hurry? Why, are you going to send us another paper on a Chinese genius?"

One looks up at the size of the universe, and the other looks down at the size of atoms, and the two don't meet often.

The last time we met, it was Eddington who sent Chen Muwu's first paper to Rutherford.

That paper solved the gamma ray scattering problem that had plagued him since McGill University, so Rutherford had a good impression of Chen Muwu, whom he had never met.

"Sir, it is indeed because of that Chen Muwu that I came this time. It's just that there are a few points in his new paper that I don't understand, so I came here to discuss with Fowler."

Hearing that Eddington came to find his son-in-law, Rutherford couldn't hide a smile in his eyes: "You're looking for Ralph? Then you came just in time. He just came to the laboratory, and now he should It's upstairs in the office."

"Thank you sir."

"It just so happens that I don't have anything to do right now. You and I will go up together to see our genius. What kind of masterpiece is sent this time!"

The two walked up the iron stairs to the second floor and entered Fowler's office.

Fowler looked a little surprised to see his father-in-law entering with the seniors from Trinity College.

When he heard that the previous Chinese had sent another paper, and Eddington wanted him to see if there were any mistakes in the comments, Fowler felt a little disdainful.

He had read Chen Muwu's first paper before, which was completely elementary physics formulas and derivations. He could only say that this person was very lucky and stumbled upon the correct answer by mistake.

But when Fowler took the paper from Eddington and read it carefully from cover to cover, he was taken aback.

It felt like, when we met last time, he was still a toddler, but now we meet again, he is faster than the express non-stop train from London to Edinburgh on the Great Northern Line "flying" The Scotsman boarded much faster.

How can a person improve so much in a short period of time?

Unless he hides clumsiness!
After Fowler read the paper, he felt that there was no problem with the mathematical logic in it.

He was afraid that his thinking would be misunderstood by the guidance of the thesis, and like Eddington, he checked the calculation from beginning to end on paper, and it was still accurate.

This kind of mathematically correct derivation can eventually lead to the result of a human being traveling in time. Fowler thinks this result is absurd, but there is also an indescribable beauty.

Seeing that Fowler had finished reading the paper, Eddington expressed his doubts.

This Chen Yuyu, in his opinion, has no mistakes in the mathematical derivation, but for some reason, he has deduced such a result that violates the second law of thermodynamics.

After listening to Eddington's words, Fowler fell into deep thought.

Could it be that today, a wrong answer will be found between Einstein's gravitational field equation and the second law of thermodynamics?
This is, Rutherford, who has been sitting on the sofa in the office, looking at the two people who were tortured by the paper, said: "Arthur, I think you think too much, but you ignore another point, that It is to use the second law of thermodynamics to deny the existence of time travel, which is actually incomplete.

Maybe the second law of thermodynamics can indeed prevent people from going back to the past, but have you ever thought that it does not actually block our way to the future through time travel? "

(End of this chapter)