Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 68 17 The Hope of Husband and Wife Harmony

Chen Muwu wanted to join the experimental group of Kapitza and Blackett, of course he had his own ideas.

In the current physics circle, many people still think that Chen's theory about gamma ray scattering proposed by him is not a correct theory.

One of the widely accepted objections is that this experimental phenomenon is just the result of a statistical average.

Because no matter who is doing this experiment now, they only measure the property changes of gamma rays before and after refraction, and no one has measured what happened to the electron that collided with the photon after the collision.

If you can find the electrons that were knocked out after the collision, then you can completely stop their mouths.

The most direct way to observe the trajectory of charged particles is to let them pass through the cloud chamber, leave the trajectory and take pictures to record it.

In the previous life, Compton and Wilson also observed the trajectories of recoil electrons in the cloud chamber. They used this fact to shut up those who did not believe in the particle nature of light, and finally shared the 1927 Year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

Now, the Cavendish Laboratory where Chen Muwu is located is not only the place where Wilson invented the cloud chamber, standing in front of him is also an experimental expert with strong hands-on ability who won the Nobel Prize for improving the cloud chamber. .

So he asked, "Peter, Patrick, can you put down your work first and do me a favor?"

"What are you going to do, Chen?"

"I don't know if you have read the first paper I published, the one on gamma ray scattering..."

Chen Muwu paused here for a while, and did not continue until he saw the two people on the opposite side nodding their heads respectively, then he continued: "...but now many people still think this view is absurd, and I don't know what you two have to say about it idea?"

Kapitsa had a lot of trust in his new roommate, "I support you, Chen. Now that the experiment has been verified, the facts are as certain as they are irrefutable."

"Peter, I want to correct you. The experiment has indeed verified the theory I put forward, but only a part of it has been verified. Everyone has focused on the before and after scattering of gamma rays, but no one has noticed that the recoiled of electrons.

"I saw that you and Patrick were using the cloud chamber for experiments today, and it suddenly occurred to me that if I can successfully use the cloud chamber to observe the trajectory of this recoil electron, it should be possible to make those who have been yelling 'light will never It's Particles' old diehards shut up?"

Although Kapitza and Blackett came to Cavendish Laboratory a few years earlier than Chen Muwu, they are still in the rookie stage and have no access to any sophisticated experimental projects.

Both of them knew that Chen Muwu had become famous in the physics circle because he proposed a new theory that might be able to determine that light is a particle.

If there is an experiment they participated in that can further prove the correctness of this theory, then can they also be like Chen Muwu, and they will be on the rise?

When people are at a young age, they will naturally not let go of any life-saving straw that may make them develop.

So when Chen Muwu asked the question "Can the three of us design an experiment and go all out to capture this electron?", the two of them nodded without hesitation.

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Kapitsa and Blackett were very happy, and Chen Muwu was also very happy.

I just moved my mouth, and I managed to get two free laborers who delivered to my door.

Chen Muwu planned not to participate in the specific work of this experiment throughout the whole process. After all, the radioactivity of the gamma ray source was not a joke, and what was contained in it were genuine radioactive elements, radium.

People nowadays are completely unaware of how harmful radioactivity is to the human body.

Instead, everyone believed that the new element called radium discovered by the Curies was a panacea for physical fitness.

Radium is called "angel ray", "God's light" and "hope of harmony between husband and wife" by everyone.

For men, it can improve thinking ability, relieve stress, refresh the mind, and aphrodisiac; while for women, it can beautify the skin, rejuvenate, and whiten.

The Europeans who had just finished World War I didn’t have much money to buy such high-end gadgets. On the contrary, their country cousin America, everyone was vying to spend a lot of money to buy high-end products containing radium: radium fluorescent watches, radium-containing Cosmetics, radium-containing toothpaste, radium-containing chocolate...

The most famous of them is a kind of radium water. Compared with China using all kinds of strange animals, even Ultraman, Godzilla and crazy aliens to make wine, bold Americans directly put radium into the water. to the water.

The doctors boasted about the radium water, but in fact they only wanted to get the [-]% kickback from the medical representative.

It wasn't until a few years later that a middle-class rich man named Byers died because of his fanatical belief in radium water, and the female workers who painted luminous dials in the American radium company fell ill collectively. The seriousness of radium's harm to the human body has been reached.

He stayed in the radiation source of the Cavendish Laboratory every day. Although the dose was not large, Chen Muwu felt that it was necessary for him to get a lead radiation protection suit to wear as soon as possible.

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After drawing the pie, everyone felt as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

Kapitsa ran to borrow the gamma ray source, and Blackett was busy continuing to improve the cloud chamber in his hand.

Chen Muwu had other people to visit, so he left the Cavendish Laboratory alone.

Returning to the room he rented, Chen Muwu carried the ham that he had brought from domestic human flesh, then crossed the Cam River on the Bridge of Sighs, walked northward along the river, and passed St. John's College. Came to the Magdalen College.

Chen Muwu came here not to visit some professor or scholar, but an acquaintance of the Chen family who had never met before.

Just like when he went to Bei University, Chen Muqiao found two old friends Ma Yuzao and Zhou Zuoren to help him take care of him. This time Chen Muwu traveled across the ocean to Cambridge, and his elder brother mobilized all kinds of connections to help him in a foreign country. I found another acquaintance who can help each other.

Ye Gongchuo, who used to be the director-general of the Ministry of Communications and the president of Jiaotong University, was Chen Muwu's old principal when he was studying in Shanshan University, and he was also Chen Muqiao's immediate boss at Nanyang University.

Although Ye Gongchuo only sat on the principal's position for one year because of the factional struggle in Beiyang, he and Chen Muqiao still accumulated a good friendship.

Because Ye Gongchuo, who holds several positions, is often on business trips, traveling back and forth between Beijing and Shanghai, so many matters in the school are often entrusted to Chen Muqiao, the dean of the school, to handle them.

In addition, Ye Gongchuo's ancestral home is Jiangzuyao, which is in Linxian County of Chen Muqiao's hometown.

At this time, Yao and Yao are not yet under the administration of Zhubo, but are still a county under the jurisdiction of Shaoxing Prefecture, so there is another layer of fellowship between Ye and Chen, and thus they are even closer.

Chen Muqiao found out that Ye Gongchuo had a nephew named Ye Gongchao. 【1】

Ye Gongchao lost his father when he was young and grew up with his uncle.This gentleman is two years younger than Chen Muwu, but he had already studied abroad in 1920. He first went to three private schools in the United States, and then came to the United Kingdom, where he entered Magdalen College of Cambridge University to study Western literature.

The ham that Chen Muwu was carrying was what Ye Gongchuo asked him to bring to his nephew when he knew he was going to Cambridge.

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[1] Author's Note: Ye Gongchuo and Ye Gongchao's uncle and nephew appeared once in the last volume of Chapter 40.

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