Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 74

Blackett told Chen Muwu that there are no swimming pools around Cambridge. With the wide and clear natural waterway of the Cam River, who would want to dig out a new swimming pool with no effort?
Chen Muwu thought for a while, and what Blackett said was right. He was also on the bank of the Cam River that day, and when he saw those students in swimsuits, they must have just landed after swimming.

However, in the same river, there are rowers and swimmers. Will there not be any unexpected "traffic accidents"?

Chen Muwu raised his own question again.

Hearing this question, Blackett laughed and said, "Chen, the Cam River that flows through Cambridge has only two straight sections with no bends. The long section is reserved for rowers to train, and the short section , it is naturally the place where people go swimming to avoid the heat in summer, and everyone does not violate the water of the river.”

He seemed to have completely forgotten the unhappiness just now.

On the train, Kapitsa was finally relieved, because there was no Rutherford here who told him to be cautious in his words and deeds, and persuaded him to study more problems and talk less about doctrines like Hu Shi.

In his loose English, he babbled on his praises for the newly established country in his native land, praised Vladimir as a great leader, and hoped that he could overcome the disease of stroke, recover soon, and regain Come back to the leadership of the country.

Ye Gongchao listened with great interest, while Chen Muwu gradually became sleepy.

The leader Kapitsa speaks of, and his successors, have indeed led the country on a path of greatness.

But after that?From below, one crab is not as good as one crab, there is nothing to say.

If there is no accident, Kapitsa will be detained in China when he returns to visit his relatives in more than ten years, so that he will never be able to return to the Cavendish Laboratory in the next few decades.

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Although they went south this time, they took the slow train that stopped at every stop, but the distance from Cambridge to London was so long. After more than two hours, several people still arrived at King's Cross Station in London.

After leaving the station, I took the London Underground, which is fairly well-connected, and it took us almost an hour to arrive at Islington, which is located in the north of London.

Islington is now one of the main residential areas in London, with neat rows of houses lining the streets.

Blackett's home is one of these dotted houses. Although it is not a mansion, it is kept spotless on the outside. This is not easy in London where the smog is everywhere every day. The layout of the room is also in good order. Simple and cozy.

You can tell at a glance that there is a good wife and mother in the house.

There is no decent furniture in the house. On the wall behind the sofa in the living room, there are pictures of family members.

One shows Blackett in his navy uniform, smiling broadly.

"Peter, come and see, in this photo, Patrick can actually have such a bright smile on his face!"

Kapitsa heard the sound and asked Blackett after seeing the photo: "To be honest, when you took the photo, was there a cute girl standing opposite you?"

Unlike the photo, Blackett's expression is very serious: "That is a photo of me when I enlisted in the army. Not long after that, the Battle of Jutland took place. The comrade who took this photo of me died in that naval battle. of."

Knowing that he asked an inappropriate question, Kapitsa obediently kept his mouth shut.

Chen Muwu thought, it's no wonder that Blackett is usually taciturn, and this should be the reason.

In the center of the wall opposite the sofa, there is a huge radio, which should be the most expensive and trendy household appliance in the house.

As one of the few metropolises in the world, London already has several radio stations that can cover the whole city, broadcasting the news of the day to the public at fixed times every day.

Knowing that these people are all Patrick's classmates at Cambridge University, and they are the first-class smart people in the UK and even in the world, Blackett's family is still very warm to everyone.

However, Chen Muwu still saw curiosity in the eyes of the hostess.

No wonder she was like this, after all, the classmates brought by her son came from two of the most mysterious countries in the world, one was too far away from England, and the other was from the newly established Red Sulian.

Moreover, these two countries have just overthrown the emperor who ruled their countries not long ago.

Will they have any prejudice against the beloved king and royal family of their own country when they enjoy the holiday of the king's birthday in the UK?
All was well with the Blacketts, except the evening meal.

Everyone in the UK has a magical talent, that is, no matter how delicious the ingredients are, they can always be cooked by them to make people lose their appetite.

As it was in the refectory at Trinity College, so it was in the Blacketts' house.

Fortunately, there is also Ye Gongchao, a gourmet studying abroad, introduced to Chen Muwu by his elder brother, so that he can have a tooth festival every now and then.

Chen Muwu took a few mouthfuls of food politely, then put down the tableware and chatted with everyone at his table.

Because this year is not an integer year of King George V's accession to the throne, and a grand royal wedding has just been held in London, so this year's King's birthday, there will be no official celebrations with the King's participation.

Blackett asked the crowd where they planned to go on vacation now that they were in London.

Kapitsa was the first to speak again. He said that he wanted to go to the center of London to see Tower Bridge and the Thames.

However, Chen Muwu heard the deep meaning in Blackett's words. Since he took the initiative to ask the question, he should have already thought of a place to recommend everyone to visit.

So he pretended to ask, "Patrick, do you have any good places to recommend?"

"Yes, and it's near my house," Blackett was very happy to see someone answering the question, "Do you know Michael Faraday who discovered the law of electromagnetic induction?"

Not to mention Chen Muwu and Kapiza, two physics majors, Faraday is really "Zhuge's name goes down to the universe", and even Ye Gongchao nodded.

"Faraday's tomb is in Highgate Cemetery near my home. I visited it several times when I was a child. It is because of his influence that I embarked on the path of studying physics."

Chen Muwu couldn't help but lament that the British people sometimes have a strange brain circuit. When introducing people to sightseeing spots, such a place is the first stop.

But now that he heard the news, Chen Muwu thought that he still wanted to pay his respects and commemorate the sages.

After all, without Faraday, people may still live in the semi-dark age of using Leiden bottles for power.

The next day, Kapitsa took Ye Gongchao, who was not interested, to the center of London, and Chen Muwu went to the place recommended by Blackett alone.

If it weren't for the small stones erected one after another on the lawn, Chen Muwu really didn't think this would be that kind of place, but more like a park with an elegant environment.

Besides Faraday, Chen Muwu was also surprised to find the name of another great man inside.

His marble head had to wait until 1954 to be carved and installed, but now there is only a small stone tablet, and the surroundings are nothing in line with his reputation and prestige.

This is really "there is not much loess in Lumen, but it is low when it is just in the scholar's tomb"!
Before leaving, he left a huge sum of ten pounds to the management staff, asking them to plant some flowers and plants around the latter, and asking them to maintain and repair it regularly.

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In addition to going to Highgate Cemetery to pay tribute to Faraday, Chen Muwu, led by Blackett, came to Westminster Abbey in the city center, visited Newton who was buried here, and Maxwell and other physicists who erected monuments next to Newton. Learn from the sages.

In his previous life, Chen Muwu never dreamed that he could get in touch with these two top physicists.

But in this life, both of them were not only his old seniors at Trinity College, but also the first director of the Cavendish Laboratory after its establishment.

In addition to Einstein who met in the sea before, he has gathered the three greatest masters in the history of physics.

In the past few days at the Blacketts' house, Kapitsa has been clamoring for a game of cards every day.

Chen Muwu doesn't know how to play bridge, and he doesn't have much interest in learning a game of cards. However, Kapitsa haunts his ears every day, so taking the opportunity of coming to the center of London, Chen Muwu went to the University of Westminster. In Chinatown not far from the church, I bought a pair of bamboo mahjong.

It can only be said that the charm of mahjong is too great. These small bamboo blocks are very popular in Blackett's family.

That night, Chen Muwu only played two rounds of the teaching game. After they learned it, there was no place for him on the poker table.

Early on Monday morning, a group of people went to King's Cross Station to take the morning train back to Cambridge. Except for Chen Muwu, who was in high spirits, the other three were in a trance, yawning again and again, not knowing how late the game last night was.

Although Chen Muwu enrolled in April, he didn't need to study for the final exam because he didn't choose any courses.

So after returning to Cambridge, he has entered a leisurely semi-holiday state, writing new papers for two or three hours every day, and then went to the Cam River to find the most suitable place for swimming.

Three days later, Kapitsa and Blackett, who had dark circles under their eyes, came to Chen Muwu with the recoil electron photos they had taken earlier and the recorded experimental data, asking him to help write a paper based on these materials.

"Are you guys playing mahjong every day?" Chen Muwu asked curiously.

"Oh——" Kapitsa yawned a long time. He took out his pocket watch, opened it, pointed to a number on the dial and said, "It wasn't until half an hour ago that it just ended. I'll leave the thesis to you, I Go back and take the time to sleep."

Seeing how quickly the mahjong popularized by him became popular throughout the school, Chen Muwu felt a little embarrassed.

If these bamboo cards prevent everyone like Hu Shi from graduating with a Ph.D., then his crime will be serious.

There was no way, since Kapitsa had already asked him to come to him, Chen Muwu could only tearfully add his own name to the author of this paper.

In fact, this paper only reveals the experimental phenomena and results, and it is easy to write.

He also doesn't need to spend a lot of space and ink to expound some profound long-winded thesis. Chen Muwu only needs to publish these clear photos of electron trajectories in journals, and perform a certain amount of calculations based on these photos to prove that these electrons are indeed related to electrons. The collision of photons is the most powerful counterattack to those who are still as stubborn as ducks, clamoring that "light cannot be a particle".

For example, Bohr.

(End of this chapter)