Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 79
Chen Muwu's third paper, "On a New Scattering Phenomenon of Visible Light," published in the Journal of Natural Sciences in July, did not cause much sensation.

On the contrary, the other two published above are from the BKS paper (Bohr-Kremers-Slater) in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the BKC paper from Cavendish in Cambridge (Blackett [Blackett]-Kapica [ Kapitza]－陈[Chen]), played a ring in the air, attracting the attention of a large number of readers.

Chen Muwu had no intention of competing for the first author of this paper for Kapitza and Black from the very beginning.

Although it was indeed Chen Muwu who persuaded Kapitza and Blackett to do this experiment, after all, all the experiments, data and photos were done, recorded and photographed by those two. did not participate in this experiment.

And if the two were not addicted to playing mahjong at that time, it would not be his turn to write this paper.

Chen Muwu was already satisfied that his own name, which could only appear in the acknowledgments, was now listed as the third author.

What's more, among the citations of this paper, the first one is his own paper on gamma ray scattering. Chen Muwu's current wave is already "Qin Shihuang touches the switch, wins numb", "Qin Shihuang looks in the mirror, win-win".

Even though the page layout of "Proceedings of Natural Sciences" is far smaller than that of today's typewriters in terms of line spacing and word spacing, Bohr's BKS paper occupies a full [-] pages.

Although the BKC paper of the Cavendish Laboratory occupies seven or eight pages, more than half of it is printed with photos recording the trajectory of recoil electrons.

Although in terms of length, Bohr's paper is far better than Cavendish.

But in terms of the content of the thesis, Chen Muwu's and the others' thesis is quite different.

Chen Muwu asked Kapitza and Blackett to take the time to use the cloud chamber to do this experiment of capturing recoil electron trajectories, in order to present the experimental evidence at the microscopic level in front of the world in advance, hoping to prevent Bohr from seeing it. He then conceived the idea of ​​publishing such a stupid paper that denied the laws of conservation of energy and momentum.

But no matter how foresight he was, Chen Muwu, he never expected that the butterfly effect he triggered also made Bohr start to plan in advance to write this amazing masterpiece in history.

It can only be said that it was an accident that these two papers appeared in the same journal.

What's more terrible is that Chen Muwu's BKC paper happened to be ranked behind Bohr's BKS paper.

But more likely, it is estimated that after seeing the addresses of the two submission emails, one from the Cavendish Laboratory and the other from last year's Nobel Prize winner in physics, they didn't look at the inside at all. The content is directly handed over to the typesetting editor.

Therefore, the physicists who got this issue of "Proceedings of Natural Sciences" read Bohr's eloquent more than [-] pages long, comparable to a novella, but without a single mathematical formula, which denied the classical physics. When I feel a little dizzy and spinning after the paper on the conservation law of the law that does not exist in the microscopic world, I can just read the following paper from the Cavendish Laboratory, which is basically a photo, and let myself Change your mind.

After they gradually wake up, they will find: Huh?Isn’t the recoiling electron trajectory captured in the photo of this paper the decisive evidence that can deny the absurd idea put forward by Bohr in the previous paper?

Bohr's face was slapped severely by Chen Muwu and the others.

And it was executed publicly in front of physicists around the world who could receive this journal.

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Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

Planck's life has been very unstable recently. Although he is a university professor, a highly respected Nobel Prize winner, and a series of glorious honorary titles, his illusory fame can be exchanged for one dollar in July. Faced with such an appalling exchange rate of 35 marks, it seems useless.

All Germans now face a life-and-death question: How on earth can I buy that damn bread and fill this damn stomach.

Planck is even more regretful, why he was so impatient at the beginning, and exchanged all the Nobel prize money for Deutsche Marks. If what he holds in his hands is still Swedish krona or simply exchanged for US dollars, then he will not lose in vain A lot of money.

The secretary of the college sent the latest issue of "Proceedings of Natural Science", and attached the German translation of the title and abstract of each paper above.

As Chen Muwu imagined, Planck was not interested in the scattering of visible light.

However, he saw a useful message from the column of the author of this paper.

Planck looked up and asked his secretary: "Chen Muwu, who published two papers in the "Annals of Physics" before, went to Cambridge University?"

The secretary nodded: "Yes, professor, according to the mailing address of his thesis, Chen should have already entered the Cavendish Laboratory."

Cavendish?
No wonder his latest paper is about optical experiments.

It seems that before Chen Muwu sent two theoretical papers from Qihai, it may be because in that extremely poor country, there is no condition and financial resources to support him to do experiments.

Is this not the case in Germany now?

Einstein once suggested to him in a telegram that this Chinese genius should be admitted to Humboldt University.

But with the university's current financial conditions, what use would Chen Muwu be here?They now even have to budget for photographic negatives for taking spectra!
Perhaps I did not send an invitation letter to Chen Muwu, and let him enter the impoverished Humboldt University of Berlin, whether it is a good thing for his future development or the progress of physics as a whole.

Planck could only comfort himself in this way in his heart.

He continued to look down and found that Bohr had also published a paper.

Planck had a good impression of Bohr, because he was the first physicist to break taboos and obstacles and visit the German academic circle after the war, when the whole of Europe and even the whole world was isolating Germany.

Although Einstein became a world-renowned physicist on a par with Newton under the media's propaganda, in the eyes of current physicists, although Bohr's reputation is not as good as Einstein's, the former proposed The brand-new atomic model of the theory of physics is no less important than the latter's theory of relativity.

Last summer, Bohr visited the University of Göttingen in Germany again. The physics professors and students in Germany who heard the news rushed to Göttingen from all over the country, forcibly turning an ordinary academic visit into a grand occasion. The huge "Bohr Festival".

What article did Bohr write this time?Plank looked down curiously.

When he read in the German abstract that Bohr proposed a new theory that could refute the absurd view that light is a particle, Planck nodded happily.

He also didn't believe what Einstein and Chen Muwu said that light is a kind of particle. Bohr is indeed a leader among young physicists, and he found a way to break the situation in such a short period of time.

But when he read it and wrote that, in order to refute that light is a particle, Bohr actually believed that the laws of classical physics were invalid in the microscopic field, Planck could not help but frown again.

Ridiculous, what the hell is this?

Photon said to Planck that it felt like someone had an abscess on his wrist, and no matter how much he squeezed or applied medicine, he couldn't completely heal it.

But Bohr's thesis made him see a reckless Viking man who, in order to make the abscess disappear before his eyes, even swung a knife and cut off his arm directly.

Simply incomprehensible!
Planck really didn't want to continue reading Bohr's paper in the "Proceedings of Natural Science".

There are too many words, all of them are in English, and there are no formulas and schematic diagrams throughout the article. It is another aspect that the views are somewhat unreasonable.

Planck felt that Bohr's rejection of the photon theory might be a little crazy. Now he is completely unreasonable, and he resisted for the sake of resisting.

After skipping this awful BKS paper, Planck's gaze continued to the next one.

Ok?
Why is there this Chen Muwu in the author column?
Hadn't he just published a paper on it about the scattering of light?
Planck looked curiously at the German summary that the secretary had translated for him, and then opened the magazine to look carefully at the printed photos on it. The tracks left by the recoil electrons in the cloud chamber were clearly visible.

With this trajectory, coupled with a simple mathematical theorem, the law of cosines, it is possible to calculate whether energy and momentum are conserved before and after a collision between a photon and an electron.

Although English is not good, Planck can understand pictures and formulas. One is a simple, direct but irrefutable fact, and the other is a long and empty discourse. He can naturally judge the two connected papers. In the end who is right and wrong.

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