Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 8 08 Einstein True Lover

After browsing line by line, Planck found that the paper in his hand, besides adopting the whimsical assumption that Einstein endowed light quantum momentum, basically only applied the two classical physics of energy conservation and momentum conservation. The law, and the law of cosines in mathematics, plus a little relativity effect.

The physics knowledge contained in the thesis is very rudimentary, but it is in line with the knowledge level of an academic desert country.

As everyone knows, this is Chen Muwu hiding his clumsiness in the thesis.

He, who studied civil engineering at Jiaotong University, suddenly learned advanced physics knowledge without a teacher, which will only make people suspicious.

At the beginning, he did something simple, which was in line with his status as an engineering student.

In fact, Chen Muwu really wanted to add a sentence "when the frequency of the incident light is extremely high, there may be other unknown phenomena" after the conclusion, but in the end he once again resisted the urge to spoiler.

No spoilers are allowed. Spoilers are to be caught and dig out the brain for sliced ​​research.

At the end of this paper, Chen Muwu wrote: "All the theories in this paper are all derivations and calculations based on the experimental results and data provided by previous published papers.

"Due to the limited experimental conditions in the country where the author lives, this theory cannot be verified experimentally. For this reason, the experiment is specially designed as follows. I sincerely invite you to be interested in the theory in this article, and if you have the conditions, you can use it as a reference for colleagues in the field of experimental physics:...

"If the experiment is carried out according to the above concept, the expected experimental results are:  …

"The error calculation method is:  …

"If the experimental results obtained are the same as expected, and the error is within a reasonable range, it can prove the correctness of the theory, that is, light is likely to be a particle with both energy and momentum."

When he first wrote these words, Chen Muwu really experienced what is called "a handful of bitter tears".

He originally wanted to do the experimental verification by himself, but there is not even a decent physics laboratory in China, let alone a high-end gadget like a gamma ray source.

The foreign hospital in the concession has a precious X-ray machine, but they don't even borrow it, let alone disassemble the machine to use it as a light source.

There is no other way but to make a bad move, to "design" the experiment into the end of the paper, and let interested experimental physicists after reading this paper do it for them.

Chen Muwu comforted himself in his heart, this is not useless, these days both physicists and ordinary people have very poor awareness of radiation protection, correspondingly, there is basically no radiation protection equipment.

Although he can't do the experiment, at least he doesn't need to be harmed by gamma ray radiation.
After reading the thesis, Planck was even touched.

He seems to have seen a young man in a backward country who is dedicated to learning, lying under a dim oil lamp, writing a thesis one stroke at a time.

Come on, anyway, you have been reading the paper for a long time with your glasses on. Didn't you notice that the paper in your hand is printed with typewriter type?
Planck wrote a postscript inviting experimental physicists to verify the theory in this paper, got up and walked out of the office, handed the paper and postscript back to the secretary at the door, and asked him to put both Send them together to the editorial department of "Annals of Physics" and arrange to publish them in this month's journal.

He also made a special secretary and told the staff of the editorial department that a few extra copies of this paper should be printed and sent to Professor Walter Bott and Professor Hans Geiger respectively, and asked them to design experimental tests. Is the quantum theory of light right or wrong?

As for the proposal in Einstein's telegram, should Chen be invited to study at Humboldt University?

Planck felt that it would be better to wait until the results of the experimental verification of this theory came out.

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After leaving Bod Plains, another telegraph signal continued to move forward, diving across the English Channel along the submarine cable, transiting through London, and then heading north to the final destination, Cambridgeshire.

Arthur Eddington, director of the University of Cambridge Observatory, dressed like a classic British gentleman, was actually a man of extreme arrogance.

It is said that a certain A once praised Eddington, saying that there are only three people in the world who understand the theory of relativity, Einstein is one, and you are one.

Eddington was silent for a long time after hearing this.

A certain man said, you don't have to be so humble.

Eddington replied, I was wondering who the third person was.

Although Eddington was crazy, he admired a colleague in physics very much, and this person was Einstein.

Eddington can be said to be the number one "Einstein" in the English-speaking world today.

He not only introduced Einstein's theory of general relativity to the English-speaking world for the first time after World War I, but also personally led an observation team to observe the total solar eclipse on the island of Principe in the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa in May 1919. .

It was this total solar eclipse observation that basically confirmed the gravity that Einstein predicted in the general theory of relativity would bend light.

The reason why it is called a basic confirmation is that Eddington’s measurement error at that time was almost as large as the true value, that is, the relative uncertainty was almost [-]%.

However, Eddington still published observations to support Einstein, and then Einstein became a god, and he and his theory became famous all over the world.

It can be seen from this that Eddington has a lot of power to speak in the astronomy community at this time. Basically, astronomers and astrophysicists all over the world follow him with their eyes closed.

The postmen of the Great Empire were not as punctual as the Germans, and it was already evening when Eddington received the telegram.

At the beginning, he was also taken aback by the name of the German Consulate General in Shanghai, wondering why the German guy would send him a telegram, until he saw the name of A. Einstein in the signature.

Seeing that Einstein personally asked him in the telegram to take care of the publication of a paper by a Chinese named Chen Muwu, especially after learning that this Chinese had a high level of relativity, Eddington immediately paid attention to it.

In his mind, as long as you have a good relationship with Einstein and understand the theory of relativity, then we are good friends.

The next day, Eddington, wearing a dress and a top hat, arrived at Cambridge Railway Station in a carriage early in the morning, took the first train, and headed south to London along the Great Northern Line.

After leaving King's Cross Station, Eddington stopped a cab and went straight to the editorial office of the Philosophical Journal.

When he arrived at the editorial department, he went directly to the editor on duty that day and asked if he had received any submissions from China recently.

Hearing this country, the editor smiled disdainfully, pointed to a row of shelves in the corner, and said to Eddington, "You might as well go there and try your luck."

Eddington came to the shelf and saw a sign with the word "monkey" written on it.

He picked up a stack of papers and rummaged through them, and found that the authors of these papers were either from India or Malaya, and the spelling of their names also had exotic flavors.

I don't know whether it was Eddington's luck or Chen Muwu's luck. The former found the paper that the latter contributed after scrolling down a few papers.

(End of this chapter)