Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 92 40 Chen Muwu's New Roommate

When Bohr's reply letter was still floating in the ocean, Chen Muwu was the first to receive Einstein's letter.

Since the Eddington beating incident, a mysterious Chinese figure began to appear in British newspapers.

This was followed by the conflagration of the concept of time travel, and a protracted debate among physicists over the issue of the wave-particle duality of light.

No matter in which matter, Chen Muwu was always the central figure, so after he arrived in the UK, he has always maintained some popularity in the newspapers.

Knowing Chen Muwu's name and knowing that his work unit is Cavendish University of Cambridge, more and more letters were sent to him from all over the world.

Most of the senders of these letters were not physicists, but ordinary newspaper readers.

Some of them wrote to ask questions about time travel, and some even claimed that they had designed a time machine and asked Chen Muwu to see if his design was feasible.

There was also a handful of letters from racists, and the contents of the letter paper were full of all kinds of obscene expletives.

However, as a human being, Chen Muwu would not turn around and bite the dog again after being bitten by a dog, and he also did not have the desire to scold back at these bottom-level dregs whose lives were not satisfactory.

Chen Muwu just burned all the letters of these ghosts who desecrated papermaking, one of the four great inventions.

There are only a few sporadic letters left, sent from universities and laboratories around the world, which contain normal academic exchanges.

Einstein's letter is one of them.

After receiving the award from Sweden and returning to Berlin, Einstein also read two papers on photon statistics published by Chen Muwu in the "Annals of Physics" in August.

Einstein had a good impression of these two papers that belonged to him in the original time and space, because these two papers respectively solved two problems that had troubled him before.

He thought about it, since he had a hasty meeting with Chen Muwu in Qihai on New Year's Day this year, he hadn't had any contact with this Chinese genius.

Einstein didn't blame Chen Muwu for crossing the river and demolishing the bridge. After all, after leaving the sea, he himself had been wandering in the sea for a long time, and his whereabouts were uncertain. It was normal for Chen Muwu to fail to get in touch with him.

On the ship from Gothenburg, Sweden to Helsingborg, Denmark, Einstein already knew the news that Chen Muwu entered the Cavendish Laboratory from the correspondence addresses of two other papers of Chen Muwu.

Now that he has read two more papers about him, Einstein feels that it was a wise choice for him to lead Chen Muwu out of the academic desert when he was in the sea.

So Einstein was also happy to write, and sent a letter to Chen Muwu at Cambridge University, praising Chen Muwu for thinking that two photons with the same frequency are indistinguishable, and the new statistical method proposed by Chen Muwu is really brilliant.

Chen Muwu was very excited when he received Einstein's letter, because he had wanted to write to Einstein for a long time, and he didn't want to break the friendship he had established with this senior after meeting in Ghaihai.

It’s just that Einstein has really been traveling around in the past six months. Even if he wanted to write a letter, he didn’t know where to send the letter.

Chen Muwu was very sincere in his reply. He basically treated Einstein as a teacher. After all, if he hadn’t promoted himself when he was in Haihai, Chen Muwu would still be singing the American labor song “I’ve Been Living All the Time” by now. The obscure engineer of I've Been Working on the Railroad.

But Chen Muwu felt that the harmonious and friendly relationship between him and Einstein, whether in personal relationship or in academic research, might not last for a long time.

Because he had a vague hunch in his heart that it was probably not Bohr but himself who debated with Einstein on "whether God plays dice" in this life.

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Say Bohr, and Bohr will be there.

A few days later, when he opened the letter from Copenhagen and saw the question Bohr asked himself at the end of the letter, Chen Muwu couldn't help laughing because he suddenly remembered an anecdote.

After the god Bohr visited China to give lectures in [-], he became fascinated by the circular Tai Chi diagram he saw when he visited a Taoist temple.

He believes that this image just implies the complementarity principle he proposed in quantum mechanics, which is an important cornerstone of the Copenhagen School.

Later, Bohr was conferred the title of Lord Elephant Rider by the Danish royal family because of his outstanding contributions in physics.

In the coat of arms he designed for his own family, Bohr reserved the most prominent position for a half-black and half-red Taiji diagram.

So in his reply to Bohr, Chen Muwu was very playful.

After he briefly introduced that he planned to use electron diffraction experiments to verify his electron wave theory, he began to "fabricate" nonsense.

Chen Muwu typed several sheets of paper eloquently, introducing in detail what Tai Chi is, from Fuxi to King Wen to Confucius to Zhou Dunyi.

He even picked up the compasses and drew a picture of Taiji holding yin and embracing yang on the letter paper, and then focused on how he "obtained" the "I am in you" from the Taiji picture that has been passed down for thousands of years. , I have you" inspiration, and finally "get inspired", thinking that whether it is photon or electron, or even everything is "both wave and particle".

If someone listened to Chen Muwu's nonsensical civil science theory, he would definitely curl his lips and dismiss it.

But he felt that the person receiving the letter on the other side was Bohr, and maybe it might really bring him a little shock in China.

Even if he hasn't been able to deceive him yet, it will still leave a small seed in Bohr's heart.

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After Chen Muwu's paper on the wave nature of electrons was published in the "Annals of Physics" journal, the waves splashed in the physics world were no less than when he used the particle nature of light to explain the problem of gamma-ray scattering.

In the past half a year or so, more and more physicists have gradually accepted this Chen Muwu who always put forward a shocking point of view.

After all, physics is an experimental science after all.

Although Chen Muwu's previous viewpoints were sometimes difficult to accept, it was proved afterwards that his viewpoints were always justified by the experimental results.

Only this time...

Electron is a wave?

How could an electron be a wave!

Like Rutherford, most physicists feel that Chen Muwu's conjecture is too far-fetched.

Some people even "discovered" the self-contradiction of Chen Muwu's previous and subsequent theories.

Because treating gamma rays as a kind of electromagnetic wave cannot explain the conclusions of its scattering experiments, Chen Muwu clearly regarded the reaction between light and electrons as the interaction between two particles, photons and electrons, when dealing with this problem. An inelastic collision occurs.

In the Chern scattering theory, electrons appear completely as particles.

And now, Chen Muwu said that electrons are a kind of wave, so after going back to gamma ray scattering, his inelastic collision theory cannot be explained again.

Since light is a wave and electrons are particles, the two cannot collide inelastically. So this time, if light is a particle and electrons are waves, how does the inelastic collision between the two occur?
What about using the spear of the son and the shield of the trap?

Of course, those who put forward this statement are completely unreasonable, because Chen Muwu clearly stated in this paper that electrons have the duality of "both a wave and a particle", rather than black and white, saying Electrons are not a particle, but a wave.

It was still Bohr who rushed to the forefront.

Unlike what Guangzi said, he resolutely stood on Chen Muwu's side this time.

As much as Bohr opposed the particle theory of light waves before, now he supports the wave theory of electrons.

He waved the flag so hard only because the theory explained his atomic model so well.

In response to Chen Muwu's statement that "electrons are also a kind of wave", a local reporter from Germany went to Berlin to interview Einstein.

After all, everyone knows that Chen Muwu could stand out from the Far East without the help of Einstein.

In this regard, Einstein gave a very poetic answer. He said that Chen Muwu's idea "opened a corner of the mysterious veil".

There were also British journalists who came to the David Faraday Research Laboratory under the Royal Institute to interview Professor William Bragg, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics with his son Lawrence Bragg for discovering the Bragg formula for X-ray crystal scattering that.

Old Prague's answer was very funny. He didn't directly talk about electrons, but said that even a small photon had already given him a headache.

He couldn't figure out how light could be both a particle and a wave. After thinking about it for a long time, he thought that light might be a particle on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and become a wave on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

And on Sunday, the light may have a day off, and maybe go to the local church to worship.

However, as the instigator of throwing the stone "electron is a kind of wave" into the calm surface of the "physical" lake, Chen Muwu has little time to pay attention to the criticism or praise of his new theory.

It's like when you were playing "Peace Elite", you were led by a teammate of a great master to fly all the way from the skydiving, but the master suddenly lay motionless in the grass during the finals, and he didn't respond to how you called him.

After losing the game, when you add friends and want to start cursing, you realize that this so-called master is actually just a primary school student.

And the reason why he lay still on the ground in the finals was only because at that time, the class bell just rang.

Time soon entered October, and Chen Muwu also had to start school.

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In the past summer, a group of people in the Cavendish Laboratory who have been with us day and night have left. They will return to their own countries or go to universities around the UK to take up teaching positions.

But at the same time, a group of newcomers with sufficient desire for knowledge have also been recruited into the laboratory. The inheritance of science is like this, and the waves of the past push the waves of the front, endlessly.

One day before the start of school, Rutherford, the director of the laboratory, asked Chadwick to gather all the professors, teachers, staff and students in Cavendish, and asked everyone to put on suits. Get up and go to the Bursas Garden not far from the gate of the Cavendish Laboratory, which belongs to the Eucharist College.

Since Rutherford took charge of Cavendish, in addition to the rule of leaving get off work on time at six o'clock in the laboratory, there is also a tradition of taking a group photo of all staff before the start of school every year.

In order to take today's photo, Chadwick also specially invited the best photographer in Cambridgeshire.

Naturally, the professors and teachers sat in the chairs in the front row, and Kapitsa also squeezed into the second row of the crowd taking advantage of his short stature.

Big fools like Chen Muwu and Blackett could only obediently stand in the middle of the last row and use it as the background board for this photo shoot.

The photographer's head got into the cloth covering the camera, and as the shutter opened and closed, a group photo of all the staff of the Cavendish Laboratory in 1923 was left on the film.

This is the first photo left by Chen Muwu in Cavendish, but it probably won't be the last.

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The new semester has a new atmosphere. After Kapitsa moved out of the room and lived in the single dormitory provided by Trinity College, Mrs. Brown also accepted a new tenant arranged by Cambridge University.

This also means that Chen Muwu ushered in a new roommate, a taciturn young man from the southwest of England.

(End of this chapter)