Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 95 43 Pandora's Locket

After leaving the Cambridge University Observatory, Chen Muwu and Eddington walked and chatted.

It wasn't until the two of them approached the Kang River that Chen Muwu realized that there seemed to be someone missing by his side.

It was only because that person was usually very taciturn, so Chen Muwu finally found out after walking so far.

He had to say sorry to Eddington, then turned back alone, and hurried back to the Cambridge University Observatory.

When Chen Muwu heard Cepheid variable stars, galaxies, nebulae, and even the names of great philosophers like Kant mentioned from Chen Muwu's mouth, Dirac knew that the relationship between him and Eddington The conversation, should be missed.

After the two of them left the office, Dirac became more and more bored on the sofa, so he just nestled in it and took a nap.

"Dirac, Dirac, wake up!" Chen Muwu picked up Dirac from the sofa in Eddington's office.

"Chen, I'm here..." Dirac slowly opened his eyes from sleep, and then he remembered where he was, "Ah! Professor Eddington, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I didn't sleep well last night on the train from Bristol to Cambridge, so..."

Dirac is now thinking of studying general relativity with Eddington after arriving at Cambridge, so he is very afraid of offending this leader who is likely to become one of his closest teachers in the future.

"Okay, okay," Chen Muwu quickly comforted him, "Mr. Eddington has already left, and he is not in this office now. You are sober, let's go have dinner together later."

"Oh, ok, ok."

One of them is a student of Trinity, and the other is from St. John's. As the first and second colleges of Cambridge University, they have always been in a state of "mortal enemies" with each other.

There are rumors that in Trinity College, there is no letter J in the staircase numbers in the older buildings with a long history, because they don't like the initial letter J of John of St. John's College.

Of course, this is just a rumor. The real situation is that there is no letter J in the ancient Latin alphabet.

So if Chen Muwu wanted to eat with Dirac, he had to go to the small restaurant outside the school.

Walking on the road, Dirac directly turned into Chen Muwu's little fanboy: "Mr. Chen, you are amazing. I think you know everything. You can even talk about astronomy with Professor Eddington. What are you talking about?" Variable Star, I haven't learned it in textbooks before. How did you become such a powerful person?"

In Dirac's heart, he had always hidden a deep inferiority complex.

Although he is one of the best graduates of the University of Bristol, he also knows that Cambridge University is the top institution of higher learning in the UK, and all the students in it are crouching tigers, hidden dragons.

Before Dirac didn't know what his level was after coming to Cambridge.

As a result, he was forced to accept a heavy blow on his first day in Cambridge.

His new roommate chatted with the astronomer he had admired for a long time, but he could only hide in the sofa like a mushroom.

Dirac felt that he was ruthlessly crushed by Chen Muwu in academic level, interpersonal communication, and in every aspect.

Of course, the same is true in terms of appearance and height, but Dirac, who doesn't care about small details, was a little belated and didn't notice this.

Chen Muwu doesn't know how to read minds, so of course he doesn't know how tall he is in Dirac's heart now.

At this time, facing Dirac's question, an acquaintance with a mustache suddenly appeared in Chen Muwu's mind.

So he blurted out: "I just spent all the time that others drink coffee on studying."

This was Chen Muwu's unintentional joke, but Dirac took it to heart.

As a devout Protestant Methodist, he never smoked or drank alcohol, nor was he keen on participating in some group activities.

In daily life, Dirac's performance is more like the Puritan who Kapitza said than Chen Muwu.

Now hearing Chen Muwu say that he doesn't even drink coffee, Dirac feels that it's time for him to give up coffee.

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In the "Nature" magazine, after seeing his other lover Bohr stand up and support Chen Muwu's theory of electronic fluctuations in a clear-cut manner, Rutherford actually felt a little shaken in his heart.

But his vacillation did not last long, because Rutherford soon saw the reply letter sent by General Electric to Chen Muwu, which was worth as much as two thousand pounds, which was more than one-fifth of the annual budget of the entire Cavendish Laboratory. An extra vacuum pump, Rutherford felt, they really couldn't afford it.

In less than a year since January this year, Chen Muwu has made two major discoveries at the Nobel Prize level in experimental physics.

Although nominally, he was only a freshman in graduate school, but Rutherford never dared to treat Chen Muwu as just a newcomer who didn't understand anything.

So after the start of school, Rutherford told Chen Muwu, half inquiring and half discussing, whether he had any other ideas besides the diffraction experiment that could verify the volatility of electrons.

Chen Muwu thought for a while, and then gave Rutherford a negative answer.

The wool of the Nobel Prize in Physics has been won by him until 1930. Apart from the current electron diffraction experiment, Chen Muwu really can't think of what else he can do.

Could it be possible that the old New Zealander with a beard on the opposite side, who has been thinking about him for more than ten years, should be brought out ahead of time?
However, this seems to be a little too far ahead.

What's more, if the neutron is indeed discovered ten years earlier, it is likely to change the course of the world.

On the current periodic table of elements, the last element is uranium, which ranks second in No.90.

Scientists always want to know, behind the uranium element, is there still No. 93 and No. 94 with higher atomic numbers?
So now they're taking every opportunity they can to bombard uranium with everything they can find.

After the neutron is discovered, it must not escape this fate.

Enrique Fermi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 93 for "discovering" transuranic element 1938 by bombarding uranium with neutrons.

Although it was later proved that what he discovered was not element 93, but nuclear fission.

This may be the most wonderful own goal in the history of the Nobel Prize.

Six or seven years after the advent of nuclear fission, the Trinity nuclear test appeared in the New Mexico desert.

In other words, from the discovery of neutrons to the successful explosion of the atomic bomb, the interval is almost ten years or so.

If Chen Muwu gets out the neutrons now, even if it catches up with the worldwide Great Depression, it will slow down the pace of scientific research that requires a lot of money, but it is estimated that before the mustache strikes Poland at the latest, this The first atomic bomb in time and space may just appear somewhere in the world.

In this way, wouldn't the world become a mess?
What about fighting Star Sugarler, what British air battles, and whoever is upset, just make a big guy on his head. After all, gods fight, and they are also afraid of nuclear bombs, right?
Chen Muwu felt that neutron, the Pandora's box, should be hidden for now, and it would be better to open it later.

After all, he still wants to set up a few more big firecrackers on top of the little devil, but this dream must be down-to-earth, step by step.

At the very least, he had to wait for his building to be completed and a series of supporting industries to be constructed before he could think about rubbing a big mushroom with his hands.

How about that chicken soup?You must work hard secretly, quietly top out, and then amaze everyone.

BOOM!

Bazinga!

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Although Chen Muwu said that he had no new ideas recently, Rutherford failed to arrange new experimental projects for him.

He may feel that Chen Muwu is currently in a state of overusing his brain. After all, even a smart brain needs to rest.

So Rutherford asked Chen Muwu to go to Cambridge University to take some interesting courses in the first semester after enrolling.

As for the work in the Cavendish Laboratory, Rutherford still arranged him back in the original KBC trio.

However, Chen Muwu did not choose to help Kapitza do his experiment on the influence of magnetic field on alpha particles, nor did he choose to help Blackett study the use of cloud chambers to take pictures of alpha particles and nitrogen.

Chen Muwu, the top iron, directly borrowed the Sprenger vacuum pump developed by Francis Aston more than ten years ago from Francis Aston.

He just didn't believe in evil, and planned to use this old guy to try to see if he could create a high-vacuum environment so that he could conduct electron diffraction experiments.

Aston is one of the professors of the Cavendish Laboratory and an academician of Trinity College. He had previously worked for the old director J.J. Thomson for a period of time.

He invented the world's first mass spectrometer in Cavendish, and with this instrument, more than 200 natural isotopes have been found.

For this feat, Aston won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year.

The mass spectrometer is a classic exercise in high school physics. A beam of particles with the same speed and the same charge will produce different trajectories after passing through a magnetic field.

The larger the mass of the particle, the larger the radius of the circular motion in the magnetic field. Therefore, using this method, the existence of isotopes can be clearly observed.

Similar to Chen Muwu's requirements for electron diffraction, molecules in the air will also interfere with the trajectory of these charged particles, so the mass spectrometer must also be in a vacuum environment.

But because the mass spectrometer can also change the strength of the magnetic field, its requirements for vacuum are not as high as those for electron diffraction.

With the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, Chen Muwu borrowed the Sprenger pump.

In the next step, he will measure, calculate the size, design the drawings, and then go to the glass blower in the laboratory to blow him a strangely shaped glass tube according to the drawings.

In this way, Chen Muwu's Cambridge career gradually became more fulfilling day by day.

When there are classes during the day, he goes to class, and when there is no class, he stays in the laboratory and continues to develop his electron diffraction tube.

After dark, Chen Muwu went to the observatory to find Eddington again, to learn how to find stars, how to adjust the mobile telescope, how to observe and how to take pictures.

For the first three items, Chen Muwu didn't need Eddington to teach at all, but for the last item, how to take pictures of stars, he started to learn seriously.

Who told him that when he used the astronomical telescope, it was directly connected to the computer screen for imaging. He had never used such an old and antique thing.

Seeing Chen Muwu so eager to learn, Eddington was very pleased.

Occasionally, he chatted with Chen Muwu and asked him if he had made any big moves at the Cavendish Laboratory recently.

Eddington actually hoped that Chen Muwu could find evidence that electrons are a kind of wave. After all, his idea was praised by his good friend Einstein in the newspapers.

But when he heard from Chen Muwu that the experiment was not going well because the Cavendish Laboratory had no money and could not afford high-end vacuum pumps, Eddington also sighed.

As the son of Cambridge University, Cavendish Laboratory has no money, and their observatory can only have less money than Cavendish.

Damn it, how did Cambridge become like this!
Thanks to Eddington, Chen Muwu had prepared a leave note at Trinity College, so that after the observation and study every night, he would not be caught by the supervisor patrolling the campus for being late and had to pay A fine of eight shillings.

Chen Muwu's classmates sometimes come to ask him to borrow this leave note, so that they can go to the evening movie outside the school more conveniently.

(End of this chapter)