Early the next morning, Chen Muwu sat in the coffee room of the Cangzhou Hotel [1], ordered a cup of coffee and some refreshments, and waited for the arrival of reporter Zhao from the "Shen Shen" office.
It seems that in this era, coffee has not yet flowed into the blood of the people of Jihai as it did in later generations, because apart from him, there was no other Chinese in the entire coffee room.
It has been almost two months since we traveled to the Republic of China, and basically everything is proceeding step by step according to Chen Muwu's plan.
More than two months ago, Chen Muwu, who failed to stay in school, was just a fresh Ph.D. in nuclear physics who never missed every campus job fair. He started to worry from the moment he opened his eyes every day. What on earth was he going to do after graduation? Is it really true? Are you going to go into a nuclear power plant and follow in Homer Simpson's footsteps?
Unexpectedly, when he woke up, he would inexplicably travel a hundred years ago and acquire his current identity.
Although he got a job that came from heaven, Chen Muwu never wanted to be a clerk in the railway administration for the rest of his life.
Because he is familiar with the direction of history and knows how chaotic the future will be, with warlords fighting in the country and Japan's two invasions of Shanghai...
What's more, in the small city of Baihai, there are foreigners, gangsters, hooligans, the Qinghong Gang, the White Party... all kinds of forces, you sing and I come on stage. It's really hard for him, a little person, to survive in troubled times. too difficult.
Take the North Railway Station building where the Railway Administration is located. It was bombed once by the Japanese on January 28, and again on August 13.
These sons of bitches are nothing like his mother!
Chen Muwu, who was eager to change the status quo, accidentally discovered such a piece of news published in that day's "Republic of China Daily" while reading the newspaper in his office.
"News of Dr. Enstein's Coming to Western Shanghai": ""Continental News" said that Dr. Enstein, who invented the theory of relativity, took the Kitano Maru to Shanghai yesterday and was going to give a speech in Japan. ... The doctor still took the Kitano Maru to go there early this morning. Kobe, we plan to stay in Qigou for seven weeks before coming to China."
Chen Muwu immediately realized that this news was a huge opportunity for him.
Write a paper that Einstein would be interested in, get a letter of recommendation from him, and ensure that the paper is published in a European physics journal.
In this way, even if he has established contact with the world's top physicists, he will be able to write a paper with the physics knowledge stored in his brain that is a hundred years ahead of the world, and it will be much easier for him to publish it.
This is why Chen Muwu had to make a shocking statement at yesterday's symposium. He had to attract Einstein's attention before he could hand over the paper he had written to him.
As for why you have to get Einstein’s recommendation?
Because just like he said to Einstein yesterday, if there is no celebrity endorsement and the paper is sent to Europe single-handedly, those reviewers who look down upon others will directly respond as soon as they see that the postmark on the letter comes from China. Throw the letter directly into the wastebasket without even glancing at its contents.
The prejudices engraved in their bones told them that even if one day monkeys typed out "The Complete Works of Shakespeare" on typewriters, the backward, feudal and ignorant Eastern barbarians would not be able to express any insights in physics.
This is not Chen Muwu’s alarmist statement, because it was the arrogance of Westerners that caused the Chinese to miss out on the first Nobel Prize in Physics in the 1930s.
Zhao Zhongyao published two papers of great significance in 1930. However, because the experimental results were inconsistent with those produced by Europeans, they were directly ignored by the mainstream of physics.
Although it was later confirmed that only Zhao Zhongyao's experimental results were the most correct and reliable, it was no longer helpful.
If Zhao Zhongyao's students Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao had not been running around to rectify the name of their mentor after winning the award and becoming famous, I am afraid that to this day, Zhao Zhongyao and his experiments would still be buried in the long river of history like a treasure in the ocean.
It was from this public case in later generations that Chen Muwu realized how much European academic circles looked down on the Chinese today.
Zhao Zhongyao's injustice happened in the 1930s, and he is now in the 20s. White people in Europe and America will look down on him even more now than they did ten years later.
But we have to deal with them. After all, white people still have the right to speak in academic circles. If they want to enter the world of physics, Europe is a hurdle they cannot get around.
Therefore, Chen Muwu used the experience he learned from the old-timers of the Westernization Movement to fight against the enemy, and used Einstein's letter of recommendation as a stepping stone to attract those arrogant reviewers.
In time, when I become famous in the world of physics, I will definitely start a physics journal in Chinese only, and let those idiots realize that learning a foreign language is still the most difficult language in the world. How painful.
It was determined that he would write a paper that would be of interest to Einstein, but in the end Chen Muwu chose not to write about the currently popular theory of relativity.
There are three reasons. One is because he only took one semester of general relativity as an undergraduate, and then devoted himself to nuclear physics. His subsequent knowledge of relativity was seriously insufficient.
The second reason is that it is very troublesome to verify the theory of general relativity. Now there are almost astronomical telescopes in the world that can observe redshift, but radars that measure echoes and extremely accurate cesium atomic clocks are still in the stage of inefficiency.
Third, and the most important point is that quantum theory is about to usher in an explosive development. Chen Muwu has solid basic skills in quantum mechanics. To study general relativity without writing a paper on quantum mechanics is like losing a watermelon. Pick sesame seeds.
Fortunately, Einstein was not only an expert in the theory of relativity, he also made considerable achievements in quantum theory.
Among the five papers published by Einstein in the "Miracle Year" of 1905, the first one was about the theory of the photoelectric effect.
This paper is one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics. The flourishing development of quantum mechanics in the future can be largely attributed to him planting a seed of "light quantum".
So Chen Muwu finally wrote a paper on "Light Quantum". The theory contained in this paper was called the "Compton Effect" in his previous life.
However, nowadays, it is estimated that it will be renamed the "Chern Effect" or the "Chern-Compton Effect".
The unexpected joy of meeting Einstein this time was receiving an invitation to study abroad.
Chen Muwu naturally also had plans to study abroad, but the destination he designed for himself was not Germany, but the United Kingdom.
He did not know German in his previous life, but the reason why he can communicate in German now is because the original owner learned a second foreign language in college.
He always felt that he was more comfortable using English, so he never considered studying in Germany at first.
Now that such a small change has occurred, Chen Muwu has to rethink where he should go in the future.
The waiter in the lobby of Cangzhou Hotel led Zhao Junhao to the coffee room. When the two met, another round of pleasantries was inevitable.
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[1] Author's note: Please note that this is "zhou" instead of "zhou", which is also the case in Lu Fangweng's "Revealing the Heart: In those days, I was looking for a feudal prince thousands of miles away".
