Let's switch the lens from Europe back to China.
In fact, Chen Muwu only hoped that the paper he submitted more than a month ago would be successfully published in the European Journal of Physics after being recommended by Einstein's two telegrams.
He never thought that his paper would attract the attention of so many people in Europe, many of whom were well-known physicists whose photos he had only seen in physics textbooks and whom he admired immensely!
On January 2, after accepting an interview with Shenbao reporter Zhao Junhao in the coffee room of Cangzhou Hotel, Chen Muwu returned home and moved out the first thing he bought after coming to this world, a "La "Ming Deng" brand typewriter.
The name of the famous firearms manufacturer Remington has been translated in such a strange way.
Does the wax lantern mean lighting a bright lamp in the twelfth lunar month so that night travelers in the cold winter can feel the warmth?
It is really not easy for a modern person to go back more than a hundred years and want to accept the translation of all kinds of weird foreign names and place names during the Republic of China.
With names like "Guo Geli" and "Stalin", Chen Muwu could barely guess who was who.
But who can recognize that "Xiao Er" is Hugo and "Tao Sidao" is Tolstoy?
After the typewriters it produced made a lot of money around the world, Remington wanted to expand the market to China, the most populous country in the world, to get a share of the pie. Unexpectedly, it encountered the biggest waterloo in the typewriter business.
More than 90% of the 470 million citizens are illiterate, and less than 10% are literate.
But among this adult population, fake foreigners who use Latin letters on a daily basis are even rarer.
A foreign company in the concession imported a batch of typewriters from the United States two years ago. As a result, it has not sold a few of them, so it can only sell them at a tearful discount.
Chen Muwu only spent one hundred silver coins and picked up a brand new printer priced at one hundred and fifty dollars, and ten original Remington typing ink ribbons.
For Chen Muwu, who is used to playing the piano with a computer keyboard, this typewriter has saved his life, because since the end of the college entrance examination, except for occasionally scribbling a few strokes here and there on the draft paper when doing calculations, He has never used a pen seriously.
The two papers sent to Europe, including the one sent to Einstein yesterday, were all produced by this printer.
Even if Einstein did not ask him to submit the paper yesterday, Chen Muwu still planned to compile the exact solutions to the field equations presented at the seminar into a paper and continue to send it to British and German physics journals for publication.
I don’t know about the “Chen Universe” he proposed this time (actually the Gödel Universe proposed by Gödel in 1949) and the “Chen First Solution” (actually the Kerr solution obtained by Roy Kerr in 1963). And "Chen's second solution" (actually the Kerr-Newman solution obtained by Ezra Newman in 1965), how big a disturbance can it cause in Europe.
Chen Muwu's current life is very regular. He gets up in the morning and goes for a run to exercise. He drinks tea and reads newspapers in the morning. He types papers on a typewriter in the afternoon. He goes to bed early and gets up early. He has completely changed his bad habit of staying up late.
The light bulb was "invented" by the inventor King Edison long ago, and advertisements for GE Edison light bulbs can be seen everywhere in newspapers.
It is not that the Chen family cannot afford to pay the electricity bill, but Chen Muwu has set a rule for himself, that is, he cannot stay up late reading or writing.
He didn't want to become blind before taking out all the knowledge stored in his head.
In this era, there are no mobile phones, no Internet, no television, and even radio stations have not yet appeared.
The QWER keyboard attached to the typewriter can be regarded as Chen Muwu's only comfort when he misses his future generations.
Occasionally, he would involuntarily put the four fingers of his left hand on the four WASD keys, and the words "noon has arrived" would ring in his ears.
But when he thought that even if he returned to that era now, he would never be able to play Overwatch again, Chen Muwu felt a little relieved.
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The report of Einstein giving a lecture on the theory of relativity in the lecture hall of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau quietly appeared in an inconspicuous tofu block in the corner of the tenth page of the "Declaration" on January 3.
As expected, Zhao Junhao used the title he had drafted in his draft while attending the lecture: "Einstein visited Shanghai for the second time, but Chinese people are still not interested".
However, he also added a subtitle on his own initiative, "Fortunately!" Among the 400 million people in our country, there is still one person who understands the profound meaning of the theory of relativity."
Looking at this strange subtitle, Chen Muwu couldn't laugh or cry: This reporter Zhao praises himself too highly!
The content of the report is even more top-heavy. Zhao Junhao only used a small part of the space to briefly describe the situation on the day of the seminar, and the rest of the text was all about introducing him as a "unparalleled genius" to readers.
In addition to the questions asked during the interview at Cangzhou Hotel yesterday, Zhao Junhao also referred to the news published in various English newspapers yesterday, that is, the news that German Consul General Tier saw that Einstein praised Chen Muwu as "Lama of physics." Nujin” report.
He even did not hesitate to disparage Professor Zhang Naiyan of Bei University to praise his compatriot who understood the theory of relativity.
Seeing that he was so praised in the newspaper, Chen Muwu looked helpless. He didn't expect that such a big mistake would happen.
If I had known, he should have told reporter Zhao during the interview yesterday that Zhang Naiyan asked questions about spirituality not because he was superstitious and believed in Western gods and Roman dancing gods, but because when he was studying abroad at the University of Birmingham, the then principal was... It is Rocky, the pioneer of spiritual science today.
Zhang Naiyan's behavior of spreading knowledge and spreading knowledge for teachers is exactly what the Chinese academic community has admired most for thousands of years.
Since the New Culture Movement, although people have been shouting "Down with the Confucius Family Store", in fact everyone still adheres to the tradition of respecting teachers and respecting morality.
The master needs to rely on his disciples to spread his reputation, and the disciples need to use the master's name to show off their power.
Otherwise, why did the American philosopher John Dewey visit China to give lectures for more than a year, but Hu Shi, who had no success but failed early, always paved the way over mountains and rivers, built bridges when encountering rivers, and played the role of pioneer in front of the tent?
Naturally, he needs to use the reputation of this foreign master to become famous.
Otherwise, Mr. Lu Xun would not have satirized his three literary enemies like this in future speeches: "Liang Shiqiu had a Babbitt, Xu Zhimo had a Rabindranath Tagore, and Hu Shizhi had a Dewey..."
Chen Muwu didn't even dare to antagonize Lu Xun. He was afraid that this compatriot with a mustache would add another sentence in his speech a few years later, "Chen Hanchen has Einstein."
This is great. Zhao Junhao's report stated that the professors at Bei University were not as good as the students at Bei University. Didn't he cause a lot of trouble for himself? Did you offend all the professors of Beida University inexplicably?
Chen Muwu could only hope that this report, which was on page 10, would not be seen by so many people.
