Hu Shi's words were all meant to be good to Chen Muwu.
That attitude and tone made him feel like Hu Shi was the kind of relative who was willing to preach and had no sense of propriety that he met at the wine table when he visited during the Chinese New Year.
Chen Muwu responded politely on the surface, but he was thinking about something else.
Is Cornell University really good?
It is true that in later generations, Cornell was one of the eight Ivy League schools and was considered one of the top universities in the United States.
arXiv, a very well-known paper preprint system in the field of physics, mathematics and computing, has its main server located at Cornell University.
But now, Cornell is not a good choice for a student hoping to enter the physics world.
This school is not comparable to the two Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology, as well as Princeton, Harvard, Stanford and other schools. It is not even comparable to the University of Chicago.
Of course, the University of Chicago is still the center of physics in the United States and is full of talents. Representatives include Michelson, Millikan, Compton, and Hubble.
And what does Cornell University have? There is a Cayuga Lake!
It was not until the end of the Manhattan Project that Richard Feynman came to Cornell from Alamogordo, New Mexico, to teach, that the school's physics major was truly established.
Chen Muwu felt that if he really followed Schulman's wish and studied abroad at Cornell University, the limited help this school would give him in his studies would be far less than the repayment of the school's reputation after he became famous.
In the future, when people talk about him and this school, they will definitely not say "Chen Muwu graduated from the prestigious American school Cornell University", but "Cornell University trained Chen Muwu, a world-renowned physicist."
Why make this wedding dress for Americans?
What's more, how many years has passed since the Chinese Exclusion Act? Isn't it cool to go to the United States and be a lower class citizen?
Besides, he doesn’t want to be an alumnus of Dr. Hu, and he doesn’t want Dr. Hu to be his guide in the future!
Therefore, Chen Muwu regarded Hu Shi's admonition to him as a joke. Knowing that he would be fully paid for this lecture was the biggest gain he got from today's meal.
Moreover, the salary he earned was not the salary that Bei University professor could not afford, but American money, which made him even more refreshed.
If Chen Muwu hadn't set a rule for himself not to drink alcohol after traveling through time, he would have had a few more drinks tonight!
He had no choice but to bear the pain and drink all the wine that was originally intended to be poured into his stomach, and poured it all into Hu Shi, who was opposite him. The drunken Dr. Hu was very much benefited from the horse piss and flattery.
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Two days later, on Thursday afternoon, the fifth and final session of Chen Muwu's lecture on relativity, "Time Travel," came on time.
Perhaps because people from friendly countries came to listen to the lecture, the location of Chen Muwu's last lecture also changed. It was moved from the lecture hall of the Second Campus of Bei University, the former site of the Capital University Hall, to the first hall of Bei University that was built just a few years ago. In the courtyard, that is, the lecture hall of the Red Building, to show respect for Schulman.
Hu Shi stayed with Schulman, and acting principal Jiang Menglin also stayed with him on the other side.
In order to make the Americans in the audience understand, Yan Renguang, the head of the Department of Physics of Beida University, served as the English translator for this lecture.
This gentleman also studied abroad at Cornell University for four years, but compared to Dr. Hu, he is much more low-key!
Chen Muwu got to know Yan Renguang because teachers and professors from the Department of Physics of Beida University became loyal listeners of his lectures and stayed with him for a long time after each lecture.
He has great respect for these physics seniors. Without their meticulous efforts to create physics education in our country, there would be no disciples like Chen Muwu.
The question they asked the most was why Chen Muwu, an engineering student, had such a high level of relativity.
He could only talk nonsense, saying that he was interested in the theory of relativity after accidentally seeing it, so he read a lot of books on this subject when he was in the Jiaotong University School of Medicine.
Several professors marveled at this and discussed going to Luoshan to inspect education after their salaries were paid.
Today's lecture hall of the First Hospital of Bei University is truly star-studded. In addition to the above-mentioned people, Chen Muwu also saw many familiar faces in the audience:
Mr. Lu Xun, who had long said that he would come to listen to Chen Muwu's lectures, and his second brother Zhou Zuoren finally arrived today.
Ma Yuzao, the owner of the Ma family who had been living there, also brought his younger brothers to support Chen Muwu.
There is also the new editor Zhang Xinyuan whom I met in the editorial office of "Yi Shi Bao". This time Editor Zhang had paper and pen in his hand, and it seemed that he was here to run news as a reporter.
Chen Muwu was very embarrassed and felt that his waistcoat could no longer cover him. When the speech was over, he had to tell reporter Zhang to keep the secret for him.
What surprised Chen Muwu the most was that he saw Xu Zhimo, the "Yun Zhonghe" who was wearing a suit and tie, parted comb and glasses!
If he didn't chase Miss Lin, why would he come here to listen to the lecture?
Could it be said that Mr. Xu really loves the theory of relativity very much and is not just a arrogant Ye Gong who only talks about things in newspapers?
In addition to the people Chen Muwu knew, there were many other well-known scholars sitting in the audience.
For example, Qian Xuantong, dean of the Chinese Language Department of Bei University, Li Siguang, dean of the geology department, Zhang Junmai, who is currently accompanying the German philosopher Du Lishu to give lectures in China, and Lin Changmin, who was running around seeking the position of president of Bei University a while ago, etc. .
Of course, Chen Muwu didn't know that the last person mentioned above was the real reason why Xu Zhimo appeared at the venue today.
Chen Muwu didn't know whether there were so many people in the audience today because of the appeal of American Minister Shulman who came to listen to his lecture in person, or because of the attractive title of the lecture, "Time Travel."
Anyway, at one to two o'clock, he stood in the middle of the stage in the auditorium on time.
After several lectures, Chen Muwu found that he did not get stage fright in front of a classroom full of heads as he did when he was a substitute for his tutor in his previous life.
He thought about the reason, and it might be that the advanced knowledge in his brain gave him an invisible sense of superiority in front of people in this era.
His opening remarks copied the one that attracted Einstein's interest in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau. He still started from the "Today is better than the past" in "Zhuangzi" in Hui Shi's Ten Things. Wang Zhi and Liu Immortals Chen and Ruan Zhao also appeared in turn.
Those who can enter academia today must have high literary literacy.
When the audience heard Chen Muwu say that time travel in these familiar mythological stories can also be related to the theory of relativity, they became interested.
To be honest, today's topic actually involves very little knowledge about the theory of relativity. At best, it can only talk about the "Chen Universe" that Chen Muwu proposed to Einstein.
As for what a wormhole is and which parallel universe it is, Chen Muwu dare not talk about it, because these theories have not been put forward yet. If he spoils the story in advance, he will accidentally get himself into big trouble.
But even for "Chen Yuyu", he couldn't explain it too carefully. After all, most of the people sitting in the audience didn't even know what a "light cone" was.
