Today's London is worthy of the title of "Fog City". Whether it is the color, smell, duration of the fog, or the types and sizes of particles contained in it, it is better than what it was when Chen Muwu went to college in Beijing in the 1980s and 1990s. The smog is much "richer".
Zhang Zuyi, a native of the Qing Dynasty, even wrote a poem "praise" in "London Bamboo Branch Ci": "Yellow fog is filled with black smoke, and it is rare to see the blue sky all over the city. What is most pitiful is that after the Double Ninth Festival in September, I have been in a coma until the New Year."
The first thing every international student does after arriving in London is to go to the Embassy of the Republic of China in the UK at 49 Portland Street for reporting purposes, and Chen Muwu is no exception.
Whether it is official fees from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, or provincial fees from Jiang Province, everything will be paid to the account of the embassy on a monthly basis. If you have a good relationship with the staff here, it will undoubtedly be much easier to do anything in the future.
Although he had said countless times before leaving not to prepare too much luggage for himself, in the end he still brought a few large boxes across the ocean.
Naturally, he couldn't take the subway with so much luggage, so Chen Muwu had to stop a taxi directly at the train station door and give the address of the embassy.
At first, when they saw such a rustic from China who was full of the atmosphere of the Republic of China, the staff who were accustomed to the London accent didn't pay much attention and asked for his passport and study abroad certificate as a routine.
But when he saw the Chinese and English names on the passport, he was suddenly shocked.
Chen Muwu!
Is he Chen Muwu who has caused a lot of commotion in British newspapers recently?
The staff did not dare to neglect him. He was afraid that he had mistakenly admitted the wrong person. He also wanted to confirm with Chen Muwu opposite him whether he had published several papers in British magazines.
After getting a positive reply, the staff hurriedly got up and left the table, helped pick up Chen Muwu's luggage, and welcomed him into a special office to rest.
After putting tea leaves in a tea cup and pouring hot water into it, he left the office again and hurriedly went to find Zhu Zhaoxin, the biggest official in the embassy, to inform him of the news.
Seeing this operation of the staff, Chen Muwu, who had spent the whole night on the ferry and train, was completely confused.
what happened?
Things have to start from the beginning.
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Together with Eddington and son-in-law Fowler, they went to Trinity College to find old Thomson and asked to invite Chen Muwu to study abroad at Cambridge University. After returning to his office, Rutherford wrote a letter to Nature magazine. communication.
There is quite a connection between Rutherford and "Nature" magazine. When he was the chairman of the Department of Physics at McGill University in Canada, his main research direction was the radioactivity of matter. In this field, France was far ahead. Curies and Becquerel.
In November 1899, Rutherford planned to submit a paper on "stimulated radioactivity" to the Philosophical Magazine.
But when this paper was finally published in the February 1900 issue of the journal, it had to add this paragraph at the end of the paper: "During the publication of this paper, we received the "Notice of the French Academy of Sciences" of November 6. "(Comptes Rendus), which contains a paper by the Curies and notes by Becquerel on the emission of other substances excited by radium and polonium."
The Curies and Rutherford studied the same results and were ahead of the curve in publishing the paper.
The Curies were in Paris, and they were also academic authorities. They basically sent the paper to the editorial department of the journal in the morning, and in the afternoon the editorial department could prepare the typesetting, printing and issue of the supplement.
Rutherford, on the other hand, was a quiet person and lived far away from home. After nearly a week at sea, his paper had to go through several rounds of review by the editor before it could finally be published.
As a result of the research, Rutherford, who was stabbed for love, gained a new perspective after learning his lesson.
Compared with professional journals that are published once a month, Nature is published once a week and updated more frequently.
So from then on, Rutherford began to publish a brief introduction of his experiments and papers in the then-not-reputable "Nature" magazine, so that he could prove the originality of his papers and avoid being like the one in 1899. , was overtaken by others.
He then sent the full version of the paper to the editorial offices of professional journals such as "Journal of Philosophy" and "Transactions of the Natural Sciences" and waited for a long review period.
His approach is very similar to the future arXiv preprint website.
Rutherford also relied on this method to gradually gain a reputation in the physics community.
Correspondingly, he also boosted the influence and sales of Nature magazine, making it not only the highest-selling scientific magazine in the UK, but also one of the must-read publications for physics researchers around the world.
Although Rutherford is known as an experimental physicist, this does not mean that he is not good at theory.
He was one of the first physicists in the world to accept the special theory of relativity, so he was naturally interested in Chen Muwu's second paper.
So Rutherford announced in the newsletter the paper that would be published in the March issue of "Proceedings of the Natural Science" and also focused on Chen Universe, who went back to the past and went to the future.
The feasibility of time travel is not only a big deal in Bei, but also in the UK.
This communication, published in the magazine "Nature", was like a thunder on the ground, triggering extensive discussions in the salons of high society.
The reporters in Fleet Street, who had a keen sense of news, came out in full force after hearing the news.
After some investigation and interviews, they discovered that the proposer of Chen Yuzhou was actually the same person as Chen Muwu, who had previously made Eddington, a fellow of the Royal Society, furious and beat up the editor of the Journal of Philosophy.
After there was such a connection between the two pieces of news, the popularity of the news suddenly spiked.
These uncrowned kings even dug up a piece of news in the Haihai Times in January this year, "Einstein praised Chen Muwu as the 'Ramanujan' of physics."
"The Times", "The Daily Telegraph" and other influential national newspapers in the UK and even the West quickly followed up, all using the title "'Ramanujan' in Physics" to criticize Chen Muwu and him. Chen Yuyu, who can time travel, has been widely publicized and reported.
Reporters from these newspapers stationed in the Far East even found Chen Muwu's previous workplace, the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway Administration, but got the news that he had resigned and left.
But these reporters who were unwilling to give up followed the clues in Shenbao and Yishibao, all the way along the Jinpu Line from south to north to Beijing.
Finally, they found Chen Muwu's lecture notes at Beijing University that had been sorted out and were in urgent need of proofreading, typesetting, and publication. They spent a lot of money to buy the English copyright of this lecture note, and planned to translate it into English and send it to the UK for publication and distribution. .
Of course Chen Muwu didn't know that the lecture royalties he gave up would add a lot of high-end equipment to the physics laboratory of Beida University.
