Chen Muwu's third paper, "On a New Scattering Phenomenon of Visible Light," published in the "Transactions of the Natural Science" in July, did not cause much excitement.
On the contrary, the other two papers published above are from the BKS paper in Copenhagen, Denmark (Bohr-Cramers-Slater), and the BKC paper from Cavendish in Cambridge (Blackett-Kapitsa [ Kapitza]-Chen [Chen]), played in the arena from a distance, attracting the attention of a large number of readers.
When Chen Muwu wrote this paper for Kapitsa and Blackett, he had no intention of competing for the first authorship from the very beginning.
Although it was indeed Chen Muwu who persuaded Kapitsa and Blackett to do this experiment, after all, all the experiments, data and photos were done, recorded and taken by those two people. After mentioning it, he never said it again. Did not participate in this experiment.
And if the two of them hadn't been obsessed with playing mahjong at the time, it wouldn't have been his turn to write this paper.
His name, which originally could only appear in the acknowledgments, was now listed as the third author. Chen Muwu was already satisfied.
What's more, among the cited documents of this paper, the first one is his own paper on gamma ray scattering. Chen Muwu has already said that "Qin Shihuang touched the switch and won", "Qin Shihuang looked in the mirror and it was a win-win".
Even though the page layout of "Transactions of the Natural Sciences" is much smaller than today's typewriters in terms of line spacing and word spacing, Bohr's BKS paper still occupies a full twenty pages.
Although the Cavendish Laboratory's BKC paper also occupies seven or eight pages, more than half of it is printed with photos that record the trajectory of recoil electrons.
Although in terms of length, Bohr's paper is far superior to Cavendish's.
But in terms of the content of the paper, Chen Muwu and his colleagues' paper was a big deal.
Chen Muwu asked Kapitsa and Blackett to seize the time to use the cloud chamber to conduct this experiment to capture the trajectory of recoil electrons, in order to put the microscopic experimental evidence in front of the world in advance, hoping to prevent Bohr from seeing it. He once again had the idea of publishing such a stupid paper that denied the law of conservation of energy and momentum.
But no matter how foresight Chen Muwu was, he never expected that the butterfly effect he triggered would also make Bohr start planning in advance to write this astonishing masterpiece in history.
It can only be said that it was a complete accident that these two papers appeared in the same journal.
What's more terrible is that I don't know whether it was an accidental mistake by the editor or whether they did it intentionally. Chen Muwu and his BKC paper happened to be ranked behind Bohr's BKS paper.
But it is more likely that after seeing the addresses of the two submission emails, one from the Cavendish Laboratory and the other from last year's Nobel Prize winner in physics, the review editors did not read much at all. The content is handed directly to the typesetting editor.
So the physicists who got this issue of "Transactions of the Natural Sciences" after reading Bohr's eloquent article of more than 20 pages, which is as long as a novella, but does not have a mathematical formula, and denies the theory of classical physics. After the paper on conservation laws that do not exist in the microscopic world, when I feel a little dizzy and dizzy, I can just read the paper from the Cavendish Laboratory that follows it and is basically full of photos to change my mind. Change your brain.
When they gradually wake up, they will find: Huh? Isn’t the trajectory of the recoiling electrons captured in the photos of this paper the decisive evidence that refutes the absurd point put forward by Bohr in the previous paper?
Bohr's face was slapped hard by Chen Muwu and others.
And it was a public execution in front of physicists around the world who could receive this journal.
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Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Planck has also been living a very unstable life recently. Although he is a university professor and a highly respected Nobel Prize winner, and has a series of dazzling honorary titles, his fame is illusory. Faced with such an appalling exchange rate of 350,000 marks, it seemed useless.
Now all Germans are facing a life-or-death problem: How can they buy that damn bread and fill their damn bellies?
Planck regretted even more why he was so anxious to change all the Nobel Prize money into German marks. If what he is holding now is still Swedish kronor or simply changed into US dollars, then he will not lose it in vain. A lot of money.
The secretary of the college sent the latest issue of "Proceedings of the Natural Science" and thoughtfully attached the German translation of the title and abstract of each paper above.
As Chen Muwu imagined, Planck was not interested in the scattering of visible light.
However, he did see a useful piece of information from the author column of this paper.
Planck raised his head and asked his secretary: "Chen Muwu, who previously published two papers in the Annals of Physics, went to Cambridge University?"
The secretary nodded: "Yes, Professor, according to the mailing address of his paper, Chen should have entered the Cavendish Laboratory."
Cavendish?
No wonder his latest paper is about optical experiments.
It seems that Chen Muwu sent two theoretical papers from Sihai before, maybe because in that extremely poor country, there was no conditions and financial resources to support him in conducting experiments.
Isn’t this the case in Germany now?
Einstein once suggested in a telegram that he recruit this Chinese genius to Humboldt University.
But with the current financial conditions of the university, what use can Chen Muwu do here? They now even have to be very careful about the photographic plates used to capture the spectrum!
Perhaps I did not send an invitation letter to Chen Muwu, allowing him to enter the now extremely poor Humboldt University of Berlin. This would be a good thing for his future development and the progress of physics as a whole.
Planck could only comfort himself in his heart.
He continued reading and found that Bohr had also published a paper.
Planck was very fond of Bohr because he was the first physicist to break taboos and obstacles and visit German academic circles after the war, when the whole of Europe and even the world was isolating Germany.
Although Einstein became a world-renowned physicist on par with Newton due to the media's publicity, in the eyes of current physicists, although Bohr's reputation is not as good as Einstein's, the former proposed The brand-new atomic model has a status in physics no less than the latter's theory of relativity.
Last summer, Bohr once again visited the University of Göttingen in Germany. After hearing the news, physics professors and students in Germany rushed to Göttingen from all over the country, turning an ordinary academic visit into a momentum. The huge "Bohr Festival".
What article did Bohr write this time? Plank looked down curiously.
When he read in the German abstract that Bohr had proposed a new theory that could refute the absurd idea that light is a particle, Planck nodded happily.
He also didn't believe that Einstein and Chen Muwu said that light is a kind of particle. Bohr is indeed a leader among young physicists today, and he actually found a way to break the problem in such a short period of time.
But when he saw it and wrote that in order to refute the fact that light is a particle, Bohr actually believed that the laws of classical physics failed in the microscopic realm, Planck couldn't help but frowned.
Ridiculous, what the hell is this?
Photon said to Planck that it felt like someone had an abscess on his wrist that could not be completely cured no matter how hard he squeezed or applied medicine.
But in Bohr's paper, he saw a reckless Viking man. In order to make the abscess disappear before his eyes, he actually cut off his own arm with a knife.
It’s simply unreasonable!
Planck really didn’t want to continue reading Bohr’s paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
On the one hand, there are too many words, and they are all in English. There are no formulas or schematic diagrams in the entire article. On the other hand, the views are somewhat unreasonable.
Planck felt that Bohr's rejection of the photon theory might have gone too far. He was now completely unreasonable and was simply resisting for the sake of resisting.
Skipping this terrible BKS paper, Planck continued to glance at the following one.
Um?
Why is there this Chen Muwu in the author column again?
Didn't he just publish a paper on the scattering of light?
Planck curiously looked at the German abstract that his secretary had translated for him, and then opened the magazine and looked carefully at the printed photos above. The tracks left by the recoil electrons in the cloud chamber were clearly visible.
With this trajectory, coupled with a simple mathematical theorem, the cosine theorem, it is possible to calculate whether energy and momentum are conserved before and after a collision between a photon and an electron.
Although his English is not good, Planck can understand pictures and formulas. One is a simple, direct but irrefutable fact, and the other is a long, feeble and empty article. He can naturally judge that among these two consecutive papers, Who is right and wrong?
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(End of chapter)
