While Bohr's reply was still floating on the ocean, Chen Muwu was the first to receive Einstein's letter.
Since the Eddington beating incident, a mysterious Chinese figure has begun to appear in British newspapers.
This was followed by a firestorm over the concept of time travel and a protracted debate among physicists over the wave-particle duality of light.
No matter which incident he was involved in, Chen Muwu was always the central figure, so he remained somewhat popular in newspapers after arriving in the UK.
Knowing Chen Muwu's name and knowing that his workplace was in Cavendish, Cambridge University, more and more letters were sent to him from all over the world.
Most of the senders of these letters are not physicists, but ordinary newspaper readers.
Some of them wrote letters asking about time travel, and some even claimed that they had designed a time machine and asked Chen Muwu for help to see if his design was feasible.
There were also a handful of letters from racists, and the contents on the paper were full of all kinds of nasty expletives.
However, Chen Muwu, as a person, would not turn around and bite the dog again after being bitten by a dog. He also had no desire to scold these low-level scum who were unhappy with their lives.
Chen Muwu just burned all the letters from the ghosts who blasphemed one of the four great inventions of papermaking.
There are only a few scattered letters left, sent from universities and laboratories around the world, which contain normal academic exchanges.
Einstein's letter is one of them.
After receiving the award from Sweden and returning to Berlin, Einstein also read two papers on photon statistics published by Chen Muwu in the August "Annals of Physics".
Einstein had a good impression of these two papers that belonged to him in the original time and space, because these two papers respectively solved two problems that were very troublesome to him before.
He thought for a while, and since he had a quick meeting with Chen Muwu in Wuhai on New Year's Day this year, he has not had any contact with this Chinese genius.
Einstein had no intention of complaining about Chen Muwu's intention to burn bridges. After all, after leaving Sihai, he himself had been wandering on the sea for a long time with his whereabouts uncertain. It was normal for Chen Muwu to fail to get in touch with him.
On the ship from Gothenburg, Sweden to Helsingør, Denmark, Einstein already knew the news that he had entered the Cavendish Laboratory from the correspondence addresses of Chen Muwu's other two papers.
Now that he had read two more papers that he felt "sentimental about", Einstein felt that he had made a wise choice in leading Chen Muwu out of the academic desert when he was in Baihai.
So Einstein happily wrote a letter to Chen Muwu at Cambridge University, praising the new statistical method proposed by Chen Muwu by considering that two photons with the same frequency are indistinguishable.
Chen Muwu was very excited when he received Einstein's letter, because he had long wanted to write to Einstein and did not want to break the friendship established with this senior after meeting in Yanhai.
It's just that Einstein has been running around so much in the past six months that even if he wanted to write a letter, he didn't know where to send it.
Chen Muwu was very sincere in his reply. Basically, he was a teacher to Einstein. After all, if he had not promoted him when he was in Qihai, by now Chen Muwu would have been singing the American labor song "I have been here." The unknown engineer who worked on the Railroad (I've Been Working on the Railroad).
But Chen Muwu felt that the harmonious and friendly relationship between him and Einstein, whether in personal relationships or in academic research, might not be able to last long.
Because he had a vague hunch in his heart, that it would probably not be Bohr but himself who would argue with Einstein in this life about whether God plays dice or not.
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Say Bohr, and Bohr will come.
A few days later, when he opened the letter from Copenhagen and saw the question Bohr asked himself at the end of the letter, Chen Muwu couldn't help laughing because he suddenly remembered an anecdote.
After Bohr, the immortal, visited China to give lectures in 1937, he became fascinated by the circular Tai Chi diagram he saw when he visited a Taoist temple.
He believed that this image just implied the principle of complementarity proposed by him in quantum mechanics, which was an important cornerstone of the Copenhagen School.
Later, Bohr was canonized as Lord Riding the Elephant by the Danish royal family for his outstanding contributions to physics.
In the coat of arms he designed for his family, Bohr reserved the most prominent position for a half-black and half-red Tai Chi diagram.
So in his reply to Bohr, Chen Muwu was very playful.
After he briefly introduced his intention to use electron diffraction experiments to verify his electron wave theory, he began to make up nonsense.
Chen Muwu typed up several pieces of paper eloquently, introducing in detail what Tai Chi was from Fu Xi to King Wen to Confucius and then to Zhou Dunyi.
He even picked up a compass and drew a Tai Chi diagram with negative yin and yang on the letter paper, and then focused on how he "obtained" "I am in you" from the Tai Chi diagram that has been passed down for thousands of years. "I have you in me", and finally "became inspired" to believe that everything, whether it is photons or electrons, is "both wavelike and particlelike".
If anyone else heard Chen Muwu's ridiculous civil science statement, they would definitely turn their lips and dismiss it.
But he felt that the person receiving the letter on the other side was Bohr, and it might really bring him a little shock to China.
Even if he hasn't been deceived yet, it will leave a small seed in Bohr's heart.
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After Chen Muwu's paper on the wave nature of electrons was published in the journal "Annals of Physics", the splash in the physics community was no less than when he used the particle nature of light to explain the problem of gamma ray scattering.
In the past half year or so, more and more physicists have gradually accepted Chen Muwu, who often puts forward shocking ideas.
After all, physics is still an experimental science.
Although the views put forward by Chen Muwu were sometimes difficult to accept, it was later proven that his views were always well verified by the experimental results.
Only this time...
An electron is a wave?
How can an electron be a wave?
Like Rutherford, most physicists feel that Chen Muwu's conjecture is too far-fetched.
Some people even "found" the contradictions in Chen Muwu's previous and later theories.
Because treating gamma rays as an electromagnetic wave cannot explain the conclusions of its scattering experiments, when Chen Muwu dealt with this problem, he clearly regarded the reaction between light and electrons as between two particles: photons and electrons. An inelastic collision occurs.
Electrons appear completely as particles in Chern scattering theory.
Now, Chen Muwu said that electrons are a kind of wave, so after returning to gamma ray scattering, his inelastic collision theory cannot be explained again.
Since light is a wave and electrons are particles, the two cannot collide inelastically. So this time, if light is a particle and electrons are waves, how does the inelastic collision between the two occur?
How about using Zi's spear and trapping Zi's shield?
Of course, the person who proposed this statement is completely unreasonable, because Chen Muwu clearly stated in this paper that the electron has the duality of "both a wave and a particle", and it is not black and white. The electron is not a particle, but a wave.
It was Bohr who was still at the forefront.
Different from what Guangzi said, this time he stood firmly on Chen Muwu's side.
Bohr opposed the particle theory of light waves before, but now he supports the wave theory of electrons.
He trumpeted it so hard only because this theory explained his atomic model so well.
In response to Chen Muwu's statement that "electrons are also a kind of wave", a local reporter from Germany went to Berlin to interview Einstein.
After all, everyone knows that Chen Muwu's ability to stand out from the Far East was inseparable from Einstein's help.
In this regard, Einstein's answer was very poetic. He said that Chen Muwu's idea "lifted a corner of the mysterious veil."
A British reporter also came to the David Faraday Research Laboratory under the Royal Institution to interview Professor William Bragg, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics together with his son Lawrence Bragg for discovering the Bragg formula for X-ray crystal scattering. That one.
Old Bragg's answer was very interesting. He did not directly talk about electrons, but said that even a small photon gave him a headache.
He couldn't figure out how light could be both a particle and a wave. After thinking for a long time, he thought that maybe light was a particle on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but turned into a wave on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
And on Sunday, I might just have a day off, and maybe go to a local church for worship.
However, as the initiator of throwing the stone "electron is a wave" into the calm surface of the "physics" lake, Chen Muwu does not have much time now to pay attention to the criticism or praise of his new theory.
It's like when you were playing "Peace Elite" and you were led by a great teammate all the way from skydiving, but the great god suddenly lay motionless in the grass during the finals, and didn't respond no matter how you called him.
After losing the game, when you added friends and wanted to start swearing, you realized that this so-called master was actually just a primary school student.
And the reason why he lay on the ground and didn't move in the finals was just because the school bell happened to ring at that time.
Time soon entered October, and Chen Muwu was also about to start school.
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In the past summer, a group of people who had been with us day and night in the Cavendish Laboratory left. They will return to their home countries or go to teach at universities across the UK.
But at the same time, a group of new people with sufficient desire for knowledge have also been added to the laboratory. The inheritance of science is like this, the waves behind push the waves ahead, and it is endless.
One day before the start of school, laboratory director Rutherford asked Chadwick to gather all the professors, teachers, staff and students from top to bottom at Cavendish and asked everyone to wear formal suits. Get up and go to the Bursaas Garden belonging to the College of Corpus Christi not far from the gate of Cavendish Laboratory.
Since Rutherford took charge of Cavendish, in addition to the rule of leaving get off work on time at six o'clock, there is also a tradition of taking a group photo of all staff before the start of each year in the laboratory.
In order to take today's photo, Chadwick specially invited the best photographer in Cambridgeshire.
Naturally, the professors and teachers sat in the chairs in the front row. Taking advantage of the "advantage" of his short height, Kapitsa also squeezed into the second row of the crowd.
Silly guys like Chen Muwu and Blackett had no choice but to stand obediently in the middle of the last row and use them as the background for this photo shoot.
The photographer's head got into the cloth covering the camera, and as the shutter opened and closed, the group photo of all the Cavendish Laboratory staff in 1923 was left on the film.
This is Chen Muwu’s first photo in Cavendish, but it probably won’t be his last.
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The new semester brought a new atmosphere. After Kapitsa moved out of his room and moved into the single dormitory provided for him by Trinity College, Mrs. Brown also accepted a new tenant arranged for him by Cambridge University.
This also means that Chen Muwu has a new roommate, a taciturn young man from southwest England.
(End of chapter)
