After leaving the Cambridge University Observatory, Chen Muwu and Eddington walked and chatted.
It wasn't until the two of them were approaching the Kang River that Chen Muwu realized that there seemed to be someone missing from his side.
It was just because that person was usually very taciturn that he had come so far. Chen Muwu finally discovered it belatedly.
He had no choice but to apologize to Eddington, then turned back alone and hurried back to the Cambridge University Observatory.
When he heard Chen Muwu say something about Cepheids, galaxies, nebulae, and even the names of great philosophers like Kant, Dirac knew that the next relationship between him and Eddington was going to happen. The conversation probably had nothing to do with me.
After the two people left the office, Dirac became more and more bored on the sofa, so he simply settled in and took a nap.
"Dirac, Dirac, wake up!" Chen Muwu picked up Dirac from the sofa in Eddington's office.
"Chen, I am..." Dirac slowly opened his eyes from his sleep, and then he remembered where he was, "Ah! Professor Eddington, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I didn't sleep well on the train from Bristol to Cambridge last night, so..."
Dirac is now preoccupied with studying the general theory of relativity with Eddington after arriving at Cambridge, so he is very afraid of offending this leader who is likely to become one of his closest teachers in the future.
"Okay, okay," Chen Muwu quickly reassured him, "Mr. Eddington has left. He is not in this office now. Please wake up and we will go to dinner together later."
"Oh, okay, okay."
One of them is a student of Trinity and the other is a student of St. John's. As the two colleges ranked first and second in Cambridge University, they have always been in a state of "dead enemies" with each other.
There are rumors that the letter J is not included in the staircase numbers in the older buildings in Trinity College because they don’t like the initial J of John in St. John’s College.
Of course, this is just a rumor. The real situation is that there is no letter J in the ancient Latin alphabet.
So if Chen Muwu wanted to have dinner with Dirac, he had to go to a small restaurant outside the school.
Walking on the road, Dirac directly transformed into Chen Muwu's little fan: "Mr. Chen, you are so amazing. I feel that you know everything. You can even talk to Professor Eddington about astronomy. What are you talking about Cepheid?" I have never learned about variable stars in textbooks before. How did you become such a powerful person?"
In fact, Dirac always had a deep sense of inferiority hidden in his heart.
Although he is one of the best graduates from the University of Bristol, he also knows that as the top institution of higher learning in the UK, all the students in Cambridge University are crouching tigers, hidden dragons.
Before, Dirac didn't know what his level would be after coming to Cambridge.
As a result, on his first day in Cambridge, he was forced to accept a heavy blow.
His new roommate chatted with the astronomer he had admired for a long time, but he could only hide on the sofa like a mushroom.
Dirac felt that he was ruthlessly crushed by Chen Muwu in all aspects, including academic level and interpersonal communication.
Of course, the same is true in terms of appearance and height, but the informal Dirac was a little late-minded and did not notice this.
Chen Muwu couldn't read minds, so he certainly didn't know how tall he was in Dirac's heart.
At this time, facing Dirac's question, an acquaintance with a mustache suddenly appeared in Chen Muwu's mind.
So he blurted out: "I just spent all the time other people drink coffee on studying."
This was an unintentional joke by Chen Muwu, but Dirac took it to heart.
As a devout Protestant Methodist, he never smoked or drank, and was not keen on participating in group activities.
In daily life, Dirac behaved more like the Puritan with no desires or desires in Kapitsa's words than Chen Muwu.
Now that he heard Chen Muwu say that he didn't even drink coffee, Dirac felt that it was time to give up coffee.
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In "Nature" magazine, after seeing another of his disciples Bohr stand up and clearly support Chen Muwu's electron wave theory, Rutherford actually felt a little shaken in his heart.
But his wavering did not last long, because Rutherford soon saw a reply from General Electric to Chen Muwu, which was worth up to two thousand pounds, one-fifth of the annual budget of the entire Cavendish Laboratory. There was also an extra vacuum pump, which Rutherford felt they really couldn't afford.
In less than a year starting from January this year, Chen Muwu made two Nobel Prize-level major discoveries in experimental physics.
Although in name he was only a freshman graduate student, Rutherford would never dare to treat Chen Muwu as just a newcomer who knew nothing.
So after school started, Rutherford asked Chen Muwu half-inquiry and half-discussed whether he had any other ideas besides the diffraction experiment that could verify the wave nature of electrons.
Chen Muwu thought for a while, and then gave Rutherford a negative answer.
He had been collecting the Nobel Prize in Physics until 1930. Apart from the current electron diffraction experiment, Chen Muwu really couldn't think of anything else he could do.
Is it possible to get the neutron that the bearded old New Zealander opposite has been thinking about for more than ten years in advance?
However, this seems a bit too far ahead.
What's more, if neutrons were discovered ten years in advance, it would probably change the course of the world.
On the current periodic table of elements, the last element is uranium, which is ranked 92nd.
Scientists always want to know, behind the uranium element, is there any atomic number ninety-three or ninety-four with a larger atomic number?
So now they're taking every opportunity to bombard the uranium with whatever they can find.
After the neutron is discovered, it will definitely not escape this fate.
Enrico Fermi won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "discovery" of transuranic element 93 by bombarding uranium with neutrons.
Although it was later proven that what he discovered was not element 93, but nuclear fission.
This may be the most exciting own goal in the history of the Nobel Prize.
Six or seven years after the advent of nuclear fission, the Trinity nuclear test appeared in the desert of New Mexico.
In other words, the interval between the discovery of neutrons and the successful explosion of the atomic bomb was almost ten years.
If Chen Muwu develops neutrons now, even if there is a worldwide Great Depression, it will slow down scientific research that requires a lot of money, but it is estimated that at the latest before the mustache attacks Poland, this country will The first atomic bomb in space and time may appear somewhere in the world.
If this happens, wouldn't the world turn into a mess?
Also fight Starsugler, engage in air battles over Britain, and kill anyone who is unhappy. After all, gods are afraid of nuclear bombs when they fight, right?
Chen Muwu felt that it would be better to hide the Pandora's Box of neutrons for now and open it later.
After all, he still wants to set off a few more big firecrackers on the little devil's head, but this dream must be down-to-earth and achieved step by step.
At the very least, he has to wait until his building is completed and a series of supporting industries are built before he can think about rubbing a big mushroom with his hands.
How do you say that chicken soup? You must work hard secretly, excel quietly, and then surprise everyone.
BOOM!
Bazinga!
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Although Chen Muwu said that he had no new ideas recently, Rutherford failed to arrange new experimental projects for him.
He may feel that Chen Muwu is overusing his brain now. After all, even the smartest brain needs rest.
So Rutherford asked Chen Muwu to go to Cambridge University to choose some courses of interest in his first semester after enrolling.
As for the work in the Cavendish Laboratory, Rutherford still arranged for him to return to the original three-person KBC team.
However, Chen Muwu neither chose to help Kapitsa conduct his experiments on the influence of magnetic fields on alpha particles, nor did he choose to help Blackett research using a cloud chamber to take pictures of alpha particles and nitrogen.
The stubborn Chen Muwu directly borrowed the Sprenger vacuum pump developed by Francis Aston more than ten years ago.
He just didn't believe in evil and planned to use this old machine to see if he could create a high vacuum environment so that he could conduct electron diffraction experiments.
Aston is one of the professors of the Cavendish Laboratory and an academician of Trinity College. He had previously worked for the old director J.J. Thomson for a period of time.
He invented the world's first mass spectrometer at Cavendish, and used this instrument to find more than 200 natural isotopes.
For this achievement, Aston won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year.
Mass spectrometer is a classic exercise in high school physics. A beam of particles with the same speed and the same charge will produce different trajectories after passing through a magnetic field.
The larger the mass of the particle, the larger the radius of its circular motion in the magnetic field. Therefore, using this method, the presence of isotopes can be clearly observed.
Similar to Chen Muwu's requirements for electron diffraction, molecules in the air will also interfere with the trajectory of these charged particles, so the mass spectrometer must also be in a vacuum environment.
But because the mass spectrometer can also change the strength of the magnetic field, its requirements for vacuum are not as high as those for electron diffraction.
With the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, Chen Muwu borrowed the Sprenger pump.
The next step is to measure, calculate the dimensions, design drawings, and then go to the glass blower in the laboratory to blow him a strange-shaped glass tube according to the drawings.
In this way, Chen Muwu's Cambridge career gradually became more fulfilling day by day.
When there were classes during the day, he would go to class. When there were no classes, he would stay in the laboratory and continue to develop his electron diffraction tube.
After dark, Chen Muwu went to the observatory to find Eddington to learn how to find stars, how to adjust the mobile telescope, how to observe, and how to take pictures.
For the first three projects, Chen Muwu didn't need Eddington to teach him at all, but in the last project, how to take pictures of stars, he started to study seriously.
Who told him that when he used astronomical telescopes, they were directly connected to the computer screen for imaging. He had never used such an antique thing.
Eddington was very pleased to see Chen Muwu so eager to learn.
He would occasionally chat with Chen Muwu and ask him if he had done anything big at the Cavendish Laboratory recently.
Eddington actually hoped that Chen Muwu could find evidence that electrons are a wave. After all, his idea was praised by his good friend Einstein in the newspaper.
But when he heard Chen Muwu say that the experiment did not go smoothly because the Cavendish Laboratory had no money and could not afford a high-end vacuum pump, Eddington also sighed.
The Cavendish Laboratory, as the biological son of Cambridge University, has no money, and their observatory can only be poorer than Cavendish.
Damn it, how did Cambridge become like this!
Thanks to Eddington's request for leave from Trinity College, Chen Muwu would not be caught by the school supervisor who was patrolling the campus for returning home late after his observation study every night, and he would have to pay A fine of eight shillings was imposed.
Chen Muwu's classmates would sometimes come to ask him to borrow this leave request, so that they could more conveniently go to watch evening movies outside the school.
(End of chapter)
