Before the press conference ended, Chen Muwu, Dyson, Eddington and Dreier stood on the stage and let photographers take a few photos.
For a moment, the white light in the conference room flickered, and soon after, white smoke and some pungent smell began to float above the head.
Disposable flash bulbs had not yet been invented. If you want to use flash when taking photos, you must ignite a certain amount of magnesium powder and potassium chlorate mixture before each shot.
After taking the photos, the reporters left one after another. What they should consider now is how to rush back to Fleet Street in London from Greenwich in the middle of the night to see if they can remove the headlines from the front page and replace them with the latest headlines before the newspaper is sent to the printing plant. This big news.
Several major newspapers also sent more than one reporter, and those who stayed behind planned to conduct an exclusive interview with Chen Muwu, the discoverer of the new planet.
Facing these uncrowned kings, Chen Muwu knew that it was inappropriate for him to offend anyone. So he asked Eddington to come forward and drove away several media outlets that were smearing and spreading rumors about the "Eddington Beating" incident, and then asked the remaining media outlets to conduct a joint interview with Chen Muwu.
In fact, Lao Ai did not call to inform the media that had smeared Eddington and Chen Muwu in the first place.
But there is no airtight wall in the world, and our editorial offices are basically in Fleet Street, so everyone got the news.
Reporters have long wanted to meet Chen Muwu, but every time they go to Cambridge, they are always blocked by the Chancellor of Trinity College and the managers of Cavendish Laboratory.
Today at Greenwich Observatory, they finally got that chance.
Chen Muwu knew what these British people wanted to hear, so he simply skipped over his early life in China, and instead focused on how he was discovered by Einstein in the sea, and how he was discovered by Einstein after coming to the UK. I received a lot of care and help from senior teachers such as Old Thomson and Rutherford.
He also focused on the relationship between him and Eddington, who was both a teacher and a friend. Before he came to the UK, Lao Ai helped him with publishing papers. After coming to the UK, he provided him with great support in his studies and life. a huge help.
This business exchange of blows made Eddington dizzy and felt a little embarrassed.
If just now, like his ancestor Edison, Eddington took all the credit for the discovery of Planet
If Eddington, like the Lowell Observatory in the original time and space, vigorously promoted the Cambridge University Observatory as the first observatory to discover new planets, and deliberately ignored the contribution of Chen Muwu, the first discoverer, Chen Muwu would still be helpless.
But Eddington followed the old tradition of Trinity College and did not take the credit for himself.
"Give me peaches and give me Qiong Yao", so Chen Muwu did not hesitate to praise Eddington with his kind words.
This kind of story in which white people act as saviors to save yellow people is very popular with the British people nowadays, so the reporters sitting in the audience were also busy writing one by one, quickly recording every word of Chen Muwu, for fear of missing a little bit. key information.
After saying this, Chen Muwu changed the subject and his expression became serious.
"Gentlemen, the group of reporters who were just kicked out by Professor Eddington, and the newspaper they work for, all criticized Mr. Eddington, me, and my country because of the 'Eddington Beating' incident at the beginning of last year. and the nation, have carried out very vicious slanders and slanders.
“I believe that all of you who stay here are just people who still stick to your true intentions, so I also hope that you can truthfully record and publish the following words.
“After coming to the UK and entering Cambridge University, I did receive help from many teachers and friends, and I am very grateful to these people.
“However, just as real life is not as beautiful as described in fairy tales, as a Chinese, I have received far more discrimination and ridicule than the help I have received.
"In December last year, my friend George Ye, who was a top student at Magdalene College in Cambridge University, was insulted by a drunk man for no reason just because of his skin color while walking home from school. Beaten.
"Afterwards, a British friend of mine told me that the drunkard probably watched the Fu Manchu movie played in a bar near the school and was incited by the heresies advocated in it. Under the influence of alcohol, he eventually became Follow this farce.
"I am here to tell you about this matter today. I am not complaining or complaining. I just want to convey a real situation to you, and appeal to the British people who still have conscience through you, hoping that they can treat the Chinese people around them well. People, don’t always look at people through colored glasses. Everyone has two eyes, one nose, and one mouth. Apart from hair and skin color, there is no inconsistency in other places.
"But at the same time, I also want to name these people headed by Saxon Romer. They have never even set foot on the land of the East once, and they 'swear' and 'conclusively' smear China and the Chinese people. I really can't believe it." Do you know where the conscience of this kind of person lies? He starts lying all the time just to make money. This kind of person really lowers my view of the British people."
Chen Muwu didn't say anything like "Why can the Chinese find this new planet but the British can't?" because such words are likely to be labeled as arrogant and annoying. Have the opposite effect.
Moreover, Fu Manchu's literary image is that of a villain who possesses all kinds of high-end knowledge and has many doctoral degrees. If he said the above words, he would probably be used by people with ulterior motives to make a big fuss.
Maybe Fu Manchu will be given another son named Chen. In this time and space, Shang Qi will be replaced by himself.
Chen Muwu didn't know how much of his sincere speech would be deleted and how much would be retained when it appeared in the newspaper tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
But now he has a rare opportunity to speak out publicly, and he doesn't feel happy about these issues that have been pent up in his heart for a long time.
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The first person to report to the world the discovery of the ninth planet in the solar system was not the Times or the Daily Telegraph, but the British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC.
The BBC is now only a small radio station that has only been broadcasting for a year. Its broadcast signals only cover the three major cities in England: London, Birmingham and Manchester.
At six o'clock in the morning, the 2LO radio station's studio on the top floor of London's Marconi Building began transmitting radio signals to London and nearby areas through equipment on the roof.
The first news was not about the royal family or the new members of the cabinet, but about the discovery of the ninth planet in the solar system at the Cambridge University Observatory in Cambridgeshire.
From the sound of the radio, or from the front page headlines of today's morning newspapers, reporters from various news agencies in London learned about this news that could shock the world.
Therefore, the wired telegraph machines and wireless telegraph machines in various reporter stations were all in busy operation.
The code carrying the news crossed the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel to the west and east respectively, radiating this exciting news around the world with London as the center.
"The ninth planet in the solar system was discovered yesterday, from "Ramanujan" of physics and Chen Muwu of Cambridge University.
"A new brother in distant space, a new planet in the solar system discovered beyond Neptune".
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That morning, Zhu Zhaoxin, charge d'affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of China in the UK, once again read the news about the discovery of a new planet from the Times newspaper sent by the staff.
He has now mastered a rule, that is, whenever the staff sends newspapers instead of documents, and the news enclosed in red boxes does not publish content related to politics, economy, military, and economy, then This news is probably related to Chen Muwu from Cambridge University.
As expected, when he saw Chen Muwu's name in the title, a subtle expression of "I knew it" appeared on Zhu Zhaoxin's face.
After reading the news, Zhu Zhaoxin asked the staff who delivered the newspaper: "How important is this new planet in astronomy that it can appear on the front page of The Times?"
The staff felt that Mr. Charge d'Affaires asked an extremely stupid question. You all know that it has already appeared on the front page of the largest newspaper in the UK. Do you need to ask how important it is?
You know, even the news about the Great Kanto Earthquake, which killed hundreds of thousands of people, did not even make it onto the front page of The Times.
"So, this is very important news?"
"Yes, Mr. Charge d'Affaires, this is equivalent to Chen Muwu discovering another planet with the same status as the earth under our feet."
Zhu Zhaoxin's attitude seemed to be that he was asking his subordinates for instructions: "Then should we report it to the country?"
"I feel that the report should be sent to the country immediately. After all, this is a happy thing that can show the country's face and boost the ambition of the country's people."
The charge d'affaires waved his hand: "Okay, just do as you say!"
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That afternoon, when the evening newspapers in London began to appear in the exclusive interview with Chen Muwu at the Greenwich Observatory last night, the news of the discovery of a new planet also appeared in the evening newspapers in the United States.
As expected, the interview in the Evening News had a lot of cuts. Chen Muwu said how he discovered the new planet and how he was grateful to the teachers at Cambridge University for their great help. The two parts were basically verbatim.
As for Ye Gongchao's beating, he didn't talk about it at all. Only at the end of the interview did he briefly mention Chen Muwu's dissatisfaction with the Saxony Roemer and Fu Manchu series.
This exclusive interview, along with more detailed information about the new planet, was also reproduced in morning newspapers across the United States the next morning, becoming a hot topic on the North American continent that day.
Mr. Percival Lowell, the wealthy Boston man who funded the construction of the Lowell Observatory in order to search for the mysterious Planet The observatory is fighting in court.
It was precisely because of this inheritance dispute that the Lowell Observatory had to stop tracking the traces of Planet X. It also gave Chen Muwu an opportunity to find Planet X in advance.
Lowell's younger brother, Abbott Lowell, the president of Harvard University, read the news of Chen Muwu's discovery of the ninth planet in the newspaper. He felt both surprised and regretful. To his surprise, someone finally fulfilled his elder brother's last wish, and to his regret, Yes, this planet was not discovered in the observatory funded by the elder brother.
The Lowell family are all wealthy, and Abbott even thought about investing another $10,000 to donate a larger-diameter astronomical telescope to the Lowell Observatory to help astronomers complete their unfinished business.
Now that Planet
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Just as the concept of time travel was previously proposed in China and inspired the creative enthusiasm of folk cults and witchcraft, the mysterious planet X discovered by Chen Muwu this time has further promoted the astrology industry in Europe.
As a Scorpio, Chen Muwu has never believed in the constellations, but he has always known that according to later astrology, the guardian planet of Scorpio is Pluto.
But in the original time and space, Pluto was not discovered until 1930. Didn't Scorpio even have a guardian planet before 1930?
It was not until after time travel that Chen Muwu discovered that this was not the case. In the era before Pluto was discovered, the guardian planet of Scorpio was still Mars.
However, now that a new planet has appeared in the solar system, European astrologers can also consider which constellation to place this new planet on.
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Three days later, "Nature" published a short paper recording the orbit data of the new Planet X. The author was naturally Chen Muwu. This time, his mailing address was changed from Cavendish Laboratory to Cambridge University Observatory.
After the orbital data was released to the world, scientists from all over the world began to put down their original tasks, adjust the orientation of the telescopes in front of them, and observe the most famous Planet X according to the given orbital orientation.
More and more astronomical data are published in professional astronomical journals, which increasingly supports the correctness of Chen Muwu's orbit calculations.
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In China, the Lunar New Year is coming soon. Regardless of whether they have money or not, every family wants to have a good year and seek good luck for the next year.
The fact that Chen Muwu discovered a new planet abroad is far less discussed among ordinary people than the question of which market sells cheaper pork.
But in a family of intellectuals, the atmosphere is completely different.
It has been almost a year since Chen Muwu left home. The old lady's desire to find a daughter-in-law for her youngest son has gradually become dispensable as time went from being very strong when he first left home.
But around the Spring Festival this year, in the name of New Year greetings, more matchmakers and lobbyists came to Chen Muwu's doorstep to propose marriage than when Chen Muwu first left home.
Although the eldest brother Chen Muqiao was very tired from welcoming and sending off these people, he was also happy for his younger brother from the bottom of his heart.
Although the third brother is far away overseas, he is still able to continuously earn back face for the family.
The Liang-Rail Railway Administration Building located at Qihai North Station even worked overtime to produce a new banner before the Spring Festival. It said "Warmly celebrate the discovery of a new planet in the solar system by former employee Chen Hanchen", replacing the previously prepared " Celebrate the Spring Festival" in four words.
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In the inner city of Beijing, the Chinese Astronomical Society located at the ancient observatory has been extremely busy these days. Not only has the number of people visiting the house gradually increased, but invitations have also been sent to various institutions of higher learning in the capital, hoping that the Astronomical Society can send Experts, go to various universities to give popular science lectures and explain what the ninth planet discovered by Chen Muwu is all about.
Of course, their behavior was purely driven by enthusiasm.
It will take at least more than half a month for Nature magazine, which publishes the orbit of the new planet, to be transported to China via the Siberian Railway. Now, relevant people from the Chinese Astronomical Society can only learn about the new planet through information in Chinese and English newspapers. Just a few words, they are no better than ordinary people!
However, even after the "Nature" magazine is transported, it is estimated that they will not be able to start observation work immediately, because there is currently no telescope with a large enough aperture to observe Planet X.
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Dr. Shulman, the U.S. Minister to China, regretted it. Why didn't he offer more favorable conditions to invite Chen Muwu to study at Cornell last year?
After releasing such a big fish to the University of Cambridge in England, in less than a year, Chen Muwu had already made countless new inventions and discoveries in physics, and this time he even crossed over to astronomy. !
Obviously, it was me first!
Why, why did it become like this?
This Hu Shi from Beida is really a bit unreliable in how he handles things!
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Just as Schulman said, in the past year or so, Chen Muwu has proposed in physics two kinds of Chern scattering in gamma rays and visible light, one Chern universe and two in the relativistic field equation. Chen Jie, there are Chen statistics in thermal radiation, and there is the electron wave hypothesis that explains Bohr's atomic model.
In the eyes of physicists, each of these new discoveries may be something remarkable.
But in the eyes of ordinary people, all of his discoveries put together are not as shocking as the discovery of the new Planet X in the solar system.
Because after all, things in the microscopic world cannot be seen if you want to, but the starry sky above your head can be seen just by looking up.
Relying on this incident alone, Chen Muwu's influence in newspapers around the world has reached the point where the 1919 total solar eclipse verified the general theory of relativity and overturned Newton's classical mechanics.
Although there is still a certain distance between Chen Muwu and Einstein, in recent times, in the minds of ordinary people, he is definitely the most famous physicist after Einstein.
He is much more famous than Bohr, who is currently ranked second among physicists!
(End of chapter)
