After disembarking from Dover and changing trains, they arrived at Victoria Station in London. After leaving the station, the three of them parted ways.
The elder Bragg returned to his unit, David Faraday's Laboratory at the Royal Institution.
Rutherford, as he told Chen Muwu on the ship across the strait last night, took the latter to the editorial office of Nature in person.
He asked Chen Muwu to submit the still-warm paper he wrote overnight on the ship directly to Sir Richard Gregory, the editor-in-chief of Nature.
"I received one paper after another, and today I finally met a real person. Sir Rutherford, you really have a good student!"
Gregory's flattery skills are really superb. In just one sentence, he can do two things in one shot.
After all, Rutherford single-handedly made their journal popular before he took over as editor-in-chief.
Although Rutherford has now stepped back behind the scenes and stepped into a leadership position, the Cavendish Laboratory under him is still full of talents and produces countless papers every year.
Their "Nature" editorial department must not neglect this big guy, let alone the unlucky "Journal of Philosophy", which offended Eddington who should not be offended, and the man behind Eddington, Chen Muwu, who seems to be even more unprovoked.
Just like what Gregory said, Chen Muwu himself has lost count of how many papers he wrote have been published in this famous magazine in later generations.
But Chen Muwu knew that he was not the first Chinese to publish a paper in Nature.
As early as 1881, more than forty years ago, Xu Shou published an acoustics paper in Nature using only simple experimental methods and primitive experimental equipment.
This Xu Shou was also a big shot. He developed China's first steam engine, steam ship and steam warship. He also translated many works on physical chemistry and other subjects.
The Chinese names of many elements on the periodic table were all written by him.
But just because Xu Shou did not have any honors in the imperial examination, he has been marginalized by the Manchu court. He could only enter the shogunate of high officials such as Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, and work as a small staff to make suggestions.
Rutherford did not respond politely to Gregory, but made his request straight to the point: "Richard, the latest issue of Nature magazine hasn't been printed yet, has it?"
"Sir, we have just arranged the layout and plan to send it to the printing house before the afternoon."
"That's great. Here is a short paper that is not too long. I hope you can add a plug and let it appear in this issue of "Nature". Don't worry, this paper will be published in the Solvay issue that just concluded. It was read out in public at the meeting, and the quality is absolutely guaranteed.”
"Okay, Sir, we will do it. I will ask them to add a few more pages for typesetting this afternoon and send it to the printing house in the evening." Gregory answered with great respect.
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After returning to Cambridge, Rutherford, who had been on the road for two days and one night, did not bother to rest. He went directly to the Cavendish Laboratory and asked Kapitsa to put down all the work at hand and cooperate with Chen Muwu in the construction of the ground state hydrogen atom. The Turn-Gerlach experiment.
"Chen, we haven't seen you for a few days. What kind of ecstasy potion did you give to the crocodile? Why did he start to care about Qi's experiment just after a trip to Belgium?"
After Rutherford finished explaining the matter and left, Kapitsa didn't understand why the director was so interested in the experiment proposed by Chen Muwu, so he asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"Not really, the director has always liked me, but you have always pretended not to see me.
"Oh, by the way, Peter, speaking of Belgium, I met your teacher in Sulian, Professor Joffei, at the Solvay Conference this time.
"After he learned that you and I were in the same group in the Cavendish Laboratory, Professor Joffe expressed deep sympathy for me.
"He said that you always chatter every day, and once you open your mouth, it's difficult to close it again. In order to keep your ears clean, he had to send you abroad."
The reason why Chen Muwu changed the topic jokingly was because he couldn't give an answer.
It's not that he has to be cheap, but that he really doesn't know the answer to this question.
From publishing papers to arranging experiments, Chen Muwu also didn't understand why Rutherford was so anxious.
I have already presented the main body of that paper at the Solvay Conference in the presence of so many physicists.
Is it possible that the teacher is still afraid that there will be a desperate academic thief who will write a paper on the Uncertainty Principle and publish it in advance, regardless of his reputation?
In fact, Rutherford wanted Chen Muwu to quickly achieve another physics achievement and use this to build momentum for him. He hoped that the Swedish Nobel Prize jury members would focus on his student. On the body.
After hearing Chen Muwu's joke, Kapitsa did not delve further into the cause of this problem.
Because he also knew that Chen Muwu had not done many experiments since arriving at the Cavendish Laboratory.
But every experiment he participated in played a decisive role in the development of physics.
Now that we have embraced the Chinese genius, we only need to follow his arrangements and hit wherever he wants.
Blackett went abroad on his thighs, and he couldn't stay depressed for a long time.
The difficulty in Chen Muwu's experiment is not the magnetic field, but the hydrogen atoms.
In the original Schiff experiment, the silver they used was a metal, so it was a single-atom molecule.
Just by applying high temperature to the silver vapor, individual silver atoms with violent molecular thermal motion can escape from the silver vapor and form a silver atomic beam after being collimated by a slit.
But hydrogen is ubiquitous in nature in the form of a diatomic molecule, with two atoms connected by covalent bonds.
To break the covalent bonds in hydrogen molecules, a higher temperature is needed.
Moreover, compared with silver, hydrogen is not only colorless and odorless, but it cannot adhere to and deposit on the surface of a glass disk like silver atoms.
How to test what ground-state hydrogen atoms will split into after passing through a magnetic field is a bigger problem than how to generate hydrogen atoms.
Therefore, compared with the experiment in the original version, this experiment has become much more difficult, both in terms of emission and collection of atoms.
Fortunately, there are not only physicists in the Cavendish Laboratory, but also many chemists.
There are specialties in the field of medicine. After Chen Muwu and Kapitsa spread a heroic message in the laboratory asking for help, someone finally sent them a piece of advice.
He proposed that during experiments, molybdenum trioxide could be coated on the screen of the receiving device, and hydrogen atoms could reduce the molybdenum trioxide at high temperatures.
In this way, hydrogen atoms that are inconvenient to observe can be converted into metal molybdenum that is easy to see.
Of course, this experiment also needs to be conducted in a high vacuum environment.
Chen Muwu felt that it was a wise move for him to trick de Broglie into buying a vacuum pump.
Now everything is ready, all we need is Dongfeng. We only need to make experimental phenomena, and after corresponding data processing, we can make the results consistent with the values obtained from theoretical calculations, and we can prove that electrons do still have their own characteristics. Spin this property.
…
After hearing the news that Chen Muwu had returned to Cambridge from abroad, Best, the president of the swimming club, had a heart that had been hanging in the air for the past few days, and finally fell back into his stomach.
So he came to the door excitedly as soon as possible.
"Chen, you are finally back!"
If he hadn't seen the dark and oily lab coat Chen Muwu was wearing, Best would have wanted to rush forward and give him a big hug.
Hearing the sound and seeing the person coming, Chen Muwu's head grew bigger again.
Not only does he have an experiment to do now, he also has a paper to write after the experiment is completed.
However, just a few days after returning to Cambridge, several groups of people had already approached Chen Muwu, and Best was even the last one.
First, there is Ye Gongchao, who is preparing to graduate in the same year as Chen Muwu.
When Ye, Ka and Chen got together for dinner, Ye Gongchao and Chen Muwu said that he decided to leave Cambridge and the UK after receiving a master's degree from Magdalen College to work at the University of Paris in France. Several years of research.
If he can receive a letter of appointment from a domestic university while in France, he will return home by boat from Marseille.
After hearing these words, Chen Muwu's first reaction was not the sadness of the separation between brothers, but that your brother has walked away, but with all my wonderful reasoning ideas, who should I let continue to catch the knife?
…
As soon as he mentioned it, the people from the Cambridge Apostolic Society met with Chen Muwu at a gathering on a Saturday.
The publishing house jointly established by everyone has begun to take shape, and the cooperation contract for the printing factory has been negotiated.
The first major issue facing the publishing house now is to publish Chen Muwu's "Murder on the Paris Express".
Because this was the first book published by the publishing house, everyone took this matter very seriously. Of course, Chen Muwu was harassed back and forth several times.
They took the trouble to come to the door with various covers and illustrations of various books, so that the "author" Chen Muwu of this book could make the final decision.
…
Then, today when Chen Muwu was in the Cavendish Laboratory, he saw Best, who hurriedly climbed ashore from the Cam River as soon as he heard the news, without even having time to change his wet clothes.
Chen Muwu feels that he is now like Li Tiemei in "The Story of the Red Lantern". He has "countless cousins in his family" and they are all the kind who "don't come to visit unless there is something important".
Best came to see Chen Muwu, naturally, about the upcoming Cambridge-Oxford Joint Games.
"Lawrence, why are you so happy today?"
"Chen, you really know how to joke. Are you asking questions knowingly? Of course it's because I heard you're back!" Best shook his head like a golden retriever, and the water droplets on his hair were thrown out in a tangential direction, " Let me tell you some good news. The time for this year’s United Games has been set, and it will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday next week. We still have plenty of preparation time!
“The swimming race is scheduled for Saturday afternoon, right after the most spectacular rowing race. There should be a lot of people coming to cheer us on.
"This time, you will definitely represent the University of Cambridge and teach those guys in Oxford, especially the arrogant and arrogant New Zealander, a lesson."
Best suddenly lowered his voice and whispered: "Chen, I heard that Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, and Prince Albert, Duke of York will both be there to watch this competition.
"One of these two princes is a graduate of Oxford, and the other is a graduate of your Trinity College.
"They came to watch the game, and the significance is self-evident."
The more Best spoke, the more proud he became, as if he had become a knight wearing armor and fighting for the British royal family.
Chen Muwu curled his lips and said in his heart that they are your royal family, not mine, so what do I have from the imperial power?
"Lawrence, as you can see, the experiment I am currently doing is very important. It is related to graduation. I don't know if it can be completed before next Saturday.
"But since I have promised you a long time ago, I will definitely participate in this game. Please don't worry about this."
Kapitsa, who had seen the whole thing, adhered to the principle of sharing the worries for good friends, and slapped his chest: "Chen, you can go to the competition without worry and win glory for our Cambridge University. I am here for the experiment!"
"Thank you, thank you Mr. Kapitsa."
Chen Muwu rolled his eyes in his heart.
He just said this because he just wanted Best to accept him as a favor. Maybe he could be used in the future?
Unexpectedly, Kapitsa came out halfway - although Chen Muwu believed that he really wanted to help him.
As a result, the gratitude in Best's heart was directly transferred from him to Kapitsa.
Alas, don't think so much, just seize the time in less than two weeks and finish the experiment as soon as possible.
There are still a lot of things waiting for him!
(End of chapter)
