When doing things, you can’t be too selective. Traveling around to compete in the Olympics is certainly important, but you also can’t forget your roots in physics.
As soon as Chen Muwu returned to the Cavendish Laboratory from London, his teacher Rutherford called him to his office.
"Chen, you are such a busy man! I heard that you went to London to participate in a swimming competition a while ago?"
Rutherford felt very happy to see his beloved disciple again whom he had not seen for several days.
There was Bohr before him, and Chen Muwu after him. He, Lao Lu, not only achieved academic results, but also made great achievements in teaching and educating people.
Chen Muwu thought Rutherford was going to ask about the swimming competition at the Cambridge-Oxford Joint Games, so before the teacher could speak, he poured out the whole story to Rutherford like he was pouring beans through a bamboo tube.
Chen Muwu even said that he had signed up for the Olympics.
"Awesome! I thought you were just an academic genius, but I didn't expect you to be a good athlete! I was worrying about where to take my family on vacation this summer, and now I can make a decision and go shopping in Paris. By the way, I'll cheer you up for your swimming competition!" The smile on Rutherford's face became even brighter.
"Actually, I came to you today, and I have some good news to tell you. A few days ago, Victoria University of Manchester, my old employer before coming to Cavendish Laboratory, sent me a reply letter, agreeing to give I introduce past students to an entrance exam opportunity.
"This means that, to put it a step back, even if the compatriot you introduced failed to pass the entrance examination of any college of Cambridge University, there is now one more university that can protect him."
Rutherford really thought about his students. Chen Muwu only asked him for a place to study at Cambridge University. Rutherford not only nodded in agreement, but also thoughtfully found a way out for them.
"Thank you, thank you teacher, you really helped me a lot in this matter!"
"Chen, you don't have to be polite to me, train hard, prepare for the competition, and try to bring an Olympic gold medal back to our Cavendish Laboratory!
"Our laboratory has many Nobel Prizes, but we nerds can't get even one of these Olympic gold medals. It's up to you!"
That's what Rutherford said, but the "gold content" of the Nobel medal is much greater than the Olympic gold medal.
The early Nobel medals were made of gold with a purity of over 23K, both inside and out.
The Olympic gold medals were pure gold only before 1912, but now they have been replaced by cheap gold-coated silver.
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When he heard Rutherford talking to him about letting students come to study in the UK, Chen Muwu thought that after the party, he was busy studying how to sign up for the Olympics.
Now it is quite difficult to find time to return to the Cavendish Laboratory to write thesis. Chen Muwu has long forgotten that he applied for an admissions quota from Rutherford.
Returning to his familiar conference room, Chen Muwu first picked up his pen and wrote a letter to Ye Qisun of National Southeast University in Beijing.
In the letter, he did not write so many red tape polite words, but went straight to the point and informed Ye Qisun that he had obtained a doctorate at Cambridge University and successfully stayed at the school.
Then he pointed out the purpose of writing this letter, which was to ask Ye Qisun to recommend one or two students with excellent academic performance, and he would fund their travel from China to the UK, as well as a series of expenses such as studying and living in the UK.
As for the candidates for the students, leave it to Ye Qisun to make his own decision. There is no need to write a reply and let Chen Muwu confirm it.
There is also a ferry ticket to England. If you can't afford it, you can also go to Nanyang University in Sihai and go to Chen Muwu's eldest brother Chen Muqiao to find a solution.
Chen Muwu wrote another letter home to inform his eldest brother of another situation.
Don't panic when someone does come to your door, just provide them with the money for the ferry ticket.
I believe that after seeing this letter from my eldest brother, who puts his family and country first, he has no reason to refuse anymore.
This letter written by Chen Muwu had a strong purpose. He did not cast a wide net at Beida University, Nanyang University, and Lushan University, but wrote directly to Ye Qisun from National Southeast University. In fact, he was interested in it. One of his students.
As his ancestor in his previous life, Zhao Zhongyao's failure to win the Nobel Prize has always been an uneasy feeling in Chen Muwu's heart.
Now that there was an opportunity, Chen Muwu naturally thought of him first.
There should be no problem in letting him win the positron physics prize this time.
Calculating the time, Zhao Zhongyao should be working as a teaching assistant with Ye Qisun at Southeast University in Nanjing at this time.
It was not until he left Southeast University with Ye Qisun and went to the university department of Tsinghua University that Zhao Zhongyao was admitted there to study in the United States under the Boxer Indemnity.
There is still a year's time difference between these two things. If we don't stop it now, when will we wait?
It was too expensive to take a telegram from Cambridge to Tongjing. The price of sending these texts at the telegraph office was probably enough to pay for a boat ticket from Qihai to Marseille.
Anyway, Cambridge University only starts in October. This letter can reach its destination in more than 20 days at the latest by taking the Siberian Railway, which is plenty of time.
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After writing the letter, Chen Muwu took out his old friend, the typewriter, from the cabinet.
You can’t slack off in training to prepare for the Olympics, and you can’t neglect writing your thesis either.
So Chen Muwu was ready to work with both hands. The time schedule he planned for himself was to write papers in the Cavendish Laboratory every morning, and then go to the Cam River for training in the afternoon.
Chen Muwu was thinking in his mind, trying to send at least one more paper to the "Annals of Physics" before leaving Cambridge and setting off for Paris.
However, Chen Muwu had a new idea about the content of this paper.
So he pressed a new piece of typing paper under the typewriter's ink ribbon and typed a line of German "Zur Quantenmechanik (About Quantum Mechanics)" in the center of the top.
The tone of this title is really loud, as if it directly tells the readers that this will be a paper that establishes a sect.
But Chen Muwu did have the capital to write it down.
The wave equation and other things were put aside for now. After thinking about it, Chen Muwu decided to figure out matrix mechanics first.
He later carefully sorted out the development process of quantum mechanics and found that the reason why Schrödinger was able to rely on his equations and left a mark in the history of quantum mechanics was not only because of his half-dead and half-alive cat, but also because of his The timing of proposing this equation has something to do with it.
When Heisenberg proposed a theory about quantum mechanics, and Born and Jordan happened to think of using the mathematical form of a matrix to describe this new idea, it could be regarded as a gift to the physicists at the time. Big mathematical shock.
The matrix evolved from the process of solving a system of multivariate linear equations. It is basically a pure mathematical tool.
The birth of calculus itself was to solve physical problems.
Therefore, matrices are not as compatible with physics as calculus. Except when studying geometric optics, occasionally someone will take a deviant approach and use matrix optics to perform some calculations.
But other times, few people will introduce this mathematical calculation tool like a bible into physics.
So when I heard that a new theory that could explain the spectrum of hydrogen atoms had been proposed, most of the physicists at that time who were not so proficient in mathematics rushed into the library like crazy, just to understand the matrix. What kind of thing is it?
But after studying for a long time, everyone still has little understanding of mathematical tools like matrices.
At this time, Schrödinger's wave equation emerged.
Although physicists are too unfamiliar with matrices, they are very familiar with the theory of wave equations, which are partial differential equations.
Therefore, the wave equation proposed by Schrödinger was like a savior at the beginning, and it was not too much to even make others shout "my superman".
After thinking about it, Chen Muwu decided to write an article about matrix mechanics first, to give physicists a little mathematical shock.
The title he typed on the typewriter combines Heisenberg's first paper "On the Reinterpretation of the Quantum Theory of the Relationship between Kinematics and Mechanics" and Born and Jordan's second paper "On the Relation between Kinematics and Mechanics". Quantum mechanics".
Chen Muwu planned to wait until the atmosphere of matrix mechanics was in place before the paper on wave mechanics came out, and finally proved that matrix mechanics and wave mechanics are actually equivalent.
He is the one who ties the bell, and he is the one who unties it.
In this way, no one can shake Chen Muwu's position in establishing the new quantum theory.
Chen Muwu's fingertips flew up and down, typing one character after another on the keyboard.
“Theoretical quantum mechanics is entirely based on relationships between observable quantities in principle, and this article will try to build its foundations on this.
"As we all know..."
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The progress of Chen Muwu's writing of this paper was very slow compared to the previous ones.
This is partly because there are a large number of matrices and formulas in the paper that cannot be typed by a typewriter and require him to write them by hand.
On the other hand, he only had half a day to write a paper every day, and the remaining half of the day was devoted to Kang He's training.
While Chen Muwu was inquiring about registration for the Olympics and going to the embassy in London to go through the graduation procedures, Best took the members of the swimming club and spent a few days to finally dig out a five-year-old river near the Cam River. A simple standard length swimming pool of ten meters by five meters.
They also put a mosaic on the wall of the pool with cement, and introduced water from the Cam River into the pool through a water channel.
When Chen Muwu wore his new swimming trunks for the first time by the swimming pool by the Cam River, it caused quite a commotion.
Although 99% of the students at Cambridge University are boys, and the swimming club is all male, there are still many people who dislike his "indecent" dress.
Even President Best couldn't help but ask him why he came to the pool dressed like this.
Chen Muwu briefly explained the problem of friction, but thinking that seeing is better than hearing, he simply jumped into the swimming pool and motioned to Best to mark the time for him.
Facts speak louder than words. Whether these swimming trunks can help improve swimming speed will be known once you try them.
(End of chapter)
