Sitting in the car, driving on the way from the train station to the residence prepared by Debroglie for Chen Muwu, the two good friends, who had not seen each other for several months, first introduced each other to each other's living conditions in the recent period.
Chen Muwu said that after finishing the Solvay Conference, he returned to Cambridge. Not only did he conduct the Stern-Gerlach experiment of ground-state hydrogen atoms, he also completed his graduation thesis, successfully completed the defense, and received his doctorate. He also got a teaching position at Cambridge University.
He said this unintentionally, but when he mentioned the word doctor, de Broglie was very happy to tell Chen Muwu that after visiting Einstein and other scientists in Germany and returning to France, he also received a doctorate.
This makes Chen Muwu a little strange. Without the paper on matter waves, how did de Broglie get a doctorate?
In the following chat, de Broglie further revealed the answer to the mystery.
Everyone probably knows that it would be too embarrassing for a doctorate student to study in the sixth year, so both his mentor Langevin and his eldest brother Maurice are secretly working hard.
In the end, they asked de Broglie to go to Morris's private laboratory to do an experiment on X-rays, write a thesis, and then get it to his doctoral defense site.
With Langevin and Morris behind him, De Broglie barely got his doctorate this time.
Hearing that his graduation process was so difficult, Chen Muwu felt more and more like he couldn't help the person in front of him.
But in the car, de Broglie, who had just received his doctorate, was very happy and called him "Dock Tochen" one after another. Chen Muwu could only play house, calling him "Dock Tochen" one after another. Todd Broglie” in response.
Unlike the last time he came to Paris, de Broglie changed Chen Muwu's residence this time.
Compared with the villa where I stayed when I went to Brussels last time to attend the Solvay Conference, this new residence has a large yard and is more like a castle than a villa.
As soon as he entered the door, Chen Muwu found the standard swimming pool that had been dug on the side of the yard.
Compared to the shabby 50 meters by 5 meters that the members of the Cambridge Swimming Club dug by the Cam River, the little noble directly arranged for people to dig a tall and luxurious swimming pool of 50 meters by 25 meters.
De Broglie even proudly introduced to Chen Muwu: "This is the construction team I specially invited for this Olympics. I asked them to completely reproduce the dimensions of this competition venue. Although the conditions are a bit crude, I think it should be It’s enough to familiarize you with the game environment in advance.”
Darling, how much did this cost?
Chen Muwu asked himself, he would never be able to do such a generous thing in front of his friends.
Best knew that nobles were rich, but he didn't know that nobles could be so rich.
He was obviously shocked by the scene in front of him. He did not expect that Chen Muwu's friend would be so generous.
The servants had already tidied up the rooms, and everyone chose one to live in.
Debroglie said that he had nothing to do in the summer anyway, so he might as well stay here and live with Chen Muwu.
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De Broglie's country house has an elegant environment, clean rooms, delicious food and excellent service.
Everything is good except for one thing, which is that the location is too far from the center of Paris.
Of course it doesn't matter to people like Chen Muwu and Best who train in the swimming pool all day long, but it's different for people like Ye Gongchao who love fun.
It was his first time in Paris. On the first day in the villa, everything he saw was new.
But after the novelty wore off, Ye Gongchao began to feel a little uncomfortable.
So on the second day after arriving in Paris, Ye Gongchao said goodbye to Chen Muwu and moved out of De Broglie's villa with his luggage.
He said that before he came to France, he had found a house in urban Paris through his relationship with the Chinese Students Association in Paris.
Ye Gongchao plans to move out in the next few days and get familiar with the situation around the campus.
When Chen Muwu started to compete, he went to the scene to cheer for him and cheer him on.
Chen Muwu originally thought that with Ye Gongchao, a gourmet, by his side, it would be more convenient to eat whatever he wanted after training.
But de Broglie never gave Ye Gongchao a chance to cook. He felt that Chen Muwu trained too much every day, so he always asked the kitchen to serve various delicacies in various ways.
Although there are indeed many inconveniences in life now compared to a hundred years later, there is no Internet, no TV, no high-speed trains and cars...
But in terms of food, the gap between now and the future is very small, and people's tastes have not changed much.
Nobles are worthy of being nobles, and the things on the dining table are all high-end gadgets that were out of reach of Chen Muwu when he was a poor student in his previous life.
But now, he was afraid that he would cause trouble before the game because of his greed, so he could only taste a little of every delicacy in front of him.
In addition to training, Chen Muwu also wanted to write a letter to Scie Ton Fa and invite him to come to De Broglie's villa, or find a time to meet him and talk about the opening ceremony.
After de Broglie learned about Chen Muwu's plan, he stopped him again:
"Chen, even in the same city of Paris, it would take a day or two to write a letter like you, from mailing to delivery to the other party. And my place is too far from the city center, so I might as well send a servant, Wouldn't it be enough to find this person at his address, send him a message directly, and invite him to visit?"
So on the second night after arriving in Paris, Chen Muwu met Scie Ton Fa at De Broglie's villa.
This man was probably in his forties, with an upturned mustache. He looked like a mix of Eastern and Western features. He seemed to be... of mixed race?
Chen Muwu cupped his hands and said, "Old sir, could you please make a trip in person? This junior is Chen Hanchen."
"Mr. Chen is indeed a man of talent. He is truly a hero who has emerged from youth since ancient times. He is an old man named Xie Dongfa, a man in limbo in Jiangsu Province."
"Thank you, sir!"
"please."
The guests and the host sat down and chatted for a while before they learned that Xie Dongfa's father, Xie Daming, traveled across the ocean to France with Zeng Jize, the British and French minister on the Qing Dynasty's envoy in 1878, and settled down to work there. He started a porcelain business and married a French wife.
Although Xie Dongfa claimed to be from Jiang Ju, he had been living in Paris, France since his birth in 1880. He only returned to Sihai once in 1902, where he obtained the nationality of the Qing Dynasty.
Xie Dongfa has a doctorate in law from the University of Paris, and by virtue of his mixed-Chinese and French identity, he can get along well whether it is with the French or the Chinese.
In 1919, Hu Zhengzhi, a reporter from Ta Kung Pao, came to France alone to report on the Paris Peace Conference that year, and hired Xie Dongfa as his assistant.
It was the two men who first announced the Chinese representative's refusal to sign the Versailles Peace Treaty to the Chinese people.
Since then, Xie Dongfa has devoted himself to the newspaper industry. This time, he was able to participate in tracking and reporting on the Olympic Games because he personally found the name of the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee.
Unexpectedly, after successfully registering, the Olympic Organizing Committee entrusted him with another task, which was to become the accompanying commissioner of the Chinese delegation.
This news surprised and delighted Xie Dongfa. Only then did he realize that his motherland, which he had only met once, actually sent athletes to participate in the Olympics.
On the list of Chinese athletes obtained by Xie Dongfa, in addition to the British "Chen Hanchen", there are four overseas Chinese in the United States who have signed up to participate in the tennis competition of this Olympic Games.
So while Xie Dongfa sent a telegram to Chen Muwu to invite him to attend the opening ceremony, he also sent a telegram to the four overseas Chinese in the United States.
But in the end, I only received a positive reply from Chen Muwu.
Although the remaining four people also sent telegrams back to Xie Dongfa from the United States, the content of the telegram was very regrettable news: these four people will stay in the United States to prepare for the Davis Cup tennis competition at the end of July and early August. , so I gave up my plan to come to Paris to participate in this Olympics.
This was the first time Chen Muwu heard that a Chinese person had actually signed up to participate in the Olympic Games. This touched upon his knowledge blind spot in his previous life.
Maybe it’s because they just signed up but didn’t finally participate, so they didn’t leave a mark in China’s Olympic history?
However, Xie Dongfa asked him another question with an embarrassed look, that is, if these four overseas Chinese in the United States did not come, Chen Muwu would have to represent China alone at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
In Xie Dongfa's thinking, today's Chinese people, even international students who have studied abroad for several years, may show a timid and petty attitude when facing big situations.
So he was very worried about whether Chen Muwu would get stage fright if the big scene of the opening ceremony was left to him alone.
This problem seemed serious to Xie Dongfa, but to Chen Muwu, it was not a problem at all.
Starting from Zhao Junhao, the reporter of Shenbao in the lecture hall of the Ministry of Maritime Industry, to Fan Yuanlian at the latest British Boxer Negotiation meeting.
Countless Chinese people who have been in contact with Chen Muwu have commented on him that this man carries a kind of pride and confidence that is hard to see in Chinese people.
Chen Muwu admired Liu Changchun, who traveled alone across the ocean to participate in the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932.
Although he failed in the end, we can still see the fearlessness in him that "even if there are thousands of people, I will go there" and "when facing a powerful opponent, you must resolutely draw your sword even if you know you are defeated. Even if you fall, you must still fight." Become a mountain, a ridge" the bright sword spirit.
What's more, this time is different from that time. Chen Muwu is now confident enough to win the gold medal in the competition.
So what's wrong with attending the Olympic opening ceremony alone?
Therefore, Chen Muwu's self-confidence was once again displayed in front of Xie Dongfa.
He reassured the latter that he could just rest assured that he would have no problem representing China at the opening ceremony and would not make any mistakes.
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After seeing off Xie Dongfa, Chen Muwu continued to train in the swimming pool of De Broglie's house in the next few days. Best was holding a stopwatch and pen and paper to provide help and advice for his training.
As for de Broglie, who had nothing to do, he first asked someone to move a chair and watch Chen Muwu's daily training by the swimming pool.
However, his curiosity was quickly exhausted just like Ye Gongchao.
So de Broglie asked someone to set up a table by the swimming pool, and randomly selected three lucky servants to play mahjong with him.
Two days later, the latest issue of "Annals of Physics" was finally shipped from Berlin, Germany to Paris, France.
De Broglie, who was enjoying mahjong, didn't pay attention at first and just threw the journal aside.
During the break after lunch, he remembered that there was such a thing, so he opened the "Yearbook of Physics" and prepared to briefly browse the opening table of contents to see if there was anything physicists had to say in the past month. New inventions and discoveries.
De Broglie was a nobleman from both France and Germany. He received a good education since he was a child, so German was not a problem for him.
He was suddenly surprised to find that Chen Muwu's name was on this issue of "Physics Yearbook".
"Chen, you secretly published another paper in the "Annals of Physics"! Why didn't you tell me about this in advance? What is this paper about?"
Chen Muwu, who had eaten and drank enough, had rested, and planned to continue training in the afternoon, did not want to waste too much time on De Broglie's issue.
Because he knew that once he started talking about this paper, he would be unable to hold it back for a while.
"Well, as you can see, the title clearly states that it is about quantum mechanics. As for what quantum mechanics is, you can read this article. I think it is quite interesting."
When Chen Muwu finished his afternoon training and came to land again from the water, he saw that De Broglie was not playing mahjong with the servants, but sitting at the table without saying a word.
"Louis, what's wrong with you?"
Chen Muwu asked knowingly.
"Chen, your paper is too difficult. I...I can't understand it at all! Did you submit it to the wrong journal? This paper should not appear in the "Annals of Physics" at all. You should go to those Try your luck with the dull mathematician!"
De Broglie replied with a depressed look.
(End of chapter)
