Chen Muwu thought happily in his heart that at a dinner in Paris a few days ago, the Duke of York said that funding would be given to the Cavendish Laboratory.
As a result, just a few days after returning to the UK, the money came out? It seems to be moving pretty fast!
Teacher Rutherford was also very well-informed. He not only knew that the laboratory was about to receive such a large sum of money, but also knew that he had come to Cavendish on the first day after returning from France.
As a result, after meeting his teacher, Chen Muwu realized that he had overthought things, and that it was not the same thing at all.
As soon as he entered the door of the director's office, Rutherford's familiar loud voice rang out: "Chen, you are so awesome! When you told me to participate in the Olympics, I thought that when you arrived in Paris, you just focused on it. participate.
"I didn't expect that you would win four gold medals alone. This has exceeded the number of Nobel Prizes in Chemistry in the Cavendish Laboratory, and is as many as the number of Physics Prizes!"
When Chen Muwu thought about it, it was really like this.
So far, four people in the Cavendish Laboratory, Rayleigh III, Thomson Sr., Bragg Jr. and Charles Bachla, have won the physics prize, while only Rutherford and Aspen have won the chemistry prize. Two people at a time.
However, if you can associate Olympic gold medals with Nobel medals, your teacher definitely knows how to compare.
Seeing that Chen Muwu didn't hear what he was implying, Rutherford simply stopped continuing the topic, and went on to talk about the Olympic Games: "The games you participated in were really popular. I was in the countryside of France, and I could The local newspaper read about your victory in the 1,500 meters. But when I arrived in Paris and wanted to buy tickets to watch the race, I was told that the tickets had already been sold out."
Chen Muwu smiled awkwardly. Before leaving the UK, Rutherford did say that he would go to the scene to watch his game in person.
But Chen Muwu also underestimated the number of spectators in the last few games. If he could have known in advance that the entire swimming pool auditorium would be so full, he would have saved a few tickets for his teacher and his family.
"However, Chen, since you have returned to Cavendish now, I think you should also return the focus of your work from the swimming pool to the laboratory."
"Okay, Director."
The teacher was right. The reason why Chen Muwu rushed back to the laboratory after moving home was also to get the last two wave equations out as soon as possible.
It's just that amount of money, but why didn't the teacher say a word about it?
Can the Duke of York be more reliable?
Seeing that Chen Muwu seemed a little worried and still didn't understand the meaning of his words, Rutherford finally couldn't help it this time and gave him a few words: "Chen, maybe you didn't understand what I meant. I told you to devote yourself to experiments and stop engaging in your useless theories.
"Do you know that even though I was on vacation, Bohr still didn't let me go. He even wrote a letter to France just to complain to me that you actually said that electron orbits don't exist.
"With Ralph's help, I also took a brief look at your latest paper, and apart from the annoying mathematical tools, I roughly understand what you are trying to say.
"Whether your set of mathematical tools is correct or not is something that Ralph, Bohr and Einstein should consider.
"But I have to point out another point, that is, in the Cavendish Laboratory, as an experimenter, you should rack your brains to design experiments and try every possible means to find this damn electron orbit!
"Just because you can't observe the orbit of electrons, you can't swear that electrons don't exist. You look like a coward!"
"If I thought like you, then the old director wouldn't have discovered electrons, and I wouldn't have discovered the nucleus!
"This idea of yours is wrong and must be reversed as soon as possible!"
Chen Muwu knew that Rutherford still thought that he did not conduct experiments properly, but instead thought about some absurd theories all day long, which was a very unprofessional thing, so his voice unknowingly grew louder again.
Chen Muwu, who was scolded for no reason, kept his promise and did not want to have any more arguments with his teacher: "I understand, director, when I get back, I will start preparing to trial-produce the electron microscope."
He said he was starting to prepare, but it was up to him to decide how long the preparation would last!
After leaving Rutherford's office, Chen Muwu returned to the conference room he had been away from for more than a month with ease.
Cavendish's concierge had been waiting outside the door of the conference room with a large bag of letters.
"Dr. Chen, these are the letters sent to you that were received in the Cavendish Laboratory during your absence for so many days. Since you did not leave a forwarding address, I can only collect them for you. Here it is.”
"Thank you, thank you very much."
Although Chen Muwu went to Paris, his mailing address was always in the laboratory. Therefore, it is not surprising that he accumulated so many letters in more than forty days.
Not only that, a few days ago, when Chen Muwu was moving, he had already received a letter from Trinity College, and the number was similar to the current one.
But he didn't have time at the time, so he could only leave those letters in his room first. Now that he has received this batch again, it seems that today he can only reply to these letters that have been accumulated for more than a month.
Most of the people who wrote the letters were physicists from all over the world, and the contents discussed in the letters were all related to electron spin and matrix mechanics.
The first paper on the equations of wave mechanics is now estimated to have reached the editorial office of Nature.
However, it still takes a certain amount of time to convert the paper into type and circulate it with the publication of the journal.
The most frequently stamped postmarks on these envelopes are not from Britain or Germany, but from Denmark in Northern Europe.
Bohr wrote one letter after another to Chen Muwu, first admitting that regarding the issue of electron spin, it was indeed his own poor consideration in calculating the relativistic effects.
This should be the reply to the letter Chen Muwu sent him last time.
Then Bohr wrote in his second letter that the Stern-Gerlach experiment he conducted on the ground state of hydrogen atoms used irrefutable experimental phenomena to verify that electrons have spin.
While praising Chen Muwu, Bohr also boasted a little proudly.
Bohr thanked Chen Muwu for proposing this novel but somewhat unacceptable new theory, which determined the fourth quantum number in the electron orbit and explained the physical meaning behind it. In this way, what he proposed The atomic model was finally perfected.
Bohr also stated in the letter that he planned to propose that the atomic model be eventually renamed the Bohr-Sommerfeld-Chern model in commemoration of the latter two's contributions to the improvement of the atomic model.
Chen Muwu was a little dumbfounded. Bohr must have been very excited when he wrote this letter, right?
Does he think that the building of the atomic model is about to be finally completed?
Following the chronological order on the postmark, Chen Muwu opened the third letter from Bohr.
The handwriting on this letter is much neater than that on the previous two letters, and there is no smell of tobacco on the letter paper, nor are there any holes made by cigarette ash. It should not be written by the same person.
The content of the letter well reflects Bohr's huge psychological gap.
Although it was not stated explicitly in the letter, Chen Muwu felt a strong sense of resentment coming from Bohr from every line of the words.
As if he was really a big scumbag, in order to propose the concept of electron spin, he introduced a fourth quantum number for the electron orbit, which he called Xiao Tiantian.
But in order to be able to create matrix mechanics, he gave up electronic orbits without hesitation and started calling others Mrs. Niu.
Then Bohr had to admit in his letter that the novel matrix mechanics proposed by Chen Muwu can indeed explain the spectrum of hydrogen atoms better than the atomic model, or that matrix mechanics is the correct rule that electrons should follow at the microscopic level. law?
At the end of the letter, besides Bohr, Chen Muwu saw another familiar name.
No wonder the handwriting of this letter has become neater and the layout has become tidier. It seems that Heisenberg has arrived at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen.
A month has passed, and I have sent three letters to Junior Brother Chen in the UK, but I have not received a single reply.
Could it be that there was a problem with the international postal system and that the letters were lost during delivery?
Just when Bohr was doubtful, he saw news about the Olympic Games in the newspaper.
Only then did Bohr understand why Chen Muwu had not replied to a letter for so many days. It turned out that he went to the Paris Olympics quietly and won a few gold medals.
His teacher Rutherford was really strict. He even sent him a letter about Chen Muwu, but he never mentioned his participation in the Olympics in the letter.
So after seeing the news about the Olympics in the past few days, Bohr sent Chen Muwu a fourth letter, which was also the last letter from Denmark in the pile of letters in front of Chen Muwu.
Compared with the first three letters, the content of this letter is very simple. It does not involve any advanced physics knowledge. Bohr just congratulated Chen Muwu for winning four championships in the Olympic swimming competition.
Chen Muwu suddenly felt that he had not been in Cambridge for more than a month. Although he could not receive the letter in time, it was actually good for him.
That is, he does not need to reply to the chatty Bohr's letters one by one, but only needs to express his gratitude to Bohr for his congratulations in the last reply.
As for the questions raised by Bohr in the first three letters, there is no need for Chen Muwu to reply to them one by one, because he has basically given the answers in his previous papers one after another.
…
After Bohr's last letter, Blackett, one of the three BKC masters of the Cavendish Laboratory, who had gone to Göttingen, Germany, also sent Chen Muwu his first letter after arriving in Germany.
He transferred directly from Belgium to Germany after attending the Solvay Conference at the end of April. Therefore, he did not know that Chen Muwu participated in swimming club training after returning to Cambridge, nor did he know that he participated in the Cambridge-Oxford Joint Games. Won the championship in the swimming competition.
The words in Blackett's letter are not as shy as others in daily life. To use a more modern word, his situation may be called Mensao.
I don't know if staying with Chen Muwu and Kapitsa for a long time changed his personality to a certain extent.
At the beginning of the letter, Blackett could not hide his shock at the fact that Chen Muwu won four gold medals.
After praising his friend, Blackett recounted what he had seen and heard at the University of Göttingen.
Thanks to Germany's economic downturn, he lives very comfortably here with pounds in hand. He can eat a German meal for just a few pennies.
Blackett also praised the academic atmosphere of the University of Göttingen. He said that Chen Muwu would be more suitable here than the Cavendish Laboratory.
Although the professors here are poor, their academic enthusiasm is absolutely high.
Although Blackett followed Professor Frank to use experiments to study atoms, other professors also came to the door of the laboratory from time to time, pulling Frank and himself to discuss various physics issues.
Recently, everyone's discussion has turned to a mathematical tool called a matrix. Blackett felt that this sounded very profound, and he really couldn't get in touch with it.
There was only one professor named Max Born who was a bit strange. Although he also discussed matrices in the laboratory, after learning that Blackett and Chen Muwu were good friends, he always pulled him to talk about Chen Muwu.
Blackett is a born experimentalist, and it makes sense that he would not read the paper he wrote on matrices.
However, Born's approach made it clear that the drunkard was not interested in drinking.
As one of the few physicists who is better at mathematics, it is estimated that he has now passed the stage of being confused by Chen Muwu's matrix mechanics, and has entered the next new stage of research using matrices.
So when Born and Blackett asked for information about themselves, did they want to join forces with themselves and go further and further down the road of matrix mechanics?
…
Ye Qisun of National Southeast University also sent a reply to Chen Muwu from China.
This is also thanks to the resumption of mail and passenger transportation on the Trans-Siberian Railway, which allows two people at the east and west ends of the Eurasian continent to communicate with each other once in more than forty days.
If we still travel by sea as before, these more than forty days will not be enough to complete a one-way letter.
Ye Qisun first congratulated Chen Muwu in his letter for successfully obtaining his doctorate and successfully staying at Cambridge University to teach.
He also thanked Chen Muwu for being selfless and not forgetting the education career in China after he achieved academic success. He also said that he had recommended two of his most proud students to him, and they would rush to the UK before the start of the British university. He hoped that Chen Muwu could give him some help.
Two people?
This was somewhat beyond Chen Muwu's expectation.
The reason why he was a little surprised was not because if two people came, the expenses he would have to bear would double.
In fact, Chen Muwu was eager for Han Xin to order troops - the more the better.
Even if he is allowed to eat chaffy vegetables every day, he is still willing to cultivate a few more talents.
Chen Muwu was surprised because when he first wrote to Ye Qisun, he came to Zhao Zhongyao. He didn't expect that this time he could "buy one, get one free"?
Not only did Zhao Zhongyao appear in Ye Qisun's reply, but after his name, there was also a person named Shi Ruwei.
Seeing this familiar name, Chen Muwu thought that this was another big shot, a master of magnetism in New China, but Chen Muwu didn't know before that he was also a student of Ye Qisun.
Mr. Ye is really full of talents all over the world.
It just so happened that Kapitsa had not yet turned to low-temperature physics, but still ran the magnetism division at Cavendish.
Let Zhao Zhongyao study microscopic particles with him, and Shi Ruwei study magnetism with Kapitsa. Isn't this a perfect arrangement?
…
Of course, not all of the letters piled on the table expressed praise for the several new theories proposed by Chen Muwu.
The most important letter came from Einstein.
Although the wording in his letter was very tactful, Chen Muwu could still feel Einstein's deeply skeptical attitude towards matrix mechanics from between the lines.
This time, Einstein and his teacher Rutherford held the same opinion.
Chen Muwu helped summarize it. The central idea of this letter, in fact, is just one sentence. Although the electron orbit cannot be observed, does it necessarily not exist?
This was the first time that Chen Muwu and Einstein had disagreements over physics issues.
Facing his Bole's doubts, Chen Muwu did not dare to neglect, and typed out a brief reply on the typewriter in three strokes.
He once again mentioned the "observability principle" used by Einstein when he invented the theory of relativity, hoping to convince this somewhat stubborn old man.
Since you believe that absolute space-time is unobservable, you invented the theory of relativity that abandons absolute space-time.
So I think the electron orbit is not observable, so I think the electron orbit does not exist. What is the problem?
In the letter, although he was a little unhappy because of being suspected, Chen Muwu tried his best to keep his tone humble and peaceful.
After all, in front of Einstein, he himself was still a junior.
After typing the last period on the typewriter, Chen Muwu put this reply letter and the previous reply letter to Bohr into brand new envelopes.
Then he put the envelopes he had seen on the table and those he had not yet read into categories into bags. Chen Muwu left the conference room with the bag, returned to Trinity College, and took the letters back to his room.
He wanted to find a place to have a quick lunch, and then instead of going to the laboratory in the afternoon, he would read the remaining letters one by one.
Unexpectedly, he had just returned to his room when there was another knock on the door.
"Chen, are you in there?"
This voice seemed to be that of Old Thomson, the dean of Trinity College.
"Jazz, I'm here."
Although Chen Muwu replied, there was absolutely no reason to wait in the room and let the old director push the door in by himself.
One is because Old Tom is highly respected, and the other is because he usually treats himself well.
So Chen Muwu hurried to the door and opened it first.
"How's it going? Are you still used to living in the academy?"
Old Thomson walked into Chen Muwu's room with a smile on his face.
"Thank you Sir for arranging such a sunny room for me. I like it very much."
"As long as you live comfortably, I heard someone said a few days ago that you had returned from France, but you were moving at that time, so I didn't come to disturb you.
"Today the director of the hospital told me that you went out to the Cavendish Laboratory early in the morning. I think you should have finished cleaning up before I came here to take a look around."
Chen Muwu welcomed old Thomson to the sofa and made him a cup of this year's top new tea that Chen Lu, the minister to France, gave him when he was in Paris.
Old Thomson's eyes fell on the wall behind the sofa, where Chen Muwu drove four nails and hung four Olympic gold medals on it.
"Chen, this is my first time seeing an Olympic gold medal. Can you pick one off and let me take a closer look?"
"Of course, please do as you please, ser."
Old Thomson took off a gold medal from the wall and looked at it carefully, while continuing to say to Chen Muwu: "Chen, I am very happy that you can win these for your country, Cambridge University, and Trinity College in the Olympics. Beautiful kudos.
"A few days ago, a servant of the Duke of York came to Trinity College to find me and said that His Highness wanted to donate a sum of money to Trinity College in his own name to award you a special scholarship.
“Not only that, the Duke of York will also donate 10,000 pounds to the Cavendish Laboratory every year as a fund to support scientific research.
"The royal servant also said that the reason why the Duke of York was so generous was because he watched your entire game at the Paris Olympics and even hosted a banquet for you at the British Embassy after the game.
“From the time I was director to now when Ernest is director, the Cavendish Laboratory has always been short of money.
“It is true that Trinity College is rich, but because the laboratory is directly under the University of Cambridge and there are many students in it who are not from our college, it is unrealistic to allocate funds directly from the college to the Cavendish Laboratory.
“So usually, we can only give high scholarships to Trinity students in the laboratory, hoping that they will have an easier time at Cavendish.
"I didn't expect that your few gold medals would allow the royal family to allocate such a huge sum of money. Chen, I really want to thank you on behalf of the Cavendish Laboratory."
"Sir, you're welcome, this is what I should do.
"It was indeed at that dinner that the Duke of York said that he would give me a scholarship. Now the annual scholarship given to me by Trinity College is enough to support my life, so I truthfully told him that I met him in the Cavendish Laboratory. When I arrived at the current situation, I originally wanted to see if I could get some money from the extremely wealthy royal family, but I didn't expect that His Royal Highness the Duke of York would be so generous."
While Chen Muwu was modest, he suddenly felt a little strange.
Since Thomson Sr. knew a few days ago that the Cavendish Laboratory received an extra amount of funding each year, why does his teacher Rutherford still not know about it to this day?
Moreover, Rutherford's character does not seem to be someone who hid the matter after knowing it. He would definitely use his loud voice to praise himself severely.
Today, Old Thomson approached me right after he came back from the Cavendish Laboratory. Did he just want to come and thank Chen Muwu on the pretext of watching the Olympic gold medal?
There is no need to bother, just like Rutherford, just send someone to find him in the office. Why bother to come to the door in person at your age?
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Old Thomson to speak again: "Chen, I want to ask you something, and I hope to get your help."
"Sir, you're welcome. As long as you tell me, I will do my best."
Old Thomson was a little embarrassed: "That's it, Chen, I want to introduce you to a student and let him follow you into the Cavendish Laboratory to study and work."
After hearing this, Chen Muwu was filled with questions. Why did Old Thomson want to find him about this matter? How does he have this right?
"Sir, shouldn't you discuss this matter with Director Rutherford?"
"That's the problem. This student was rejected by Ernest. But I'm very optimistic about him, so I thought of you."
Is the old dean confused? Since he is a student who has been rejected by the teachers, why does he have the right to bring him into the laboratory?
Even if Rutherford's consent was reluctantly obtained, wouldn't it cause a rift between master and disciple?
The old dean really put me on the fire to roast!
Old Thomson saw Chen Muwu's expression of embarrassment, so he didn't give him a chance to speak: "Chen, you don't have to worry, Ernest will never make things difficult for you, because you are his favorite student, and you have just done something for Calvin." The Dish Laboratory has received a large amount of research funding, and I think if you make this request, Ernest will definitely not refuse. Chen, please do me this favor!"
Please give me a monthly pass, please give me a monthly pass. Everyone, it’s the end of the month. All the monthly passes in your hands are cleared!
grateful!
(End of chapter)
