Although he was still at Cambridge University, Chen Muwu had already sent Bohr a telegram in advance, informing him of the sailing time of the ship to Denmark.
However, due to seasickness, Chen Muwu chose to stay in Helsingør for the day after getting off the ship, which disrupted all the originally arranged plans.
So the next day, after Chen Muwu and Oppenheimer took a four-hour train ride from Helsingør to Copenhagen, Bohr waiting to be picked up did not appear outside the train station.
Therefore, Chen Muwu could no longer recreate the situation where Bohr and Einstein were arguing on the tram, and neither could convince the other.
But the consequence of no one picking up the train also emerged: neither Chen Muwu nor Oppenheimer spoke Danish.
In the end, Chen Muwu could only take out an envelope from his bag to which Bohr had written a letter. According to the address on it, the two of them asked all the questions in half-formed German, and then they reluctantly arrived at the destination.
Oppenheimer's German is even slightly better than Chen Muwu's. After all, he is a descendant of German Jewish immigrants.
No. 17 Bredamus Strasse on the outskirts of Copenhagen. This is a three-story building with a red sloping roof and a neoclassical style. A sign hangs prominently on the main entrance that reads "Universitetets Institut for Teoretisk Fysik" .
Although Chen Muwu didn't understand Danish, he could basically recognize that these words should be "University Institute of Theoretical Physics".
Next to the research institute were two other construction sites. As a newcomer, he didn't know that these two sites had also been taken over by Bohr, and the scale of the research institute was constantly expanding.
Chen Muwu, who was standing on the roadside, was about to enter the building when he suddenly saw a little man with black hair and yellow skin walking out of the door.
His brain was running fast. In this era, if a rich man from a wealthy family goes to study abroad at his own expense, he will basically major in either politics or economics, so that he can enter the political arena or take over his family's business after returning to his country.
There are only a few people like Xu Zhimo who are not good at politics and economics, but they are also obsessed with literary and historical subjects such as literature and philosophy, or artistic subjects such as painting and music.
But no one would study abroad at their own expense and learn some thankless pure science and engineering subjects like mathematics and physics.
So basically, all Chinese physics students studying abroad today are government-sponsored students who have passed the Boxer Indemnity Examination and studied in American universities.
It was difficult for him to see Chinese students studying physics in Cambridge or even in the UK, let alone Denmark, a small country in Northern Europe.
Chen Muwu concluded that this person must not be his compatriot, but himself.
It's really strange. Not counting those who competed with him in the Paris Olympics swimming competition, this is the first time Chen Muwu has seen a living Ben.
Chen Muwu was still standing there thinking wildly, but he didn't expect that Oppenheimer, who was more capable, had already taken the first step.
He walked up to the man, said hello politely, and then asked how to get to Bohr's office.
With Oppenheimer's character, he definitely regarded him as a Chinese, so he was so polite for Chen Muwu's sake.
"Teacher, your compatriot's English is really poor. Basically, I can only rely on blind guessing."
Oppenheimer's first words after returning were to complain to Chen Muwu.
Chen Muwu, who had just eavesdropped on the conversation between the two, was already very sure that the person was definitely him: "Robert, that person is not Chinese. Judging from his indistinguishable pronunciation of 'l''r', it is definitely him." .You don’t need to be so polite to him.”
"yes."
Oppenheimer finally found the way. He carried his luggage and took Chen Muwu directly through the long corridor to the end of the first floor.
Unlike Chen Muwu’s former roommate Dirac, who practiced asceticism like a Puritan, Bohr should be regarded as a representative figure of hedonism.
Although the entire institute does not occupy much space, he still built himself a magnificent office on the first floor.
Soon after the door knocked, the sound of "Kom ind." came from the room.
Thanks to the fact that the Danish word "please come" is almost the same as English, two people can understand this sentence.
Like Kapitsa, Bohr was also a man with extremely terrible social skills.
He was sitting behind his desk puffing away smoke when he heard the door being opened. He looked up and found a yellow man and a white man standing at the door. He immediately said hello cheerfully: "Dr. Chen, Qian." I’ve been waiting for you for a long time, and finally I’ve got you here.”
Although he had never met Chen Muwu in person, Bohr had already seen many photos of Chen Muwu from newspapers carrying news about the Olympic Games.
"Hello, Professor Bohr. I'm sorry that I arrived one day later than scheduled. This is because I got seasick on the North Sea and had to rest for one night in a hotel in Helsingør."
"That's it. I asked you why I didn't see you after waiting outside the train station in Copenhagen for a long time yesterday. Today I saw the news of the ship entering the port in the newspaper. If you hadn't happened to show up now, I wouldn't have seen you. I want to send someone to Helsingør to look for you. But I didn’t expect that an excellent swimmer would still get seasick. Please take a seat, Chen.”
There was a young man sitting on the sofa in the office just now, but when Chen Muwu and the others came in, he also stood up.
When Chen Muwu recognized Bohr, he also recognized that this person should be Heisenberg, who was now serving as Bohr's assistant in Copenhagen.
To be honest, Chen Muwu calling him young man in his heart was a bit too much, because after all, Heisenberg was a year or two older than him.
Although Heisenberg had written letters to Chen Muwu before, he never thought at the time that Chen Muwu was so young.
After seeing the real person in the newspaper photo, Heisenberg felt vaguely unconvinced.
Moreover, the question about why the electron spin factor is 2, which I had asked Chen Muwu in his letter, was actually solved first by an unknown person named Dirac from Cambridge University.
This made Heisenberg even more angry. He felt that this British guy whose name he had never heard before must not have relied on his own real talent and learning, but Chen Muwu secretly revealed the answer to the question to him.
Now that he saw the real person, he felt that Chen Muwu was nothing special. Everyone had one nose and two eyes. How could he be smarter than him? It's just some luck.
"Professor Bohr, this person is Robert Oppenheimer. He just graduated from Harvard University in the United States this year. He is Bridgeman's student and is now a graduate student in the Cavendish Laboratory."
"Chen, let me also introduce to you Werner Heisenberg, Professor Sommerfeld's student, who is now working as a teaching assistant here. You three are all of the same age, and you should get closer to each other."
"Dr. Heisenberg, I have known you for a long time. We have written to each other before."
The three people took turns shaking each other's right hands.
Bohr's words were somewhat arrogant, and he unconsciously regarded himself as the teacher of the other three.
This made Oppenheimer on the side a little unhappy, because Chen Muwu and Bohr were both students of Rutherford, and it stands to reason that the two should be equals.
Now that Bohr has done something like this again, doesn't it mean that he, Oppenheimer, has now become Bohr's disciple and grandson?
Fortunately, the physics community is far less sensitive than Deyun Society in terms of seniority. In addition, Chen Muwu was invited after all, and he was just an accessory brought by the teacher in a good mood, so he did not have a fit in Bohr's office.
Perhaps in Oppenheimer's subconscious mind, he had already acquiesced that Chen Muwu was his teacher, and he did not realize that the other meaning of Bohr's words was that the three of them were equals.
…
After chatting for a while in this office, the sun had already reached directly above our heads.
Bohr invited Chen Muwu and his party to have lunch, and by the way, he personally took the lead in introducing the layout of the Institute of Theoretical Physics building to the two new visitors.
In fact, only half of the entire three-story building is used for academic research.
Bohr not only built himself a spacious and bright office, but also used the entire second floor as an apartment for himself and his family.
The third floor located on the top floor is the restaurant, dormitories for maids, concierges and students, as well as guest rooms specially prepared for scholars like Chen Muwu who come to visit the institute.
Like the open laboratory on the first floor of the Cavendish Laboratory, Bohr also gathered all his students into a large workshop, perhaps to allow them to brainstorm ideas and generate ideas. of sparks.
When a group of people passed by the workroom, the situation inside was indeed as Bohr imagined, and there was a lot of discussion.
Although the English and German are not that standard, Chen Muwu can still feel the youth and vitality revealed from the crack in the door, which is completely different from the old-fashioned Cambridge University.
In addition to Bohr's office and this workshop, there is a well-stocked reading room on the first floor, and a lecture hall with six rows of wooden benches.
In another corner of the corridor, there are two other small laboratories. At the end of the corridor, there is a staircase leading to a dark and damp basement, where Bohr set up the main laboratory.
As expected of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chen Muwu was glad that his teacher Rutherford did not choose to visit Copenhagen, otherwise he would have been pissed off by the layout here.
"Chen, I really don't know that you still don't drink. This is the most famous Carlsberg beer in Copenhagen and even Denmark. This building of mine was finally built with the money from the foundation left by Mr. Carlsberg." .”
Sitting in the restaurant on the top floor, Bol raised his glass and said.
From the moment he walked along, Bohr's tone of introduction to the two of them was full of pride. This building should be the achievement that Bohr is most proud of besides the atomic model.
Although the atomic model seemed to have been overturned by the Chinese genius in front of him, Bohr thought that at least in this building, it would still be difficult for Chen Muwu to overthrow him.
Although the two of them only arrived here this morning, Bohr still prepared a small family dinner for Chen Muwu and the others in a hurry.
In addition to Heisenberg, who is now popular in front of Bohr, he was accompanied by his wife Margaret.
As usual, Chen Muwu didn't drink, and he wasn't interested in the Danish food on the table.
For more than three months after Ye Gongchao left, Chen Muwu always thought of his little brother.
In addition to Chinese food and the delicacies from the mountains and seas that he ate every day at De Broglie's house in France, food from other parts of Europe was basically beyond his discernment.
Among the Danish delicacies in his memory, Chen Muwu only knows that if he is not careful, he might buy the "Danish cookies" produced in Indonesia.
But Bohr was really calm. He was in the office just now, so the time was just too short.
At the dinner table, he still didn't talk to Chen Muwu about the big bombs that the latter had recently dropped in quantum mechanics. Instead, he only talked about the four swimming gold medals he won in the Olympic swimming competition.
"Chen, do you know? I almost participated in the 1908 London Olympics, but I was studying for a master's degree in mathematics at the time, so I declined the invitation from the Danish national team.
"However, my brother Harald participated in the competition that year as the captain. In the semi-finals, they defeated the French team 17-1, but lost to the British team in the final with a score of 2-0."
In his old age, the martyr is full of ambition.
Although nearly twenty years have passed, Bohr's heart still surges when he talks about his past.
"Mr. Bohr, maybe it was because you failed to participate that the Danish team could only win the silver medal that year."
People are short-tongued. Since Bohr was talking about something interesting, Chen Muwu followed suit and complimented him.
Although he knew very well that even if Bohr really competed, there would be nothing he could do to save himself.
Because in that era, as the birthplace of football, the level of football in England was truly unparalleled.
Even the athletes they sent to participate in the Olympics were amateurs, but even so, they still won the championship in that Olympics.
Of course, Bohr also knew that Chen Muwu was speaking kindly, so he did not continue to avoid humiliating himself in front of the Olympic gold medalist.
He naturally changed the subject: "How is the teacher's condition recently? I haven't been back to the UK for many years to visit his old man."
"Sir Rutherford's body is as strong as a cow. If you cover your head with a cloth, I think he is more like a young man than me. It's just that the teacher is very dissatisfied with you now. He said that you can't study theory by yourself. That’s all, why do you want to lead me astray as well?”
Chen Muwu didn't lie. His early experience growing potatoes in the countryside of New Zealand left Rutherford with a very tough body.
After coming to Cambridge University, he did not miss sports, often playing golf, cricket and swimming.
Rutherford also forced the inactive young people in the Cavendish Laboratory to walk outside more often.
So when he died of illness in 1937, Kapitsa, who was far away in Sulian, didn't believe it at all. Although he couldn't go abroad, he still wrote letters everywhere to inquire about the authenticity of this incident from his early classmates.
Rutherford's untimely death has always been a worry for Chen Muwu.
Although he risked upsetting the teacher, he always tried to persuade Rutherford to smoke less every time they met, although with little success.
Bohr, who was disturbed by the last nonsense sentence in Chen Muwu's words, was embarrassed for a while at first, but after he figured it out, he simply made his attitude clear.
"The teacher is right, Chen. I think the Cavendish Laboratory is good, but it is not suitable for you. You are still young, and you should not spend all your youth in physics like those sluggish old guys. Based on experiments, I believe that physics in the future must be a subject where theory is king.
"Chen, are you interested in staying at the Institute of Theoretical Physics? If you are willing, I can find you a professorship at the University of Copenhagen."
Bohr's words of appointment and wish made Heisenberg secretly jealous.
He also graduated with a doctorate at the age of 22 and was also a talented young man. Why did he come to Copenhagen and could only work as an assistant in the Theoretical Research Institute. But Chen Muwu hadn't done anything yet, and he was already being assigned a professorship?
Chen Muwu didn't know Heisenberg's thoughts, but he was also not interested in Bohr's conditions.
The attractiveness of the professorship at the University of Copenhagen, not only compared with the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, is even far less attractive than the theoretical professor Rutherford said he would set up for Chen Muwu in the Cavendish Laboratory. Position.
Moreover, if he stayed in Copenhagen, his immediate boss could still scold Kramers for depression and Schrödinger for having a fever. Chen Muwu did not want to cause this trouble for himself.
"Professor Bohr, thank you for your kindness. However, this matter still needs to be considered in the long term. I have a big project at the Cavendish Laboratory. We are currently seizing the time to develop the world's first electron microscope. It's really... I can’t leave for a while.”
Seeing that the proposal was rejected, Bohr still looked happy.
According to previous discussions, his junior brother would have to live in Copenhagen for a month or two. He thought that during this period, he could always find a way to make Chen Muwu stay.
The atmosphere at the dinner table remained harmonious, and it was not until the lunch was almost over that Bohr winked at his students again.
Heisenberg stood up with the wine glass in hand and faced Chen Muwu and Oppenheimer: "In order to welcome you two, our young people at the Institute of Theoretical Physics have specially prepared a special treat for Dr. Chen and Mr. Oppenheimer tonight. It's a dance, I hope you two can enjoy it, and everyone has long wanted to meet Dr. Chen, who has recently become famous in the field of physics."
Bohr's wife Margaret also echoed: "Werner is right, Mr. Chen, you young people should hang out with young people more.
"These young talents from our Institute of Theoretical Physics are the ideal lovers in the hearts of girls in Copenhagen. You can never imagine how popular these young men are in their eyes."
Bohr finally used his honey trap, and his student Heisenberg and his wife Margaret were the accomplices of this scheme.
Although Heisenberg is a little jealous of Chen Muwu now, when the teacher proposed the idea of holding a dance party, he was in favor with both hands.
He is at an age where hormones are running rampant and he wishes Chen Muwu could come to Copenhagen every day.
Oppenheimer also perked up when he heard about the dance.
Although he is an honorary graduate of Harvard University, this does not prevent him from being also a gamer.
After months of depression at Cambridge University, although he always had Chen Muwu, who was both his teacher and friend, to admire and pursue, Oppenheimer still wanted to have a good performance at the upcoming dance tonight. Indulge yourself.
The indulgence he wanted was just to dance with the girl in his arms at the ball and feel the breath of the opposite sex up close.
This is already the most exciting thing for today's young people.
As for things that go further, in Europe in the 1920s, it was still a behavior that was despised.
But Bohr's honey trap was destined to fail.
At this time, Chen Muwu was sitting in the corner of the room, watching the men and women dancing to the sound of music, and there was no wave in his heart.
The dance he danced with Eve at Debroglie's house last time has always been a threshold in Chen Muwu's heart that he couldn't cross.
At first he felt that he seemed to have fallen in love with the beautiful, passionate and generous French girl.
Second, I feel that my dancing skills are really bad and I don’t want to be embarrassed anywhere anymore, including today’s makeshift dance floor in the lecture hall on the first floor of the Institute of Theoretical Physics.
Moreover, Margaret used Nordic aesthetics to invite beautiful girls to Copenhagen. In Chen Muwu's eyes, they were completely inferior to Madame Curie's two thousand gold.
But Chen Muwu, who was sitting in the corner, discovered another very interesting thing.
It was at this dance that the two players, Oppenheimer and Heisenberg, quickly developed feelings for each other.
In the original time and space, one of these two people was the head of the "Manhattan Project" of the Allied Powers led by the United States, and the other was the head of the German "Uranium Project."
These two people and their teams once competed in the air to see which side could be the first to develop the most lethal weapon in human history, the atomic bomb.
And now, as the two young people with the best dancing skills in the audience, after the song ended, they sat side by side together - it was a rare occasion when Oppenheimer forgot about him as his teacher.
If everything goes according to the original history, then including Chen Muwu, there will be the leaders of the atomic bomb projects of three countries on the dance floor tonight.
What an evil scientist party!
But in fact, one thing Chen Muwu didn't know was that in addition to him, Oppenheimer and Heisenberg, in fact, among everyone present tonight, there was a fourth person who also directly led their country in the original time and space. atomic bomb program.
Congratulations, Lao Zhao is rarely on time today. No more laziness!
(End of chapter)
