“Danish astronomy has a long history, dating back to the time of Frederick II in the 16th century AD.
“His Majesty the King gave the astronomer Tycho Brahe the island of Wen in the Oresund Strait, and also allocated a ton of gold to build him the first observatory in Europe on the island.
“After Tycho left Denmark, King Christian IV funded the construction of the Round Tower Observatory in 1637, which was the second national observatory in the world after the Leiden National Observatory in the Netherlands.
"The Round Tower Observatory is the predecessor of our University of Copenhagen Observatory. Because that observatory was in the center of Copenhagen, the vibrations caused by light pollution and traffic factors were relatively strong, so in 1861, the University of Copenhagen built a new observatory here. .…”
Director of the University of Copenhagen Observatory, Ellis Stromgren, personally introduced Danish astronomy and the history of the University of Copenhagen Observatory to Chen Muwu, who visited the observatory.
"The spring breeze brings joy to the horse's hoof." As a new Nobel Prize winner in physics, Chen Muwu has been in the limelight recently.
As the discoverer of the ninth planet in the solar system, Chen Muwu is also regarded as a rising star in astronomy.
The term nova was also first observed and proposed in Denmark.
And his proposer was none other than Tycho, whom the observatory director had just mentioned.
Tycho did not leave Denmark as the curator said, he was driven away by the successor king.
Stromgren did not dare to neglect the young man in front of him at all, if the purpose of his coming to the observatory was to use the astronomical telescope here to discover the tenth largest planet in the solar system.
Then maybe the observatory can put up a sign next to the astronomical telescope and write "The telescope used by Chen Muwu when he discovered the tenth planet in the solar system", and then charge admission fees from tourists who want to visit to fund the development of the observatory. .
Also director of the university's observatory, Stromgren's business acumen far exceeded that of Eddington at Cambridge.
The latter only hopes that the popular science book on quantum mechanics he recently wrote can take advantage of the opportunity that its author Chen Muwu won the Nobel Prize in Physics to sell a few more copies, and then rely on the royalties earned to supplement the dismal operation of Cambridge University. observatory.
I heard that some time ago, the British royal family specially allocated an annual fund of 10,000 pounds to the Cavendish Laboratory. How come such a good thing will never come to me?
It's a pity that Chen Muwu will disappoint Stromgren this time.
He didn't come to borrow an astronomical telescope, nor did he come to discover the tenth planet. He just wanted to borrow a few astronomical journals.
“Director Stromgren, I didn’t come here to see the stars, and you can’t see the stars at all during the day, right?
"I'm just recently interested in the distance between the Andromeda Nebula and the Milky Way. I heard that the United States has been observing these nebulae for a long time, and I don't know if they have produced any results."
After hearing what Chen Muwu said about his purpose, Stromgren began to sigh sentimentally again: "Dr. Chen, I know you don't like the equipment of our observatory.
“As you can see, although our astronomical research in Denmark was once prosperous, the current situation is really getting worse year by year.
"Take the telescope under the observatory's dome, for example. We installed a fourteen-inch refractor in 1895.
“This telescope had already consumed all the financial resources of the observatory at that time, but just two years later, a wealthy American built a forty-inch refractor at the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin.
"Astronomical observation is an activity that costs a lot of money. Europe is getting poorer and the United States is getting richer.
"Sigh, I don't know when Denmark, as the birthplace of modern astronomy, will revive astronomy."
Chen Muwu complained silently in his heart, there is no chance. If you don't see it, your Danish astronomer Dreyer has gone to the UK and became the president of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Although he thought so in his heart, on the surface he still politely comforted the dejected director of the observatory. After all, he had something to ask for.
"Mr. Stromgren, the U.S. economy is nothing more than false prosperity. I think it won't be long before their economic soap bubble bursts and turns into nothing."
He revealed a huge opportunity. If Stromgren's economic acumen were stronger, he might be able to earn a two-hundred-centimeter-diameter refracting telescope from the U.S. stock market.
…
Oppenheimer went to the observatory many times and brought back to the Institute of Theoretical Physics many journals that had traveled across the ocean from the United States to Denmark, but Hubble's papers could not be found in any of these journals.
It's impossible to say that Chen Muwu only came once and found the answer he wanted. Then he would be the chosen one.
But his trip was not empty-handed, because in the database of the University of Copenhagen Observatory, Chen Muwu found a copy of "Popular Astronomy" published in 1915.
One of the articles was titled "Spectral Observations of Nebulae" and was written by Westow Sriver, assistant to the director of the Lowell Observatory.
Beginning in 1912, Sriver used films coated with photosensitive emulsion to record the spectra of nebulae, and calculated the speed of the nebula through the movement of the spectrum.
In this 1915 paper, Sriver gave the moving speeds of fifteen spiral nebulae.
In 1917, in another paper titled "Nebulae" published in the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society", Sriver had measured the moving speed of twenty-five nebulae.
The so-called Hubble's law means that the receding speed of distant galaxies is proportional to their distance from the earth.
The physical meaning behind this law is that the universe is not static, and the stars in the sky are accelerating away from us.
At the University of Copenhagen Observatory, Chen Muwu has obtained the recession speed of so many "nebulae".
He copied all the moving speeds of these twenty-five nebulae onto paper.
After carefully checking that everything was correct, he said goodbye to Stromgren and left the observatory.
All Chen Muwu needs to know now is the distance between these galaxies and the earth.
He only hoped that Hubble would do something wrong at the Mount Wilson Observatory and be able to publish these distance data according to the historical process.
…
Time passed day by day, during which Oppenheimer ran to the observatory several times, but returned without success each time.
Although he was very curious about why his teacher always read astronomy journals.
But Oppenheimer never asked Chen Muwu for the answer to this question.
He estimated that even if Chen Muwu told him, he wouldn't understand.
Mr. Chen’s knowledge reserve is deeper than the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. You must study hard with the teacher!
Although there is no news about Hubble's paper, Chen Muwu has received replies to several telegrams sent before.
His eldest brother didn't send a reply to Chen Muwu until he arrived in Harbin.
It was the end of the year, and the bank business was busy. Chen Muping, the profit-seeking second brother, would naturally not give up the opportunity to make money.
The old lady refused to leave her hometown because of her age.
Therefore, the only family member who went to Stockholm to attend his award ceremony this time was his eldest brother Chen Muqiao.
And the eldest brother's journey is not smooth sailing, full of ups and downs.
Nanyang University under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport is not short of money. As the provost, the eldest brother applied for a fund to study abroad for education.
In order to get to Europe before the awards ceremony, the steamer that took more than forty days was naturally unbearable.
So I could only go overland and take the train, and spend half a month wandering in the deserted Siberia.
However, the Zhili and Fengcheng cliques are fighting the second Zhili-Fengtian War in North China. Although the Jin-Pu railway is open to traffic, the Beijing-Fengtian railway has long been cut off.
Chen Muqiao could only take a steamer from Sihai to the north, first to Lian, and then transfer from Lushunkou to the branch line of the China Eastern Railway, that is, the South Manchuria Railway, all the way to the terminal station Haerbin.
After applying for Sulian's visa at the Harbin consulate and buying a train ticket to Europe, Chen Muqiao sent a telegram back to his younger brother, informing him of the train number and estimated time of arrival.
Chen Muwu didn't expect that the only one who came was his eldest brother.
It seems that the family is not very interested in this Nobel Prize.
Perhaps in their eyes, this award is not as good as the medal of honor that President Cao Kun sent to his home.
After all, this medal was a real marquis in the Qing Dynasty.
There is no other way but to wait for a while before using that special trick.
Many people came from the University of Cambridge. In addition to the three invited by Chen Muwu in the telegram, Kapitsa said that a science reporter from the Manchester Guardian, James Crowther, was also going together.
However, his travel expenses will be paid for by the newspaper. This reporter, who was born in Trinity College, has only one purpose of this trip, and that is to conduct an exclusive interview with Chen Muwu, the newly minted Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Speaking of reporters, after the results of his award were announced, Chen Muwu also received many door-to-door interviews in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bohr simply vacated the lecture hall on the first floor of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, and held a small press conference for Chen Muwu like he did last time at the Greenwich Observatory.
Among them are local reporters from Copenhagen, as well as reporters from the British "The Times", the French "Le Figaro", and the American "New York Times" stationed in Denmark.
Of course, neither they nor their readers are interested in esoteric scientific topics.
So regarding scientific topics, they just asked a few questions in a routine manner.
Among them, the question that most attracted the attention of many reporters present was the question from the reporter of Berliner Zeitung.
"Dr. Chen, not long ago, Dr. Einstein said in an interview with my colleague that he neither agrees with the quantum mechanics nor the probability waves you proposed, and even feels that what you proposed is inappropriate. The principle of certainty is the principle of incomprehensibility.
"How do you evaluate his statement?"
“I have always respected Dr. Einstein, because without him giving lectures in the Far East and without him recommending me to Europe, it might have been very difficult for me to achieve so many achievements.
“He was the one who led me on the path to science, and I am very grateful to him.
"However, Dr. Einstein is still a human being after all, not an omniscient and omnipotent God, so it is normal that he cannot understand what God thinks.
"So of course he makes some mistakes, it's not that unusual."
Chen Muwu's loud tone immediately cheered up the reporters present, and they all wrote down what he just said in their notebooks, not daring to miss even a single letter.
Everyone thought that Chen Muwu was criticizing Einstein's previous criticism of him, but Chen Muwu was actually paving the way for his Nobel Prize speech.
After asking questions about science, the questioning atmosphere finally became active.
After Chen Muwu achieved multiple achievements in physics, astronomy and the Olympics, and finally won the Nobel Prize, the highest honor representing science, the public's attention finally fell on him.
Everyone is full of curiosity about this mysterious Eastern man: Is he a human being or a prophet who can see the future clearly?
Some people also began to ask questions about Chen Muwu’s personal life:
"Dr. Chen, what kind of sports do you usually like?"
The reporter who asked the question was quickly ridiculed by his peers.
He also realized the stupidity of his question, so he immediately corrected it to "Besides swimming, what other sports do you like?"
Chen Muwu thought of the table tennis games he had played in the institute these days, so he gave this answer.
Some people also asked him what books he had read recently besides physics books.
This question simply suited Chen Muwu, so after recommending "Murder on the Paris Express" to everyone at the Olympic press conference, he once again recommended the new British detective writer Chandler York to readers around the world through these newspapers. The second book "No Survival".
In order to express his closeness, a reporter from the "Tokyo Nichichi Shimbun" even stood up and asked in broken Chinese with a weird tone: "Dr. Chen, congratulations on winning the Nobel Prize in Physics! This is China's first Nobel Prize and the first Nobel Prize in Asia." As an Asian, I am honored to receive the first Nobel Prize in Physics.
"The Overlord of Western Chu in your country once said, 'Wealth does not return to its hometown, but travels at night like embroidered clothes.' Do you have any plans to return to your country after winning the award? If you return to China, will you consider giving lectures here?"
I know very little about Chinese culture, so this example is not appropriate here.
Because in "Historical Records", as soon as Xiang Yu finished saying this sentence, others scolded him for wearing a crown despite being a monkey.
"Of course I have plans to return to China, but going to the university to give lectures is currently not in my plan."
Chen Muwu's answer was already very polite.
He won't go to the United States, let alone Ben?
Chen Muwu was not afraid that he would be assassinated, but he was afraid that if he really took a ship to cross Japan, he might be detained and imprisoned with a hundred Japanese girls as soon as he arrived in Yokohama, and he would be forced to lend them seeds.
Of course, some people became interested in Chen Muwu's emotional life and asked him if he was married or if he was dating anyone.
If not, what requirements does his crush need to meet? Do you want to marry a Chinese, or is that also okay with a European?
Regarding the answers to these questions, Chen Muwu could only pretend to be dumbfounded, vague and perfunctory.
…
Blackett from the University of Göttingen in Germany also wrote a reply to Chen Muwu.
On the one hand, he congratulated Chen Muwu for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, and on the other hand, he also expressed his gratitude to him for being able to pay for his own travel home.
De Broglie even sent two return calls to Chen Muwu from France.
The letter came from Chen Muwu in the afternoon after sending a message, telling him that he and Ye Gongchao would definitely go to Stockholm to attend the awards ceremony.
Another telegram was added a few days later. In the telegram, de Broglie said that Eve suddenly came to the door and asked if they were going to Sweden.
After receiving a positive reply, she said that she would also go with them.
De Broglie asked Chen Muwu to rest assured that he would select a reliable maid from his own home and ask her to take care of Xiao Chen's sweetheart along the way.
However, a few days later, when Chen Muwu received a reply from Ai Fu, he saw something different.
Eve said that she was not sure whether she could go to Stockholm as scheduled and had to go home to seek advice from her mother, Marie Curie.
This is inconsistent with what de Broglie said in the telegram.
However, the flaw in this reply letter was quickly discovered by Chen Muwu.
That is, on Eve's reply, the postmark time of the letter from the Paris Post Office was one day later than the time of the second telegram de Broglie sent him.
In other words, Eve should have already received Madame Curie's approval, so she went to find De Broglie and wanted to go with them.
The reason why she said she was not sure yet in her reply was probably because of the girl's unique reserve, or because she wanted to surprise Chen Muwu and Chen Muwu.
Boy, don’t guess what a girl is thinking, you can’t figure it out even if you keep guessing~
…
In addition to the return calls from Britain, France and Germany, Chen Muwu also received many congratulatory letters congratulating him on winning the award.
Because only a small circle of people knew that he left the UK for a visit to Copenhagen, these congratulatory letters were basically sent to Trinity College, Cambridge University, and then packaged by Kapitsa and forwarded to Chen Muwu.
Teachers and classmates from Trinity College, Cavendish Laboratory, Swimming Club and Apostolic Society of the University of Cambridge, colleagues from the physics, astronomy and sports circles, as well as Chinese students studying in Britain and France, basically before and Everyone he met and wrote sent congratulatory letters.
Among them, there were a few people that Chen Muwu didn't expect, including Prince Albert, Duke of York, Chen Lu, the Republic of China's Minister to France, and even the shady businessman from General Electric in the United States who sold him vacuum pumps at a high price.
There is not a single letter from China. It must have been too short. Those letters are still running on the Siberian Railway, right?
Chen Muwu opened these letters one by one and looked at them. The contents of the letters were basically the same.
But there are also a few letters in which everything else is written.
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, was the Chinese culture fan who met Chen Muwu at the British Embassy in France after the Olympics. He invited Chen Muwu to stay in Stockholm for a few more days after receiving the Nobel Prize.
Because Sweden is the crown prince's home court after all, he must fulfill his duties as a landlord.
Einstein also wrote a congratulatory letter to Chen Muwu.
In the letter, he praised Chen Muwu and praised his gamma ray scattering experiments and electron diffraction experiments. He said that these were great discoveries in the history of physics and that physics had made great progress.
He truly deserves the Nobel Prize.
Einstein was so attentive, but Chen Muwu didn't understand what he was doing.
Didn't he just write a letter criticizing himself not long ago, and also took the initiative to accept an interview with the Berliner Zeitung? Not only did he criticize himself, but also caused Bohr to suffer as well?
Why did he suddenly become the leader of Kua Kua Cult now?
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster. Chen Muwu turned to the second page of the letter and saw the dagger Einstein had hidden at the end of the map of Yan State.
As an elder, Einstein gave him kind words and tried his best to persuade him not to go astray again, to give up the unacceptable probability wave and uncertainty principle, to turn around, and to re-enter the broad road of the law of cause and effect.
Chen Muwu couldn't laugh or cry after reading the entire letter. No wonder Einstein praised himself to the sky at the beginning of the letter.
This is not even a letter of peace, but a letter of persuasion to surrender!
This old man is really stubborn. In his last life, he did not believe that quantum mechanics was complete until his death, and he did not know whether he could make him accept this in this life.
…
After reading so many letters, Chen Muwu's time in Copenhagen was running out.
However, Hubble's paper has never been published.
Time passed day by day, and Chen Muwu became more and more anxious day by day.
He even wanted to send a telegram to the United States and ask Hubble directly: Have you finished measuring the nebula data? If you don’t publish it in a journal quickly, what are you waiting for?
Oppenheimer could tell that Chen Muwu's recent state was not quite right, so he tried every means to help his teacher relieve the pressure.
He even wanted to ask his local classmates in Copenhagen like Cao Cao asked others in Wancheng, "Are there any prostitutes in this city?" and tried to take Chen Muwu there to relieve the pressure.
Of course, this idea only existed in his mind and was not put into practice.
But Oppenheimer found his way.
On the last day of November, Oppenheimer knocked on the door of Chen Muwu's room with a stack of newspapers.
"Teacher Chen, the New York Times reporter in Copenhagen sent us news containing the interview content from the last press conference."
"Put it over there, I don't have time to look at it now."
Chen Muwu pointed to a corner of the table in the room, where many newspapers were already placed.
"Teacher Chen, I read the newspaper and found a very interesting article in the corner of a page full of advertisements.
"There was a Dr. Hubbell from the Carnegie Institution. He placed an advertisement in the New York Times at his own expense, publishing his 'new discoveries' in astronomy:
"He actually said that the Spiral Nebula is not within the Milky Way, but outside it, just like the 'island universe' that Kant originally said.
"This man is really whimsical!"
"What? What did you say?"
Chen Muwu looked shocked.
To say it's safe, the fever has gone down and I'm in very good condition today.
I will try to make up for the previous ones in the next two days. Thank you for your concern.
(End of chapter)
