Chen Muwu quickly stood up and even ran to Oppenheimer's side.
"Robert, where is the advertisement you are talking about? Show it to me! Show it to me quickly!"
"Okay, Teacher Chen, let me look for you."
Chen Muwu took the opened page 24 of the New York Times from Oppenheimer. The first thing that caught his eye was the fur advertisement that occupied almost the entire page.
In the upper right corner of the page, there is a tofu block that takes up less than one-tenth of the entire page. It is densely written with words. It should be the article published by the whimsical astronomer Oppenheimer mentioned:
"Helix nebulae are actually star systems: Dr. Hubbell confirms the idea that they are "island universes" similar to our own."
"Washington, November 22nd.
"Dr. Edwin Hubbell of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Mount Wilson Observatory, through observations using the observatory's powerful telescope, confirmed the idea that spiral nebulae appear in the sky as rotating clouds , are actually distant star systems, or we should call them 'island universes'.
"..."
It is estimated that the editor in charge of typesetting made a mistake and misspelled Hubble's name as Hubbell everywhere in the title and content of the article, so the person's name also became Hubbell.
But this did not prevent Chen Muwu from being able to identify that this Hubble was the same Hubble.
Whether it is his name Edwin, his place of work at the Mount Wilson Observatory, or the title of this "news", they all ultimately point to the fact that this person is Hubble.
But why didn’t Hubble publish his great discovery in an academic journal of astronomy, instead of publishing it in the New York Times first?
And judging from this meaning, Hubble is probably like Oppenheimer said, he published it at his own expense. After all, except for his "press release", everything else on this page is advertising.
Hubble Space Telescope.
Hubble asteroid 2069.
Hubble crater on the moon.
…
In Chen Muwu's memory, Hubble, with the blessing of the space telescope, should be the greatest astronomer of the 20th century.
However, the actual situation today is somewhat different from the impression in Chen Muwu's mind.
Hubble now has no voice at all in the American astronomical community. He is just a rookie who has just been involved in astronomical research for five years. He is an ordinary staff member at the Mount Wilson Observatory, just like everyone else.
In the current mainstream astronomical and philosophical understanding, the Milky Way is the universe, the universe is the Milky Way, and the two are equivalent.
But Hubble's observations overturned this perception.
The distance between the Andromeda "Nebula" and the Earth is far greater than the measured radius of the Milky Way.
This shows that the Milky Way is not the universe. There are still star systems like the Milky Way outside the Milky Way we live in.
Although in 1920, there was a big debate on this matter in the American astronomical community.
The traditional side supports the view that "the Milky Way is the universe".
The emerging side supports "there are stars outside the Milky Way."
In that big debate, the two sides basically fought to a 50-50 split, and neither could convince the other.
However, after that debate, the spokesman for the traditional side, Harold Shapley, was appointed director of the Harvard University Observatory shortly thereafter.
Some people in later generations have conspiracy theories that the reason why Shapley became a spokesman for the traditional side and supported that the Milky Way is the universe was actually to submit a letter of nomination to the conservative American astronomy community, so that he could be admitted to the Harvard University Observatory as he wished.
Hubble's observation results are extremely "outrageous" to the current astronomical community.
If he had discussed his results with his colleagues, the response would probably not have been a calm academic argument, but a dismissal notice.
And if you publish this result in an astronomical journal, you will probably hit a wall at every turn. You will not be able to pass peer review at all, and you will only receive countless rejection letters that have been printed long ago.
That's why Hubble ingeniously published the results he obtained after observing and calculating them in the New York Times at his own expense.
As for why his name was misspelled, that is a historical mystery.
Chen Muwu was very excited when he finally saw the news that had haunted him for many days.
I didn’t expect that the interview article I wrote after winning the Nobel Prize would appear in the newspaper on the same day as the advertisement Hubble bought for his own research findings. This is really a coincidence.
Perhaps God happened to throw out a leopard when he was playing dice that day, so he arranged the two manuscripts together.
Unfortunately, in the New York Times article, Hubble did not give specific data on the distance of each galaxy from the earth, which is equivalent to just announcing this phenomenon to the world.
This is a little bit not good.
The New York Times in Chen Muwu's hand was published on November 23.
But this does not mean that today is the 24th or 25th. In fact, it is the last day of November.
Because the "New York Times" printed in the United States has to be loaded onto a ship at the port and cross the entire Atlantic before it can be delivered to Chen Muwu in Copenhagen.
This journey will naturally take a week.
The Nobel Prize award ceremony will be on the 10th of next month. Starting from Copenhagen to Stockholm, you must leave at least two days to spare on the way.
Therefore, there was not much time left for Chen Muwu. If he wanted to get specific data on the distances of each galaxy before the award ceremony, he had to write to Hubble to request it.
Moreover, it was definitely too late to write a letter, so the only option was to send a telegram.
Chen Muwu did not go to the Republic of China Embassy in Denmark to trouble Xu Zhaoxiong this time. Two telegrams were sent to the United States, and there were only a few words. These small sums of money were not worth another favor.
The reason there were two telegrams was because Chen Muwu didn't know where Hubble was now.
At the Carnegie Institution in Washington, or at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California?
To be on the safe side, Chen Muwu thought it would be better to send it to both places.
Seeing Chen Muwu leave in a hurry after reading this page of the newspaper, Oppenheimer was surprised again.
Why is he leaving in such a hurry?
Could it be that he saw the fur advertisement in the newspaper and planned to buy one to wear?
Not to mention, with his teacher's height, body shape and appearance, he can wear any clothes.
…
At the Carnegie Institution, Hubble is making final preparations.
He plans to present his latest findings to his colleagues at the American Astronomical Society's New Year's meeting in a month.
So instead of returning to Los Angeles, California, he stayed in Washington, D.C., writing a speech for his upcoming New Year's Day speech.
After he read the telegram sent by Chen Muwu from Copenhagen, Hubble was quite "crying out and not knowing what to say."
Chen Muwu said in the telegram that he was on Hubble's side and on the side of truth.
He also cited a Chinese proverb "There is a sky outside the sky" to firmly support the view that "there are other galaxies outside the Milky Way."
Afterwards, Chen Muwu asked Hubble for specific data on each galaxy.
And he also expressed to Hubble in the telegram that if authorized by the discoverer, Chen Muwu would be willing to announce Hubble's major discovery to the world at the upcoming Nobel Prize ceremony.
Hubble didn't expect that his new discovery would spread across the Atlantic and reach Europe so quickly.
And on the other side of the ocean, some people soon stood up to support him.
This person is not an unknown person, but Chen Muwu, the new Nobel Prize winner in physics, the discoverer of the ninth planet in the solar system, and has made great achievements in physics and astronomy.
In the last few years when everything in the American scientific community was aligned with Europe and Europe was respected, although Chen Muwu was young, his academic status was also very high.
Moreover, Chen Muwu, who had no relationship with him before, actually expressed his willingness to announce this great discovery at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.
The contents of the telegram really flattered Hubble.
The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony attracts much more global attention than a regular meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Although there is no broadcast broadcast, there will definitely be a large number of journalists from all over the world to follow and report on this annual scientific event.
If Chen Muwu can really announce his Hubble discovery to the world at the award ceremony.
Regardless, this would be an extremely glorious thing.
The key is, maybe the results of my work in recent years will be smoothly accepted by the world.
Those stubborn old guys at the American Astronomical Society may no longer just deny the matter of extragalactic galaxies, but will have to think carefully about it.
Hubble was so excited that he didn't know what to do. After finally calming down, he immediately found the data he had measured, ran to the telegraph office, and reported it to the Theoretical Physics Research Institute of the University of Copenhagen according to the telegram address left by Chen Muwu. A call back was sent.
The reason why he was so anxious was of course because Chen Muwu noted at the end of the call that time was running out and he might leave Denmark soon and go to Sweden to receive the award.
If Hubble cannot return the signal in time, this opportunity may be missed.
…
In the end, Chen Muwu successfully obtained the specific data on the distances of these galaxies.
Hubble sent a total of the distances of seventeen galaxies, fourteen of which were among the twenty-five nebulae observed by Sriver in his 1917 paper.
The remaining three galaxies were seen for the first time. Because they did not have corresponding speeds, they could only be excluded by Chen Muwu.
Now that the speed and distance are available, and the data that can reveal the expansion of the universe is in Chen Muwu's hands, he can finally give this upcoming lecture as planned.
But he may not have much time now, because the guests who went to Stockholm to attend the awards ceremony have already gathered in Copenhagen one after another.
Kapitsa and his party, who set out from the UK, followed Chen Muwu's old path.
They also left the UK by boat from the Port of Norwich, but instead of abandoning the ship and landing in Helsingør, Denmark, they went directly to Gothenburg, a Swedish port city on the North Sea coast, and then took a train from Gothenburg directly to Stockholm. I won’t come to Copenhagen to join Chen Muwu.
But apart from them, whether it was Blackett who set off from Göttingen, Germany, or de Broglie, Ye Gongchao and Eve who came from Paris, France.
If these people from the European continent want to go to Sweden, they must go to the sea from the port of Rostock in Germany, first to the port of Geyser in Denmark, then to Copenhagen, then cross the Oresund Strait to Malmö in Sweden, and finally from Malmö Arrive in Stockholm by train.
Copenhagen is at the heart of this route.
Blackett arrived first. The two had not seen each other for seven or eight months since they separated in Brussels in April.
Although Blackett couldn't wait to hug his old friend Chen Muwu after meeting him.
But after meeting Bohr and others, Blackett remained as dull and inarticulate as ever.
It seems that the dull Germans in Göttingen have not been able to change his character.
Blackett and Oppenheimer, his "destined doom" in his previous life, also shook hands politely.
But what was different from his previous life was that after Oppenheimer learned that Blackett, like Kapitsa, was Chen Muwu's best friend at Cambridge University, he suddenly began to respect this stupid British guy.
"Chen, congratulations on winning the Nobel Prize! Oh, by the way, I should call you Dr. Chen now. I didn't expect that you arrived at Cambridge University later than me and entered the Cavendish Laboratory later than me, but you put on that enviable hat first. PhD hat.”
"Thank you, Patrick."
Fortunately, Blackett once said in a letter to Chen Muwu that he expected to graduate with a doctorate next year, otherwise this topic would be quite embarrassing.
"By the way, I'm not returning empty-handed this time."
After the pleasantries were over, Blackett put his hands into the inner pockets of his suit.
He fumbled for a long time, and what he took out was not a gift box, but an envelope.
"I heard that I am coming to your award ceremony. Professor Max Born of the University of Göttingen specially found it and gave it to me before leaving. He wanted to invite you to come to Göttingen after receiving the Nobel Prize. Tingen went to visit for half a month.
"He also specifically told me that Professor Einstein is also looking forward to your visit to Germany. If you can finally go to Göttingen, Einstein will also rush there from Berlin. He can't wait to get there." I want to meet you."
Chen Muwu smiled bitterly after hearing this. How could Einstein want to meet him?
He clearly wanted to raise an army to hold him accountable, and even went to Göttingen to kill him offline.
If he had not delivered a speech against the cosmological constant term in Einstein's field equations at the upcoming award ceremony, maybe Chen Muwu would have really wanted to accept Born's invitation to quarrel with Einstein a few times, and pick a fight with him by the way. Play mahjong and win back the money needed to travel back to the UK.
But Chen Muwu is about to give Einstein a "big gift", and he really can't see this side.
He was afraid that after meeting Einstein, he would either have red eyes or a red face, or both.
Chen Muwu decided to return to the UK quickly after the award ceremony, or possibly France, to hang out with Einstein for a while, and then explain to him slowly.
"Patrick, what a coincidence, I promised Sir Rutherford that I would return to England before the end of the year and spend Christmas with him.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to go to Göttingen to keep the appointment this time. Tonight, I will write a letter to Professor Born to apologize and inform him of this regrettable news."
Bohr, director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, who was accompanying Chen Muwu to receive guests, was not very interested in Blackett, a young experimental physicist from Göttingen.
However, he keenly captured the information in the conversation between the two.
I also studied and worked with Rutherford for several years, but why did the teacher never invite him to his home for Christmas?
There was a bit of jealousy in his heart.
…
Before leaving Paris, de Broglie had already sent a telegram to Chen Muwu, informing him of his expected arrival time in Denmark.
But Eve has always been kept in the dark. She always believed that her arrival in Copenhagen was a surprise for Chen Muwu.
So after arriving at the gate of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Eve began to follow the tall and bulky Ye Gongchao with her body hunched over.
She hoped to scare Mr. Chen, whom she had not seen for a long time, as punishment for not being diligent enough in writing letters to her after he left France.
"Brother Hanchen, I haven't seen you for a long time. I really want to hurt my little brother!"
Until now, Ye Gongchao still doesn't know Chen Muwu's "good intentions" in inviting him to Denmark.
He was sincerely happy for his family friend. Although Ye Gongchao did not understand physics, he had been immersed in Europe and the United States since he was a child, so he naturally understood the value of the Nobel Prize.
So as soon as they met, Ye Gongchao strode towards Chen Muwu.
"Gongchao, how was your studies in France? The two books you wrote sold with great success in the UK. Give me an account and I'll have someone pay you the agreed sum."
"The main reason is that Brother Hanchen's creativity and ideas are really great, and my younger brother just put in a little effort."
Ye Gongchao, who suddenly learned that he had made a fortune, was certainly very happy.
It's just that he completely forgot that Eve told him to slow down before entering the door.
So now a very embarrassing situation emerged: Chen Muwu and Ye Gongchao shook hands and exchanged greetings in front, while Aifu, who was hunched over, was neither advancing nor retreating, and Deborah was happily watching the jokes on the side.
The blushing Eve simply broke the jar and jumped in front of Chen Muwu in three steps and two steps at a time.
"Hey, Mr. Chen, long time no see!"
This time she spoke in English.
The kind-hearted Chen Muwu had no intention of revealing the "surprise" that Aifu had painstakingly prepared for himself. He still pretended to be surprised.
"Eve, why are you here?"
While saying hello, the two hugged each other in the French way.
This made Bohr on the side look dumbfounded.
According to the information sent back by Heisenberg, who had gone home for Christmas, Chen Muwu should be an upright man who is not close to women.
He did not invite the Copenhagen girls to dance at all at the welcome ball held just for him.
Apart from chatting with Yoshio Nishina, who had already left the institute, he just sat in the lecture hall for several hours.
Bohr initially thought that this was a unique Eastern tradition that made Chen Muwu a little cautious in front of women.
Unexpectedly, today, he would see another side of Chen Muwu that was extremely passionate.
Bohr felt that his junior brother was really unfathomable.
However, there is one thing to say, this little girl is indeed very beautiful and graceful. Standing together with Chen Muwu, they are a match made in heaven.
I don’t know whose girl it is, and I don’t know who will take advantage of whom if these two people are dating.
This meeting ended in a happy ending for everyone.
As the host of Copenhagen, Bohr wanted to arrange for everyone to stay in the hotel where Heisenberg took Pauli to stay last time.
Unexpectedly, the Frenchman, who had been standing by silently since the beginning, suddenly spoke: "Professor Bohr, don't bother, I have asked my servant to book a room in the best hotel in the city."
De Broglie was just stating a fact. After all, as a nobleman, he always chose the best in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation when traveling.
But in Bohr's mind, he had a very bad opinion of this rich French man.
Isn’t there just a few stinky money! If you hadn't hugged your junior brother Chen Muwu's lap and luckily picked up an electron diffraction experiment, who would have known who you are, De Broglie?
Although there will no longer be a Copenhagen School in this life, Bohr and de Broglie still stood on opposite sides of each other.
…
Now that everyone who is going to Stockholm has arrived and the award ceremony is coming soon, there is no reason to linger here in Copenhagen.
Chen Muwu's originally planned route was to go north from Copenhagen, take a boat to Helsingr, and go to Helsingborg in Sweden.
Helsing refers to the neck in the Danish-Swedish language, and here refers to the narrowest point of the Oresund Strait.
The two cities face each other across the strait and are only four kilometers apart, which is the closest distance between Denmark and Sweden.
Therefore, compared with the 16 kilometers from Copenhagen to Malmö, the time on the ship is correspondingly shorter.
Chen Muwu almost died on the North Sea when traveling from England to Denmark, so now he is a little afraid of taking a ship, and naturally hopes that the time will be as short as possible.
However, Bohr had long rejected Chen Muwu's idea, because Helsingborg did not have a railway, so they could not go directly to Stockholm from there, nor could they go to Gothenburg or Malmö, which were connected to Stockholm by railway.
Helpless, Chen Muwu could only follow the group and board the ship at the port of Copenhagen.
After boarding the ship, he held on to the armrest next to the seat tightly and closed his eyes in fear.
Bingxue's clever Eve quickly guessed why Chen Muwu was like this, so she naughtily put her mouth close to Chen Muwu's ear and whispered: "Mr. Chen, in addition to not being good at dancing, I also discovered that you are not good at dancing. A small weakness is that I am afraid of taking ships.
"How can you come to England in the future if you look like this? I don't think it's better to just stay in France, stay in Paris, and stay with me."
If you recommend a book, it can only be said that it is very strong among the works that are ranked in more than 60 places on the fantasy new book list.
In the world of cards, all kinds of myths are unparalleled.
Su Yan, a painter who traveled through time, used the rich Chinese cultural system to uncover the dusty past and create an Eastern legendary deck that suppresses all things!
(End of chapter)
