Unlike the grand atmosphere of physics at the Institute of Theoretical Physics before the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, in which "everyone is well-equipped, young and old", Copenhagen is now deserted.
The other guests who went to Sweden to attend the award ceremony have basically returned home, and Bohr's students, like Heisenberg and Pauli, have basically returned to their own countries for Christmas.
So Bohr said he was celebrating Chen Muwu's Nobel Prize in Physics in Copenhagen. Apart from Chen Muwu and his four friends, only Bohr's family was present.
In Copenhagen, Bohr sent Chen Muwu the Berliner Zeitung from the past few days.
This newspaper has now basically become Einstein's "Queen" newspaper. They also interviewed Einstein again, asking him about Chen Muwu's Nobel Prize win, and what Chen Muwu mentioned about Einstein at the award ceremony. There are errors in the gravitational field equations, and Chen Muwu’s view that the universe is constantly expanding, etc.
This time, Einstein surrendered completely. He said that he had just learned the news and that after returning home, he would think carefully about the physical meaning of the cosmological constant term in the gravitational field equation.
Einstein also called on more astronomers around the world to conduct further measurements of these galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
If the facts are really like the data listed by Chen Muwu, and the universe we live in is indeed in the process of gradual and discontinuous expansion, then Einstein said that he would not be secretive and would admit openly that he had made a mistake. mistake.
Einstein once again shouted to Chen Muwu from the air in the Berliner Zeitung.
Einstein advised Chen Muwu that there was no shame in admitting his mistakes. He has admitted his mistake this time, and he also hopes that Chen Muwu can, like himself, admit that probability waves and the uncertainty principle are two wrong theories, and quickly give up these wild ideas.
Einstein used a move to retreat in order to advance. After a long time of preparation, he finally wanted Chen Muwu to give up the two "violent theories" he proposed in quantum mechanics.
But this time his punch hit the cotton, and of course Chen Muwu would not give in.
Chen Muqiao was a little worried about his brother's behavior. In his impression, Einstein was still the most famous and greatest scientist in the world who appeared repeatedly in major newspapers in Shanghai.
Moreover, it was this Einstein who discovered his younger brother Chen Muwu when he was giving lectures in Jihai and recommended him to study in Europe.
In Chen Muqiao's heart, Chen Muwu should not point out Einstein's mistakes on such a solemn occasion, both emotionally and logically.
The Chinese have always been very particular about respecting their teachers. His merciless criticism of Einstein was an act of bullying his teachers and destroying his ancestors.
The Luo Cheng in the Peking Opera "Silk River" didn't just bully his master and destroy his ancestors. He learned from his adoptive father Ding Yanping how to defeat two guns with a single gun, so he turned around and forced Ding Yanping to death, and suffered ten losses. Yangshou was 20 years old, so was he shot to death by Su Dingfang in the mud river at such a young age?
Although this story is mostly based on a novel, the truth is the same.
Chen Muqiao thought Chen Muwu's approach was very inappropriate, so after Bohr's reception dinner, he expressed his own opinions to his younger brother in the room.
"Third brother, I remember this Dr. Einstein in Germany. He helped you a lot both in the sea and in the letters you wrote home after you arrived in Europe.
"My family is very grateful to Dr. Einstein. Even my mother told me before I left that if I could meet Dr. Einstein when I came to Europe this time, I must thank him for taking care of you. There are good seniors.
"Isn't it a little too much for you to make the situation like this?
"I think we have to go back to the UK by land anyway. Why don't I accompany you to Berlin, the capital of Germany, after leaving Denmark tomorrow, and come to Dr. Einstein's house to keep you company?"
Chen Muwu has achieved so many achievements in just two years since he came to Europe. Now even Chen Muqiao is unconsciously cautious when talking to him.
Chen Muwu couldn't comment on his elder brother's idea, but now he was pressed for time and had heavy tasks, and he really didn't want to take another detour to Berlin.
"Brother, he has already admitted his mistake in the newspaper. If I go to Berlin now, wouldn't it seem a bit like "it is better to leave the survivors and chase the poor?"
"I personally respect Dr. Einstein very much, but one is one, and two is two. Physics is not a worldly thing. I can't mistake the mistakes he made like Zhao Gao did, right?"
Misfortunes came from his mouth, and Chen Muwu unconsciously uttered another poem that should not exist in this world.
Fortunately, Chen Muqiao didn't care about this sentence. He always felt that his brother's answer was a secret change of concept, or he wanted to persuade Chen Muwu to go to Berlin to apologize to Einstein.
But no matter how he tried to persuade him, Chen Muwu refused to listen to his opinions, which made Chen Muqiao feel deeply helpless.
The next day, the group of four said goodbye to Bohr in Copenhagen and continued their journey back to England.
From Zealand, where Copenhagen is located, to Denmark, another territory on the European continent, and then through Germany to Leiden in the Netherlands.
First take the ferry, then take the train, changing several times along the way.
Sitting on the train, Chen Muqiao was still a little dissatisfied with his brother.
Oppenheimer could tell that the atmosphere between the two was somewhat abnormal. He wanted to help his teacher and his eldest brother ease the relationship, but he couldn't speak Chinese well, so he could only worry on the side.
He couldn't bring in Ye Gongchao as a reinforcement, even though Ye Gongchao could speak Chinese and had a good relationship with the two brothers.
But at this time, Ye Gongchao was on the train, working on the manuscript in an extremely uncomfortable position.
After being deceived by Chen Muwu before, Chen Muqiao also believed that it was a good thing that Ye Gongchao wrote the George Chen series of books.
Not only can it make money, but it can also change some of the foreigners' perceptions of the Chinese to a certain extent.
Although the two brothers are currently at odds with each other, they have reached a tacit agreement on the matter of "exploiting" Ye Gongchao.
In order to divert his elder brother's attention, Chen Muwu asked him to stop worrying about Einstein.
So on the train, he confessed to Chen Muqiao and told his elder brother everything about his plan to set up a school in Europe.
Chen Muqiao was really interested when he heard that his younger brother wanted to engage in education in Europe.
But after getting excited, he felt that Chen Muwu's idea was a bit unrealistic.
A few years ago, many prominent people came forward to launch a semi-official "work-study program in France", but didn't it end in failure?
How easy is it for his younger brother to establish a school in Europe to educate Chinese students by himself?
Chen Muqiao once again expressed his concerns to his brother, feeling that his idea of staying in Europe to run a school was a bit naive.
Not to mention anything else, Chen Muqiao didn't believe that Chen Muwu could solve it alone when it came to funds.
Indeed, my younger brother won the Nobel Prize in Physics worth 100,000 yuan. The books he and Ye Gongchao wrote together also made a lot of money.
The money is quite small, and it is okay to help the two young people from Tingjing to study abroad as before.
But that’s not much. Running a school in China is not considered wealthy, so running a school abroad is a drop in the bucket.
Chen Muwu had a series of plans to make a fortune in his mind, but he couldn't tell his elder brother about it now. He could only vaguely talk about the funds, saying that there was a Swedish crown prince who was interested in Chinese culture. Qian, he just wants to know more about Chinese culture and help train a few international students.
Chen Muqiao was doubtful of his brother's statement. What he originally wanted was to let Chen Muwu, who had already obtained a doctorate, conduct research in Europe for a few more years, and then call him back to China, perhaps to Beizhou University in the north. Or find him a professor at Nanyang University in Qihai. After all, although Liang Yuan is good, it is not a home for long-term love.
But before that, Chen Muwu had shown strong resistance to returning to China, and suddenly uttered strange and incomprehensible words such as "As long as he returns to China, he will be 404".
Moreover, if what his brother said was true and the Crown Prince of Sweden was really willing to fund such a school at his own expense, this condition sounded very exciting to Chen Muqiao.
Because Chen Muwu mentioned the issue of establishing a technical school to him, Chen Muqiao understood that this school founded in Sweden should be similar to the Sino-French University previously established in France, both of which sent Chinese students abroad for work-study studies.
Although Sweden is not an established power like Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Japan, it can still rank second among the powers.
And Sweden’s geographical location is very advantageous, it is also located in Europe. If students can be sent to Sweden to study abroad, it will be easier for them to learn and understand advanced Western knowledge.
Chen Muchiao proposed another solution to his brother.
He said that maybe after he returned to China, he could personally visit the Ministry of Education in Beijing and establish relations with the Republic of China government.
Chen Muwu felt that as the provost of Nanyang University and the second person under the president, he could still talk to the Ministry of Education.
Moreover, Ma Xulun, who is now acting as the deputy minister of education, is also a native of the province, and he and I still have a friendship with each other.
If the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China really came forward, then this school established in Sweden to imitate the Chinese and French universities might really be able to get started.
Chen Muwu felt that his eldest brother should have come up with this idea from Haoxin, but he did have a bad idea.
During the current period of the Beiyang government, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China was, at best, out of money.
When four years later, the king's flag changes on the city wall, not only will they have no money, but they may also need blood transfusions back home.
Who can bear this?
Chen Muwu quickly stopped his elder brother's reverie: "Brother, I don't want to have any contact with the domestic government departments. Although I am far away in Europe, I roughly know how many government cabinets have changed during the two years I have been abroad.
"After a battle between the Zhili clique warlords and the Feng clique warlords, the little emperor who had been under house arrest in the Forbidden City for more than ten years was driven out, but Cao Kun, the president who became president through bribery, was put under house arrest by General Feng Huanzhang. .
“Nowadays, all government departments have too much time to take care of themselves, so how can they have time to take care of the affairs of my school?
"Brother, to be honest, after the ceremony, I stayed in Stockholm for a few more days, just to discuss in detail with the Crown Prince of Sweden the matter of building a school there.
“If nothing else happens, news will be heard from this school before next spring.
"I am telling you this today because I want to invite you to do me a favor and take charge of the management of the school after the school is actually completed.
"I can give lectures, but when it comes to running a school, no one I know has more experience than you, brother."
Chen Muqiao felt that his brother's idea was somewhat unrealistic.
But he didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm too much. After all, the starting point of this matter was good.
So Chen Muqiao half-jokingly agreed: "It's easy to say, as long as this school can finally be established, then I will resign from my teaching position at Nanyang University and run to Europe to keep you company."
It was his inadvertent joke that eventually became a promise that had to be fulfilled.
The four people spent a total of two days and one night on the road, and finally arrived at Leiden, a small Dutch city, on the second night.
As the hometown of the famous painter Rembrandt, although Leiden is only a small city in the Netherlands, Leiden University is the oldest and highest-level university in the Netherlands.
Over the centuries, scholars at Leiden University have also made many contributions to physics.
Christian Huygens, who proposed Huygens' principle, was a graduate of Leiden University.
It was from him that the wave theory of light gradually replaced the particle theory proposed by Newton.
The first capacitor in the history of physics was the Leyden jar invented in the Leiden University laboratory.
As the power supply source for electrical experiments, the Leyden jar is an important foundation for electrical research.
Only after the invention of the Leyden jar did people begin to study the nature and characteristics of electricity.
In modern times, Leiden University's status in physics cannot be underestimated.
Zeeman who discovered the Zeeman effect;
Zeeman’s teacher initially explained the Zeeman effect and also proposed the Lorentz transformation;
Derived the equation of state for non-ideal gases and proposed the van der Waals theory of intermolecular forces;
There is also the main reason why Chen Muwu came to Leiden University this time. Kamerlin Onnes, the former director of the Low Temperature Physics Laboratory and the first to discover the superconducting effect.
These four people are the four Nobel Prize winners in physics owned by the Netherlands so far, and they are also professors and alumni of Leiden University.
For such a small university, the number of Nobel Prizes in Physics is twice that of the United States and four times that of the Republic of China.
Bohr used his strong personal connections to help Chen Muwu find the person to receive them in advance.
Professor Ehrenfest of Leiden University, together with his two students Uhlenbeck and Gudsmit, were waiting on the platform of Leiden train station long before the train arrived.
These two Chen Muwu's peers were studying for Ph.D.s under their teacher Ehrenfest.
Without Chen Muwu, they would have been the first to accidentally propose that electrons have spin two years later.
As for Ehrenfest, he was an Austrian Jew who had acquired Dutch citizenship and was a close friend of Einstein and Bohr.
Historically, the latter two physicists, who were dissatisfied with each other, often quarreled over issues related to quantum mechanics, and Ehrenfest always played the role of mediator.
The most famous photo of Einstein and Bohr was taken by Ehrenfest at his home.
Ehrenfest was also a student of Boltzmann, a professor at the University of Vienna. In the end, he followed in the footsteps of his teacher and embarked on the path of suicide.
As soon as they met, Ehrenfest enthusiastically and chatteringly began to give Chen Muwu a welcome speech that he had prepared long ago.
"You must be Dr. Chen, Albert mentioned you more than once in his letters to me.
“At that time, he was still lecturing in the Far East, so he traveled across the ocean and sent me a letter saying that he had discovered a physics genius in the Far East.
"After you arrived in Europe, I realized that what Albert said was indeed true. In just two years, you have already provided many major inventions and discoveries for physics.
"Later, I was even afraid to receive and open every issue of the "Annals of Physics" sent from Germany.
"Because I'm afraid that your papers will be published there, and every time I read them, I realize that I really don't know anything."
This rainbow fart makes people feel really comfortable when they praise it.
No wonder both Bohr and Einstein could become friends with this Ehrenfest.
Chen Muwu quickly said politely: "Professor Ehrenfest, you are really flattering."
"Dr. Chen, you don't have to be modest. What I said is true. If you hadn't achieved so many achievements, Sweden would not have awarded you the Nobel Prize in Physics this year.
"Professor Einthoven has also returned to Leiden University a few days ago. The school plans to help you and him hold a celebration banquet to celebrate the two of you winning this year's Nobel Prize."
Einthoven, this year's Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, is also a professor at Leiden University.
More than half a month ago, Einthoven and Chen Muwu arrived in Stockholm to receive the award.
Now, the two of them came to Leiden in the Netherlands one after another.
Fate, wonderful beyond words.
Uhlenbeck and Gudsmit stepped forward to help several people carry their luggage, and then several people took the tram to Ehrenfest's house in Leiden.
Chen Muwu suddenly realized that after coming to Europe, he went to France, Denmark, Sweden, and now the Netherlands again.
Each time, I stayed in other people's homes, never even once in a hotel.
Your connections seem to be okay, huh?
After a simple dinner, Ehrenfest invited the guests to the living room to chat.
Everyone also knew that Ehrenfest mainly wanted to chat with Chen Muwu.
So Chen Muqiao used the excuse that he was tired from the journey and planned to rest first, while Ye Gongchao was sent to his room to continue working on the manuscript.
Only Oppenheimer stayed with his teacher, and he would not give up any opportunity to meet with his physics seniors.
Ehrenfest first chatted with Chen Muwu and introduced to him Leiden University’s plan for the Nobel Prize celebration banquet.
He also informed Chen Muwu that he had made contact with the Low Temperature Physics Laboratory and could take him to the laboratory to visit and communicate at any time.
Then Ehrenfest introduced the scenery around Leiden and invited him to visit the most famous windmill in the city if he had time.
After chatting for so long, Ehrenfest, who said "Xiangzhuang dances with swords, aiming at Peigong", finally accidentally chatted with Chen Muwu about the next topic.
"Dr. Chen, last year, Albert and I exchanged many letters.
"At that time, Albert praised you frequently in his letters, and even told me that the most important discovery in his life was not the theory of relativity, but Dr. Chen.
“However, in the few letters Albert wrote to me recently, he had some fears about the probability wave and the uncertainty principle you mentioned.
"Albert always felt that the world should not be like what you described in quantum mechanics. He even wrote to me in a letter that he felt that you had created a monster with claws and teeth that wanted to destroy the law of cause and effect in this world.
"To be honest, I haven't fully understood the quantum mechanics you created and several concepts that have been developed based on quantum mechanics. It's hard for you to evaluate the relationship between you and Albert. Who is right and who is wrong.
"Albert has no malicious intentions, he is just a little stubborn in the pursuit of truth.
"You two had such a good relationship before, but now your differences are getting bigger and bigger because of your different opinions on physics. I always feel that this is not a good thing.
"Dr. Chen, I have a heartfelt request. After your affairs at Leiden University are settled, how about we go to Berlin together, or I write a letter to invite Albert to Leiden?"
"Putting it off like this is not the answer to the problem between the two of you. The relationship will only get worse.
"It's better to meet in person, have an academic discussion, and explain clearly the problems and conflicts between each other."
Yes, this is another lobbyist.
It is estimated that Einstein did not know that Chen Muwu had come to Leiden University, and Ehrenfest did not have time to write to him to inform him.
Ehrenfest was able to say these words to Chen Muwu because he was completely following his own heart. This person should be dedicated to the development of physics and did not want him and Einstein to turn against each other because of academic issues.
In his previous life, the two people he mediated between were Bohr and Einstein.
Only this time, Bohr's position was replaced by Chen Muwu.
(End of chapter)
