The year before last, Eddington did give Chen Muwu a copy of his book as soon as it was published.
Chen Muwu also said politely at that time that he would definitely read it when he had time.
But this time has dragged on for two years, and Chen Muwu has never opened Eddington's book.
He feels very embarrassed now.
It felt like I had already said good night to someone on WeChat, and then someone caught me in the act while I was munching on the delicious lamb kidneys at the barbecue stall downstairs.
Chen Muwu's first reaction was to try to quibble and see if he could smooth over the matter.
But he thought that he would be wrong if he said too much, so he could only admit to Eddington very embarrassedly that he had indeed not read the book he wrote.
Of course, Eddington was not really furious because of such a big or small thing. He just had a resentment in his heart that he could not vent out.
After all, anyone who works so hard to write a book and gives it to others, only to learn a few years later that no one else has read it at all, will definitely be angry after knowing the truth.
Chen Muwu decided to divert the conflict and stage a confrontation between Li Daitao and Li Daitao.
What Eddington means is that he certainly agrees with the theory of cosmic expansion, and he also believes that the various equations and concepts summarized by Chen Muwu in quantum mechanics are all important discoveries in physics.
But the man who was coming to England didn't think so.
Chen Muwu thought that maybe he could ask Eddington for help and persuade his stubborn old friend.
"Mr. Eddington, did you know that Dr. Einstein is going to the Royal Society in London to receive this year's Copley Medal?"
"I know there is such a thing."
"Sir Rutherford told me that there is no need to go to the site to receive the medal, but after the Royal Society sent a letter to Einstein, he still stated that he would go to the site to receive the medal in person.
"I always feel that receiving the medal is just one of his excuses for being in the UK. Dr. Einstein's real purpose may be to come to the UK to teach me a lesson."
"I don't understand what you mean, Chen."
What he said was indeed meaningless. Eddington could not connect the Copley Medal with teaching Chen Muwu.
After Chen Muwu could only propose the probability wave interpretation of the wave equation and the uncertainty principle, Einstein expressed directly or indirectly many times that he did not accept these two concepts.
Not only did he write letters to persuade Chen Muwu to give up his fallacies, but he also voiced his opposition through the Berliner Zeitung on many occasions. After Chen Muwu won the Nobel Prize, he also asked Blackett to leave a message to him through Born of the University of Göttingen and invite him Go to Germany for an exchange visit.
His two good friends Bohr and Ehrenfest also intended to mediate the academic conflicts between him and Chen Muwu.
The latter, under the guise of mediation, secretly hoped that Chen Muwu would surrender to Einstein.
Faced with such waves of offensives, Chen Muwu has been retreating again and again, hoping to win the gold medal.
But now that Einstein has opened the door, Chen Muwu can only accept the challenge.
I just hope that Einstein is not a patriot and doesn't scold him at the end for being a young man without martial ethics.
While describing a series of things that happened during this period to Eddington, Chen Muwu also wanted to understand why after he put forward many views of quantum mechanics, he did not compete with Einstein like Bohr did.
After all, it was because I was too young and did not accumulate a lot of academic reputation like Bohr because of his atomic model. Even if he could not catch up with Einstein, he could still be the first person under him.
Now one is a young man with less than two years of academic life, and the other is a leader who has been engaged in academic research for twenty years since publishing a paper on the photoelectric effect.
Although Chen Muwu won the Nobel Prize, there are still many people in the world who are vaguely biased towards Einstein in this debate because of his status and reputation.
Chen Muwu felt that if he wanted to establish a school of thought like Bohr, he still had a long way to go.
Listening to Chen Muwu's story, Eddington also frowned.
As an old friend, I seem to have gone a bit too far on this issue.
Chen Muwu has made the wave equation, probability wave and uncertainty principle describing the motion state of electrons clear and well-founded in several papers.
But why does he continue to oppose these views?
Eddington seemed to have forgotten that the reason he came to Chen Muwu this time was actually to challenge him.
Instead, he comforted him: "Chen, I firmly believe that the views you put forward in quantum mechanics are correct. If Albert really wants to trouble you, I will always be on your side.
"Also, you can go find Professor Russell of Trinity College about the theory of causation that Albert has always insisted on. Maybe he can bring you unexpected surprises."
Although their subjects and majors were different, Chen Muwu and Russell were very familiar with each other. It was he who recruited him into the Apostolic Society of Cambridge University.
But he didn't understand why Eddington introduced him to a philosopher to help?
However, Chen Muwu still did as he was told. At the first regular gathering of the Apostolic Society when he returned to Cambridge University, and after finishing the ceremony held by the apostles to celebrate his winning of the Nobel Prize, he mentioned to Russell the recent relationship between him and his love. A series of unpleasant things happened between Einstein.
Chen Muwu asked Russell if he had any opinions on the different academic views between him and Einstein.
Starting from David Hume, these British philosophers have never treated the theory of causality as a golden rule.
Today, the British philosophical community generally believes that causality is a complex phenomenon that is difficult to accurately capture, and is not a simple logical relationship of "because...so...".
After listening to Chen Muwu briefly talk about several controversies in quantum mechanics today, Russell was very interested in several of the ideas.
He believes that the "observability principle" proposed by Mach cited by Chen Muwu when abandoning electron orbits is consistent with the epistemology in empiricist philosophy.
The uncertainty principle also reflects the complexity of causality, which is what British philosophers have always insisted on.
Russell, a fellow of the Royal Society, expressed support for Chen Muwu and his quantum mechanics.
He also promised that if Einstein challenged him during the awarding of several medals by the Royal Society, Russell would stand by him and say a few words to him.
Chen Muwu originally thought that being elected as a fellow of the Royal Society would be quite an honor.
Unexpectedly, just anyone around me is a fellow. This does not mean that this status is not valuable, but it only means that the strength and level of Cambridge University are too strong.
Now that I have Eddington and Russell by my side, I wonder if I can fight Einstein?
After finally sorting out all the things accumulated over the past few days, Chen Muwu could return to the Cavendish Laboratory.
After more than two months of absence, the laboratory gave Chen Muwu a "big gift" on the first day he returned.
Someone wrote a little poem in an electronic tone and posted it prominently on the notice board outside the door of the Cavendish Laboratory.
"Oh, hear our sad electronic plea to you,
"Please free us from the domination of the pesky quantum perspective,
“Because we are all abandoned by its terrible uncertainty.
"Except for you, our hero! I beg you to give us our freedom!
"In the past, we have always lived in a pleasant order,
"Following a classic equation, he tells us where to go.
“We vibrate in the atom, and there’s a beam of light.
“We don’t have any structure, just mass, charge and velocity.
"But now, everything has changed. We don't know whether we are particles, Ψ, or a wave.
“We also don’t know if we are real or not, where we are exactly, or why.
“According to Chen, we are infinite in a vacuum.
"And there is a brother with the opposite charge, which is the hole in the vacuum."
Even before leaving Cambridge, Chen Muwu had already responded to requests from Kapitsa and Rutherford
, gave two lectures on quantum mechanics, which he created, within the framework of the Kapitsa Club and the Cavendish Laboratory.
But some people in the Cavendish Laboratory still don't agree that Chen Muwu turned the cute electron into something weird.
That's why someone wrote such a poem. If it were normal, then this poem should be able to win the sympathy of many people.
But the time of its appearance happened to be the first day that Chen Muwu returned to the Cavendish Laboratory, so this poem also had the meaning of declaring war on Chen Muwu.
Thirty years ago, the Cavendish Laboratory was the place where old Sir Thomson discovered electrons. You, a little Chen Muwu, will never be allowed to talk nonsense.
It is said that electrons are a kind of wave. Now that it has been proved, that's all.
Now, first of all, it is said that electrons will be distributed according to a probability in space, and then it is said that there are still positrons in the world. Then you should do an experiment and let us shut up!
Chen Muwu decided to ignore this kind of young man who wrote a poem but didn't even dare to sign his name.
He didn't even tear the little poem directed at himself from the bulletin board, but it was still stuck there conspicuously.
Anyway, one day there will be experiments that prove that what I said is right, but not now.
Chen Muwu, whose mood was not ruined by this poem, strolled into the Cavendish Laboratory, where there was good news waiting for him.
During the more than two months since he left, Professor Aston copied the vacuum pump that de Broglie had donated to the laboratory, with a higher vacuuming efficiency, and the time it took to reach a high vacuum. It has also been shortened a lot.
As a result, the development of electron microscopes has also made progress. Now the microscope cavity can be customized from manufacturers. It is estimated that in three or two months, the world's first electron microscope used for experiments, No. 0, will be can come out.
In the original time and space, the first electron microscope developed by the Germans in the laboratory had a magnification of only a dozen times, which was not as high as the most common optical microscope.
It was not until a few years after de Broglie proposed the concept of matter waves that they understood that electrons were a wave, and used this to improve the electron microscope, and finally achieved success.
Now Chen Muwu no longer has to make detours like them, and he has solved the most critical problem of vacuum efficiency. This time there should be no jokes about amplification of more than ten times.
However, while waiting for the Royal Society meeting for more than ten days, Chen Muwu did not pay much attention to the electron microscope.
He just stayed in his laboratory and office, and began to think about what questions Einstein would raise after meeting him, and how he should respond.
Chen Muwu felt that if Einstein only proposed thought experiments such as slits and light boxes, it would actually be easy to deal with.
After all, with Bohr's pearl in front of him, he only had to touch it to cross the river.
I was just afraid that Einstein would get angry and come up with the paradox more than ten years in advance.
Although there are inequalities that can refute the paradox, the key is the experimental verification of this inequality. If he is given another thirty or forty years, Chen Muwu will not be able to do it!
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After returning to Cambridge University, Chen Muwu reinvested himself in academic research.
His eldest brother Chen Muqiao traveled alone to various parts of the UK to inspect education.
He went north from Cambridge, first to Birmingham, then Manchester, and finally to Edinburgh, Scotland, and Aberdeen, where Sir Thomson Sr.'s son Thomson Jr. lived.
Thanks to the existence of his younger brother, most of the universities Chen Muqiao visited along the way had connections to Cambridge University.
He completed the inspection trip comfortably and returned to Cambridge University before the Lunar New Year, spending the New Year in a foreign country with Chen Muwu and the two Chinese students.
His ticket to return home was bought after the Chinese New Year, just one or two days before the meeting date of the Royal Society.
Chen Muwu and Rutherford applied. He wanted to go to London a few days in advance, send his eldest brother on the ship, and then go to the Royal Society to join the teacher and the others.
After learning about his beloved disciple's thoughts, Rutherford thought for a moment and came up with another plan.
That is, he and his two brothers also went to London in advance. After Chen Muqiao left, Rutherford planned to take Chen Muwu to visit Old Bragg, the director of the David Faraday Laboratory under the Royal Academy of Great Britain.
Chen Muwu thought that Rutherford wanted to take him with him to thank Old Bragg for nominating him for the Nobel Prize in Physics last year.
But after the Spring Festival, after seeing off his eldest brother and following the teacher to the laboratory, he discovered that it was completely different from what he thought.
"Congratulations to you, Dr. Chen! Congratulations to you too, Sir Rutherford!"
They both have big beards and have lived in Oceania, but Old Prague, who was born in England, is much more gentle than Rutherford, and his speaking voice is not as loud as Rutherford.
Old Prague was very happy to see Chen Muwu again.
As expected, this young man lived up to his expectations and successfully moved back from Sweden to win another Nobel Prize in Physics.
"I would like to thank Sir Bragg for nominating me before. Without your nomination, I might not have the Nobel Prize in my hands."
Never forget the man who dug the well. It was on the ship returning to the UK from Belgium that Old Prague proposed to Rutherford to nominate Chen Muwu. After that, Rutherford wrote to physicists from all over the world. That scene.
"Dr. Chen, you don't have to be humble. Although the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences are old stubborns, they are not fools.
"If you weren't strong enough, I think those people would never award you the Nobel Prize based on just a few nominations.
"You have obviously made so many inventions and discoveries, but in the end you won the prize for an optical experiment. It shows that your image in the eyes of the Swedes is not very good now!"
Who says it’s not!
Chen Muwu originally thought that Old Bragg would take him and Rutherford to his office, but he did not expect that the two people would be taken to the laboratory. Old Bragg even acted as a tour guide and began to introduce the laboratory under his jurisdiction. .
“Although our laboratory is not as good as the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University, it has a long history.
“It was here that Michael Faraday discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction and invented the disc generator.
"Dr. Chen, I heard from your teacher Sir Rutherford that you plan to engage in research on low-temperature physics recently?"
"Sir Bragg, this is indeed the case."
Although he didn't know why his teacher said this to Old Prague, Chen Muwu still answered the question honestly.
"Then you should come and see this place," said Prague, who is in his sixties and still walks with great energy. He brought the two people to a huge glass container. "This is the first Dewar bottle invented by Sir Dewar. It was also in this laboratory that he was the first in the world to create liquid and solid hydrogen." .
"Sir Rutherford told me that you want to build a dedicated low-temperature physics laboratory in the Cavendish Laboratory.
"In my opinion, instead of spending so much money and starting over from scratch, it is better for you to come directly to the David Faraday Laboratory. The experimental equipment here is all ready-made, and it has accumulated decades of experience in low-temperature physics. .”
Rutherford also nodded and agreed: "Sir Bragg is right, Chen, if you want to study low-temperature physics, the David Faraday Laboratory of the Royal Academy is indeed better than our Cavendish." A laboratory is more suitable.
"This is also the reason why although I recognized your idea at the beginning, I never gave a specific response."
Although Rutherford acted like "I actually do it for your own good," Chen Muwu could still read his teacher's inner thoughts from his evasive eyes.
He just didn't want to spend his hard-earned funds on low-temperature physics that had little future.
Even if the idea was proposed by Chen Muwu himself, who earned funding for the Cavendish Laboratory, it would not work.
Rutherford knew very well that even the leading figure in the field of low-temperature physics in the UK, the Dewar whom Old Prague just mentioned, ended his research on low-temperature physics due to lack of funds at the end of his scientific career. Studying the surface tension of bubbles is not expensive. All you need is a basin of water or other liquids.
Chen Muwu could understand his teacher's thoughts. After all, he was afraid of poverty before, and his idea of careful calculation had become deeply ingrained and could not be reversed for a while.
But he was still a little unhappy. You don't want me to study low-temperature physics, right?
After these things come to an end, my buddy will start developing an accelerator.
This is a powerful tool for nuclear physics research, and it is also a gold-eating beast that eats more money than low-temperature physics.
Rutherford would definitely not refuse the temptation of suddenly accelerating low-energy charged particles thousands of times, and he would definitely grit his teeth and happily spend money.
After finishing the trip to old Prague, the meeting of the Royal Society was finally about to begin.
The first general meeting held after the New Year has many contents, including summarizing the achievements of the society in various scientific disciplines in the past year, remembering the members of the society who have passed away, etc.
As an observer, Chen Muwu persisted until the third day before finally coming to the process of co-opting him as a new member of the Royal Society.
For the past three days, he has always been the most conspicuous presence in the venue.
That he won last year's Nobel Prize is part of the reason, but it is not the main reason. After all, there is no shortage of Nobel Prize winners in the Royal Society.
As the only yellow person present, skin color is also one of the aspects.
But the most important thing is age.
Sitting among a group of middle-aged and elderly people who started out in their forties, Chen Muwu, who is in his twenties, is really too young.
Some people are also dissatisfied with his being elected as a fellow of the Royal Society at such a young age. They feel that Chen Muwu only relied on his relationship as a good teacher to obtain this unworthy status.
Until they heard what President Sherrington said when he introduced Chen Muwu to the members.
"Gentlemen, Newton was one of the greatest physicists in our British history.
"One hundred and thirty years after Newton was born, the British physics community welcomed another genius, Thomas Young.
“It was in this room where we are now that he used an optical experiment of double-hole diffraction to prove to the members of the Royal Society that light is a wave, thereby overturning the particle theory proposed by Newton.
"And after Yang was born, another hundred and thirty years passed, and a new genius finally came to the world again.
"This time, Dr. Chen Muwu used his gamma ray scattering experiment to prove that neither Newton's particle theory nor Yang's wave theory are perfect. The true face of light can be found by superimposing their two theories on each other.
“I don’t know if a genius will come to our world in another hundred and thirty years, and whether he will propose a new theory about the nature of light.
“But I only know one thing now, and that is for us all to welcome Dr. Chen of Cambridge University as an honorable member of the Royal Society.”
(End of chapter)
