For ordinary physicists, being able to marry into the Bragg family, well, I can't say marrying into the family, and being able to marry old Bragg's youngest daughter, Gwendolyn, is definitely very honorable and very helpful to oneself.
After all, in the future, Gwendolyn's husband's father-in-law will become the president of the Royal Society, and his uncle will become the director of the Cavendish Laboratory.
In such a family background, as long as you are not too useless, you can get good academic resources.
Winning the Nobel Prize may be difficult, but there is no problem in surviving in the British physics community until retirement.
But the problem is that Chen Muwu is not an ordinary physicist. If he doesn't marry a rich family, he will be a rich man.
But how to refuse Old Prague's sudden request to meet their girl?
Chen Muwu's first reaction was to tell the existence of Aifu.
But when he thought about it again, he felt that he couldn't say this.
Oh, because I fell in love with Madame Curie’s daughter, I didn’t even meet the old Prague’s daughter.
After saying this sentence, isn't the subtext that Old Prague is not as good as Mr. and Mrs. Curie?
At this time, Chen Muwu's eyes fell on Oppenheimer, a good student who had been pretending to pack things in the laboratory, but was actually eavesdropping on his conversation with Old Bragg.
"Sir Bragg, I think it's better to forget it. The age difference between your daughter and me is too big. But look at that Robert. He was born in 1904. The age gap between him and the lady is just right."
When Old Prague saw this, he knew that it was basically impossible for his daughter to have a blind date with Chen Muwu. After sighing, he stopped mentioning it.
When Oppenheimer heard Chen Muwu suddenly mention him, his body was agitated.
But seeing that Old Prague did not express his position, he was still a little dissatisfied.
It is true that Teacher Chen is excellent. Although I am not as good as Teacher Chen, I am not that unbearable, right?
Why didn’t Old Prague even say a kind word?
He didn't dare to complain at all, so Chen Muwu pushed him out as his own shield.
After Old Bragg left the laboratory, Oppenheimer began to feel sorry for Chen Muwu.
"Teacher Chen, why did you refuse the position of laboratory director? No matter your academic level or reputation, you are now good enough to leave the Cavendish Laboratory and start a new business. What a great opportunity this is. You can refuse it no matter how hard you say it." It’s over!”
"Robert, you still need to cultivate more patience. You may encounter better opportunities in the future!"
Chen Muwu didn't want to tell him the real reason at all.
Oppenheimer wanted to continue asking, but suddenly he remembered another thing that Teacher Chen just mentioned.
"Teacher Chen, I still want to explain that Americans are not all as stupid as those mud-legged people in Tennessee. You must not put on prejudiced glasses against the United States because of that stupid 'monkey trial' .”
The early 20th century was the golden age of the United States. The rapid improvement of industrial level greatly promoted the development of all walks of life. However, Tennessee, as an agricultural state, was not among these.
Oppenheimer was a New Yorker born in New York City, New York, and was the son of a wealthy businessman. Naturally, he looked down on the old farmers in Tennessee.
But if all history goes according to its original trajectory, Oppenheimer will frequently travel back and forth between Tennessee and New Mexico, two remote areas of the United States.
Because the little boy and the fat man had many acquaintances in Japan, the uranium and plutonium contained in it were separated in several factories in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Oppenheimer was the technical director of the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.
"Robert, I didn't mean that. I just wanted to give an example, hoping to persuade Sir Bragg to agree to let Peter be the director of the Mondstadt Laboratory."
Chen Muwu comforted Oppenheimer politely, but he still couldn't stop complaining in his heart.
Not to mention that religions now prohibit teaching the Theory of Evolution to students in the classroom. A hundred years later, religions still consider abortion illegal!
Before leaving London, Chen Muwu and Zhu Zhaoxin, the charge d'affaires in the UK and now the minister in Italy, should have a good farewell.
Although Zhu Zhaoxin is still staying in the UK, he will leave the UK for Italy after the new minister to the UK arrives and takes over the work in the embassy.
Although Zhu Zhaoxin suffered from the common problems of bureaucrats during the Republic of China, he was quite good to Chen Muwu during his years in the UK and provided a lot of useful help.
Lao Chen is not an ungrateful person who crosses rivers and burns bridges. He also knows that if he leaves today, he will never be seen again unless he travels to Italy on a whim.
Zhu Zhaoxin was also very grateful to Chen Muwu. He always believed that having such a record of credit during his tenure was a major reason for his promotion.
So this ordinary practice feast even had a somewhat sad taste.
Chen Muwu ate an extra bowl of rice with tears in his eyes because he didn't know how long it would be before he could eat such authentic Chinese food after returning to Cambridge University.
Although they had been separated for several months, nothing had changed at Cambridge University, and nothing had changed in the Cavendish Laboratory.
The first thing after returning is of course to report to the teacher.
When Chen Muwu entered the director's office, Rutherford was writing something on the paper with a brush.
After seeing the person clearly, he put down the pen in his hand. The first thing he did was not say hello to Chen Muwu. Instead, he opened the drawer, picked up the pipe and tobacco bag, filled it, lit it, took a deep breath, and then looked at his own with a smile. good student.
Chen Muwu didn't realize what Rutherford's move meant.
Is it a way for teachers to express dissatisfaction with themselves?
Then he remembered that when he discovered heavy hydrogen, he had disarmed his teacher in front of the Royal Research Institute.
What Rutherford did today was somewhat of a demonstration to him: Although you didn't let me smoke in David Faraday's laboratory, after you come back today, you should realize who Cavendish is. What’s said in the laboratory matters.
"Dr. Chen," Rutherford finally began to speak after he was addicted to smoking, "Old Henry has written to me several times, and the content of the letters without exception is that he wants to get people from me and keep you in London. I haven’t seen you for such a long time, I thought you really didn’t plan to come back?”
After not seeing each other for a few days, Chen Muwu felt that his teacher suddenly had a new attribute of arrogance. He had only met him before and after Chadwick's wedding, and they had spent several days together whether in London or Liverpool.
And it's obvious that you were unwilling to study low-temperature physics in the Cavendish Laboratory, so you pushed yourself to work under Old Bragg in London. But now you are "complaining" that you don't want to come back, right?
"Teacher, don't tell me, I have indeed had this thought."
Since I like to joke, I have to accompany the teacher to act out this scene.
"Sir Bragg spent a lot of money to keep me, and even wanted to marry his daughter to me!"
"That's a good thing! Then why did you come back instead of staying in London?"
Chen Muwu deliberately pretended to have an expression of deep love between master and disciple: "But when I think about the undiscovered electrically neutral particle in the atomic nucleus, which has been troubling you, teacher, I have no time to think about personal issues anymore. This is not a After finishing the experiment in London, did you rush back to Cambridge?"
Rutherford also cooperated with Chen Muwu's performance and applauded perfunctorily a few times: "Dr. Chen, I can only say that your choice is very correct, but I can't tell you the specific reasons why it is correct. Have you found a way to find the electrically neutral particle?"
"No, but I remember you said that you planned to bombard the heavy hydrogen nucleus with protons to see if you could bombard out the new particles inside? I did think of a way to accelerate the protons."
Chen Muwu always mentioned the accelerator in a roundabout way.
"But now we can't even produce pure heavy hydrogen, so how can we bombard it with protons?"
What Rutherford said is true. Evaporating liquid hydrogen in a low-temperature environment can indeed enrich the deuterium in it.
If you really want to get pure deuterium, you can use fractional distillation, but it's very difficult at the moment.
"This is easy to handle. The batch of liquid hydrogen sold to me by Leiden University was first prepared by electrolyzing water and then liquefied.
“According to Professor Aston’s latest paper, calculations show that the deuterium content in liquid hydrogen is much smaller than the theoretical calculation value.
“I think the reason is that when electrolyzing water, hydrogen ions can obtain electrons more easily than heavy hydrogen ions, so more can be collected.
“If all the hydrogen atoms in the water can be discharged through electrolysis, heavy hydrogen can be enriched in the water.
“On this basis, by electrolyzing these heavy hydrogen waters, we should be able to obtain very pure heavy hydrogen gas.
"But teacher, I don't want to try to produce heavy hydrogen. I still want to tell you how to accelerate protons."
"Okay, Dr. Chen, I just made a little joke with you to welcome you back to Cambridge University. Since you said you wanted to build a proton accelerator in London last time, I have also been very interested in this matter. .I just have one question,…”
Chen Muwu felt that over the past few years, he and Rutherford had developed a tacit understanding, so he interrupted Rutherford somewhat impolitely while he was speaking.
"Teacher, I know what you want to ask. I don't intend to adopt the principle of the accelerator. Well, at least I don't intend to adopt the Swedish method at the moment, but..."
"No, no, no," Rutherford treated the other person in his own way, also interrupting Chen Muwu's words, "It's easy to explain the principles. I also believe that your smart mind can think of more. Good idea, but your answer doesn't answer the question I wanted to raise.
"What I just wanted to know was not the principle of the accelerator, but your accelerator. Is it expensive?"
For the first time, Chen Muwu felt that not everything the ancients said was right.
It is true that it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality, but it is not easy at all to go from frugality to luxury.
It has been a year since the funding of the Cavendish Laboratory doubled after the Duke of York allocated funds, but teacher Rutherford is still so stingy!
It’s okay to be stingy with others, but why is Chen Muwu, the source of this extra funding, still so stingy!
"It's not expensive, it's not expensive! It's not expensive at all, and the principle of this accelerator is also very simple. Teacher, how about waiting for me to make a model when I go back and then demonstrate it to you?"
Rutherford nodded: "Then let's do it. Remember, you must control the funds. I can probably allocate you one thousand eight hundred... two thousand... three, two thousand five hundred pounds, but I can't No more!”
Seeing the number his teacher said through gritted teeth, Chen Mu couldn't laugh or cry.
In the original time and space, a few years later, the Cavendish Laboratory began to prepare to develop an accelerator, and Rutherford's grant to the team was only one thousand pounds.
Now Chen Muwu's funding has doubled and increased by a quarter, which shows that the teacher really values him as a student!
After briefly chatting about other things, Chen Muwu left Rutherford's office and returned to his laboratory.
Even though the room in the Cavendish Laboratory was very tense, the room he had been assigned to was not taken back by Chadwick for his own use during his absence.
Chen Muwu took out the key and was about to poke it in the keyhole, only to find that the door to the laboratory was ajar.
Pushing the door open, he found not only the expected Zhao Zhongyao in the room, but he was reading and studying at the table.
And what he didn't expect was that he was sitting on the sofa and smoking a pipe like Rutherford.
When he saw the owner of the room coming back, he had no intention of stopping, let alone getting up to greet him.
Chen Muwu didn't understand. It was enough that he offended Rutherford because of the cigarette issue at the Royal Research Institute, but where did he offend Kapitsa?
Could it be that I promised him something before but failed to do it?
After Kapitsa learned that Chen Muwu had returned to the Cavendish Laboratory, he came to wait for him in his laboratory. He had some complaints in his heart.
He has been studying magnetism for a long time, but recently encountered some bottlenecks and wanted to change his thinking.
So Kapitsa put down the work that was not progressing and followed Chadwick to Liverpool to help prepare for the wedding.
It happened that Chen Muwu discovered heavy hydrogen in hydrogen by using low-temperature evaporation of liquid hydrogen in London. Rutherford called the two of them from Liverpool to London with a telegram.
Can there be any connection between magnetism and low temperature?
Kapitsa also thought of Silsby's paper and planned to try to study the magnetic properties of superconductors.
As a result, he saw the second paper published by Shi Ruwei, Chen Muwu and Oppenheimer, and the content was consistent with his ideas.
No one will feel good if they just come up with an idea and then see someone else's paper.
He came to wait for Chen Muwu this time, just to complain to him, and to see if he could extort a meal from Chen Muwu to relieve his anxiety.
But Chen Muwu didn't know Kapitsa's thoughts. He saw the expression on the latter's face full of accusations, and planned to preemptively say: "Peter, Peter, I was thinking of looking for you later, but I didn't expect you to come directly to my door. .I have good news to tell you! Great news!"
(End of chapter)
