"The Gold Rush" can definitely be regarded as a classic Chaplin-style silent film. The film was released this summer, but almost half a year later, it can still be seen in Paris cinemas.
A comedy about a poor Alaskan gold digger who eventually becomes a rich man as he wishes, coupled with a happy ending. The theme of the movie is very suitable for watching during a family-friendly holiday like Christmas.
Chaplin is indeed the most famous comedy master in the world. The audience laughed constantly. Even Chen Muwu, who came from a generation with rich entertainment projects, was not immune. He laughed the loudest every time.
Fortunately, this movie is a silent film, otherwise if it were dubbed in French, Chen Muwu might not be able to understand the meaning of the lines.
Although Chen Muwu's clothes are exquisite and elegant, and he is tall and strong, the combination of an East Asian man and a European woman walking on the street still attracts the attention of others.
Nine times out of ten, these eyes are full of ridicule and even hostility.
Whether they are overseas Chinese doing business, overseas students studying knowledge, or those Chinese workers who came to France because of World War I and settled down after the war, they cannot escape the fate of being discriminated against by the French.
Especially after World War I, France, as the main participating country in the war, lost a lot of young and middle-aged labor force, which made many young women of marriageable age lack suitable marriage partners. Therefore, many girls set their sights on choosing a spouse for those who are honest and have good sex. Chinese laborers of money.
This makes French men very unhappy, saying that these inferior Chinese people are making money from France and marrying French women will definitely invade French land in the future, and France will become an East Asian country in the future.
So after the war, on the one hand, it was influenced by the expulsion of workers from Balfour in the UK, and on the other hand, it was also caused by this kind of nationalism. France also repatriated all Chinese workers.
It can only be said that the French of this generation were quite foresighted, but unfortunately they predicted the wrong target, and also predicted that the continent France would be included in in the future was not East Asia, but West Africa.
Even Cai Dongfa, who is of mixed Chinese and French descent, cannot avoid it. Although his face already has many European characteristics, he will occasionally be yelled at for no reason when walking on the road, telling him to go back to China.
During the Paris Olympics, Cai Dongfa complained to Chen Muwu more than once, saying that he could make a local French friend and sit in the car every time he travels, which is undoubtedly the wisest and safest choice. .
Eve is now walking on the busiest street in Paris holding Chen Muwu's arm. She is very beautiful herself.
As a result, Chen Muwu became a thorn in the side of the French people on the street. Many people cursed him in their hearts or verbally, and some even opened AOE to splash the attack on Eve, saying that she As a Frenchman, I have no shame, but for a few stinky money, I surrendered to a yellow-skinned monkey from China.
The reason why they were able to tell that it was China rather than East Asia was probably because Chen Muwu was too tall and could not be the short person who habitually nodded and bowed.
A Nobel Prize winner in physics and the daughter of a Nobel Prize winner in physics were ridiculed and abused on the streets of Paris, but no one took it seriously.
Eve's mother was scolded even more harshly by the French than she is now, but so what? This does not prevent her from becoming the greatest female scientist in France and the world today.
Eve even joked with Chen Muwu: "The Charlie in the movie is exactly the same as you. The only difference is that he has an extra cane than you."
"Mr. Chaplin is actually British. His dress is the standard British gentleman dress, but he deliberately acted ugly in the movie."
"Huh? He's actually British? That's not so strange."
The citizens of Britain and France are inherently disdainful of the other country.
The slight difference is that, except for the British, the French only look down on the Germans.
The British, on the other hand, are people who look down equally on all other countries in the world except themselves.
Eve had persuaded Chen Muwu more than once to leave the UK and find a job at a university in Paris, or simply go to her mother's Radium Research Institute.
If he really enters the Radium Research Institute, then her mother can retire with peace of mind and no longer has to go to the laboratory to do experiments every day, and her research institute can also be handed over to her family.
Chen Muwuxin said that this silly girl was already committed to him even before she got married.
But, if he takes over the Radium Research Institute, what will your eldest sister and brother-in-law do in the future?
In the cinema, Eve also complained that he was deeply influenced by the British: Chen Muwu had already sat on the chair, but the hat was still on his head - no one in the world except the British would do this.
The British have very strange customs. They are the only country that likes to wear hats when watching plays in the theater. Taking off the hat is considered impolite behavior.
Previously in the UK, Chen Muwu was laughed at by the British for taking off his hat in the theater.
It took me a few years to get into the habit, but now that I'm in France, I'm being laughed at again because I didn't put my hat in the cloakroom.
So before the movie started, Chen Muwu could only return dejectedly to the cloakroom of the cinema, hand his hat to the waiter inside, and at the same time accept the latter's unhappy look.
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The time soon came to December 24th.
Marie Curie has been working at the Radium Institute until yesterday. Even her assistant Joliot and her eldest daughter Irena only started enjoying the Christmas vacation the day before Christmas.
Irena and Joliot took advantage of this hard-earned rest time and went shopping on the streets of Paris like Eve and Chen Muwu did a few days ago.
Unable to rest, Eve went to the kitchen to help the maid sent by de Broglie to cook.
She may also be avoiding being with her mother and future husband at the same time, deliberately leaving time and space for the two busy people to talk to each other.
Now only Chen Muwu and Madame Curie were left sitting face to face on the sofa in the living room chatting, or rather the former was walking on ice to accept questions from his future mother-in-law.
"Chen, what have you done in the Cavendish Laboratory this year? Why haven't I seen you publish relevant papers?"
The first question Marie Curie asked was not about her daughter, but about her academic colleague and competitor Rutherford, and the laboratory he worked for.
Although there are many physics laboratories studying radioactivity around the world,
But number one among them is undoubtedly the Cavendish Institute.
The second place is the Vienna Radium Institute in Austria, and the third is the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry in Germany.
The reason why Vienna ranks higher than Berlin is because there is currently only one uranium mining area in Europe, which is the Joachimstadt area.
It used to belong to the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Vienna as its capital. After World War I ended with the defeat of the Allies, it was divided into the hands of Czechoslovakia.
The top three are either national research institutes, or they have a large amount of manpower and material support from the state and schools.
Only the Institute of Radium Science, although nominally affiliated with the University of Paris, this French university is not very supportive of the Polish woman who is at the helm of the institute.
There was once a text in primary school textbooks titled "Three Grams of Radium".
It’s about the fact that Marie Curie gave up her radium purification technology patent, and by 1920 she couldn’t even afford one gram of radium.
After this incident was exposed by an American reporter, the American people raised $100,000 and worked together to purchase a gram and donate it to her.
Eve once told Chen Muwu that she went to the United States with her sister and mother in 1921 and was warmly welcomed by the American people.
That trip to the United States was just to take that gram of radium back to France.
This text mainly wants to describe Madame Curie as a great and selfless person, but another point cannot be ignored, that is, in the research institute at the University of Paris, she could not even afford the radium that named the institute.
Why can't you afford it?
Because the stingy University of Paris won’t give me money!
On his way back to the UK after receiving the Nobel Prize last year, Chen Muwu visited Marie Curie once at the Radium Institute.
Although it is called a research institute, it is just a laboratory in a building.
Not to mention the Cavendish Laboratory, which has the right to use the entire building, it is not even comparable to the David Faraday Laboratory, which occupies an entire floor of the Royal Institution.
But even so, Madame Curie pushed the Radium Institute's status in radioactive research to the fourth place in the world just by her own efforts, which is better than those who can only spend money but do not engage in scientific research. Americans are too strong.
What an amazing, great person!
Although Marie Curie could often see papers published by scholars at Cambridge University in various magazines and learn about the latest research developments in the Cavendish Laboratory.
But it's not as fast as talking directly to Rutherford's brightest young people.
What makes Marie Curie very strange is that she has only read three papers with Chen Muwu's name this year. One is about hydrogen isotopes, and the other two are about superconductivity.
This kid came back from the Netherlands last year and has always said he wanted to study low-temperature physics. Unexpectedly, he actually made some great achievements.
But why doesn’t Chen Muwu study radioactivity, microscopic atomic nuclei, or the new subject called quantum mechanics that he proposed?
Moreover, his correspondence address for these three papers has also changed. It is no longer at Cambridge University, but to London.
Has the research direction of the Cavendish Laboratory changed? Or was it just Chen Muwu who changed his research direction?
Hearing Marie Curie's question, Chen Muwu was stunned at first, and then thought that he really didn't produce any results in the Cavendish Laboratory this year.
The only project that was completed and put into use was the unique bicycle in the world that he helped Eddington modify in his spare time.
After accidentally helping the Cambridge University Observatory obtain a grant from the Chancellor, Eddington once again was full of praise for Chen Muwu.
He said that he would definitely recommend the multi-speed bicycle technology given to him by Chen Muwu to various bicycle manufacturers in the UK, and ask them to purchase Chen Muwu's patent.
Apart from bicycles, the only thing left is the "Kelvin-Chern generator".
It's just that this high-voltage generator is still under development. If you want to finally complete it and put it into testing, you will definitely have to wait until next year.
But the only thing I can tell Madame Curie is this generator.
You can't tell her that I helped Eddington design the most labor-saving bicycle in the world. If you need it, I can give you one later.
Is this ridiculous? Is this ridiculous?
Madame Curie was not as restless and restless as Eddington.
"Madam, I am currently responsible for designing and building a particle accelerator in the Cavendish Laboratory. I estimate that by next year, I should be able to build a million-volt experimental device."
After hearing this answer, Madame Curie finally felt relieved.
Sure enough, Chen Muwu has not changed his research direction, but he has not yet produced results.
But, 1.5 million volts?
This value is a bit too high!
She had the same research direction as Rutherford, and she had not yet retreated to a laboratory management position like him, so she naturally knew what it meant to have an accelerator that could increase charged particles to high speeds.
Basically, whoever is the first to possess this powerful weapon will be able to make more achievements in this field earlier.
According to Chen Muwu, this accelerator is determined to win, and it has reached a critical period of research and development.
Although he really wanted this accelerator, and although he was in love with his daughter, Madame Curie was not too embarrassed to recruit Chen Muwu at this time.
Rutherford really picked up a big treasure!
"Dr. Chen, is the principle behind your accelerator complex? What is the cost? After it is built, will the patent licensing fee be high?"
She could only ask these questions indirectly. If the accelerator was not too expensive, then she would raise money to build one herself.
"Madam, this accelerator is not expensive, and the principle is not complicated. Just because of some reasons, I can't tell you exactly what the principle behind it is yet. But don't worry, when the accelerator is built and successfully passes the acceptance , I will definitely give you one as soon as possible."
Although in his heart, Chen Muwu had already priced the accelerator at 4,000 pounds with reference to General Electric's vacuum pump.
But he definitely doesn't need to set a price to get the goods himself, it only costs twenty pounds.
Who can't afford twenty pounds?
And he must send this accelerator, but he may not necessarily send it to Paris.
"Dr. Chen, is this not good?"
"Madam, let alone my relationship with Eve, just speaking of your status in the world of physics and radioactive research, Americans who are strangers to you can give you radium, so why can't I give you an accelerator?
“The only thing is that this accelerator has relatively high space requirements. It was not built in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, but an extra open space was found.
"I'm sorry to say this, but I feel like I can't fit it in that cramped Radium Research Institute.
"If the University of Paris builds a new laboratory for you and can put down the accelerator, I will send the accelerator to Paris.
"If they can't provide this condition," Chen Muwu changed the subject, and the picture showed clearly, "My good friend the Crown Prince of Sweden built a college in Stockholm and invited me to study physics there. How about we go to Sweden to build an electric potential difference How about a bigger accelerator, and then invite you to continue doing radioactive research there?”
(End of chapter)
