The accompanying staff member from the Department of Physics of Lezhigrad University had a very uncomfortable expression on his face.
But seeing Chen Muwu looking at it from the glass of the back door with great interest, Kapitsa also moved his head over.
It was difficult for him to see clearly the scene in the classroom due to his height, and he even stood on tiptoes.
The students' siege was so heated that even though he was a Sulian, Kapitsa could not interpret simultaneously.
Of course, there is no need to translate every Russian word into English in detail, because they are all young people, young and energetic, and their arguments are mixed with many curse words.
After listening for about ten seconds, Kapitsa began to broadcast the situation in the classroom to Chen Muwu:
“The slogan written on that blackboard is that your theory of the expansion of the universe is a hoax.
"Those who besieged the young man on the podium obviously supported this view, and it seemed that the slogans on the blackboard were probably written by them.
"Look carefully, the cool young man on the podium was holding a blackboard eraser in his hand. According to my guess, he might have wanted to erase the slogan, but when he was about to do it, he had a conflict with them.
"He is on your side. It's a pity that this is the only person who supports you.
"This is the current level of education in Sulian."
Kapitsa shrugged.
There is no need to be so arrogant, Chen Muwu thought to himself.
"Ding--"
A clear ringing sound came from the corridor.
"Let's go, am I late?"
"It's just the preparation bell. It's just time to enter the classroom."
Seeing Chen Muwu standing at the back door, he finally took steps again. The staff accompanying them quickly walked in ahead of them, and dispersed the students surrounding the podium, but then grabbed the young man holding the blackboard eraser. Man, let him wipe the blackboard full of big words before leaving.
Chen Muwu stood outside the door, pretending not to know anything.
After the writing on the blackboard was wiped clean and the chalk dust in the air fell to the ground, he walked in leisurely.
According to the original plan in the outline, with Kapitsa translating word for word, he finished the lecture without mentioning the expansion of the universe.
He can't change his long-awaited decision just because of a few students' pranks, right?
Besides, Chen Muwu didn't intend to talk about these things. What he wanted to teach Su Lian's students this time was quantum mechanics.
Before setting off from Cambridge University, he asked Dirac for a copy of the lecture notes they had prepared and packed it into his carry-on luggage.
This can be regarded as a small test. Before this handout is officially put into use, I will first test the waters at Lezhigrad University.
After finishing the lecture, Chen Muwu packed up his belongings and left the classroom.
We cannot allow distinguished guests who come to give lectures at the university to be responsible for specific Q&A work.
The Department of Physics randomly assigned a young teacher to do the job, but in today’s class, there was nothing to answer questions about. Chen Muwu just talked about the development history of modern atomic physics according to the script, from Old Thomson’s plum pudding model to Lu Serfo's solar system, and then Bohr.
Coincidentally, these people are still related to him.
Just because he finished the lecture, he walked away without saying a single unnecessary word or even giving him a chance to ask questions. This does not mean that Chen Muwu is unkind.
He was just following the organizer's request, because after lunch today, he still had a whole afternoon to meet with the university students in Lezhigrad in the auditorium. He did not say anything substantive, but simply answered questions. Have a chat.
But after leaving the classroom, Chen Muwu finally put down the airs he had held for several hours and said to Kapitsa impatiently: "Can you invite the young man who was standing on the podium just now for me? I want to share the experience with him. Have lunch.”
"No problem, just stand here and don't move. I'll go back to the classroom and call him out right away."
Inadvertently, Chen Muwu felt that he had been taken advantage of by Kapitsa who left in a hurry.
He stood on the side of the corridor against the wall, waiting quietly for Kapitsa to return with his people.
Looking at the students coming and going, Chen Muwu unconsciously hummed another popular song in his nose: "In the garden late at night, everything is quiet..."
He thought this song was pretty good. If there was a farewell dinner after the lecture, Chen Muwu planned to sing such a song.
Uh, otherwise forget it.
"Evening on the outskirts of Moscow" has nothing to do with Lezhigrad where we are now.
Just when he was idle and thinking, Kapitsa had already left and returned, followed by the young man who was standing on the podium before.
Compared with when they first met, he had an extra pair of glasses on his nose, probably so that he could see the writing on the blackboard more clearly when listening to Chen Muwu's lecture.
"Hello, my name is Chen Muwu. Thank you very much for your ability to overcome all opinions and support my previous research."
He held out his hand with a smile on his face.
After meeting Kapitsa in the classroom and hearing that Chen Muwu had called him by name to meet him and have lunch with him, the young man felt a little flattered at that time.
He reached out his hand excitedly, held it tightly with Chen Muwu, and then said even more excitedly: "Hello, Dr. Chen, I am Georgi Antonovich Gamov. You can call me Georgi, or George, whatever."
The young man stumbled and spoke English that was not very fluent.
Георгий, this Russian name is literally translated into Chinese as Georgi.
Translated from Russian letters into English, it becomes Georgy.
Of course, it also has a homologous variant, that is, George, the same name as the current King of England.
George Gamow, in the original historical time and space, was the man who unequivocally supported the "Big Bang Theory" and predicted the cosmic microwave background radiation.
No wonder he defended the theory put forward by Chen Muwu on the podium before the lecture began.
At first, he thought this young man was his fan, but now he realized that he only supported the Big Bang theory. Of course, this theory should now be called the "Pangus Process".
Gamov is a student at Lezhigrad University?
This was an unexpected surprise that Chen Muwu had not expected.
For the first time, Gamow wanted to continue to express his heartfelt excitement when he met the post-2000 young man who is now the most famous and accomplished person in the world of physics.
But it was time for classes to end, and the flow of people in the corridors of Lezhigrad University was no less than the number of people on the platform of Lezhigrad Railway Station.
Chen Muwu, like Yofei, felt that it was better to go to the canteen to eat first, and there was no need to block traffic here.
Counting from the end of 1924, when Hubble bought an advertisement in the New York Times to promote his new discovery, and when Chen Muwu said in his speech at the Nobel Prize ceremony that the universe is not static but always expanding, to So far, less than two years have passed.
These hundreds of days may seem like a long time, but in today's era of inconvenient transportation and slow communication, it doesn't count as a long time.
The change of thoughts in the human brain also takes time. Even in the face of evidence, Einstein has admitted that the cosmological constant he introduced in order to maintain the static state of the universe was a wrong move. The theory of universe expansion seems more reasonable, but There are still many people in the world who still believe that the universe is static.
There are many teachers at Lezhigrad University who still hold this view, which has directly or indirectly affected the students who receive their education.
That's why there are thorny students who want to give Chen Muwu, the proponent of the inflation theory, a lecture in the school.
But it's hard to say who is more irritating. From the perspectives of Chen Muwu and Kapitsa, Gamov's behavior can be regarded as defending the truth.
But from the perspective of the teacher and classmates, Gamow was not paying attention in class, and was focusing on studying some erroneous theoretical knowledge.
Although Kapitsa is a native of St. Petersburg, the institution where he graduated was not the St. Petersburg University, the predecessor of Lezhigrad University, but the St. Petersburg Polytechnic, now renamed the Kalinin Polytechnic.
Not to mention Chen Muwu, a foreigner who came as a guest. Neither of them knew where the university cafeteria was, so they could only follow Gamow and let him lead the way to the place where they often eat.
Despite his elegant and easy-going appearance in front of Chen Muwu, Gamov could be considered a prominent figure on the campus of Lezhigrad University, at least in the Department of Physics and Mathematics.
He and two good friends formed a small group of three people on campus called the "Physics Jazz Gang". They gathered together every day to recite poetry, graffiti on the school walls with physical symbols and formulas, and occasionally violated school rules and regulations. , to tease some other students, including many seniors.
——Fortunately, they don’t live in Japan and South Korea, the two places where seniority and merit are most important.
Through this series of mischievous activities, the extra energy of these three young people was vented.
But the other purpose behind their being so unconventional and maverick failed to be realized. No one could attract the attention of female classmates in the school. From enrollment to graduation, the three of them were still single brothers.
Seeing Gamow suppressing his instinct and walking into the cafeteria, the other two Musketeers sitting at the table could not wait to greet him: "Johnny, we are here!"
Johnny is Gamow's nickname among small groups. It has long been known throughout Lezhigrad University. No one will think there is anything wrong with calling him this name in public.
But today, Gamow still felt a little social, after all, there were two guests invited by the school following behind him.
Chen Muwu, who had just arrived, didn't know who the Three Musketeers were at Lezhigrad University, but he recognized the man sitting in his seat and greeting Gamov.
Although he recognized it, he still had to pretend to be nonchalant and couldn't show the slightest bit of excitement in his heart.
With that obvious curly hair and a face that hasn’t changed much since childhood, who else could it be if he wasn’t Landau?
The reason why he could recognize Landau but not Gamow was because Chen Muwu had never bought any of the popular science books written by Gamow, but he had bought a complete set of "Tutorials on Theoretical Physics".
Then he also had a roommate who didn’t care about ordinary people or ghosts. Before taking the C language exam, he worshiped Von Neumann on the computer screen. Before taking the theoretical physics exam, he worshiped Landau.
This is really a place where you can't hide without wearing iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there.
Chen Muwu thought Landau was at Baku University on the shores of the Caspian Sea, but he didn't expect to see him at Lezhigrad University today. He was actually friends with Gamov.
"Your friends seem to be saying hello to you. How about we have lunch with them today?"
Although he was as excited as a Pokemon player who saw a wild golden Pokemon, Chen Muwu still suppressed his emotions and talked to Gamow as if nothing had happened, hoping that he would take him to Landau and the others. in front of a table.
Kapitsa translated Chen Muwu's words to the other party. Since he had already said so, Gamov had no reason to refuse, so he had no choice but to walk to the table and introduce his two good friends to Chen Muwu.
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is Dr. Chen Muwu who came to our school from Cambridge University to give lectures.
"Dr. Chen, this is my good friend, Dmitry Dmitrievich Ivanenko from Poltava, and this is also my good friend, Lev Da from Baku. Vidovich Landau.”
Generally speaking, if you are introducing someone to someone, you can end it here.
But Gamov, who always spends a lot of money, always feels a little unhappy because the two of them just called him a nickname, making him embarrassed in front of Chen Muwu and Kapitsa.
So Gamov switched to Russian again, and then asked the following sentence: "Demus, Dao, why didn't you two guys go to Dr. Chen's lecture today?"
Just like Johnny just now, Demus and Dao are the nicknames of Ivanenko and Landau respectively.
Chen Muwu couldn't understand Russian and thought it was a greeting between friends.
But Gamov forgot that Chen Muwu was followed by Kapitsa, and he could understand what he was saying.
Kapitsa, who didn't know the inside story, had already made a judgment on these three young men in his heart.
The country and the university had gone to great lengths to invite such a powerful person as Chen Muwu from abroad to give them a lecture, and they themselves had contributed a lot, but these two unlucky children had no respect for the fruits of other people's labor.
I don’t know why they skipped the lecture to sleep in or stay up all night to drink.
Gamov is still a good young man, but he is just a little bit narrow-minded.
Even though Chen Muwu himself was standing in front of him, the arrogant Landao still disagreed.
What he said next was not something Kapitsa had to translate or not translate.
How about telling Chen Muwu that these are the two of them greeting each other in Russian, right?
"Why should I go? On the lecture list hanging on the department bulletin board, the topics of the first lecture are all about the atomic model that has been eliminated. I already knew this knowledge when I was in Baku, why should I waste a whole day? How about listening to it again in the morning?"
After answering Gamow's question slowly, Landau stood up respectfully, wiped his clothes randomly before extending his hand to Chen Muwu, and the words he spoke in his mouth also switched from Russian to the same stumbling words. English: "Hello, Dr. Chen, I am Landau. I have read your paper, and your level is far higher than that of most physicists in the world. It is an honor to meet you here."
(End of chapter)
