The interesting expression on Tanaka Dokichi's face was as if he was already determined to invite Chen Muwu to visit.
At a certain moment, Chen Muwu really felt that if he dared not agree, he would really dare to send someone from the Special High School or the Black Dragon Society to kidnap him.
"Mr. Ambassador, it's easy to talk. Then I look forward to contacting your staff after I get to the country."
A good man doesn't suffer the immediate consequences, so he doesn't need to be so tough now.
If you deal with it in a cowardly manner first, it will become more feasible after you return to China.
When the time comes, he will send his whole family on a ship to Europe, and he will be alone and follow the Swedes all day long. That means he can go wherever he wants.
Seeing that Chen Muwu's attitude was quite positive, Tanaka Duji happily picked up his wine glass and raised it towards Chen Muwu from a distance.
"Then I won't disturb you too much, Dr. Chen. I wish you a pleasant meal."
Chen Muwu also picked up the wine glass and paid tribute to Tanaka Duji, although his glass was filled with water.
After I left, Chen Muwu couldn't enjoy the meal.
The Crown Prince of Sweden greeted Chen Muwu from table to table, and talked to him several times when he arrived, saying that he was looking forward to his upcoming trip to China and Chen Muwu's second speech in Lezgrad.
As the guest of honor at today's dinner, the Crown Prince of Sweden has a busy schedule, so it is very rare for him to take time out to say hello to Chen Muwu.
Although it was nominally a banquet held to welcome the Crown Prince of Sweden, if nothing else, he himself should have eaten the least at the entire banquet.
Formalism kills people!
The dinner was coming to an end, and Chen Muwu had a full meal.
He was thinking about how he should leave the venue and return to Kapitsa's house.
Chen Muwu, who did not speak Russian, had a dark look in his eyes and could only hope that the driver assigned to him by the Sulian Academy of Sciences could successfully find him outside the dark venue.
At this moment, someone came to him again, and they were still speaking in Chinese.
You shouldn’t be able to admit your mistakes this time, right?
The visitor should be either the Beiyang government's consul general in Lezhigrad or the ambassador in Moscow.
After all, the final destination of the Swedish Crown Prince's trip is China. It would be inappropriate both emotionally and rationally for China not to send some heavyweight officials to greet him.
"Dr. Chen, Dr. Chen! I am Fu Yangxian, the Consul General of the Republic of China in Lezhigrad. I have long admired his name, and I finally met him today!"
It was just as Chen Muwu guessed.
"Consul General Fu, good evening, just call me Han Chen."
His wish to eat authentic Chinese food in Lezhigrad came to nothing, and he never reported to the Consulate General. Today was his first meeting with Fu Yangxian.
Fu Yangxian is around fifty years old. Most of the members of the diplomatic department at this age were students sent abroad in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
Not long after he rushed to Lezhagrad from China, Shui Junshao imitated Zhang Jiying and signed his resignation. The Crown Prince of Sweden was about to visit China via Sulian, so Fu Yangxian had no choice but to come to the rescue temporarily.
But as soon as the consul general spoke, Chen Muwu felt a little unhappy.
Regardless of whether it is Zhu Zhaoxin, Chen Lu, Dai Chunlin or Chen Weicheng, most people come up and say some compliments, praising Chen Muwu for his wealth of knowledge and global reputation at a young age.
Only this Fu Yangxian did not follow the routine. After a few polite words in a business-like manner, he asked Chen Muwu what year he was born.
What really made Chen Muwu a little angry was his next sentence after learning his age.
"Dr. Chen, you and Quanzi are the same age."
The British Chen Weicheng should be about the same age as this Fu Yangxian, but when he was in London, he kept calling him "Brother Hanchen".
When he arrived at Lezhigrad, he said that he was as old as his son. Wasn't this a clear attempt to take advantage of Chen Muwu?
This made Chen Muwu, who was already very angry with himself, even more unhappy. He asked angrily: "I wonder where Consul General Fu's Lin'er is?"
The meaning of his words is also very obvious, that is, your son is as old as me, so can his achievements compare to mine?
Unexpectedly, Fu Yangxian replied with a serious face: "After Quanzi graduated from Wuhan University, he took a ship to the United States in the 11th year of the Republic of China. Now he is studying for a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Michigan - naturally he is not as promising as Dr. Chen at your young age... …”
It turns out that Chen Muwu thought at first that the old man wanted to take advantage of him. Unexpectedly, he just saw himself at about the same age and thought of his son who was studying in the United States.
Chen Muwu has a natural affinity for people who study science and engineering. Most of them will return to serve the motherland in the future. As for those who study politics, law and business...
Fu Yangxian continued: "You two are young people and will be the pillars of the country in the future. You should get closer to each other."
"That's natural, Mr. Consul General, that's natural! When you find an opportunity, give me Mr. Fu's mailing address. When I return to the UK, I will contact him. If there is any need for help in the future, Mu Wu will be obliged to .”
Chen Muwu was a little excited when he agreed. He felt sorry for his petty thoughts just now.
Although chemistry and physics are two subjects with little overlap, if Mr. Fu comes to the UK in the future, and Chen Muwu's connections can help him arrange food, clothing, housing and transportation, and solve some minor problems, there should be no problem.
He even began to think about the long term. If Mr. Fu graduates, can he go to Stockholm to help him teach his students?
At the end of the dinner, Chen Muwu and Fu Yangxian's chat finally became more and more enjoyable.
What he didn't know was that Fu Ying, the son of Consul General Fu, would indeed become an outstanding chemistry educator in the country in the future, and would even become the vice president of Beijing University.
The Crown Prince of Sweden changed his plan and came to Sulian from China two days in advance just to listen to the second lecture held by Chen Muwu here.
This means that his lecture at Lezhigrad University is coming to an end, and he should take advantage of the only one or two days of free time to prepare for his second lecture.
If you want to make this kind of public speech exciting and popular, you must be clever in the selection of content.
Don't be pretentious and talk about something profound, so that audiences with varying levels of knowledge can understand it.
If you take shortcuts, the easiest way to attract attention is to conduct experiments on the podium.
Researchers in the history of physics have different opinions on whether this incident of Galileo throwing an iron ball down from the Leaning Tower of Pisa actually happened or whether it was attached to Galileo through later legends.
But another famous physics experiment, the Magdeburg Hemisphere Experiment to verify the existence of atmospheric pressure, attracted crowds of people in Magdeburg, a small German city, in the seventeenth century.
——Although they didn’t know who Torricelli was, and they didn’t know what atmospheric pressure was, people still spontaneously appeared around the experimental site on the outskirts of Magdeburg, watching how sixteen horses could barely pull two iron wheels. This magical sight of a ball.
Now, two hundred years later, in the 19th century, almost everyone who has received primary education knows that atmospheric pressure exists.
Chen Muwu definitely can no longer do this hemisphere experiment.
Unfortunately, current low-temperature physics has only found niobium metal with a superconducting critical temperature around Kelvin, and it was "inadvertently" discovered by Chen Muwu himself.
As long as there is a piece of material with a critical temperature within the range of liquid nitrogen, Chen Muwu will definitely choose to demonstrate to the audience what is the Chen effect of superconductors and see how a piece of superconducting material placed on a magnet is added to the liquid nitrogen. After nitrogen, it was successfully suspended within the magnetic field.
Isn't this much more exciting than some circus or magic show?
Superconductivity can cause such a big Internet carnival in the 21st century, and Chen Muwu is confident that it can do the same in the 20th century.
If you can't do superconducting experiments, you can only find other lecture topics.
The only popular branches of physics now are relativity and quantum mechanics.
The representative figure of the theory of relativity is Einstein, and the representative figure of quantum mechanics is undoubtedly Chen Muwu.
In this time and space, he completely followed Einstein's path and "created" a physics discipline on his own.
As for Planck, who first proposed the concept of quantum, and his successors, Einstein and Bohr, representatives of the old quantum theory, they are basically to quantum mechanics what Lorentz is to the theory of relativity.
Before Einstein published the theory of relativity, Lorenz derived the Lorentz transformation. The purpose was to reconcile the contradiction between Maxwell's electrodynamics and Newtonian mechanics and try to find a reasonable explanation for the existence of the ether.
Einstein's first paper on the theory of relativity was also titled "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies."
Planck proposed the quantum concept in order to find a new formula that fit the experimental data. He never thought that he would open a new door.
Everyone thought that the second lecture given by Chen Muwu at the Sulian Academy of Sciences would be related to quantum mechanics. After all, he is the founder of this subject.
When he saw the lecture topic submitted by Chen Muwu, Professor Yofei, who was responsible for cooperating with him, was shocked.
"Chen...Dr. Chen, I thought you were going to talk about quantum mechanics, but I didn't expect it to be such a topic."
He stuttered a bit.
"Professor Yofei, what's wrong? Is this inappropriate topic?"
The first word written on the note paper that Chen Muwu handed to Yofei was the theory of relativity.
It is normal for Chen Muwu to talk about the theory of relativity. In addition to quantum mechanics, Dr. Chen also published several articles on the theory of relativity in his early academic career.
The Christmas lecture he gave at the Royal Institution last Christmas was also about the theory of relativity.
It was born twenty years ago, and the theory of relativity has a much larger mass base than quantum mechanics.
There is nothing wrong with Chen Muwu's choice of this subject.
The second word on the paper is a meaningless conjunction "and", which is equally harmless.
The key is what follows "and" in the lecture title.
In Yoffei's mind, there were no problems with the topics "Relativity and Quantum Mechanics", "Relativity and Classical Mechanics", even "Relativity and Physics Education in Germany".
But he never thought that Chen Muwu would give "The Theory of Relativity and Dialectical Materialism", which at first glance had no connection, but was normal for giving a lecture in Sulian.
"It's...appropriate! It's completely appropriate, but I never thought you had done research on materialism, and I even suspected that you were an idealist. But Dr. Chen, can you let me know your speech or the outline you prepared? Take a look in advance?"
It's no wonder that Yofei has this idea. Chen Muwu is the founder of quantum mechanics, but in people's eyes now, quantum mechanics is completely synonymous with idealism.
Be it probability, collapse, or that parallel world that is even more surprising and puzzling...
The explanations of quantum mechanics proposed by Chen Muwu are not materialistic in any way.
However, these explanations are still very popular among people. The person who cheers for them the most is Eddington, who also supports idealism.
Eddington, who wrote a popular science book on the theory of relativity, also wrote a popular science book on quantum mechanics after Chen Muwu established quantum mechanics.
The influence of Eddington and Chen Muwu, as well as his vigorous promotion of these theories and explanations in the book, made readers of this popular science book mistakenly believe that Chen Muwu was also an idealist.
That's why Yofei asked such a question. He didn't know what Chen Muwu meant by having such a speech topic.
It would be fine if he agreed with materialism, but if Chen Muwu criticized materialism in his lecture, then this would not be a thing, but an accident.
It was still a huge, huge, super, super accident, and everyone was walking around in shock.
"Professor Yofei, please don't worry. I won't say anything I shouldn't. The central idea of my lecture is only one, which is to demonstrate that the theory of relativity is completely consistent with dialectical materialism. If you are really worried, here is the speech script I may not be able to write the full text for a while, but it’s okay to give you an outline.”
There are two major farces in the history of Sulian science. The first is Lysenkoism, which was created by Lysenko, the pinnacle of civilian science, who used Lamarck-Michurin genetics to resist Mendel-Morgan genetics. The second is the criticism of the theory of relativity.
Because Su Lian was the eldest brother, this kind of criticism later spread to China, with people saying, "Einstein changed his nationality three times in his life, and changed his master four times. If he has breasts, he is his mother, and when he sees money, he will kneel down. One thing has always been To remain unswerving is to consciously serve as a 'scientific mouthpiece' for the bourgeoisie to viciously attack Marxism." "(Einstein) frequently participated in anti-revolutionary political activities and served as a defender of the aggressive ambitions of US imperialism." Such jokes .
It wasn't until 1979, when hundreds of domestic scientists met to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's birth, that the great physicist was officially "rehabilitated."
On Lysenko's side, Chen Muwu was beyond reach.
But now that he has an opportunity to speak at the highest scientific institution in the Soviet Union, he must try his best to prevent the second farce from happening.
"That's good, that's good..."
After hearing Chen Muwu's explanation, Yofei felt relieved a little, but not completely.
"... Then you think I will send someone to Kapitsa's house tomorrow to get the outline of your speech, okay?"
"no problem!"
(End of chapter)
