Since then, the Manhattan Zeus Company has had nothing to do with Samuel, for which Samuel was compensated with $3,750.

Instead of paying Samuel $3,750 immediately, he would compensate Samuel $3,750 after the first sale of Zeus in Manhattan.

What to do in the first business, Li Kangping drew up several plans, and he is still considering it, depending on the situation.

At the same time that Li Kangping owned an American company, Woodgate's team's tenth experiment failed.

"Stop the experiment and check the equipment." Professor Woodgate instructed.

The three of them stopped to inspect the most important vacuum system, the extraction machine was old but functioning, the new vacuum pump was more reliable than the old one, it had been tested by mercury and water vapor.

"The vacuum system always maintains a vacuum environment of 10 to the minus fifth power, and I think there is no problem with the equipment and parameters."

"Yes, Professor, we think so too."

The trio continued to inspect, and after a week's time, they came to a highly unanimous conclusion: our experimental equipment was installed exactly according to the experimental design drawings, and every component, even every screw, was qualified.

So are we wrong, or are Bohr and Sommerfeld wrong?

If Bohr and Sommerfeld's theories are correct, then why can't we get a silver layer pattern that matches the theory of space quantization?

To be exact, we didn't get any patterns—not even patterns that didn't match the theory.

The three masters and apprentices fell into deep thought, and months of hard work were in vain? What can I do?

"Take a few days off and I'll rethink my experimental design." Professor Woodgate said.

The essence of the experiment is to get the right result through trial and error, all kinds of trial and error, or prove that a certain theory is wrong, or work in vain and fail.

1. Whoever uses what experiment proves the important theory of XX, then whoever and XX both benefit, and XX wins the award and is loved by the world, and whoever has made an indelible contribution to the experiment, and whoever is lucky can also win the award and go down in history.

2. But we have never seen a case of someone who overturned the theory of so-and-so and thus won a profit.

It is well understood that scholars are encouraged to work in the first way, and the results of the first way are conducive to the development of science and the progress of human civilization.

The second way also has academic value, which is to inform scholars to wash and sleep, and wake up tomorrow to change to a new project and start a new life.

Professor Woodgate had a strong desire to get what he thought was the right result.

The same is true for Li Kangping and Allen.

They were eager to prove that the theories of Bohr and Sommerfeld were valid.

If there is sufficient experimental evidence to prove that the theories of Bohr and Sommerfeld lack physical truth, then there is no way, they can only respect the scientific facts.

In fact, Li Kangping has been thinking, which technical detail does not match the information in my memory?

Let's talk about the gathering of the Chinese Alumni Association in New York in mid-May.

For Brother Debang, this is a farewell party.

Brother Debang received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in February this year, and he has been in the United States so far, waiting for his doctoral dissertation to be published.

Living up to expectations, the full text of Brother Debang's doctoral dissertation "Iron Salt Tanning Leather" was published in the Journal of the American Society of Tanning Chemists.

This doctoral dissertation was so vast that an issue of the Journal of the American Society of Tanning Chemists devoted all its space to only half of the Iron-Salt Tanned Leather. Therefore, the Journal of the American Society of Tanners Chemists published his doctoral dissertation in two consecutive issues. It can be seen that this doctoral dissertation of Brother Debang has an academic status in the American chemistry community.

"Debang, after returning to China, make great progress." Mr. Zhou shook hands with Brother Debang, and the two have known each other for seven or eight years, and their friendship is extremely deep.

"I was born in poverty, my family is shallow, I went to the United States for eight years, and I am fortunate to be taken care of by Mr. Zhou, so that I am where I am today." Debang said emotionally.

"Education, scientific research, or national industry, are all for the country, Debang has a safe journey, and on the day I boarded the train, I won't go to the station."

The return route was from New York to San Francisco by train, and then from San Francisco to Shanghai.

A soda company in China has hired Brother Debang, and after returning to China, Brother Debang will be based on industry and contribute to our country in the field of chemical industry.

Many of these students studying in the United States in the Chinese Alumni Association are studying liberal arts, and even fewer are studying science and engineering.

In China's current environment, Brother Debang goes to the university to do scientific research, it is better to go to the enterprise to do industrial application.

Li Kangping had not read Brother Debang's doctoral dissertation, but he knew that the research results of an applied chemist like Brother Debang would inevitably involve applied patents.

"Brother Debang, how did you deal with the chemical patent of your doctoral dissertation?" Li Kangping asked.

Brother Debang said a little helplessly: "There is an American chemical company that bought out my patent. ”

Nowadays, the attitude of the United States is that you talented people can go, and the patent will stay.

If the patent is excellent, the person is even better, and I am afraid that the person and the patent will not be able to go.

To study physics, several conditions must be met: funding, equipment, talent echelon, and academic environment.

If it is to be used in an expanded manner, the overall industrial level of a country should also be taken into account.

If it is a national project, it also involves the attitude of the authorities.

In addition, the amount of funds, equipment, talent echelon, and important resources required for national projects has increased exponentially.

All of the above doomed Li Kangping at this stage to study physics abroad.

Li Kangping deeply felt that his personal destiny was closely related to the destiny of the country.

When the country is strong, scientists have no worries and can use what they have learned all their lives to help the country become stronger.

When the country has not yet reached the point of being strong, scientists are concerned that not only will heroes be of little use, but also that their personal safety may not be guaranteed.

If I excel too well abroad, I am afraid that it will be difficult to return to my home country for the rest of my life.

If I am not outstanding abroad, I am afraid that the reader will abandon the book after a hundred chapters.

On the one hand, my personal safety, on the other hand, the consumption needs of readers, a dilemma, where to go?

Li Kangping has made a choice after weighing, no matter what, I should be excellent first.

After excellence, whether you can return to China or not, and how to return to China and serve the country, should be left to the omnipotent readers to plan.

At the same time as the reunion of the Chinese Alumni Association, Professor Woodgate welcomed a good friend --- Robert Milligan in his office.

Milligan is a well-known experimental physicist, he is currently a professor of physics at Caltech, and he is a member of APS, and this time he came to New York on a business trip to visit his old friend William Woodgate.

Milligan was the first person to conduct photoelectric experiments in the United States and even in the world, and he began to conduct photoelectric experiments in 1904, which lasted 12 years, and finally succeeded in 1916.

Milligan's photoelectric experiments proved that Einstein's photoelectric equation was correct, and Milligan measured the most accurate Planck constant available.

The quantum theory of light is an important part of quantum theory, and Einstein published an article in a German newspaper in 1918: "I am grateful to Mr. Milligan for his research on the photoelectric effect, which for the first time proved that the emission of electrons from a solid state under the influence of light is related to the vibrational period of light, and the result of this quantum theory is the peculiar properties of the particle structure of radiation." ”

Even Albert Einstein was publicly grateful, and if you think about it, what a remarkable person he must have been.

"William, you are much older, tell me, what makes you so haggard?" Milligan asked with concern, and he glanced at the ashtray full of cigarette butts, and seemed to find the answer: "I see, it's a damn cigarette." I said William, can you smoke less, will it make you happier? Not really. ”

"Robert, I'm doing an experiment, a spatial quantization verification experiment." The Woodgate team's space quantization experiments are to be kept strictly confidential, and Milligan is not included in the list of personnel who are strictly guarded.

"Bohr and Sommerfeld's theory of space quantization?"

"Yes, that's what it tortured me to be."

"William, give up, don't do it."

"Robert, you haven't even asked me for the details of the experiment!"

"Experiments that are 100% inconclusive, why should I care about the details?"

"Oh, Robert, who proved Einstein's photoelectric equation? It's you, Mr. Robert Milligan! ”

"That's right, it's me, so what?"

"So you should give me some useful advice to help me complete the experiment and prove the quantization of space."

"I do optoelectronic experiments to prove the correctness of classical theories, and I think it's too early to admit the correctness of quantum theory."

Milligan is really interesting, as he said, he did the photoelectric experiment to prove the correctness of the classical theory, who knows that the experimental results proved the correctness of the photoelectric equation, thus winning Einstein's deep gratitude.

While Einstein was grateful to Milligan, Milligan did not seem to be grateful to himself.

"So Robert, you're not going to talk to me about anything about space quantization experiments?"

"Please, William, don't look at me like that! I can't do anything with you, as you wish, go to your lab. ”

"This is the Robert I know!"

Woodgate and Milligan immediately went to the lab, where Woodgate stood in front of the equipment and gave an introduction to his experiments.

"You use beams of silver atoms through a non-uniform magnetic field to try to find evidence of spatial quantization from the deflection of the beams. Objectively speaking, your idea is rather peculiar, and this is the first time I've seen this kind of experimental design idea. Milligan touched the vacuum pump with great interest and said, "Whether you can find evidence or not, I admit that your experimental design is interesting and enlightening for me, and maybe I can use your ideas for other experiments when I return to the lab in California." ”