Chapter 057: The Big and the Small

Now that "Material Wave" has been published, Li Kangping wants to use this article to participate in the doctoral graduation defense.

Professor Woodgate said: "Lee, my suggestion is that when we finish the electron diffraction experiments and attach the results of the experiments, you can do the doctoral defense, what do you think?" ”

"Okay, Professor, I'll listen to you."

For Li Kangping, it is still a good thing that a purely theoretical paper like "Matter Waves" can be published in an American journal without any experimental evidence. Of course, most of the so-called purely theoretical papers did not find experimental evidence when they first appeared.

If Li Kangping had been a nobody, it would have been almost impossible for Matter Waves to be published in Physical Review so quickly.

At this time, the general environment of the American physics community was still biased towards experimental physics, and in the local environment, through Li Kangping's efforts, theoretical physics and experimental physics were in a state of going hand in hand, and this academic atmosphere was beneficial to Li Kangping, who was both theoretical and experimental.

The Woodgate Laboratory brings together scholars of Anglo-Saxon, Jewish, and Chinese ethnic groups.

According to Li Kangping's experimental schematic, you Junjie is in full swing to draw the experimental device diagram.

The experimental schematic diagram is a rough schematic diagram, and the experimental setup diagram is very specific.

The Woodgate team's electron diffraction experiment is 5 inches long and 2 inches high.

"Yes, we read that right, it's this size." Li Kangping said with 100% certainty.

The experimental setup diagram was drawn by everyone together, and the diagram is just that, and the size is just that.

Since the 5-inch-long and 2-inch-tall full experimental setup is the result of collective intelligence, it must be fine.

There is no doubt that this will be an extremely delicate and sophisticated experiment.

The operation difficulty of inch-level physical experiments is much higher than that of hundreds of thousands of feet of building construction.

The individual components of the Woodgate team's experimental setup did not have ready-made standard parts and had to be manufactured in-house.

"A fish tank thicker than my waist could easily be blown out by Old Bill, but a vacuum glass instrument that was only one-third the length of my little thumb was too difficult to make, and it should not be the work of a glassworker, but an engineering department like Western Electric should help us do it."

Professor Woodgate is an expert in the manufacture and processing of laboratory instruments, especially in the field of glass instruments.

The extremely small electron diffraction vacuum glass instrument and the glass vacuum pump for space quantization experiments can be said to be two different devices.

The electron diffraction vacuum glass instrument is roughly similar to a vacuum triode, which looks pocket-sized, but it takes at least a hundred thousand square feet of workshop to make a vacuum triode.

The Woodgate laboratory does not have the processing capacity of pocket-sized precision vacuum glass instruments, and Professor Woodgate takes the initiative to undertake the processing of all glass instruments, and he will look for a company with the processing capacity to process as many special glass instruments as possible to meet the experimental requirements.

The core device of this experiment ---- an electronic collector, which was naturally made by Li Kangping.

The electron gun and the insulating layer were taken care of by Mark, and Allen was tasked with preparing the nickel crystals.

The work of Li Kangping, Mark and Allen can be carried out in the laboratory, and a batch of new tools and materials need to be purchased.

Doing scientific research burns money, and there are hundreds of dollars left over from space quantization experiments.

Obviously, these few hundred dollars are simply not enough.

The business of pulling sponsorship was naturally followed up by Professor Woodgate.

As his fame and status grew, Professor Woodgate was no longer satisfied with asking for money from medium-sized companies such as Orn and Sindra.

Professor Woodgate has his eye on West, a super-large company--- which is very large.

The relationship between XD and AT is delicate, with XD being nominally a subsidiary of AT Ant but operating largely independently.

Telephone equipment in the United States is almost entirely produced by XD. As early as 1893, the automatic telephone exchange system and automatic dialing telephone were registered by the American inventor Schreejo, and it was not until the last year or two that Xidian began to mass-produce and promote automatic dialing telephones.

Vacuum tubes are an important part of telephones, and Xidian produces a wide variety of vacuum tubes by itself. Professor Woodgate hopes that XD will provide a pocket-sized special vacuum glass instrument for electron diffraction experiments free of charge, and that it would be even better if XD could send a check.

Professor Woodgate wrote a letter to Xidian in which he was confident that the company would help him.

Before the experimental funds, tools, and materials were in place, Li Kangping took the time to care about his small company.

"The No. 1 plant is about to be capped, and now you should apply for a mahjong production license." Liu Shaowen suggested, and he added: "You should also hire a lawyer." ”

A person's energy is limited, and Li Kangping entrusts Liu Shaowen with the responsibility for business and legal matters.

"At present, temporary lawyers can be hired, and when our company grows, we will set up special legal staff positions. Mahjong production license, how to operate? Li Kangping asked.

Liu Shaowen said: "Mahjong manufacturing is a new thing in the United States, and there is no special mahjong production license in the United States. ”

"Then I'll do it, it's hard Brother Shaowen."

Jennifer, who has graduated from college, finally knows what business Manhattan Zeus Company does, and it turns out that our company is engaged in mahjong business.

On the occasion of employing and cultivating people, Li Kangping ordered Li Chong and Jennifer to follow Liu Shaowen to jointly promote the license application and other business, legal and tax businesses.

Moreover, Li Kangping's "Material Wave" has been published for a month, and it does not seem to have caused heated discussions in American academic circles.

No American physicist commented on "Matter Waves" in magazines or newspapers, not a single one.

Only Arthur Compton sent a letter in the form of a personal letter.

In the letter, Arthur Compton wrote:

"Dear Lee, after reading your Matter Wave, I was shocked! What kind of brain can think of such a theory, you have come up with it. There is no doubt that The Wave of Matter is a great treatise of revolution! ”

"But I still have doubts, and it can be summed up as six points."

"The first point, as far as we know so far, it seems that there are only two kinds of fields: gravitational and electromagnetic. General relativity reduces the gravitational field to space-time curvature. ”

"In Waves of Matter, the force field you describe is an electromagnetic field. That's right, I'm not mistaken, right? ”

"To define the electromagnetic field, you introduce a 'cosmic vector' where you integrate the curve along a world line from P to Q. Actually, I haven't been able to fully understand your worldline curve integrals, I hope I can, can you help me? ”

"Second point ......"

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