Xu Zhangyu will board the ship for England in a few days, and before leaving, he received the "Four Horsemen Blood Spilled Free Soul" as a gift from Kang Pingxian's brother.

"Life is precious, but love is even more valuable."

Reading this, Xu Zhangyuan couldn't help but be moved. He thought of his family, his titular woman, and he couldn't tell whether it was a happy or tragic arranged marriage.

"If it's for freedom, you can throw both!"

Xu Zhangyu roared as hard as he could, his voice was excited, and his posture was flamboyant.

Sadness, loneliness, incomprehensible mavericks, longing ambitions torn apart by the harsh reality, shattered wreckage not reduced to ashes, but reassembled into more majestic ambitions.

With mixed tastes and various emotions intertwined, Xu Zhangyuan burst into tears, and he muttered: "Kang Ping, your translation is wonderful, and the foolish brother accepted it." ”

Of course, the well-read Xu Zhangyu had read Pei Duofei's original poems, and Kang Pingxian's wonderful translation of Mandarin was even better than the original poems, directly hitting the soul of Xu Zhangyu.

There was no shortage of intellectuals in the Republic of China era with complex personalities and personalities, and Xu Zhangyu was about to go to England to find a good medicine, or to pursue the ideal paradise he had contemplated.

All the doctoral students at Columbia University live off-campus, and Xu Zhangyu rents an apartment on Chenbian Street, and Li Kangping takes away a case of Xu Zhangyu's $180 worth of fine wine, and says thank you to Brother Zhang, who has a safe journey.

On Friday, after the atomic theory course, Professor Rosberg asked Mr. Lee to come to his office.

"Lee, you are very smart, you have shown great talent in physics, yes, I like you, I have always liked smart students. But why would you want to do that? ”

Professor Rosberg, lining up the six pages of Li Kangping's paper "Black-Body Radiation and Quantum of Light," said: "It took me four days, day and night, to finally understand what you were writing and tell me, why are you doing it?" ”

"With the help of the quantum theory of light and the related methods of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, I have obtained all the results of radiation thermodynamics and Planck-Ween law. I think the work I do is creative and academically valuable. ”

"I'm not talking about academics, I'm talking about attempts. Lee, what are your intentions? ”

"I ...... I would like to publish a paper. ”

"And then?"

"I want to be a physicist."

"Good, you aspire to be a physicist." Satisfied with this answer, Professor Rothberg continued: "Then we can start talking about academics, but I will not discuss with you the details of the academic theory in your paper, I just want to ask, what kind of experiments will you use to prove that your hypothesis is true?" ”

Li Kangping felt an aggressive momentum, and he boldly said: "I think we can design such an experiment to scatter X-rays by an electron of mass m." Of course, γ-rays can also be used for comparison. ”

"Then do it! I'll come back to me when I'm done, and I'll recommend! Professor Rothberg shouted.

Li Kangping argued: "Professor, you know, theory always goes ahead of experiments, I think I should publish a theoretical paper first!" As we all know, Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity long ago, and he predicted that light would bend under the sun's gravity, and his prediction was not confirmed by Eddington's total solar eclipse observation team until last year! ”

Professor Rosberg roared, "He's Einstein!" And who are you? ”

"I ......" Li Kangping was speechless for a while, yes, who am I, I'm just a nobody.

Einstein was not a great scientist when he published his special theory of relativity, he was an unknown patent office technician.

However, the academic climate in Europe is different from that in the United States, and almost all of the famous theoretical physicists are in Europe, including Planck, who was a brilliant man. It is often said that Planck made two major discoveries, one was the action quantum, and the other was Einstein.

Physicists in the United States basically belong to the school of experimental physics, and experimental physicists also understand theoretical physics, but they attach more importance to experiments.

Conduct experiments first, and use experimental conclusions to prove that a certain theory is true, or to overturn a certain theory, or to propose a completely new theory. This is the mainstream academic thinking in the American physics community.

Professor Rosberg does like Li Kangping, and there is a bottom line to liking.

Li Kangping directly threw out a new theory, but could not produce any experimental evidence. Professor Rothberg could not accept this kind of "guess but not prove" academic expression.

A depressed Li Kangping left the Hertley Building with his dissertation, unable to pass Professor Rosberg's hurdle and submit his manuscript to the editorial board of Physical Review.

It's OK to do experiments, Li Kangping's experimental skills are croaking.

The key is the experimental site and the experimental funding. Professor Rothberg has laboratories and his own research projects. But these six pages were not enough to impress Professor Rothberg, so that Professor Rothberg suspended the ongoing experimental project, lent the laboratory to Li Kangping, and provided sufficient funds for the experiment.

It's a lot of difficulties.

What can I do?

If I don't publish "Blackbody Radiation and Light Quanta" as soon as possible, the Duke de Broglie will have to make a move.

The tradition of French academic circles is "guess first, then prove", "I guess you prove", and the representative figures are Fermat, Laplace, and Poincaré......

I overestimate the receptivity of American physicists.

They can't even accept "Blackbody Radiation and Light Quantum", how can they accept the follow-up theory?

Li Kangping took his paper manuscript and read it as he walked.

Unfortunately, Mr. Planck, an emeritus professor at Columbia University, has returned to Europe.

Should I hire a German translator to translate this paper into German and send it to Planck, Wien, or Einstein?

Planck understands English, right?

Then Planck, send the English paper directly to Planck.

Bang!

Li Kangping, whose thoughts flew to Germany, bumped into a strong man!

"Oh, shit!"

The manuscript was scattered all over the place, and Li Kangping, who was in a bad mood, complained and leaned over to pick up the manuscript.

"Boy, you didn't look at the road and hit me!"

The strong man who was knocked over sat on the ground with his hands spread out with an innocent expression on his face.

"I'm sorry, sir, I'm very sorry." Li Kangping realized his mistake and apologized.

The first page of the paper fell beside the strong man, and the strong man picked it up casually and looked at it, his body shook, stood up on the spot, and asked: "Who wrote "Blackbody Radiation and Light Quantum"? ”

Li Kangping replied: "I wrote it." ”

"Columbia College, K.P. Lee, so you're K.P. Lee?"

"Yes, I'm K.P. Lee."

The strong man observed Li Kangping, and Li Kangping was also looking at the strong man.

The white man was about six feet two inches tall, he wore an overcoat, a mustache, a strong nose, sharp eyes, and a muscular and imposing physique.

The strong man stretched out his hand to shake hands: "I'm Professor Compton from Washington University in St. Louis." ”

Li Kangping was surprised: "I'm sorry, sir, who are you?" ”

"I'm Arthur Compton, a physicist."

"Professor Compton, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

"Mr. Li, can you show me the rest of the papers?"

"Of course."

The two sat on a bench and talked, and Li Kangping asked, "Professor Compton, why are you here?" ”