"Drip-Drip-Drip-Drip......"

Sun Yuanqi was sleeping soundly, when he heard the mobile phone ringing, he suddenly felt excited, and suddenly sat up from the bed: There is an interview today, what time is it?

Reaching out and touching the mobile phone in his pocket, he just took out half of it and realized that he was in the Qing Dynasty, on a bed at the U.S. Embassy in China. I simply took out my mobile phone, it was six o'clock in the morning. This is the alarm clock set for the interview the day before yesterday, but unfortunately it is no longer needed.

Last night, Mr. Conger, who shimmered with the brilliance of a saint, finally invited Sun Yuanqi to dinner, and temporarily took Sun Yuanqi in order to avoid sleeping on the streets. Until this time, Sun Yuanqi still had a trace of unreality.

I got up and put on my clothes, although it was still the same as yesterday, but my mood was very different.

In summer, the sun rises early, and at this time, a few rays of morning light are already showing out of the window. After Sun Yuanqi washed his face, sat on the stool next to the bed, and was stunned for a while: I must go to the Horse Temple again today to try it! But what if you can't go back, you can't go hungry every day, right? I knew that if I didn't learn this unfortunate "particle physics and nuclear physics", if I learned history and traveled to the Qing Dynasty, it wouldn't be enough to stink? Or study chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and be a rich man. But what can you do when you study physics these days?

Thinking of this, I suddenly remembered a very famous event in the history of physics. At the beginning of 1898 - that is, this year - Rutherford completed the article "Uranium Radiation and the Conductance It Produces", in which he first proposed that uranium radiation has at least two distinct kinds of radiation, namely α radiation and β radiation. However, due to Rutherford's departure to take up a professorship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in September, the article was delayed until the end of the year before it was mailed from McGill University and published in the 1899 Journal of Philosophy. Therefore, the existence of α and β rays was not known to the public until 1899.

Here's your chance! In this world, apart from God, even Tom Sun, Rutherford, and Curie have no Sun Yuanqi to understand the nature of uranium radiation. It is no exaggeration to say that an undergraduate student in the physics department of the 21st century can write the equation for the fission of uranium-235 with his eyes closed.

So Sun Yuanqi sat at the table and conceived the structure and content of the thesis, which are the nirvana of master's students in the 21st century. Then he took out a pen and paper from his school bag and began to write, entitled "Experimental Research on Uranium, Polonium and Radium Radiation Rays", which synthesized the experimental scheme and results of Rutherford's discovery of α and β rays and the discovery of γ rays by French physicist Verard in 1900, and believed that α rays are positively charged and easily absorbed by thin layer materials; β rays are composed of high-velocity negatively charged particles, which are the cathode rays studied by Tomson; The γ rays, on the other hand, are not deflected in the magnetic field and have an extremely strong penetrating force. And make a bold guess that γ ray is a kind of energy particle. The only regret is that there is no data and experimental equipment at hand, so the article has neither references nor experimental data, only experimental design and experimental results.

In fact, the experimental results should be written as follows: α rays are the ion currents of the helium nucleus, β rays are high-speed negatively charged ion currents, and γ rays are high-energy photons. However, at this stage, these can neither be explained nor verified, and can only be vaguely demonstrated.

The content of the article is very simple for Sun Yuanqi. However, the paper was written in English, and it took nearly two hours to revise and polish. Looking at the time, it was almost eight o'clock, and it was still half an hour away from half past eight when I entered the horse temple yesterday. Hurriedly packed up his things and prepared to go out.

When he went downstairs, Mr. Conger was sitting on the sofa in the living room reading the newspaper, when he heard the sound of the stairs, he looked up and greeted Sun Yuanqi: "York, how did you rest last night?" ”

"Very well rested, sir." Sun Yuanqi replied, "Thank you very much for your help. ”

Conger picked up an envelope on the table and handed it to Sun Yuanqi: "When you see this, it's not too late to say thank you." ”

Sun Yuanqi was very curious, and when he opened it, he saw that it was written by Mr. Conger in the name of the U.S. Legation in China, one was to prove Sun Yuanqi's academic qualifications, and the other was a letter of recommendation to Sun Jianai, the minister of affairs for the University Hall. When Pingshui met, he gave such a great help, and for a while, Sun Yuanqi was grateful and stunned.

After a while, he sincerely said to Mr. Conger: "Thank you! ”

"You're welcome!" Mr. Conger shrugged his shoulders and said to Sun Yuanqi, "Let's sit down for breakfast together?" ”

"Ah, I don't have time! I'm sorry, Mr. Conger, I think I'll have to leave now. Sun Yuanqi remembered that he was in a hurry, and hurriedly ran upstairs with the envelope. took out the freshly baked paper "Experimental Study of Uranium, Polonium, and Radium Radiation Rays" from his school bag, and added a sentence at the end of the article:

"With this article, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Conger for his kind help!"

When he arrived downstairs, Mr. Conger handed Sun Yuanqi another package, put a hat on him, and said with a smile: "Maybe in the future, you should wear this hat in Qingguo!" ”

Sun Yuanqi took off his hat and looked, it turned out to be a melon skin hat decorated with a fake braid, and thought: Yes, give the letter of recommendation to Sun Jianai, but he is a person from the Qing Dynasty, and if he doesn't keep braids, it is estimated that he will be dragged to the entrance of the vegetable market to "click"! So he put his hat back on his head. He handed the paper in his hand to Mr. Conger, and said to him solemnly:

"Sir, this is one of the results of my research in the United States, please submit it to Science in the United States or Nature in the United Kingdom. I would like to express my gratitude to you in this article! With that, he bowed deeply, then turned and ran out of the embassy.

Mr. Conger opened the paper in his hand, which was full of some physical experiments, and he couldn't understand it, and finally found that there was no author and mailing address, so he had to take out a pen and add two lines to it:

YorkJohnson

ProfessorofPhysics，NationalKingshimUniversity

Out of the embassy, Sun Yuan ran towards the Horse Temple with a smoke. When I went out of Dongjiaomin Alley, I saw the group of soldiers, and I said "Goodmorning" to them breathlessly. This sentence is the smoothest, and it is this sentence from the very beginning of learning English.

Compared to yesterday, when I came like a headless fly, today seems to be much more purposeful. It's just that the hat is really awkward, not to mention the heat, especially when running, there is a braid dangling behind it, no matter how you look at it, it feels like dragging a tail. With a wave of his hand, he tucked his hat into the package again.

Early in the morning, except for the bitter haha who got up early to carry the work, there was no one on the street. At this time, a tall "Japanese" dressed in a Western costume was running down the street, which was very eye-catching. The grandfathers who walked the birds around looked fresh and sighed: "Early in the morning, what's wrong with the foreign devils, is this, being chased by dogs?" ”

When I arrived at the Horse Temple, I ignored the short old man and ran in like a rabbit, and walked around according to the old path of yesterday. The birds are still singing, the cicadas are still chirping, and nothing has changed except that the house is a little more dilapidated than when we first met. With his phone in his hand, he walked through the shade of trees, hoping to find a signal.

Life is often unsatisfactory, and I tossed for nearly two hours, but I didn't find the slightest signal.

"Looks like it's out of play." Sun Yuanqi thought dejectedly, so he found a stone bench and sat down, only then did he realize that he was very hungry. When I opened the package, there was not only a long shirt, a dozen eagles, but even two pieces of bread, which Mr. Conger had put in temporarily this morning, and suddenly felt that the package was heavy. Sun Yuanqi picked up a piece of bread and chewed it carefully.

Before I finished eating a piece of bread, I heard a commotion in the yard in front of me, and remembered that I was still a "Japanese". Hurriedly stood up, with bread in his mouth, and a package in his arms, and walked out along the corridor. Turning the moon door, he collided with a person, and the bread fell to the ground. Sun Yuanqi was big, almost 1.8 meters, 1340 pounds, and suddenly the person was knocked on his back.

On closer inspection, it was a short old man guarding the door. The short old man also saw that it was him, and said repeatedly: "Lord Sun, Lord Sun, this is the Japanese who have come many times, saying that they want to be a teacher......

Looking in the direction of the short old man, there was a large group of people, surrounded by two old men, one of whom was still a yellow-haired and blue-eyed foreigner, as for the other old man, naturally Chinese, his eyes were shining, with a white beard, wearing official uniforms, looking ancient, but well maintained, about a long time in the upper position, Wen Runzhong quite a bit of not angry and arrogant.

Sun Yuanqi didn't care who those people were, he went up first to pick up the short old man he knocked down, feeling guilty in his heart, and said "I'm sorry" in his mouth. How dare the short old man let Sun Yuan get up, he got up neatly and ran to the back of the crowd with a smoke.

The old man in the official uniform looked at Sun Yuanqi and said slowly: "Are you here to be a teacher?" ”

Sun Yuanqi listened to his tone and felt that this old man might be a big official in charge, so he replied respectfully: "Yes, my lord, I want to be a physics teacher." ”

"Physics...... Teacher? What is Physics? The old man didn't seem to have heard of that word.

What is Physics? Although he has studied physics for one or two decades, no one has asked this question, and it is estimated that there was no translation of "physics" in the late Qing Dynasty. ——In fact, in 1900, the book "Physics" edited by Iimori Ting in Japan, which was processed and reedited by Wang Jilie and translated into Chinese, the term "physics" began to appear in Chinese for the first time.

Looking at another foreign old man next to him, he had to ask him: "Excuseme, hotospeak 'physics' in Chinese?" (Excuse me, how do you say 'physics' in Chinese?) ）”

Sun Yuanqi's fluent American English obviously surprised the old foreign man, and his eyes widened: "It'samazing! YourEnglishissoell…… Theordespeakphysicsinmandarinis. ”

"Gezhi?" Sun Yuanqi was very unfamiliar with this name, secretly read it a few times in his heart, turned his head and answered the question just now: "Physics, that is, 'Gezhi', I want to be a Gezhi teacher." ”

After speaking, I felt a little awkward and funny in my heart: Teacher Gezhi? Coming to China's highest university, the predecessor of Peking University, as a physics teacher? What I couldn't even dream of in my previous life is that the gold-plated returnees from famous overseas schools have to squeeze their heads, let alone a small master.

"Gezhi...... Teacher? The old man in the official uniform repeated tepidly, "Are you an Oriental?" The Chinese dialect is good. ”

Sun Yuanqi remembered that he belonged to an unidentified person dressed strangely, so he quickly took out his hat from his bag and put it on his head, and then took out Mr. Conger's official letter: "I am Chinese, but I have been studying in the United States for a long time...... This is a letter of recommendation from the U.S. Minister Conger to the Minister for University Affairs, Mr. Sun Jianai. ”

After saying that, he was ready to step forward and hand it to him. Two soldiers had already stepped forward to stop him, and one of them took the envelope and respectfully presented it to the old man.

The old man frowned: "A letter to me?" He opened the envelope.

Sun Yuanqi was shocked, it turned out that this old man was Sun Jianai!

However, the foreign old man next to him was very excited: "Young man, it turns out that you are studying in the United States, why are you so fluent in English when I say it." I'm illiam Alexander Parsons Martin, my Chinese name is Ding Yunliang, didn't Mr. Conger mention me to you? ”

"I only saw Mr. Conger once......" In fact, Sun Yuanqi didn't know whether Mr. Conger mentioned him or not, maybe he didn't take it to heart at all.

"That's a great pity...... "The old man shrugged.

The two letters corresponded to both Chinese and English, and there were not many words, Sun Jianai read them quickly, and then handed them to Ding Yunliang beside him. Stared at Sun Yuanqi and glanced at it: "It turns out that you are also from the Qing Dynasty......

Sun Yuanqi felt that his sentence had many meanings, and it was difficult to say anything, so he could only go down and say, "Yes, my lord." My name is Sun Yuanqi......"

"Also surnamed Sun?" Sun Jianai paused, "What's that word, where is the people?" ”

"I'm from Huai'an, Jiangsu, because I've been overseas, and I haven't picked up words yet?" The generation that was born in the spring breeze and grew up under the red flag, who else took the words? If there is, it must be someone who is engaged in art pretending to be 13!

"Oh, I see—" Sun Jianai's expression did not move, "the accent is about the same." The old man is from Shouzhou, Anhui Province, but not far from Huai'an Mansion. Then again, we are all from Liangjiang. ”

Ding Yunliang also quickly read the letter, and looked Sun Yuanqi up and down: "It's amazing!" It's a miracle that you got a master's degree at such a young age, and you're still from Yale University. Let me guess, how long exactly have you lived in the United States? With your physique, maybe more than ten years, am I right, boy? ”

Sun Yuanqi could only laugh. Ding Yunliang also explained to Sun Jianai the meaning of "Yale University" and "master's degree". After muttering for a long time, Sun Jianai nodded and said: "The university hall is also lacking in a style to teach, since the minister recommended you, the old man sees that you are also well-educated, and when I play the emperor, come and take up the post......" After speaking, his eyes stared at Sun Yuanqi.

Sun Yuanqi had to kneel on the ground and kowtow in thanks.

Seeing him kneel and thank him, Sun Jianai was a little satisfied: "Since you have returned to China, you must follow the laws and regulations of the Qing Dynasty, and the etiquette and customs of those foreigners will not work in our Qing Dynasty, so we must change them one by one......"

Sun Yuanqi knew that he was talking about his hair and suits, and nodded in agreement.

"Alright, get up." Sun Jianai turned around to leave, just took two steps, and then turned around: "By the way, you don't have a word yet." What are the words of your name? ”

"Lord Huiqi: My name is Sun Yuanqi, I am the Yuan of New Year's Day, and I got up."

"Oh——, there is a cloud in the Yiji Chapter of the Book of Shangshu Yu: 'Happy humerus! The Führer is up! Hundreds of workers are bustling! You can just take the word 'Baixi'. The thriving 'hundred' of all industries, the bustling 'Xi'. After saying that, he left with a group of people.

So, even if Sun Yuanqi got the chair of the Beijing Normal University Hall, he also got a word by the way.

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