After listening to Eddington's complaints, Tomson took Chen Muwu's paper and read it carefully, and really became interested.

He said to Eddington: "Since the Journal of Philosophy does not want it, we shall publish it in the Proceedings of the Royal Society." ”

That's right, the dean of Trinity College in front of him has another identity, that is, the 42nd President of the Royal Society.

Although he has left office, Thomson's status at the Royal Society is still very high. Thomson then said to Eddington: "I can write a letter of recommendation tonight and send someone to the Royal Society."

"However, I'd like to show Ernest the paper first, and maybe he'll be interested in it.

"It would be great if he asked someone to design an experiment to test whether this fresh theory was right or wrong, and if the results could be published in the next issue of the Bulletin of the Natural Sciences at the same time as the paper."

When the name Ernest is mentioned, the first reaction of the general public should be the author of the text "The Old Man and the Sea" that he learned in a primary school textbook, the tough guy Ernest Hemingway.

The first reaction of the Douban young people who moaned without illness was a niche British poet who was conducive to pretending, Ernest Dawson.

For Chen Muwu, a Ph.D. in nuclear physics, this name represents the ancestor of their professional pioneering school.

After receiving an invitation to be the director of Trinity College, Thomson not only immediately resigned as president of the Royal Society, but also announced that he would no longer be the director of the Cavendish laboratory.

For his successor to the post of laboratory director, Thomson chose his own student, Ernest Rutherford, who was hailed by the Encyclopædia Britannica as "the world's greatest experimental physicist after Faraday" and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Early the next morning, Rutherford received the paper from Eddington himself.

Rutherford and Eddington were both graduates of Trinity College and Cavendish Division, so they were also very close.

The latter conveyed to the former the request of their common mentor, Tomson, to study the paper carefully, and if he was interested, it would be better to design experiments for verification, for the results of which had been reserved in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.

In order to attract Rutherford's attention, Eddington also moved out his idol of teacher and friend, saying that the author of this paper was an unborn genius discovered by Einstein when he was lecturing in the East.

Unlike Eddington, Rutherford still maintained the style of an old physicist, advocating that "physics is an experimental science".

He also famously said, "A thorough experiment is worth all the theories in the world, even if the theory is Bohr's." ”

Bohr, who won the Nobel Prize alongside Albert Einstein late last year, was one of Rutherford's most famous students.

The importance of experimentation did not mean that he despised theory, and sent Eddington away, and Rutherford returned to his office with the paper.

Eddington's words aroused Rutherford's curiosity, and he also wanted to see how many brushes Einstein, a well-known peer, had.

Just watched a beginning, and Rutherford had a feeling of dreaming about juvenile things in the middle of the night.

After graduating from the Cavendish Laboratory, Rutherford planned to stay in Cambridge to get a teaching position, but he was assigned to McGill University in Montreal on the other side of the Atlantic by his teacher, Tom Sun.

The reason why it is said to be a distribution is because at the end of the 19th century, more than 20 years ago, the academic center of Europe was even more unshakable, and the United States was already a little cousin of the United States, and Canada was even more inaccessible compared to the United States.

Now, more than 20 years later, Rutherford is still haunted by the incident, believing that the Cavendish laboratory xenophobia was responsible, bullying him as a foreigner and preventing him from obtaining a teaching position at Cambridge.

At McGill University, however, Rutherford was a blessing in disguise, gathering a dynamic group of collaborators and students to conduct creative scientific research.

The names mentioned by Chen Muwu at the beginning of his dissertation, Arthur Yves, David Florence, and Joseph Gray, were Rutherford's companions across the ocean.

He also has more or less knowledge of the research of these people, including the scattering of gamma rays.

From 1904, when the softening of gamma rays after scattering was discovered by Yves to 1913, when Gray's redo experiment was accurate, Rutherford left Canada to teach at the University of Manchester, but he kept an eye on the experiment and kept in constant contact with McGill University.

The experimental facts are clearly in front of the physicists, but no correct explanation can be found.

This Chinese paper sent by Eddington actually gives a theoretical explanation for this unsolved case in physics?

Rutherford eagerly read on.

The thesis is not long, and the theoretical knowledge is not complicated.

Although Chen Muwu also considered the relativistic effect, the relativistic effect of low-energy free electrons is not obvious and can be completely ignored.

Reading the end of the paper moved Rutherford a little.

The reason is not that this Chinese man has attached an experiment he designed at the end for the reader's reference.

Instead, Chen Muwu bluntly said that China has no experimental conditions, so it can only ask physicists from all over the world to help verify this.

This made Rutherford a little sad, because he also felt poverty in his youth.

Born in New Zealand, Rutherford has many siblings, his father is a worker, his mother is a primary school teacher, and it is not easy to support a large family with a meager salary, and it is simply not enough to send every child to school.

Rutherford's life trajectory was supposed to be that of a New Zealand farmer, but a scholarship he received at the age of twenty-four changed his fortunes.

It is said that when he heard the news, Rutherford was digging potatoes in the field, and he happily threw his shovel to the ground and shouted, "This is the last potato I have ever dug in this life!" ”

From the news in the newspapers, Rutherford knew that China was a poor country.

He saw the shadow of himself from this paper sent across the ocean and from this Chinese man.

There was no reason why he should not help this young man who was in a difficult situation but was keen and eager to learn.

Rutherford walked out of his office with his paper and found his student and assistant Chadwick: "James, I need you to clean up an empty room as soon as possible, we have a new experiment to do." ”

"Yes, Director!"