11. People are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong
Let's cut the camera from Europe back to home.
In fact, Chen Muwu only hopes that the paper he submitted more than a month ago will be successfully published in the European Journal of Physics after being recommended by Einstein's two telegrams.
He never imagined that his paper would attract so much attention in Europe, many of whom were well-known physicists whom he had only seen in physics textbooks and admired so much!
On January 2, in the café of the Cangzhou Hotel, after being interviewed by Zhao Junhao, a reporter from the "Declaration", Chen Muwu, who returned home, moved out the first object he bought after coming to this world, a "Laming Lantern" brand typewriter.
The name of the famous gunsmith Remington is so strangely translated.
Does it mean that a bright lantern is lit in the wax moon, so that night walkers in the cold winter can also feel the warmth?
It is not easy for a modern person to go back more than 100 years and accept the translation of all kinds of strange foreign names and place names during the Minguo period.
Like the names of "Guo Geli" and "Stalin", Chen Muwu can barely guess who is who.
But who can recognize that "Arrogant Russia" is actually Hugo, and "Tao Sidao" will be Tolstoy?
After the typewriters produced made a lot of money all over the world, Remington wanted to open up the market to the world's most populous China to get a piece of the pie, but he did not expect to encounter the biggest Waterloo in the typewriter business.
More than 90 percent of the 470 million people are illiterate, and less than 10 percent are literate.
But among this adult, fake foreign devils who use the Latin alphabet every day are even rarer.
A foreign firm in the concession bought a batch of typewriters from the United States two years ago, but it has not sold a few of them until now, so it can only be sold at a discount with tears.
For only 100 silver yuan, Chen Muwu found a brand new printer priced at 15 yuan and 10 remington printing ink ribbons.
For Chen Muwu, who is accustomed to playing the piano with a computer keyboard, this typewriter can be regarded as a lifesaver, because since the end of the college entrance examination, except for the occasional calculation on scratch paper, he will paint a few strokes on scratch paper.
The two papers sent to Europe, including the one I gave to Einstein yesterday, were from this printer.
Even though Einstein did not ask him to submit his paper yesterday, Chen Muwu planned to compile the precise solutions of the field equations proposed at the symposium into a paper and continue to send it to the British and German physics journals for publication.
I wonder how much of a storm he proposed in Europe this time, the "Chen Universe" (actually the Gödel universe proposed by Gödel in 1949), the "Chen First Solution" (actually the Kerr solution obtained by Roy Kerr in 1963), and the "Chen Second Solution" (actually the Kerr-Newman solution obtained by Ezra Newman in 1965) could be set off in Europe.
Chen Muwu's current life is very regular, he gets up in the morning to run and move his body, drinks tea and reads newspapers in the morning, types papers on a typewriter in the afternoon, goes to bed early and gets up early, and completely gets rid of the bad habit of staying up late before.
The light bulb was "invented" by the inventor Edison, and advertisements for the bizarre (G.E.) Edison light bulb can be seen everywhere in the newspapers.
It's not that the Chen family can't afford to pay the electricity bill, but Chen Muwu has set a rule for himself, that is, he can't stay up late to read and write.
He didn't want to make himself blind before pulling out all the knowledge stored in his head.
In this day and age, there are no mobile phones, no internet, no television, and even radio stations have not yet appeared.
The QWER keyboard attached to the typewriter can be regarded as the only consolation for Chen Muwu when he misses the afterlife.
Occasionally, he would involuntarily put the four fingers of his left hand on the four WASD keys, and the phrase "noon has arrived" would ring in his ears.
However, when he thought that even if he returned to that era now, he would no longer be able to play Overwatch, Chen Muwu's heart felt a little relieved.
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Einstein's report of giving a lecture on the theory of relativity in the lecture hall of the Ministry of Industry Bureau quietly appeared in an inconspicuous tofu block in the corner of the tenth edition of the "Declaration" on January 3.
Zhao Junhao really used the title he had prepared in his manuscript when he was listening to the lecture: "Einstein Passed Shanghai for the Second Time, and the Chinese People Are Still Not Interested".
However, he also took it upon himself to add a subtitle, "Fortunately! Among the 40,000,000 people in our country, there is still one who understands the mystery of the theory of relativity."
Looking at this subtitle full of yin and yang, Chen Muwu couldn't cry or laugh: This reporter Zhao held himself too high!
The content of the report is even more top-heavy, Zhao Junhao only used a small part of the brief description of the scene on the day of the seminar, and the rest of the text is all about introducing him to the readers, a "genius of the world".
In addition to the questions asked during the interview at the Cangzhou Hotel yesterday, Zhao Junhao also referred to the news in various English-language newspapers published yesterday, that is, the reports that Einstein had praised Chen Muwu as "the Ramanujan of physics" that German Consul General had seen.
He even did not hesitate to rely on belittling Professor Zhang Naiyan to praise himself, a compatriot who understands the theory of relativity.
Seeing that the newspaper was so flattering about himself, Chen Muwu looked helpless, he didn't expect such a big oolong to come out.
I knew that he should have told reporter Zhao in an interview yesterday that Zhang Naiyan asked questions about psychology, not because of his feudal superstition and belief in Western immortals and Roman dancers, but because when he was studying at the University of Birmingham, the principal at that time was the current pioneer of psychology, Rocky.
Zhang Naiyan's behavior of spreading knowledge and spreading branches for teachers is exactly what has been most respected by the Chinese academic community for thousands of years.
Since the New Culture Movement, although they have been shouting "Down with the Confucian Family", in fact, everyone still abides by the tradition of respecting teachers.
The master needs to rely on the disciples to spread the reputation, and the disciples need to use the master's banner to pretend to be powerful.
Otherwise, why did the American philosopher John Dewey visit China to give lectures for more than a year, and Hu Shih, who was unable to do anything early, always opened the way in the mountains and built bridges when encountering waters, and acted as a pioneer in front of the tent?
He naturally needs to use the fame of this foreign master to make a name for himself.
Otherwise, Mr. Lu Xun would not have satirized his three literary enemies in his future speeches: "Liang Shiqiu has a Bai Bide, Xu Zhimo has a Tagore, and Hu Shizhi has a Dewey ......"
Chen Muwu didn't dare to have a bad relationship with Lu Xun, he was afraid that this fellow villager with a one-word beard would add a sentence to his speech a few years later, "Chen Hanchen has Einstein."
It's good now, in Zhao Junhao's report, the professors of Shao University are not as good as the students of Yan University, isn't it a lot of trouble for himself? Let yourself inexplicably offend Professor Shao Da all over again?
Chen Muwu can only hope that this report, which is on the tenth page, will not be seen by so many people.