37 star-studded auditoriums
Hu Shi's words are all good for Chen Muwu.
That attitude and tone made him feel that Hu Shi was very much like the kind of relative who was willing to preach and had no sense of proportion when he visited the door during the Chinese New Year and met at the wine table.
Chen Muwu politely responded on the surface, but what he was thinking about in his heart was something else.
Cornell University, is it really good?
Admittedly, in later generations, Cornell was one of the eight Ivy League schools, which is considered one of the top universities in the United States.
arXiv, a preprint system for papers that is very well-known in the field of physics, mathematics and computing, has its main server located at Cornell University.
But now, Cornell is not a good choice for a student who wants to get into physics.
This school is not only comparable to the two institutes of technology in Massachusetts and California, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford and other schools, but even the University of Chicago.
Of course, the University of Chicago is still the center of physics in the United States, and there are many talented people, such as Michael Sun, Milligan, Compton, and Hubble.
And what does Cornell University have? There is a Cayuga Lake!
It wasn't until the end of the Manhattan Project, when Richard Feynman came to Cornell from the Alamogordo base in New Mexico to teach, that the school's physics major was truly established.
Chen Muwu felt that if he really fulfilled Schulman's wish and went to Cornell University to study, the limited help of this school for his studies would be far less than the feedback on the school's prestige after he became famous.
In the future, when people mention him and this school, they will not say that "Chen Muwu graduated from Cornell University", but that "Cornell University has trained the world-renowned physicist Chen Muwu".
Why make this wedding dress for Americans?
What's more, how many years has it been since the Chinese Exclusion Act? It's cool to go to the U.S. and wait for citizens right now, isn't it?
Besides, he doesn't want to be an alumnus with Dr. Hu, and he doesn't want Dr. Hu to be a guide on his own education path in the future!
Therefore, Chen Muwu took Hu Shi's exhortation to himself as a joke, and learned that the remuneration for this lecture would be paid in full, which was the biggest gain he got from today's meal.
And what he earned was not the salary that Professor Shao couldn't afford in the first place, but the money of the Americans, which made him even more refreshed.
If Chen Muwu hadn't set a rule for himself not to drink a drop of alcohol after the crossing, he would have had a few more drinks tonight!
There was no way, he could only endure the pain and cut his love, and poured all the wine that was originally going to go down to his stomach to Hu Shi opposite, and added horse urine and sycophants, which made the drunken Dr. Hu very useful.
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Two days later, on Thursday afternoon, the fifth and final lecture of Chen Muwu's Theory of Relativity, "Time Travel", appeared on time.
Perhaps because some friends wanted to come to listen to the lecture, the location of Chen Muwu's last lecture also changed, from the lecture hall of the second courtyard of Shao University, the former site of Beijing Normal University, to the first courtyard of Shao University, which was built only a few years ago, that is, the lecture hall of the Red Building, to show respect for Schulman.
Hu Shi was inseparable from Shulman's side, and acting principal Jiang Menglin was also on the other side.
In order to make the Americans in the audience understand, Yan Renguang, head of the Department of Physics at Shao University, served as the English translator of the lecture on the stage.
This gentleman also studied abroad at Cornell University for four years, but compared to Dr. Hu, he is really much more low-key!
The reason why Chen Muwu met Yan Renguang was because the teachers and professors of the Department of Physics of Shao University had become loyal listeners of his lectures, and after each lecture, they would leave him to communicate for a long time.
He has great respect for these physics predecessors, and if they had not pioneered the cause of physics education in our country, there would have been no disciple of Chen Muwu.
The question they asked the most was why Chen Muwu, an engineering student, had such a high level of relativity.
He could only talk nonsense, saying that it was because he was interested in the theory of relativity after seeing it by chance, so he read a lot of books on this subject when he was in the academy of Jiaotong University.
Several professors were amazed by this, and discussed that they would go to Yanshan to inspect and inspect education after their salaries were paid in the future.
Today's lecture hall of the first courtyard of Shao University is really starry, in addition to the above-mentioned people, Chen Muwu also saw a lot of familiar faces in the audience:
Mr. Lu Xun, who had long said that he would come to listen to Chen Muwu's lecture, and his second brother Zhou Zuoren finally came to the scene today.
Ma Yuzao, the owner of the Ma family who has been living in the house, also brought several of his younger brothers to support Chen Muwu.
There is also the rookie editor Zhang Xinyuan who I met in the editorial department of "Yishi Daily", this time Editor Zhang has a paper and pen in his hand, and it seems that he came to run the news as a reporter.
Chen Muwu was very embarrassed, feeling that his vest was about to be unable to cover it, and when the speech was over, he must tell Reporter Zhang to keep his secret.
What surprised Chen Muwu the most was that he saw Xu Zhimo, the "crane in the clouds" wearing a suit and tie, and glasses in the middle of the comb!
He didn't chase Miss Lin, what did he do when he came to listen to the lecture?
Could it be that Mr. Xu is really very passionate about the theory of relativity, and he is not a good man who can only boast about Ye Gong in the newspaper?
In addition to these people Chen Muwu knew, there were many other well-known scholars sitting in the audience.
For example, Qian Xuantong, director of the Department of Chinese Literature and Literature of Shao University, Li Siguang, director of the Department of Geology, Zhang Junmao, who is now accompanying the German philosopher Du Lishu to give lectures in China, and Lin Changmin, who was traveling all over the world to seek the position of president of Shao University a while ago, and so on.
Of course, Chen Muwu didn't know that the last person mentioned above was the real reason why Xu Zhimo appeared at the venue today.
Chen Muwu also didn't know whether it was because of the appeal of the American Minister Schulman, who came to listen to his lecture in person, or because the title of the lecture "Time Travel" was attractive.
Anyway, at one or two o'clock in the time, he stood in the middle of the stage in the auditorium on time.
After a few lectures, Chen Muwu found that he was not as frightened as he was when he substituted his tutor in his previous life, facing the head of a classroom.
He thought about the reason, maybe it was because of the advanced knowledge in his brain that gave him an invisible sense of superiority in front of the people of the current era.
His opening remarks reproduced the beginning that attracted Einstein's interest in the Ministry of Industry Bureau, and still started from the "Today is the right time to come in the past" of the Ten Things of the Zhuangzi, and Wang Zhen, Liu Chen, and Ruan Zhao also took turns to appear.
Those who can enter the academic world today must have a high level of literary literacy.
When the audience heard Chen Muwu say that time travel in these well-known myths and stories can also be related to the theory of relativity, they became interested.
To be honest, today's topic, in fact, has very little knowledge about the theory of relativity, and at best, it can talk about the "Chen universe" that Chen Muwu proposed to Einstein.
As for what is called a wormhole and which is a parallel universe, Chen Muwu doesn't dare to talk about it, because these theories have not been put forward yet, and if he spoils in advance, he will accidentally get himself into big trouble.
But even if it is "Chen Universe", he can't talk too carefully, after all, the vast majority of the people sitting in the audience don't even know what a "light cone" is.