Today's London is worthy of the name of "fog capital", whether it is the color, smell, duration of fog, or the type and size of particles contained in it, it is much more "rich" than the smog when Chen Muwu was in college in Shaojing 80 or 90 years later.

In "London Bamboo Branches", Zhang Zuyi, a Qing scholar, also has a poem "Praise": "The yellow fog is filled with black smoke, and it is rare to see the blue sky in the city." After the Double Ninth Festival in September, I was in a coma until the New Year. ”

The first thing every international student does when they come to London is to go to the Legation of the People's Republic of China in the UK at 49 Portland Street to report on it, and Chen Muwu is no exception.

Whether it is the official expenses of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education, or the provincial expenses of the Ministry of Education, all of them will be paid to the account of the legation on a monthly basis, and it will undoubtedly be much more convenient to do anything in the future if you have a good relationship with the staff here.

Although he had said countless times before leaving, don't prepare too much luggage for yourself, but in the end he still took a few large suitcases across the ocean.

With so much luggage, there was naturally no way to take the subway, so Chen Muwu had to stop a taxi carriage directly at the gate of the railway station and report the address of the legation.

At first, when he saw such a deflated man from China who was still full of people's atmosphere, the staff who were used to the London accent didn't care too much, and routinely asked for his passport and study abroad certificate.

But when he saw the Chinese and English names on his passport, he was suddenly surprised.

Chen Muwu!

Is he Chen Muwu, who has been making a fuss in the British newspapers lately?

The staff didn't dare to slack off, he was afraid that he would recognize the wrong person, and wanted Chen Muwu on the other side to confirm whether he had published a few papers in British magazines.

After getting a positive reply, the staff hurriedly got up and left the seat, helped pick up Chen Muwu's luggage, and welcomed him into a special office to rest.

After putting the tea leaves in the teacup and brewing hot water, he left the office again and hurried to find the largest official in the legation, Zhu Zhaoxin, the chargé d'affaires temporarily, to report the news.

Looking at the staff's operation, Chen Muwu, who had stayed up all night on the ferry and train, was completely confused.

What's wrong with this?

It all started from the beginning.

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Together with Eddington and his son-in-law Fowler, he went to Trinity College to find the elder Tomson and asked to invite Chen Muwu to study at Cambridge University, and after returning to his office, Rutherford also wrote a newsletter to the journal Nature.

Rutherford has a long history with the journal Nature, when he was head of the physics department at McGill University in Canada, where his main research direction was the radioactivity of matter, and the Curies and Becquerels of France were far ahead of the curve in this field.

In November 1899, Rutherford intended to submit a paper on "stimulated radioactivity" to the Journal of Philosophy.

But when the paper was finally published in the February 1900 issue of the journal, it had to add the following sentence at the end of the paper: "In the course of the publication of this paper, we received the Comptes Rendus of November 6, which contains a paper by the Curies and a note by Becquerel on the radioactive phenomena of other substances excited by radium and polonium." ”

The Curies and Rutherford came up with the same results and ran out for the time of publication.

The Curies were based in Paris, and they were also academic authorities, so they basically sent papers to the journal's editorial office in the morning, and in the afternoon the editorial office could prepare the typesetting and printing supplements.

Rutherford, on the other hand, was soft-spoken and far away, and his paper had to be reviewed by the editors of the journal's editorial office several times after nearly a week at sea before it could be finally published.

Rutherford, who was robbed of his love by the knife as a result of his research, had a good eye after learning his lesson.

Nature is published once a week and is updated more frequently than professional journals that are once a month.

Therefore, from then on, Rutherford began to publish the experiments and papers in the then little-known journal Nature, so as to prove the originality of his papers, so as not to be preempted by others, as in 1899.

He then sent the full paper to the editorial offices of specialized journals such as the Journal of Philosophy and the Journal of the Natural Science Society, where it awaited a lengthy review period.

This is much like the future arXiv preprint site.

Rutherford also relied on this method to break through his reputation in the physics community step by step.

In turn, he has also driven the influence and sales of Nature, making it not only the best-selling scientific journal in the UK, but also one of the must-read journals for physics researchers around the world.

Although Rutherford was known as an experimental physicist, that didn't mean he wasn't good at theory.

He was one of the first physicists in the world to accept the special theory of relativity, so it was natural that he would be interested in Chen's second paper.

So in the newsletter, Rutherford announced the paper, which was to be published in the March issue of the Bulletin of the Natural Science Society, and also focused on the Chen universe in which he returned to the past and went to the future.

The feasibility of time travel has exploded not only in the UK, but also in the UK.

The newsletter, published in the journal Nature, sparked a wide discussion in the salons of high society.

The reporters on Fleet Street, who have a keen sense of news, poured out of their nests when they heard the news.

After some investigation and visits, they found that the proposer of the Chen universe was the same person as Chen Muwu, who had made Eddington, a fellow of the Royal Society, angry and beat the editor of the "Philosophical Journal".

After such a correlation between the two news, the news was suddenly hyped.

These uncrowned kings even dug up a news item in the "Qianhai Times" in January this year, "Einstein praised Chen Muwu as the 'Ramanujan' of the physics community".

The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and other national newspapers that are influential in Britain and even in the West quickly followed suit, all of which carried out a lot of publicity and reporting on Chen Muwu and the time-traveling Chen universe he proposed under the headline "Ramanujan in the physics community."

The reporters stationed in the Far East from these newspapers even found Chen Muwu's former work unit, the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway Administrations, but they got the news that he had resigned and left.

However, these unrelenting reporters followed the clues on the "Declaration" and "Yishi Bao" all the way along the Jinpu Line from south to north to Shaojing.

In the end, they found Chen Muwu's lecture manuscript at Shaojing University, which had been sorted out and urgently needed to be proofread, typeset, and published, and spent a lot of money to buy the English copyright of the lecture manuscript, which was ready to be translated into English and sent to the United Kingdom for publication and distribution.

Of course, Chen Muwu didn't know that the royalties of the lecture that he gave up at the beginning would add a lot of high-end equipment to the physics laboratory of Shao University.