Chen Muwu wants to join the experimental team of Kapitsa and Blackett, of course, he has his own thoughts.

At present, there are still many people in the physics community who think that the Chen theory about gamma ray scattering proposed by him is not a correct theory.

One of the widely accepted objections is that this experimental phenomenon is the result of a statistical average.

This is because no one is doing this experiment is only measuring the changes in the properties of gamma rays before and after refraction, and no one is measuring what happens to the electron that collides with the photon after the collision is over.

If they can find the electrons that were knocked away after the collision, then they can completely shut their mouths.

The most direct way to observe the trajectories of charged particles is to pass them through the clouds, leave the trajectories and take photographs.

In their previous lives, Compton and Wilson finally shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics because they each observed the trajectory of recoil electrons in the cloud chamber and silenced those who did not believe in the particle nature of light.

And now Chen Muwu's Cavendish laboratory is not only the place where Wilson invented the cloud room, but also a hands-on experimenter who won the Nobel Prize for improving the cloud room.

So he asked, "Peter, Patrick, can you put down your work and do me a small favor?" ”

"What are you going to do, Chen?"

"I don't know if you've read my first published paper, which is the one on gamma ray scattering,......"

Chen Muwu paused here for a moment, until he saw the two people on the opposite side nodding separately, and then he continued: "......, but now many people still think this point of view is ridiculous, I don't know what the two of you think about it?" ”

Kapitsa has a lot of trust in his new roommate, "I support you, Chen, now that the experiment has been verified, then the facts are like a certainty, irrefutable. ”

"Peter, I want to correct you, the experiment has indeed verified the theory I proposed, but only partially, everyone has looked at the scattering of gamma rays, but no one has noticed the electron that has been recoiled.

"I saw Ling and Patrick conducting experiments in the cloud chamber today, and it occurred to me that if we could successfully observe the trajectory of this recoil electron in the cloud chamber, it should be able to silence the old diehards who have been shouting 'light is never a particle', right?"

Although Capitsa and Blackett arrived at the Cavendish laboratory a few years earlier than Chen Muwu, they are also still in the rookie stage and have no access to high-end experimental projects.

Both of them know that Chen Muwu is now famous in the physics community because he proposed a new theory that might be able to determine that light is a particle.

If there are experiments in which they participate that can further prove the correctness of this theory, can they also be like Chen Muwu, and make steady progress?

When people are in a small time, they will naturally not let go of any life-saving straw that may allow them to develop.

So when Chen Muwu asked, "Can the three of us design an experiment and go all out to capture this electron?" After this question, the two nodded without hesitation.

……

Kapitsa and Blackett were happy, and so was Chen Muwu.

I just moved my mouth, and I successfully fooled two free laborers sent to my door.

Chen Muwu planned not to participate in the specific work of this experiment during the whole process, after all, the radioactivity of the gamma ray source was not a joke, and it contained a genuine radioactive element, radium.

Nowadays, people are completely unaware of how harmful radioactivity is to the human body.

Instead, they believe that the new element called radium, discovered by the Curies, is a panacea for good health.

Radium is known as "angelic rays", "God's light", and "hope for the harmony of husband and wife".

For men, it can improve thinking ability, relieve stress, refresh the mind, and aphrodisiac; For women, it can be beautified, rejuvenated, and whitened.

The Europeans, who had just finished World War I, didn't have much money for such high-end gadgets, but their broad cousin in the countryside, Americaica, everyone was vying to spend a lot of money on high-end products containing radium: radium fluorescent watches, radium-containing cosmetics, radium-containing toothpaste, and radium-containing chocolate......

One of the most famous is a type called radium water, which is directly thrown into the water by bold Americans, rather than using all kinds of strange animals in China, even Ultraman, Godzilla and crazy aliens.

The doctors blew the radium water to the fullest, but in fact, it was just to get the rebate money as high as 7% from the medical representatives.

It wasn't until a few years later, when a wealthy middle-class man named Biles died of a fanatical superstition about radium water, and the female workers who colored the luminous dials of the American radium company fell ill en masse, that Lao Mei, who realized it later, finally realized the seriousness of radium's harm to the human body.

Staying in the Cavendish laboratory, the source of radiation, every day, although the dose is not large, Chen Muwu feels that he still needs to get a set of lead radiation protection clothing as soon as possible to wear.

……

After the pie was drawn, everyone was like a chicken.

Capitsa ran to borrow a gamma ray source, and Blackett was busy continuing to improve the cloud room in his hand.

Chen Muwu had other people to visit, so he left the Cavendish lab alone.

Returning to his rented room, Chen Muwu carried the ham he had brought from domestic human flesh, and then crossed the Cam River from the Bridge of Sighs, walked north along the river, and after passing St. John's College, he came to Magdalen's College.

Chen Muwu did not come here to visit any professor or scholar, but an acquaintance of the Chen family who had never met.

Just like the time he went to Shaoda, Chen Muqiao found Ma Yuzao and Zhou Zuoren, two old people, to help him take care of him, this time Chen Muwu crossed the ocean to Cambridge, and his eldest brother launched various connections to help him find an acquaintance in a foreign country who could help each other.

Ye Gongqiu, who once served as the general director of the Ministry of Communications and the president of Jiaotong University, is the old president of Chen Muwu when he was studying in Yanshan, and he is also Chen Muqiao's top boss at Nanyang University.

Although Ye Gongqiu only sat in the position of principal for a year because of the Beiyang factional struggle, he and Chen Muqiao still accumulated a good friendship.

Because Ye Gongqiu, who wears many hats, often travels on business and travels back and forth between Beijing and Shanghai, many matters in the school often have to be handled by Chen Muqiao, the provost.

In addition, Ye Gongqiu's ancestral hometown is in Linxian County, Chen Muqiao's hometown.

Yu Yao is not under the control of Yu Bo at this time, and it is still a subordinate county of Shaoxing Mansion, so there is another layer of friendship between Ye Chen and the two of them, so they are closer.

Chen Muqiao found out that Ye Gongqiu had a nephew named Ye Gongchao. 【1】

Ye Gongchao lost his father when he was young and grew up with his uncle since he was a child. This gentleman was two years younger than Chen Muwu, but he had already studied abroad in 1920, first in the United States, in three private schools, and then in England, and entered Magdalen College, Cambridge University, to study Western literature.

The ham that Chen Muwu was carrying was the one that Ye Gongqiu asked him to bring to his nephew after he knew that he was going to Cambridge.

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[1] Author's note: Ye Gongqiu and Ye Gongchao's uncle and nephew have already appeared once in the fortieth chapter of the previous volume.