27 Planck took the case
Chen's third paper, "On a New Scattering Phenomenon of Visible Light," published in the July issue of the Bulletin of the Natural Science Society, did not cause much of a stir.
On the contrary, the other two BKS papers (Bohr Kramers-Slater) from Copenhagen, Denmark and the BKC papers (Blackett-Kapitza-Chen) from Cavendish in Cambridge were published above, which attracted the attention of a large number of readers.
For the paper written by Kapitsa and Blackett, Chen Muwu had no intention of competing for the first author from the beginning.
Although it was indeed Chen Muwu who persuaded Kapitsa and Blackett to do this experiment, after all, all the experiments, data and photos were made, recorded and taken by those two people, and after mentioning it, he never participated in this experiment again.
And if the two of them weren't addicted to playing mahjong at the time, this paper wouldn't have been his turn to write at all.
His name, which could only appear in the acknowledgments, is now on the third author, and Chen Muwu is already satisfied.
What's more, among the citations of this paper, the first one is his own paper on gamma ray scattering, Chen Muwu's wave is already "Qin Shi Huang touched the electric door and won the numb", "Qin Shi Huang looked in the mirror, win-win".
Even though the layout of the pages of the Bulletin of Natural Sciences was much smaller than that of today's typewriters in terms of line spacing and word spacing, Bohr's BKS paper took up as many as 20 pages.
The Cavendish Laboratory's BKC paper, although it also takes up seven or eight pages, more than half of it is printed with photographs documenting the trajectory of recoil electrons.
Although in terms of length, Bohr's paper is far superior to Cavendis.
But in terms of the content of the paper, Chen Muwu's paper is a thousand pounds.
Chen Muwu asked Kapitsa and Blackett to hurry up and use the cloud chamber to do this experiment to capture the trajectory of recoil electrons, in order to put the experimental evidence under the microscopic level in front of the world in advance, in the hope that after Bohr saw it, he would have the idea of publishing such a stupid paper that denied the law of conservation of energy and momentum.
But no matter how prescient he Chen Muwu was, he didn't expect that the butterfly effect he caused would also make Bohr start planning in advance to write this amazing masterpiece in history.
It can only be said that it was a complete accident that these two papers could appear in the same journal.
And what's worse is that I don't know if it was an unintentional mistake by the editors, or if they did it on purpose, Chen Muwu's BKC paper happened to be ranked behind Bohr's BKS paper.
But more likely, it is estimated that the review editors did not read the contents of the two submission emails at the addresses of the two submission emails, one from the Cavendish laboratory and the other from last year's Nobel Laureate in Physics, and handed them directly to the typesetting editors.
Therefore, after reading Bohr's paper that is more than 20 pages long, comparable to a novella, but without a mathematical formula, and denies that the conservation laws in classical physics do not exist in the microscopic world, the physicists who got this issue of the "Bulletin of Natural Sciences" feel a little dizzy and spinning, and they can just read the paper of the Cavendish laboratory that follows closely behind, which is basically all photographs, and let themselves change their minds.
When they wake up, they will find: Huh? Isn't the trace of the recoil electron captured in the photograph of this paper the decisive evidence that negates the absurd view of Bohr in the previous paper?
Bohr's face was slapped hard by Chen Muwu.
And it was in front of physicists all over the world who could receive this journal that they were publicly executed.
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Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Planck has also been having a rough time lately, and although he is a university professor, a respected Nobel laureate, and a series of glittering honorary titles, his illusory fame is useless in the face of the appalling exchange rate of 350,000 marks per dollar in July.
Now all Germans are faced with a life-and-death problem: how on earth can they buy that damn bread and fill this damn belly.
Planck regretted even more that he was in such a hurry to exchange all the Nobel Prize money for Deutsche Mark, and if he still held it in his hand or simply exchanged it for dollars, then he would not have lost a lot of money in vain.
The secretary of the faculty sent the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Natural Sciences Society, with a German translation of the title and abstract of each paper on it.
As Chen envisioned, Planck was not interested in the scattering of visible light.
However, he saw a useful piece of news from the author column of this paper.
Planck looked up and asked his secretary: "Chen Muwu, who has published two papers in the Annals of Physics before, went to Cambridge University?" ”
The secretary nodded: "Yes, Professor, according to the mailing address of his paper, Chen should have entered the Cavendish laboratory." ”
Cavendish Sh?
It's no wonder that one of his latest papers is about optical experiments.
It seems that Chen Muwu sent two theoretical papers from Qihai before, probably because in that extremely poor country, there were no conditions and financial resources to support him to do experiments.
What about Germany today?
Albert Einstein once suggested in a telegram that he recruit this Chinese genius to Humboldt University.
But with the current financial resources of the university, what use can Chen Muwu have here? They now have to be careful even to shoot photographic negatives of the spectrum!
Maybe he didn't send an invitation letter to Chen Muwu to let him enter the now poor Humboldt University of Berlin, whether it is for his own future development or the progress of physics as a whole, it is a good thing.
Planck could only comfort himself in his heart.
He continued to look down and found that Bohr had also published a paper.
Planck had a good impression of Bohr because he was the first physicist to break taboos and obstacles and visit the German academic community after the end of the war, when the whole of Europe and the world was isolating Germany.
Although Einstein has become a world-renowned physicist on a par with Newton under the propaganda of the media, in the eyes of physicists today, although Bohr's reputation cannot catch up with Einstein, the brand-new atomic model proposed by the former is no less important in physics than the latter's theory of relativity.
Last summer, Bohr visited the University of Göttingen in Germany again, and physics professors and students from all over the country rushed to Göttingen to turn an ordinary academic visit into a huge "Bohr Festival."
What article did Bohr write this time? Planck looked at it curiously.
Planck nodded happily when he saw that Bohr had proposed a new theory to refute the absurd idea that light was a particle.
He also did not believe that Einstein and Chen Muwu said that light is a particle, and Bohr deserves to be the best among young physicists now, and he actually found a way to break the situation in such a short time.
But when he read it and wrote that in order to refute that light is a particle, Bohr actually believed that the laws of classical physics are invalid in the microscopic realm, Planck couldn't help frowning.
Ridiculous, what the hell is this?
Photon said that it felt like a man had an abscess on his wrist that could not be completely cured no matter how much he squeezed or applied medicine.
But Bohr's paper made him see a reckless Viking man, in order to make the abscess disappear in front of his eyes, he even raised a knife and directly cut off his own arm.
It's just unreasonable!
Bohr's paper in the Bulletin of the Natural Science Society, Planck really didn't want to continue reading it.
There are too many words, all of them are in English, and there are no formulas and diagrams throughout the text, which is one thing, and the point is somewhat unreasonable, and it is another.
Planck felt that Bohr's rejection of the photon might be a bit of a delusion, and that he was now completely unreasonable, and that he was simply resisting for the sake of resisting.
Skipping the nasty BKS paper, Planck's gaze continued to sweep to the next one.
Well?
Why is there this Chen Muwu in the author column?
Didn't he just publish a paper on the scattering of light?
Planck looked curiously at the German abstract that his secretary had translated for him, and then opened the magazine and looked carefully at the printed photographs on it, and the traces left by the recoil electrons in the cloud room were clearly visible.
With this trajectory, coupled with a simple mathematical theorem, the cosine theorem, it is possible to calculate whether energy and momentum are conserved before and after a collision of a photon and an electron.
Although he was not good at English, Planck could read pictures and formulas, one was a simple and straightforward but irrefutable fact, the other was a pale and empty tirade, and he could naturally judge who was right and wrong in these two essays.
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