29 Planck's small request
Knowing the news of Einstein's imminent arrival can be regarded as a shot in the arm for Bohr, who has been exhausted recently.
He was on the top floor of the Institute of Theoretical Physics early, reserved the top guest room in the entire building for Einstein, and asked his wife Margaret to clean the room in advance.
After meeting, the two walked to the tram stop next to the train station and found a corner seat on the tram and sat side by side.
"Doctor, congratulations on winning the Nobel Prize, and now you finally deserve it."
"Rejoice and rejoice."
The two Nobel laureates exchanged a few polite words before they fell back into a polemic.
"I heard that you have recently encountered a big setback in the theory of light quantum."
Einstein asked as if nothing had happened, but he was already snickering in his heart.
On the ship from Sweden to Denmark today, he had read the two papers in the Bulletin of the Natural Science Society from Copenhagen and Cavendish respectively, and the young man Chen Muwu had brought himself another big surprise.
In the face of this powerful fact, there should be no one who will question the correctness of the quantum theory of light, or the "photon theory" that it should be called now.
It's just a pity that Planck didn't listen to his advice in the telegram and recruited Chen Muwu to Humboldt University in Berlin, allowing the British to pick up a big bargain in vain.
In Bohr's ears, Einstein's words were really unmentionable, he muttered when he spoke, and he was still a little unconfident when he spoke German, which was not his native language, and his voice became weaker: "Yes, doctor, this time I did put a squib, and I lost face in front of the small characters." ”
"Eh, Nils, the young man who beat you is not a small character, the third author of that paper, Chen Muwu, is a genius of physics that I discovered in the sea when I was lecturing in the Far East last winter, and the previous paper on gamma ray scattering was also completed by him alone. I think there should also be a lot of credit to him in this paper, and it is only because of the humble character unique to the Chinese that his name is in the position of the third author. ”
In Einstein's heart, he has already classified Chen Muwu as a member of his account, he not only has advanced research on the theory of relativity, but also has made great contributions to the final confirmation of his quantum theory of light.
What Cutie Instein doesn't know is that his henchman is actually the reincarnation of Wei Yan, and not long ago, he had planned to unite with his other good friend Eddington to overthrow his cosmological constant.
It's just that because Chen Muwu has been too busy recently, he forgot that he had an agreement with Eddington to consult astronomy questions.
Seeing Chen Muwu mixing well in the Cavendish laboratory, Eddington could only sit in front of the astronomical telescope every day and sigh, after all, he still paid by mistake!
"I know this Chen, in the past six months, he has been extremely active in the physics community, but half a year ago, I didn't know that there was such a person, as if he suddenly appeared.
"Doctor, what do you think about Chen's proposed time travel? Do you think this Chen is also a futuristic person who came to us through time travel? ”
The frustrated Bohr inadvertently said something, but he killed one by one and poked it straight into Einstein's heart.
Einstein always felt that there was something wrong with time travel, but it was by no means a mathematical deduction.
At this time, Chen Muwu, who was watching Ye Gongchao cook at Magdalen Academy, suddenly sneezed.
"Lao Ye, your peppercorn noodles are really strong!"
"Not really! I sent it from China. Ye Gongchao said proudly.
"I think there will be an answer to this question later," Einstein also learned to talk about it, "why don't we go back to the photon, Nils, do you think the photon exists now?" ”
Bohr and Einstein talked about each other, and the discussion gradually heated up, and no one realized that they had already sat on the tram.
By the time Bohr found out, the tram had already made three stops, so he had no choice but to take Einstein off and walk to the other side of the station to wait for the tram to return.
Then, in the midst of a heated discussion, they sat down again.
After several rounds of repetition, we finally arrived at the Institute of Theoretical Physics building at the University of Copenhagen.
The sun has already set in the western mountains.
……
When Planck received the letter from Berlin, Chen Muwu and Blackett, as well as Cavendish Laboratories and a group of students from Trinity College, were in the Eagle Bar on Benedict Street to practice for Capitsa, who was about to return to China to visit his family.
The day after tomorrow, Kapitsa would travel from London across the English Channel and by rail across the continent to his hometown of Kronstadt in St. Petersburg.
The Eagle Bar is a mecca for Cavendish Labs.
Because you come out of the main entrance of the lab, turn right and walk to the end of the alley to the Eagle Bar, so this is one of the favorite places for Old Tomson to come after work.
The old director led by example, and led the staff and students up and down the laboratory to come to this bar to drink and chat in their free time to pass the time.
The Eagle Bar has also left its mark on the history of science, having been the birthplace of the famous Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
James Watson and Francis Creek of the Cavendish Lab were drinking and chatting at the bar when they accidentally discovered the double helix structure of DNA.
This wine has made a earth-shaking change in genetics.
There is no doubt about the love of beer in the British, or in Europe in general, and the beer hall is a mecca in the hearts of men.
Before the end of this year, no one would have thought that someone would lead a group of younger brothers and make a big fuss in the beer hall they often go to.
In his previous life, Chen Muwu also liked to occasionally masturbate and drink two bottles of cold beer.
But since the crossing, he is afraid of damaging his brain cells full of good things, and he doesn't drink a drop of alcohol.
Because he neither smoked nor drank, Chen Muwu had already been teased by Kapitsa as a puritan.
He also ridiculed that Chen Muwu should not stay in the British Isles, but should take the Mayflower sailing ship and cross the North American continent on the other side of the Atlantic.
Bah! That kind of ghost place, ghosts go!
A few months after coming to Cambridge, Chen Muwu entered the Eagle Bar for the first time.
Because he didn't know why he was a non-drinker, why he wanted to go into a bar.
Is it possible to be like Dong Chou, who only orders milk at the bar?
……
After three rounds of drinking, except for Chen Muwu, who had been sitting at the bar and drinking soda, everyone else had gradually been ruled by the rising alcohol in his body, and Kapitsa didn't know where to get an accordion, and began to play and sing the Russian version of "Three Sets of Cars" in the center of the tavern.
Although Kapitsa's English has a lot of big tongue in it, and whenever he talks about excitement, a few Russian words pop out from time to time.
But because of his cheerful and self-familiar personality, it has been less than two years since he came to Cavendish Laboratory, and everyone in Cambridgeshire knows that Trinity College has such an optimistic and somewhat lively Sulian person.
Everyone gathered around Kapitsa, singing and dancing to the sound of music.
Chen Muwu took advantage of the dim light of the bar to open the letter from Berlin, Germany, that Blackett had brought to him from the Cavendish laboratory earlier.
In the letter, Planck first congratulated Chen Muwu on his admission to Cambridge University, and congratulated him on publishing several papers in a row within a few months, and each of them received a good response.
Then, Planck shifted gears and got to the point.
He asked Chen Muwu if he could keep an eye on the British "Bulletin of the Natural Science Society" in the future, and he would also contribute more articles to the "Annals of Physics".
In recent years, a new German-language physics journal called the Journal of Physics has appeared in Germany, and it is menacing, and now it can basically go hand in hand with the "Annals of Physics", and there is a faint momentum to surpass the old-timers.
As the editor-in-chief of the Annals of Physics, Planck naturally could not bear to see this old physics journal founded in the eighteenth century decline in his own hands, and he tried every means to continue the glory of this journal.
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, especially in 1905, Einstein wrote five papers in the Year of Miracles, all of which were published in the Annals of Physics.
For more than a decade after that, Einstein was the pillar of the entire journal, and as long as his papers were there, the Annals of Physics would have quality assurance.
However, in the twenties, the defeat in World War I and the economic recession brought about by the defeat in World War II led to more and more anti-Semitic sentiment in Germany, and many Germanic scientists came forward to criticize Einstein's Jewish physics, which caused the country and the people, and the theory of relativity became their primary target.
The leader of this was Philip Leonard, the Nobel Prize winner in physics in the miracle year of 1905 and the director of the physics laboratory at the University of Heidelberg.
He was an extremely narrow nationalist and nationalist, and because Germany was defeated by France in World War I, he did not allow the unit of electricity to be named after the Frenchman Ampere in the physics laboratory of the University of Heidelberg, which Leonard directed, and replaced it with the name of the German physicist Weber.
Albert Einstein could not stand the inexplicable accusations and attacks, coupled with the fact that German Jewish Foreign Minister Rathenau was assassinated by far-right forces, and the violent elements claimed that Einstein was the next target of assassination.
This led him to decide to leave the land of right and wrong and travel frequently to lecture in the Americas, East Asia, and Northern Europe, rather than returning to the German physics community.
Einstein's fading out of the academic circle made the "Annals of Physics" lose a stable contributor, and there is no young generation of leaders in the German physics community, so Planck had to set his sights on the Chinese genius who has recently made a name for himself in the physics community, Chen Muwu.
In fact, it is true that the journal gradually declined after Einstein left abroad, and the last fairly heavyweight article published on it was Schrödinger's wave equation published in 1925.
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Chen Muwu didn't know what Planck was thinking, he just thought that Planck had installed surveillance around him or arranged eyeliner.
Otherwise, why did Planck know that he had just written a paper in his hand, and the content was still related to his blackbody radiation?
Chen Muwu had been struggling with whether to submit this purely theoretical paper to the British "Bulletin of the Natural Science Society" or the German "Annals of Physics", but now that he had received Planck's letter, he immediately had the answer.
It seems that I have to sell this old-timer a face.
Just when Chen Muwu was thinking about where to find a German to help him translate his papers, another group of students came in the Eagle Bar.
"Chen, I haven't seen you for a long time, I didn't expect to meet you in this kind of place."
(End of chapter)