As soon as the time arrived at six o'clock in the evening, the directors of the various departments of the Cavendish laboratory began to go to their laboratories to announce that six o'clock had arrived, and asked everyone to stop working.

This rule of leaving work at the end of the day also originated from the current director of the Cavendish laboratory, Rutherford.

He once said that there is no need to delay anyone who fails to finish the work that must be done before six o'clock, but he hopes that you will go home immediately, think about the work you have done today, and then think about the work to be done tomorrow.

If someone doesn't believe in evil and stays in Cavendish after six o'clock to do experiments, he is likely to be caught by Rutherford, who occasionally walks around the lab after dinner on a whim, and then gets reprimanded.

After finishing work, Capitsa took Blackett to the conference room to find Chen Muwu, with a gloating expression on his face: "Chen, this is the first time you have been taught a lesson by a crocodile, how do you feel?" ”

Chen Muwu was not too depressed, because Rutherford's words were also a kind of slap in the face, which woke him up: "It's okay, although the director spoke a little louder and his tone was heavier, I knew that he was all for my good." ”

"Tut-tut......" Hearing this answer, Capita couldn't help but babble her tongue, "Speaking of which, why did he catch you and scold you just after he returned to the lab today?" ”

"Because the director went to the conference room and asked me what I had been doing lately, I told him that I thought electrons were also a wave."

Kapitsa, who has been chattering, and Blackett, who has been silent, coincided in the matter of widening their eyes after listening to what Chen Muwu said.

Capitsa was the first to exclaim, his voice even a little louder than Rutherford's: "What do you say, electrons are a wave?" ”

"Yes, I have such a feeling in the dark, but in fact, I am not sure, so I proposed it to the director, I wanted to do an experiment to verify it, and then it was ruthlessly vetoed." Chen Muwu said with a wry smile.

"Chen, to be honest, although you are indeed a genius compared to us, I always feel that this time, you really seem to be a little whimsical."

"Let's go, eat, eat, George should have been waiting for us for a long time." Blackett played a round next to him.

The trio now regards Ye Gongchao as a place to satisfy their hunger and sacrifice their teeth, and they will go to Magdalen Academy every other day to have a beating.

In Magdalian, Chen Muwu heard from Ye Gongchao about a piece of news from East Asia that made him very happy.

On September 1, an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck the Kanto region of a country, including the two major cities of Tokyo and Yokohama.

Although it is really wrong to joke about natural disasters for fun, and he may be scolded for being inhumane, Chen Muwu just couldn't help but want to laugh.

According to the post-disaster statistics of a certain government, more than 140,000 people were killed and missing in the earthquake, of which more than 40,000 died of baking or suffocation in the fires in Tokyo after the earthquake.

After learning this specific number, Chen Muwu even came up with a hellish joke.

If you want to say that the immunity of this certain country is really not good, as early as so many years ago, they had collectively immunized the fire, how come it is that after 22 years, they still haven't escaped General Li Mei's barbecue?

If you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself, you really deserve it!

Seeing that Chen Muwu was trying his best to hold back a smile, Kapitsa couldn't help but ask curiously, "Chen, why did you suddenly become so happy?" ”

"I suddenly remembered a happy thing, my wife, uh no, a letter from home said that it was my second brother's wife who had just given birth."

Fortunately, no one present has seen the peak moment of acting skills in this article, so that Chen Muwu can get through the danger.

Chen Muwu even wanted to pretend to be a noisy suspect and pull in a few British "ghost animals" who usually had a good relationship with him to protest against the genocidal massacre they carried out against the suspects after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Damn, if you have this kind of spare money to save devils, you might as well buy me a vacuum pump!

……

In a short period of time, the experiment of electron diffraction could not be completed, but Chen Muwu could not write to David Weisun, an engineer in the experimental department of the Western Electronics Company in the United States, to persuade him to do this experiment instead.

Maybe now, the name of the Xidian Experimental Department is not big.

But when the laboratory was acquired by AT&T in 1925, it became independent from Xidian and became the famous Bell Telephone Laboratory.

The experiments carried out by this experimental department are basically related to business, so the secrecy is very high.

Calculating the time, David should have just started to do the relevant experiments of electrons bombarding metal surfaces, and has not yet published a paper in the corresponding journal that records the experimental results.

If Chen Muwu had written to David at this time, asking him to make a slight improvement on the basis of the current experiment, then he would not have received a letter of thanks, but would have disturbed Xidian's peace in trying to find out the commercial spies who leaked the company's secrets.

Although the experiment could not be done, Chen Muwu felt that the theory of material waves could not be allowed to eat dust in the brain.

So he could only write a short paper on the idea that the electron is a wave, instead of de Broglie's version of his doctoral dissertation of more than 70 pages, and sent it again to the German "Annals of Physics".

Counting this paper, he has already published five papers in this journal this year, one more than Einstein did in 1905 (his fifth paper was published in 1906).

Along with the paper, there was a letter of inquiry to the United States and a personal letter to Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.

In a previous reprimand, Rutherford had inadvertently revealed that General Electric had recently developed a high-vacuum vacuum pump.

Chen Muwu keenly captured this information at that time, but Rutherford did not disclose the price to him.

That's why he thought of sending a letter to General Electric to ask what the price of this vacuum pump was.

What Chen Muwu thought in his heart was that when he left the sea, the second brother had given him a huge sum of two thousand pounds.

Because the scholarships at home and abroad could not be spent at all, the money has been stored in his own bank account until now.

If GE's asking price is reasonable, or even a little higher, as long as it is around 800 to 1,000 pounds, can he grit his teeth and buy a vacuum pump and come back, and then do his own experiments?

……

More than a week later, Mr. Chen received a reply from General Electric.

Maybe because of this vacuum pump, GE has no intention of making it into a mass production, so they didn't even print advertising brochures.

GE didn't want to use it to pump incandescent light bulbs with such a high precision vacuum pump.

As early as a few decades ago, the practice of vacuuming the bulb to reduce the oxidation of the filament has been replaced by the injection of argon, nitrogen and other gases that are chemically inactive.

They wanted to make a vacuum tube with a higher vacuum and then make a fortune on it.

I just sent a black-and-white photo of the appearance of the pump body, and a piece of paper with specific parameters.

Now the clarity of the photo is not high, and General Electric is afraid that others will copy it according to the appearance, and deliberately takes the photo very blurry.

On the other hand, it is written in black and white on the parameter sheet that in the ultimate state, this pump can achieve a high vacuum level of 10Pa.

Chen Muwu estimates that the actual effect of this vacuum pump may not be as high as written, but as long as the vacuum degree can reach seven decimal places, it is enough to meet the needs of his electron diffraction experiment.

Because of the mastery of the core technology, for the price of this high-precision equipment, GE is also a lion's mouth.

In the price column of this paper, the high price of 8,000 US dollars was deliberately marked in bold letters, which is almost 2,000 pounds sterling.

In 1923, 8,000 dollars was the concept.

A Rolls-Royce Silver Charm is about the same price.

If you change to a Ford Model T, you should be able to buy more than a dozen!

As for the change to the Deutschmark, it can already reach the order of trillions.

In this regard, Chen Muwu said that General Electric could go directly to grab it, but it still came to a letter to tell you the price, which is really too Yasassi.

He really, I cried to death.

This reply letter from General Electric completely cut off Chen Muwu's idea of buying a vacuum pump out of his own pocket.

It seems that he will only be able to wait for Davidson to publish the results of his experiments in an American journal before he can act on the opportunity.

When he was a child, Chen Muwu had read many celebrity stories in the history of science, and knew that many scientists were able to devote themselves to scientific research without having to think about the trivial things in life because they had the support of big donors behind them.

For example, King Frederick II of Denmark, who not only gave away an island but also gave more than a ton of gold to Tycho to build an observatory, and Emperor Rudolf II, the HRE Emperor who built another observatory for him in Prague after the death of the King of Denmark.

Another example is that Galileo was given enough support that Galileo specially named the four moons of Jupiter that he discovered "Medici Star" Ferdinand II de Medici of Tuscany.

In addition, there is also the Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg behind Gauss, and Boyle, Lavoisier, Darwin and Cavendish and other great scientists co-starred in "My Father and Me".

When Chen Muwu was reading the story at the beginning, he just regarded these as vignettes of celebrities, and he never took them to heart at all.

But now, he is extremely eager to have such a big gold master behind him, and if he really doesn't have a small gold master, he can do it.

At the very least, we must be able to help him settle the accounts of the vacuum pump first, so that he can settle down to do this electron diffraction experiment.

(End of chapter)