Leaving the Cambridge University Observatory, Chen Muwu and Eddington chatted while walking.

It wasn't until the two of them were about to walk to the Kang River that Chen Muwu realized that there seemed to be one less person by his side.

It's just because that person is usually very taciturn, so he has been walking so far, and Chen Muwu finally found out in hindsight.

He had to say sorry to Eddington, and then turned back alone and hurried back to the Cambridge University Observatory.

When he heard what Cepheid variables, galaxies, nebulae, and even the names of great philosophers like Kant were brought out from Chen Muwu's mouth, Dirac knew that the next conversation between him and Eddington should have nothing to do with him.

After the two of them left the office, Dirac became more and more bored on the couch and simply snuggled up and took a nap.

"Dirac, Dirac, wake up!" Chen Muwu picked up Dirac from the sofa in Eddington's office.

"Chen, I'm ......," Dirac slowly opened his eyes from his sleep, and then he remembered where he was, "Ah! Professor Eddington, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't sleep well last night on the train from Bristol to Cambridge, that's why I ......."

Dirac was now preoccupied with studying general relativity with Eddington when he arrived at Cambridge, so he was afraid of offending the leader who would probably become one of his closest teachers in the future.

"Alright, alright," Chen Muwu hurriedly reassured him, "Mr. Eddington has left, and he is not in this office now. You're sober and sober, we'll go to dinner together later. ”

"Oh, yes, yes."

One of them is a student of Trinity and the other is of St. John's, and as the first and second colleges of Cambridge University, they have always been in a state of "mortal enemies" with each other.

Rumor has it that the staircase in Trinity College's older buildings does not have the letter J in the number, because they don't like John's initials J in St. John's College.

Of course, this is just a myth, and the truth is that there is no letter J in the ancient Latin alphabet.

So if Chen Muwu wanted to eat with Dirac, he had to go to the small restaurant outside the school.

Walking on the road, Dirac directly incarnated into Chen Muwu's little fan brother: "Mr. Chen, you are so good, I feel that you know everything, even astronomy can talk to Professor Eddington." What you are talking about, I haven't learned it in a textbook before. How did you become such a great person? ”

In fact, Dirac's heart has always hidden a deep inferiority complex.

Although he is one of the best graduates of the University of Bristol, he also knows that the University of Cambridge is the top university in the UK, and all the students in it are crouching tigers, hidden dragons.

Before, Dirac didn't know what his level would be after coming to Cambridge.

As a result, on his first day at Cambridge, he was forced to accept a heavy blow.

His new roommate is chatting with the astronomer he has admired for a long time, and he can only hide like a mushroom in the couch.

Dirac felt that he had been ruthlessly crushed by Chen Muwu in terms of academic level, interpersonal communication, and all aspects.

Of course, the same is true in terms of appearance and height, but the informal Dirac is a little hindsight and doesn't notice this.

Chen Muwu didn't know how to read minds, so of course he wouldn't know how tall he was in Dirac's heart now.

At this time, facing Dirac's question, an acquaintance with a mustache suddenly appeared in Chen Muwu's mind.

So he blurted out: "I just spend all my coffee time on studying." ”

This was an unintentional joke by Chen Muwu, but it was remembered by Dirac.

As a devout Protestant Methodist, he never smoked or drank alcohol, nor was he keen to participate in group activities.

In daily life, Dirac behaves more like the desireless puritan in Kapitsa's mouth than Chen Muwu.

Now that he heard Chen Muwu say that he didn't even drink coffee, Dirac felt that it was time for him to quit coffee.

……

In the journal "Nature", after seeing Bohr, another of his belovers, stand up and clearly support Chen Muwu's electronic fluctuation theory, in fact, Rutherford also had some wavering in his heart.

But his vacillation did not last long, as Rutherford soon saw a reply from General Electric to Chen, worth as much as two thousand pounds, more than one-fifth of the annual budget for the entire Cavendish laboratory, and Rutherford felt that they really could not afford it.

In less than a year since January this year, Chen Muwu has made two major Nobel Prize-level discoveries in experimental physics.

Although nominally, he was only a freshman graduate student, Rutherford would never dare to treat Chen Muwu as a newcomer who didn't know anything.

Therefore, after the start of the school year, Rutherford half-inquired and half-discussed with Chen Muwu about what he had other ideas besides the diffraction experiment that could verify the fluctuation of electrons.

Chen Muwu thought for a while, and then gave Rutherford a negative answer.

The wool of the Nobel Prize in Physics has been harvested by him until 1930, except for the current electron diffraction experiment, Chen Muwu really can't think of what else he can do.

Is it possible to get out the bearded old New Zealander on the other side, who has been thinking about the neutron for more than ten years, in advance?

However, this also seems a little too advanced.

What's more, if neutrons were really discovered ten years earlier, it could well change the course of the world.

The last element on the current periodic table is uranium, which is in the ninety-second position.

Scientists always wonder if there is a larger atomic number behind the uranium element, there is a larger atomic number, ninety-four?

So they are now taking every opportunity to bombard uranium with everything they can find.

After the neutron is discovered, it must not escape this fate.

Enrique Fermi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 for bombarding uranium with neutrons and "discovering" the element 93 transuranic.

Although it later turned out that what he discovered was not element 93, but nuclear fission.

This may be the most exciting own goal in the history of the Nobel Prize.

Six or seven years after the advent of nuclear fission, the Trinity nuclear test appeared in the desert of New Mexico.

In other words, the interval between the discovery of the neutron and the successful detonation of the atomic bomb was about ten years.

If Chen Muwu gets the neutrons out now, even if it catches up with the world-wide Great Depression, it will slow down the pace of scientific research that requires a lot of money, but it is estimated that the first atomic bomb in this time and space may appear somewhere in the world before the mustache blitzes Poland at the latest.

In this way, won't the world be in a mess?

What else is Starshugrad fighting, what is the British air battle, see who is unhappy, make a big guy on his head, after all, the gods fight, and they are also afraid of nuclear bombs, aren't they?

Chen Muwu felt that it was better to hide the Pandora's box of neutrons now and open it later.

After all, he still wants to make a few more big firecrackers on the top of the little devil's head, but this dream must be down-to-earth and step by step.

At the very least, after his building is built and a series of supporting industries are built, he can think about rubbing a big mushroom by hand.

What do you mean by that chicken soup? You have to work hard secretly, quietly rise to the top, and then surprise everyone.

BOOM！

Bazinga！

……

Although Chen Muwu said that he had no new ideas recently, Rutherford was unable to arrange new experimental projects for him.

He may feel that Chen Muwu is now in a state of overuse of his brain, after all, no matter how smart his brain is, he needs to rest.

Therefore, Rutherford asked Chen Muwu to take some courses of interest in Cambridge University in the first semester after enrollment.

As for his work in Cavendis's lab, Rutherford still put him back in the original KBC trio.

However, Chen Muwu did not choose to help Kapitsa do his experiment on the effect of magnetic fields on alpha particles, nor did he choose to help Blackett study the use of cloud chambers to take pictures of alpha particles and nitrogen.

Chen Muwu, the head iron, borrowed the Splenger vacuum pump developed by him more than ten years ago directly from Francis Aston.

He didn't believe in evil, and planned to use this old guy to see if he could create a high-vacuum environment so that he could conduct electron diffraction experiments.

Aston is one of the professors in the Cavendish Laboratory and a fellow of Trinity College. J. Thomson played for a while.

He invented the world's first mass spectrometer in Cavendish and has used this instrument to find more than 200 naturally occurring isotopes.

For this achievement, Aston won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year.

Mass spectrometry is a classic exercise in high school physics, a beam of particles with the same velocity and the same charge charge, after passing through a magnetic field, particles of different masses will produce different trajectories.

The more massive the particle, the larger the radius of its circular motion in the magnetic field, so the presence of isotopes can be clearly observed using this method.

Similar to Chen Muwu's requirements for electron diffraction, the molecules in the air will also interfere with the trajectory of these charged particles, so the mass spectrometer must also be in a vacuum environment.

However, because the mass spectrometer can also change the strength of the magnetic field, it does not require as much vacuum as electron diffraction.

With the attitude of treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor, Chen Muwu borrowed this Splenger pump.

The next step is to measure, calculate the dimensions, design the drawings, and then go to the worker in the laboratory who is responsible for blowing glass, and blow out a strange-shaped glass tube for him according to the drawings.

In this way, Chen Muwu's Cambridge career gradually became more and more fulfilling day by day.

During the day, when he had classes, he went to class, and when he didn't, he soaked in the laboratory and continued to develop his electron diffraction tube.

After dark, Chen Muwu went to the observatory to find Eddington again, learning how to find stars, how to adjust the moving telescope, how to observe and how to take pictures.

In the first three projects, Chen Muwu didn't need Eddington to teach at all, but in the last one, how to take pictures of stars, he learned seriously.

When he was asked to use an astronomical telescope, he was directly connected to the computer screen for imaging, and he had never used such an antique thing.

Seeing Chen Muwu so studious, Eddington was very pleased.

Occasionally, he would chat with Chen Muwu and ask him if he had made any big moves in Cavendish Laboratories recently.

Eddington actually hoped that Chen Muwu could find evidence that electrons were a wave, after all, his idea was praised by his good friend Albert Einstein in the newspaper.

But when he heard Chen Muwu say that because the Cavendish laboratory had no money and could not afford to buy a high-end vacuum pump, the experiment did not go well, Eddington also sighed.

The Cavendish laboratory, as the son of Cambridge University, has no money, and their observatory can only have less money than Cavendish Ash.

Fuck, how did Cambridge become like this!

Thanks to Eddington's leave slip for Chen Muwu at Trinity College, he would not be caught by the school inspectors who were patrolling the campus for his late return at the end of each night's observation and study, and he would have to pay a hefty fine of eight shillings.

Chen Muwu's classmates sometimes come to ask him to borrow this leave slip, so that it is more convenient for them to go to the evening movie outside the school.

(End of chapter)