After leaving the observatory every night and returning to Mrs. Brown's house, Chen Muwu was occasionally harassed by his roommate, Dirac.

At a recent lecture by Professor Ebenezer Cunningham, Dirac finally learned what Maxwell's equations were all about, which he had never been exposed to before.

This made him very excited to be able to explain the results of various electrical, magnetic and optical experiments he had done in Bristol with just a few simple equations, as well as many other phenomena.

At the same time, after knowing this equation, Dirac also understood why his other idol, Albert Einstein, has been ridiculed by everyone since he proposed the photon theory, because it does not conform to Maxwell's equations!

But fortunately, this year, there was finally an Oriental Knight who saved the photon theory, that is, his roommate Chen Muwu.

He experimentally proved that the light scattered by gamma rays exists as particles, and there are many contradictions with the electromagnetic waves in Maxwell's theory.

Because Maxwell's theory did not leave a deep impression on Dirac's mind, he did not embrace the new photon theory, as physicists refused to acknowledge it.

Now, Dirac often asks Chen Muwu in the evenings about classical electromagnetism, the Bohr atomic model, and photonic wave-particle duality.

When Chen Muwu told him that electrons could also have the nature of fluctuations, Dirac did not show a fuss like Rutherford, but gladly accepted.

His interest in the theory of relativity has thus shifted imperceptibly to the physics of the microscopic world.

Originally, the work that guided Dirac's shift from relativity to quantum should have been done by his mentor Fowler.

But now that the butterfly's wings have been instigated, the role of this quantum mentor has also shifted to Chen Muwu's body.

……

After half a month of one-on-one training in Eddington, Chen Muwu finally got the opportunity to use the Norlanburg telescope at the Cambridge University Observatory independently.

After calculating his orbit, he soon found the somewhat dim planet X in the telescope.

Chen Muwu would take a picture of the planet every weekend, and in order to confuse the public, he would also turn the telescope to several other specific directions, and similarly pretend to take a few pictures of Li Ghost.

Chen decided to save up a few more photos until they could clearly show the change in the position of Planet X, and then publish the results.

Although progress was made quickly at the observatory, Chen Muwu's electron diffraction experiments in the Cavendish laboratory did not go well.

The diffractive glass tube he designed had already been blown by the workers, and as for the target crystal for this diffraction, Chen Muwu chose gold foil.

Although the Cavendish laboratory is poor, there is such a thing as gold leaf, after all, Rutherford started by experimenting with gold leaf.

Chen Muwu packed the electron beam generating cathode, the accelerated electric field, the gold elemental film, and the photographic negative into a glass tube.

After this set of equipment was assembled, he connected the vacuum pump again, applied Vaseline at various interfaces, and then Chen Muwu started the machine, looked at the mercury liquid level on it, and moved little by little to the place marked with the lowest pressure.

However, as expected, the experiment was not successful, and the expected concentric circle diffraction pattern did not appear on the photosensitive negative.

This shows that the Splenger pump in Cavendis's laboratory produced a vacuum degree of four decimal places, which is not enough to make Chen Muwu's electron diffraction experiment effective.

Now there are only two ways in front of Chen Muwu.

If you want to continue to verify the volatility of electrons, you can either spend a lot of money to buy a vacuum pump with higher accuracy and continue the experiment, or passively wait for someone else to do the experiment first.

It's really a penny that is hard to beat a hero.

……

Shortly after taking the first photo of Planet X, Chen Muwu received a letter from Paris, France.

He felt a little strange about this, because since the crossing, he had not had any other intersection with France, except for abandoning the ship and landing in the port of Marseille.

The only person who passed a few letters to each other was Zhang Xiuyou, a special correspondent of Yishi Bao in France.

And the handwriting on this envelope is also inconsistent with the usual letters received from Zhang Xiuyou.

And this envelope is exquisitely revealed from the material to the printing, and there is a strange coat of arms printed on the corner.

After opening the envelope, Chen Muwu found that the person who wrote the letter, like Bohr, was an "old acquaintance" he had never met.

Although France has long been without kings and emperors, it has retained a large number of noble titles.

And the person who wrote to Chen Muwu was such a nobleman, Louis Victor de Broglie.

No wonder there was a mark on the envelope, which was supposed to be the coat of arms of their Debrolie family.

Unlike the Compton at the University of Chicago who suffered a dumb loss, Chen Muwu was finally found by the owner this time.

However, De Brow did not condemn him for plagiarizing his own thoughts, but felt that he and Chen Muwu were "in good spirits", and he was even more complacent that he could think of going with this rookie in physics.

In his letter, he unreservedly expressed his praise for Chen Muwu's idea that "electrons are a wave."

In fact, de Brog's idea of the waves of matter in his brain was only a rudimentary form, and his doctoral dissertation was still a long way from being written.

Not long ago, de Broglie reported on the new ideas that had arisen in his brain at a regular meeting of the French Academy of Sciences.

After the meeting, De Broglie was told that his "new" idea had already been published in the German journal Annals of Physics.

So de Broglie found Chen Muwu's paper and studied it carefully, and the concise formula derivation, and the conclusion matched Bohr's atomic model seamlessly.

This is not a long paper, and every letter, every symbol, pokes into de Broglie's heart.

He didn't expect that he had just had a rudimentary concept in his mind, but it had been enriched so perfectly.

De Broglie has long known that there is such a person as Chen Muwu, because at the beginning of this year, the physics community was stirred up by Chen Muwu's photon theory.

This photon theory, which had been tested by gamma ray scattering experiments, also inspired de Broglie, which in turn led him to the idea of matter waves.

So in his heart, de Broglie had a sense of admiration for Chen Muwu, so he wrote this letter, wanting to get acquainted with Chen Muwu, and personally praise and congratulate him, how wonderful is the theory that such an electron is also a wave.

After receiving this letter, the first thought in Chen Muwu's mind was not to collect another Nobel laureate in physics, but to think, generally speaking, are nobles very rich?

Two thousand pounds may be a lot of money for himself and the Cavendish laboratory, but for the well-dressed de Broglie, will it be just a sprinkling of water?

And the big donors behind Tycho, Galileo and Gauss, who are in their hearts, are they finally going to appear this time?

Therefore, Chen Muwu had a bold idea, he put down the work at hand and concentrated on writing a reply to de Broglie.

"Dear Monsieur de Broglie,

"I am very pleased to hear from you, and I am very grateful for your support for my electronic hypothesis.

"Reading between the lines of this letter, you must have a great love for physics, and you have a keen instinct about it, which is why you have the same idea as me.

"I would like to report to you the new progress I have made so far on the hypothesis that electrons are waves.

"At the Cavendish Laboratory, I have successfully assembled a set of instruments to diffract through a thin film of gold using a high-speed electron beam, but unfortunately the diffraction pattern has not been successfully obtained.

"However, I don't think it's a theoretical error, and after experimental analysis, I think that the vacuum in the diffraction tube is not enough to provide a long enough free path for the electron to successfully complete the diffraction process.

"I'm going to modify the vacuum pump in the Cavendish lab until it can bring the vacuum down to about 10 to the seventh power of Pascal before the next experiment.

"It seems like it's going to be a tough process, after all, this vacuum pump is an old thing developed more than ten years ago, I don't know how long it will take to complete it, maybe it will never be lowered to a lower vacuum, but I will write to you as soon as the experiment progresses.

"You are sincere, Chen Muwu."

Such a reply letter was sent back to de Broglie in Paris by Chen Muwu according to the address on the envelope.

I don't know if this letter will succeed in catching De Broglie, and will His Excellency the Little Prince know what he means when he hears the song and sponsor him with the latest vacuum pump from General Electric?

(End of chapter)