Before the press conference ended, Chen Muwu, Dyson, Eddington and De Laere stood on stage and asked the photographers to take a few photos.

For a moment, the white light in the conference room flickered, and soon after, white smoke and some choking smells began to float overhead.

Disposable flash bulbs have not yet been invented, and to use flash for photography, a dose of magnesium powder and potassium chlorate must be ignited before each shot.

After the photo shoot, the reporters left their seats, and now they should think about how to get back to London's Fleet Street from Greenwich in the middle of the night to see if they could take down the front page headline and replace it with the latest big news before the newspaper reached the printing house.

There are also several major newspapers that sent more than one reporter, and those who stayed behind were thinking about wanting to do an exclusive interview with Chen Muwu, the discoverer of the new planet.

Facing these uncrowned kings, Chen Muwu knew that it was inappropriate for him to offend anyone. So he asked Eddington to come forward and blew away several media outlets that had smeared and spread rumors in the "Eddington beating" incident, and then asked the remaining ones to conduct a joint interview with Chen Muwu.

In fact, those media who have smeared Eddington and Chen Muwu, Lao Ai did not call at all to inform them at the beginning.

But there is no impermeable wall in the world, and everyone's editorial office is basically on Fleet Street, so they all got the news.

The reporters had long wanted to meet Chen Muwu, but every time they went to Cambridge, they were always stopped by the school supervisors of Trinity College and the managers of the Cavendish laboratory.

Today at the Greenwich Observatory, they finally got this opportunity.

Chen Muwu knew what these Britons liked to hear, so he simply skipped his early life in China, but focused on how he was discovered by Einstein in the sea, and after coming to the UK, he received a lot of care and help from old Tomson and Rutherford.

He also focused on the relationship between him and Eddington, who never came to the UK before he came to the UK, Lao Ai helped him run around for the publication of his papers, and after coming to the UK, he provided him with great help in his studies and life.

This business blow to each other, blowing Eddington dizzy, made him really embarrassed.

If just now, Eddington, like his own family Edison, took all the merits of discovering Planet X on himself, then Chen Muwu, as the actual first discoverer, would definitely be at a loss for words, and he didn't even have a solution.

If Eddington, like the Lowell Observatory in the original space-time, vigorously promoted the Cambridge University Observatory as the first observatory to discover new planets, and deliberately ignored the contribution of Chen Muwu, the first discoverer, Chen Muwu would still have no choice.

But Eddington followed the old tradition of Trinity College and did not take the credit for himself.

"Vote for me with a peach, and repay it with Qiong Yao", so Chen Muwu did not hesitate to praise Eddington.

This kind of story of white people acting as saviors to save the yellow race is very appetizing to the current British, so the reporters sitting in the audience are also pen to paper, quickly recording Chen Muwu's word by word, for fear of leaving behind a little bit of key information.

After saying this, Chen Muwu's words changed, and the expression on his face became serious.

"Gentlemen, the group of journalists who have just been expelled by Professor Eddington, and their newspapers, have all smeared and slandered Mr. Eddington and me, as well as my country and nation, very badly at the beginning of last year because of the 'Eddington beating' incident.

"I believe that all of you who remain here are righteous people who still stick to their hearts, so I also hope that you can truthfully record and publish the following words.

"When I came to the UK and entered the University of Cambridge, I did receive a lot of help from my teachers and friends, and I am very grateful to them.

"But just as real life is far less beautiful than it is in fairy tales, as a Chinese person, I have been discriminated against and ridiculed far more than I have been helped.

"Last December, my friend George Yip, a top student at Magda Union College, Cambridge, was walking home from school when he was insulted and beaten by a drunken drunk for no reason just because of the color of his skin.

"Afterwards, a British friend of mine told me that the drunkard was probably inspired by the fallacies and heresies advocated in the Fu Manchu movie in a bar near the school, and that the farce was eventually caused by the influence of alcohol.

"I am here to tell you this matter today, not to complain, not to complain, but to convey to you a real situation, and through you to appeal to the vast number of conscientious British people, I hope that they can be kind to the Chinese people around them, do not always look at people with colored glasses, everyone has two eyes, a nose and a mouth, except for the color of hair and skin, there is no inconsistency in other places.

"But at the same time, I also want to name these people led by Saxon Romer, who have never even set foot on the land of the East, and have 'sworn by them' and 'conclusively' smeared the Chinese and the Chinese, I really don't know where the conscience of such people is? In order to make money, they began to lie all day long, and this kind of person really seriously lowered the perception of British people in my heart. ”

Chen Muwu didn't say something like "why the Chinese can find this new planet, but the British can't", because if he says this, he will probably be branded as arrogant, annoying, and counterproductive.

Moreover, Fu Manchu's literary image is also a villain who has mastered all kinds of high-end knowledge and has many doctoral diplomas, and if he says the above, it is likely that he will also be used by people with ulterior motives and then make a big fuss.

Maybe Fu Manchu will be given another son surnamed Chen, and in this time and space, Shangqi will be replaced by himself.

Chen Muwu also didn't know how much his sincere speech would be deleted when it appeared in the newspaper the day after tomorrow, and how much could he keep.

But now it is rare to have a chance to speak out publicly, these blocks that have been depressed in his heart for a long time, he is not unhappy.

……

It was not The Times or The Daily Telegraph that first reported to the world the discovery of the ninth planet in the solar system, but the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

The BBC is now only a small radio station that has only been broadcasting for a year, and its broadcast signal only covers the three major cities of England: London, Birmingham and Manchester.

At six o'clock in the morning, the broadcast studio of Radio Station 2LO, located on the top floor of the Marconi Building in London, began to transmit radio signals to London and nearby areas through equipment on the roof.

The first piece of news, not about the royal family or about the new members of the cabinet, but about the discovery of the ninth planet in the solar system at the Cambridge University Observatory in Cambridgeshire.

From the sound of the radio or the front-page headlines of today's morning newspaper, the reporters of the news agencies of various countries in London all learned of this news that was enough to shock the whole world.

The cable telegraph and wireless telegraph machines in the various press stations were all busy.

The code carrying the news crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the English Channel to the east, radiating from London to the world.

"The ninth planet of the solar system was discovered yesterday, from the physics of "Ramanujan", Chen Muwu of Cambridge University.

A New Brother in Far Space, the Discovery of a New Planet in the Solar System Outside Neptune.

……

On the morning of the same day, Zhu Zhaoxin, chargé d'affaires ad interim of the Chinese Legation in Britain, once again saw the news of the discovery of a new planet from the "Times" sent by the staff.

He has now mastered a rule, that is, whenever the staff sends newspapers instead of documents, and the news circled in red does not contain content related to politics, economy, military affairs, and economics, then this news is mostly related to Chen Muwu of Cambridge University.

As he expected, seeing Chen Muwu's name in the title, a subtle expression of "I know" appeared on Zhu Zhaoxin's face.

After reading the news, Zhu Zhaoxin asked the staff who sent the newspaper: "You say, how important is this new planet in astronomy if it can make the front page of The Times?" ”

The staff thought that Mr. Chargé d'Affaires had asked an extremely stupid question, and you know that it has made the front page of the biggest newspaper in the United Kingdom, do you need to ask how important it is?

You know, even the news of the Great Kanto Earthquake, which killed more than 100,000 people, didn't even make it to the front page of The Times.

"So, this is a very important piece of news?"

"Yes, Mr. Chargé d'Affaires temporary, this is equivalent to Chen Muwu discovering another planet with the same status as the earth under our feet."

Zhu Zhaoxin's attitude was like he was asking his subordinates: "Then should we report to China?" ”

"My subordinates feel that they should immediately send a report to the country, after all, this is a very happy thing that can make the country show its face and serve the people's ambition."

The chargé d'affaires waved his hand: "Okay, just do what you say!" ”

……

In the afternoon of the same day, when the interview with Chen Muwu at the Greenwich Observatory began to appear in the evening newspapers in London, the news of the discovery of a new planet had already appeared in the evening newspapers in the United States.

In the interview in the evening newspaper, there was a large deletion, Chen Muwu said how he discovered the new planet, and he was grateful to the teachers at Cambridge University for helping him a lot, these two parts are basically word for word.

As for Ye Gongchao's beating, he didn't talk about it at all, but at the end of the interview, he slightly mentioned Chen Muwu's dissatisfaction with Saxon Romer and Fu Manchu's series.

The interview, along with more detailed information about the new planet, was also reprinted in the morning newspapers across the United States the next morning, and became a hot topic on the North American continent that day.

Percival Lowell, the Boston tycoon who financed the construction of the Lowell Observatory in search of the mysterious planet X, had died a few years earlier, and her widow was in court with the Lowell Observatory over inheritance.

It was precisely because of this inheritance dispute that the Lowell Observatory had to stop tracking the traces of Planet X, and at the same time, it also gave Chen Muwu the opportunity to find Planet X in advance.

Lowell's younger brother, Abbott Lowell, president of Harvard University, read in the newspaper the news of Chen Muwu's discovery of the ninth planet, and felt both surprised and regretful, and was surprised that someone finally fulfilled the last wish of his eldest brother, and unfortunately, this planet was not discovered in the observatory built by the eldest brother.

The Lowell family was so wealthy that Abbott even thought about donating another $10,000 to a larger telescope at the Lowell Observatory to fund the astronomers in their unfinished business.

Now that Planet X has been discovered and his eldest brother's last wish has been fulfilled, Abbott thinks about whether to take out the $10,000 he has prepared before as a reward for this discoverer.

……

Just as the concept of time travel was proposed in China before, which stimulated the creative enthusiasm of folk cults and witchcraft, Chen Muwu's discovery of this mysterious planet X has also further promoted the astrology cause in Europe.

As a Scorpio, Chen Muwu has always believed in the horoscope, but he has always known that according to later astrology, the ruling planet of Scorpio is Pluto.

But in the original space-time, Pluto was not discovered until 1930, could it be that before 1930, Scorpio did not even have a ruling planet?

It wasn't until after the crossing that Chen Muwu discovered that this was not the case, and in the era when Pluto was not discovered, the ruling planet of Scorpio was still Mars.

However, now that a new planet has appeared in the solar system, the old astrologers in Europe can also consider which constellation to install this new planet on.

……

Three days later, a short paper was published in Nature on the data of the new planet X, written by Chen Muwu, who had changed his mailing address from the Cavendish Laboratory to the Cambridge University Observatory.

After the orbital data was released to the world, scientists around the world began to put down their original tasks, adjust the orientation of the telescope in front of them, and observe the most famous planet X according to the orbital orientation given.

More and more astronomical data are published in professional astronomical journals, which is more and more supportive of the correctness of Chen Muwu's orbital calculations.

……

In China, the Lunar New Year is coming soon, and no matter whether you have money or not, everyone wants to have a good year and ask for a good fortune for next year's life.

The fact that Chen Muwu discovered a new planet abroad is far less discussed among the ordinary people than which pork in the market is cheaper.

But in the case of intellectuals, the atmosphere is very different.

Chen Muwu has been away from home for almost a year, and the old lady's desire to find a daughter-in-law for her youngest son has slowly become dispensable from the very strong when he first left home.

But around this year's Spring Festival, in the name of New Year's greetings, there were more matchmakers and lobbyists who came to Chen Muwu's door to propose marriage, even more than when Chen Muwu first left home.

Although the eldest brother Chen Muqiao was very tired to deal with these people, he was also happy for his little brother in his heart.

Although the third brother is far away, he can still earn back face for his family.

The Lianglu Railway Administration Building at the Qihai North Railway Station even worked overtime to produce a new banner before the Spring Festival, replacing the four words "Happy Spring Festival" that had been prepared before the Spring Festival with "Warmly celebrate the discovery of a new planet in the solar system by Chen Hanchen, a former employee of the Bureau."

……

In the inner city of Shaojing, the Chinese Astronomical Society, which is located at the ancient observatory, has also been extremely busy these days, not only the number of people visiting the door has gradually increased, but various institutions of higher learning in the capital have also sent invitations, hoping that the Astronomical Society can send experts to various universities to give several popular science lectures to talk about what is going on with the ninth planet discovered by Chen Muwu.

Of course, they are carried away by enthusiasm for this behavior.

The journal Nature, which published the orbits of the new planets, could not be transported to China via the Siberian Railway for at least half a month, and now, the relevant people of the Chinese Astronomical Society can only know about the new planets through a few words in Chinese and English newspapers, and they are not much better than ordinary people!

However, even if the journal Nature arrives, it is estimated that they will not be able to start the observation work immediately, because there is no telescope with a large enough aperture to observe this planet X.

……

Dr. Schulman, the U.S. Minister to China, regretted why he didn't offer more favorable conditions last year to invite Chen Muwu to study at Cornell?

released such a big fish and went to Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and in less than a year, Chen Muwu had already made countless new inventions and discoveries in physics, and this time he simply crossed over to astronomy!

Obviously, obviously I came first!

Why, why is this happening?

This big Hu Shi is really unreliable when he does things!

……

Just as Schulman said, in the last year or so, Chen Muwu has proposed two kinds of Zen scattering in physics such as gamma rays and visible light, one Zen universe and two Zen solutions in the relativistic field equation, Zen statistics in thermal radiation, and the electron wave hypothesis to explain Bohr's atomic model.

In the eyes of physicists, each of these new discoveries may be something extraordinary.

But in the eyes of ordinary people in the market, so many of his discoveries are added together, and none of the last discoveries are more shocking than the discovery of the new planet X in the solar system.

Because after all, things in the microcosm are not something that can be seen if you want to see it, but the starry sky above your head can be seen when you look up.

With this one thing alone, Chen Muwu's influence in newspapers around the world has been able to reach the time when the total solar eclipse in 1919 verified the general theory of relativity and overthrew Newton's classical mechanics.

Although Chen Muwu still wants to be on par with Einstein now, in recent times, in the hearts of ordinary people, he is definitely the most famous physicist after Einstein.

Much more well-known than Bohr, who is now ranked second in the hearts of physicists!

(End of chapter)