After the issuance of the call for planetary names, whether in Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, or in Europe and the United States, there was a craze for naming.

Countless letters flew like snowflakes every day, and for the first time in so many years, Eddington felt how popular the Cambridge University Observatory was.

Eddington and his staff conducted a preliminary screening of the letters received.

Because the previous eight planets were named after the Roman gods, and the number of gods and goddesses in Roman mythology is so much, excluding the names that have been used by asteroids, but the names that the public doesn't know yet, in fact, there are only a few left.

After the initial screening was completed, Eddington sent someone to the Cavendish laboratory to summon Chen Muwu and discuss with him which of these names to choose as the final name of Planet X.

Among the lists of Roman gods handed to him by Eddington, Chen Muwu first saw the Pluto, the name of Pluto in the original time and space.

Then there are Minerva and Kronos, which are all alternative names for Pluto.

In addition to these that had already been counted, Eddington also handed him a few other letters that did not nominate the Roman gods, but wrote other types of names, and the one written by Ye Gongchao named Zhonghua was also among them.

However, there were a few letters that almost didn't distort Chen Muwu's nose.

In these letters, some of the nominations are called East Asia, because the planet was discovered by East Asians.

Some say that because Ben had just experienced a massive earthquake that killed and injured many people, it was suggested that the planet be named Tokyo, or the old name of Tokyo, Edo, in memory of the deceased.

The brain circuits of the kids are really weird, they can be shameless to this extent.

Chen Muwu decided in his heart, just like Ye Gongchao and himself thought at the beginning, to call this planet China.

When the five moons of Pluto were discovered later, he must name the smallest and weakest moon Ben!

The remaining ones are called Ryukyu, Huoxian, Luzon, and Yue.

No matter how awesome you are, what can you do, don't you want to circle around me?

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In the end, Chen Muwu commissioned Eddington to report the name of the new planet to the International Federation of Astronomers through the Cambridge University Observatory, not Stove Wang, nor Zhonghua, but the Yellow Emperor.

Eddington was not a narrow-minded Western supremacist, so he fully supported Chen's idea of naming the new planet after his country.

But at the same time, he pointed out a problem, that is, among the eight planets before the solar system, except for the earth, the other seven planets were named after mythological figures, and now the latest one is suddenly named after a country, is it a bit abrupt?

Eddington proposed a compromise solution, he advised Chen Muwu to use the name of the god in traditional Chinese culture, which can not only represent the country, but also conform to the corresponding laws.

There is indeed some truth in what Eddington said, in the original time and space, there was also a dwarf planet named after a character in Chinese mythology and legend outside Neptune, that is, the star Gonggong.

And its Latin name was not changed to the corresponding water god Poseidon or Neptune in Western mythology (in fact, Neptune is the name of Neptune), but was called Gonggong.

Therefore, in the end, Chen Muwu, who combined the suggestions of Ye Gongchao and Eddington, decided to name the new planet Huangdi.

Although in the ancient Chinese astrological system, there was also a group of Yellow Emperor stars composed of seventeen stars, but in fact, their real name is "Xuanyuan", which does not conflict with the name of the Yellow Emperor Star that Chen Muwu now takes.

The reason why Chen Muwu decided on this name was because he thought that Pluto has a moon of similar mass to it, and the two stars actually form a binary star system.

He planned to wait for Guardian to find out before naming the star the Flame Emperor.

One flame and one yellow, just the totem representing the Chinese people.

The reason why this name was reported to the International Federation of Astronomers by Eddington on behalf of Chen Muwu is because Chen Muwu is not a member of the Chinese Astronomical Society, and although the Chinese Astronomical Society was established as early as the year before last, it has not yet joined the International Federation of Astronomers.

After the discovery of the Yellow Emperor, Chen Muwu also joined the first scientific group in his life, the Royal Astronomical Society.

Even the president of this society is Danish, so it has no requirements in terms of nationality, and Chen Muwu found that the contribution of the Yellow Emperor Star was enough to make him a member of the society.

From then on, he could choose whether or not to add the honorary title of FRAS (Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society) to the end of his name.

But now, the Royal Astronomical Society is faced with the question of who should be awarded this year's Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal.

This is the highest honor in the British astronomy community, and it is understandable that it is awarded to Chen Muwu, who has made the most outstanding work in astronomy this year.

However, the society has given this medal in advance to Eddington, who stepped down as president last year, and now a Chen Muwu has been killed out of thin air, which makes the award committee of the society very difficult.

At the critical time, it was the Eddington Festival of Excellence, and he persuaded the jury to ask them to postpone his honorary medal by one year, and give priority to astronomy contributors.

It is not only the Royal Astronomical Society that wants to present Chen Muwu with an award.

On the other side of the ocean, Lowell's younger brother, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University, proposed to the media that he planned to offer a $10,000 reward to Chen Muwu, who had discovered a new planet, to comfort his brother's soul in heaven.

And the National Academy of Sciences also wants to award him the James Craek Watson Award.

Speaking of which, this Watson has a relationship with China, he was the first person to observe and discover an asteroid on Chinese soil.

In the thirteenth year of Tongzhi (this year is the year of 1874 sung in Eason Chan's song), Watson discovered the asteroid No. 139 when observing the transit of Venus in Shaojing, and reported it to Prince Gong Guizi Liu, who managed the Qin Tianjian, and Yi named the asteroid "Ruihua", which means "auspicious China".

People who can afford to play astronomy are naturally rich and noble, and this Watson is no exception.

After his death, he donated his legacy to the National Academy of Sciences, asking them to establish the Watson Prize on their behalf to reward astronomers who had made significant contributions to astronomy.

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At the end of his official paper, Chen Muwu mentioned the intersection of the orbits of the Yellow Emperor Star and Neptune, which did not attract the attention of the astronomical community.

The International Federation of Astronomers held an extraordinary meeting for this new planet, and finally confirmed that the star newly discovered by Chen Muwu was the ninth planet in the solar system, and passed the proposal of the Cambridge University Observatory to agree to name the planet Huangdi Star.

Compared with the previous discovery of a new planet, the news that the planet was named caused a greater sensation in China and was reported by countless newspapers across the country.

"Declaration" even published a supplement for this purpose, dedicated to the ninth planet of the solar system named "Yellow Emperor", and the discoverer behind it, Chen Muwu.

Not only that, the "Declaration" hall also sent people to the National Southeast University in Beijing to interview Ye Qisun, Xia Yuanzhen and others who had contact with Chen Muwu, and asked them to write articles to popularize science to the public about Chen Muwu's various achievements in physics research in the past year or so.

The Commercial Press also began to collect or translate a number of astronomy popular science books, taking advantage of Chen Muwu's discovery of the Yellow Emperor Star, and also planned to promote astronomy to the Chinese people.

Dr. Wu wrote in a newspaper about my friend Chan Hon Chen.

The eldest brother Chen Muqiao sent a heartfelt letter, excitedly praising the third brother's feelings for his family and country.

However, the postman sent Chen Muwu not only a few letters home, but also various congratulatory letters sent from China, whether he knew or not, they all wrote to congratulate him on his discovery of a new planet.

Even President Cao Kun noticed this.

Although he was an old-fashioned warlord who rose to power by bribery, Cao Kun, who once founded Heshao University, also attached great importance to education.

He even asked his staff to discuss whether he should award a medal to this young man who won glory for the country.

Is it the Golden Harvest Medal, or the Baoguang Golden Harvest Medal? Big ribbon or not big ribbon? How many medals are awarded?

……

The ninth planet was eventually recognized as a planet by the International Federation of Astronomers and named the Yellow Emperor, also in the foreign press, which also caused a small climax.

Time magazine in the United States sent their reporters in Britain to Cambridge University to interview Chen Muwu.

Therefore, Chen Muwu's photo with the Northumberland telescope in the Cambridge University Observatory also predates the direct warlord Wu Peifu, becoming the first Chinese to appear on the cover of this magazine in this time and space.

The content of the interview is basically the same as the previous interview with Chen Muwu, which is all about some commonplace questions.

But near the end, the American journalist also mentions Lowell's prize money and the Watson Prize, which the National Academy of Sciences intends to give him.

The reporter asked Chen Muwu if he had any plans to go to the United States to receive the award recently, and when he planned to leave for the trip.

The reporter didn't expect that the question he asked politely at the end became a big selling point in this interview.

Chen Muwu gave another earth-shattering answer, that is, he did not plan to go to the United States to receive this prize and this award at all, as long as the United States did not repeal the "Chinese Exclusion Act" for a day, then he would not set foot on American soil for a day.

After receiving this explosive news, the reporter, who had wanted to end the interview and was even ready to get up, sat back in his chair again.

He keenly captured Chen Muwu's national self-esteem, so he interviewed Chen Muwu on several issues about the discrimination of Chinese, and recorded word for word about Ye Gongchao's beating, as well as Fu Manchu's smearing of Chinese people, as well as Chen Muwu's views on the above matters.

Of course, after learning that he would not be able to receive the $10,000 bonus if he didn't go to the United States, Chen Muwu still felt a little painful, and could only silently read in his heart over and over again that poverty could not be moved to comfort himself.

But fortunately, the British also gave him a lot of money.

Although the First World War cost a lot of national strength, the British still had a good face, and the so-called decline in national strength only made the poor poorer, and the rich were still rich.

The Royal Astronomical Society alone gave Chen Muwu a prize of 500 pounds for winning the gold medal.

Trinity College, which has deep pockets, was even more generous, and after discussing with several directors, the dean, Tom Sun, decided to allocate 1,000 pounds from the college's property as a special scholarship to Chen Muwu.

That's 1,500 pounds, which is three-quarters of the price of GE's high-end vacuum pump.

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The Royal Astronomical Society is not the only one that has recruited Chen Muwu as a member.

Although the climate conditions in the UK mean that it will not be as cold as in China in winter, Chen Muwu has suspended his activities to participate in the swimming club in Cam River since the beginning of autumn last year.

He didn't want to accidentally keep warm during a winter swim, causing himself to catch a cold and fever and get further pneumonia.

In the era when there was no penicillin, you had to be cautious, but you didn't dare to mess around.

However, Chen Muwu did not lose his extracurricular life, and after becoming the assistant director of the Department of Magnetism at the Cavendish Laboratory, he established a "Kapitsa Club" named after him, and at that time, Chen Muwu became one of the founding members of the club.

Creating this club, Capitsa carried his own selfishness.

After going from a PhD student to a researcher, Capitsa's work suddenly became much heavier.

The day is so long, there is more work, and there is less time for him to study and think.

That's why Kapitsa formed such a club, and used his connections at Cambridge to gather a large number of students from different disciplines to join it.

Nominally, it is to facilitate the discussion and exchange of academic issues between members of different disciplines, but in fact, by participating in the weekly activities of this club, he can learn about the latest academic developments from the conversations and debates of the members, which saves a lot of time spent on reading literature like a needle in a haystack.

Before the discovery of the Yellow Emperor Star, the Kapitsa Club was the only student club organization in the form of a salon that Chen Muwu attended.

But after the discovery of the planet, a secret society that had been circulating among Cambridge University students for more than a hundred years also came to the door.

The Cambridge Apostolic Society was founded in 1820 and has been a secret society since its founding.

The group claims to recruit only twelve of its brightest students each year from Cambridge's top two colleges: Trinity College and King's College.

Although Chen Muwu has made many great inventions and discoveries in physics before, he has never been able to enter the eyes of this organization.

Because they prefer to absorb some high-end students who like philosophy, politics, economics and other metaphysical subjects, they do not attach much importance to practical subjects such as mathematics and physics.

In the more than 100 years since the establishment of the Apostolic Society, Maxwell was the only physicist who became a member.

However, since Chen Muwu discovered the new planet, they changed their minds and decided to designate him as the target of absorption.

The person who made this suggestion and personally invited Chen Muwu to join the society was Russell, one of the two great philosophers of Cambridge University at this time.

Russell had been to China for more than a year to give lectures, and his impressions of the place were mainly those of the upper academic circles in China.

Moreover, he also admired Einstein's theory of relativity very much, and it was precisely because Russell vigorously promoted Einstein when he was lecturing in China that the wave of relativity fever in China was promoted.

Therefore, Russell has a good impression of Chen Muwu, who has been famous for a long time, because he is not only from China, but also understands the theory of relativity very well.

In front of Chen Muwu, Russell vigorously touted the secret society of the Cambridge Apostolic Society, saying that this society was full of talents, there used to be Maxwell in physics, and Hardy, Ramanujan's teacher in mathematics, and now it is mainly a philosopher, the older generation has Whitehead, the Mesozoic has George Moore, and the new generation has Wittgenstein and Frank Ramsay, and he is the most mediocre one in the Apostolic Society.

Of course, Chen Muwu would not believe Russell's self-effacing words, but when he heard the name of the Cambridge Apostolic Society, he felt very familiar.

Where do you seem to have heard this name, which seems to be the hardcore ruthless series of John Khan Jr.?

What are the Cambridge Five, Kim Philby......

This Cambridge Apostolic Society seems to be a well-known spy den in later generations!

Involved with this organization, Chen Muwu felt that maybe he could enter the Tongliao universe one day.

In the end, after some lobbying by Russell, Lang had a concubine, and Chen Muwu finally joined the secret society of the Cambridge Apostolic Society, becoming one of the twelve apostles in 1924.

Although they bear the name of apostles, their members are all atheists.

After attending several secret gatherings, Chen Muwu learned that the family background behind these members was either rich or noble, either the children of a certain duke's family or the son of the dean of a certain college in Cambridge.

At the weekly gathering, everyone dressed up in a serious and serious manner, always reminded him of the once-popular British TV series "Downton Abbey".

And the topics discussed at each meeting are also very jumpy, maybe one second they are still talking about Eliot's work "The Waste Land" and the modernist poetry behind it, and the next second they start to discuss the unity of opposites in materialist dialectics, which is really worthy of a leftist community.

Chen Muwu even felt that they were very similar to those Wei and Jin celebrities in "The World Speaks New Words", with a strong family background behind them, and they talked about the scriptures in the ivory tower every day, and sat down to talk about the Tao.

But even after leaving college, they won't be nerds, because the family has long paved the way for them.

If nothing else, these Cambridge apostles will become the top group of people in British society in the future, and even a few prime ministers and ministers will come out of it, Chen Muwu is not surprised.

In the eyes of these people, Chen Muwu is an extremely intelligent and somewhat mysterious Oriental.

In Chen Muwu's eyes, they and the family background behind them have become an excellent pair of white gloves.

The upper class, rich and powerful, whether in Europe or in the Americas, they should have their own connections and power.

Moreover, he didn't need to worry about being backstabbed at all.

Forster, an Englishman of the Apostolic Society, once said, "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friends, I hope that I would dare to betray my country." ”

The students at Cambridge University are the brightest of the British.

The apostles of the Apostolic Society also considered themselves to be the brightest people at Cambridge University.

The reason why they would rather betray their country than their friendship with each other is because they think that Britain has too many fools to be worthy of being with them.

This is also one of the reasons why, after World War II, there were so many spies in the Apostolic Society who dug into the corners of the empire.

Chen Muwu thought that he should have a good relationship with these people, and when he plans to make a fortune in the future, if nothing else, these people should come forward.

Lightheaded all day, groggily gritted his teeth and wrote 10,000 words.

I can't open my eyes now, but I hope I don't have a fever when I wake up.

Please take care and good night, everyone.

(End of chapter)