Just after being "tortured" by the vacuum pump that took a picture for five hours, Chen Muwu entered the laboratory next door, and followed Stoner to irradiate different atoms with X-rays every day to observe their different states between different energy levels.

I know the results of the experiment, and I know what the theory behind the experiment is, but I can't say it, and the feeling of being forced to keep my mouth shut is really uncomfortable.

After more than half a month in the laboratory, Chen Muwu felt that he really couldn't wait any longer.

After finally doing another experiment with potassium atoms, and getting exactly the same results as before, he persuaded Stoner that he could try to write his thesis.

At this time, it was time to leave for Belgium, Chen Muwu asked for a copy of the experimental data, and planned to take advantage of the trip in the past few days to write a first draft, and then go to the Solvay conference to read his new paper.

Because Chen Muwu and Rutherford talked about the graduation thesis, Rutherford initially asked him to use the experiment of electron diffraction to do his doctoral thesis, but because the thesis had an extra collaborator out of thin air, and as a funder, de Broglie wanted his name to appear in a large physics journal.

Therefore, Chen Muwu could only write this paper that verified the fluctuation of electrons at the same time after the electron diffraction experiment was completed, and then submitted it to British and French journals respectively.

Now that the two papers are the same and in different languages have been published in the April issue, some physicists have already got their hands on them, while others are still on the road.

However, Rutherford disagreed with Chen Muwu's idea, and used a theoretical paper explaining the electron orbital (that is, the principle of incompatibility) as his graduation thesis.

He even half-jokingly and half-angrily said to Chen Muwu that it is enough to have a theorist Fowler in the Cavendish laboratory, and if Chen Muwu wants to be a theorist, then at least wait until Fowler retires, or let Bohr be the director, and transform the laboratory into the Cavendish Institute of Theoretical Physics.

There is no way, Chen Muwu now wants to graduate this summer, so he can only come up with another experiment.

So after thinking about it for a few days, Chen Muwu had two ideas in his mind about the new experiment.

The first is to make Davidson-Gemo's experiment of bombarding the surface of metal with low-speed electrons to prove the existence of fluctuations in electrons.

But as Zweig says in The Great Tragedy, the first arriver has everything, the second arrives at nothing.

Although the first to arrive was also himself.

But since he has already done an electron diffraction experiment with high-speed electrons, doing another low-speed electron can be said to be the icing on the cake, but it is not too much.

Moreover, the accuracy of Davidson-Gemo's experiment is lower, and the error is also greater, in the original space-time, Tomson Jr. only did the experiment of high-speed electron diffraction after learning the results of this experiment in order to reduce the error.

Second, since electrons have been proven to have waves, we can use electrons with shorter wavelengths than light to develop electron microscopes with higher resolution than optical microscopes.

Of course, in a short period of time, it is unlikely that Chen Muwu will be able to rub out a real guy with his bare hands, but it should be no problem to write down the principle, draw the structural diagram, develop a small part, such as an electronic lens or something, and then apply for a patent.

Although the vacuum pump was not Chen Muwu's money, the Yankees still made $6,000 from his experiments in tears.

He had to get the money back from them hundreds of times over.

Of course, these are still only thoughts that exist in the brain, and Chen Muwu did not immediately start preparing for the experiment.

Because de Broglie invited them to leave a few days early, to go to Paris, France, and then meet up with his teacher Langevin and other French scientists, and then it was not too late to leave for Belgium together.

Anyway, it's only a four-hour train ride from Paris to Brussels.

They were accompanied by Rutherford and de Broglie's servants, as well as Blackett.

Because with the help of Chen Muwu, Blackett discovered the process of nuclear transmutation and oxygen-17 in the photo in advance at the end of last year, which allowed him to successfully get the Mosele Scholarship.

Henri Mosseley, a graduate of Trinity College, is also a British physicist whose research focuses on X-rays.

However, his life was not good, and he died young when he was not yet twenty-eight years old.

But it was not disease that took Moselle's life, it was war.

In 1914, he had just left the University of Manchester to teach at Oxford.

Then, when World War I broke out, Moselay responded to the British government's call to go into battle, and in the summer of 1915, in Gallipoli, Turkey, he died after being shot in the head by a Turkish sniper.

Compared with Moselle, Eddington, who refused to be called up by the British government for military service because of his religious beliefs, was undoubtedly much luckier.

If Moselle had not signed up for the army and had stayed in the laboratory to continue his experiments, he would have won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1916 (the prize had been byed and was not awarded the following year).

His death forced the British government to adjust the scope of conscription.

In his honor, Moselle's family also paid for a scholarship named after him out of their own pockets.

Blackett is the second person to receive the scholarship, which could fund a year-long exchange at a university or institute abroad.

In the end, Blackett chose the University of Göttingen in Germany, where he wanted to study the energy levels of atoms with Professor James Frank.

Frank and Gustav Ludwig Hertz were awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for proving the quantum nature of atoms in the Frank-Hertz experiment that bears their last name.

The hertz above is not the hertz who experimentally proved the existence of electromagnetic waves and named the unit of frequency in the International System of Units after him, but his nephew.

Because whether they go to Germany or Belgium, they always have to cross the English Channel and arrive in Calais, France, so Blackett also chose to go with them.

Chen Muwu is happy that his good friend can get this scholarship to study abroad.

However, it can only be said that he was happy too early, and he didn't think that if Blackett left so early, the next thing he would suffer for him would be himself.

De Broglie, who was not short of money, waved his hand and asked the servants to help everyone buy a full set of first-class carriages and cabin tickets and ferry tickets to Paris.

Although Blackett is also a shy character who doesn't like to talk much, with Dirac Zhuyu in front of him, De Broglie's perception of him is much better all of a sudden.

After spending more than a month at Cambridge, de Broglie could not escape the temptation of mahjong tiles, and he soon fell into it after Capitsa taught him.

Now that he had plenty of time, as soon as he got on the boat from Dover, de Broglie pulled everyone into the ship's bar, and gathered the four of them around the table.

After playing a few rounds, Chen Muwu found that although he was a Chinese, his card skills seemed to be far less exquisite than those foreigners who had to play one or two rounds every day, and the few pocket money in his hand were also losing less and less.

I have won glory for the country for so long on the physics track, but I didn't expect to lose an adult here in the quintessence of the country.

Chen Muwu just planned to use the fatigue of the journey as an excuse to leave the card table after playing this, but he did not expect to stretch out a hand from behind his back, point to a two-strip in front of him, and say in a fairly standard Chinese: "Play this." ”

(End of chapter)