After getting off the boat from Dover and changing trains, they came to Victoria Station in London, and after leaving the station, the three of them parted.

The elder Prague returned to his unit, the laboratory of David Faraday of the Royal Institution in England.

Rutherford, on the other hand, took the latter to the editorial office of Nature in person, as he had told Chen Muwu on the steamer crossing the Channel last night.

He asked Chen Muwu to send the paper he had written overnight on the steamer to Sir Richard Gregory, the editor-in-chief of Nature.

"Papers have been received one after another, and today I finally met the real person, Sir Rutherford, you have really accepted a good student!"

Gregory's sycophant skills are really perfect, and in just one sentence, he shoots two.

After all, before he took over as editor-in-chief, Rutherford single-handedly set their journal on fire.

Today, Rutherford has stepped back into the shadows and into leadership positions, but his Cavendish Laboratory is still full of talent, producing countless papers each year.

Their "Nature" editorial department must not neglect this thigh, let alone provoke Eddington who should not be messed with like the unlucky "Philosophy Magazine", and Chen Muwu, who seems to be even more unprovoked behind Eddington.

As Gregory said, Chen Muwu himself has lost count of how many papers he has written in this famous magazine in later generations.

But Chen Muwu knows that he is not the first Chinese to publish a paper in Nature.

As early as 1881, more than 40 years ago, Xu Shou published a paper on acoustics in Nature with only simple experimental methods and primitive experimental instruments.

This Xu Shou is also a big man, he developed the first steam engine in China, the first steam ship and steam warship, and has translated many works in physics and chemistry and other disciplines.

The Chinese names of many elements on the periodic table are from him.

But just because Xu Shou did not have a reputation for the imperial examination, he has always been marginalized by the Manchu court, and can only enter the shogunate of big officials such as Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, and become a small staff member who gives advice.

Rutherford did not exchange politeness with Gregory, but made his request straight to the point: "Richard, the latest issue of Nature hasn't been printed yet, has it?" ”

"Sir, we've just finished arranging the edition, and we're going to send it to the printing house by the afternoon."

"That's great, there's a short paper that's not too long, and I hope you'll add a stopper to get it in this issue of Nature. You can rest assured that this paper was read in public at the just-concluded Solvay Conference, and the quality is absolutely guaranteed. ”

"All right, sir, we'll do it, and I'll have them add a few pages to the layout this afternoon, and I'll send it to the printing house in the evening." Gregory's reply was deferential.

……

After returning to Cambridge, Rutherford, who had experienced a two-day and one-night tiring journey, did not care about resting, and went directly to the Cavendish laboratory, asking Kapitsa to put down all the work at hand and cooperate with Chen Muwu to do the Stern-Grach experiment of this ground-state hydrogen atom.

"Chen, I haven't seen you for a few days, what kind of ecstasy decoction did you give to the crocodile? Why did he go to Belgium and start caring about Qiling's experiments? ”

After Rutherford, who had finished explaining the matter, left, Kapitsa couldn't understand why the director was so concerned about the experiment proposed by Chen Muwu, so he asked with a puzzled expression.

"Not really, the director has always liked me, but you have always pretended not to see.

"Oh yes, Peter, speaking of Belgium, I met your teacher at the Solvay conference, Professor Joffy.

"When he learned that you were in the same group as me in the Cavendish Laboratory, Professor Joffy expressed deep sympathy for me.

"He said that you are always chattering every day, and once your mouth is opened, it is difficult to close it again, so that your ears are clean, so he has to send you out of the country."

The reason why Chen Muwu jokingly changed the topic was because he couldn't give an answer.

It's not that he has to be cheap, it's that he really doesn't know the answer to this question.

From publishing papers to arranging experiments, Chen Muwu also didn't understand why Rutherford was in such a hurry.

I had already preached the main body of the paper at the Solvay Conference, in the presence of so many physicists.

Could it be that teachers are still afraid that there will be reckless academic thieves, regardless of the end of their reputation, and write uncertain principles into papers and publish them in advance?

In fact, Rutherford wanted Chen Muwu to quickly achieve another achievement in physics, and used this to build momentum for him, hoping to make the Swedish Nobel Prize jury members focus on his student.

After listening to Chen Muwu's jokes, Kapitsa did not delve into the reason for this problem.

Because he also knew that after Chen Muwu arrived at the Cavendish laboratory, he had not done a few experiments.

But every experiment he participated in played a pivotal role in the development of physics.

Now that he has hugged the thigh of the Chinese genius, he only needs to follow his arrangement, and he will be done with where to fight.

Blackett went abroad on his thighs, and he couldn't live under others for a long time.

The difficulty of this experiment that Chen Muwu wanted to do was not in the magnetic field, but in the hydrogen atom.

In the original Sch-Ger experiment, the silver they used was a metal, so it was a monoatomic molecule.

Only a high temperature is applied to the silver vapor to allow a single silver atom with strong molecular thermal motion to escape from the silver vapor and form a silver atom beam after collimating through the slit.

However, hydrogen is ubiquitous in nature in the form of a diatomic molecule, and two atoms are connected by covalent bonds.

For the covalent bonds in the hydrogen molecule to be broken, a higher temperature is required.

Moreover, compared with silver, hydrogen is not only colorless and odorless, but it cannot adhere to and deposit on the surface of glass disks like silver atoms.

How to test what the hydrogen atoms in the ground state will split into after passing through the magnetic field is a big problem than how to produce the hydrogen atoms.

Therefore, compared to the experiment in the original version, both from the emission and collection of atoms, it has become much more difficult.

Thankfully, there are not only physicists but also chemists in the Cavendish lab.

There is a specialization in the art industry, and after Chen Muwu and Kapitsa have asked for help in the laboratory, someone finally sent them a piece of advice.

He proposed that during the experiment, molybdenum trioxide could be coated on the screen of the receiving device, so that the hydrogen atoms could reduce the molybdenum trioxide at high temperatures.

In this way, hydrogen atoms, which are not easy to observe, can be converted into molybdenum, which is easily visible.

Of course, this experiment also needs to be carried out in a high vacuum environment.

Chen Muwu felt that it was really a wise move to fool De Broglie into buying a vacuum pump.

Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, and only the experimental phenomenon needs to be made, and after the corresponding data processing, the results obtained can be consistent with the values calculated theoretically, and it can be proved that the electron does still have the property of spin.

……

After hearing the news that Chen Muwu had returned to Cambridge from abroad, the heart of Best, the president of the swimming club, which had been hanging in the air for the past few days, finally fell back into his stomach.

So he came to the door in a hurry at the first time.

"Chen, you're finally back!"

If it weren't for the black, oily lab coat Chen Muwu was wearing, Best would have wanted to rush forward and give him a big hug.

Hearing the sound and seeing the person coming, Chen Muwu's head grew again.

Not only does he have an experiment to do now, but he also has a paper to write after the experiment is done.

However, it has only been a few days since he returned to Cambridge, and several groups of people have already found Chen Muwu, and Best is even the latest one.

First of all, Ye Gongchao, who was preparing to graduate in the same year as Chen Muwu.

When Ye, Ka, and Chen got together for dinner, Ye Gongchao and Chen Muwu said that he decided to leave Cambridge and England to study for a few years at the graduate school of the University of Paris in France after obtaining a master's degree from Magdalen's College.

If he could receive an offer from a university in France during his stay in France, he would return home by ship from Marseille.

After hearing these words, Chen Muwu's first reaction was not the sadness of the separation between brothers, but that your brother had just left, but who should continue to catch the knife with my brilliant reasoning ideas?

……

As soon as I mentioned it, the group of people from the Cambridge Apostolic Society met with Chen Muwu at a Saturday meeting.

The publishing house that we founded as a joint venture has begun to take shape, and the contract for the printing house has been negotiated.

The first major event facing the publishing house now is the publication of Chen Muwu's book "Murder on the Paris Express".

Because this is the first book published by the publishing house, everyone takes this matter very seriously, and of course Chen Muwu has been harassed back and forth several times.

They took the trouble to come to the door with various cover pictures and illustrations such as books, and let the "author" of this book, Chen Muwu, make the final decision.

……

Then, today Chen Muwu was in the Cavendish laboratory, and he saw Beste, who hurriedly climbed ashore from the Cam River after hearing the news, and didn't even have time to change his wet clothes.

Chen Muwu feels that he is now like Li Tiemei in "Red Lantern", his "cousins are innumerable", and they are all the kind of "no big things don't come to the door".

Best came to Chen Muwu, naturally about the upcoming Cambridge-Oxford Games.

"Lawrence, why are you so happy today?"

"Chen, you're really joking, are you knowingly asking? Because of hearing you're back, of course! Best shook his head like a big golden retriever, and the water droplets in his hair were thrown out along the tangential direction, "I have good news for you, the time for this year's combined games has been set, and it will be on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of next week." We still have plenty of time to prepare!

"The swimming competition is scheduled for Saturday afternoon, just after the most high-profile rowing competition. When the time comes, there should be a lot of people coming to cheer us on.

"This time, you will definitely be able to represent Cambridge University and teach the guys at Oxford, especially the proud and arrogant New Zealander who has no one in his eyes."

Best suddenly lowered his voice and whispered: "Chen, I heard that Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, and Prince Albert, Duke of York, will be there to watch this competition.

"One of these two princes is a graduate of Oxford, and the other is a graduate of your Trinity College.

"They came to see the game, and the meaning is self-explanatory."

The more he spoke, the more proud he became, as if he had also become a knight in armor who was in charge for the British royal family.

Chen Muwu pursed his lips, and said in his heart that they are your royal family, not my royal family, what does Dili have to me?

"Lawrence, as you can see, the experiment I'm doing at the moment is very important, it's a big graduation event, and I don't know if I'll be able to finish it by next Saturday.

"But since I have already promised you, I will definitely go to this competition, please rest assured."

Kapitsa, who saw the whole thing on the side, adhered to the principle of sharing worries for good friends, and slapped his chest loudly: "Chen, you can rest assured to go to the competition, win glory for our Cambridge University, and I am here in the experiment!" ”

"Thank you, thank you, Mr. Kapitsa."

Chen Muwu rolled his eyes in his heart.

He just said this, just to let Best admit his favor, maybe it will be useful to him in the future?

Unexpectedly, Kapitsa came out halfway - although Chen Muwu believed that he really wanted to help himself.

As a result, the gratitude in Best's heart was transferred directly from him to Kapitsa.

Alas, don't think about it so much, let's hurry up and finish the experiment in less than two weeks.

There's a lot of stuff waiting for him!

(End of chapter)