"From light as a particle, to time travel, Brother Chen's name, I've heard about it for a long time.

"It's just that I left Cambridge for Austria after graduating last year, so I haven't had the opportunity to meet Brother Chen.

"In that rural place, I read the news about the Chen brothers again and again from the newspapers, and the most striking point was the discovery of new planets in the solar system.

"It wasn't until this summer that I returned home via France, and at the Paris Olympics, I had the privilege of watching the Chen brothers compete in person.

"After returning to Cambridge, I learned that Brother Chen was also a member of the Apostolic Society, so I immediately felt a sense of closeness in my heart, and I have been looking forward to meeting here, and today I finally got my wish."

"Thank you, Brother Ramsey, you are so enthusiastic."

is worthy of being a child of a rich family, what he said is really leaky, and Chen Muwu is very comfortable to hear.

But Chen Muwu also knew that the Ramsey in front of him was not a straw bag who could enter Cambridge University by virtue of his father's status.

A second-generation straw bag sword may have no problem entering Cambridge University to study, but without showing some real talent and learning, he will definitely not be able to enter this apostolic society, which claims to be only accessible to the smartest people at Cambridge University.

Although Ramsey did not explicitly say what he was going to do in Austria, as soon as he mentioned Austria and the countryside, Chen Muwu knew that Ramsey must have gone there to find Wittgenstein.

Counting the time, Wittgenstein had already finished writing his Treatise on Logic and Philosophy, and thought that the so-called philosophical problems had been solved, so he went to the southern Austrian countryside with aristocratic enthusiasm, where he became a rural primary school teacher.

Ramsey, like Wittgenstein, was a philosopher, and in addition to philosophy, he was also a philosopher in mathematics and economics.

Chen Muwu is not deeply involved in this area, only knows that there is a Ramsey law named after him.

However, this Ramsey law is not about the Arsenal Grim Reaper who takes away a random celebrity in the world as soon as he scores a goal, but an interesting mathematical problem.

Chen Muwu remembers one of the most famous inferences, which is......

"Six random people from all over the world, at least three of whom knew each other or didn't know each other.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very interesting result that I have been thinking about recently, and the proof process is very simple, so you might as well give it a try."

So Chen Muwu didn't sit down directly after greeting Ramsey, but naturally raised this interesting mathematical problem in front of everyone.

Sure enough, the question attracted a lot of interest, and everyone began to think about how to prove this seemingly interesting conclusion.

As a result, no one came to Chen Muwu anymore and repeated to him the words he had heard countless times congratulating him on winning the Olympic Games.

Of course, this math problem is not difficult for these smart people here, and can only be regarded as a pastime.

We quickly found several ways to prove, the simplest of which is to construct six points on a plane that are not collinear with any three points, and the two points can be connected by solid or dashed lines, and then prove that after the line is connected, there is at least one solid triangle, or at least one dashed triangle.

After this example, some people draw inferences and discuss how many people are needed to ensure that at least four of them know each other, or don't know each other.

Chen Muwu thought that he was finally no longer the focus of the audience, and planned to find a corner to rest, but he didn't expect someone to find him again.

This time it was the person in charge of the Penguin Publishing House who was widely recognized, and he showed Chen Muwu that the sales of "Murder on the Paris Express" were good after it was released, and Chen Muwu made another advertisement for this book at the press conference after the Paris Olympics, so now publishers from all over the world have come to the door, hoping to cooperate with Penguin Press, or buy the translation rights of this book.

In other countries, Chen Muwu doesn't care, he only cares about sales in the United States.

After all, now Ah Mei you see that it is in the prosperous period of Coolidge, and every household has a lot of spare money, he told people to find a publishing house with strong promotion and distribution capabilities, it doesn't matter how much money you make, the key is to let the old Americans read his book and know the protagonist of the book, George Chen.

It's better to wait for the book later, the series is taken by Hollywood, so they pay a high price to buy the adaptation rights and make it into a movie and appear on the screen.

Or, why don't you just wait for yourself to have money, and use the George Chen series as a selling point to invest in opening a film company?

The comer's speech interrupted the cranky thoughts in Chen Muwu's mind.

"Brother Chen, this book is so popular now, so should we take advantage of the victory to chase after it, strike while the iron is hot, and continue to launch its sequel?"

Yes, I painted a flatbread for a long time, but I still came to urge the draft.

Fortunately, Chen Muwu was prepared, took out the manuscript of "No One Survived" that Ye Gongchao was forced to write during the Olympic Games, and handed it over.

As a result, he didn't expect that this brother refused to leave after receiving the manuscript, but still stood in front of Chen Muwu.

"Is there anything else you can do?"

"That's right, since the publishing house has been established, it is definitely not enough to publish only one series of books of Brother Chen. We plan to expand the direction of publishing, I wonder if you have any suggestions or comments? ”

Although Chen Muwu is one of the major shareholders of Penguin Publishing, he does not have much time to attend board meetings.

Fortunately, the board of directors was full of his own people from the Apostolic Society, so this weekly meeting became a daily way for Chen Muwu to communicate with the publishing house.

Chen Muwu held his head with the palm of his hand, tapped his temple with his index and middle fingers, and pretended to think for a while before saying: "I have such an idea, that is, at the same time as publishing books, we will also publish a kind of magazine. ”

"Magazines? However, we are only a newly founded publishing house, and although we have already published a blockbuster book, we still don't have enough reputation to attract enough authors and contributors to contribute to us. ”

"We don't need a writer to find a good source of manuscripts. When I was preparing for the Olympics in Paris, I used to read a lot of magazines in my spare time, and although there was a lot of interesting information and interesting articles, many of them were meaningless dross. ……”

Chen Muwu started talking nonsense again, he hadn't read even a single magazine at all.

It's just that Paris is to Chen Muwu what Hawaii is to Edogawa Conan, the capital of France is a basket that can be loaded with anything.

“…… It's just that a person's energy is always limited, and they are unlikely to read all of these magazines, choosing only one or a few of them. This has led to a large number of fine articles published in other magazines.

"So I thought it would be possible to create a magazine that would be published on a regular basis by selecting the best articles from other magazines.

"In this way, there is no need to solicit manuscripts everywhere, only need to hire a few sharp-eyed review editors, and then pay a certain copyright fee to the original author."

The magazine that Chen Muwu said is based on the "Reader", which is known as the "Big Three" and "Sister Feng" with "Story Club" or "Bosom Friend".

Of course, the domestic "Reader" actually has another prototype, that is, "Reader's Digest" published in the basement of an illegal bar in the United States in 1922.

It's just that so far, the magazine is still struggling to survive, and it has not begun to grow savagely on American soil, so Chen Muwu can unscrupulously plagiarize the operation model of this magazine.

"Oh, and there's another point, and that's that in addition to allowing readers to order through the post office, the magazine can also be wholesaled to bookstores and newsstands like newspapers. In the early stage of the magazine's release, you can subsidize these individual retailers, do not pursue profits, and even some losses are no problem, the first stage only needs to seize the market, and after accumulating a large number of readers and cultivating their reading inertia, we can usher in the final bumper harvest. ”

Chen Muwu can only be regarded as a business novice, and his shallow business knowledge is all obtained from reading various fragments.

But the method he said completely followed the way Reader's Digest made its fortune.

This business model, put into the current magazine distribution industry, is simply a kind of explosion.

That's why Reader's Digest has been able to break through the encirclement in the United States.

"In addition, I see that in American newspapers recently, a game called crossword puzzles has gradually become popular, that is, drawing a large square containing several small squares, each box corresponds to a letter, and through the puzzle given, people can fill in the corresponding words.

"This kind of wordplay is very rewarding for readers, so I think it would be very helpful to print this kind of wordplay in a new magazine with a page or two, which I think would be very helpful in increasing sales."

Chen Muwu didn't say too much, this method is very helpful to increase sales, and the New York Times relied on this game to directly double its sales.

"Speaking of crossword puzzles, another thing that comes to mind is that during my time in Paris, I was inspired by an ancient Chinese number game and the Swiss mathematician Euler to create a number game called 'Magic Square'......

"I think it's a good way to get the reader's interest and help them pass the time, just like the anagram, so it should be published in this magazine.

"Also, the name of this number game is 'Huanfang', not 'Chinese Magic Square', just a slip of my tongue just now.

"All in all, I think publishing such a magazine will not only allow Penguin to establish itself completely, but may also establish a niche in the British publishing industry.

"That's one of my recent thoughts, and when you get back, you can ask for everyone's opinions."

Publishing detectives can make quick profits in a short period of time, while starting a magazine depends on a long stream.

Chen Muwu only came up with the idea of running a magazine on a whim.

If this magazine can really be run in the end, it will be equivalent to mastering an additional public opinion position.

Of course, it doesn't matter if it can't be done, anyway, in the future, Chen Muwu will definitely not rely on this publishing house to make money.

The weekly meeting of the Apostolic Society has finally come to an end.

Before parting, Ramsey found Chen Muwu again: "Brother Chen, the mathematical problem you just mentioned is very enlightening to me. Chen, are you interested in starting with this question with me, diverging your thinking, and seeing if you can summarize a universal law? ”

"You're welcome, brother Ramsey, I just thought of it by chance. If you want to continue to develop new theories on it, please take it, but I'm too young to be involved in your mathematical research! ”

Chen Muwu pretended to be humble on the surface, but he was secretly happy in his heart, this was originally your thing, and now I am just returning it to its original owner!

As for studying mathematics together?

He felt that it would be more suitable for him to achieve more achievements in physics.

Guess why didn't you sign up for Trinity College's ridiculously difficult math exam when you graduated?

……

Early the next morning, as soon as Chen Muwu turned a corner from Benedict Street and came to the Liberty School Alley, where Cavendish's laboratory was located, he saw the emaciated American waiting at the door of the laboratory with some restraint.

Oppenheimer's family was very wealthy, and his father, knowing that his son had only spent a little more than two and a half years, graduated from Harvard University in the United States, and with a wave of his hand, he gave him a sailboat more than 30 feet long.

But this boy did not sink in the drunken money, but devoted himself to learning, and just got the news of being admitted to Cambridge University, he directly crossed the Atlantic Ocean to England and entered Christ's College, Cambridge University.

When he first arrived in Cambridgeshire, Oppenheimer confidently wrote a letter to Rutherford, wanting to enter the mecca of young students, and continue his studies at the Cavendish Laboratory.

He thought that as an honor graduate of Harvard University and a letter of recommendation from Professor Bridgeman, it should be a sure thing to enter this laboratory.

As a result, Rutherford ruthlessly rejected him, which took a toll on Oppenheimer's self-confidence.

With no relatives, he could only write down his thoughts in a letter and send it to his father on the other side of the ocean.

After the elder Oppenheimer learned that his son's wish to enter the Cavendish laboratory was disappointed, he contacted Tomson Sr. through various connections, intending to fulfill his son's wish.

But who knew that at this time, Oppenheimer had already begun to hold a grudge against Cambridge University.

Chen Muwu, who has moved, thinks that his room at Trinity College is much better than the room in Mrs. Brown's house where he lived the year before.

But for Oppenheimer, the son of the American, although he lived directly in the room of Christ's College, the cramped and cramped space in this college building that had existed for centuries was far less comfortable than the big house he lived in in the United States.

In addition, this is the first time that Oppenheimer, who has just turned 20, has left the United States for a foreign country, and he is in Cambridge, which is a little uncomfortable.

Just as Oppenheimer's heart was gradually retreating, there was good news from the Cavendish laboratory.

After several efforts, he was finally admitted to the laboratory, and the mentor named for him was Chen Muwu, who is now famous in the world of physics, astronomy, and even sports.

He used the photon theory to explain the scattering of gamma rays, discovered another scattering phenomenon in visible light, discovered the isotope of oxygen, discovered the wave nature of electrons, discovered the ninth planet of the solar system, proposed the fourth quantum number of Bohr's atomic model, proposed and confirmed that electrons have spins, established a new physical discipline quantum mechanics in a very novel mathematical way, and won four gold medals in the swimming competition of the Olympic Games......

From these achievements, any one of them is enough for an ordinary physicist to eat and drink for a lifetime.

However, these achievements all fell on the same person.

Moreover, it only took a year and a half for this man to finally achieve these achievements.

It's horrible!

And this person is about to become his own teacher.

Who knows if this big bull teacher has any quirks, and how he will treat or torture students?

When Oppenheimer was a student at Harvard University, he met a Chinese senior in the laboratory of his teacher Bridgeman.

The doctoral senior named Ye Qisun was elegant and gentle, which left a good impression on Oppenheimer.

I wonder if Chen Muwu, who is also a Chinese scholar, will be as easy to get along with that Senior Ye?

But when he thought of China, Oppenheimer remembered another thing.

That is, there are still rumors in the market that because of the "Chinese Exclusion Act" passed by the US government before, Chen Muwu, his future teacher, is very disgusted with the United States and Americans.

That's why he made it clear in an interview with Time magazine that he would refuse to go to the United States, refuse the $10,000 prize from Harvard University President Abbott Lowell, and refuse the James Clake Watson Award awarded to him by the National Academy of Sciences.

Since Chen Muwu hates the United States so much, why does he name himself as his student?

Does he hate himself?

The invisible pressure made Oppenheimer, who was waiting outside the door of Cavendis's laboratory, waiting to meet his teacher for the first time, a little restrained and a little apprehensive.

He didn't know what kind of person he was as a teacher.

(End of chapter)