100 Capitsa's brain circuits
Chen Muwu persuaded Dirac for a long time, and the latter finally decided to write this paper, which included a new quantum statistical method.
But Dirac also made a request, that is, although he wrote it himself, he must write Chen Muwu's name on the first author.
Chen Muwu felt that he could not agree to this request.
If he agreed, wouldn't it be equivalent to Dirac selling himself and helping him count the money?
So the two started a new round of prevarication between each other, and in the end, Dirac reluctantly agreed to be the first author, and let Chen Muwu's name hang behind him.
But at the same time, Dirac also agreed to Chen Muwu to do another thing, that is, starting from pure mathematics, trying to prove that matrix mechanics and wave dynamics are mathematically equivalent.
Chen Muwu pretended to point out a few nouns, what matrix operator, and what Hilbert space.
The reason why he didn't go on in depth was because he only knew these few terms, and if he said too much, he would be timid, but he could also point out a direction for Dirac.
Before parting, Chen Muwu remembered another thing.
"Oh, yes, Paul, there's one more thing.
"As you can see, I have now moved out of Mrs. Brown's house and into this room at Trinity College.
"However, I have two compatriots who have taken over from me in the room on the second floor of Mrs. Brown's house, and they are new to the house, so please take care of them more often."
"Chen, it's unfortunate that St. John's College also informed me that they had vacated a room for me to move in before the fall semester began. I'm afraid I won't be able to accede to your request. ”
"In that case, forget it. Then I'll help you move tomorrow, and after you move, you can write that paper on quantum statistics as soon as possible, and you can submit it before the deadline of the Royal Society's Bulletin of the Natural Sciences. ”
"Okay, then I'll thank you in advance."
was arranged by Chen Muwu to live in Mrs. Brown's house, naturally Zhao Zhongyao and Shi Ruwei were the two.
Ever since the round-faced student of Magdalen's College left Cambridge for France, Mrs. Brown had never eaten authentic Chinese cuisine.
When it comes to cooking, Chen Muwu is a lazy dog, and he has always been able to get by, until he also moved out of the rented room, and Mrs. Brown has never eaten a single meal made by Chen.
Mrs. Brown was delighted to hear that she was home to a secondary school student again.
The first thing she did after meeting the three of them was that she asked if anyone could cook Chinese food.
After receiving an affirmative reply, Mrs. Brown waved her hand directly and reduced the price of the room to a minimum.
……
Only two days after the lecture, Oppenheimer sent Chen Muwu a sorted note.
The content of the lecture he gave at the Capitsa Club the day before yesterday could not be said to be word for word, but basically all the main points were clearly recorded.
"Robert, how much do you understand about this lecture?"
Although he was only a recent graduate from Harvard, Oppenheimer was probably one of the most theoretically knowledgeable people in the audience that day.
After that lecture, Chen Muwu didn't have time to collect feedback from the audience when he was disrupted by Dirac, who was killed halfway.
He had always wanted to know how good his teaching was, and the reason why he agreed to Kapitsa's invitation, but the Capitsa Club came to hold this lecture to test the water in advance.
Don't wait for the time when the building is built, but your coaching level is like Bohr's, that would be too misleading.
Oppenheimer was a little embarrassed: "Teacher Chen, to be honest, I didn't understand much. ”
"Am I not clear where I am?"
"No, Mr. Chen, it's true that your theory is a bit profound, and I feel that this problem does not only exist at the physical level, but has risen to a philosophical level, so it is a little difficult for me to understand and accept."
"In other words, I'm okay, not incoherent, right?"
"That's right, the main thing is that my level is too low."
"Robert, you don't have to be so modest, this has nothing to do with your level, before the real single-photon source or single-electron source appears, and the real single-particle interference experiment can be done in the laboratory, whether this experimental phenomenon is really like this, is a debatable thing.
"But it's actually a good thing that you can think about this deeply, I have another assignment here, do you want to try to do it?"
Oppenheimer certainly knew that the homework in Chen Muwu's mouth was definitely not as simple as the practice questions in the notes at the back of the textbook.
The homework he said, maybe with a little tidying, he could publish a small paper in a secondary journal.
Faced with the opportunity to send it to the door, Oppenheimer certainly would not refuse.
"To what extent do you know about quantum mechanics? Can we use matrix mechanics to try to solve the spectrum of hydrogen atoms? ”
"Well, Mr. Chen, I originally planned to study the mathematical tool matrix in depth, but as soon as I came to Cambridge, I saw your paper on wave dynamics published in the journal Nature, and I thought this method was more suitable for me, so I returned the book on linear algebra to the library."
Oppenheimer's approach is certainly not a problem, it is human nature to seek the near and the near.
"Robert, I'm afraid you're going to borrow those math books again, I still have to use matrix mechanics for this assignment, and I hope you and Zhao and Shi together, the three of you can prove that matrix mechanics and wave dynamics are equivalent at the physical level.
"But I want to remind you of one more thing, don't feel like you have a lot of time to do it. Physicists all over the world are now trying to do this. If you are a day behind others, you may miss the opportunity to publish a paper. ”
Seeing that Chen Muwu's assignment was indeed a paper that could be published, Oppenheimer was immediately interested.
He patted his chest and assured Chen Muwu that he would definitely write this paper as soon as possible.
……
Chen Muwu originally planned to compile the conference proceedings sent by Oppenheimer into a paper as soon as possible, and take advantage of the victory to pursue it, so that the somewhat shocking physics concept of probability wave will continue to shock the physics community.
But not long after Oppenheimer was sent away, Kapitsa came to the door again.
He was wearing a handsome trench coat and a matching hat on his head, and as soon as he entered the door, he couldn't wait to pull Chen Muwu up from the chair next to his desk.
"Chen, don't you notice that there is anything different between me today and before?"
Chen Muwu pretended to observe the Russian carefully, then nodded with a thoughtful look, and said with a serious and slightly serious attitude: "Well, it's really different from before, I guess, you should have cut a not-so-good-looking head, so after entering the room, you still wear a hat." ”
It is rude to enter the house without taking off the hat, and the subtext of this behavior is that the owner of the hat thinks it is unsafe.
Of course, Chen Muwu didn't really want to deal with Kapitsa about this matter, he just really didn't know what kind of nerve Kapitsa had suddenly.
Kapitsa embarrassedly pulled the hat off his head with his hand: "Chen, I originally thought that I would leave as soon as I pulled you here, so I didn't take off the hat on my head." ”
"Just a joke, Peter, please don't take it to heart. Is there anything you came to me for today? ”
Seeing a smile on Chen Muwu's face, Kapitsa also laughed: "I knew that you wouldn't bother with me." Don't deal with your boring words,"
He pointed to the note from Oppenheimer on the table, "I bought a new car, I'll take you for a ride today!" ”
After speaking, Kapitsa didn't wait for Chen Muwu's statement, and directly grabbed his wrist.
"I'll go! Can't I go! ”
After locking the door of the room and following Kapitsa to the gate of Trinity College, Chen Muwu saw a red convertible car parked on the side of the road.
"What brand of car is this? Rolls-Royce? ”
He didn't know much about British cars, only Rolls-Royce and Bentley, and other than that, he only knew about Jaguar.
And Chen Muwu also saw that on the top of the radiator of this car, there seemed to be a metal villain welded, so he guessed that this might be a Rolls-Royce.
"Lagonda, the latest one this year."
Ragonda, haven't heard of it.
Of course, Chen Muwu didn't know that this brand of car would later be called Aston Martin.
But he followed Kapitsa a few steps forward, and it was not until he reached the front of the car that he realized that the radiator was not welded to the villain called the goddess, but ...... A crocodile.
"Your car is a new one, it's really new."
Kapitsa laughed when he heard this: "I carved and welded this crocodile with my own hands, how is it, my craftsmanship is not bad, right?" ”
Belch......
Although he doesn't know much about cars, from the perspective of workmanship, he thinks that the price of this car is expensive.
In addition, it is still the twenties of the twentieth century, and the automobile industry can be said to be still in its infancy, and the relative price of cars will only be higher than that of later generations.
Such an expensive big guy was welded with an ugly crocodile so casually by Kapitsa?
Seeing that Chen Muwu was a little puzzled, Kapitsa explained: "Sir Rutherford's birthday is coming, and I want to give him a birthday present." ”
"So, you're going to give the teacher this car?"
"That's not ......" Kapitsa looked at Chen Muwu like a fool, and said in his heart that such an expensive car, how could I give it away, "I just want to use this way to express my tribute to Sizz." ”
Chen Muwu is not good at evaluating his behavior.
It can only be said that Kapitsa really loves his teacher Rutherford deeply.
(End of chapter)