"The history of astronomy in Denmark is very long, dating back to the time of Frederick II in the 16th century.

"His Majesty gave the astronomer Tycho Brahe the island of Öresund and built him the first observatory in Europe on the island with a ton of gold.

After Tycho left Denmark, in 1637 King Christian IV funded the construction of the Round Tower Observatory, the second national observatory in the world, after the Leiden National Observatory in the Dutch Republic.

"The Round Tower Observatory was the predecessor of our University of Copenhagen Observatory, because it was in the center of Copenhagen, and the light pollution and traffic caused by the vibration were relatively strong, so in 1861, the University of Copenhagen built a new observatory here. ……”

The Director of the University of Copenhagen Observatory, Ellis Stromgren, personally introduced Danish astronomy and the history of the University of Copenhagen Observatory to Chen Muwu, who visited the Observatory.

As the Nobel laureate in physics, Chen Muwu has been in the limelight recently.

As the discoverer of the ninth planet in the solar system, Chen Muwu is also regarded as a rising star in astronomy.

The term nova was first observed and proposed in Denmark.

And the person who proposed it was none other than the Tycho that the director of the observatory had just mentioned.

Tycho did not leave Denmark as the curator said, he was driven away by the succeeding king.

Stromgren did not dare to neglect the young man in front of him, in case he had come to the observatory to borrow the astronomical telescope here to discover the tenth largest planet in the solar system.

Then maybe the observatory can set up a sign next to the astronomical telescope, writing "the telescope used by Chen Muwu when he discovered the tenth planet of the solar system", and then collect the admission fee for tourists who want to visit, which will be used as the fund for the development of the observatory.

Also the director of the university's observatory, Stromgren's business acumen went far beyond Eddington, Cambridge.

The latter only hopes that his recent popular science book on quantum mechanics can take advantage of the opportunity of its proposer, Chen Muwu, to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, sell a few more copies, and then rely on the royalties he earns to subsidize the dismal operation of the Cambridge University Observatory.

I heard that some time ago, the British royal family specially allocated a fund of 10,000 pounds a year to the Cavendish laboratory, why is this kind of good thing never his turn here?

It's a pity that Chen Muwu is going to disappoint Stromgren this time.

He wasn't here to borrow an astronomical telescope or discover a tenth planet, he just wanted to borrow a few astronomical journals.

"Director Stromgren, I'm not here to see any stars, and I can't see them during the day, do I?

"I've only recently been interested in the distance from the Andromeda Nebula to the Milky Way, and I've heard that the United States has been observing these nebulae for a long time, and I don't know where they come out."

After hearing Chen Muwu's intentions, Stromgren began to sigh again: "Dr. Chen, I know that you don't look down on the equipment of our observatory.

"As you can see, our astronomical research in Denmark, although our ancestors used to be broad, but now it is really not as good as every year.

"Take the telescope under the dome of the observatory, for example, we installed a fourteen-inch refractor in 1895.

The telescope had already spent all of the Observatory's financial resources, but just two years later, the wealthy Yankees built a 40-inch refractor at the Yekes Observatory in Wisconsin.

"Astronomical observation is an activity that costs a lot of money, Europe is getting poorer, and the United States is getting richer.

"Alas, I don't know when Denmark, as the birthplace of modern astronomy, will revive astronomy."

Chen Muwu silently complained in his heart, there is no chance, you don't see, your Danish astronomer De Laere has gone to the United Kingdom and has become the president of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Although he thought so in his heart, he still politely comforted the dejected director of the observatory on the surface, after all, he had a request.

"Mr. Stromgren, the American economy is nothing more than a false boom. I think it won't be long before this economic soap bubble of theirs bursts and disappears. ”

If Stromgren's economic acumen had been stronger, he might have been able to earn a 200-centimeter refractor telescope from the US stock market.

……

Oppenheimer made many trips to the observatory and brought back to the Institute of Theoretical Physics so many journals that had traveled from the United States to Denmark, but none of them could find Hubble's papers.

It is impossible to say that Chen Muwu only came once, and he happened to find the answer he wanted, then he was too chosen by God.

But his trip was not empty-handed, because in the database of the Observatory of the University of Copenhagen, Chen Muwu found a copy of Popular Astronomy, published in 1915.

One of them, entitled "Spectral Observations of Nebulae", was written by the assistant director of the Lowell Observatory, Vesto Silk.

Since 1912, Shever has used negatives coated with photosensitive emulsion to record the spectrum of nebulae and calculate the velocity of the nebula by moving the spectrum.

In this 1915 paper, Sriver gave the speed of fifteen spiral nebulae.

And in 1917, in another paper published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society entitled "Nebulae," Sriver had measured the speed of twenty-five nebulae.

The so-called Hubble's law states that the receding speed of distant galaxies is proportional to their distance from Earth.

The physical meaning behind this law is that the universe is not static, and those stars in the sky are accelerating away from us.

At the University of Copenhagen Observatory, Chen Muwu has already gotten the regression speed of so many "nebulae".

He copied all the movements of the twenty-five nebulae on paper.

After double-checking that everything was correct, he said goodbye to Stromgren and left the observatory.

All Chen Muwu needs to know now is the distance between these galaxies and the Earth.

He only hoped that Hubble would be able to publish the data at these distances in accordance with the course of history.

……

Time passed day after day, and in the meantime Oppenheimer made several more attempts to the observatory, each time in vain.

Although he was curious, his teacher always read astronomical journals for what he did.

But Oppenheimer never asked Chen Muwu for the answer to this question.

He estimated that even if Chen Muwu told him, he shouldn't understand.

Mr. Chen's knowledge reserve is deeper than the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and he must study hard by his teacher's side!

Although there was no news of the Hubble paper, Chen Muwu received replies from several telegrams sent before.

It wasn't until his eldest brother arrived in Harbin that he called Chen Muwu back.

At the end of the year, the business of the money bank was busy, and Chen Muping, the second brother of the businessman, who was heavy on profits, naturally would not give up the opportunity to make money.

The old lady insisted on refusing to leave her homeland on the grounds of her old age.

So this time, the family who went to Stockholm to attend his award ceremony was the only one who was the eldest brother Chen Muqiao.

And the eldest brother's journey is not all smooth sailing, full of ups and downs.

Nanyang University, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Communications, is not short of money, and the eldest brother, as the provost, applied for a fund for overseas study and education.

In order to be able to reach Europe before the award ceremony, the steamship, which took more than 40 days, naturally could not sit still.

So I had to take the train by land and spend half a month wandering in deserted Siberia.

However, the direct line and the Feng line were fighting the second war of the direct line in North China, and although the Jinpu Railway was unimpeded, the Beijing-Feng Railway had already been cut off.

Chen Muqiao could only take a steamer from Qihai to the north, first arrive at Li'an, and then transfer to the branch line of the Eastern Railway, that is, the South Manchurian Railway, from Lushunkou, until he reached the terminal station of Harebin.

After applying for a visa for Sulian at the consulate in Harbin and buying a train ticket to Europe, Chen Muqiao sent a telegram back to his younger brother, informing him of the train number and estimated arrival time.

Chen Muwu didn't expect that only the eldest brother would come alone.

It seems that everyone in the family should not be very interested in this Nobel Prize.

Perhaps in their eyes, this award is not as good as the two-medal that President Cao Kun sent to his home.

After all, this medal was in the Qing Dynasty, and it was a real marquis.

I have no choice but to wait for a while and then use that trick to learn.

There were a lot of people from Cambridge University, and in addition to the three that Chen Muwu had invited in the telegram, Kapitsa said that there was a science reporter from the Manchester Guardian, and James Crowther was going with him.

But his travel expenses will be paid for by the newspaper, and the reporter from Trinity College has only one purpose on his trip, which is to give Chen Muwu, the new Nobel laureate in physics, an exclusive interview.

Speaking of reporters, after the announcement of his award-winning results, Chen Muwu also received many door-to-door interviews in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Bohr simply vacated the lecture hall on the first floor of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, and held a small press conference for Chen Muwu, as he did at the Greenwich Observatory last time.

Among them were reporters from Copenhagen local, as well as reporters from the British newspaper The Times, the French newspaper Le Figaro, and the American New York Times correspondent in Denmark.

Of course, neither they, nor their readers, will be interested in esoteric scientific topics.

So on the topic of science, they only routinely threw out a few questions.

One of the most interesting things for the many journalists present was the question from the reporter of the Berliner Zeitung.

"Dr. Chen, not long ago, Dr. Albert Einstein said in an interview with my colleague that he disagreed with your proposal of quantum mechanics or probability waves, and even felt that the uncertainty principle you proposed was an irrational principle.

"What do you think of his statement?"

"I've always had a lot of respect for Dr. Einstein, because it would have been very difficult for me to get to where I am now without him lecturing in the Far East and without him recommending me to Europe.

"He was my guide on the path of science, and I am grateful to him.

However, since Dr. Einstein was also a human being, not an all-knowing and all-powerful God, it is not surprising that he could not understand what God thinks.

"So of course he makes some mistakes, and that's not something to be out of the ordinary."

Chen Muwu's tone was so loud that the reporters present suddenly came to their senses, and they all recorded what he just said in their notebooks, not daring to omit even a single letter.

Everyone thinks that Chen Muwu is criticizing Einstein's previous criticism of him, but Chen Muwu is actually paving the way for his Nobel Prize speech.

After the questions about science were asked, the atmosphere of questions was finally lively.

After Chen Muwu achieved many achievements in physics, astronomy and the Olympic Games, and finally won the Nobel Prize, the highest honor representing science, the public's attention finally fell on him.

Everyone was curious about this mysterious Oriental: was he a human being, or was he a prophet who could see the future?

Some people also began to ask questions about Chen Muwu's private life:

"Dr. Chen, what kind of sports do you usually enjoy?"

The journalist who raised the question was quickly ridiculed by his peers.

He also realized the stupidity of his problem, so he immediately corrected it to "What other sports do you like besides swimming?" ”

Chen Muwu remembered the table tennis games he had played in the institute in the past few days, so he gave this answer.

He was also asked what books he had read lately, in addition to physics books.

This question simply played into Chen Muwu's heart, so after recommending "Murder on the Paris Express" to everyone at the press conference of the Olympic Games, he once again recommended the second book of "No One Survived" by British detective rookie writer Chandler York to readers around the world through these newspapers.

In order to show his closeness, the reporter of the "Tokyo Daily Shimbun" even stood up in a weird and broken Chinese and asked: "Dr. Chen, congratulations on winning the Nobel Prize in Physics!" This is the first Nobel Prize in China and the first Nobel Prize in Physics in Asia.

"The overlord of Western Chu in your country once said, 'Wealth does not return to your hometown, such as embroidering clothes at night', do you have any plans to return to China after winning the award? If you return to China, will you consider giving a lecture here? ”

I really don't know much about Chinese culture, and this example is not very appropriate here.

Because in "Historical Records", as soon as Xiang Yu finished saying this, others scolded him for being a monkey.

"Naturally, I have plans to return to China, but the matter of going to this lecture is not in my plan at the moment."

Chen Muwu's answer was already very polite.

He won't go to the United States, let alone Ben?

Chen Muwu was not afraid that he would be assassinated, but he was afraid that if he really took the steamer to Dongduben, he might just arrive in Yokohama, and he would be detained and locked up with a hundred young girls, and forced to lend them seeds.

Of course, some people became interested in Chen Muwu's emotional life and asked him if he was married, or if he had anyone he was dating.

If not, then what are the requirements for his crush? Do you want to marry a Chinese, or can you be a European?

For the answers to these questions, Chen Muwu could only pretend to be stupid, vague, and perfunctory.

……

Blackett of the University of Göttingen in Germany also wrote a reply to Chen Muwu.

On the one hand, he congratulated Chen Muwu on winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, and on the other hand, he also thanked him for being able to pay for his journey home.

De Broglie even sent two return calls to Chen Muwu from France.

One was the afternoon after Chen Muwu's telegram, informing him that he and Ye Gongchao would definitely go to Stockholm to attend the award ceremony.

Another telegram was added a few days later, in which de Broglie said that Eve had come to her door out of nowhere and asked if they were going to Sweden.

After receiving an affirmative reply, she said she would go with them as well.

De Broglie asked Chen Muwu to rest assured that he would select a reliable maid from his home and let her take care of Xiao Chen's sweetheart along the way.

However, a few days later, Chen Muwu saw another statement on the reply letter he received from Eve.

Eve said she wasn't sure if she would be able to make the trip to Stockholm and would have to go home to ask her mother, Marie Curie, for advice.

This is not consistent with what de Brogne said in his telegram.

However, the flaws in this reply letter were soon discovered by Chen Muwu.

That is, on Eve's reply, the postmark from the Paris post office was a day later than the second telegram sent to him by de Broglie.

In other words, Eve must have had Marie Curie's approval, which is why she went to de Broglie to accompany them.

And the reason why she said in her reply that she was not sure was that it was either out of the girl's unique reserve, or she wanted to surprise Chen Muwu Chen Muwu.

Girl's mind, boy, don't guess, you can't guess it~

……

In addition to the calls from the United Kingdom, France and Germany, Chen Muwu also received many congratulatory letters congratulating him on his award.

Because only a small number of people knew that he had left the UK for a visit to Copenhagen, these congratulatory letters were basically sent to Trinity College, Cambridge University, and then packed by Kapitsa and forwarded to Chen Muwu.

Teachers and classmates from Trinity College, Cavendish Laboratory, Swimming Club, and Apostle Club of Cambridge University, colleagues from the fields of physics, astronomy, and sports, as well as Chinese students in Britain and France, basically met him before, and those who wrote to him wrote congratulatory letters.

Among them, there were several people that Chen Muwu didn't expect, including Prince Albert, Duke of York, Chen Zheng, the minister of the People's Republic of China in France, and even the black-hearted businessman of General Electric who sold his vacuum pump at a high price.

There is not a single letter in the country, it is estimated that the time is too short, and those letters are still running on the Trans-Siberian Railway, right?

Chen Muwu opened these letters one by one, and the contents of the letters were basically the same.

But there were also a few of them, and everything else was written on them.

Prince Gustav Adolf, the crown prince of Sweden, was the Chinese culture fan who met Chen Muwu at the British Embassy in France after the Olympics, and invited Chen Muwu to stay in Stockholm for a few more days after receiving the Nobel Prize.

Because Sweden is, after all, the crown prince's home turf, and he wants to do his best to be a landlord.

Albert Einstein also wrote a congratulatory letter to Chen Muwu.

In the letter, he praised Chen Muwu and praised his gamma-ray scattering experiments and electron diffraction experiments, saying that these were great discoveries in the history of physics and made great progress in physics.

He deserves to win the Nobel Prize.

Einstein was so attentive, and his operation made Chen Muwu a little incomprehensible.

Didn't he just write a letter criticizing himself, and took the initiative to give an interview to the Berliner Zeitung, criticizing not only himself, but also Bohr?

Why did he suddenly become the leader of the Kwawa Sect now?

When things go wrong, there must be demons, Chen Muwu turned to the second page of the letterhead, and sure enough, he saw the dagger that Einstein hid at the end of the map of Yan Kingdom.

As an elder, Einstein spoke bitterly and tried to persuade him not to go astray again, to give up the unacceptable principle of probability waves and uncertainty as soon as possible, and to turn back and embark on the broad road of the law of cause and effect again.

Seeing the complete letter, Chen Muwu couldn't cry or laugh, no wonder Einstein held himself up to the sky at the beginning of the letter.

This is not even a letter of peace, but a letter of persuasion!

This old man is really stubborn, in his previous life, he didn't think that quantum mechanics was complete until he died, and he didn't know if he could accept this in this life.

……

After reading so many letters, Chen Muwu did not have much time left in Copenhagen.

However, Hubble's paper never appeared in the press.

Time passed day by day, and Chen Muwu became more and more anxious day by day.

He even wanted to send a telegram to the American side, asking Hubble himself directly: Have you finished measuring your nebula data? If you don't publish it in a journal in a hurry, what are you waiting for?

Oppenheimer could see that Chen Muwu's recent state was not right, so he tried everything he could to help his teacher relieve the pressure.

He even wanted to ask his classmates in Copenhagen, "Are there prostitutes in this city?" like Cao Cao asked others when he was in Wancheng, in an attempt to take Chen Muwu to that place to relieve the pressure.

Of course, this idea only existed in his brain and was not put into practice.

But Oppenheimer found his way anyway.

On the last day of November, Oppenheimer knocked on the door of Mr. Chen's room with a stack of newspapers.

"Mr. Chen, the New York Times reporter in Copenhagen sent me a news story printed with the content of the last press conference."

"Put it over there, I don't have much time to look at it right now."

Chen Muwu pointed to a corner of the table in the room, on which there were already a lot of newspapers.

"Mr. Chen, I read this newspaper once, but I found a very interesting article in the corner of a page full of advertisements.

"The Carnegie Institution has a Ph.D. named Hubbell who placed an ad in the New York Times at his own expense announcing his 'new discovery' in astronomy:

"He actually said that the spiral nebula is not inside the Milky Way, but outside, just like the 'island universe' that Kant called at the beginning.

"This man is really whimsical!"

"What? What did you say? ”

Chen Muwu looked shocked.

Report that I am safe, my fever has subsided, and I am already in a very good state today.

Strive to make up for the previous supplies in the past two days, thank you for your concern.

(End of chapter)