"After winning the Nobel Prize, I was in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was interviewed by many journalists.

Among the reporters interviewed was a reporter from the New York Times from the United States.

"Shortly after the interview, they sent me a newspaper of the day in which the interview was published.

And I happened to read an article in the newspaper that day, published by Edwin Hubble, an astronomer at the Mount Wilson Observatory affiliated with the Carnegie Institution.

In that article, Dr. Ha revealed a very interesting thing.

He expertly measured and calculated several Cepheid variables in the Andromeda Nebula and other nebulae, and came to the conclusion that these stars are far from our Earth far above the radius of the Milky Way.

This result illustrates that these nebulae are not within the Milky Way, but should be independent star systems outside the Milky Way.

In other words, the universe we live in should be much larger than the galaxy in which we live.

"I was intrigued by his article, which was published in the New York Times, so I sent a telegram to Dr. Hubble and asked him for specific measurements.

"That's what you're seeing right now on the slide."

Chen Muwu did what he said, he did not use Hubble, but really helped him publish the results of experimental observations at the Nobel Prize ceremony.

After he announced the results at the awards ceremony, the audience was full of discussions.

Although there are basically few astronomy majors on the scene, in the minds of many people, they have always thought that the Milky Way is the entire universe.

Now they suddenly heard Chen Muwu say that there are other galaxies beyond the Milky Way, which makes them feel very new.

Chen Muwu pointed to the data on the slide and continued: "Dr. Hubble sent me a total of seventeen sets of nebula data, all of which are listed here.

"When I think of these rotating galaxies that we used to call 'nebulae,' I suddenly think of something else.

"More than a decade ago, another astronomer in the United States, Vesto Greave, of the Lowell Observatory, also observed these galaxies.

"Mr. Shriver is not observing the distance of these galaxies from us, but observing that most of them, except for a few, are moving away from our Earth.

"After more than ten years of observations, in 1917, he had already given the regression rate of more than 20 galaxies leaving us, and I have also turned these data out of the data and listed them on another slide."

Chen Muwu nodded and motioned for the staff to help him switch to the next slide.

"Fourteen of the seventeen galaxies that Dr. Hubble observed were in Mr. Shriver's data.

So I was bored, so I made a connection between the same galaxies that appeared in these two sets of data.

"Then I discovered a very amazing phenomenon, these galaxies are moving at a speed that is basically proportional to their distance from us.

In other words, the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it moves away from us.

"This phenomenon shows that our universe is not static, but constantly expanding."

If just now when it was pointed out that there are other galaxies beyond the Milky Way, people were just curious.

So when Chen Muwu said his point of view now, it finally shocked the audience.

Because this completely overthrows the static and infinite naïve cosmology of the universe that has been established since ancient times.

Chen Muwu didn't give everyone time to be shocked:

"Ladies and gentlemen, please be uneasy. The organizers only gave me 20 minutes to speak, so please wait until I'm done before we start the discussion, thank you.

"Now let's go back to the question we had at the beginning of the speech, which made Harley wonder, why was it dark?" ”

"Time is limited, so I'll just name a few of the reasons.

"Now, these data have irrefutably shown that our universe is constantly expanding.

In other words, distant stars are moving away from us, and the light they emit is constantly moving in the direction of longer wavelengths, which is called redshift.

Note that this redshift is not a Doppler redshift, but precisely because the universe is expanding.

"Our visible light has a short and limited wavelength range, and we can only see visible light in the wavelength range of about 400 to 770 nanometers.

"The light emitted by those distant galaxies, after arriving on Earth with great difficulty, has long since become infrared rays that we cannot see due to redshifts, and even microwaves with longer wavelengths.

"That's why at night after the sun goes down, we feel like the sky is pitch black overhead.

"Maybe we will be able to detect these infrared and microwave rays from the depths of the universe in the future.

At that point, it will be even more indicative of the fact that the universe is expanding.

That's why I say that the cosmological constant term that Dr. Einstein introduced into the gravitational field equation in order to limit the universe to a constant state of immutability, maybe at some point in the future, we will find other plausible guesses or explanations for this cosmological constant.

"But for the current situation, the cosmological constant can be completely unnecessary.

"This may not be a mistake made by Dr. Einstein, but it can only be said that he was influenced by the wrong view of the universe that mankind has always had, so he made a wrong choice."

Although Chen Muwu talked about astronomy, the physics and mathematical calculations involved in it were not complicated.

Bohr now understands that Chen Muwu did declare war with Einstein, but the battlefield of their fight was not in microscopic quantum mechanics, but in the vast and boundless universe, where they debated the general theory of relativity.

Although it is not a big deal to watch the excitement, Bohr still feels that after the award ceremony, it is necessary to reconcile the contradictions between Chen Muwu and Einstein, and not let the two of them turn against each other.

After revealing the conclusion that the universe is expanding, Chen Muwu, who was standing on the podium, did not mean to stop speaking.

He continued his violent argument: "Since the universe is constantly expanding, then I have another thing in mind.

"If we start to retrace the entire universe at this very moment, what will we find?

"As time goes backwards, our cosmic scale should be getting smaller and smaller, so that is, if time regresses to a certain moment, perhaps the entire universe will shrink into an infinitesimal point.

This means that the whole time regression comes to an abrupt end here, and before this moment, there is no universe and no time.

This point is the origin of the universe, and this moment is also the origin of the whole time.

"In my country, there is such a myth and legend:

"Legend has it that a long, long time ago, there was no heaven or earth in the world, and everything was held together like an egg.

"There was a man sleeping among the eggs, and his name was Pangu.

One day, Pangu suddenly opened his eyes, and he felt for an axe at hand, and split the whole egg in two.

"The light part of the egg gradually rises and becomes the heaven, while the remaining heavy part gradually descends and becomes the earth.

"The heavens increase every day, and the earth sinks every day.

"Pangu was afraid that one day, heaven and earth would become one again, so he stepped on the ground with the heavenly feet above his head, and the distance between heaven and earth became farther and farther, and his height became longer and longer.

"The name of this story is 'Pangu Clan's Groundbreaking', and although it is only a myth and legend in ancient China, I think it is very similar to the origin of the universe that was deduced backwards through the expansion of the universe.

"That's why I call the process by which the universe changes from a point of infinite mass and infinitely small volume to what we are now called the 'Pangea process', and the moment he begins to transform into the universe from that point is called 'Pangea time'."

The word Big Bang is so ugly that it's easy to conjure up images of some bloody violence.

In comparison, the word Pangu time is much cuter, isn't it?

Chen Muwu has never forgotten his mission of cultural export.

"That's all for my acceptance speech, thank you for your patience and thank the Nobel Prize Committee again for awarding me this year's Nobel Prize in Physics."

Chen Muwu bowed to the audience around him and left the stage of the city hall.

Although he himself is light and breezy, it seems that nothing has happened.

But the audience on the field is experiencing a shock no less than an 8.0 magnitude earthquake.

Chen Muwu said that the universe is constantly expanding, and now he actually says that time has an end!

The theological implications of this view are too strong.

Who now has the heart to continue listening to the next Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, Einthofen?

Everyone was talking and talking in their seats, and not leaving the table immediately was the greatest respect for another Nobel laureate.

Only the reporters in the press gallery ignored it, Chen Muwu really did not deceive them, and indeed delivered a shocking acceptance speech.

So these reporters left their seats one after another, in order to spread the news to the world as soon as possible.

……

Henry Kimball Hadley's new opera "Old Parisian Nights" premieres at the Metropolitan Theatre in New York

Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill Sends Letter to Prime Minister Baldwin Dissuading the Strengthening of the Colonial Defence of Singapore, arguing that Great Britain will not go to war with Ben on the other side of the globe in his lifetime

The 24th Nobel Prize Ceremony was recently held in Stockholm, Sweden

Chinese physicist Chen Muwu wins physics prize, Dutch doctor Eintofen wins prize in physiology or medicine

"Someone Smarter Than Dr. Einstein Announces Einstein Made a Mistake?" 》

Who is the smartest person in the world? Chan or Einstein? 》

Does the Universe Have an Origin? The reporter of this newspaper conducted an exclusive interview with the Fellows of Eddington"

Light of East Asia! Chen Muwujun won Asia's first Nobel Prize in Physics》

"Dr. Yoshio Nishina in Europe talks about Chen Muwu: he pointed out the future development direction of physics for me"

……

The day after the acceptance speech, a variety of headlines appeared in major newspapers around the world.

But the vast majority of these news stories are related to Chen Muwu's Nobel Prize-winning speech.

These days, Hubble has been pinching his fingers to count the days.

He had already seen what Chen Muwu said in an interview with reporters in the Swedish port city of Malmö that he would announce a major research result to the world.

Hubble thought to himself, Chen Muwu is really a gentleman who does what he says, and most of this major research result is that the Andromeda Nebula he observed should be a galaxy outside the Milky Way, right?

So the day after the Nobel Prize ceremony, he even got up early in the morning and stayed at the newsstand outside the Carnegie Institution, just to get the latest newspaper as soon as possible and see if Chen Muwu had released his research results to the world as promised.

Hubble saw the word "universe" in the headline, but it was not followed by "There are other galaxies beyond it", but "Is there an origin?" ”。

This is not the same as saying yes, right? Could it be that Chen Muwu made a temporary decision to change the content of his speech to something else?

Hubble grabbed a handful of coins, "snatched" a newspaper at a price well above the selling price, and read the article carefully.

He realized that Chen Muwu had not deceived himself, and had indeed mentioned Hubble's astronomical discoveries in his speech.

Chen Muwu just took a step further on the basis of his research and put forward a more surprising idea that "there are other galaxies beyond the Milky Way".

Shriver's study of the velocity-receding speed of the nebula may be somewhat unfamiliar to Europeans on the other side of the Atlantic.

But in the American astronomical community, his research has long been recognized.

So when Hubble finished reading the full text of Chen Muwu's acceptance speech in the newspaper, he immediately ran back to the database, turned out Slive's previous data, and compared them one by one according to what Chen Muwu said.

Soon after, Hubble came to the same conclusion as Chen Muwu, that the farther away galaxies are from Earth, the faster they recede.

Hubble sighed that Chen Muwu's knowledge in astronomy and his intuitive acuity were able to link these two research results together in such a short period of time.

He picked up the phone and booked a ticket to the train station.

Hubble decided to immediately rush back to the Mount Wilson Observatory in California to make more observations and studies on Chen Muwu's conclusion.

He didn't even want to go to New York for the New Year's Day meeting of the American Astronomical Society, arguing with the old-fashioned astronomical champions about the boring question of whether Andromeda was a nebula or a galaxy.

Obviously, it was the expansion of the universe that attracted his interest more.

Unlike Hubble, most intellectuals who have received systematic education are still not very receptive to the expansion of the universe proposed by Chen Muwu.

The idea that the universe is infinite and unchanging, and the idea that it is static and unchanging, has long been ingrained in their brains, and it is not easy to change it all of a sudden—even though Chen Muwu has listed more than a dozen sets of data to prove it.

……

Chen Muwu's Nobel Prize speech even alarmed religious figures who had been incompatible with science before.

They even divided into two factions for this, one faction criticized Chen Muwu verbally and written, and the other faction believed that the "Pangu process" proposed by Chen Muwu was an excellent proof of God's existence.

Some conservative religious figures believe that Chen Muwu's statement that the origin of the universe is a point with infinite mass and infinitely small volume is completely unreasonable.

As stated in the Book of Genesis, the universe was supposed to be created by God, and it was definitely not the pagan Pangu lying in the egg.

However, some religious people who are flexible and willing to be flexible believe that Chen Muwu's view is not unreasonable, and perhaps this is just a means for God to create the entire universe.

But that Pangu must not exist, and if it does, he can only be an apostle of God.

The Holy See, which has been trapped in tiny Vatican City by the Italian government since the mid-nineteenth century, has even had some voice of its own on the Big Bang theory.

The staff of the Holy See revealed in the official newspaper of the Holy See, the Roman Observer, that Pope Pius XI wanted to invite Dr. Chen Muwu and Dr. Hubble of the United States to visit Vatican City, hoping that they could sit down with the theologians of the Holy See to discuss what the origin and development of the universe were.

Although he has completed all the official Nobel Prize work in Stockholm, Chen Muwu still has no free time to read what is written in the newspaper.

Therefore, he missed the opportunity to understand the dynamics of the British government, not knowing that MacDonald of the Labour Party had stepped down, and his old senior Baldwin at Trinity College re-entered the government at No. 10 Downing Street and formed the second Baldwin cabinet.

It doesn't really matter who is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, the most important thing is that Chen Muwu missed the news that Churchill will be chancellor of the exchequer.

The biggest mistake of the life of this fat British man who loves cigars and scissorhands did not happen during World War II or the judgment that Britain and Ben would never go to war in newspaper headlines, but in the next year, 1925.

In an attempt to restore the British Empire to its former glory before the First World War, Churchill, after becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer, forcibly restored the pound to the gold standard.

This "patriotic act" of his was considered by later generations to be one of the main reasons for the Great Depression of the world economy at the end of the twenties.

But Chen Muwu knew that if the pound returned to the gold standard and the dollar remained on the gold standard, the exchange rate between the two would reach a fixed one pound to four dollars and six cents, much higher than the current real exchange rate.

If he had known the news of Churchill's coming to power, Chen Muwu could have asked his second brother to convert all his net worth into pounds before the fixed exchange rate was implemented, and then he would have made a small amount of wool.

It can only be said that Chen Muwu did not deserve to make this fortune.

The day after he completed the entire Nobel Prize agenda, Prince Gustav Adolf, the crown prince of Sweden, was finally able to have a good chat with the Chinese genius Chen Muwu.

Since Chen Muwu went to Stockholm before, the Swedish crown prince took him and Eve to his home.

It's just that he was afraid of disturbing Chen Muwu's preparation for his Nobel Prize speech, so in so many days, the two of them didn't talk properly.

Even if Prince Gustav Adolf doesn't come to the door, Chen Muwu still has something to ask the Swedish crown prince for help.

The meeting between the two was arranged in a collection room in this villa.

The walls of the collection room are covered with calligraphy and paintings, and the room is filled with blue and white porcelain and bronzes, as well as other artifacts from China.

This scene may be for the Swedish crown prince to express his importance to Chen Muwu.

But it caused some discomfort to Chen Muwu.

Those cultural relics are silently reminding him that although he has made good personal achievements now, the motherland, far away in the East, is still in a situation of "man is a knife and I am a fish and meat".

"Dr. Chen, congratulations again on winning the Nobel Prize in Physics."

A smile squeezed out of Chen Muwu's face: "Thank you, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." ”

"The physical theory you put forward in your speech yesterday is very interesting, especially the Chinese allusion you mentioned called Pangu, which is the first time I have heard of it.

"The ancestors of your country really had the imagination to imagine such a wonderful mythical story.

"And if it is true, as you said, the universe we live in is only from a point at the beginning, then I think the ancestors of the Chinese people may have seen through the mysteries of this universe thousands of years ago."

Chen Muwu knows that the cultural output he has always insisted on is not without any effect.

You see, it's only been a short day, haven't you already caught a "Chinese culture lover"?

"Mr. Chen, I'm becoming more and more curious about the distant China."

Chen Muwu then remembered that after the Paris Olympics, the Swedish crown prince once told him that he wanted to go to China for an investigation-style trip to learn more about oriental culture.

At that time, I persuaded him that it would be better to build a Chinese cultural school in Stockholm, but I don't know what he is thinking about now?

But he was too embarrassed to ask directly, so he could only knock on the side.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, I appreciate your interest in my culture and history. In fact, I have something I want to ask for today.

"I've heard people say that it seems that the islands near Stockholm are actually allowed to be bought and sold privately? A few decades ago, there was an old man named Kang Youwei in our country, who relied on a fraudulent amount of money to buy a small island here. ”

"There is such a thing, Chen. Do you also want to buy an island to build a villa? That Stockholm is definitely a good choice. ”

Prince Gustav Adolf very much hoped that Chen Muwu would stay and be his neighbor.

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I am different from the man named Kang Youwei, not for my own pleasure, but just to buy a small island of moderate size and build a school on the island to help my fellow countrymen learn advanced scientific knowledge.

"As you know, my country is still at war, and at the end of this year they just ended a war with an army that covered several provinces, and in that environment, students simply can't study with peace of mind."

He said that this was also an eye medicine for the Swedish crown prince, reminding him that the land in China was not peaceful, and it was the right thing to cancel the plan to visit China as soon as possible.

"That's why I wondered if I could build such a school abroad.

"I wanted to build such a school in the UK, but after coming to Stockholm to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony, I fell in love with the place and wanted to choose a location for the school.

"I wonder if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can help me with this, introduce government staff who can handle the purchase of the island, and get to know me?"

After hearing Chen Muwu's question, Prince Gustavus Adolf also laughed: "Chen, this is exactly what I want to tell you.

"You advised me not to travel to your country, but at first I didn't think about it. It wasn't until I also read the war you talked about in the newspaper that I felt that your reminder was very reasonable. The guns are merciless, and I don't have to take that risk.

"You also told me at the time that you could use the money from the trip to build a school in Stockholm so that Swedish people can better understand Chinese culture.

"I've been thinking about this proposal lately, and I didn't expect it to coincide with your thoughts today.

"Then why don't we just run a school together? And you don't have to worry about the location of the school and the money needed to build the house, someone is willing to bear all the costs. ”

(Wang.) ）

(End of chapter)