It is difficult to say that when Chen Muwu explained the principle of the motor, he suddenly said something praising the ancients, whether it was an accidental whim, or it was deliberately done after seeing the old Tom Sun quietly enter the door.

However, the physicist he most wanted to bring up in these words was not Newton, not Maxwell, nor Cavendis, but Lord Kelvin at the very beginning.

If these famous British physicists are calculated by the traditional teacher-teacher relationship in China, then Rutherford is Chen Muwu's master, and Rutherford's master, Tom Sun, is Chen Muwu's master.

Old Thomson's master was Lord Rayleigh III, and Rayleigh III's master was none other than Kelvin.

If you substitute it into the sentence "a teacher for one day, a father for life", then Rutherford is Chen Muwu's father, Tom Sun Sr. is his grandfather, Rayleigh III is his great-grandfather, and Kelvin is his great-grandfather.

Chen Muwu mainly crossed over a little late, and by the time he came to this world in 1922, Rayleigh III had already died for three years, not to mention Kelvin who died fifteen years ago.

So in his vein, Chen Muwu has only seen his master Tom Sun.

Rutherford was a little lucky, not only did he meet his master, Rayleigh III, but he also had a few encounters with Kelvin.

Rutherford left New Zealand for England in 1895 and studied at Cambridge University for two years before being recommended by Tomson Sr. to McGill University in Canada in 1898, before returning to England again in 1909.

Although Kelvin lived until 1907, the two did not meet many times or more.

In 1904, Rutherford, who was on a business trip from Canada to England, was invited to give a lecture on radioactivity at the Royal Society.

In his speech, Rutherford intended to talk about the huge amount of energy produced by radioactivity, and the high temperature of the Earth's interior, which is precisely because of the continuous radioactive reactions in it, which obtain energy.

The reason why he brought up this matter in a lecture on radioactivity is because the topic of the age of the earth has always been a hot topic in academic circles.

Ever since Newton, people have wondered how long the earth has been old.

Newton's solution was to find an iron ball with a diameter of one inch, heat it to a red-hot state, and then cool it to room temperature, and measure the time it takes to cool this process.

Finally, the data of the earth was substituted into the iron ball, and the life span of the earth was estimated to be 50,000 years.

Later, when he came to Kelvin, he was also interested in this question, and after some thermodynamic calculations, he gave the answer 98 million years, but also gave a large margin of error, 20 million to 400 million years.

After arriving at the venue of the Royal Society, Rutherford was directly dumbfounded, he did not expect that Kelvin, who was in his eighties, would sit directly in the first row of the venue and come to listen to his lecture.

Kelvin was one of the most respected in the British physics and even science community at the time, and his canonization of Lord status made him the first scientist to enter the House of Lords of the British Parliament.

In comparison, Rutherford at that time was unremarkable, and could only be regarded as one of the disciples of Kelvin's second disciples.

He didn't dare to say in front of Kelvin that because radioactivity produces heat, Kelvin's previous estimate of the age of the earth was not accurate.

It wasn't until Calvin closed his eyes, thinking that he was too old to hold on and fall asleep, that Rutherford dared to mention the age of the earth in his speech.

Who knew that Kelvin wasn't asleep at all, he was just closing his eyes and recuperating.

When he heard this, his eyes widened directly, which scared Rutherford into a cold sweat.

Fortunately, Chen Muwu's teacher was clever enough to immediately give an explanation that was not very tenable, but it sounded very useful to others.

But this does not mean that Lord Kelvin's thesis is wrong.

In that paper, Lord Kelvin also pointed out that the thermodynamic dating method in the paper is only correct if there is no new source of heat in the Earth's interior.

"In other words, it was Lord Kelvin who first predicted the existence of radioactive phenomena!"

The old man smiled with satisfaction, and Rutherford breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the smile.

Although the radioactive phenomenon was discovered by the old rivals, the French, the British did not hype up Kelvin as the first person to propose radioactivity because of Rutherford's words.

Rutherford was afraid of Kelvin, but old Thomson was not at all afraid of his master, on the contrary, he was very grateful to him.

The Cavendish Laboratory, originally called the Devon Laboratory, was funded by William Cavendis, then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and the 7th Duke of Devonshire.

During the establishment of the laboratory, the Duke of Devonshire approached William Thomson, who later became Lord Calvin, but he had not yet received the canonization, so he could not be called by the title.

Thomson was not interested in becoming the director of the laboratory, so the Duke of Devonshire went to Helmholtz, Germany's most famous physicist, who was also not interested in the directorship.

In this way, the first director of the laboratory took the turn of Maxwell, who was not too famous at the time, and while studying the manuscript, he discovered the greatness of Henry Cavendis.

In honor of the buried physicist, and his generous patron relative, Maxwell's suggestion that the name of the laboratory was changed from Devon to Cavendish in cardinish.

After Maxwell's untimely death, the University of Cambridge approached Rayleigh III, an alumnus of Trinity College, to succeed him as the second director of the Cavendish laboratory.

But at the time, Rayleigh III had a better alternative as a professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institute.

The Cavendish Laboratory, a start-up grass platform team, is certainly not as attractive as the Royal Research Institute, which bears the royal name.

However, his alma mater asked him for help, and it was difficult for Rayleigh III to refuse this request.

So he was ordered to make a five-year contract with Cambridge University, that is, he, a firefighter, would be the director of the Cavendish laboratory for five years to help the laboratory get on the right track.

When the time came, he stepped down from his position and went to London to pursue a better development.

Five years later, Rayleigh III left Cambridge for London, and the Cavendish Laboratory was once again faced with the question of a director.

However, before Rayleigh III left, he recommended his student, the twenty-eight-year-old Tomson Sr., to the Cambridge University Review Committee to take over as the third director of the Cavendish laboratory.

And the young old Tomson also ignorantly followed the teacher's advice and wrote an application letter.

He was joined by two of Rayleigh III's lieutenants in the laboratory, Osborne Reynolds and Richard Glaissbrook.

Old Tomson was finally able to enter the Cavendish laboratory, which surprised everyone.

Only he knew that this matter was actually driven by his master with the same surname as himself, the respected Lord Kelvin.

He told his student Rayleigh III that he wanted to give young people some chance, and his young man, Joseph, seemed to be doing well.

Rayleigh III relayed Kelvin's words to the Cambridge University Review Committee, and the young old Tomson became the third director of the laboratory.

He followed the example of his two predecessors, Maxwell and Rayleigh III, and under his leadership, the Cavendish Laboratory also flourished.

Without Kelvin's insight, the elder Thomson would have been a lecturer at Trinity College, and after spending time at Cambridge University, he would probably have returned to his hometown of Manchester to find a professorship at Victoria.

Without the Cavendish Laboratory, without the old Thomson, it would never have reached the status it is today.

In this room today, I heard him accidentally mention his master, Lord Kelvin, which made old Tomson's mind in a trance.

As Chen Muwu said, the development of physics is inseparable from the inheritance of generations of physicists.

If it weren't for his master, Lord Calvin, who recommended him to his master, Rayleigh III, he would not have served as the director of the Cavendish laboratory, and since then he has risen to prominence, becoming a fellow of the Royal Society, discovering electrons, winning the Nobel Prize in physics, being elected president of the Royal Society, and becoming the president of his alma mater, Trinity College.

And if Rutherford hadn't recommended Chen Muwu to him at the beginning, he would not have come here from distant China, let alone achieved so many achievements outside of physics and physics.

Old Tomson looked at Chen Muwu, who was talking eloquently in front of a machine model, and his eyes were full of the shadow of his young man, who was doing experiments with his teacher Rayleigh III in this laboratory.

Was this model of the machine also inspired by Lord Kelvin?

"Sir Tomson, long time no see."

After speaking, Chen Muwu stood up from the chair behind his desk, several students also stood up and turned their heads, and Oppenheimer, who had a relationship with Old Tom Sun, nodded to his old man.

"Chen, you said that this thing was inspired by the drip motor, so this is also a kind of electrostatic machine?"

Old Tom Sun was not polite to him at all, but went straight to the point and asked Chen Muwu directly about the model in front of him.

"Sir, yes, it's an electrifying machine, and it's powered now, look at this fluttering note......"

What followed was a very detailed explanation of the principle, and the old Tomson listened very carefully.

"I see, Lord Kelvin's drip starter relies on water droplets to carry charges into the bucket from top to bottom. And your new type of starter reverses this process, and at the same time replaces the carrier of the charge from a water droplet to a silk ribbon, allowing it to transport the charge from the bottom up. Yours is a smart brain, and you can always come up with such new and useful ideas!

"Did Ernest also ask you to design this machine?"

"Yes, sir, the teacher asked me to design a particle accelerator, and I plan to use this method to obtain an electrostatic high voltage to accelerate charged particles."

"In the Cavendish experiment?"

"No, it should be in another vacant lot in Cambridgeshire, after all, it is very dangerous to raise the voltage to one million volts, and there is no space in this building."

"How much? A million volts? ”

"Yes, one million volts, I plan to make one to practice first, and if it succeeds, I will build a higher electric potential in the future."

This number still gave the old Thomson a little shock, he knew that the kind of drip engine designed by Lord Kelvin, because of the limitations of various factors, the potential difference generated by that machine was basically around a few thousand volts.

If it had been made more precisely, it would have increased the potential difference by an order of magnitude, but compared to one million volts, there is still a difference of two decimal places between the two.

Although the model in Chen Muwu's hand was successful, would it still succeed after magnifying it dozens of times?

Although Old Tomson didn't know the answer to this question, he still hoped that Chen Muwu would succeed.

"Do you have enough money?"

If Chen Muwu can't hear it anymore, then he is really a fool.

Old Tomson is clearly going to help him get some more money!

"Sir Rutherford has given me two thousand five hundred pounds, and although I don't know if it is enough, whether I will succeed in building a particle accelerator, I will have to try it to find out. And the Cavendish lab has always been poor, but we still have achieved so much! ”

The expression on Chen Muwu's face was very sad.

"Listening to what you just said, I think this particle accelerator is very important, and there must be no mistakes. Dr. Chen, how about I help you allocate an extra amount of money from the hospital? ”

Being the dean is different, Rutherford is still saving money in various ways, and wants to break a penny in half to spend it, but old Tomson can take money directly from Trinity College in a grand manner.

"By the way, Dr. Chen, did you choose a name for this machine?"

Chen Muwu originally planned to call it Chen's Motor, but before he could speak, Old Tomson was already asking himself on the other side.

"Since you said that you were inspired by Lord Kelvin to improve this machine from his drip motor, if it doesn't have a name, I think it might as well be called the Kelvin-Chen Motor!"

Old Tom Sun's tone looked like he was discussing with Chen Muwu, but in fact, he couldn't be rejected by others at all.

He may have remembered Kelvin's kindness to him, and wanted to commemorate his master in this way.

But as a great physicist, there is no shortage of formulas, laws, and various things named after Kelvin in his name, including but not limited to the Kelvin formulation of the second law of thermodynamics in thermodynamics, the Kelvin temperature scale, the Joule-Thomson effect, Thomson's law in electrostatics, as well as Kelvin equilibrium, Kelvin spheres, ...... And so on and so forth.

Old Tom Sun's move is actually just to seek a kind of psychological comfort for himself.

Ordinary people are likely to be upset when they are robbed of their naming rights.

However, for Chen Muwu, there was nothing unhappy in his heart.

Because in the past and in the future, there will also be many formulas and laws named after him.

This hoisting motor is not too much, and one less is not less.

On the contrary, he was glad that the elder Tomson had chosen such a name for the machine, associating himself with a great physicist.

But Chen Muwu didn't expect that the surprise that Old Tomson brought him was more than that.

"Sir Thomson, this machine does not have a name yet, and I have no objection to the name you have taken."

"That's good, that's good, Lord Kelvin had no children after his death, so he and his wife both died and left a large inheritance, many of which were donated to the Royal Society, and a 'Lord Kelvin Fund' was formed.

"Dr. Chen, since this machine is called Kelvin-Chenqi Motor, do you have time to go to the Royal Society with me recently? Maybe you can pay a sum out of this fund.

"With this money, combined with funding from Ernest and a grant from Trinity College, it will probably be a lot easier for you to work at Cambridge."

(End of chapter)