Although Chen Muwu refused for a long time, he finally reluctantly sat on the back seat of Eddington's bicycle under Eddington's repeated "invitations" in a tone that could not be refused.

In order to prevent himself from falling off the saddle of the bicycle, Chen Muwu also held Eddington's waist tightly.

The classic scene in the movie "Roman Holiday" was staged in Cambridgeshire in advance, but unfortunately it was not Audrey Hepburn sitting in the back seat, but a gentleman on a bicycle, but not Gregory Peck.

During this iron horse trip from the Cavendish Laboratory to the Cambridge University Observatory, Chen Muwu gave a rough picture of the cause and effect of the incident from Eddington's mouth.

In the summer of 1919, astronomers from seven countries, Belgium, Canada, France, Great Britain, Greece, Ben and the United States, after attending the preparatory meeting of the International Research Council in Brussels, jointly established an organization called the International Federation of Astronomers, whose main purpose was to promote and preserve astronomy in all aspects through international cooperation.

When Chen Muwu discovered the Yellow Emperor Star before, Eddington was the first to inform the Federation of the situation on his behalf.

It was also because of this incident that the Federation also held an impromptu meeting and finally agreed to name the new planet after the Yellow Emperor.

The International Union of Astronomers (IUD) has agreed to hold a general meeting every three years to allow astronomers from all over the world to inform each other of the latest research results.

The first meeting was held in Rome, the capital of Italy, in May 1922.

Three years had passed since then, and the second general meeting was held in Cambridgeshire, England.

It stands to reason that Chen Muwu, as the world's most famous astronomer and astrophysicist, will definitely be invited to attend this general meeting.

But in the matter of his invitation, there was a big oolong.

Previously, the reason why Eddington notified the International Federation of Astronomers about the discovery of new planets in the solar system on behalf of Chen Muwu was because although China had established an astronomical society at that time, it was not associated with the International Federation of Astronomers, so it was not qualified to send news to the Federation.

Chen Muwu was not a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, a member association of the Federation, at that time, so he was not qualified to send a message to the International Federation of Astronomers.

It was only after this that he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, which qualified to attend this year's General Assembly of the International Federation of Astronomers.

At the beginning, the invitation letter was also sent to Chen Muwu through the Royal Astronomical Society.

But at this time, the Chinese Astronomical Society also found an organization, got in touch with the International Federation of Astronomers, and will send people to London as an observer to attend the second plenary meeting.

At this point, it became a procedural question which side to invite Chen Muwu: although Chen Muwu was a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, he was not British after all.

In the end, the federation decided to send a letter to the Chinese Astronomical Society to invite Chen Muwu to attend the meeting.

Formally, it must go through such a form, and it's a big deal to notify him in private.

After all, both Eddington and Rutherford's son-in-law, Fowler, would have attended this second conference, and they were both hosts of Cambridge University, and were responsible for preparing for this conference in Cambridgeshire.

Although the Chinese Astronomical Society contacted the International Federation of Astronomers, this Chen University astronomer was not a member of the Chinese Astronomical Society.

When he was in China, he only gave a lecture once at Shao University, and there were very few professionals who actually listened to the scientific content of that lecture, and most of them came to have fun.

Therefore, Chen Muwu's true level has not been shown, and it has nothing to do with astronomy, so naturally it has not been able to connect with Chinese astronomy.

In addition, in the past six months, Chen Muwu has been in the David Faraday Laboratory in London, and he has only a handful of time in Cambridge, and he did not know that they were preparing to hold an astronomy conference.

With Eddington and Fowler, things are even more chaotic.

Eddington thought that Fowler would be in Cavendish every day, because his office was here, and he would definitely meet Chen Muwu very often, and naturally he would inform him of such a thing.

Fowler, on the other hand, thought that Eddington had a better relationship with Chen Muwu, and would definitely come to him as soon as Chen Muwu returned to Cambridge University.

Everyone thought that the other party would do such a thing, but as a result, no one could do it well.

When it was time to sign in the conference the day before the opening, someone finally realized that something was wrong.

The staff prepared an invitation for Chen Muwu to attend a more high-level banquet, but was told that the Chinese Astronomical Society had only sent him alone, not Chen Muwu - and although Chen Muwu was now the most famous Chinese scientist in the world, he was not a member of the Chinese Astronomical Society.

This was embarrassing, and the staff hurriedly reported it layer by layer, and finally reported it to Eddington.

Eddington was preparing for the next event, and when he heard about it, he immediately put down all the work at hand, pedaled his bicycle and rushed to the Cavendish laboratory.

After talking about these things, Eddington did not forget to complain to Chen Muwu, complaining that his junior Fowler, a junior from Trinity College, was unreliable.

"This Ralph is really, in the laboratory every day, but he has never informed you of such a big event?"

"Well, Professor Eddington, I've been in the Cavendish lab these days, but I've always been in my room, and I haven't seen much, and I've never met Professor Fowler, so don't wrong him. Since the conference hasn't started yet, and I know about it, it's not too late, is it? ”

Eddington could scold Fowler, but Chen Muwu couldn't agree, so he could only share part of the responsibility on himself and become a peacemaker between the two senior brothers.

After a bumpy journey, the two finally arrived at the destination of this trip.

Sitting on the back seat of the bicycle made of welded metal tubes, his young old waist was almost broken.

Chen Muwu once again sighed that Eddington was able to brush Eddington's number E to 84 under such car and road conditions, which is a remarkable feat.

It's a common misconception that going from 80 to 84 would take four more rides to travel more than 84 miles in a single day.

In fact, the E went from 80 to 84, and in the worst case scenario, it would take another eighty-four rides of more than 84 miles in a single day, that is, starting from scratch.

"Professor Eddington, your riding skills are very good, but the experience of riding your bicycle is really not complimentary.

"After this period of time, I'm done with the Cavendish lab, so I'll help you upgrade this bike, how about it?"

However, Chen Muwu didn't plan to do it himself, so he could only draw a few drawings at most, and then find a craftsman to help him get a shock absorber on the bicycle.

If possible, add a gearing system.

Eddington did not doubt Chen Muwu's hands-on ability, and anyone who could do experiments in Cavendish Laboratory for several years would not be too bad at his hands.

After graduating from Trinity College, he entered the Cavendish Laboratory, where he studied thermal radiation under Tomson Sr. for a while.

But Eddington himself was not good at fiddling with the machines on the laboratory table, so a few days after entering the laboratory, he was persuaded by the elder Tomson to retire, and had to run to the Greenwich Observatory in London to analyze the parallax of the asteroid Eros.

It was Eddington's first exposure to astronomy, and the selection of Thomson Sr. gave the Cavendish Laboratory one less inactive staff member, but also one more outstanding astronomer in Britain.

He just didn't understand that his own bike was already the best bike on the market in the UK, and Chen Muwu said that if he wanted to upgrade him, what could it be upgraded to?

Chen Muwu simply told him his thoughts, using hard springs to slightly increase the riding comfort of bumpy road sections, and then using gear sets to make riding more labor-saving when going up and down slopes.

Eddington nodded, thinking that he could give it a try.

"But, Professor Eddington, don't you just have to inform me today? Why did you bring me here? ”

At the end of the explanation, Chen Muwu raised his own questions.

Now in front of him is the Cambridge University Observatory, which has been absent for nearly two years.

The telescope dome not far away is where he first discovered the Yellow Emperor Star.

"Well, Dr. Chen, that's what happened. In the past, when we held academic exchange events at the University of Cambridge, we would organize participants to visit Trinity College and Cavendish Laboratory to take people to experience first-hand the places where Sir Newton and Professor Maxwell worked.

"Originally, we wanted to take them to the two places mentioned above in accordance with the usual practice in this meeting.

"However, after all, all the astronomers who came to the meeting this time were there, and our Cambridge University Observatory had recently made a major astronomical discovery, so we temporarily moved the place of our visit here.

"And the reason why I invited you here so urgently is because I want you to be the guest of honor for this visit."

The major event that Eddington's mouth did not specify was the discovery of the Yellow Emperor Star by Chen Muwu.

This is indeed a hot topic in astronomy recently, but at the end of last year, Chen Muwu first mentioned in his Nobel speech that Andromeda is outside the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is not the whole picture of the universe, and then pointed out that the universe is not static and constantly expanding, astronomers' eyes are cast on a wider place above everyone's heads.

Either way, the discovery of Planet X, which astronomers have been looking for for decades, is a big deal.

Now that they have come to Cambridge University, they must always visit the place where the Yellow Emperor Star was discovered.

When Chen Muwu visited the observatory, the director of the Observatory at the University of Copenhagen, Stromgren, once imagined that if Chen Muwu discovered the tenth planet of the solar system there, he would set up a sign next to the telescope to indicate that it was the "tenth planet discovery site", and then let astronomy enthusiasts and tourists from all over the world buy tickets to visit and earn a certain fee to supplement the observatory's expenses.

Although the first half of his vision unfortunately did not come true, the second half became a reality at the Cambridge University Observatory.

Eddington did this time, but as an English gentleman, he was not embarrassed to take money from his astronomy colleagues from all over the world.

After the two arrived at the observatory, they took a little rest and recuperation, and then ushered in a small visiting group.

Chen Muwu felt that this delegation should be made up of some big people who came to the conference, because he found that the people who accompanied them were actually Arthur Balfour, the Chancellor of Cambridge University.

Lord Balfour was also an aristocratic student who went straight from Eton College to Trinity College, Cambridge University, served as British Prime Minister for three years from 1903 to 1905, served as Secretary of State for the Navy and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in World War I, and then served as Secretary of State for Irish Affairs.

Although cruel to the Irish in his own country, Balfour was very supportive of the Jews.

The Balfour Declaration, which bears his name, is a public pledge by the government to endorse the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, and is the source of the Middle East's troubles for decades to come.

Obichi signed this declaration in the hope that the wealthy Jews would financially support the Allied powers who were fighting against the Central Powers.

After being introduced by Eddington, Chen Muwu learned that this was the school supervisor he had met for the first time.

However, Chen Muwu was not interested in this person, because at the Paris Peace Conference after the end of World War I, Belfort also appeared.

For the Chinese, Balfour was a villain, and in order to win more benefits for Britain, he began to talk nonsense, saying that China did not spend a shilling for the war, and did not kill a person.

This completely ignores the contribution of those Chinese laborers on the battlefield of World War I!

After returning to England after the peace conference, Balfour even unloaded the mill and killed the donkey, and immediately sent the Chinese workers back to China under the pretext that they were "obstructing local stability".

When he didn't make it, he had only read a few vague sentences in his history books when he was in school, saying that China had been treated unfairly at the Paris Peace Conference, so diplomats refused to sign the peace treaty as a sign of displeasure.

It was not until Xie Dongfa, who was the leader of the Chinese delegation in France and who had served as an external correspondent of Ta Kung Pao during the Paris Peace Conference, who had been the leader of the Chinese delegation in Paris last year, told him about these dirty things in international relations, that Chen Muwu experienced such a humiliating period of modern history.

Under Eddington's introduction, Chen Muwu politely shook hands with Belfort.

Then before the school supervisor could begin to praise him, Chen Muwu said directly with some impoliteness: "Lord Balfour, it's a pleasure to meet you!" I wonder if I, as a Chinese, should also be immediately deported and repatriated? ”

(End of chapter)