Under the dome of the Cambridge University Observatory, everyone has their own thoughts.

Only Chen Muwu, who was temporarily arrested here to act as a mascot, felt that the situation in front of him was very boring.

Although the group of people gathered now, except for him and the annoying Balfour, are the top astronomers in the world.

But Chen Muwu's mind was now full of the Kelvin particle accelerator and the course of linear algebra he was going to take at Cambridge University, and he had no desire to go further in astronomy.

He just wanted to end this pointless visit and get back to Cavendish Labs.

There are still three students locked up in Chen Muwu's office, and I don't know if they will be in a hurry if they suddenly leave without saying goodbye this time.

There is really nothing to visit about an astronomical telescope on a shelf, and almost all workplaces or homes on the site have more than one such thing.

Therefore, Eddington also sent someone in advance to turn out the astronomical negatives of the Yellow Emperor Star taken by Chen Muwu early last year, and arranged them around the telescope one by one.

Fortunately, the time for these exhibits was still limited, and after more than half an hour in the observatory, the journey of discovering the Yellow Emperor Star finally came to an end.

Before leaving, Professor Campbell, president of the International Union of Astronomers, approached Chen Muwu again, left him the address of the American delegation in Cambridgeshire, and invited him to visit the station in a few days.

Chen Muwu didn't take it to heart, he thought that Campbell sang like this, and he must still want to invite himself to the University of California again.

Since others are already so enthusiastic, it is really difficult to refuse, and they can only agree.

After the separation, he was transferred from the observatory back to the laboratory again.

It's not yet six o'clock in the evening, the official closing time of the Cavendish lab, so the three members of the group are still in the lab.

Chen Muwu held the first group meeting of his group today, originally to make a good start for the next particle accelerator work.

As a result, I was washed to pieces by all kinds of things suddenly, and I don't know whether this sign is good or bad.

He temporarily changed his plans for the next week and reassigned the three of them to work.

Chen Muwu hopes that Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft can first understand and fully grasp the structure and principle of this particle accelerator, and do some brainstorming to see if they can come up with a few draft designs for electric motors.

Although he had made a model of the starting motor before, it was only to demonstrate to his teacher Rutherford and persuade him to set up the project, and the simplest and most basic model that he hurriedly made could not be enlarged in equal proportions to become the final finalization of the starting motor.

Chen Muwu assigned Oppenheimer the task of preparing materials and lesson plans for linear algebra.

Last summer, Oppenheimer, who had no hope when he came to Cambridge, learned that his teacher was Chen Muwu, so he made up a handful of linear algebra.

Because Chen Muwu's paper on matrix mechanics published before the Olympic Games was the hottest quantum theory in physics at that time.

It was fitting to hand over the work to Oppenheimer, who had very poor hands-on skills.

As for what Chen Muwu did during this time?

Of course, I went to the general meeting of the Federation of Astronomers, which spanned a whole week!

Today, the bigwigs went to visit the Cambridge University Observatory, which was just a warm-up event before the opening of the conference.

The real opening time of the conference will be tomorrow.

After arranging everything in the laboratory, Chen Muwu vaguely remembered that when he was just sitting on the back seat of his bicycle, Eddington had told him that the Chinese Astronomical Society had also sent someone to attend this year's meeting as an observer.

He wondered if he should go to the organizing committee to find out where his Chinese compatriots lived, and then visit him to do his best as a landlord?

But seeing that it was getting late, and thinking that he would definitely see him again at the opening meeting tomorrow, Chen Muwu was lazy and dispelled this idea.

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Early the next morning, Chen Muwu rushed to the auditorium of St. Peter's College.

This is the largest auditorium of any college at the University of Cambridge that can accommodate the largest number of spectators, so whenever there is a large event in the school, it is basically the venue for the meeting.

In addition to the celestial figures I saw yesterday, many of Chen Muwu's acquaintances also appeared at the meeting.

Tomson Sr., one of the most respected scientists at the University of Cambridge, was also invited to represent the University of Cambridge at the opening ceremony of today's conference.

Rutherford didn't come, and the current director of the Cavendish Laboratory was still more interested in the solar system in the atoms.

Chen Muwu found his place in the last few rows of the venue.

In the chairs labeled "Observer," he saw the only Chinese sitting alone among them.

The yellow people in the venue were not only Chen Muwu and this benevolent brother, but also many people who were short but dressed in an unusually Westernized way sat in the front row.

Ben was one of the seven founding members of the International Federation of Astronomers when it was founded, and it is said that there is also an astronomer who will be elected as the vice president of the Federation.

Chen Muwu said politely "excuse me" as he passed in front of several people who were already sitting in their seats, and finally sat down next to his compatriots.

"Chen Muwu, I don't know what to call a brother?"

"Dr. Chen, Dr. Chen, I have admired the name for a long time!"

Although he already knew that Chen Muwu was going to come to participate in this conference as early as yesterday, after seeing the real person, he was inevitably very excited.

"Zhang Yun is now studying for a doctorate in astronomy at the University of Lyon in France."

The clouds in the name make people immediately think of the sky after hearing them, which is very consistent with his research direction of astronomy.

It turned out to be a doctor studying in France, but he was in Lyon and not in Paris, so Chen Muwu had never met Zhang Yun last year.

When Chinese people declare their homes, they always add their origins in front of their names, and Zhang Yun naturally follows the old practice.

But if it weren't for the strong Dongxiang accent in his Chinese, the place name he said would have caused Chen Muwu to have some misunderstandings.

There is a Kai Ling in Hiroshi, which is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, the Situ big man from Hongmen in the United States, and his hometown is this Kai Ling County.

In the vicinity of Fushan Jiaotong University, where Chen Muwu once went to school, there is also a Kai Ling.

In order to exploit the local coal resources, the Kaiqian Mining Bureau was established here, and it was an enterprise vigorously established during the Westernization Movement of the late Qing Dynasty.

The Tangxu Railway, known as the first railway in China, was also used to transport the coal mined by the Kaitong Mining Bureau to the port of Tianyi, and then load it onto ships and transport it to all parts of the country by sea.

There was a coal mine first, then there was a railway, and finally there was a road and mine school for the railway and coal mine services, which was the predecessor of Fushan Jiaotong University.

His mind was thinking about some messy things, and Zhang Yun, who was dressed as a standard international student in a suit, tie, and round glasses, was still in a very excited state.

Chen Muwu himself may not feel it, but among the Chinese students who are also adrift overseas, he himself is definitely an exemplary existence.

At a young age, they have already achieved a lot of achievements, gained great prestige in the international academic community, and also benefited them a lot as Chinese students abroad.

Zhang Yun's personal experience is that as Chen Muwu became more and more successful and famous, he began to gradually gain the respect of teachers and classmates in the classroom at the University of Lyon, and was no longer regarded as a "yellow plague" as before, and was disliked and despised by others.

Walking around the school, occasionally strangers would come to greet each other and ask Zhang Yun with some curiosity which country he was from.

Before he replied that he was from China, most people would make a mocking statement, and only a very few friendly people would show some disappointment on their faces, and then turn away without saying a word.

But now that he gave the same reply, most of the people talked to him about "do you know that Dr. Chen from Cambridge University", and then had some friendly exchanges.

On the contrary, those international students still proudly declared their nationality as usual, but they received a disappointed expression that they had not seen before.

Before the meeting opened, Chen Muwu and Zhang Yun chatted a few more words together.

Because Zhang Yun was closest to the United Kingdom and was a student specializing in astronomy, he was sent by the Chinese Astronomical Society to participate in this conference, and he also remitted a special amount of travel expenses, which was a special donation from honorary member Ke Hongnian for this conference.

Zhang Yun said that he had written a letter to Chen Muwu last year, congratulating him on the discovery of the ninth planet, the Yellow Emperor Star, which boosted the morale of the Chinese people.

Chen Muwu thought about it, he did receive a lot of congratulatory letters from home and abroad last year because of this matter, and at the beginning he replied enthusiastically one by one, but later because there were too many letters, he only picked up a few replies from key people.

Zhang Yun said that after receiving the notice this time, the first thing that came to mind was still him.

As a result, the letter he wrote was once again lost in the sea, which once made him think that Chen Muwu had left Cambridge University and sought another job elsewhere.

Xiao Chen's face turned red after hearing this, and he quickly explained that he was really embarrassed to basically do experiments in London for the first half of the year.

As he spoke, Ralph Fowler, the only professor of theory in the Cavendish Laboratory, stepped up to the podium, and as the host, he was the host of the opening ceremony, and announced the opening of the plenary session.

The eldest brother doesn't laugh at the second brother, and there is nothing new in the world's conferences.

Under the chairmanship and guidance of R. Fowler, the Earl of Belfort, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, was the first to speak on stage.

He first humbled himself, saying that he was just a politician and that he was nowhere near as much of a scientific scientist as his predecessor, Rayleigh III.

Then Balfour began to blow rainbow farts at the International Federation of Astronomers, praising these astronomers for their achievements in astronomical research in the past three years: the discovery of the Yellow Emperor, the discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way, the discovery of the expansion of the universe......

Chen Muwu felt that what he mentioned seemed familiar.

After Balfour's speech, Campbell, president of the International Union of Astronomers, took the podium again.

Coming and not being rude, Cambridge University has been supervising astronomical research for half a year, and he, the president, has to blow about the host Cambridge University.

Campbell's speech was apparently prepared in advance, and he said that the conference was chosen at Cambridge University as a kind of pilgrimage to Sir Newton, a predecessor in physics and astronomy.

Galileo invented the refracting telescope, while the reflecting telescope was born at Cambridge University.

In addition to reflecting telescopes, spectroscopes were used for the first time at the University of Cambridge to study spectra.

The study of the dynamics of the movement of celestial bodies was also born at the University of Cambridge.

And all of the above is the work of Sir Newton alone.

Campbell then changed the subject, saying that the venue for the second conference had been chosen for the first meeting three years earlier, but in the intervening three years, the University of Cambridge had made many contributions to the development of astronomy......

Chen Muwu was not surprised to be praised by name again, and the old Tomson who sat in the first row of the audience listened to the speech, pondering that he was not the only one who connected Sir Newton and Chen Muwu, and then remembered his previous reincarnation theory.

After Campbell finished speaking, Gins, president of the Royal Astronomical Society, took the stage again.

The two-year term has expired, and the Danish astronomer at Oxford University, whom Chen met at the Greenwich Observatory, has stepped down as president of the Royal Astronomical Society.

He was succeeded by Sir James Kings, who had previously worked with Rayleigh III to calculate the Rayleigh-Kings formula and discover the ultraviolet disaster, and he was also a graduate of Trinity College.

When Kings finished speaking, it was A. Fowler, the secretary general of the federation, and A. Fowler finished speaking, and replaced it with someone else.

In short, at the opening ceremony on the first day, different people took turns to give speeches.

In addition to the smell and longness of these people's speeches, only the smell and length remained, which made Chen Muwu sleep beautifully all day in the auditorium of St. John's College.

After the opening ceremony, Chen Muwu made up his mind to skip the next few days' report meetings, and wait until the final election to admit new members, and then he showed up to stand for the Chinese Astronomical Society.

He took advantage of the past few days to prepare the linear algebra course that he was going to teach next.

Chen Muwu also paid a visit to the hotel where the US delegation was staying at the time agreed with Campbell.

After a polite pleasant greeting, Campbell handed him an envelope.

Chen Muwu thought it was, and the envelope contained a letter of appointment to teach at the University of California.

But when he took it, he found that the envelope was printed with the emblem of Harvard University.

Chen Muwu looked at Campbell in confusion, could it be that the president of the University of California wants to make a wedding dress for others?

The latter didn't say a word, but smiled and motioned for him to open the envelope and see what it contained.

The envelope contained a check in addition to a piece of elaborate letterhead with floral characters.

The amount indicated on the check was as much as $10,000.

(End of chapter)