Some people want to use the physicists' conference to increase their country's influence.

Others want to use the reputation of the world's most famous physicists to find a presence for their country.

Since the consecration of Pepin in the 8th century, the Pope has established a theocratic state in this land centered on Rome.

The Papal States lasted until the 19th century, when the Kingdom of Italy annexed Rome and the Holy See, headed by the Pope, retreated to Vatican City.

This state of existence in name only continues to this day.

It was not until 1929 that the bald heads, who had resisted religion, reached a compromise with the Papal States in order to use the prestige of religion in the country to stabilize their rule, and signed the Lateran Treaty with the cardinals, and the Holy See finally recognized the destruction of the Papal States and the establishment of the Vatican State.

Although Chen Muwu does not believe in any religion, he has long been connected with the Pope because of an accident.

It was at the end of 1924 that Chen Muwu broke through at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, saying that the universe is not static and unchanging, but constantly expanding, and it is even possible that at a certain point in time, the entire universe can be condensed to a single point.

At that time, Chen Muwu called this process of expanding from a point with infinite mass and infinite space to the entire universe as the "Pangu process".

If it was in the Middle Ages, the prestige and power of the pope could have been fought in Europe.

Chen Muwu's behavior would be 100% regarded as a heretic.

What else does Pangu say with a big axe to split it inside the egg, the light one rises to the sky, and the turbid one sinks to the ground?

Who is Pangu?

The one who created this world, this earth, and the entire universe is obviously God, okay?

Doesn't the first sentence of the Bible explain this earlier?

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

"The singularity is emptiness and chaos, and all the laws of physics do not apply.

"God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

"He saw that light was good, so he set the speed of light at 299,792,458 m/s and let it remain the same forever, and it would not change because of the change of the frame of reference.

"God calls light in the wavelength range between 0.77 and 0.39 microns 'visible' and light outside this range 'invisible.'

"There is something visible and something is invisible, there is light and there is darkness, this is the first day."

Dare to say that heaven and earth are not created by God but by Pangu, Chen Muwu's blatant pagan behavior will either obediently come to the Papal States to be judged, and finally be hung upside down and burned to death in Campo de la Campo de Campo de la Conce, or stubbornly resist, which will eventually lead to the Crusaders marching north to Stockholm again.

However, the Papal States, which are now in a corner of the city of Rome, have long since existed in name only.

The Pope and his various bishops are terrified every day, for fear that the newly appointed bald prime minister in the Kingdom of Italy who is ruthless in his work will snatch and annex the last piece of land in the hands of the Papal State, Vatican City, and completely turn the Pope into a vase that has been set aside.

They don't dare to speak loud now, even if Chen Muwu makes such pagan remarks, the statement given by the Papal States in Rome is just that they hope to invite Dr. Chen of Cambridge University and Dr. Hubble of the United States to come to Rome together if they have the opportunity to discuss with the relevant theologians of the Holy See what the origin of the universe is.

From the end of 1924 to the end of 1926, nearly two years have passed in a flash.

Capitsa took matters into his own hands and agreed to go to Lake Como, Italy, to attend the conference of physicists to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Volta's death.

The Italian side also promptly published in the newspapers the names of the physicists who had agreed to attend the conference.

People in the Papal States also saw the news from the newspapers, and also saw Chen Muwu's name from the list.

So one person communicates to another, from the lower to the superior.

Two years ago, Chen Muwu was only a Nobel Prize physicist, and the Holy See made that invitation in the newspaper in order to rub off on the popularity of his award.

At that time, Chen Muwu's response was that he had the opportunity to talk about it.

Can't you? That's it. Okay, I didn't really want to invite you, laugh to death. If it weren't for the luck of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, you wouldn't look down on you in normal times, you would be quite average. Hahahahaha funny dead, you're really pretending.

Since the hot face is attached to the cold ass, there is no need to be bored anymore.

The matter of inviting Chen Muwu to visit Rome was put on hold.

No one expected that after two years, the popularity of Chen Muwu, a young descendant, not only did not fade by a point, but became higher and higher with the development of time.

The Holy See, for its part, regretted that it had missed a great opportunity to attract the attention of the world for the Papal States.

The Papal States must be kept in the eyes of the world's parishioners at all times in order to have a glimmer of hope that the last piece of the Vatican will escape the annexation of the Kingdom of Italy.

Thankfully, things are turning around.

Lost in the east, harvested mulberry, now Chen Muwu is about to be invited to Italy, although the place to go is not Rome, but Como, but from Como to Rome is not far away.

And whatever you say this time, you must also invite Chen Muwu to Rome.

That's why they sent a telegram from the Papal States in Rome to Trinity College, Cambridge.

It's a pity that the noble Pope Pius XI still failed to let go of his reserve.

This invitation telegram to Chen Muwu was written in the voice of a purple bishop.

The purple coat cardinal, officially the official name is actually the archbishop, and it is only because of the purple color of the robes he usually wears that he gets this name.

The archbishop is one level lower than the cardinals in red, and ranks third among the clergy in the Papal States.

In the telegram, the archbishop wrote that His Holiness the Pope, although the leader of Catholicism and Christianity throughout the world, was equally interested in the latest developments in science in the world today.

His Majesty the Pope entrusted himself with the transmission of an edict to Chen Muwu, inviting Chen Muwu to go south to Rome after the conclusion of the physicists' conference at Lake Como next spring to meet with His Majesty the Pope and talk about the origin and development of the universe.

Chen Muwu never thought that he could encounter so many things when he stood at the gate of Trinity College and moved his luggage from the truck.

At first, I racked my brains and couldn't figure out who the fifth student was, but after being reminded by Kapitsa, I realized that this person was a good friend I had formed a few years ago, and later became the British Indian Nobel Prize winner in physics, Chandrasekhar.

After thinking about this, Capitsa told him that he had agreed to the invitation to next year's physicists' conference in Como, Italy.

After dealing with so many things, Chen Muwu finally planned to bend down and carry the luggage stacked on the ground to the academy, but the postman came again and sent such a telegram inviting him to Rome.

To be honest, in just a few minutes, listening to Capitsa's brief account of the ins and outs of the Como meeting in Italy, Chen Muwu hadn't decided whether to go or not, and whether he should withdraw the news that he had promised to attend the meeting.

As a result, now, in addition to Como, he has received another invitation from Rome.

Regarding Rome, Voltaire, the first of the three masters of the Enlightenment, who was also a fan of Newton, once had this sharp comment:

"When we reckoned that Newton, Locke, Clarke, and Leibniz were in France, they would be persecuted; In Rome, they were interned; In Lisbon, it was possible to be burned to death. How should we view human rationality? ”

Newton and Leibniz naturally did not say much, and the Locke and Clark mentioned in his words were also British philosophers of the same period as Oxton and Lei.

As a Frenchman, Voltaire was understandable for firing a map cannon in France.

But while he opened France, he also had to pull in Rome under the Pope, as well as Lisbon in Portugal.

This is because Voltaire was fiercely opposed to religion, so it is not surprising that he lashed out at Rome, and that what he said about being interned in Rome is also an extension of the example of Galileo and Bruno being detained and tried by the Roman Inquisition.

But why is Lisbon mentioned in the first place?

The origin of the event was a major earthquake in 1755.

November 1, 1755, is the annual Halloween holiday.

At 9:40 a.m., Catholic faithful are celebrating the festival in a church in Lisbon.

As a result, at this time, a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9 on the Richter scale occurred at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean west of Lisbon, which instantly buried countless Lisbon citizens.

The earthquake not only triggered a tsunami, but also a fire that burned for five days and five nights.

This series of natural and man-made disasters has directly reduced the population of Lisbon by a quarter.

Another consequence of this was that the pioneers of the Enlightenment were more skeptical of the existence of God.

It is said that God loves the world, but why should such a cruel divine punishment be inflicted on such a religious festival?

Voltaire's suggestion that he might burn to death if he went to Lisbon was a reference to the fire that followed the earthquake.

More than 100 years have passed since Voltaire's time, and the power in the hands of the pope is not what it used to be.

Not to mention that Chen Muwu said that the universe was created by Pangu to open up the world, even if Chen Muwu now arrives in Rome, repeats Voltaire's original remarks, directly points at the pope's nose and scolds him as a "two-legged beast", scolds the clergy wearing purple and high hats around Pius XI as "civilized villains", and scolds Catholicism as "the most shameful deceptive net laid by all cunning people", and it is impossible for the Papal States to change the Inquisition that has been renamed the Holy Congregation back to its original name. Come to a three-hall meeting to judge Chen Muwu.

At this critical juncture of life and death, if you are scolded by others, you can scold twice.

As long as Italy does not let the Papal States fall to ruin, and the Pope is expelled from St. Paul's Cathedral like the Emperor of China, or even shot like the Tsar, it is easy to say.

The key is to invite Chen Muwu to Rome, use his scientific prestige, and have a collision of science and theology full of topics to attract attention, so that news readers all over the world will take the opportunity to pay attention to this dying papal state huddled in a corner of Rome.

It is said that the end of science is theology, but I did not expect that the end of theology is still science.

"I remember, you don't seem to have much religion, do you?"

Chen Muwu, who had read the contents of the telegram, was contemplating his eyebrows and thinking about it, when Kapitsa asked coldly.

"Of course not!"

"And that mascot in Rome, what's the matter with sending you a telegram?"

"They want to invite me, after the meeting in Como, to go directly to Rome and meet the Pope and talk to him about physics and the origin of the universe."

"Dr. Chen, I think most of them are trying to use your prestige in physics to prop themselves up. If it were me, I would definitely think twice about it. ”

The bystanders were clear, and Oppenheimer gave his own opinion, so that Chen Muwu, who had never known why the Holy See suddenly got involved, gradually understood their intentions.

"Well, besides, I don't even have to go to Como, let alone Rome, anyway. Forget it, let's move the luggage back first. ”

The handling of many things has finally come to an end for the time being.

Kapitsa happily held the two bottles of Chinese liquor that Oppenheimer had given him, and was the first to rush into Trinity College.

After a long-distance trip that lasted nearly three months, Chen Muwu did not rest for too long in Trinity College.

The day after he returned to Cambridge, he returned to work in the Cavendish Laboratory.

The first thing to do was to find Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft and ask them about the progress of the particle accelerator and why it was finally completed after he had been away for so long.

After learning that there was nothing wrong with the matter, it was only because there was a small problem in the factory that Chen Muwu was relieved.

So he told the two of them to hurry up and make lithium foil to be used as the target metal for the proton bombardment experiment, which had been delayed for too long to drag on any longer.

When it was over, Chen Muwu chatted with Zhao Zhongyao again and asked him about the situation of the three New Chinese compatriots after they came to Cambridge University.

The recipients of his handwritten letters to Wu Dayou, Chen Shiingshen and Wang Ganchang were Zhao and Shi, asking them to help them dredge more, and when they encountered problems, they went to ask Kapitsa to come forward.

After all, if Chen Muwu was not at Cambridge University, then Kapitsa would be Rutherford's favorite student.

Kapitsa is a good friend of Chen Muwu, and Shi Ruwei is working as an assistant to Kapitsa, following him to engage in magnetic research.

Don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, it is reasonable, Chen Muwu's favor, Kapitsa will definitely help.

After dealing with the matter on the particle accelerator side, Chen Muwu returned to the Cavendish laboratory.

Although he was away for months, his office was still a hot scene.

The magpies that had taken over his office, and you don't have to guess to know that they are still the same people.

Although the lecture notes on quantum mechanics have long been printed, the original writers of the lecture notes still regard Chen Muwu's office as their editorial office.

Dirac, a teacher at Cambridge University, talks about the past here.

But Heisenberg and von Neumann, who had been at Cambridge University for nearly half a year from their respective units, still did not seem to have any intention of leaving.

(End of chapter)