One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion.

When he first went to the editorial office of the Annals of Physics, Einstein was looking forward to Chen Muwu's latest paper.

As a result, I didn't wait for the first time, and I didn't wait for the second time......

waited and waited, but only waited for a fun news about Chen Muwu from the UK.

In this way, Christmas and New Year passed, and Einstein's enthusiasm was eaten out by time.

He also stopped going in and out of Planck's editorial office at the magazine, and it was the latter who eventually called Einstein to tell him that he had received the lab paper from Cambridge University.

In fact, when I first read the paper, Planck didn't react, this mailing address is Cavendish Laboratory, and the paper with the names of two eye-catching people on the author column is the one that Chen Muwu promised to himself and Einstein.

It wasn't until he finished reading the content of the paper, which was a nuclear reaction completed by artificially accelerating particles, and at the end of the reaction, he verified the mass-energy equation through calculations, and at the end of the paper, he read a letter of recommendation written by Chen Muwu, that Planck understood that this was the one Dr. Chen was talking about.

For the first time to complete an artificial nuclear reaction, this paper is also not low.

To be able to publish it in the Annals of Physics is a shot in the arm for this journal that has fallen behind in the competition.

In his mind, Planck had already confirmed that he wanted to publish the paper as a cover article, and he did not forget to call Einstein quickly, call someone to his office, and then show it off.

When he received Planck's call, Einstein still looked like he had lost his passion.

You said that Dr. Chen, it is understandable that he is a little younger, and it is understandable that he likes to be in the limelight, but he is not good at studying physics, and what do you do if you always like to engage in some crooked ways?

Rather than exploring where a lost home has gone, it is better to have this time to patiently study physics and strive to make more and greater new achievements.

Like Planck, Einstein first saw the Cavendish laboratory in the mailing address bar, and then saw two unfamiliar names.

He should have seen his question, so before he could speak, Planck, who was sitting behind his desk, replied: "No need to read it, these two people are students of Dr. Chen, and the entire experiment, including this paper, was completed under his guidance." ”

Einstein continued to read suspiciously, and he found that most of the paper was about the superiority of particle accelerators and how to use this machine to accelerate protons and complete the first artificial nuclear reaction in human history, protons and lithium nuclei to split into two alpha particles.

In fact, the paper is already a qualified academic paper written here, and as long as it works well, it will have no problem impacting the Nobel Prize in recent years.

However, at the end of the paper, another paragraph was added, using the data that is now known, to calculate the conversion of mass and energy.

In this paragraph, the icing on the cake verifies his own mass-energy equation.

Einstein could see at a glance that this was definitely Chen Muwu's handiwork.

Only he could have made such a miracle and celebrated the results of the experiment without forgetting to see something new in it.

No wonder before the experiment was completed, Chen Muwu wrote to himself, saying that he would be able to verify the correctness of the mass-energy equation immediately.

"Dr. Chen has done another amazing experiment!"

Putting down the manuscript of the paper in his hand, Einstein couldn't help but sigh to Planck.

"Yes, you say how did I let such a genius go and watch him go to England in the first place?"

Planck's tone was full of regret, which Einstein also felt.

He regretted again that the communication between himself and Planck was not good, so that he sent Chen Muwu to London instead of recruiting him to Berlin.

If Chen Muwu had entered the University of Berlin at the beginning, Einstein would have felt that he would be able to help him rectify this bad problem of being in the limelight.

Moreover, the climate in Germany is much better than in England, there are not so many newspapers competing with each other for sales, and there are not so many unscrupulous journalists who will do anything for the news.

Chen Muwu must have been immersed in the unhealthy atmosphere in Britain for a long time, which is why he was infected with so many bad habits.

Alas, it would be nice if people could go back in time, as Dr. Chan said.

Planck was naturally happy to pick up a good paper, and Einstein was only an advocate of the reviewer model of the Journal of Physics, and had nothing to do with the operation of the journal itself, so he did not feel sad that he missed a paper.

Cutting his gaze back to the Cavendish laboratory, the novelty of becoming the acting director of the laboratory in the first few days has completely disappeared, and now Chen Muwu is busy because of various major and minor affairs.

Professors, teachers, staff, and students in the laboratory, both old and young, will make an appointment with Chen Muwu to meet and chat with anyone who has a new experimental idea.

Of course, there are also people who are afraid of Rutherford's majesty, and at the same time don't look down on Chen Muwu, a young man, and think that he can take this opportunity to fish in troubled waters and defraud a sum of money from the acting director's side.

In addition to meeting with these experimenters who are asking for money every day, Chen Muwu also has to hold meetings with other laboratory executives every now and then to summarize the development of the laboratory in the past period of time, and then plan and look forward to the next research direction.

However, this last point is not difficult for Chen Muwu, the Cavendish laboratory has just spent a lot of money to build a particle accelerator, and the main research direction in the future is of course to design experiments around this machine.

Probably the teacher Rutherford also saw this, so he chose to leave home during this time period, and he estimated that Chen Muwu should not be able to do anything.

really asked Rutherford to guess correctly, Chen Muwu was in charge of the laboratory step-by-step, and seemed to have completely forgotten the cyclotron that burned money endlessly.

- Of course, this is not because Chen Muwu has lost his passion, but because he has no money, or the laboratory has no money.

There is another reason for this, and that is his selfish desire to keep the cyclotron in Sweden.

Only by manufacturing the most advanced equipment in the world in the shortest possible time did he have a chance to make a name for himself in the academic world at that school in Sweden.

In addition to the day-to-day management work that Rutherford has been doing for many years, the director of the Cavendish laboratory has to face all kinds of unexpected situations.

For example, colleagues from all over the world who came to Cambridge to visit the laboratory, according to the identity of the other party, Chen Muwu occasionally had to come forward to receive them.

Every day, he has to face countless jobs when he wakes up, which makes the acting director deeply aware that the management position is the grave of scientific research, and also makes him admire the wisdom of the former leader of the laboratory, Rayleigh III.

Fortunately, the research that Chen Muwu wanted to do had already been assigned to Zhao Zhongyao's group and Dirac's group, and with these right-hand men, Cambridge University would not be disadvantaged in the physics competitions of various universities and research institutions around the world.

Today's Director Chen is still busy with the reception work, and this time the guest is an old man who has written to each other before, made telegrams, but has never met, Dr. Hubble of the Mount Wilson Observatory in the United States.

Although Hubble was the first astronomer in the world to observe and calculate the position of the constellation Andromeda, he also asked Chen Muwu to mention his achievement at the Nobel Prize ceremony, and deduced that our universe may be in the process of expansion.

But when a new theory is proposed, it is always necessary to give others who are complacent to accept it.

It may seem like a long time, but in fact it has only been two years since Hubble proposed this result.

Therefore, the International Federation of Astronomers, which was held in Cambridge before, did not send an invitation to the conference to Hubble, a "marginal astronomer" far away in the United States.

So today, this time is really the first time that Chen Muwu has met Dr. Hubble, who has been friends with him for a long time.

To be honest, Hubble was able to cross the ocean and come to the UK this time, thanks to Chen Muwu.

Of course, it is not that Chen Muwu, who became the acting director, abused his power and spent the funds of the laboratory to invite his old acquaintance to visit the UK, but it was a long story.

Knowing that Chen Muwu was going to Italy to attend the Como Conference in March this year, the Papal States wanted to invite him to Rome.

And that was not the first time that the Holy See had expressed its favor to Chen Muwu, as early as when Chen Muwu received the Nobel Prize in Sweden and put forward the idea of the expansion of the universe and the opening of the world by Pangea, the Papal States quickly reacted and issued a statement inviting Chen Muwu and Hubble to Rome to discuss the connection between science and religion.

Chen Muwu is going to Rome this spring, so naturally he can't favor one over the other, and the Holy See also sent an invitation to Hubble, who is trapped in the United States, and promised to bear the travel expenses for the round trip.

After a trip to Europe, Hubble decided to go around a month or two in advance to visit his colleagues in the astronomical community.

The first stop across the Atlantic from the United States must be the United Kingdom.

Of course, Ireland can also be chosen, which has only been independent for a few years, but now most of the world believes that there is no science in this separatist force in the wilderness.

As an aside, although Ireland has been independent for several years, the full name of the United Kingdom today is still the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

It was not until April of this year that the British Empire, which had already gone downhill, reluctantly passed a bill to officially change its name.

Although Chen Muwu's "achievements" in astronomy are quite high, he can only be regarded as a half-baked astronomer.

In order to show his welcome to Hubble, he also specially invited Eddington, the director of the observatory, to accompany him.

With these two people, Chen Muwu once again felt the difference in personality between Americans and British.

Hubble and Oppenheimer share the same enthusiasm, the same straightforwardness.

When visiting the Cambridge University Observatory, he, like Professor Campbell, the president of the University of California at the previous astronomers' conference, exclaimed without hesitation about other people's feelings, "Dr. Chen, did you discover the Yellow Emperor Star in such an observation environment with this caliber of astronomical glasses?" ”

This made Eddington, who was accompanying him, faintly unhappy, but the spirit of the British gentleman on his body made him suppress his anger and not break out.

But unlike Campbell, Hubble didn't choose to pick up a hoe and dig into the wall.

He himself is the kind of person who stands aside from American astronomers, and he is depressed, how can he bear to push Chen Muwu, a good friend who met for the first time, into the fire pit?

After complaining about the observation environment here, Hubble still looked regretful, and even wanted to give up his corner.

"Dr. Chen, although the astronomical telescopes in the United States are more advanced, I am not doing well in the United States.

"Even if they are presented with observational data that cannot be questioned at all, there are still many diehards who do not recognize Andromeda as a galaxy and still stubbornly call these extragalactic galaxies nebulae.

"I think the academic environment in the United States is really poor, so I wanted to take advantage of this visit to Europe to inspect the instruments and equipment and research atmosphere of various observatories, and if I find a suitable place, I will move my family to Europe.

"I actually really wanted to do research with you, Dr. Chen, and I thought that when we didn't meet, I thought about it even more strongly after we met.

"It's just a pity......"

"I know, I know."

Sensing that Hubble was about to start complaining about the equipment and environment of the Cambridge University Observatory, Chen Muwu quickly interrupted him.

Eddington's face was already like that, if he were to continue......

One is to ride a bicycle every day to exercise, the other is to stay up late every day to watch the stars, and each other's ages are about the same.

Under the guise of going back to his office with Hubble for a detailed chat, Chen Muwu pulled him back from the Cambridge University Observatory to the Cavendish laboratory.

The news revealed by Hubble in his words made Chen Muwu very moved, and he never thought that Hubble wanted to come to him.

But there are some things he can't say at the observatory, and he can't say them at the observatory himself.

Although he is not expected to do so now, Hubble is a central figure in the study of cosmology in the future.

If he can do research with him, then the strength of Chen Muwu's small group can usher in a big improvement, and the research direction can become more and more comprehensive.

Although the Cambridge University Observatory cannot enter the eyes of Hubble, it does not mean that other places cannot.

After all, in distant Northern Europe, he has a big benefactor who has always wanted to build an observatory for him.

At that time, Chen Muwu thought that the observatory could be built, but there was no need to start building it in the first phase of the school's project.

However, things are always evolving, and now is the time to build an observatory.

(End of chapter)