Since the current mainstream view is that astronomy is not included in physics, astronomers cannot be counted as physicists.

If the physicist the Italian side wants to commemorate is Galileo, who also made great achievements in astronomy, then perhaps Hubble may be on the list of invited participants.

It's a pity that the other party commemorates not Galileo but Volta, an authentic physicist.

Even the general meeting of the International Federation of Astronomers in Cambridge a few years ago did not invite the "marginal astronomer" Hubble, let alone the next meeting of physicists on the shores of Lake Como.

Therefore, Hubble's next itinerary is not synchronized with Chen Muwu, and it is impossible and unnecessary for him to stay at Cambridge University all the time, waiting to go to Rome with Chen Muwu, who is busy with various things.

Hubble plans to use this time to visit other major observatories and renowned astronomers in Europe, and then go to Rome to meet Chen Muwu when the date is approaching.

At the time of parting, Chen Muwu specially told Hubble that if time permitted, he must go to Sweden for a turn.

Although after the end of the war, the overall economic situation in Europe was not as good as that of the United States.

However, after all, there is a big financier in Stockholm, and even if it is possible to build the world's largest aperture astronomical telescope in the Mount Wilson Observatory, it is not a problem to build one that meets the needs of Hubble's observations.

It's a big deal, Chen Muwu just gave away part of the profits of the Geely Automobile Factory, which is still not a word.

The crown prince of Sweden was happy, the Wallenberg family made money, and Chen Muwu got advanced experimental equipment to recruit talents.

Sending Hubble away, Chen Muwu's work in Cavendish Labs did not diminish a single point.

Every day, as soon as he arrives at the office, there are always people waiting outside the door to chat with him about experimental ideas, or there are physics colleagues who come from all over the world to visit and interview him during the winter vacation, and want to say hello to him.

Naturally, there are other people who accompany him, but if the other party asks to meet Chen Muwu by name, it is not easy to refuse, so he can only be respectful and obey.

However, being the acting director is not without benefits.

On February 1, 1927, the University of Cambridge celebrated its first Spring Festival celebration in more than 700 years.

It was not that Cambridge had no Chinese students before, and everyone did not often celebrate in private, but this is the first time that the official has come forward to organize celebrations and promote Chinese culture.

The so-called official, it must be the Cavendish laboratory controlled by Chen Muwu.

Although most of the funds in the laboratory were brought by him, in order to prevent others from gossiping and saying that he abused his power, Chen Muwu still paid out of his own pocket when holding this event.

The number of Chinese students in Cavendis's lab has been rising, from one in 1923 to three in 1924 and then five this year, and it is gradually becoming impossible to ignore, even if it is not comparable to the absolute number of British professors and students.

In addition, everyone's impression of Director Lu's student, Director Xiao Chen, has always been very good, and everyone in China wants to celebrate the festival, and everyone is willing to come to cheer for it.

Chinese people from other disciplines at Cambridge University, people from the Department of Sinology and the Apostolic Society who are interested in Chinese culture...... Everyone spent a lively Spring Festival in the Cavendish laboratory.

On the banner hung out, there is no second option at all, if you don't write "Happy Chinese New Year", what can you write?

Is it possible to take into account the feelings of Koreans and replace it with "Lunar New Year"?

But where is South Korea on the world map now?

I don't know which one of them is smaller.

Everyone celebrates the holidays happily in the Cavendish lab, but in the eyes of some, it is tantamount to a face-jumping behavior.

Balfour felt that he had finally caught the very annoying Chinese, especially Chen Muwu, and sent someone to investigate whether there was any embezzlement in their celebration.

Although I tried my best and almost threw the laboratory into a boat, it was in vain in the end.

After the Spring Festival, my family members who are far away in the sea will be ready to board the ship to Europe.

After a short period of relaxation, Chen Muwu began to get busy again.

The paper on the particle accelerator side has been published, and the date of the Cuomo conference is approaching day by day, Chen Muwu, who wants to work both at the conference, has devoted all his little energy to quantum field theory after dealing with laboratory matters.

At the end of last year, the two festivals completely broke up his group with a good theoretical level.

At the end of the New Year's holidays, only Dirac and Oppenheimer returned to Cambridge.

Although Dirac's level of physics is sufficient, with the addition of an Oppenheimer, there is no problem.

But these two people have been at Cambridge University for so long, and they have long developed the "good" habit of only Chen Muwu being the first to look forward, and when they make something new, they can't help but bring it to Chen Muwu to discuss with him.

Doing so occasionally gets some new inspiration from Chen, but most of the time it only gets his affirmation.

However, Dr. Chen's affirmation is sufficient, at least to show that their research direction is generally correct.

Lao Chen is so busy every day that Dirac, who is obsessed with academic research, can't see it, which doesn't mean that others can't see it.

Quantum field theory is a big topic, and there can be many, many research contents under the name.

Oppenheimer, who has always been involved in it, is no longer worried that he will not be able to obtain a doctorate at Cambridge University because he will not be able to complete his graduation thesis, so he cares about Chen Muwulai, who has the grace of knowing him.

One day, after the work was over, Chen Muwu was worried about where to go for dinner, but Oppenheimer said a little mysteriously that he saw that Chen Muwu had been working very hard recently, so he wanted to treat Chen Muwu today and let Chen Muwu go back to his dormitory at Christ College with him.

Treat?

And still go to the dorm of Christ College?

Thinking of Oppenheimer's motivation for the treat, Chen Muwu suddenly had a bad premonition.

He was so obsessed with Chinese culture that he couldn't be satisfied with learning Chinese, so he started to study dietary supplements?

On the way back with Oppenheimer, Chen Muwu has been thinking about persuasive rhetoric in his heart, and how to propose it to him tactfully, even if he really loves Chinese culture, there is no need to do it to this extent.

Now he dares to study dietary therapy, and in the future, he will dare to go to alchemy and cultivate immortals.

When he arrived at Oppenheimer's room, Chen Muwu felt as if he was thinking too much.

On his table were not dark dishes of strange colors, but cans of tinplate with colorful wrappers on them.

Kind of familiar.

Chen Muwu felt that his thoughts had jumped from one extreme to the other, although the strange ingredients he had imagined just now did not appear, but he said that he wanted to treat him, but he ended up eating canned food......

Is it Britain here, or South Korea rummaging through garbage heaps for supplies from US troops stationed in South Korea?

And Oppenheimer didn't feel that these cans were shabby and embarrassed, on the contrary, he introduced to Chen Muwu very proudly: "Dr. Chen, how is it?" This is the most popular food in the United States, canned spinach! It is said that spinach contains more than 10 times more iron than other vegetables, which is very effective in replenishing energy and relieving fatigue. Now in various high-end restaurants in New York, the sons and ladies of rich and noble families are proud to eat this. So I came back from the United States this time and brought back a few cans of canned food for everyone to try. ”

Well, things are getting weirder.

It is true that spinach is high in iron, and it can also rank among the top few green leafy vegetables, but the iron content is ten times higher than other vegetables, which is completely a rumor.

Some people say that in the mid-to-late 19th century, a German scientist made a mistake when calculating the iron content of spinach, and he counted the decimal point by one wrong place, so it was said that spinach has ten times the iron content of other vegetables.

Whether this statement is true or not, this data has long been corrected by other scientists.

But decades later, the rumors came to the United States, where an agricultural company specializing in spinach smelled a business opportunity.

In order to sell their company's canned spinach, they spent a lot of money to promote this statement, and successfully made spinach the new favorite on the tables of wealthy families in big American cities.

Later, the company was still not satisfied, so it went one step further and paid a cartoonist to create a comic book character that would become popular in later generations, Popeye Bopai.

Chen Muwu didn't expect that others in the UK could catch up with the craze of eating spinach in the United States.

And eating spinach is still a healthy way for the wealthy, and if Oppenheimer wasn't a boy in New York, he might not have the opportunity to taste this "deliciousness".

Oppenheimer was staring at himself, canned spinach couldn't help but eat.

Although there are no peanuts, no aged vinegar, and no pepper oil, the canned spinach that has been heated and stored has been soft and muddy, tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to discard it.

But this kind of thing can still be imported as long as you put your mind to it, and it is indeed like the rumors in the United States, not only is it not harmful to the body, but it is also beneficial, but the specific value is not so exaggerated.

What if Oppenheimer had brought back not canned spinach, but the more notorious, but more expensive and popular radium water of the upper class?

Without changing his face and heartbeat, he ate the imported food that Oppenheimer "intimately" prepared for himself, and then thanked him.

Seeing that Dr. Chen still seemed to be unsatisfied, he took a new can in his hand.

"Don't don't, you're full, that's enough, Robert. This thing is very expensive, so let's save some food. ”

The can, which I finally finished, was completely out of politeness.

If he opens a new can for himself, Chen Muwu is not sure that there will be a drama of turning against each other next.

On the way back to his residence after leaving Christian College, Chen Muwu kept checking to see if the biceps muscle on his arm would suddenly swell.

A somewhat funny episode temporarily relieved the pressure on Chen Muwu from managing the entire laboratory.

After another half a month, the Cambridge delegation to the Como Conference set off in a majestic manner.

Rutherford, the director of the Cavendish laboratory, returned to New Zealand across the ocean, and the acting director, Chen Muwu, was on the other party's invitation list.

The country cannot be without a king for a day, and the laboratory cannot be without a manager for a day.

Then Chadwick can only stay in Cambridge and sit in the rear.

This may have been Chadwick's fate, as he never attended any international physics conferences outside of the UK, both historically and in reality.

The first time he left Cambridge University to attend the triennial Solvay Conference in Brussels, Belgium, was the seventh in 1933.

Chadwick, who had made a major contribution to the development of physics by discovering the neutron the previous year, had forced him to take a break from his job of managing Rutherford's laboratory at Cambridge and cross the English Channel to meet his fellow physicists on the European continent.

And the old Tomson, who is in his seventies this year, has been raised in Cambridge for several years, and with his old arms and legs, he can even go to London, 60 miles away, only a handful of times a year, let alone to Europe across the sea.

Therefore, the people sent by Cambridge to attend the meeting this time were basically the young Zhuang faction headed by Chen Muwu, and an additional Eddington was added.

As the de facto head of their British delegation, Chen Muwu had already contacted de Broglie's side, and when they arrived in France, the physicists from the two countries set off together.

As a result, when I arrived in Paris, there were not only French physicists such as Langevin and de Broglie, but also Planck, Sommerfeld, Born, and Pauli from Germany, Lorenz from the Netherlands, Bohr from Denmark, and so on, and some people Chen Muwu did not know.

According to the map, the nearest route from the UK to Como should be to France first, then to Switzerland, and then cross the border between Sweden and Italy, and you can go directly to your destination.

However, the two countries are separated by the Alps, and the level of infrastructure in these two countries is certainly not enough to build a train across the mountains.

So you had to take a long detour, from Paris to Lyon, to Turin, and finally to Como, at the southern foot of the Alps.

Physicists from other countries gather in Paris for the same reason.

On the platform of the Gare de Lyon in Paris, basically all the physicists who are going to Italy to attend the conference are gathered, but there are a few less people in Italy.

Looking at this situation, it is not impossible for everyone to meet in Paris on the spot, and the Como Conference held by the Italians at the expense of the people and money has no other meaning than to mobilize the people.

Heisenberg and von Neumann, who were originally on the fringes of the German delegation, rushed over to greet each other when they saw Chen Muwu.

The two of them turned back to get their luggage, and Chen Muwu's ears suddenly sounded a sentence of English with a Danish accent.

"Dr. Chen, I tried to poach you from the teacher but didn't succeed, but now why are you starting to poach my subordinates?"

Without looking back, he knew who the person who spoke was.

Chen Muwu adjusted his facial expression before turning around, and sure enough, he saw the senior brother from Northern Europe, staring at him with an unhappy expression.

"Oh, Professor Bohr, it's been a long time!"

In the process of greeting, he saw Heisenberg, who was standing in the German line with his hands in his pockets as if nothing had happened, pulling von Neumann to pretend to chat, glancing over here and then.

It's obviously a normal meeting, but now Chen Muwu inexplicably has a feeling that he is currently committing a crime.

(End of chapter)