Chen Muwu had long been accustomed to being approached by the main master, and just the night before, he had just realized the first result he had published when he first crossed over, the Compton to which "gamma ray scattering" originally belonged.

But it was the first time that he was found by someone else with Dirac.

Could it be that this is "the will of heaven in the dark", he chose to live in a room with Dirac, so God sent Fermi to come forward and kill the two of them?

But now, only Chen Muwu himself is embarrassed, because Dirac around him doesn't know that there are so many messy things in his previous life.

He just regarded Fermi in front of him as a fellow physicist in Italy, and he didn't understand the many twists and turns behind it.

Now that the other party had already greeted them, the two of them had to temporarily put aside their plans to go outside the hotel to enjoy the mountains and rivers.

After shaking hands with each other and introducing themselves, Dirac and Chen Muwu accepted the organizer's invitation and sat down on the sofa in the lobby.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Muwu did not forget to beckon the waiter of the hotel and asked her to serve herself a cup of classic Italian coffee, just enough to use caffeine to boost her spirit that was slightly sluggish due to the fatigue of the journey.

After settling down, Fermi continued the conversation he had just made.

But all the physics colleagues in the world now, the first few words after seeing Chen Muwu, basically praise him for making so many great achievements in just a few years, not only to list them one by one, but also to say the one that he admires and likes the most after the list, generally either talking about quantum mechanics, or Chen Muwu's discoveries in astronomy.

And although Fermi mentioned at the end is also one of the items in quantum mechanics, it is just that compared with others, what he said is too niche, and it is the first time Chen Muwu has heard others mention this thing, so he can only say that it is worthy of Fermi, and he will always come.

"Dr. Chen, it's not the first time we've met......

Before speaking, Fermi actually sold it first.

Chen Muwu didn't know what this man's previous resume was, he only knew that Fermi was an Italian physicist, and when the situation became more and more serious, Mosolini followed the example of his German counterpart, and after implementing a very strict oil discharge policy in Italy, he fled to the United States with his Jewish wife while he was going to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize.

Now Fermi said that it was not the first time that the two of them had met, but Chen Muwu racked his brains, and he didn't know how the two of them had intersected before.

After he arrived in Europe, he basically ran between Cambridge and London in England, went to Norwich once when he was on a boat to Denmark, and Chadwick went to Liverpool once when he got married.

In addition to the United Kingdom, he has only been to Paris, Brussels, Denmark, Sweden, Sulian, Poland and Berlin on the European continent, so where did Fermi meet him?

Did he ever be a spectator at the Olympics, or did he go to Stockholm and attend the Nobel Prize ceremony?

Chen Muwu's brain was spinning rapidly, but in the end, he didn't come to a definite conclusion, and he could only admit that "remembering" was inferior to people.

"I'm sorry, Professor Fermi, I can't remember exactly where the two of us met."

"Of course, of course, of course you won't remember, because that time you were on stage, and I was just sitting in the audience."

Now it's a lot narrower, is it the Solvay Conference, is it the Paris Olympics, is it the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm?

"It was in the winter of 1924, after receiving the Nobel Prize from Sweden, and on your way back to England, you passed through Leiden, the Netherlands, where they hosted a Nobel Prize celebration banquet for you and Professor Einthofen at Leiden University."

I see.

Chen Muwu's trip to Leiden was completely unnecessary.

If it weren't for the intent to fool Yoshio Nishina into continuing his "love" in low-temperature physics and superconductivity, who would want to take a long detour around the Christmas holidays just around the corner?

On that occasion, he met Onnes, the leader of low-temperature physics in the Netherlands, Ehrenfest, a close friend of Einstein, and two of his students, Uhlenbeck and Guzsmitt, who should have "accidentally discovered" the spin of the electron.

But I didn't have an impression of Fermi, and I didn't know until now that he was also at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

But Chen Muwu is not to blame for this, Fermi had already obtained a doctorate in Italy at that time, and then he went to Göttingen for a year, and then went from Germany to the neighboring Netherlands, also studying theoretical knowledge with Ehrenfest.

His status at that time should have been similar to a postdoctoral exchange visit, and he was not a pro-student of Ehrenfest, and it was normal for him not to get the attention of the other party.

In addition, there are two reasons, one is because Fermi said that he was sitting in the audience, and he couldn't scan all the hundreds of spectators with his eyes to find out the characters who might become big guys in the future.

The second is because of the impression of Fermi, that is, the photo printed in the textbook and put in the encyclopedia, in which the person's hairline is as high as a Qing Dynasty person, and the young man with thick hair in front of him is completely incompatible.

Physics is really a pig-killing knife, especially with the advent of photographic technology, the appearance of physicists in various periods has been recorded one by one.

The most famous of these is the Planck tragedy, and when it comes to Fermi, he is only slightly better than Planck, but not much.

But Chen Muwu's heartfelt words must not be able to be said directly, so he had to be polite and polite, saying something like "It's a pity that I couldn't meet you at the beginning".

"Dr. Chen, you are one year younger than me, but at the age of twenty-two, you have won the highest honor that we physicists can only dream of, the Nobel Prize.

"To be honest, when I heard the news of your award, I was both envious and jealous. When I met you in Leiden, the Netherlands, I made up my mind to follow your example.

"But I didn't start paying attention to you after you won the Nobel Prize, but more than half a year ago, probably around the time of the Paris Olympics, when the new concept of quantum mechanics was first introduced.

"In the previous year, you proposed a new statistical method that could solve the contradiction of ideal gases, Chen statistics, and then you had Chen's incompatibility principle, and you had electron spin.

"I was at the University of Göttingen at the time, and I read your papers, and I happened to think that if the incompatibility principle and the electron spin were real, then the previous statistic might not apply to electrons.

"I talked about this idea with a few physics seniors at the University of Göttingen, and they thought that electron spin was completely nonsense, that you were young and vigorous, and that you were carried away by the achievements of the moment, and suffered a Waterloo in physics research.

"But I always felt that things were not that simple, and sure enough, it wasn't long before I read a paper in a physics journal about new statistics that you and Dr. Dirac co-authored."

Speaking of this, Fermi set his eyes on Dirac sitting next to Chen Muwu again.

"Dr. Dirac, it was in that paper that I first got acquainted with you."

Fermi's words were clear, which also explained why he stopped Chen Muwu in the lobby of the inn and Dirac at the same time.

However, Chen Muwu's attention has always been focused on Fermi's hand, which does not mean that he is a hand control, but because he is too curious, he wants to see if it is really like the legend, the Italian will pinch five fingers together when speaking.

Fermi found Chen Muwu, and sure enough, he was talking about the statistics of the naming rights "lawsuit" he had fought with Dirac for a long time in his previous life.

But this time, because the time and space environment is completely different, Fermi's tone is not at all dissatisfied with the plagiarism of his achievements, but full of worship for the two smart people.

Fermi, who has studied in Germany and the Netherlands, is also a technical person in Italy who has mastered many foreign languages, and this time he was transferred from the University of Rome to be in charge of the reception of this Como conference.

After introducing himself and talking about the intersection between himself and the two guests, Fermi finally began to talk about the matter of stopping Chen Muwu.

Because Chen Muwu had been informed in advance that he was going to speak at the conference, Fermi, on behalf of the organizers, asked him for a speech or paper, and he wanted to translate these things into abbreviated versions in other languages before the conference began, so that physicists from all over the world who came to the conference could better read and understand.

Since it was the request of the conference organizer, he naturally couldn't refuse, so Chen Muwu could only turn back from the hotel lobby to the room where he lived again, took out a copy of the paper, and handed it to Fermi.

After getting Fermi on the paper and leaving, Chen Muwu had to pick up a pocket coffee cup on the coffee table in front of him and taste what this legendary Italian coffee tasted like.

Because the conversation had taken up a long time, the coffee had gradually lost its initial temperature, and the aroma wafting out of the cup was getting weaker and weaker.

Chen Muwu took a small sip from the cup, and then a mask of pain appeared on his face.

This meeting was originally a face-saving project of the Italian government, and the coffee must be good coffee.

It's just that he himself doesn't have a coffee stomach, and he can't get used to eating white food, so naturally he can't get used to drinking this kind of white water, which is more bitter than bitter melon.

Dirac's face was as expressionless as ever, and he would never make fun of Chen Muwu because of his good friend's foreign appearance.

Because he is far more outrageous than Chen Muwu, he doesn't smoke, drink, or even drink coffee, and in recent years, under the guidance of Chen Muwu, he has begun to slowly drink weak tea.

Chen Muwu poured all the cup of white water that came with the coffee into his stomach, and only then did he slightly reduce the bitterness in his mouth.

After drinking coffee, the two of them planned to continue with the itinerary that had been discussed.

Unexpectedly, Fermi, who had just gone to deliver his papers, went and returned, and he shouted their names behind his back as he ran: "Dr. Chen, Dr. Dirac!" ”

Hearing the voice, Chen Muwu could only turn around and ask, "What's the matter, Professor Fermi?" Is there something wrong with the paper? ”

"I didn't ...... It didn't matter, but I just heard by accident that the two of them wanted to go to Lake Como for a walk. If you don't mind, how about I'll be your guide? ”

"Are you done with things on the organizer's side? Don't delay your business, right? ”

"No delay, no delay."

The tour guide himself rushed to the door, so of course it was good.

Although Fermi was a Roman rather than a native, he was still much more native than the two foreigners, Chen Muwu and Dirac.

The group of three walked out of the hotel, and out of the door was a pool of quiet and pure water.

Although Como is a summer resort, it is also unique to visit in early spring.

The calm atmosphere was soon broken again.

"Stendhal said: 'The turquoise waters of the lake and the beautiful Alpine mountains make this one of the most beautiful places in the world.' He's talking about Lake Como in Italy.

In addition to Stendhal, the English poets Shelley and Wordsworth also left poems on the shores of the lake.

"And Liszt and Verdi, both of whom have lived in Como for a long time, you hope to be able to seek inspiration for composition......"

"Professor Fermi, it's okay."

Chen Muwu didn't want to listen to this kind of tour guide words memorized in advance, and it was estimated that Fermi didn't take the initiative to memorize this kind of thing.

However, speaking of Lake Como, as a super fan of the "Star Wars" series of movies, Chen Muwu knows that one of the later prequel series was filmed here.

Checking in to film and television locations 80 years in advance, it feels quite amazing.

"Star Wars" is one of the most successful and profitable science fiction film series in film history, and at the level of a movie in 1927, it would have been impossible to make a big production like "Star Wars", even if it was like George Lucas, spending a huge sum of 11 million dollars.

Although you can't make science fiction movies, it doesn't mean you can't write science fiction.

Chen Muwu decided to make an outline after he went back, and asked Ye Gongchao or Lao She if he would like to continue to be his own knife catcher and make another profit through the channels of Penguin Press.

I don't know how readers in this era will react after seeing the Black Warrior say the famous "I am your father" to Luke, and seeing the hairy alien Chewbacca, who has been following Han Solo.

By the way, speaking of aliens......

Just interrupted the mechanical commentary of the tour guide, and the scene was cold for a while.

Chen Muwu was afraid that he would leave a bad impression on Fermi's heart, but fortunately, because of "Star Wars", he found a new and more interesting topic.

"It's no wonder that so many great writers and musicians love it, and the scenery around Lake Como is really nice!

"Do you say that such an intoxicating scenery exists only on the earth? Or do other planets in the universe also exist?

"If it is further generalized, there are advanced intelligent beings such as human beings on the earth, then will there be aliens similar to us on other planets in the universe?

"So, do we have a way to find out if they exist? Or do they have the idea and are trying it, or have they found us, but we don't know it yet? ””

(End of chapter)