Compton's generous support made Chen Muwu, who had just proposed that the Cavendish Laboratory should sell particle accelerators to the outside world at the Como meeting, successfully opened, and at the same time, Planck's wishful thinking, which had been thinking about how to bring down the price of accelerators from the train the day before the opening of the conference, failed.

Ever since they knew that Americans would be attending the conference, Rutherford and Chen Muwu had known that the particle accelerator that they had been fooled by and touted would definitely be sold.

Sir Doyle's words are true, the Americans on the other side of the Atlantic are a model of "stupid people, lots of money, and quick to come".

When you are short of money, you can go to the United States for a walk, yes!

Penguin's financial statements illustrate this as well.

Although the British have a strong love for the popular, the sales and profits of George Chen published by the publishing house in the United States are actually higher than those in the United Kingdom.

Even if the eldest cousin hates the little cousin for being arrogant, and the younger cousin thinks the eldest cousin is old, the culture of these two families is the same root after all, and what is printed in the books and spoken in the mouth is also in English.

The English books published by Penguin Publishing do not need to sell copyrights at all, nor do they need to ask for translations, and they can directly enter the American market and circulate, and there is no simpler "cultural invasion" than this.

In later generations, J· The famous Harry Potter series written by K. Rowling, when it entered the United States, it also had to take care of the habits of American readers, replacing some of the words used in the book from British common words to American common words, such as "Philosopher's Stone" was changed from "Philosopher's Stone" to "Sorcerer's Stone".

It was also because the United States was strong at that time, and the British Fira was unbearable.

But although the United States now has a few stinky money, it is still culturally oriented to the east coast of the Atlantic.

The fact that you can now make a lot of money just by selling a few particle accelerators also supports this point.

If he, Chen Muwu, could be like those European physics predecessors, he received invitations from various universities in the United States to hold a lecture tour there and make a lot of money, I don't know how much money he would make.

And this kind of lecture tour, there is no need to do it yourself everywhere.

He can be cheeky to learn from the star singers who will hold concert tours in the future, invite a few more helpers, oh no, help the guests, and even imitate the song ordering session again, just sit on the stage with a big grin, and wait for the audience to raise their hands and ask questions.

But it's good to think about this thing for now, and the top priority is to sell more goods outside, after all, the money earned this time will soon be in your hands.

Compton was originally from the University of Chicago, so it made sense for him to order a machine for his school.

As for the rest, Princeton is the school where Compton earned his Ph.D. and where his eldest brother currently teaches, while Harvard is the most famous, richest, and most well-taught university in the United States.

Chicago, Harvard, and Princeton are all in the northwest corner of the map of the United States, so in order not to favor one over the other, Compton also brought the University of California, which dominates the southeast, and the key is that the University of California is also very rich.

"Thank you, Professor Compton, after this meeting, we will send someone to negotiate with you, and we will definitely sign the contract as soon as possible, and then we will study how to transport the particle accelerator to the United States safely and quickly start the installation work."

Einstein did not come to the Cuomo Conference, so among the physicists present, except for Bohr, who devoted himself exclusively to theoretical physics, the other respected people still held a view that experiments were more important than theories.

Quantum field theory is not a major innovative theoretical achievement, but is developed on the basis of quantum mechanics.

Therefore, among the two achievements brought by Chen Muwu, quantum field theory is far less important than the particle accelerator that opened up a new battlefield for experimental physics.

However, the importance is important, but in the end, Chen Muwu finished the live broadcast and put the goods on the shelves of the small yellow car, but there was little response, and there was no grand occasion of placing a whole order to buy.

Except for Compton, who came from the United States and placed an order on the spot, the rest of the places were probably similar to Planck's previous reaction, that is, they all understood and waited, saying that after returning to China, they would get a clear result from the research and discussion with the school, and then get in touch with the Cavendish laboratory.

Under the warm applause of the audience, Chen Muwu left the podium of the meeting, and then immediately found Compton's side.

He wasn't impatient to sign a contract with Compton, who represented the University of Chicago, but he had something else to ask:

"Professor Compton, can you get in touch with other universities in the U.S., other than the ones you just mentioned? For example, Yale? Having finally crossed the Atlantic, we wanted to transport a few more machines at once. ”

The other universities mentioned by Chen Muwu are all pretenses, and Yale is the purpose and focus of his search for Compton.

Of course, Yale University is also a well-known and good university in the United States, and Chen Muwu will definitely be uncomfortable if he does not get a little wool from this kind of rich private university.

In addition, Yale University also has a well-known alumnus in nuclear physics, of course, not Homer Simpson's Montgomery Burns, the owner of the nuclear power plant in Springfield, but the Nobel laureate in physics of the same name as Chen Muwu's teacher, Rutherford, Ernest Lawrence.

Lawrence is the inventor of the cyclotron, which is more widely used than the two electrostatic accelerators, and he is also a graduate of Yale University, and it is not known whether he is now a Ph.D. student, or if he has graduated with a degree and stayed in school as a teacher.

Selling his electrostatic particle accelerator to Yale University is also part of Chen Muwu's plan.

Although because of the early exposure to particle accelerators, Lawrence's attention will be diverted to this research in advance.

But there are always two sides to the story, and the advent of electrostatic accelerators may lead Lawrence's research astray, and all he thinks about is how to build a larger, more insulating spherical electrode to raise the voltage of the motor to an order of magnitude higher.

The Atom Shredder can still be found on the continental United States, but in a slightly different location.

Whether it's good or bad, this step must be taken.

Chen Muwu will inevitably have an intersection with Lawrence in the future, and today this time it will all be about throwing stones to ask for directions and probing for news.

In such a relaxed atmosphere of "drinking and feasting, singing at night", the first Como Conference came to a successful conclusion according to the specified date.

A group of physicists from Europe and the United States who came from all over the world to attend the conference not only fully affirmed the contribution made by the Italian physicist Volta to the development of mankind and physics, but also exchanged with their colleagues from all over the world about the various advances made in several frontiers of physics in recent years.

It was a truly victorious convention!

The Italian reception staff did not leave the meeting after the meeting, on the contrary, the dinner on the evening of the meeting was the most sumptuous meal in the whole meeting.

It was about to be time to part, and everyone who attended this dinner had their own thoughts.

Many young physics students from Italy also came to the scene, and they all wanted to try their luck and take advantage of the opportunity to study abroad during and after the dinner, and it was better to go to Germany, England, France, the Netherlands, even Denmark and the United States, than to stay in Italy.

Some people want to take advantage of this dinner to continue to build a relationship with Chen Muwu, and see if they can let him intercede with Rutherford and let the price of the particle accelerator drop a little.

Anyway, the Cavendish laboratory has already made a lot of money from the Americans, and everyone is a good thick rice from Europe, and it shouldn't be impossible to quietly get a little cheaper, right?

Dinners are no longer grouped according to the country of the participants, as is the case with the allocation of rooms for accommodation.

There is no distinction between host and guest, there is no high or low, and everyone can choose their own seat at will.

- But Chen Muwu can't.

As soon as he walked into the dinner hall, he heard the familiar Nordic accent of English again, calling his last name from his seat.

"Dr. Chen, here, here!"

Chen Muwu had already discovered that Bohr was a little abnormal during the meeting.

When he took the stage to speak, he mispronounced his name several times.

And when others took the stage to speak, Bohr was even more absent-minded the whole time, keeping his head down, as if thinking about something.

Not only that, but he often kept picking up a pen and writing and drawing on the paper in front of him.

What's going on?

Could it be that Bohr took the trouble to make so many preparations in advance just to bring himself a great reckoning at the dinner party on the last day?

Chen Muwu could only honestly walk to Bohr's side, pull out a chair and sit down.

"Professor Bohr, good evening. What are you looking for me? ”

"It doesn't matter, you're in the limelight these days, and these two achievements from the Cavendish lab are also very good things."

Generally speaking, the more you say that, the more serious the matter becomes.

Chen Muwu didn't know why, so he had to continue listening.

"Dr. Chen, I don't know if you found such a problem?"

"What?"

"The invention of the telegraph and the telephone greatly shortened the time of communication between people.

"Originally, if you wrote a letter from Denmark to England and transported it by ship between the two countries, it would take at least a week each way for a letter.

"But with the telegraph and the cable across the sea, a day from the moment the message was sent to the time it was translated, enough time to transmit the message from one corner of the earth to any other corner.

"With the invention of the telephone, it was possible for people who were separated from each other to communicate in real time with a short delay.

"The telegraph and the telephone are both great inventions, but they have their own flaws.

"First of all, the telephone, not only does a long-distance call cause serious distortion, but the price of the minute is even higher than that of the telegraph.

"After so many years of development, the price of the telegraph has dropped to a range that is acceptable to most people.

"But for us physicists, the telegraph can only transmit some simple information, but it cannot transmit a complete physics paper full of symbols and formulas.

"The only way to send the entire content of a paper from Copenhagen to Cambridge is through one of the old but effective ways, and that is by letter.

As a result, the communication between the two places takes nearly half a month, and the fastest is only a little more than a week.

"This time limit has seriously hindered the academic exchanges between everyone and hindered the progress and development of physics.

"For example, at the Como Conference, I went to Italy, and after listening to the speech of the doctor named Dirac, I realized what new results you have made in theoretical research.

"Of course, I am very supportive of you young people making new achievements in quantum mechanics.

"But if you can get your new paper to Copenhagen as soon as you write it, maybe I can prepare a corresponding lecture to make this new sub-discipline more important to the people who come to the conference, and not because you are a group of young people who ignore it.

"So these days I've been thinking about how to design a telegram-based paper layout and transmission system, and now I have a basic prototype."

Bohr spoke without giving anyone a chance to interject, just as he did in his office in Copenhagen.

However, he finally finished his tirade, picked up a few pieces of paper that had been placed on the table a long time ago, and handed them to Chen Muwu.

The paper was written on how to distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters, how to represent common mathematical and physical symbols such as differentiation, summation, integration, and annular integral, as well as superscripts, subscripts, matrices, tables, and so on.

Good guy, Chen Muwu thinks that Bohr is simply on the current telegraph system, and he has rubbed out a set of TeX typesetting system with his bare hands.

Although it is much more complicated than TeX on the computer, it is also a good solution in the current situation.

As Bohr said, sending a letter is a real waste of time.

But in this day and age, everyone takes this approach, and the accuracy can be guaranteed to the maximum.

And when you use TeX input on your computer, you get error prompts from time to time when you run it, and when you send papers by telegram, these errors will only be more, not less.

Even though the speed has improved a lot, it takes a lot of time to correct those mistakes back and forth, and it is not much more convenient than sending a letter.

Why did Bohr do this?

(End of chapter)