63. Don't let the tragedy happen again
Ramsey blatantly cut the queue like this, and the rest of the Apostolic Society was embarrassed to say anything.
Although Ramsey is not as good as Chen Muwu, he was once the chief Wrangler who won first place in the mathematics grade examination at Trinity College, Cambridge, and became a researcher at King's College next door at a young age, and now he has been promoted to a fellow and is a professor of philosophy at King's College.
His age is even one year younger than Chen Muwu, and he has reached this height at a young age, and he knows at a glance that the future development is immeasurable.
There is another point, that is, Ramsey is one of Chen Muwu's good friends in the Apostle Society, the two of them do not agree with the members of the Society, and they also cooperate in academic research and jointly publish a mathematical paper.
This kind of relationship between the two of them, even if Ramsey asks to withdraw from this party in advance and invite Chen Muwu to another place for a one-on-one secret conversation, it is estimated that Chen Muwu will gladly go.
Now Ramsey is relying on his identity and relationship with Chen Muwu to forcibly rank first in the team, which is nothing at all.
Chen Muwu was very curious about the smart people in Ramsey's mouth, he was not aroused by Ramsey's words, and wanted to compare with another smart person, who was smarter.
Chen Muwu was just a little curious about who the smart man in Ramsay's mouth was.
After all, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at Cambridge University, the person Ramsey is talking about, is likely to leave a strong mark on future history.
"Brother Ramsay, I'm a little curious about how smart someone you can call a smart person should be."
Chen Muwu agreed to his invitation.
"Of course you're as smart as you are! Please follow me. β
So as soon as he entered the meeting hall, Chen Muwu, who didn't even sit down, was taken to a corner of the room by Ramsey.
There sat a man with deep eye sockets, who was not moved when he saw someone coming, but just nodded politely to Chen Muwu beside Ramsey in greetings.
Ramsey looked enthusiastic: "Brother Chen, let me introduce you, this is Ludwig Wittgenstein, who studied at Cambridge University and was a student of Professor Russell.
"Mr. Wittgenstein, this is Dr. Chen of the University of Cambridge."
No way!
Chen Muwuxin said, no wonder this unruly person looks so familiar, it turns out that he is a classmate of the mustachioed child when he was a child, and the lyrics sing "Ougang in the west has a boss, and he has a son Wittgenstein" that Wittgenstein!
The "wise man" that Ramsey spoke of turned out to be him!
- That's not a big deal at all.
Chen Muwu knew that Wittgenstein also had a Cambridge time, but he didn't know when.
And since he came to Cambridge University, he has met too many famous people on the campus of this school who will be famous in later generations, so he gradually forgot that there is such a person as Wittgenstein.
I didn't expect that there was also a connection between Ramsey and Wittgenstein, if you want to say that the world is big, it is indeed very big, but you have to say that the world is small, and it can be surprisingly small.
Although Ramsey introduced the other party to himself first, after all, the age was there, and after he finished the introduction, Chen Muwu first stretched out his right hand: "Hello Mr. Wittgenstein, I am Chen Muwu, and I am very happy to meet you here today." β
"Dr. Chen, who has admired his name for a long time, finally met today."
Wittgenstein also cooperated with Chen Muwu to shake his hand, not as cold as he had just shown.
Chen Muwu originally thought that coming to meet this time was just to say hello.
Unexpectedly, after shaking hands, Wittgenstein made an inviting gesture and motioned for him to sit here, as if he had something to say next.
It is better to be respectful than to obey fate, since the other party has something to find him, Chen Muwu also wants to see what Wittgenstein wants to talk about with him.
Ramsey sat down at the table and looked at the two first-time men with interest.
"Dr. Chen, although the two of us have only met for the first time today, when I was in Austria, I could read about you in the newspapers every once in a while. Every time I read a report about you, I often can't help but think about one thing: Dr. Chen, who are you? β
The gaze in Wittgenstein's eyes suddenly became very serious, which made Chen Muwu be startled in his heart.
What do you mean by what kind of person am I?
How? Could it be that he has seen through his identity?
"Mr. Wittgenstein, I don't understand what you mean."
He could only pretend to be confused.
"Dr. Chen, I mean, you have so many traits that it's so difficult to get a full picture of what kind of person you are.
"You are an Oriental who is deeply influenced by the traditional and mysterious culture of the East, but you have an in-depth understanding of the scientific knowledge that originated in the West in modern times;
"You are a top student in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, and your level of physics is among the best in the world, but you are not satisfied with confined to the subject of physics, and you have also achieved very good results in astronomy, mathematics and chemistry;
"You are a champion of science, and you have put forward many scientific ideas that were ahead of their time but have been proven to be correct. But at the same time, you have made some points that people cannot understand and accept, such as the parallel world theory that our world is divided in two at all times. And you also support psychic, you are a master of psychics, you believe that there are aliens in our world, and you accept the invitation of the Pope to come to Rome and discuss with him the question of science and religion;
"You have sympathy for the government of Sulen, but at the same time you have a good conversation with the ruler of Italy.
"You are a complex and contradictory person, and for a stranger who meets for the first time, I really don't know where to start in order to get to know you better."
Wittgenstein was not polite at all, but he was telling the truth.
Ramsey, who was sitting next to him, did not think that he was rude to say this, but was interested in seeing how Chen Muwu would reply to Wittgenstein.
"Man is not an animal that can be easily understood thoroughly, and the contradictions that manifest before and after are just because at each different stage of life, everyone has a different perception of life. Didn't you give up the opportunity to go back to Cambridge University to continue your studies in philosophy, and instead returned to your native Austria to become a rural teacher? β
At the outbreak of World War I, Wittgenstein was studying philosophy with Russell at Trinity College, Cambridge University.
He could have been exempted from military service, but he actively volunteered to go to the battlefield and completed the first draft of his "Treatise on Logic and Philosophy".
After writing this only representative book of his life, Wittgenstein believed that "the so-called philosophical problems had been solved", so he went to the southern mountains of Austria with great idealism and devoted himself to the school reform movement in the country, becoming a rural primary school teacher.
This seems to be similar to the "rural construction faction" in China, who naively thinks that starting with basic education in remote areas can save the whole country.
As a result, Wittgenstein left his position as an elementary school teacher because he could not integrate into adult society and felt that the "vulgar and stupid southern peasantry" was out of place.
The failure of the rural construction faction was mainly due to financial problems. As soon as the financiers behind them cut off the supply and support, the false prosperity heaped by money will immediately reveal the prototype.
In terms of the legendary degree of life, Chen Muwu felt that Wittgenstein was no worse than his own, so he simply rebelled.
Regarding Chen Muwu's mention of his past, Wittgenstein did not take it to heart at all.
"I admit that I was naΓ―ve at the time, thinking that by my own efforts, together with a few like-minded friends, I could change a country through rural education.
"But as it turned out, I was wrong, so I now began to try to think again, and I agreed to Mr. Ramsay's invitation to visit Cambridge University for a while."
Later, when Wittgenstein decided to stay at Cambridge entirely, Ramsey even became his doctoral supervisor.
This is because Wittgenstein did not earn any degree at Trinity College, although he studied with Russell at Cambridge University before the First World War.
The rule at Cambridge University is that if you don't have a degree, you can't stay and teach.
Even Wittgenstein could not break this old and traditional rule, so he was forced to study philosophy with Ramsay, who was a decade younger than him, and eventually obtained a doctorate from Cambridge and became a professor of philosophy there.
Wittgenstein continued: "Dr. Chen, is it true that you, like me, studied science first, but thought that science could not explain too much, so you began to turn to ethereal psychic and extraterrestrial studies, to deceptive religion? At first, he supported Sulen, but after a personal visit, he recognized his shortcomings, so he came together with the ruler of Italy? β
In this current situation, Wittgenstein's second question is quite devastating.
Because eight out of ten of the apostles of the Apostolic Society were sympathizers of Marxism, when Chen Muwu went to Italy some time ago, he met with the ruler who had disbanded other threatening parties in Italy and ordered the arrest of these apostles, and there was a sense of betrayal in the eyes of these apostles.
Chen Muwu certainly couldn't tell them that the reason why he was smiling in the photo was because he had negotiated a big contract for oil in Rome.
So he simply ignored the second question and chose the first, which was easier to answer.
"Mr. Wittgenstein, as far as I know, you didn't want to study any philosophical problems at first, but at first you wanted to plunge into physics."
"Dr. Chen, you are right, when I was a child, I admired the famous physicist Professor Boltzmann in Vienna, and I thought that when I grew up, I would enter the University of Vienna to study physics with my professor.
"It's a pity that Professor Boltzmann committed suicide in anger when I was about to enter university because of some academic controversy.
"I was so disappointed with physics that I went to Berlin to study engineering, then to Manchester, and finally to Cambridge where I studied with Professor Russell because of my interest in mathematics, and finally devoted myself to the study of philosophy.
"Dr. Chen, the two of us, but we're almost going to be peers." Wittgenstein said with a smile.
"The death of Professor Boltzmann is one of the great tragedies in the history of modern physics. Because of academic controversy and academic ridicule and bullying, the great physicist finally embarked on a road of no return.
Boltzmann's atomism proved to be the last one to laugh, and Mach and Ostwald's doctrine of Ostelwald was an erroneous theory that appeared in a specific time and a specific situation.
"However, it is a pity that Professor Boltzmann did not live to see the day when his atomic theory, which was not understood by the world, was rehabilitated."
Wittgenstein was puzzled: "Yes, it's a pity, but Dr. Chen, I don't know what the relationship between your mention of Professor Boltzmann and my previous question?" β
"Mr. Wittgenstein, these two things are very much related.
"You don't want to see the tragedy that happened to Professor Wittgenstein happen again, do you? Unfortunately, it is still happening in the world that the world's mainstream scientists are questioning and not understanding because of their different academic views. And the object of questioning is not someone else, but a contemptible person. β
Chen Muwu's words were astonishing, and all the apostles in the Apostolic Society, including Wittgenstein, who came here as a guest, all had an incomprehensible expression on their faces.
Dr. Chan is always proud of physics when it comes to physics, so how can he associate himself with the person being bullied?
Seeing that his words had attracted everyone's attention, Chen Muwu continued to explain to everyone the reason why he said this.
"Mr. Wittgenstein, it seems that the news and comments you have seen in the newspapers about parallel universes are full of criticisms of the assumptions I have put forward, which I have put forward, as fanciful and nonsense, and as ridiculous conclusions of the whims of the Orientals.
"However, I have stated countless times in advance that parallel universes are just a possible reasonable guess I have given in my theory based on quantum mechanics, not that the world we live in must be like this.
But this kind of reasonable speculation was grabbed by the pigtails by those old-fashioned conservatives who insisted on the theory of cause and effect, and it became a breakthrough to attack me.
"Mr. Wittgenstein, I have a question: do you think the theory of cause and effect is correct?"
Facing Wittgenstein, Chen Muwu delivered his fatal blow.
(End of chapter)