A few minutes ago, it was Chen Muwu who asked Irena and Frederick where they wanted to go outside of London.

After getting the other party's answer, he felt very regretful, and he didn't want to take them back to Cambridge University to visit the particle accelerator in the Cavendish laboratory.

But regret is regret, Chen Muwu couldn't refuse the answers given by these two people.

Because the matter raised by the little Curies is very reasonable, and everyone is a family, it is natural to agree, and only if you disagree with their request will it seem unreasonable.

"Well, since you want to visit Cavendish Labs, we'll stay in London for a few more days, and then I'll accompany you to Cambridge University."

In the end, Chen Muwu was forced to grit his teeth in his heart and promised his future wife's sister and brother-in-law.

Seeing her youngest son and these two foreign relatives sitting on the sofa muttering and biting their ears for a long time, Mrs. Chen wanted to know what they said again.

But after waiting for a long time, she didn't see Chen Muwu translate for herself, so she was a little anxious.

"What are you talking about? Hurry up and translate it! ”

Hearing his mother's inquiry, Chen Muwu suddenly felt that this seemed to be the last straw to save him.

So he quickly said the problem he was experiencing: "Mom, Irena and Frederick want to go back to Cambridge University with their son and visit my place of work. ”

His implication was that he hoped that Mrs. Chen would be able to say things like "It's not easy for you to come here, don't go to that kind of country place, and stay in a big city like London for a few more days."

But the bad thing about this matter is that Mrs. Chen is too reasonable.

On the one hand, she felt that there was nothing wrong with the request made by these two foreign relatives.

On the other hand, it also made Mrs. Chen realize that her youngest son had been at home for a long time this time, which meant that his work at the school had also been delayed for the same amount of time.

If you don't go back, maybe the officials who became officials with great difficulty will be pushed to the end because they have been out of office for too long.

The latter situation is the last thing she wants to see.

"Yes, yes! It's long overdue to check you out. Old Mrs. Chen nodded very seriously, "It's too boring for me to stay abroad alone, so I finally came to my relatives, and I want them to stay for a few more days." It is estimated that Xiao Yi and Xiao Fu have long been tired of living at home in London, but they are embarrassed to say it for the sake of face. You can buy tickets now, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. ”

Mrs. Chen's statement and the attitude that Chen Muwu wanted from her were completely different.

If someone asks, is it good or bad for a child to have an enlightened parent in the family?

Chen Muwu has a lot of experience in this issue, and most of the time, the open-mindedness of parents is very important to children; But there are also times when parents are too open-minded, sometimes with good intentions, but it is easy to do bad things with good intentions.

For example, now.

The last trump card that Chen Muwu had high hopes for failed, so he could only accept the reality.

"When are you going to go to Cambridge, both of you?" It's best to give me an approximate time, so I can go to the station in advance to buy a ticket. ”

"Of course, the sooner the better, if I stay in your house any longer, I feel that Frederick and I will eat more and more fat."

Irena made a grumbling joke.

Now that the departure time has been determined, Chen Muwu can only go out in person, go to King's Cross Station, which is not too far from home, and buy three first-class tickets from London to Cambridgeshire the day after tomorrow.

After buying the ticket, he did not rush home, but turned into the telegraph office next door and took a telegram for Chadwick.

The telegram did not contain semi-official words: "Please be prepared to receive the eldest daughter and son-in-law of Madame Currie, an internationally renowned radiophysicist, who are going to visit Cambridge University."

In a telegram, Mr. Chen told Chadwick that he would return to Cambridge the day after tomorrow. But that's not the point, the point is that the particle accelerator needs to be overhauled for the first time after such a long period of continuous use.

Chen asked Chadwick to inform everyone in Cavendish that the particle accelerator would be unusable for the next few days, and there was no need for everyone to go there for nothing.

He also specifically pointed out that there is no need to issue a paper version of the notice on this matter, and only needs to be conveyed orally.

After doing all this, Chen Muwu returned home with the train ticket he bought.

Two days passed in a hurry, and early on the morning of the third day, Chen Muwu, who looked helpless, and Irena and Frederick, who were about to visit the highest level of higher learning in Europe and were full of excitement, appeared on the platform of King's Cross Station.

This time they were light and simple, leaving most of their luggage at home in London.

After more than two hours of train time, Chen Muwu still couldn't get his own free time.

No one had a short chat with Irena and Frederick's parents, and these two young physicists, who inherited the mantle of Marie Curie and devoted themselves to the research of radioactive physics, began to talk about some academic things with Chen Muwu.

I finally arrived at the train station in Cambridgeshire, and after getting off the bus, we got on the bus and went to the university.

In the telegram sent by Chen Muwu to Chadwick, he also specifically noted that there was no need to send a car to pick him up at the train station.

He did this to create the illusion that he had returned to Cambridge suddenly, rather than with advance notice.

It took another twenty minutes on the bus, and the group of three finally arrived in the area with the highest concentration of intellectuals in Britain.

"Do you want to visit the Cavendish lab first, or do you want to go straight to the particle accelerator?"

Chen Muwu gave up the opportunity to choose.

After a brief discussion between the couple and Frederick, he gave the answer: "Why don't you go to the machine first?" ”

"That's fine, I'm not in school these days, and I guess there are a lot of things waiting for me to deal with in the lab. If I go to the lab first, I'm afraid I won't be able to continue to accompany you to the school. ”

"Chen, I'm so sorry, you're so busy, and you keep you with us all the time."

"Yes, no, then we'll go to the particle accelerator."

This time, they did not take a car or other means of transport, but walked along the riverside of the River Cam.

Chen Muwu saw the laboratory where the accelerator was located from afar, and Chadwick really lived up to his trust and explained the notice, even if Chen Muwu had returned to Cambridge University, there was no queue waiting for people to do experiments, but it was empty.

"Well, this is it."

Walking to the laboratory, Chen Muwu took out the key and opened the door.

There is such a story recorded in the "Book of Rites": Zhao Wu, the secretary of the Jin Kingdom, that is, the particularly famous "Zhao orphan" deity, once he had a palace completed, and all the doctors of the Jin Kingdom went to the new house to congratulate.

One of them, a doctor named Zhang Meng, couldn't help but sigh when he saw the tall house, "Beautiful, Lun Yan!" Beautiful, beautiful! This sentence of his was later simplified into an idiom, which is called beautiful.

After Irena and Frederick saw the particle accelerator in Cavendis's lab, Chen Muwu felt as if he had seen the scene of Dr. Zhang Meng of the Jin Kingdom after seeing Zhao Wu's palace room.

"Chen, you really have the ability to design a device that uses voltage to accelerate particles. Cavendish Labs is also a real rich man, able to use real money to transform this machine from a blueprint design to a real real thing. ”

The couple didn't have any doubts about the size of the particle accelerator, probably just looking at the new things they saw for the first time, and they didn't notice the problem.

Irena sighed, and her husband Frederick chimed in: "It seems that it is not only knowledge that is important, but also money. It is not surprising that there is money in Cavendish Laboratories, and there are geniuses like Chen, who have produced the world's leading physics instruments. Unfortunately, the University of Paris does not allocate funds for our radium research institute, so when we want to use the money, we have to think of some ways to monetize our knowledge in addition to going around to raise funds. Chen, do you have any good suggestions? ”

Listening to the couple singing and harmonizing beside them, Chen Muwu was a little confused at first, wondering in his heart whether they were crying poor or what they were doing?

I said a long time ago that I would give Marie Curie a particle accelerator, although I didn't say when I would send it, but it doesn't have to be like this, right?

After hearing the end, he realized that he had just thought too much.

Irena and Frederick didn't want to cry poor and ask Chen Muwu to lower the price of the particle accelerator, but they just touched the scene and felt emotional.

Chen Muwu has always felt that compared with the American universities that spend a lot of money, the Cavendish laboratory is the one who is so poor that it is exposed.

Now it seems that he is still in the midst of blessings, and in the eyes of the little Curies, the Cavendish laboratory is much richer than that of Marie Curie, and they have even begun to ask him how to make money by realizing knowledge.

In terms of knowledge monetization, Chen Muwu does have a lot of right to speak.

The rich Cavendish Laboratory, which was envied by the couple, was partly funded by donations from the wronged bosses who were fooled by Chen Muwu, but more of them relied on Chen Muwu's later patented technology to be taken out more than ten or decades in advance, and they were sold back at a low price.

But the stories behind these must not be told to his two guests.

However, messing around and pulling things around has always been Chen Muwu's forte, so after thinking for a while, he opened his mouth to tell the two of them the story.

"Frederick, it is not easy to monetize knowledge, and knowledge is priceless. Do you know Bernoulli's principle in fluid mechanics? ”

The flow velocity is large and the pressure is small, which is the knowledge that Chen Muwu learned when he was in junior high school.

I don't know if foreign education teaches or not, but for small distance couples, such a basic knowledge of physics, they should be very clear.

"Of course, but what does this have to do with the transformation of knowledge?"

"Bernoulli's principle was proposed by Daniel I Bernoulli of the Bernoulli family, and the great mathematician Euler was his assistant.

Daniel I's father was John I Bernoulli, and Euler also studied with John I at the University of Basel.

John I also had an older brother named Jacob I Bernoulli, who was also a mathematician. Jacob I, John I, and Daniel I were the three most famous of the Bernoulli family, one of Europe's most famous academic families.

"One of the most famous things that happened between the brothers John I and Jacob I was the open solicitation of mathematicians from all over Europe for the equation for the fastest descent line, and even attracted the participation of a series of great mathematicians, such as Newton and Leibniz."

Looking at the puzzled expressions on the faces of the little Curie couple, Chen Muwu decided not to sell Guanzi, but to get to the point thoroughly.

"Today I am going to talk about the John I who is caught in the middle, and among his students, in addition to Euler, there is also one of your French nobles, the Marquis de Lobida.

"John I wanted to get married, but he didn't feel that he had much money, so he had the same idea as Fredericks, and he wanted to monetize his knowledge.

"I happened to meet this rich little marquis of France who wanted to study science, so Lobida approached John I and told him that I will give you money, but you will give me some of your achievements.

The two men happily came to an agreement, that John I would regularly mail his findings to Lopita, and that the latter, while sending regular remittances to the former, would study and organize the findings of John I, and eventually he would even publish a book of his own. There is a very famous law recorded in that book, which is the 'Law of Lobida'.

After Lobida's death, John I took out a correspondence between himself and Lobida and tried to convince mathematicians all over Europe that the law had been discovered by himself, and not by Lobida, who had paid for his papers.

But firstly, because everyone was accustomed to the name of the Lopida Rule, and secondly, because everyone did not approve of the letters taken out by John I, this law was not renamed in the end, but is still called by this name today.

"It's obviously a discovery that can go down in history, but for a few dollars, I put my research results in someone else's name.

"That's what I said, if you want to monetize your knowledge, you must be cautious."

After listening to Chen Muwu's tirade, the couple's reactions were different.

Frederick felt that his future brother-in-law was like Aesop, who began to tell fables without studying physics.

Irena was even more direct: "I think it's good to call it the Law of Lopida, not because I'm also French." It's that there are too many talented people in their Bernoulli family, and there are countless theorems and formulas and the like that have been discovered by research. If they were all named after Bernoulli, it would be difficult for future students and scientists to distinguish which is which.

"Moreover, if there was no Lopida, this John I would not have the money to marry, John I would not have the money to marry, the Bernoulli family would not have been able to spread further, and there would be no later Daniel I, without Daniel I, then fluid mechanics would have lost a most basic formula.

"I don't think it was Lopida who stole Bernoulli's things, he saved Bernoulli's family."

Faced with Irena's crooked reasoning, Chen Muwu had nothing to say for a while.

(End of chapter)