In the first half of this year, when the Como Conference was held in Italy, Acting Director Chen arranged for Capitsa and Eddington to live in the same sleeper box on the grounds that they were the closest of age, and took the opportunity to escape the chatter Kapitsa used the skill [chatter] to attack himself during the long journey.

This time he went to Belgium, Chen Muwu did not deliberately arrange it, and Kapitsa did not choose to live with him.

This is because the newlywed Yan'er wanted to take the opportunity of going to Brussels to attend the Solvay Conference, take his newlywed wife Anna, who had just married him, to spend his honeymoon in this city by the way.

After the conference, he could choose to follow the German physicists who had come to the conference to visit Germany, or he could choose to follow his brother Bohr, who was also under Rutherford, and return to the Institute of Theoretical Physics, which he was in charge of.

- It's not a matter of going there to study there, but it's only right to go to Copenhagen, the fairytale capital, to continue his honeymoon with his wife, Anna.

However, just because Kapitsa can't rush to live with Chen Muwu doesn't mean that others won't do it.

The acting director of the Cavendish Laboratory is still in high demand when it comes to choosing a companion for this short trip.

Although he was more than twenty years older than Chen Muwu, Lovely Dinton had not spoken on such a grand occasion for a long time, and it was such an important paper, and the closer he got to the opening time of the Solvay Conference, he became more and more nervous.

On the other hand, Chen Muwu, who continued to lead the team abroad to participate in the conference this time, had a very relaxed expression on his face, and the body revealed a kind of self-confidence.

And he has been talking and laughing with his peers, and from Chen Muwu's face and demeanor, there is no trace of tension at all.

Eddington wanted to take advantage of the less than two days on the road to "sharpen the gun" with Dr. Chen, and give them a review of the paper that the two of them were about to read at the conference, so that when the two of them read the paper in front of so many physicists, they could be foolproof and successfully bring a big shock from the University of Cambridge.

In addition to Eddington, Chen Muwu was found by his guest Wittgenstein.

For this genius philosopher, Chen Muwu finally figured out a common saying in him, what is called "it is easy to invite God and difficult to send God".

Not long ago, the American director Van Punk, who visited him at Cambridge University, was interested in the theme of rural teachers, so he went to visit Wittgenstein, the prototype of the rural teacher, under Chen Muwu's flickering.

However, Van Punk's desire to learn from rural teachers in him failed, and instead Wittgenstein was taught a philosophy lesson based on film theory, which made Director Fan who had long since left school and made a life in society painful.

For Wittgenstein, Chen Muwu also had great scruples.

The last time he had spoken freely for a few hours was at a meeting of the Cambridge Apostolic Society, where the apostles came from time to time to harass and make gags, and Ramsey was in the middle of the room, so that he could barely get out of the philosophical topics he had been discussing all along.

If he had spent two days and one night in Belgium with Wittgenstein, listening to him talk about some philosophical questions, both esoteric and superficial, Chen Muwu could not be sure whether he would have become enlightened or top-heavy after disembarking from Antwerp, and experience the worst seasickness of his life.

In contrast, both of them have a bunch of questions waiting to be discussed with them, and Chen Muwu prefers to walk with Eddington.

But in fact, if you broaden your horizons a little more, you can find that Cambridge University is not the only one who went to attend the Solvay Conference this time, but once again a large army.

He could have chosen to live in the same sleeper compartment as Dirac, with whom he had the most tacit understanding and who was also the least verbal of all, as he had done last time.

There is only one problem with this, that is, after all, Wittgenstein accepted Chen Muwu's invitation to stay at Cambridge University, and the guests who came to attend this conference with him cannot be underestimated by reason.

So what he ended up doing was......

"Professor Eddington, I have some work to do on board, please help me take care of this guest of mine.

"Mr. Wittgenstein studied mathematics with Professor Russell at Cambridge a few years ago, and the two of you should have something in common in mathematics.

"Mr. Wittgenstein, Mr. Eddington was the chief Wrangler of Trinity College in his class, and is now the director of the Cambridge University Observatory, and if you are interested in astronomy, you can take this opportunity to talk to him about the stars above our heads."

These two are not Chen Muwu's "whatever he wants", but if he simply arranges the two of them in the same room, won't he be able to kill two birds with one stone and solve these two problems at the same time?

Chen Muwu felt that he was really smart.

Of course, Dr. Chan has never been a reckless person who only prepares for things, and he has left a backhand.

As soon as the steamer left Dover on the edge of the English Channel and sailed on the calmer sea, he asked the waiter on the ship to bring a few pairs of mahjong, and invited everyone to the steamer's restaurant to make way for the Great Wall.

Dr. Chen's sparse card-playing skills are known to everyone in Cavendis's lab.

Before he finished half a lap, he was "politely" invited off the table.

Looking at Wittgenstein, who was gradually obsessed with bamboo dominoes, and even frowned and silently counted cards in his heart, Chen Muwu, who left the card table "reluctantly", had a sense of pleasure that his trick had succeeded.

He went back to his box and lay down on his bed and slept soundly.

At dawn the next day, the steamship that had crossed the English Channel had docked in the Belgian port city of Antwerp.

Not to mention comparing it with the vast territory of China, even compared with the United Kingdom, where Cambridge University is located, and Belgium's land neighbors France and Germany, Belgium's land area can only be regarded as a small country.

But even such a small country, after the end of the First World War, was very arrogant as a victorious country.

After losing the war and suffering an economic crisis, Germany could not afford to pay the sky-high war reparations stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles, so Belgium, together with his big brother France, sent 100,000 soldiers to occupy the Ruhr industrial area, which was the most industrialized in Germany at that time.

This arrogance also laid the groundwork for Germany to occupy the entire territory of Belgium in 18 days shortly after the start of World War II.

Antwerp, by the sea, is not far from Brussels, the capital of Belgium, the destination of everyone's trip, only more than 20 miles away.

After disembarking at the port of Antwerp, going through immigration at customs, getting on the train again, and within an hour they arrived at Brussels.

Solvay Foundation staff were already waiting outside the train station, and they had prepared a sufficient number of cars to take physicists from all over the world to the Solvay Palace, where the conference was held.

Chen Muwu finally met his teacher, Rutherford, who had been absent for nearly a year, in a foreign land – and of course England was also a foreign country to him.

After settling into his temporary lodging for the past few days, he turned down all requests from others who wanted to meet with him, and rushed to visit Rutherford's room instead.

"Teacher, I haven't seen you for a long time, but I really miss me!"

The words that Chen Muwu said as soon as he entered the door did not have any hypocrisy and politeness, but came from the bottom of his heart.

Smelling the familiar smell of tobacco that he hadn't been able to smell for a long time, and hearing a more familiar loud voice that he hadn't heard for a long time, he couldn't control his excitement.

Rutherford, who sat in his chair, saw his most proud student again, and his condition was not much better.

"Chen, Ling seems to have lost a little weight, is it caused by being too busy with work in the laboratory?"

After the master and apprentice greeted each other and answered a few more questions, Chen Muwu found that in the corner of Rutherford's room, there was an extra peer who was about the same age as himself.

"Teacher, who is this?"

"Oh, this is a student I met when I was back here and the ship docked in Adelaide, South Australia.

"Because he was a physics student at the University of Adelaide, Sir Prague's alma mater, I took the time to talk to him and learned that he had been awarded a scholarship for the 1851 Exhibition by the British government, and was about to come to England to study."

In 1851, there was a lot going on in the world.

At the beginning of this year, the new emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who ascended the throne last year, changed the name of the year to "Xianfeng".

At the end of the year, French President Louis Napoleon dissolved the National Assembly and declared himself Emperor Napoleon III of France.

In the same year, after a brief study of the Bible and other related works, several peasants tampered with many of these theories, claiming that they were Heavenly Father, the eldest son of Heavenly Father, and the second son, Heavenly Brother, and descended into the world.

In the United States that year, the New York Times announced the launch of its publication.

In this year, in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, a new building was built in Hyde Park, with steel as the skeleton and glass as the main material.

As the birthplace of the first industrial revolution, Queen Victoria held an international industrial exposition in what came to be known as the "Crystal Palace" in order to increase the satisfaction of the people with her rule, which was later posthumously recognized as the first World Expo.

Not only did the International Industrial Exposition succeed in demonstrating Britain's national power, but it also earned the Organizing Committee a net income of £186,000 (the equivalent of more than £32 million in 1851 to 2023) by selling tickets and selling goods from all over the world.

This net income was not a huge amount of money for the empire on which the sun never set, which was at the height of its national power at that time, so it was not flushed into the treasury, but a fund was established on this basis.

The British government also set up the 1851 Royal Exhibition Committee, which organized the Universal Industrial Exposition, as a permanent administrative body, and ordered it to invest and operate the fund, and to use the profits for charitable purposes, mainly in education and the arts.

The Royal Exhibition Committee used the money to purchase a large tract of land in South Kensington, London, and many buildings were built on the land, such as Imperial College, the Natural History Museum, the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Art and the Royal Conservatory of Music, making it a centre for educational and cultural institutions.

Not only that, but the 1851 Royal Exhibition Committee also took some money from this fund to set up an "1851 Exhibition Scholarship", which awarded a three-year scholarship each year to "outstanding young scientists or engineers" in Britain and overseas colonies and dominions.

Many of the British in the Cavendish laboratory were recipients of the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, such as Rutherford's deputy Chadwick, his right-hand man in the construction of the particle accelerator, Cockcroft, and his roommate Dirac, who slept in the same box in Belgium, and so on.

Chen Muwu would not envy the benefits that the British can get, at first because Trinity College gave him very generous money, and later because he made a lot of money by writing books and patents, as well as the prize money of various awards, he even looked down on this kind of dispensable scholarship.

Both New Zealand and Australia are isolated territories in the southern hemisphere of the empire on which the sun never sets, surrounded on all sides by the sea.

The people of these two countries have a feeling of sympathy for each other, and they still have to take care of it if they can take care of it.

Chen Muwu was able to enroll several Chinese at Cambridge University, and for Rutherford, arranging for an Australian student to attend the Cavendish laboratory was not a problem.

When Rutherford introduced this junior from Australia, his expression and tone were full of pride.

At the same time, from behind the lenses of the young man's glasses, there was a look of confidence and pride.

Although Chen Muwu did not like the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, after all, the scholarship provided only eight scholarships each year to all the more than 400 million people in the entire British Empire and its overseas territories.

Those who can get this scholarship are not only the dragons and phoenixes among people, but also the talents who can only be obtained through the selection of the best.

"He said that he was very interested in the quantum mechanics you made, and that he had done experiments on the properties of mercury in college alone, so I thought I invited him to the Cavendish laboratory and wanted him to study and work with you. What do you think? ”

Since he was selected by Rutherford's discerning eyes and won the top scholarship in the UK, there must be no problem with this person's academic and experimental level.

After the teacher's introduction, Chen Muwu extended his hand to him very kindly and said hello: "Hello, sir, I am Chen Muwu, welcome to join the Cavendish laboratory." ”

"Dr. Chen, I have read about your papers published in physics journals in Australia, and I have wanted to meet you for a long time. I chose Cambridge University because of Sir Rutherford and because of your fame. My name is Mark Olyphant, please advise me in the future! ”

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Why is the time when the main owner is coming to the door faster and faster?

(End of chapter)