After a person's status becomes different, then the attitude of others towards you will also be different.

This has nothing to do with snobbery or not, there are only a very small number of people who do not tend to be inflammatory, and most people are willing to make friends with nobles with high status and power who can help themselves.

This is not the first time Chen Muwu has been to Brussels, Belgium, he followed his teacher Rutherford here four years ago to attend the 4th Solvay Conference.

At that time, Chen Muwu had not yet received a doctorate from Cambridge University, nor had he won a Nobel Prize or an Olympic title.

One of the most famous things he did at that time was the discovery of the ninth planet in the solar system, the Yellow Emperor Star, which was also featured on the cover of Time magazine.

Because he was not studying in Belgium, but only came to Brussels to attend a conference, Chen Muwu did not go to the legation of the People's Republic of China in Belgium to register after getting off the train.

But the Solvay Conference was an important meeting for Brussels, and the news of the meeting, as well as the full list of participants, was published in the local newspapers as early as possible.

Naturally, Chen Muwu's name was included in the list of participants, unless none of the staff members of the Chinese People's Republic of China in Belgium read the newspaper, otherwise they would definitely be able to see Chen Muwu's name from the newspaper.

Anyway, from the opening to the end of the meeting, Chen Muwu never went to the legation, and the legation did not send staff to contact him from beginning to end.

But three years later, Chen Muwu is still the same Chen Muwu, the legation in Belgium is still the same legation, and the Solvay Conference is still the same Solvay Conference.

It seems that nothing has changed, except for the different times.

But because after three years, Chen Muwu has made one achievement after another in physics in these years, and he has also successfully come out of the circle, and his reputation is not limited to the scope of physics, but often appears in newspapers every once in a while, becoming a frequent guest in news reports.

So when Zhao Zhongyao, who accidentally lost his passport, found the legation in Belgium and revealed that Chen Muwu was also about to arrive in Belgium to participate in the Solvay meeting, the staff of the legation immediately became busy.

They not only dutifully fulfilled their consular duties, but also helped Zhao Zhongyao to refill his passport at the speed of light, and also invited Chen Muwu through Zhao Zhongyao to find time to be a guest at the legation.

If Chen Muwu agreed to their invitation, they would naturally be happy, and if they didn't agree, then it would not be a shame to send someone to visit Solvay Palace.

- After all, Corporal Lixian is one of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.

The reason for the Legation in Belgium is that Chen Muwu's reputation is too great, and on the other hand, it is also because he has oil and water to fish.

The oil and water fishing mentioned here does not mean that he knows that he Chen Muwu is rich and wants to take the opportunity to knock a bamboo lever from him.

But colleagues from all over the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have long begun to pass the anger, and there is a rumor:

Zhu Zhaoxin, the first secretary and chargé d'affaires of the Legation in Britain at the time, has not been promoted for so many years.

It was because he was close to the water that he was the first to get the moon and kept slapping the horse with Dr. Chan, who was also in England, that he was able to rise to the top and take up the post of minister to Italy.

Now that this rich and wealthy old man Chen has finally arrived in Belgium, it is finally their turn to be rich and rich, if they don't know how to cherish it, they are fools.

Regarding the invitation of the legation, Chen Muwu did not take it to heart.

One is that the Solvay meeting has a very tight schedule, and I may not be able to find time.

Second, Belgium is not his main country of activity in the future, and apart from attending the Solvay Conference every three years, it basically does not have more intersections with the country he wrote.

So he was reluctant to deal with these old-fashioned bureaucrats.

And only before leaving London, his eldest brother Chen Muqiao, who was familiar with etiquette, did not specifically inform himself that he had relatives and friends to visit after arriving in Belgium, so Chen Muwu did not take the invitation of the legation to heart.

"Brother Zong Yao, thank you for coming to the door tonight and informing me of the news in person. We had limited time in Brussels, so I don't know if we would have time to visit the legation. I'll write a letter to the legation sometime and explain it in detail.

"Let's talk about it, you went to Germany this time and Su Lian helped install the particle accelerator, did everything go well? Did you encounter anything difficult or happy? ”

The topic of the legation was just a small episode in the conversation that night, and Chen Muwu quickly shifted the topic to serious matters.

Dirac listened with great interest, and from time to time he raised a few questions of his own concern.

When it was almost time for dinner, after Zhao Zhongyao said goodbye and left, Dirac was still interested in the content of the chat just now.

"Chen, listening to what Dr. Zhao said just now, I really think Sulian is a very interesting place, and I want to find an opportunity to take a walk, take a turn, and see what this mysterious country that has been constantly slandered and slandered by our newspapers is really like."

What should come will always come.

In the original time and space without Chen Muwu, in order to improve the academic level of its own country and break the various blockades imposed on it by European and American countries, the Sulian government also invited batch after batch of internationally renowned scholars to visit Sulian in China, just as it invited Chen Muwu to visit the Sulian Academy of Sciences in Leegrad.

Although Su Lien eventually overthrew Tsarist rule, he chose a new topic that was different from the rest of the world.

But the main ethnic group is still the Russian, and the reverence of the Russian community for knowledge has never changed.

"Teachers, preaching and receiving karma to solve doubts", all walks of life pay attention to the relationship between teachers and teachers, and of course this situation will exist in the academic circle.

Knowledge is something that can be explored through one's own research and discovery of new content.

But the vast majority of the knowledge that a person acquires in his life basically comes from education, from the teachers who impart knowledge to him.

In 1726, Leonhard Euler, a 19-year-old man from Switzerland, had just completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Basel, where he received his doctorate.

Immediately after graduating with his Ph.D., he received an invitation from the Royal Russian Academy of Sciences, the predecessor of the Sulian Academy of Sciences, where Chen Muwu went to Letegrad to give lectures, to work as a faculty member at a faculty of the Institute of Physiology.

As a Swiss, Euler did not immediately accept or refuse the request to teach, and was waiting for a response from the University of Basel, where he had just applied for a teaching position.

The Swiss university eventually rejected Euler's application for a professorship, and at the age of twenty, Euler crossed the Baltic Sea to St. Petersburg, the seaside city and capital of the Russian Empire, to work at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

After the director of the Institute of Mathematics, Daniel I Bernoulli, one of the more famous members of the Bernoulli family who proposed the fundamental principles of fluid mechanics, Bernoulli's principle, resigned in anger and left Russia to return to Basel because he could not stand the scrutiny and hostility he received in St. Petersburg, Euler took over his position and became the director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Twice in his life, he worked at the Russian Academy of Sciences to do mathematical research, and planted the seeds of mathematics in this land that was still a desert at that time, and let it take root and sprout.

The seed planted by Euler, invited by Catherine, allowed Russia to produce hundreds of mathematicians in the next few hundred years, both in terms of the number of mathematicians and the quality of their academic research, in Europe and even in the world, only Germany and France can compare with it.

Mathematics in France is strong because they have Cauchy, Lagrange, Laplace, etc.

The situation in Germany is similar to that of Russia, with apples in the United States and pineapples in China......

No, Russia has Euler, Germany has Gauss.

Euler and the mathematical system he brought, as well as the local mathematician Chebyshev trained by Russia itself, as well as his apprentices Markov and Lyapunov, and his disciples and grandchildren, made St. Petersburg University and Jusko University the two major mathematicians in Russia concentrated.

Gauss single-handedly made the University of Göttingen, a small town in western Germany, the undisputed center of mathematics in Europe and the world from the beginning of the 19th century to the 30s of the 20th century.

So much so that by the time Chen Muwu crossed over, Hilbert, the leader of mathematics at the University of Göttingen, would still be recognized as the king of mathematics by the mathematical community.

Then the mustache came to power in 1933, and the mathematicians of the University of Göttingen were fooled by the rich and discerning Americans into going to Princeton, so that the latter could succeed the University of Göttingen after the Second World War and become the world's new center of mathematics scholarship.

The strength of mathematics in Russia, Germany, and France is inseparable from the fact that another mathematician or several mathematicians have made a good start in the country's mathematical research, and then passed it on from generation to generation, so that its blood continues.

And Britain, which is across the sea from the European continent, as one of the richest countries in Europe at that time, also had a great mathematician, who is not inferior to Euler, Cauchy and Gauss, and even in the ranking of the four greatest mathematicians in the history of mathematics recognized by the mathematical community, he is still ranked ahead of Euler and Gauss, second only to Archimedes in the ancient Greek period.

This British math macho man from the sky is Chen Muwu's senior at Trinity College centuries ago, Isaac Newton.

Newton's achievements in mathematics are well known, but the level of mathematics in England did not reach the same level as that of Russia, France and Germany after a few hundred years.

The reason behind this is that Newton's successors, the British mathematicians in the Royal Society, and Leibniz students on the European continent fought for the two masters over the right to discover calculus.

Therefore, the British mathematicians, who were angry with the mathematical community on the European continent, took advantage of the natural advantages of the English Channel to sever academic ties with Europe.

There was no academic exchange with macho mathematicians like Euler and Gauss, and there were no mathematicians as great as Lord Niu in Britain, so the British inheritance, which had been interrupted for more than a hundred years, has never achieved as much in mathematics as the three countries on the European continent after Newton.

At about the same time as Euler's departure to Russia, Euler's mathematician master Leibniz was not very happy in his later years because of the problem of the right to discover calculus.

After Leibniz invented binary, he happened to see Zhou Yitu, a missionary who had gone to the Qing Dynasty to preach, and learned about the Bagua system.

He believed that his invention of binary coincided with the yin and yang gossip studied by the ancient Chinese, and since then he has become interested in Chinese culture, and through continuous research, he has become a well-known Chinese speaker on the European continent.

Because he was suppressed by the British scholars on the European continent, Leibniz in his later years had the idea of going to his spiritual homeland, far away in China on the other side of the Eurasian continent, to continue his mathematical research.

With this idea in mind, Leibniz once wrote a letter to his pen pal Kang Mazi, whom he had never met but had long been friends with, and who was proficient in mathematics and calculus, proposing the idea of moving to China and establishing an academy of sciences in Shaojing.

However, this idea was ruthlessly rejected by the emperor of the "Celestial Empire", so Leibniz and his mathematical ideas did not come to fruition in the end.

Leibniz's seeds of mathematics remained in Europe, and Euler's seeds of mathematics were sown on Russian soil.

It seems that they are just two things that are similar but have different results, but a hundred years after that, Tsarist Russia, which accepted Euler, has repeatedly invaded and ceded large amounts of land in the northern part of the Qing Dynasty by various means.

The Qing Dynasty, which rejected Leibniz, became a fish on the board, ceding land and various interests again and again to various powers, including but not limited to Tsarist Russia.

Perhaps the reasons for this disparate outcome cannot all be mathematically calculated.

However, the attitude towards knowledge and science determines to a large extent the different outcomes that the two countries ultimately achieve.

Although Sulian was blocked by various European countries for political reasons.

Their love and pursuit of knowledge has not changed, which is why last year they invited Chen Muwu, a young physicist who proposed the groundbreaking quantum theory, to visit the Sulian Academy of Sciences in Leegrad.

And in the original time and space without Chen Muwu, the objects they invited for the first time were Dirac and Heisenberg.

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