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The content of what Chen Muwu said on the podium was not torture for the audience, because the content he talked about was all experiments that he had done in Cavendish's laboratory, the experimental process was clear, the experimental phenomena were clear, and the experimental results were also analyzed by him.
But in the course of Chen Muwu's speech, Einstein's side was different.
He did not choose to listen to what Chen Muwu said on stage, but chose to use this time to have a hearty debate about quantum mechanics with the friend introduced by Chen Muwu, who claims to be "very interested in quantum mechanics".
Since Chen Muwu, this kid, really found a so-called friend and stood in front for himself.
So is it possible that as long as he defeats his friend and refutes and criticizes him decently, he can force Chen Muwu to come out and fight with him.
From the very beginning, Einstein did not intend to leave the slightest affection for this Austrian descendant, who also spoke German, but went straight to the opponent's weakness and death, and wanted to kill with one blow and not waste time.
But after actually talking to Wittgenstein, Einstein felt as if he had punched cotton, because what the two wanted to talk about was basically the donkey's lips and the horse's mouth, he said the city gate, and he said the hip shaft.
What Einstein came up with this time is still the same as the one he used to deal with Chen Muwu a few years ago, designing several thought experiments to prove that the position and momentum of an object can be measured at the same time, or the time and energy of an object can be measured at the same time, so as to prove that the uncertainty principle is wrong, and fundamentally deny the culprit that brings uncertainty to quantum mechanics and makes quantum mechanics based on random probability.
But what Wittgenstein responded to him was the old idea that has been in the same vein in the British philosophical circles, the one that has been chattering since Hume, that causality can be abandoned, this is not a basic law for human beings, so it is completely unnecessary for causality to exist in quantum mechanics, and quantum mechanics itself is a very sound branch of physics.
Apparently Wittgenstein was also prepared, and he was entrusted by Chen Muwu to study quantum mechanics painstakingly during his long time at Cambridge, and to combine these physical knowledge and philosophical concepts well.
Although I don't know, the person who is opposed to quantum mechanics in Chen Muwu's words is actually the Einstein who proposed the theory of relativity and is the most famous and influential in the world.
When he just walked into the venue of the Solvay conference and listened to Chen Muwu's introduction to himself, Wittgenstein was a little shocked to be honest.
He said in his heart that Dr. Chen could not help but think too highly of himself, and let him, who had just studied quantum mechanics for less than a month, debate with Einstein, a great physicist with a high level of physics.
But Wittgenstein was not the kind of person who would turn off when he saw a fierce opponent, and on second thought, Einstein was not always right, and he made mistakes sometimes.
For example, on the issue of the model of the universe, when he said that the universe is static, wasn't he rejected by Dr. Chen's theory of an expanding universe?
Because people's imagination of the universe has always been denied and overturned, and Einstein is still a great physicist who can point out the mistakes of his predecessors in the eyes of the world, and he himself will not make mistakes, Chen Muwu at that time when he won the Nobel Prize in his speech to state this new cosmological discovery, but also appeared in news newspapers all over the world.
Even in the remote countryside of southern Austria, Wittgenstein had read about it in the newspapers.
Since Chen Muwu has pointed out Einstein's mistakes in research, can he also do it?
Moreover, the fact that the theory of cause and effect is not used in quantum mechanics is itself asked by Dr. Chen, does it mean that Dr. Chen has long realized that Einstein has made a new mistake in quantum mechanics this time?
Therefore, when Wittgenstein and Einstein discussed, he showed a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, and he did not lose much in the confrontation with Einstein.
Both of them were well prepared, but they were not on the same track at all, and they were not on the same track at all.
This is like a situation where you are notified in advance that the prop used in the competition is a rope, and as a result, one person trains in advance and the other trains in skipping.
In this case, how can it be determined who won whom?
Einstein knew very well in his heart that this must be the ghost of Chen Muwu, a monkey spirit.
Chen Muwu walked back to his position after the lecture, and finally pressed the pause button for this academic discussion that was completely a farce of Guan Gong and Qin Qiong.
Einstein directly stopped talking to Wittgenstein, who was still starting from quantum mechanics and raising the problem to a philosophical level, but pulled Chen Muwu to pour bitter water.
"Dr. Chen, this friend of yours, does he really understand your quantum mechanics?"
"It is true that Mr. Wittgenstein has been studying quantum mechanics at Cambridge University lately, because I have been doing experiments on particle accelerators all this time, so he has problems that he does not understand, and he often talks to Professor Fowler and Dr. Dirac.
"Although I don't know what kind of level of quantum mechanics he has reached, I think that with his ingenuity and the guidance of professors and doctors, it is not a problem for Wittgenstein to be more advanced in quantum mechanics than an undergraduate student in the physics department."
Anyway, Chen Muwu would never admit that Wittgenstein, who talked about philosophy when he opened and closed his mouth, was specially invited from Cambridge University to muddy the waters.
"But what he has been discussing with me is not quantum mechanics at all, but in the skin of quantum mechanics, talking about Hume's theory of cause and effect."
Einstein still had a drooping face.
"Yes, Professor, Mr. Wittgenstein is indeed a great philosopher of the younger generation. And it is not Hume's theory of cause and effect, but his own unique set of views based on Hume and the English philosophical system.
"I still remember that when you and I discussed quantum mechanics several times before, you always emphasized one thing, saying that the laws of the universe are absolutely not based on random probability, and must satisfy the theory of cause and effect, which can be deduced by using known or unknown laws. - This sounds a lot like the view of the famous French mathematician Laplace.
"As you know, I am a student from East Asia, and in the past 100 years, China has developed poorly for various reasons, and it has not regained its former glory, which is extremely evident in education. Moreover, Chinese philosophy and Western philosophy are almost two completely different philosophical disciplines, so I don't really understand some of the philosophical views you mentioned earlier.
"After returning to Cambridge University, I also tried to study Western philosophy, and I went to the library to borrow many books to study, but I couldn't get a glimpse of it after studying it for a while.
"At this time, I happened to meet Mr. Wittgenstein, who had returned to Cambridge for a sabbatical, and the two of us were very close to each other and had a good conversation, and I happened to remember the philosophical question you had mentioned earlier, so I brought it up to him.
"Over and over again, Mr. Wittgenstein also became interested in quantum mechanics, and so there was a wonderful relationship between the two of us, I taught him quantum mechanics, and he taught me philosophy.
"During this period, Mr. Wittgenstein must have had a lot of opinions on quantum mechanics and causality, and I think the issues that have just been discussed between the two of you should be some of the conclusions he has recently reached."
Chen Muwu's ability to shake the pot is really superb, he directly found a philosopher's cauldron and put it on Einstein's head.
If I hadn't had to elevate physics to the level of philosophy, how could I have invited a philosophical helper today?
After listening to Chen Muwu's quibbling explanation, Einstein became angry, but he couldn't jump up and beat up this disobedient student for Rutherford in public.
But he still didn't give Chen Muwu a good face, and the tone of his response was quite unhappy: "In this way, it's still mine." Then I admit my mistake to you, from now on, we will no longer talk about quantum mechanics about philosophy, only physics, do you think it's okay, Dr. Chen Muwu? ”
From the change of his name and the fluttering beard on his mouth, Chen Muwu can know the emotional changes in Einstein's heart at this time.
"Of course, that's great, because I'm a physicist myself, and I don't know anything about philosophy. Mr. Wittgenstein was a good physics student, but I was not a good philosophy student. ”
"It's serious, it's serious, I'm still a primary school student in physics, and I still have a lot to learn."
Hearing that Chen Muwu had been praising himself all along, Wittgenstein said politely with some embarrassment.
Chen Muwu's purpose of inviting Wittgenstein to participate in the Solvay conference was achieved on the first day of the conference.
As long as Einstein no longer raised the debate about quantum mechanics between the two men to the philosophical level of inadmissible right and wrong, but always confined himself to the scope of physics, then he was confident in the academic debate between the two men.
Not to mention completely convincing this stubborn old man Einstein, at least he can make the other party take advantage of himself.
Having just used Wittgenstein as a rescuer to offend Einstein a lot, Chen Muwu immediately began to try to repair relations with the leader who brought him from the sea to Europe.
When he stood on the podium, he could clearly see the situation in the venue while giving a report.
Einstein could discuss problems with Wittgenstein and not listen to the report he just made, but Chen Muwu, who was very popular in physics circles and was known as a "learned and modest junior", could not sit in his seat and turn a blind eye to others when they were giving reports.
In particular, the director of the Cambridge University Observatory and Professor Eddington, who came to the stage to give a report immediately after Chen Muwu.
Even though Eddington, who was inexplicably praised, repeatedly said that Chen Muwu had finished saying everything he wanted to say, he was still invited to the podium by Professor Lorenz, the chairman of the conference.
Chen Muwu was a little worried that if he continued to talk to Einstein about quantum mechanics now, then if Eddington mentioned himself in his speech, he would probably ignore the news because he was so engrossed in the discussion with Einstein.
So after making peace with Einstein temporarily, Chen Muwu began to listen to Eddington's speech seriously, ignoring Einstein's letter of invitation to fight who was eager to try it while sitting next to him.
On the other hand, Wittgenstein, who felt that he and Einstein had not yet had a good time, was also a little confused.
Why did Professor Einstein suddenly stop caring with himself after Dr. Chan returned?
He tried to touch Einstein's arm lightly, but the response was only Einstein's shaking head and refusing: "Mr. Wittgenstein, the philosophical topics you are talking about are so profound that I need some time to digest them." ”
Eddington's speech was much inferior to what Chen Muwu had just done.
In his speech, Chen Muwu mentioned many theories and conjectures about the sun, all of which were uttered through the mouth of Eddington, and he himself did not even know when he had said those words.
Therefore, Eddington did not say anything more novel and profound than Chen Muwu in his speech.
However, he also learned something from Chen's speech, that is, he constantly praised Dr. Chen for his outstanding contributions to the relevant experiments at the University of Cambridge.
He praised him as much as he could, and the sedan chairs carried each other.
Eddington, who had nothing to prepare in advance, finally stumbled over his off-script speech.
In Einstein's eyes, Chen Muwu could no longer ignore himself because of the reason of listening to the speech.
So he hurriedly spoke: "Chen, when do you have time, I still have a few questions about quantum mechanics and want to talk to you."
"Rest assured, this is definitely a matter of pure physics, and there will not be even a little philosophical element involved."
Afraid that Chen Muwu would refuse, Einstein added in time.
"I'd rather like to hear the presentations given by these physics seniors at the conference, so I'm sorry, Professor Einstein, but I can't accompany you at the meeting.
"But as long as it's not in session, like tonight, after dinner, I'm happy to accept your advice."
"Then it's settled, tonight, I'll go find you!"
Einstein didn't give Chen Muwu any chance, and made this decision directly.
At the same time, the door to the venue opened again, and a staff member hurriedly walked in with a piece of paper.
(End of chapter)