The reason why Chen Muwu still went to find Rutherford tonight was that he wanted to talk to his teacher, and when the Solvay meeting was over in a few days, he would not go to school with the large army, but would take Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft directly from Belgium to Sweden to participate in an "exchange visit" there, and by the way, wait for the arrival of December, and go to Stockholm City Hall to get back the Nobel Prize prize money and medals.

The so-called exchange visit in Chen Muwu's words is actually to secretly make some preparations for the production of cyclotrons in his own school in Stockholm, and to see if it can officially start construction in just over a month.

In his description of Marie Curie, Rutherford was willing to let Chen Muwu leave the Cavendish laboratory and go to Sweden to build this more advanced cyclotron, because Cambridge University could not afford so much money, so he could only let himself "fly to more happy places".

In fact, Chen Muwu told a little lie here, and Rutherford didn't know that Chen Muwu had plans to build a cyclotron.

Chen Muwu once rehearsed this matter in his heart, if he proposed to his teacher after Rutherford returned from New Zealand that he proposed his plan to build a cyclotron, even if the Cavendish laboratory had enough funds to come up with a reserve of 10,000 pounds in the early stage of the cyclotron, it is estimated that he is cautious and budget-conscious will not be willing to pay this amount of money.

If Chen Muwu had re-emphasized that the cyclotron would have been made for £10,000, Rutherford might have finally acceded to his request.

But if Chen Muwu told the truth, the funding of 10,000 pounds is only the initial fund, and if the funds are spent in the future, it will need to be added again.

It is estimated that even if he is as eloquent as Kuai Wentong, he may not be able to move Rutherford's stubbornness.

After the Prince's College in Stockholm is finally completed and officially put into use, Chen Muwu feels that he will gradually devote himself more and more to Sweden, and sooner or later he will leave Cambridge University and leave the Cavendish Laboratory.

Then build this cyclotron as a start, and then if you want to compensate for the teacher Rutherford who trained you, then go back to Cambridge University and help them build a cyclotron.

At today's Nobel Prize celebration dinner, Rutherford, who had drunk a few more glasses of wine, was full of red face, and he was glad that the Cavendish Laboratory had made another achievement under his leadership.

Seeing Chen Muwu coming to him again, Rutherford, who had drunk too much and was a little drunk, looked at his good student, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

If it weren't for Chen Muwu coming up with a good idea on the basis of Lord Kelvin, Rutherford thought that the time for Cavendish Labs to build a particle accelerator would definitely be four or five years later than now.

- His estimate was really accurate.

So after seeing Chen Muwu, he greeted him very happily: "Chen, what's the matter with you?" ”

If it weren't for the fact that this was a formal dinner occasion, Rutherford really wanted to open his arms and take Chen Muwu into his arms and give him a bear hug.

Chen Muwu expressed his "intention" to his teacher, saying that there was still more than a month before the Nobel Prize ceremony, and if he returned to the UK after the meeting, he would have to leave again in a few days and cross the ocean to Stockholm in eastern Sweden.

Rather than making such a toss-up, I can only stay at Cambridge University for a few days, and I can't do anything academically in this short period of time.

I just happened to receive an invitation from the Swedish crown prince to give a lecture in Stockholm in November for a month, so it would be better to go directly to Sweden after the Solvay meeting, which would save a lot of time and physical strength on the road.

Chen Muwu's request was reasonable, and even if it was a little more unreasonable, maybe Rutherford would still agree, who made Chen Muwu his most effective assistant and his favorite student?

Rutherford nodded and acquiesced in this matter, and he also joked to Chen Muwu: "This future heir to the throne of Sweden is more interested in learning than our British Prince of Wales.

"Chen, it seems that you have a good relationship with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and I heard that you also run a school with him in Stockholm. If one day he invited you to leave Cambridge University and teach in Sweden, what would you choose? ”

"This ......"

Hearing Rutherford's question, Chen Muwu was speechless for a while.

He didn't know whether the teacher was intentional or unintentional, whether it was a joke or a joke, and he had already seen through his true intentions.

In the end, he chose to tell the truth: "Teacher, although I am grateful for your help in the past few years at Cambridge University, if this happens, as you just said, I may still choose to leave the Cavendish laboratory and go to Stockholm."

"It's not because I have any opinions or opinions about you or the lab, it's just that Cambridge is still too restrictive to me.

"In the past few years, thanks to your help, I have been able to bring a few bright students from China to Cambridge every year, and I am very grateful to you for that.

"But if I want to bring ten, dozens, or even hundreds of students to study in Europe in the future, I don't think Cambridge will allow so many students, and Sweden is the best choice."

At this point, Chen Muwu simply said everything.

Rutherford, who had just been so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, sobered up in an instant.

His expression immediately became serious, and then he cautiously asked, "So, Chen, are you saying goodbye to me?" ”

Chen Muwu shook his head at first, and then nodded heavily.

The features on Rutherford's face became motionless, and he tried to reach for the pipe he had brought with him, fill it with tobacco and take a hard puff.

After groping around with his hand on his body a few times, he found that the person standing opposite was Chen Muwu, so he could only give up this idea.

He was silent for a long time, and finally spoke: "Chen, you have done so many achievements in the laboratory in the past few years, but you have always held the title of a doctor, speaking of which, this is definitely the University of Cambridge that can't stand you." If the University of Cambridge offered you a professorship, or even a tenured professorship, after the Solvay Conference, would you still leave? ”

There was a little hope in Rutherford's eyes, if Chen Muwu could nod on this matter, then when he returned to Cambridge University, then he would definitely go to the school council to fight for a fish and a net.

Chen Muwu still shook his head: "Teacher, this is not a matter of teaching or not, whether it is a doctor or a professor, I am not very interested in this kind of false title."

"Working with you and other colleagues and classmates in the Cavendish Lab has been a memorable time in my life.

"It's just that compared to conducting scientific research on my own, achieving one achievement after another, and gaining more and more prestige, I also have another mission on my shoulders, that is, to make more Chinese people able to gain knowledge, and I am not the only one."

Rutherford saw in Chen Muwu's eyes full of unwillingness and firmness.

Thinking about all the previous events, such as bringing his family from China to the UK, he was reluctant to buy a house in London or Cambridgeshire.

He knew that this student of his kind seemed to have made up his mind, and he couldn't persuade him to come back.

Rutherford could only let out a long sigh, and his voice was slightly pleading and incoherent: "Then I will cherish your last time in the laboratory." If you go to Sweden in the future, fortunately, you go to Sweden in the future, which is not far from the UK, and when the winter and summer vacations come, can you go back to the laboratory more often? ”

The atmosphere was already like this, and Chen Muwu was also a little emotional by the teacher.

With tears in his eyes, he solemnly assured Rutherford: "The Cavendish Laboratory is like a second home in my life, and in the future, as long as you need it, I will definitely rush back to Cambridge University as soon as possible." ”

Originally, I just wanted to ask Rutherford for leave, saying that I would take Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft to Sweden after the meeting, but I didn't expect to expose the old bottom that I was leaving in advance.

Chen Muwu didn't want the atmosphere in the room to continue to be depressed, so he found a reason to say goodbye and leave.

After he was gone, Rutherford smoked several bags of cigarettes on his own, bag after bag, until the tobacco in the bag he carried with him bottomed out.

Rutherford took off the pipe in his mouth, and cursed in his heart that those Englishmen, especially the Cambridge University Chancellor Balfour, still forced Chen Muwu away as they wished.

Perhaps this student, after leaving his side, will be able to break into a new world like Bohr.

Rutherford comforted himself in his heart.

It's just that I'm fifty-six years old this year, and I don't know if I can still have time in the future, can I cultivate another genius student like Bohr and Chen Muwu?

Within a day, Chen Muwu's mood was up and down, like riding a roller coaster in an amusement park, experiencing the joy of Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft winning the Nobel Prize, the anger of Wang Jingqi after his visit, and the sentimentality after talking to Rutherford.

He dragged his somewhat tired body back to the room where he had been staying in the Solvay Palace for the past few days, and when he opened the door, he realized that he had forgotten to make an appointment with Einstein to discuss quantum mechanics in the evening.

Smiles neither arise nor disappear out of thin air, they only move from one person's face to another's face.

After entering the door, Chen Muwu found Einstein sitting at the end of the sofa, his face full of decadence.

On the other hand, Dirac, who was sitting at the other end of the sofa, had a rare smile on his face.

What's going on?

Chen Muwu adjusted the expression on his face and greeted the two people in the room.

"Professor Einsteana, I'm sorry that I had a little delay with Sir Rutherford. You wait for me to wash my face and sober up, and then we will discuss the problems of quantum mechanics together. ”

Before coming to the Solvay meeting, Chen Muwu was ready to settle the controversy with Einstein about quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle once and for all during this meeting.

If Einstein does not get a satisfactory result, then this stubborn old man will definitely keep pestering him.

Chen Muwu didn't say these words, but as soon as he said them, Einstein turned into a firecracker that was lit and suddenly exploded.

"What to discuss? There's nothing more to discuss! Chen, did you collude in advance, and it was fake to talk to Sir Rutherford, and the real purpose was to let me talk about quantum mechanics with this piece of wood? Seriously, this roommate of yours is tougher than that philosopher kid in the morning, and if you don't come back, he's going to drive me crazy! ”

"Professor, please stay quiet, don't be impatient."

Chen Muwu quietly approached Dirac, and the words in his mouth seamlessly switched to English.

"Paul, what's going on?"

"Just now, as soon as I got back to my room, Professor Einstein knocked on the door and came in.

"I had barely exchanged a few words with him when the professor began to ask me questions about quantum mechanics in French.

He said he had found a loophole in quantum mechanics and constructed several cases where both position and momentum could be measured at the same time, and tried to use these cases to illustrate the non-compliance with the uncertainty relationship.

"Because the uncertainty principle is the most basic principle of quantum mechanics that you proposed, I was very interested in proposing it to Professor Einstein to see what the situation was.

Then I pointed out the mistakes he had made in those ideas, and Professor Einstein was sullen from the beginning to the present.

"I thought we were just discussing some academic issues, but I didn't expect ......"

Listening to Dirac's tone of answer, Chen Muwu wanted to laugh very much, but he couldn't laugh in front of the person concerned.

At first, he really just wanted Dirac to accompany Einstein, a guest, while he was going to visit Rutherford.

Unexpectedly, without having to do it himself, Dirac had already smashed the several thought experiments that Einstein's authorities had conceived one by one.

What a bonus!

Happy is happy, but Chen Muwu still has to quickly comfort Einstein and "admit his mistake" to him: "Professor, you better dissipate your anger first, it seems that our Cambridge University is not only very good at experiments, but also very good at researching theories."

"How about I give Dr. Dirac a question and see what he can't figure out?"

(End of chapter)