1900: A physics genius wandering around Europe

Chapter 265 The Strongest Physicist vs. The Strongest Inventor
The superconductivity direction proposed by Li Qiwei made everyone present feel like they had found a treasure.

It was as if the Nobel Prize in Physics was slowly waving to them.

At this moment, everyone thought that the future of physics in the United States would be bright.

Li Qiwei's image suddenly became extremely tall in their hearts.

They will definitely persuade the government to strengthen scientific and educational cooperation with China, and of course the main cooperation partner will be Li Qiwei himself.

As long as we hold on to this thigh, we will no longer be afraid of falling behind in European physics.

Many people think that Michelson should continue to serve as president.

The burden of physics in the forty-eight states of America can only be shouldered with confidence by him.

Next, everyone couldn't wait to ask Li Qiwei questions in a variety of directions.

There are physics problems, chemistry problems, and mathematics problems.

Li Qiwei answered them one by one.

He is like an encyclopedia, no matter what obscure and tricky questions the other party asks.

As long as it was related to natural sciences, Li Qiwei would accept any question and talk about it attentively.

Always able to give very novel and unique answers, or angles to think about problems.

This gave these American bumpkins a huge shock.

"Bruce is even scarier than the rumors say. No wonder he can come up with the theory of creation."

"I even think that if he wanted to, he could become the first person in chemistry and biology just like he did in physics."

"Is this the terror of the number one genius? It makes it impossible for people to even have the desire to catch up!"

"Will Bruce's future be comparable to Newton's, or even surpass him?"

For a moment, the conference room was filled with shocked whispers.

This conference is more valuable than all the conferences held since the establishment of the Physical Society combined.

Such is the influence of top physicists.

Just when everyone thought that today's meeting was coming to a successful conclusion, a voice suddenly rang out, making the atmosphere in the room instantly awkward.

"Bruce, you keep saying that applied physics is not worth mentioning, so why do you write patents and invest in companies yourself?"

"You even started your own company. Isn't that inconsistent with your words and deeds?"

"I think you are a sanctimonious person!"

Wow!
Everyone looked towards the source of the sound and found that it was Edison!
This great American inventor has not spoken since the meeting began.

Unexpectedly, when it was almost over, he attacked Bruce.

Everyone present didn't know what the grudge was between the two.

However, the filament patent at that time still caused quite a stir in the United States.

Later, Edison used his connections to abolish Ridgway's patent rights in the United States.

It's just that Li Qiwei didn't care at that time.

Philips is also out of reach and cannot control the US government.

At this point, the scene became a bit ugly.

Professor Michelson was also helpless. With his qualifications, he could not control Edison.

He was about to come out to smooth things over when Li Qiwei stopped him with a gesture.

Li Qiwei looked at Edison coldly with an inexplicable smile on his face.

It seemed as if the other party was deliberately making things difficult for me.

Li Qiwei thought that he had never offended him, but he was treated so hostilely, which showed how narrow-minded the other party was.

I guess he just couldn't stand the fact that a Qing Dynasty person could make him feel intimidated by his inventions.

He even achieved a breakthrough in the field of light bulbs, which was his specialty.

This made Edison feel very unhappy.

He had worn the hat of the invented king for too long and would not allow anyone to challenge his authority.

But Li Qiwei won't indulge him.

"Mr. Edison, you may have made a mistake."

“I have never denied the value of applied physics.”

“Applied physics is certainly important.”

"If our ancestors had not learned to use tools, I'm afraid we would still be eating raw meat and drinking blood."

“Without the invention of the telegraph, there would be no communication between countries in the world, and no cultural integration and development.”

“Why should I be against applied physics?”

"In addition to pursuing the truth of the universe, another purpose of the various theories we physicists create is of course to improve people's living standards."

“And applied physics can in turn improve academic physics.”

"With more advanced measuring instruments, our experimental data will be more precise."

"With more advanced computational tools, our experiments can be repeated many times to ensure accuracy."

“This is a mutually beneficial thing.”

"I'm just like Professor Roland. I can't stand ignorant people who treat inventions as the creation of physical theories."

"They clearly know their own shortcomings, but they still want to flaunt themselves, and even look down on those real physicists."

"This kind of people are what I oppose."

“But no matter how many patents I submit, how many products I invent.”

“If I had not published the theory of relativity and quantum theory, I would never have the audacity to call myself a physicist.”

"I am not like some people who become complacent after inventing something and think that the whole world should revolve around them."

"Starting a company is my private business. Why should I explain it to you?"

“At least my identity is not brought by my inventions and products.”

"On the contrary, those things become more valuable because of who I am."

boom!
Li Qiwei's words were full of gunpowder.

Everyone present held their breath and dared not make a sound.

Edison's face turned red with anger.

This is a contest between the world's top physicists and top inventors.

One represents the highest level of academics, and the other represents the pinnacle of application.

The strong collision created sparks that instantly ignited the atmosphere in the conference room.

Eddie was so angry that he laughed and said sarcastically, "Bruce, without us inventors, you wouldn't even have the tools to come to America."

"How dare you speak so arrogantly here."

Li Qiwei said: "Ridiculous, without you, I can invent it myself."

"Light bulbs, phonographs, and movies are all child's play."

"If I want, I can invent a lot of things that are better than yours."

Eddie pointed at Li Qiwei angrily, "You you!"

Wow!
Everyone present was watching the show with a spectator's mentality.

I didn’t expect that today’s meeting would have such a wonderful session.

Bruce was indeed young and energetic, and he even wanted to surpass Edison in the field he was best at.

Physicists and inventors are not the same.

A good physicist may not necessarily become an inventor.

On the contrary, an excellent inventor is not necessarily a physicist.

Although Li Qiwei improved the filament and submitted many patents.

But no one thinks he can compare with Edison.

Because Edison had been an inventor for more than 40 years and had accumulated so much engineering experience, how could Li Qiwei compare to him?

Edison thought Ridgway was talking nonsense.

He admitted that Ridgway's filament patent was amazing, but it was just something that the other party happened to invent.

When it comes to inventing, Edison boasts that he can surpass anyone else.

Li Qiwei's shameless words made him feel humiliated.

"Bruce Lee, I thought you were a somewhat accomplished physicist."

"Although you were a little disrespectful to me, I have considered forgiving you for sharing the matter of superconductivity."

"I didn't expect you to be so arrogant."

"Do you think invention is as simple as calculating a formula with a pen?"

"It's ridiculous."

Li Qiwei still responded steadily: "Haha, why do I need your forgiveness."

"Edison, I heard that it took you ten years from 1899 to develop the alkaline battery." "It is said that this is your most proud product, and it is even used in the equipment of the US Navy."

Edison was shocked when he heard this, "Bruce, how did you know this?"

The alkaline battery was Edison's masterpiece and also brought rich returns to his company.

But how could Bruce know about his relationship with the US Navy?

At that time, Edison lost millions of dollars because of his failure in the mining method of iron ore.

If he doesn't develop new products, his company will go bankrupt.

At this time, he targeted the shortcomings of traditional lead-acid batteries and wanted to develop a better battery.

Unexpectedly, it was a huge success. The alkaline battery he invented was very popular in vehicle lighting, signal lights, offshore buoys and mining lamps.

Alkaline batteries also became Edison's most profitable product.

But the battery invented by Edison was a nickel-iron battery.

That is, a battery made with nickel and iron as the positive and negative electrode materials and potassium hydroxide as the electrolyte.

Using Edison's nickel-iron battery as the power of the car, it can run 160 kilometers on a single charge.

However, the voltage of nickel-iron batteries is only 1.2V and their discharge capacity is not good.

In the end, it was replaced by other batteries after being popular for more than ten years.

Of course, due to the instability of batteries, electric vehicles will soon be replaced by gasoline vehicles.

Ridgway certainly knew the history of battery development. As for Edison providing batteries to the Navy, that was what Tesla told him.

"Don't worry about how I know."

"You think I'm a physicist and can't invent something."

"Well, I'll prove it to you."

“How easy it would be for a physicist to switch careers and become an inventor.”

"In the near future, I will set up a company in the United States to specialize in battery research."

"And the technical leader I'm looking for is someone you're familiar with, and that's Tesla."

"I can assure you here that my battery will definitely replace Edison's battery."

"And, not only that, I will make the same model for any product from Edison in the future."

"I want to compete fairly with Edison in the free market."

boom!
Everyone was stunned with shock after hearing what Li Qiwei said.

what's the situation?
Is this a real fire?

The greatest genius in physics actually openly challenged the king of inventions, Edison.

Moreover, the person Ridgway hired was Tesla, who was squeezed out by Edison.

There couldn't be any more explosive news in America.

No one present expected that things would develop like this.

"Oh my god, Bruce looks really mad."

"Alas, Edison's temper is still as bad as ever. He's older, but he hasn't changed at all."

"Now I'm curious, can Bruce really beat Edison in invention?"

"Although Bruce is a top physicist, it seems that batteries do not require any physics knowledge. I feel that we can only try it out."

"Bruce is using his own disadvantages to compete with Edison's advantages."

Everyone present was not optimistic about Li Qiwei, thinking that he was fighting for loyalty.

Michelson sighed and wondered how a good academic exchange meeting could turn out like this.

But there was nothing he could do.

These two people are both bosses with extremely strong personalities, and they won't listen to anyone's advice.

Fortunately, the two competed with products instead of directly swearing at each other and fighting.

That would be laughable.

Although Michelson admired Ridgeway very much, he, like everyone else, did not look favorably upon Ridgeway.

Because these are two fields after all.

The battery was invented more than 100 years ago.

When electromagnetic theory was not yet complete, people were already able to use batteries skillfully.

So, batteries have little to do with physics.

"Alas, Bruce is still a little too young."

Li Qiwei looked at everyone calmly.

Of course he knew what these people were thinking.

But he doesn't care. Just kidding, any battery he picks out can crush all the batteries of this era.

The battery that Li Qiwei wanted to make was a classic product in later generations, the zinc-manganese battery.

In real history, zinc-manganese batteries were not invented until 1949.

Once it was launched, it received widespread acclaim and quickly replaced other types of batteries.

Becoming the battery of choice for household appliances and industrial equipment.

Now, Li Qiwei has developed this battery decades ahead of schedule.

To create the standard cylindrical structure of later generations would be a dimensionality reduction attack.

You can definitely make huge profits.

The company he opened in the United States had only one purpose: to make a lot of money.

Then all of them will be transported to the City of Science to enhance its foundation.

After all, the money needed for his plan was based on billions of dollars.

Of course, it would be nice to slap Edison in the face as well.

This old man is too arrogant.

However, after listening to what Li Qiwei said, Edison felt that he had heard the funniest joke in his life.

"Ha ha ha ha."

"Bruce, Bruce, I really want to thank you."

“I haven’t been this happy in a long time.”

"Thank you for this excellent joke."

"I suddenly found that you are kind of cute."

"Great, I haven't felt this way in a long time."

"There are countless young people who think they have unappreciated their talents and often come to my company to challenge me and become the next inventor."

“However, they all failed.”

"Today, you, the so-called number one genius in physics, also want to challenge me."

“It’s really exciting!”

"Roland said I just stole the ideas of physicists."

"If physicists are willing to bow their heads and accept the temptation of money, they can naturally invent all kinds of convenient products."

"Today is a good time to put an end to this."

"I want to prove to the world that I, Edison, am no worse than a physicist!"

“I don’t steal their ideas, I develop them.”

boom!
The whole place was shocked!

Everyone was infected by Edison's spirit.

This is a contest between the strongest physicist and the strongest inventor.

It is also a battle between pure science and applied science.

After tomorrow, this explosive news will spread all over the United States.

Both are now well-known figures in the United States.

It can be said that the competition between them is no less than the collision between Mars and the Earth.

It brings endless shock to people.

Of course, I'm afraid that like everyone present, no one would be optimistic about Li Qiwei.

After all, the image of Edison, the king of invention, is deeply rooted in people's hearts.

He is the definition of invention.

Faced with Edison's high spirits, Li Qiwei watched coldly.

"Haha, the more you shout now, the more miserable your defeat will be in the future."

(End of this chapter)