1900: A physics genius wandering around Europe

Chapter 269 The road to legendary physics begins!
On December 1910, 12, Ridgway and others returned to Britain from the United States.

After nearly two months of travel, everyone felt a little tired.

But this still could not stop Bohr and Qian Wushi's excitement.

After returning to King's College, the two were immediately surrounded by other friends from the Physics Department.

Gregory and others who stayed in the UK during this trip to the United States were even more impatient.

They were particularly interested in knowing everything that happened to Ridgway in the United States.

"Bohr, did Professor Bruce really say that general relativity can explain the precession of Mercury's perihelion?"

"Fifth Division, I heard that the second Bruce Conference will be held in 1912. Is that true?"

"The battle between Professor Bruce and Edison over batteries has spread to Europe. It's really exciting."

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Facing everyone's questions, Bohr and Master Qian were like the moon surrounded by stars.

Every time the two of them revealed a bit of information, there was an exclamation from the crowd.

Especially Li Qiwei's speech at Princeton University, which made people intoxicated.

The flaws in gravity and the problem of the speed of light left everyone dumbfounded, and they felt that all the physics they had learned before was in vain.

"You don't know, Hubble from the University of Chicago is absolutely a genius."

"He used a very clever method to directly unify the form of the law of universal gravitation and Coulomb's law."

"If Professor Bruce hadn't pointed out that it was wrong, I would have almost been convinced by Hubble."

"The professor even said personally that Hubble would definitely have a place in the future of physics."

Wow!
Everyone was moved by what they heard.

In the United States, which has nothing to do with science, there are such talents.

There are so many talented people in the world.

Everyone present was beating their chests and stamping their feet, hating themselves for not having the chance to listen in person and missing out on the opportunity to win the Nobel Prize.

"Of course, there is also a Chinese named Chongsu. He is not a physics major, but he also has very profound insights into physics."

"China is indeed a vast country with abundant resources, and it is easy to produce talents."

Bohr was explaining while his mind was wandering. He really wanted to visit his mentor Bruce's hometown.

What kind of blessed place can produce a physics genius like my mentor.

Li Qiwei looked at the two of them with amusement, acting like storytellers, and couldn't help shaking his head.

Soon, people asked Bohr to say more, as they had not heard enough.

Bohr waved his hands and said, "I can't talk about it anymore. I can't talk about it anymore."

"I will use all my time to study my subject."

"This trip to the United States has made me realize how fierce the competition in physics is."

"The United States is researching physics with almost the entire country's strength."

“And there are too many geniuses in this world.”

"I haven't published a single paper yet, so I can't brag to you anymore."

"You can ask Master Qian Wu to speak. He has no pressure now that he has graduated with a doctorate."

Everyone cheered in unison.

Suddenly, Bohr finally said in high spirits: "The second Bruce Conference is coming soon."

"I want to get a chance to attend the conference."

boom!
Everyone present was stunned by Bohr's ambition.

Then he burst into laughter.

They all thought it was a joke told by Bohr.

That was the Bruce Conference, the highest conference in the physics community.

Every participant in the conference is a top figure in the field of physics and is highly respected.

Bohr was not an intern. He had only been a doctoral student for a year and a half, not even two and a half years, and he dared to dream of being invited to attend the second Bruce Conference.

So everyone began to laugh at Bohr.

Of course, this kind of ridicule is just a good-natured joke among classmates, not real sarcasm.

But Bohr remained unshakable and his determination was firm.

After Ridgway proposed the idea of ​​a second Bruce Conference in the United States, the news spread throughout Europe in almost three days.

The physics community went completely crazy.

If the first Bruce Conference played a connecting role between classical physics and modern physics.

Li Qiwei joined forces with several bigwigs to point out the direction for modern physics.

The Second Bruce Conference was the pioneering conference of modern physics.

It is time to test the achievements of modern physics.

Moreover, everyone knew that Li Qiwei would expand the number of invitees to the meeting.

This makes many people eager to try, and even secretly wonder if they will be the lucky one.

For example, Laue, Prague and others, and even Master Qian Wu, were all looking forward to that day.

In addition, more people thought the same as Bohr and wanted to take advantage of this time to solve difficult physics problems.

Like Laue, soar into the sky.

So, after returning from the United States, Li Qiwei could clearly feel that great changes were taking place in the European physics community.

Nature journal is already overwhelmed.

This in turn gave many other second-tier journals opportunities, and many papers that were not of sufficient quality were diverted away.

Li Qiwei watched the curtain open and felt very proud.

All this is thanks to his appearance. Without him, the physics community would still be a niche circle that entertains itself.

And the communication would not be as frequent as it is now.
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Starting from December 12th, universities in the UK have begun to close for holidays.

The holidays in British universities are different from those in China in later times. Undergraduates and postgraduates have three holidays a year.

分别是12月-1月的寒假、3月-4月的春假、6月-9月的暑假。

Of course, this is not unified across the country. Each university can customize its own holiday time according to its own situation.

The winter vacation at King's College London is from December 12th to January 15th.

Although Li Qiwei was extremely domineering, he did not treat his students like cattle and horses like some mentors in later generations.

It's clearly a one-month vacation, but it was compressed into 7 days, and it's said to be for your own good.

"What's so good about going home? It's not as comfortable as working in the lab."

On the contrary, he gave Bohr and others enough vacation time and also gave each of them a Nobel Prize-winning project.

Sometimes, Li Qiwei thought that he must be the best mentor in the world.

So he also gave himself a good vacation and no longer dealt with various school affairs.

Although he couldn't go home now, it was very convenient for him to communicate with his family after having his own wireless telegraph.

Almost every ten days or so, Wang Luyao would send a telegram to Li Qiwei.

On the one hand, I asked him how he was doing, and then I wrote him various interesting stories about children.

Li Qiwei left China on December 1908, 12, and it has been exactly two years now.

My four children have also grown up slowly.

The eldest son Li Chengdao and the second son Li Chengde are 4 years old this year.

The two little guys were chubby and naughty, and I don’t know how many times they were beaten by Wang Luyao.

The third son Li Chengren and the eldest daughter Li Yaoyao are 2 years old this year.

Now I can run around freely.

Wang Luyao and Xiang Lan can finally be freed from the fatigue of taking care of children. At least they don’t have to hold the baby every day.

Looking at the deep love between the lines, Li Qiwei smiled, his heart filled with the same longing.

He now wished he could take a plane back immediately, but of course he could only think about it. He didn't dare to take a plane at this time.

In addition, Wang Luyao also specifically warned Li Qiwei in the telegram not to cheat outside, otherwise he would be in trouble when he returned.

Li Qiwei cried out that it was injustice.

He has been busy with work since he arrived in the UK and has no time to think about those things.

Of course, you can still watch it when you need to.

In addition, there is Hu Xizhong’s monthly work report.

This calm general manager of Shanhe Group finally fulfilled his five-year promise.

Today, Shanhe Group has gradually begun to make profits.

Although the profit is small, it at least proves that the group's development path is good.

If Li Qiwei had not invested a lot of money in the research and development of core technologies, the group's financial data would have looked even better.

But that also has its disadvantages. Now the Shanhe Group has moved entirely to Sarawak in Borneo.

As a major taxpayer, King Charles of Sarawak has been keeping a close eye on the Shanhe Group.

The number of jobs created, tax targets, private filial piety, etc., these are all indispensable.

If the group's finances are too good, Charles might have some bad intentions.

However, Li Qiwei has now joined the Hongmen, and when the time is right, he can transfer people from the Hongmen to Sarawak.

It is not certain who will offend whom by then, but these are things that need to be considered in the future.

For the time being, Li Qiwei’s goal for Shanhe Group is to focus on research and development, especially centrifuges, various chemical equipment, etc.

He didn't ask Hu Xizhong to make a big breakthrough, just to accumulate strength slowly.

He also told Hu Xizhong about his plans in the United States and asked him to draw industrial talents from the country to assist Sheng Jingran.

The two work together to strengthen the connection between businesses.

Finally, there is the educational career of He Yujie and others.

Li Qiwei was very relieved about this.

After all, education is beneficial to everyone, and there will be little resistance, so just follow the steps.

Moreover, after these years of training, He Yujie and the other two are now able to stand on their own.

As for the second batch of Spark members, they are also growing rapidly. It won’t be long before the seeds of science in China will take root and sprout.

In the future, Li Qiwei will need at least tens of thousands of talents, equivalent to bachelor's degrees in later generations, to contribute to his atomic bomb cause.

These are no longer far away.

After dealing with domestic affairs, Li Qiwei turned his attention to the future development of physics.

Before Bohr returned to Denmark for vacation, he specifically talked to Ridgway for two hours.

The content is mainly about his thesis.

Ridgway had pointed out the problem of the planetary model to Bohr a year earlier, and Bohr had already conducted very in-depth research on it.

Now he is only one step away from completing his thesis, but there is one question that he cannot figure out and cannot explain.

Li Qiwei certainly knew what it was, but he didn't point it out.

He had already given Bohr enough advice, but he still understood the principle that too much is as bad as too little.

Originally, Bohr wanted to stay at King's College during the holidays to continue his research project, but Ridgway did not allow it and forced him to go home to rest and relax.

Bohr thought about it and realized that he hadn't seen his parents and girlfriend for a long time, so he gave up and went home.

This time, Bohr was destined to start his own life of cheating.

In the following great era, Ridgwell will also protect Bohr as Bohr's mentor and solve the key problems of quantum theory.

This legendary pair of master and apprentice will push the old quantum theory to its peak and lay the most solid foundation for the advent of quantum mechanics.

At the same time, Ridgwell would also publish the theory of general relativity and make great strides towards becoming the God of Physics.

(End of this chapter)