1900: A physics genius wandering around Europe

Chapter 311: Ten years of Guang Xiang's success has shocked the world! Who in the world doesn't know you? (2)

1912 7 Month 15 Day.

This day seemed ordinary.

But for a very small number of people in the physics community, this day is very important.

Because it's about a promise.

A promise from one of the top physicists.

Ten years ago, on July 1902, 7, the biggest event in the physics world was probably the symposium on relativity.

At that meeting, Einstein was unable to withstand the doubts of many bigwigs.

The special theory of relativity is full of loopholes and is in danger.

At the critical moment, Bruce stepped forward and fought against many physics giants alone.

That domineering figure is unforgettable to everyone.

At the end of the meeting, Bruce made a bold statement that shook the world and shocked the world.

"Within ten years, I will publish the theory of general relativity."

boom!
At that time, everyone in the room was shocked and all the heroes were shaken.

Time flies, and time flies by.

now.

Ten years have passed.

The true God returns.

The old king will eventually tremble, and the new emperor will have no choice but to submit!
It's 2 a.m. at Nature headquarters.

The brightly lit office was a busy scene.

Who says there is no overtime in capitalist countries?

As long as the money is paid, staying up all night is not a problem.

Gregory stood at the window of his office, overlooking the night view of central London.

His right hand, holding the cigarette, was shaking slightly.

Tomorrow morning, the world will be shaken!
And he can be regarded as the person who opened the era.

What a blessing this is!
As Li Qiwei's doctoral student, Gregory certainly remembered the time of Guangxiang's promise clearly.

Therefore, he mobilized all his strength, raced against time, and finally completed all the proofreading and typesetting before that day.

Make sure to be foolproof.

The paper was checked five times, without missing a single letter.

Although Li Qiwei did not ask him to do so, it actually didn't matter if he delayed for a few days.

But Gregory's respect for Li Qiwei has reached its peak, as if he were worshiping a god.

He would not allow Professor Bruce to have any stain.

Ten years is ten years, not even a day more!

So, he gave a death order.

No matter what the time difference is.

He wanted to spread the general theory of relativity throughout the world as soon as possible.

Now, Parker and his two colleagues are in close communication with Nature branches around the world.

Using the most advanced radio currently produced by Marconi, the 102-page paper was sent to all parts of the world at the speed of light, regardless of wind or rain.

It is guaranteed that all countries in their own time zones will receive the single-issue paper on general relativity at 10 a.m. today. (Don’t worry about the time, just enjoy it.)
everything's ready!
Night recedes and dawn arrives.

7 o'clock in the morning on July 15th.

More than a dozen people suddenly appeared outside the Nature headquarters.

They were couriers hired by Gregory.

The latest Nature papers are sent in advance to professors who are willing to serve as journal reviewers.

This can also be considered a kind of invisible benefit.

It is a symbol of status and cannot be bought with money.

One of the people who needed to be sent off was Professor Thomson from Cambridge University.

9am, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thomson and his son, Thomson Jr., are talking in the office.

Little Thompson will graduate next year.

As a father, he has to plan for his son's future.

Because of the character and talent Thomson had shown since childhood, Thomson had no hesitation in letting his son enter the academic circle.

In this way, his huge influence can pave the way for his son.

"You should prepare well for your graduation job first."

"It's up to you whether you stay in Cavendish, go to Bruce or Rutherford."

"From now on, you should consider the direction you are interested in."

“Physics has grown tremendously.”

“It’s impossible to have an all-rounder again.”

“Only by finding the right direction and conducting in-depth research can we achieve good results.”

Little Thompson was dissatisfied, "Father, is Professor Bruce a complete genius?"

Thomson was stunned and scolded with a smile: "You little bastard, you are arguing with your father."

Little Thompson chuckled.

While the father and son were talking, someone suddenly knocked on the door.

Thompson said, "Come in."

Suddenly a young man came in and Thomson was impressed by him.

The other party is from the journal Nature, and he often comes on time to deliver the latest papers.

"But today doesn't seem to be the day for publication."

“Why is someone here to deliver a paper?”

Thomson was a little puzzled, but he still took the paper

The young man didn't say much. After bringing the paper, he left respectfully.

Little Thomson was very curious. After taking the paper from his father, he sat down immediately and prepared to read it.

"Hey, today's journal seems a little heavier."

He didn't care at first and casually opened the first page.

Suddenly, he was startled and jumped up.

"General relativity!"

"Oh my God, it's Professor Bruce's theory of general relativity."

"Oh my God, Professor Bruce really fulfilled his promise and published the theory of general relativity ten years later."

Little Thompson couldn't help but roar.

His hands were shaking with excitement.

It almost scared Thompson.

At this time, Wilson, who happened to be passing by, was attracted by little Thompson's voice and came over.

"What's the matter, George?"

Young Thomson grabbed Wilson and shouted excitedly: "Professor Bruce's general theory of relativity has been published."

Wow!
Wilson rushed into the office.

At this moment, Thompson couldn't remain calm.

He quickly walked over to his son.

Young Thomson quickly handed the paper to his father.

"Come on, Father, open it and let's look at it together."

Thompson suppressed his excitement and immediately sat in his seat.

Then start watching from the beginning.

Little Thompson and Wilson stood aside, their eyes as big as bells.

The heavy air from their breathing was almost blowing on Thompson's neck.

"The limitations of special relativity!"

“Two basic principles of general relativity!”

"The essence of gravity is the curvature of space-time!"

"Riemannian geometry!"

"Bruce Field Equations!"

"One solution, one universe!"

boom!
When Thompson quickly flipped through the contents, the three people present felt as if thunder was exploding in their heads.

It was a violent force that rushed straight to the top of his head.

This is the greatest shock in the world.

As for why you read it so quickly, the reason is very simple.

Even Thomson couldn't understand the dozens of pages of mathematical derivations.

“Positive curvature.”

"The metric tensor."

"Geodesic."

"The fabric of space and time."

“Matter distribution.”

Thomson thought that he himself couldn't understand it, so little Thomson and Wilson were even more clueless.

However, they cannot understand the formulas, but they can fully understand the conclusions derived from the formulas.

Because these are all purely physical contents.

It's just a little too shocking.

It was so shocking that even Thompson, a Nobel Prize winner, thought it was a fantasy and unbelievable.

It's like something from another time and space.

Wilson was now stunned with shock.

He muttered, "Oh my God, what a freak of a thing Bruce published."

"Gravity doesn't exist, it's just a manifestation of the curvature of space-time?"

"I feel like I must be crazy, otherwise how could I see such a crazy theory."

There was a huge wave in little Thompson's heart.

Rutherford had asked him what was the most difficult part of mathematics before, and he remembered that he seemed to have mentioned Riemannian geometry.

I didn’t expect that Professor Bruce actually used Riemannian geometry in his paper.

And just by taking a look at the mind-boggling formula, you can understand how profound Professor Bruce's attainments in differential geometry are.

At least as an undergraduate student majoring in mathematics, he couldn't understand it at all.

He had never even seen some of the symbols before and had no idea what they meant.

"Oh my God, is this the terrifying power of Professor Bruce?"

“Is there really anyone who can fully understand this paper?”

"I'm afraid even weaker mathematicians won't be able to understand the derivation."

"Father, can you understand?"

Thomson was no less shocked than the other two.

As one of the world's top physicists, he can better understand the significance of Li Qiwei's paper.

The general theory of relativity plus the special theory of relativity is equivalent to overthrowing the entire Newtonian mechanics system.

Newtonian mechanics is only an approximation of relativity.

In other words, Li Qiwei single-handedly rebuilt a larger and more sophisticated physical framework.

All of Newton's mechanics have been incorporated.

This is beyond description as genius.

"Bruce is beyond genius."

"He's just not on the same level as any of us."

"Whether it's a top physicist or a physicist who's not even a physicist."

"In front of Bruce, there is no difference."

“I dare to assert that there are no more than five people in the world who can absolutely understand this paper.”

"At least I don't understand it."

"The mathematics used here is something I have never heard of."

"Bruce, he's going to blow up the entire sky of physics."

hiss!
Wilson and Thompson Jr. felt a chill in their hearts when they heard Thompson's words.

Even Professor Thomson expressed such emotion.

This paper simply doesn't seem like something a human could have come up with.

It's really outrageous.

At this time, little Thomson suddenly said, "Father, please keep turning the pages. There seem to be a few more pages."

Thompson quickly rolled over.

"Proof of the general theory of relativity."

"Using the Bruce field equation to obtain an approximate solution can perfectly explain the precession of Mercury's perihelion."

Wow!
The three were shocked again.

Bruce not only derived the general theory of relativity through two axioms.

Even proof cases are given.

That is the problem of Mercury's motion that has puzzled physicists for decades.

"I know that," said young Thompson excitedly.

"When Professor Bruce visited the United States for academic exchange, he raised this question in his speech at Princeton University."

"He also said at the time that his theory of general relativity could be solved."

“I didn’t expect all this to be true.”

"Professor Bruce finally did it."

"General relativity easily solves problems that even Newton's law of universal gravitation could not solve."

"Oh my God, this is too much."

“I don’t know how to describe him anymore.”

"He is simply like a god."

After listening to Thomson Jr.'s explanation, both Thomson and Wilson were shocked.

At this point, neither of them had any doubts about the general theory of relativity.

Since Bruce dared to publish those dauntingly complex mathematics, it must be correct.

Given the other party's amazing talent, it is reasonable for him to understand these mathematical knowledge.

And it took him ten years.

It's scary just thinking about it.

Ten years may not be a big deal for ordinary people.

Even for ordinary physicists, ten years is nothing.

But that's Bruce!
You can imagine how difficult it is to understand mathematics, which took him ten years to understand.

Wilson said blankly, "No wonder Bruce said he wanted to improve his math knowledge. So that's how it is."

"It's no wonder he spent so much time studying this complicated and unpopular math."

The three of them nodded involuntarily.

They were obviously shocked by Li Qiwei's ten years of hard training.

Thomson sighed: "He must have been under a lot of pressure in the past ten years."

“You must have suffered a lot.”

Li Qiwei: Teacher, you think too much. I am so happy.

Suddenly, little Thompson spoke again.

"Father, well. It seems the paper is not finished yet."

"Hurry up and continue watching."

Thomson reacted and continued flipping.

This flip almost gave me a heart attack.

There was only a big title at the end of the paper.
-

【Five major predictions about general relativity. 】

Prediction 1: Light bends.

Light propagates along space-time. As long as there is mass, space-time will bend, causing the light to bend.

When light passes through a massive celestial body, due to the large curvature of space-time, the path of light will also undergo obvious and observable bending.

In addition, due to the bending of light, effects such as gravitational lensing can also occur.

Prediction 2: Gravitational redshift.

The wavelength of electromagnetic waves emitted from massive celestial bodies will become longer due to the strong gravitational field, resulting in the redshift phenomenon.

Conversely, when light enters a strong gravitational field, it will be blueshifted.

Prediction three: black hole.

Suppose there is a celestial body whose material structure is extremely strong, and the curvature it causes on space-time is so great that not even light can escape from its surface.

Then to the observer, it should be a black area that does not emit any electromagnetic waves.

I named this hypothetical celestial body "Black Hole".

Based on the Bruce field equations, I think it should be possible to find the corresponding exact solution.

Prediction 4: Gravitational waves.

The changing curvature of space-time creates ripples that propagate outward in the form of waves at the speed of light.

Or it can be understood as: it takes time for "gravity" to propagate in the gravitational field.

Changes in mass will cause changes in the gravitational field. The changing gravity is transmitted outward like water waves, so it is called "gravitational waves."

Note: Although this paper denies the existence of "gravity", it names the result of space-time curvature as gravity.

This would be consistent with the law of gravity and would not violate the theory of general relativity.

Prediction 5: The universe expands.

According to the evolution of Bruce's field equations, theoretical deduction shows that the universe may be expanding.
-

The above predictions are only theoretical predictions and need to be verified through experiments.

Note: This paper does not need to refer to any literature.

boom!
When Thomson, Thomson Jr., and Wilson finished reading the last part, the room became eerily quiet.

There was not even the sound of breathing.

The three of them were like sculptures, motionless, staring blankly at the paper.

At this moment, it was as if a supernova exploded in their minds.

Completely lost consciousness of everything in reality.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

Thomson finally came back to his senses from that state of time standing still.

He stretched out a finger with difficulty and said intermittently: "This, this."

In the end nothing was said.

Little Thompson and Wilson had no reaction at all.

They did not respond to Thompson's words, but continued to stare at the five predictions motionlessly.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

hiss!
Wilson gasped, and he felt as if every bone in his body was pulled out.

Even the soul was frozen.

The shock brought to him by the five great prophecies was as if the Creator had appeared and stood in front of him personally, demonstrating to him the vastness of the heavens, the earth, and the universe.

It is a mythical scene that will shock you beyond words just by imagining it.

"Oh my God, oh my God."

"Bruce's paper was ahead of its time."

“It doesn’t belong to our world at all.”

"I can't even imagine what kind of shock will happen to the physics community next."

Little Thomson murmured, "It's ridiculous that I'm still called a genius."

"I'm not even qualified to shine Professor Bruce's shoes."

This sentence does not require any reference to any literature, it is so domineering that it shakes time and space!

That domineering figure seemed to burst through the paper, overlooking all the pitiful academic research in the world.

Thomson shouted: "From today on, a new era of physics will begin."

"In a few hours, I'm afraid the whole world will be boiling."

(End of this chapter)