1900: A physics genius wandering around Europe

Chapter 436: Quantum Mechanics Genius! Trip to the United States! Let Nuclear Fusion Shock the World!
In the Quantum Institute in Greenwich, UK.

It has been half a month since Li Qiwei returned from Germany.

During this period, he has been staying in the institute, rarely going out, preparing for his trip to the United States in April.

The Astronomy Debate will be held on April 4.

As the president of the International Astronomical Union, Ridgwell naturally had to attend the event and deliver a speech.

Maybe I will be asked to give a few speeches.

Moreover, he was originally planning to go to the United States to deal with many things.

The United States is a very important part of Li Qiwei's global layout.

He has a huge network of contacts in academia, business, and politics.

Academia.

The American scientific community admires Ridgwell even more than the European scientific community.

Because he was leading by a huge margin there.

At least in Europe there are big names like Rutherford, Planck, and Thomson.

As for the top scientific leaders in the United States, they can probably be counted on two hands.

In addition, Chinese students are the largest number of international students in the United States.

These students will benefit from Li Qiwei to varying degrees.

The Bruce Group has allocated a portion of its funds specifically for the purpose of providing financial assistance to international students studying in the United States.

His name is the biggest umbrella of protection for students.

The first choice of many students is not scientific powerhouses like Germany or the United Kingdom, but the United States.

There are of course complex factors involved.

But its developed and modern life is probably the most important factor.

The old European countries are a bit like noble ladies, dignified and reserved, with rules everywhere.

The United States is like a young and beautiful girl, showing her charm all the time.

Young people all know how to choose.

Moreover, judging from the country's geography, politics and culture, young people in China are now more willing to go to the United States to learn.

Everyone hopes that China can become such a great power.

Business.

Now Li Qiwei's Bruce Group has become a well-known business giant in the United States.

Its products span various fields and are all so-called high-tech products.

Li Qiwei’s order to the company’s top management was: We will not do anything that has no technical content.

With the support of Tesla and the protection of Hongmen, the development of Bruce Group is as stable as Mount Tai.

So far, there has been no major turmoil.

politics.

Under Li Qiwei's hints and suggestions, the Hongmen began to invest in potential stocks.

Roosevelt, the legal advisor to Boss Situ, is the biggest dark horse among them.

The other party not only has a strong background, but also has outstanding personal abilities and has already gained considerable fame in American political circles.

While serving as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he received public praise from then-President Wilson.

Although Roosevelt failed in his vice presidential campaign this year, he gained valuable experience.

Just wait for the opportunity to come and soar into the sky!
Became the most powerful president in American history.

Perhaps only the future Emperor Sichuan can compete with him.

Li Qiwei was sorting out the situation in the United States while preparing this plan.

In addition to the great astronomy debate, he had another important thing to do.

That was to publish his first paper in the field of astronomy.

The energy source of stars: nuclear fusion!
This paper will surely shock the entire astronomical community.

His title of President of the Astronomical Union instantly became legitimate.

Even if we put aside the theory of general relativity, his position in the astronomy community is still top-notch.

The concept of nuclear fusion will also be announced to the world for the first time, causing endless waves.

It plays a vital role in physics.

This is a road with unlimited prospects, but it is also a road with little prospects.

Li Qiwei also painted a big rosy picture for European and American countries.

"This thing has a future, and only powerful countries are qualified to research it."

"Huaxia cannot participate for the time being."

Nuclear fusion is not uncommon. The sun has been high above our heads for billions of years, and nuclear fusion is occurring every moment.

But [controlled] nuclear fusion is too rare, it is the ultimate dream of human engineering.

Once realized, it will be the sea of ​​stars.

The physical principles of controlled nuclear fusion are not very difficult; the difficulty lies in the engineering and materials fields.

At temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees, no material can serve as a container, and the plasma can only be confined by a magnetic field.

However, the current effect is still very poor and can usually only last for a few minutes.

In the online novels that Li Qiwei had read in his previous life, the protagonists all relied on cheats to solve the bottleneck of controlled nuclear fusion.

This shows how difficult it is.

He murmured to himself: I hope that after the four fundamental forces are unified, there will be a qualitative breakthrough in the field of materials.

Materials science is also a subject full of mystery.

Because there is an unclear boundary between the micro and the macro.

The existence of this boundary makes macroscopic materials sometimes exhibit strange properties.

If one day humans can create materials like water droplets, the container problem should be solved.

If he can achieve controlled nuclear fusion, he will surpass more than just Newton.

Just when Li Qiwei was having a sweet dream.

Suddenly, Wang Zhengyang walked in quietly.

"Principal, Professor Rutherford is here."

Li Qiwei came back to his senses and felt puzzled.

Normally, Rutherford would call ahead before coming over, but today he came uninvited. It seemed like something must be going on.

So he took Wang Zhengyang to greet them.

In the first floor lobby of the Quantum Research Institute.

Rutherford was taking a young man on a tour and explaining things to him personally.

It seemed that he admired the young man very much.

“Although the Quantum Research Institute mainly studies quantum theory, it also involves many other fields.”

"You should know how important the speech I gave a while ago is to quantum theory."

"Professor Bruce alone runs an entire research institute."

"If nothing unexpected happens, there will soon be a wave of students coming here."

The young man was a little taciturn and just nodded in response, but the light in his eyes could not be concealed.

Rutherford suddenly said proudly:
"But the atomic research here is not as good as Cavendish's."

"You will like Cambridge when you study there."

Laboratory assistant Schrödinger was accompanying him.

Hearing Rutherford's words, he laughed in his heart and thought to himself that it was a good thing that Irena was not here.

Otherwise, the other party would definitely debate on the spot.

This little girl's personality is much more intense than her mother, Madame Curie.

After Li Qiwei gave her an important task, Irena immersed herself in the laboratory and worked very hard.

Looking at Rutherford, Schrödinger felt deeply moved.

Since he joined the Quantum Institute, he has met all the big names in the scientific community like a passing visitor.

No matter how famous the boss is, as long as he comes here, he will be polite to him.

Although they didn't know who Schrödinger was.

But I think that anyone who can be Professor Bruce's assistant is definitely not an ordinary person.

During this period of time, Schrödinger personally experienced how terrifying the influence of the world's number one person was.

He no longer worries about his future.

As the three of them walked and looked around, Li Qiwei came down and laughed loudly:

"Rutherford, why did you come here without making any noise?"

"Are you trying to steal my skills?"

Rutherford heard this and said with a smile:
"Bruce, it seems that wonderful speech in Germany has made you swell up."

"Your Quantum Institute is no match for my Cavendish."

The two laughed.

Then, Rutherford smiled and said:

"Okay, Bruce, no more jokes."

"I have to catch a train back to Cambridge later."

"I came here today to tell you something important."

After saying this, Rutherford solemnly took out an invitation from his arms.

After handing it to Li Qiwei, he said with a smile:

"June 6th is Erin's wedding."

"Bruce, Mary and I both hope you can come."

"Irene will be very happy."

Li Qiwei took the invitation and opened it. The man's name was indeed Ralph Fowler.

He said happily:

"Congratulations, Rutherford, on finding a good son-in-law."

"Irene will definitely be very happy."

"Don't worry, I will definitely attend their wedding."

Rutherford was very happy after receiving Li Qiwei's affirmative answer.

Because he knew Bruce was too busy now.

There are many people around the world who want to invite each other every day.

Compared to those big events, my daughter's wedding is just a small matter.

That's why Rutherford gave so many days' notice.

He knew that given the friendship between the two, as long as the other party promised to do something, he would definitely do it.

And if Professor Bruce attended his daughter's wedding, it would become a good story.

Thinking of his daughter's happiness, Rutherford's face lit up.

At the same time, his heart was full of gratitude towards Li Qiwei.

"Thank you, Bruce."

"I'll have Fowler come over to see you some other day."

Rutherford was very satisfied with this marriage.

Fowler's knowledge, character, and family background are all excellent choices.

And he has officially left Cavendish to conduct independent research.

With Rutherford's support, Fowler was now a lecturer in physics at Trinity College.

As long as the other party has a few years of experience and publishes a few high-level papers, he will be able to obtain a professorship soon.

Rutherford was full of confidence.

After all, he had trained the other party personally and knew his abilities very well.

In addition, Fowler has also been conducting research in astronomy recently and has achieved good results in areas such as stellar spectra.

Rutherford believed that the other party and Li Qiwei would have common topics.

We will have the opportunity to communicate more in the future.

It has to be said that Rutherford took great pains to train his son-in-law.

In addition, he even found Fowler's future graduate students.

This is the one he brought today.

At this time, Li Qiwei finally noticed the young man behind Rutherford.

The other person looked only eighteen or nineteen years old, with a high nose bridge, deep eye sockets, and looked very quiet.

This quietness is very different from Heisenberg's shyness.

To be more precise, it means being rather lonely.

Li Qiwei did not feel any tension from the other party, as if the other party did not care about anything.

But the wisdom that was implicit in it seemed to overflow.

He was sure that this person was definitely not an unknown person. Just as he was about to ask, Rutherford spoke up:

"Bruce, let me introduce you to a true genius."

"He is our hope for winning the Physics Olympiad this time."

After saying that, he pulled the young man forward, his eyes full of joy.

Under the attention of several people, the young man spoke softly:

"Hello, Professor Bruce, my name is Paul Dirac."

“Currently an undergraduate student at the University of Bristol.”

Wow!
Li Qiwei was suddenly shocked when he heard this.

It turned out to be the famous Dirac in later generations.

Another quantum giant of the future.

If we simply compare the level of intelligence, Dirac is one level higher than Heisenberg, Pauli, Schrödinger and others.

This is a true genius, not just a lucky physicist who has a flash of inspiration.

His mathematical ability is even better than Heisenberg's.

In his previous life, Li Qiwei watched a video recording of a lecture by Yang Zhenning.

Mr. Yang himself had met Heisenberg and Dirac.

He once commented:
[Dirac's papers are as beautiful as his poems.

And it pays attention to logic, so that people can't find any mistakes.

Heisenberg's paper is also like poetry, but it was written by a child and is full of romantic imagination.

Although it was said very politely, the meaning was very clear.

Mr. Yang’s evaluation is very pertinent.

In quantum mechanics, there are too many results related to Dirac.

And each one is crucial.

First: the Dirac equation.

This equation combines relativity and quantum mechanics, which is the relativistic form of the Schrödinger equation.

From this equation, we can directly deduce the existence of the fourth quantum number theoretically and give a precise description of its properties.

In addition, based on this equation, Dirac also predicted the existence of antimatter.

And it was finally confirmed, awesome Kras. (Don't worry, I'll explain it later)

There is no need to say more about the frequency and status of antimatter in various science fiction novels in later generations.

Second: quantum field theory.

Dirac is the founder of quantum field theory.

Various unified models in later generations were developed on the basis of this theory.

Quantum electrodynamics, quantum chromodynamics, electroweak unification, standard model, gauge field theory, etc.

It's all within the framework of quantum field theory.

Quantum field theory has completely replaced Einstein's unified field theory and has become the optimal path to the grand unified theory.

Third: Predict the existence of magnetic monopoles.

This concept is also extremely important and is closely related to the grand unified theory and the origin of the universe.

Fourth: Fermi-Dirac statistics.

This shows how awesome Dirac was.

This is a person who pushed quantum mechanics to its peak.

However, because he was born to be introverted, liked to be silent, was unwilling to argue with others, and had no interest in anything other than mathematics.

Therefore, in history, he is not as famous as Heisenberg, Pauli and others.

Only those who are truly in the industry know that in terms of contribution, Dirac is definitely the number one in quantum mechanics.

Dirac was just 18 years old this year, one year younger than Pauli and two years younger than Heisenberg.

Now, this peerless genius is standing in front of Li Qiwei.

"Hello, Dirac."

"You must be very outstanding to be valued so highly by Professor Rutherford."

Dirac felt a little embarrassed when he heard this.

"Thank you for the compliment, Professor Bruce."

At this point, Rutherford explained:
"The UK conducted an exam selection process at universities across the country."

"To screen contestants for the 2nd Physics Olympiad."

"Dirac won first place."

"This time I went to Bristol University to give a speech, so I took him back to Cambridge for intensive training."

The University of Bristol is the university where Yu Yin graduated, located in the southwest of England.

This is also a well-established engineering school in the UK.

London is sandwiched between the cities of Bristol and Cambridge.

That's why Rutherford brought Dirac with him.

It seems that the UK is determined to win this Physics Olympiad.

They actually imitated China's experience and gathered the contestants together for training in order to quickly improve their strength.

This is still relatively difficult for the West to do.

In China, all universities have a common leader.

There is also a great god like Li Qiwei.

So it is easy to concentrate the players.

But here in the UK, each university is independent and autonomous and is not subject to government control.

Why should we go to your school for training and not train here?

Only a big man like Rutherford can balance all parties.

Moreover, he had a very important reason.

"Bruce, I heard that there was a physics genius named Pauli in Germany."

"The other party also received your praise."

"How do you think Pauli compares to Dirac?"

"Which of them will win the individual gold medal?"

"Our goal for the UK this time is to win both the individual and team gold medals."

Faced with this question, Li Qiwei smiled.

"Rutherford, you European team don't take China seriously."

"I don't support anyone. I just hope that China can once again be the leader."

Although he spoke confidently, he felt very cold inside.

Because what the Chinese players have to face are a bunch of damn monsters.

After hearing this, Rutherford and others all laughed.

Professor Bruce is still so interesting.

Dirac silently observed the godlike man in front of him.

Recognized worldwide as the number one scientist in the world!
Physics is alive and great.

The other party's experience is even more legendary than a legendary story.

Although Dirac appeared very calm just now, that extremely powerful aura still made him almost breathless.

At the University of Bristol, he was considered a genius and ranked first in all exams.

But genius is nothing in front of Professor Bruce.

The genius couldn't even see the other person's back.

Ultimately, physics speaks for itself through its results.

If a genius cannot publish papers that shock the academic world, he will always be just a genius, not a physicist.

Dirac felt that Professor Bruce was so polite to him just now, probably out of respect for Professor Rutherford.

But he didn't care at all.

He is confident in himself.

The scholarship he received from the school alone was enough for him to continue living and studying at Cambridge University.

This was also Dirac's dream.

Professor Bruce’s alma mater is a holy place in the hearts of all science and engineering students, and it is a place they dream of studying.

And now, he even had the chance to talk to Professor Bruce in person.

Although there are only a few simple sentences, they are enough to brag about.

Of course, Dirac would never do that.

Although he is a loner, it doesn't mean he has no desires.

He simply regarded Li Qiwei as a scientific belief and a goal he wanted to surpass.

After chatting in the institute for half an hour, Rutherford took Dirac back to Cambridge.

Li Qiwei did not try to keep them and personally sent them out of the institute.

In the next few days, many people came to visit.

The influence of Ridgway's speech in Germany has not been eliminated to this day.

As the third Bruce Conference approaches, countless people are working hard to make another breakthrough.

Even the big guys who participated in the first and second sessions are no exception.

After all, the big guys don’t want to be accused of living off their past success.

They also need new achievements to prove themselves and live up to the dignity and significance of the Iron Throne.

Even a top figure like Professor Bruce still maintains high-intensity frontline research and output.

Who has the right to be lazy and act pretentiously?

I can only say that internal competition is killing people.

Just when many physics giants were gearing up and working hard.

Instead, Ridgwell did not continue to study physics.

Instead, he started his journey of showing off in American astronomy.
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1920 4 Month 10 Day.

Inside the Quantum Research Institute.

British astronomy giants such as Dyson and Eddington gathered together.

There was a joyful smile on everyone's face.

Because today they will follow Professor Bruce to the United States to participate in a grand event in the field of astronomy.

The great debate of the century: the size of the universe!
This debate was not just a meeting within astronomy, but also attracted countless ordinary people.

Attracting worldwide attention!

After all, everyone is curious about the mysterious universe.

Originally, Eddington had not planned to go to the United States because the topic of the great debate had little to do with him.

But the German speech made him change his mind.

"If Professor Bruce publishes something shocking, I'll be at a big loss if I don't go."

So he put aside his original plan and followed the main force.

At this time, Eddington introduced someone to Li Qiwei.

"Professor Bruce, this is Professor James Kings of Cambridge University."

"He has made many important achievements in the field of stellar research."

Li Qiwei heard this, looked at the other party, and understood.

This is also a great figure in astronomy.

Jeans and Eddington were the two founders of British cosmological research.

In real history, after Eddington proposed that the energy of stars came from nuclear fusion, Jeans publicly expressed his opposition.

The two therefore engaged in a protracted debate.

It was clear that Kings was wrong in the end.

This guy has put forward quite a few wrong theories in his life.

For example, he believed that the origin of planets was that when a star passed near the sun, its tidal gravity caused matter inside the sun to be ejected and eventually formed.

This theory has never been accepted.

Although it was not the first time that Kings, 43, met Li Qiwei, this was the first time they had met formally.

So, he was quite excited.

"Professor Bruce, I heard that you are also studying stars."

“I hope to have the opportunity to communicate with you and get your guidance.”

Li Qiwei stretched out his hand and said with a smile:
"With great pleasure, Professor Kings."

"I am a novice in the field of astronomy. I need to learn from you."

Future Kings: You are a newbie, then what are we?
(End of this chapter)