1900: A physics genius wandering around Europe

Chapter 279: New and old kings! Stars shine! Physics event! Meeting begins!
The second quantum theory conference was held at King's College London.

A conference of this magnitude is beyond the capacity of hotels today.

Although according to Li Qiwei's estimate, at least 500 people attended the meeting.

But there may be people from other fields joining in the fun.

After all, he did not restrict the majors of the participants.

Of course, ordinary people who are not scholars or students cannot participate, and their identity will be checked.

After all, this conference is a purely academic conference.

It is not of a popular science nature like the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Ordinary people can at least get the general idea, and there is also content that is closely related to life.

But looking at it from another perspective, most of the students in this conference are actually equivalent to ordinary people in other conferences.

The effect is the same anyway, we can only shout 666 from below.

As time gets closer, the physics community becomes more and more lively.

All major professional journals and newspapers have already sent people to guard the place in advance.

Of course, Li Qiwei did not deliberately expand the scope of publicity at this meeting.

The news was limited to the scientific community, especially physics.

This kind of high-end conference is not suitable to be turned into a fancy gimmick.

What Li Qiwei wanted was a purely academic confrontation.

Inside King's College London, colorful flags are flying and various notices are everywhere, welcoming the arrival of the Second Quantum Theory Conference.

The students and teachers were also very excited as they would soon be able to meet many big names in the field of physics.

If I am appreciated by a big boss and accepted as a graduate student, I will be rich.

Everyone adjusted their mental state to the best. At first glance, they were hardworking guys who could do the experiment without eating or drinking.

Vice Principal Karp's mouth was grinning till it reached the back of his head.

Being able to host such a high-level conference is a huge boost to the school's status and reputation.

Although many people know King's College London through Ridgway.

But seeing everything on campus with your own eyes will leave a deeper impression.

In the future, there will be a steady stream of students coming to study, teachers coming to teach, and professors coming to do research.

The school has the qualifications to compete with world-renowned universities.

What’s more, the school doesn’t have to pay for this conference, as it is all covered by Pioneer Investment Group.

Of course, Vice Principal Karp was extremely happy.

Human and material resources are readily available, and schools have a lot of free labor.

"If King's College London can rival Oxford and Cambridge in status in the future, then I will be the most powerful president in the history of the school."

"Hey hey hey."

Cap was daydreaming.

At this moment, his gratitude and admiration for Li Qiwei were beyond words.

The other party is simply a lucky star.

Anyone who goes against him will have a bad ending.

Anyone who makes friends with him will eventually soar to great heights.

Any normal person knows how to choose.

Li Qiwei was speechless as he watched Cap drooling.

He came today to discuss the details of the meeting preparation with the other party.

"Principal Karp, the equipment in the conference room is already in place."

"I need two projectors this time so that I can work separately."

“I wanted to give this meeting a little different surprise.”

Hearing the sound, Cap was awakened from his sweet dream and said quickly: "Bruce, don't worry, everything is prepared according to your requirements."

"This meeting is a big deal. The school's top brass are paying attention to it. Nothing will go wrong."

"But, don't the speakers go up one by one?"

“Why do we need two projection devices?”

Li Qiwei smiled mysteriously and said, "Because I learned the lesson from the last relativity seminar."

"I find that if someone asks a question, it's best to give the person asking the question a separate writing device."

“That way, speakers and questioners can discuss openly at the same time, which is exciting.”

Cap's mouth opened wide; he had never seen such a scene.

In this era, holding meetings is very simple.

When you’re done speaking, please come down and I’ll go up and speak next.

In the scenario Bruce describes, a meeting could very well go something like this:
A: This is the mathematical form of my theory. (click, click, click)
B: You wrote this wrong. You didn't consider the extreme case. (click, click, click)
A: You wrote it wrong. You didn't understand the physical meaning of my formula. (click, click, click)
B: Nonsense, I can just transform like this. (click, click, click)
A: You XXX.

B: You XXX.

Karp suddenly shuddered. Why did he feel like something might go wrong?

But as long as Bruce is here, no one can do anything wrong.

Karp didn't care.

He then discussed with Li Qiwei for a while before finally finalizing all the links.

Next, just wait quietly.

Time passed quietly amid the excitement in the physics community, and soon it was time for the meeting.

January 1911, 9, 1:8 am.

On this day, the whole of London was filled with an ocean of knowledge.

All the top physicists in the world came together to almost drive away the smog in London.

The scale of this conference even exceeds that of the relativity conference nine years ago.

We must surpass it both in terms of the number of people and the level of the participants.

Because a new generation has grown up.

People like Laue, Born, Lang Zhiwan, who could only stand at the back like ants, have now stood up.

Not to mention super stars like Qian Wushi and Bohr.

These nine years were a golden age for the physics community.

Various achievements have emerged one after another, and physics has shown explosive development.

One year is worth ten years in the past.

Moreover, as modern physics begins to take off, the younger generation's voice is about to surpass that of the older generation.

This is the law of nature.

The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and the generation is stronger than the generation!

At this moment, the auditorium of King's College London is already packed with people.

The school borrowed a lot of benches and chairs from other places and stuffed them into every corner of the auditorium.

However, even so, Li Qiwei still underestimated the number of people.

There are still many people who can only stand or lean against the wall.

A rough estimate is that there were at least 800 people in the auditorium.

What a terrifying number this is. The previous relativity conference only had about 400 people.

Cap, sitting under the podium, was sweating with anxiety. He had never encountered such a heated meeting scene before.

It is amazing that a physics conference can have such a great influence.

I can only say that Professor Bruce is awesome.

His appeal is terrifying.

However, although there are not enough seats, those who can attend the meeting today are at least college students, and their overall quality is still very high, which will not affect the meeting.

The venue was noisy, but everyone's face was filled with excitement.

Many people even stretched their necks to look forward, because sitting there were the big names and newcomers in today's physics.

In order to facilitate discussions at the meeting, Li Qiwei divided the venue into several areas, which were getting farther and farther away from the podium.

The first area is full of senior leaders in the field of physics, including:
Roentgen, Planck, Lorentz, Marie Curie (ladies first), Thomson, Michelson, Lippmann, Wien;
Two senior colleagues, Lord Rayleigh and Van der Waals, did not attend due to health reasons.

The second area is the rising physics talents (not just young people) in the last decade, including:
Rutherford, Zeeman, Nernst, Sommerfeld, Braun, Einstein, Laue, Born;
There are six people: Millikan, old Bragg, Bakla, Lang Zhiwan, and Master Qian.

The third area is for professors, scholars or potential figures, including:
Richardson, Wilson, Bragg Jr., Rutherford team personnel, etc.;
G. Hertz, Frank, Ehrenfest, etc.;
Professors from various universities and research institutions, such as Carl, Case, Oster, etc.

Outside of these three areas, you can sit anywhere else.

At that time, Hubble, de Broglie, Schrödinger, and Compton were still small figures and did not receive any preferential treatment.

It can be said that this conference is definitely a gathering of all the stars and has a huge momentum.

Bohr on the stage began to tremble when he saw the people below.

Although at this time he was already a prominent figure in the physics community.

But seeing so many big names and geniuses sitting quietly in the audience just to listen to his speech, it would be a lie to say that Bohr was not nervous.

However, he soon followed the method taught by his mentor, taking deep breaths, clearing his mind, and keeping himself calm.

Inner thoughts:

"Bohr, you are no longer the ignorant boy you were before."

"Now you have finally stepped onto the stage of physics."

"There are not many people here who are better than you. You are the best." "Ol. No. Come on!"

Li Qiwei stood in the host's seat and looked at Bohr with a knowing smile.

Sooner or later, the other party will grow into a towering tree, now is just the beginning.

Looking at the people below the stage, Li Qiwei was also filled with pride.

Looking at the current scientific community, no one has such appeal except him.

So many big guys came here just for his face.

There are even people from fields such as chemistry and medicine.

Because they all wanted to see if Bruce would make any shocking remarks again.

Even though the other party is the host this time, it doesn’t matter.

He was just a spectator at the British Association for the Advancement of Science before, but he still caused a huge sensation.

Bruce's brilliance is so dazzling that even if he is placed among a group of writers, he can still shine.

At this time, Li Qiwei saw that the number of people in the venue was no longer increasing, so he prepared to start.

He touched the loudspeaker, which made a loud "buzzing" sound, and the venue gradually began to quiet down.

Everyone is waiting for the speech from this scientific giant.

“We welcome everyone to the Second Quantum Theory Conference.”

“I didn’t expect that there would be so many people here today.”

"This shows that quantum theory is not obscure and difficult enough. Everyone present can understand it."

Wow!
There was a burst of laughter from the crowd, followed by thunderous applause.

Li Qiwei's humor successfully caused people to complain.

The people present had not really realized how difficult quantum theory was.

"Haha, Professor Bruce is so funny."

"Quantum theory doesn't involve complicated mathematical calculations. What's there to not understand? I can even understand the special theory of relativity."

"It just turns the classical continuous orbit into a discontinuous quantum orbit."

Everyone is very confident.

Although it was not the quantum theory and Bohr model that they created.

But everyone can understand the paper easily.

Li Qiwei looked at everyone's expressions, smiled slightly, and thought to himself, I hope you can always maintain this confidence in the future.

"Of course, I am not qualified to say whether quantum theory is difficult or not."

"Professor Planck and I just proposed the concept of quantum."

"The one who really carried it forward was the one in the center of the podium."

Hundreds of people looked at Bohr.

"He is also my most proud student, the best student."

“That’s Bohr.”

“The proponent of the Bohr model, the terminator of spectroscopy, and the pioneer of atomic structure.”

“And a disruptor of the blues.”

Wow!
There was a huge laugh in the auditorium.

Bruce's last sentence is really hilarious.

As the first genius in physics.

Bruce has been on the path of subverting others since his debut.

Not only did he overthrow his mentor, he also overthrew Newton.

He can be called the first madman in physics.

However, he did not expect that one day he would be overthrown by others.

And the overthrower happened to be his favorite disciple.

Thomson, Rutherford, Wilson and others in the audience were laughing non-stop.

Unexpectedly, Bruce had no pressure in self-deprecation and had no sense of shame at all for putting forward a wrong theory.

This kind of confidence is truly beyond reach.

Ignoring the crowd's voices, Li Qiwei continued, "Next, let's give the time to Bohr."

"Listen to him explain in detail how the Bohr model came into being."

“Perhaps this will be of some inspiration to everyone present here, especially the young scholars.”

clap clap clap!
The applause was thunderous.

Bohr had completely adjusted his mood at this moment and was no longer nervous.

Looking at the hundreds of people below the stage, his heart suddenly calmed down.

“First of all, thank you all for coming to listen to my speech.”

“Before introducing my Bohr model, I need to thank two people.”

"One is Professor Planck."

"It was with his suggestion that I came up with the idea of ​​using the quantized atomic model to explain the Balmer formula and the entire spectroscopy."

"And the other person is my mentor, Professor Bruce."

“I can’t describe in any words what he has done for me.”

"Atomic research is the hottest research direction in modern physics."

"Those who are qualified to conduct in-depth research are the world's top physicists and scientific research institutions."

"But Professor Bruce is willing to give such an important direction to me, an unknown young man."

"Moreover, he didn't just give me the topic and leave it alone. Instead, he guided me seriously."

“Even the application of quantum concepts to planetary models was first proposed by Professor Bruce.”

boom!
This time, everyone was really shocked.

It turns out there is such a story behind the Bohr model.

Originally, everyone thought that Bohr was Bruce's subversive.

But I only found out today that Bruce had already known about the problems with his model.

And we have even thought of using quantum concepts to explain it.

Bruce subverts himself!
For a moment, everyone felt that Bruce's genius was beyond their imagination.

"Professor Bruce is truly horrible."

"Are you willing to give even such results to students?"

"Envy the chicken purple."

"It's useless to be envious. Even if I were given it, I would never be able to come up with the Bohr model."

"The key is to be awesome yourself."

At this point, Bohr continued: “Of course, some people might be surprised.”

"Since Professor Bruce has discovered the problem and has thought about it, why doesn't he study it himself?"

"Because Professor Bruce is studying the more difficult theory of general relativity."

"Even with his level of genius, he can't be distracted."

"So, sometimes I wonder what kind of theory general relativity is."

"With my mentor's ability, will it take ten years?"

"Like everyone here, I am looking forward to it."

boom!
The venue was in a state of excitement.

Everyone was attracted by Bohr's words.

At this moment, everyone's curiosity about general relativity has reached its peak.

How difficult would it be for Bruce to give up his research on atomic structure?

At this moment, Bohr suddenly raised his voice and seemed to be in high spirits.

He was no longer modest, but said domineeringly:
"Of course, my teacher's theory of relativity is great, so my theory is not weak either."

"Quantum theory is one of the two cores of modern physics in the future."

"I am confident that I can take this theory to an unprecedented level."

"In the future, maybe I can compete with my mentor!"

boom!
At this moment, the tall shadow of Li Qiwei seemed to rise behind Bohr.

The young people in the auditorium suddenly became excited.

Many people even stood up and applauded Bohr.

His words inspired the young scholars present.

This kind of courage to challenge predecessors made them tremble.

Moreover, Bohr respected his teachers and did not ignore the role of his mentors just because of his achievements.

This quality is rare and precious.

Although there is no concept in the West that a teacher is a father for life.

But respecting teachers is a universal virtue throughout the world.

Bohr won everyone's favor before the show even started.

(End of this chapter)