"I originally thought that someone like Jacob would rebel, but I never expected that a guy like Faraday, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would actually rebel against the revolution."
"Sylvester, what's wrong with my appearance? Try saying it again if you have the guts to tease him?!"
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Looking at a bunch of angry bosses in front of him, and Weber who was almost drowned in saliva.
Behind the desk.
Xu Yun and Xiaomai shrank their heads almost at the same time, and subconsciously glanced at Faraday, who was as steady as a rock on the main seat.
At this time, two days have passed since the telescope was debugged, and there are only four days left before the final observation.
half an hour ago.
Xu Yun came to Faraday's office and was about to inquire about the progress of the 'foreign aid'.
As a result, I just said two sentences.
A bunch of middle-aged people with strange faces rushed in outside the house, saying excitedly things like "You're not dead", "Liar", "Heartless man", "I won't get up if you don't kiss me".
Several of them also held things like fruit baskets, medicine boxes, razor blades, urns, and wreaths in their hands.
They opened their mouths and spoke in extremely standard German. It looked like a group of people gathered together to spit. It made Xu Yun want to cough twice.
Then from the mouths of these people, Xu Yun just learned two things:
First, these people were the foreign aid he found. Twenty-seven Germans plus four or five British people he met on the road were all famous mathematicians in later generations.
The second thing is
In order to recruit as many tools as possible, Faraday lied about being critically ill!
No wonder when the deal was reached that day, Faraday dared to say that he could attract most of the people on the list.
Then Xu Yun glanced at Weber and Kirchhoff who were arbitrarily appeasing everyone in front of him, moved closer to Faraday, and whispered to him:
"Mr. Faraday, what should we do now?"
Although he has all the big guys he needs right now, if he doesn't calm down their emotions, it's obviously impossible for these people to be willing to contribute.
"Why are you so anxious?"
Faraday raised his head and glanced at him, then coughed slightly and said loudly:
"Okay, please be quiet first!"
Although everyone at the scene wanted to hang Faraday up and beat him, after all, he is currently the number one person in the physics world, and where is his current status?
So as soon as he opened his mouth, there was a brief silence in the room.
Then Faraday turned to look at everyone, shook his head, and said:
"You all have come all the way from Germany. If you have anything to say, we can discuss it carefully. You don't have to be so angry, right?"
"fart!"
As soon as Faraday finished speaking, a little old man in the room interrupted him and shouted angrily:
"Michael, look at the good things you have done, why do you still have the nerve to say such things?"
See this person and speak.
Xu Yun on the side was heartbroken.
Most of the photos of the scene boss that have been circulated in later generations are of middle and late-stage images, so there are quite a few people who are still not familiar with him, but this little old man is an exception.
Because his popularity is so high.
This person is the prince of mathematics, Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss.
He is also one of the most vicious people who criticized Faraday before - or to be precise, one of the few people who is qualified to truly confront Faraday.
At this time, Gauss was looking at Faraday with an angry face and knocked his walking stick on the ground:
"Michael, Bornhard and I rushed all the way from Göttingen to Cambridge. We didn't rest for two whole days. We even prepared wreaths."
"The results of it?"
"After all, you have nothing to do and you still have the heart to drink coffee here? I'm going to complain to Prince Albert and ask him to cancel your preferential treatment!"
Faraday's expression remained unchanged. He stretched out his right hand, pressed it down, and said to Gauss:
"Friedrich, please calm down first and listen to me, okay?"
"This time I invited you to come to Cambridge mainly because there is something that requires the assistance of a large number of top mathematicians. I was worried about the shortage of manpower, so I used a special method."
Looking at Faraday talking eloquently, Gauss was startled for a moment, and then he laughed angrily after coming back to his senses:
"Huh? You need our help with something? Let me tell you Michael, don't even think about it, there's no way!"
As he spoke, he looked around for a few times, then suddenly pointed at something on Xu Yun's waist and said:
"I'll tell you straight away, if you can change our minds, Bornhard will eat that ax on the spot!"
"I, Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, even if I jump from here, I will never do you any favors, never!"
Ignoring the spitting Gauss, Faraday leisurely picked up the tea cup and took a sip before continuing:
"Friedrich, I think it is necessary to tell you two things."
"The first thing is. According to the description in Chapter 233, this is the first floor of the building, and there is grass outside the window. If you jump down, you won't be able to kill anyone."
"The second thing"
After Faraday finished speaking, he reached into the drawer and dug a few times.
A few seconds later.
He took out two poorly revised books, compared them for a few seconds, and threw one of them towards Gauss.
Snapped--
Gauss was obviously unprepared for Faraday's move, and was struck in the middle by the document.
Unlike neon animation and Chinese online dramas, Europe is a territory governed by Mavericks, so under the influence of gravity, books begin to slide downwards.
See this situation.
Gauss subconsciously reached out and grabbed the book in his hand.
After regaining consciousness.
Gauss's face turned red again. This time he was really angry, and he was going to continue to spray:
"It's worse than hanging."
As a result, the words were not finished.
From the corner of his eye, he caught a line of text on the book:
"Experimental Research in Electricity" (Volume 3)
Ever since.
The second half of Gauss's sentence was stuck in his throat, and his eyes widened.
The whole person is like a sculpture, staring at this simple book.
Then he flipped through the books a few times and raised his head in astonishment:
"Why is there only one page of content?"
Faraday raised another printed volume in his hand towards him and said:
"Didn't I say that you need to pay to watch the subsequent content."
When Gauss heard this, he suddenly fell into silence.
A few more seconds passed.
He suddenly raised his head, looked at Faraday, and asked:
"Just wrote it?"
"It took me several years to write it, ahem, but I spent the whole night coding the previous paragraph."
"Are there any chapters broken?"
"No, this is the last volume, it contains the finale and extras."
Gauss's face immediately became uncertain.
After a while.
He turned around slightly and patted Riemann on the shoulder with complicated eyes:
"I may have to give you a hard time, Bornhard."
Riemann: “.???”
all in all.
With the change of Gauss's attitude, the next thing is very simple.
Faraday asked Kirchhoff to distribute the prepared "Experimental Research on Electricity" to everyone, and Gauss and others immediately read it impatiently.
Although these big guys are all math experts, in fact, the relationship between electromagnetism and mathematics these days is extremely close.
The research directions of many mathematicians in the field of physics are related to electric current.
In addition, "Experimental Studies in Electricity" is recognized as the most important and greatest work in Faraday's life, and the third volume serves as the conclusion of the entire work, so its appeal is self-evident.
So prepare with a plan.
Faraday successfully turned today's 'memorial service' into a new work launch conference.
A group of big shots looked at the work among the wreaths and Faraday's portrait and applauded. Faraday even stepped forward to take a photo with his own portrait.
It is worth mentioning that.
Although camera technology has become available these days, the photos are actually black and white.
So the picture is relatively shabby.
Be it Lao Su or Faraday.
Why do these big guys always like to take photos with their own photos or portraits?
After the big guys at the scene read the third volume of "Experimental Research on Electricity".
Gauss closed the book in his hand, looked at Faraday, and sighed:
"Michael, it would be great if you could update a volume of works of the same level every week."
Faraday glanced at him and said nothing.
joke.
A few thousand words in five years is already very life-threatening. Wouldn’t it be exhausting to update four thousand words a week?
To expect him to be able to achieve this kind of renewal is better to expect that Gaul, which is now at its peak, will surrender without a fight one day.
Then Gauss paused and asked Faraday:
"Okay, Michael, can you tell us now what you're going to do by going to all this trouble to trick us into coming to Cambridge?"
Seeing Gauss mentioning business, Faraday looked stern, pointed at Xu Yun and said:
"Friedrich, let me introduce someone to you first. This is classmate Luo Feng."
"He is a descendant of the 'Mr. Fat Fish'. The last part of the experiment involving the 'photoelectric effect' in "Experimental Research on Electricity" was written by him."
"This time I invite you all to come to Cambridge. The main reason is that Luo Feng has something to ask you for help with."
"A descendant of Mr. Fat Fish?"
Gauss was stunned when he saw this, and turned around to look at Xu Yun carefully.
Mentioned it a long time ago.
Maxwell's equations written by Wheat were simplified into four expressions in later generations.
The corresponding ones are static electricity, electrostatic magnetism, magnetism producing electricity, and electricity producing magnetism.
The generation of electricity from magnetism is Faraday's law.
Electromagnetism is Ampere-Maxwell's law.
The remaining one or two, corresponding to electrostatics and magnetostatics, are the Gaussian electric field law and Gaussian magnetic field law proposed by Gauss.
These two laws form a perfect duality, and in some cases of relativity, Gauss's law still holds, but Coulomb's law in the narrow sense no longer applies. It can be seen that Gauss's law is more essential than Coulomb's law.
Therefore, as the proposer of the two major laws, Gauss’s understanding of electromagnetism among everyone present was second only to Faraday.
Of course.
This statement does not include Xu Yun. After all, the knowledge system in 2022 is completely incomparable with the cognition in 1850.
Therefore, during the previous reading of "Experimental Research on Electricity", Gauss discovered a situation:
The four parts appended to the end of the volume, namely 'Measurement of the Speed of Light', 'Photovoltaic Effect', 'Photoelectric Effect' and 'Cathode Ray Conjecture', are a bit strange. Or rather abnormal.
first.
They are incompatible with the content of the previous part and appear somewhat abruptly.
But on the other hand.
The design of these four parts of the experiment was so exquisite that Gauss devoted at least half of his time to these four parts.
Now after hearing Faraday kill him like this, I realized that all of this was done by Xu Yun.
Considering the time Faraday arrived in Cambridge, it is estimated that he was exposed to these four experiments for no more than a month.
In this case, it is no wonder that the content connection seems to be somewhat inconsistent.
Then Gauss touched his chin and murmured in a voice that only readers could hear:
"Fat fish. Fat fish again."
Everyone knows that Gauss was silent and devoted himself to academics. He is more famous for two anecdotes he did when he was three and nine years old:
He first corrected his father's debt accounts when he was three years old, and then used a sequence to calculate the sum of natural numbers from 1 to 100 when he was nine years old.
No one can confirm the authenticity of these two anecdotes, but judging from Gauss's achievements in discovering traces of non-Euclidean geometry at the age of 16 and deriving the general form of the binomial theorem, the incident at the age of nine is probably more credible.
Believe it.
But apart from these two things.
But few people in later generations know that Gauss was actually a very, very proud person.
For example, the conflict between him and Legendre.
Legendre is also a very famous mathematician. He announced the principle of least squares in 1806, earlier than Gauss.
But in "The Theory of the Movement of Celestial Bodies", Gauss mentioned that he had actually applied this principle as early as 1794.
This statement made Legendre very angry, thinking that Gauss had deprived him of the priority of years of hard work.
Later, Legendre publicized the matter greatly, and public opinion was once biased in favor of Legendre, but Gauss did not make any statement from the beginning to the end.
He only said one sentence in a letter to Dirichlet:
"In 1802, I told Olbers about the whole thing. If Legendre doesn't believe me, you can ask Olbers. He has records there, and Legendre is not qualified to let me take the credit."
This letter is now in the Gauss Showroom at the University of Göttingen, and admission is free.
Later, public opinion began to criticize Gauss for not expressing his opinions when he saw Hamilton discussing quaternions, and it even became a black spot for Gauss.
However, it was discovered in the manuscript after Gauss's death that Gauss had written down the core of quaternion theory more than thirty years ago.
Another example is an unlucky guy named János Boyer.
This guy is the son of Gauss's old friend Farkash Boyer, who has discussed the ideas of non-Euclidean geometry.
Farkash also wrote a letter to ask Gauss for his opinion. Gauss first praised Janos's creative spirit, and then changed the subject and said that he had had this idea many years ago.
The ambitious János was devastated by this and vowed never to engage in mathematical writing again.
Therefore, Gauss was a very arrogant person. In other words, he was unwilling to be inferior to others.
So all the time.
While he admired that 'Mr. Fat Fish', he also felt a little dissatisfied.
This kind of dissatisfaction is not a question about the status of Fat Fish, but simply the belief that one's own abilities are not inferior to those of the other party.
But now after seeing the content of the photoelectric effect.
Gauss suddenly discovered
My confidence seems to have been shaken somewhat.
If one or two experiments can be attributed to a 'flash of inspiration'.
So when the number changes to 'four', it would be a bit self-deceiving to explain it by coincidence.
Think of this.
Gauss couldn't help but have some interest in what Xu Yun was going to entrust to him, or his fighting spirit to prove himself:
"Classmate Luo Feng, do you need our help with anything?"
Xu Yun raised his eyelids and glanced at him, saying:
"Mr. Gauss, if I said I wanted to lock the ninth planet in the solar system through orbit calculation, would you believe it?"
Gauss was stunned when he heard this:
"Planet 9?"
Other mathematicians at the scene seemed to be aroused by this sentence and started a buzzing discussion.
Xu Yun nodded and explained:
"According to the manuscript records left by Fat Fish's ancestor, he once observed and calculated the orbit of the trans-Neptune celestial body and found that it was numerically abnormal."
"So he believes that there may be a planet further outside Neptune, exerting force extremely far away."
"Unfortunately, the data available to Fat Fish Ancestors was limited, and the accuracy of the equipment was far from what it is today, so in the end no trace of this planet was found."
"This time I asked Mr. Faraday to invite you all here to calculate the orbit of the unknown ninth planet."
After listening to these words quietly, Gauss pondered for a moment and asked:
"That planet has no observation records?"
Xu Yun shook his head:
"It may have been photographed, but no one ever noticed it was a planet."
Gauss nodded slightly.
Xu Yun’s words are easy to understand.
Just like in later generations, when you take a picture of the sky with your mobile phone, not to mention planets or stars, meteors or even black holes may be photographed by you.
However, due to the current level of technology, it may take hundreds or even thousands of years before someone discovers that there is such an undiscovered celestial body in the photo you took today.
Like the previously mentioned Uranus, Hipparchus recorded it in 128 BC, but it was not confirmed as a planet until 1781.
The lack of specific observation records means that Gauss’s method of calculating Ceres is temporarily invalid:
Gauss's method of calculating Ceres is actually to use the least squares method to fit the trajectory line. In theory, its position can be locked with three observation records.
Now if there are no observation records, the difficulty will obviously be increased countless times.
Then Gauss thought for a while and asked Xu Yun:
"Classmate Luo Feng, are you sure Mr. Fat Fish has not found any trace of that planet?"
Xu Yun glanced at Gauss in surprise. For some reason, he always felt that the other person's tone was a bit strange.
However, out of respect for Gauss, he still answered honestly:
"No."
"Is it possible that it was observed but not published? For example, it was written in some manuscripts? I cough, a friend of mine likes to do this very much."
"nor."
Gauss stared at Xu Yun seriously for a few seconds. After a while, he nodded sharply:
"Okay, I'll take over this matter."
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Xu Yun always felt that something strange had happened to the prince of mathematics, but since the other party agreed, it was always a good thing.
After all, Gauss's status is there.
Once he agreed, other mathematicians basically had no problems.
as expected.
After Gauss's statement.
Riemann, Jacobi, Dirichlet and others also expressed their stance.
In the end, no one among the more than 30 people expressed opposition.
The big team of tool makers is done!
in the coming time.
Gauss and others personally practiced the photoelectric effect and conducted industry exchanges with several teachers from the Department of Mathematics at Cambridge University.
Four days passed by quickly.
As the calendar turns over, the time has finally arrived.
