Volume 2: The crown and the hat are all over the capital, and the spirit is full of energy and enter the foggy city Chapter 122 Duality
Subtitle of this chapter: We have traveled back to the 1920s, wouldn't it be appropriate not to get involved in quantum physics??
Just as Mrs. Connor, who looked eager, and Major General Connor, who looked suspicious, were about to step forward to ask, the hostess, who saw that it was getting late, said, "My friends, it's almost time. Dinner will be ready soon. Please go back to your rooms and have a rest. Then come to the living room for an aperitif."
Even though our Master Yuan is very proud of his Serbian identity, he has to admit that foreigners are more sophisticated when it comes to drinking.
Zu Qianqiu, the professional drunkard in "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer", had a long list of famous wines from all over Seris and the wine vessels that matched them.
The banquet scenes in "Dream of Red Mansions" were also described in an elegant and luxurious manner, and later someone actually recreated the dishes in the film.
However, the Seres don't drink several different kinds of wine in one meal like foreigners do.
About half an hour before a formal Western dinner, it is time for aperitifs.
The wines drunk with meals are divided into appetizers, soups, side dishes, main courses, dairy products and desserts. This means that when you sit down to have a meal, you may drink four or five different kinds of wines. Each kind of wine is served in a different glass, which means you have to change the glass four or five times.
After the meal, everyone will have an after-dinner drink.
In fact, a hundred years later, Western food was greatly simplified, and except for very special circumstances, almost no one made it. But in 1921, it was different, and our Master Yuan had to adapt to the local customs.
Seriously, if he didn't have a 16-point constitution, or if he traveled through time due to alcohol poisoning like a hundred years later, even a high-level Chinese person wouldn't be able to do it.
Actually, being a high-class Chinese is really troublesome. In order to have a meal, Yuan Yanshu had to go back to his room to change into an evening gown. You know, including pajamas, he has changed three sets of clothes that day, and the evening gown is the fourth set.
He went back to his room, took a shower, and changed into a full evening suit that had just been ironed by the servant. He tied a silk cummerbund around his waist (a substitute for a vest), inserted a white pocket handkerchief in his chest pocket (an essential item for formal dress), and tied a black bow tie around his neck (the bow tie to match the evening suit must be black).
The servant of the Barton family not only ironed his clothes, but also polished his shoes. The shoes were polished to a shine that they could be used as mirrors.
After putting on his clothes and shoes, he used hair wax to make his hair neat and tidy, sprayed on some cologne, and finally put on the Haute Horlogerie watch.
He glanced into the coat mirror...Oh, this young man is so energetic!
Yuan Yan nodded with self-satisfaction, but sighed in her heart. It's not that I don't want to be the successor of communism and the gravedigger of capitalism, it's really fate... and this broken system. Now I feel like...
"Cowherd?"
"Master Ball, stop messing around! I have something to ask you. I just blurted out the wave-particle duality, but I just remembered that de Broglie hasn't proposed the matter wave hypothesis yet. Why aren't you saying ' pika pika '?"
"Host, you remember this now? This system has good news for you. The matter wave hypothesis is not a big problem. Because someone has already derived it from the light quantum theory, but they did not summarize the formula and officially publish it in 1923 like de Broglie did. So..."
"Master Ball, could it be that in this timeline there will be... roo roo, this is indeed good news. But if you have good news, there must be bad news, right?"
"Host, are you becoming more and more experienced now? Yes, you can let the matter wave hypothesis go, but you cannot touch upon the following theories: Bose-Einstein distribution, Heisenberg's uncertainty theory, Dirac's quantum field theory, Schrödinger's cat that is neither dead nor alive..."
"Master Ball, no need to continue. Let me tell you a good news. Even if I can understand these things with my 16 intelligence points (14 basic points + 2 card points), I don't want to waste my brains to understand them now!"
Master Yuan, relieved, took his cigar, matches, and the HELLO KITTY mask, and headed straight to the living room downstairs...
"Mr. Yuan is here!"
Seeing him come in, everyone in the hall focused their attention on Yuan Yanshu. They were also enthusiastically discussing the "miracle" that happened in the carriage this morning. They had looked at the bib countless times.
They all have a lot of questions at the moment.
Mrs. Virginia Connor, who was the most curious, was the first to speak: "Mr. Yuan, can you tell us...um, how does the duality explain Ghost?"
"Madam, please allow me to correct it. It is Wave Particle Duality." Our Master Yuan corrected it very gentlemanly and said, "Of course. But ladies and gentlemen, please wait a moment."
He pointed to the bottle of wine on the table and said, "When you come to George's villa, how can you not drink a glass of California wine?"
You know, Patton's grandfather was not only the second elected mayor of Los Angeles, but also the largest winemaker in California.
"Hahaha..." Major Patton felt proud to hear this and said with a smile, "Mr. Yuan, if you like my wine, I will give you ten... no, one hundred boxes every year."
"Oh, I'm welcome then."
Yuan Yan suddenly took the vermouth (spiced wine, often used as an aperitif) poured by the waiter, smiled and raised the glass to him and everyone in the hall, saying: "For the generous host and the beautiful hostess..."
"To Major General Connor and his distinguished wife who led us to victory over the Germans..."
"To Major and Mrs. Eisenhower, who are starting a new chapter in their lives..."
"And for my lovely secretary..."
"CHEERS!"
Everyone raised their glasses and said, "CHEERS!"
Miss Moman frowned and drank a glass of Flavorful, then said loudly: "Boss, your lovely secretary can't wait to listen to your physics class."
"Hahaha..." Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard this cute quip.
Master Yuan also laughed a few times, and then asked seriously: "Ladies and gentlemen, do you know what the photoelectric effect is?"
"Mr. Yuan, I think I know..." Major General Connor, who had been frowning and looking at Yuan Yanshu with a scrutinizing look, was the first to answer: "This is an important and magical phenomenon in physics. Under the irradiation of light, the electrons inside certain substances will be excited by photons to form an electric current, which is photoinduced electricity..."
In the early 20th century, all military officers in Western countries were intellectuals, and those who could become major generals must be high-level intellectuals.
Major Eisenhower added: "In 1905, Mr. Einstein proposed the light quantum hypothesis, that is, light has both wave and particle properties, which successfully explained the photoelectric effect...."
If intellectuals in Western countries in the early 20th century did not understand quantum physics and relativity, they would not be able to call themselves intellectuals.
Major Patton followed up with a sentence: "By the way, the newspaper said that Mr. Einstein will visit Washington in early April ."
In the early 20th century, Albert Einstein was an academic superstar in Western countries, and it was natural that he attracted everyone's attention.
