Chapter 1249: Chapter 152: Gottingen’s Star (Part 2)
Ampere’s joke left Faraday extrely embarrassed. He never minded others attacking him personally, but toward his ntor Sir Humphry Davy, despite Davy’s later years of exclusion and suppression of Faraday, Faraday never bore any resentnt toward his ntor. On the contrary, he has always been grateful to Davy.
When Faraday was too poor to attend school, rely due to a letter, Davy personally nad Faraday to co to the Royal Society as his apprentice. Although the experintal work was tough, as long as Faraday had questions, Davy would always answer them, teaching him experints hand in hand. And whenever Davy’s wife wanted to send away the poor boy she disliked, Davy would always co up smilingly to smooth things over and protect Faraday.
Because of this, Faraday was able to grow step by step to where he is now.
However, although Faraday was grateful to Davy, he also understood his teacher’s personality. In terms of life, Davy was not only a great natural philosopher but also a good man caring about social issues and the common folk. To prevent lamps from causing mine explosions, he developed the safety lamp. Due to Napoleon’s continental blockade policy, he actively conducted many free agricultural chemistry courses during Britain’s food shortages. To improve the dirty environnt of the traditional leather industry, he spent five years researching leather technology.
However, even though Davy was such a great person, he also had weaknesses. That was Davy’s pursuit of fa was almost insane—he greedily wanted to win all the honors he could obtain, and he couldn’t stand anyone surpassing him. This personality was shown in himself by risking his life inhaling nitrous oxide and coal gas to gain scientific results. Regarding others, it manifested in his iodine elent dispute with Guy-Lussac and his suppression of Faraday.
Faraday was unwilling to say anything bad about Davy, but he couldn’t, in good conscience, argue with Ampere.
Because everyone knew that back then, Ampere was criticized by many French chemists for years for giving Davy iodine compounds as a gift. Guy-Lussac and the others were almost openly saying: Ampere had beco a traitor in the French scientific community.
After thinking it over, Faraday could only sigh and say, “Sorry, Monsieur Ampere, for causing you grievance.”
“Hahaha.” Ampere never intended to hold Faraday accountable. He just shook his head and said, “If you sincerely want to apologize, you can send a sliding resistor later. I’m more interested in that than iodine.”
Hearing this, Faraday breathed a sigh of relief and replied with a smile, “That’s simple. The structure of the sliding resistor doesn’t seem complicated. I’ll consult Arthur later. If he doesn’t mind about the patent, I’ll make one for you tonight.”
As soon as Faraday finished speaking, he heard another exclamation from the audience.
On stage, under Ampere’s manipulation, as the tal rod of the sliding resistor was slowly pushed, the torsion balance needle representing the current change was gradually shifting to the right.
For an experintal physicist like Faraday, such a result was already expected.
Because although they previously had no concept of resistance, with enough experints, they would always find sothing wrong. So, when the Royal Society experintal physicists saw Ohm’s paper, they imdiately understood that resistance indeed exists.
But for theoretical physicists like Ampere, whose main focus was mathematical calculations, Ohm’s discovery was certainly a novel bombshell. It could even be said that the discovery of resistance would completely reconstruct the electromagnetic mathematics analysis system that Ampere and other theoretical physicists had just established.
The needle of the torsion balance was swinging, and the people’s minds in the venue were also swinging.
The experintal physicists who were originally wavering imdiately put away their doubts about Ohm upon seeing the experintal result.
But for theoretical physicists, this experint alone was not convincing enough.
After all, for many theoretical physicists, admitting the concept of resistance would an denying the electromagnetic mathematics analysis results they had been developing for many years. The reason is obvious. The experintal data derived without considering resistance must be incorrect. Therefore, the mathematical analysis derived from incorrect experintal data must also be incorrect.
In an instant, the atmosphere in the venue gradually beca delicate.
So scholars quickly realized why Ohm was so suppressed in Germany. Academic fraud isn’t considered a fresh matter; occasionally, erroneous papers appear in academic journals. But why was Ohm’s suppression level significantly higher than other suspected academic fraudsters?
This is due to the introduction of the resistance concept, which would reveal the bottom of electromagnetic theory, burning so people’s ten or twenty years of research results.
According to the convention in the German scientific community, scholars often enjoy social and economic status linked to their scientific achievents…
No wonder…
So experintal physicists who were unaffected looked at each other, finally understanding the underlying issue of this academic conference—George Ohm, this guy was about to destroy many people’s livelihoods!
anwhile, the theoretical physicists from Germany, seeing Ohm’s experint, all looked ashen.
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