The Dawn of Particle Physics! Another Prediction of a New Particle? Nobel Prize Announced! PN Junctions and Binary!

With Fermi's first use of neutrons in bombardment experiments, Experimental Physics welcomed an unprecedented neutron craze.

Every experiment that had previously used alpha particles for bombardment was now repeated with neutrons. Perhaps new discoveries would emerge.

Some wanted to create neutron sources stronger than the one Fermi had used, such as Irène and her husband.

Others bombarded individual particles with neutrons, hoping to produce different effects.

For instance, Chadwick had a sudden whim: what would happen if neutrons bombarded protons?

And so on.

In short, under the wildly imaginative maneuvers of Experimental Physics' leading figures, neutrons were quickly made to blossom in every possible way.

Of course, the most orthodox experiments in neutron bombardment were still the Artificial Radioactivity experiments led by Fermi's team.

Roughly every month, Fermi published a new paper.

And each time, everyone learned at once:

"Professor Fermi has switched to bombarding another new element."

Before long, the Experimental Physics community had gone numb.

No comparison. No comparison at all.

In truth, Fermi's pace was still slower than in real history.

Because he now had to explain the mechanism behind every Artificial Radioactivity nuclear reaction, he needed to spend more time.

And often, he could not even write out the reaction equation.

This showed just how many secrets still waited to be unearthed in Nuclear Physics.

At the same time, the field of Theoretical Physics was undergoing a revolution as well.

The ideas of Quantum Field Theory began to seep into every direction.

In particular, they became ever more closely intertwined with the development of particle studies.

Particles were the core elements of Quantum Field Theory, while also serving as an important extension of Atomics.

For a time, the basic particle physics once proposed by Li Qiwei began to sprout.

The foremost physicists began deliberately focusing on