Neutrino Revealed! Stuns the Entire Hall! Four-Fermion Theory! The First Theory of the Weak Force!
Under the watchful eyes of the great minds, Pauli calmly walked to the front of the round table.
With such an outrageously high-end conference room setting the stage, even someone as unruly as Pauli had become composed.
After nodding to everyone present, he began his report.
"Today, I will be speaking about some thoughts on Beta Decay."
"Dr. Chadwick of Cavendish once discovered a very strange phenomenon in Beta Decay experiments."
Pauli then briefly recounted the issue of the electron's continuous energy spectrum.
Everyone present was a giant in physics. Even those who did not specialize in Beta Decay could easily understand it.
"So, there is a contradiction here."
"Why is the kinetic energy of the electrons produced by Neutron decay not a fixed value, but a continuous range of values?"
"And why are those values far lower than the electron's theoretically predicted kinetic energy?"
"This means that a portion of the energy has vanished."
"I have reviewed every relevant paper from recent years, but so far, I have found no reasonable explanation."
At that moment, Langevin, the host, suddenly spoke.
"I remember Professor Bohr once explained this issue by proposing that energy is not conserved."
Pauli nodded.
"That's right, but that explanation was never accepted."
"It was a little too earth-shattering."
Pauli had often visited Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics over the years, and the two had a close relationship.
So he could make a little joke.
Bohr revealed a helpless smile.
Back then, he had been mocked by many people over this very matter.
"Professor Bohr is always trying to make some big news."
Pauli continued.
"So today, I am offering an entirely new explanation."
Whoosh!
Everyone was startled!
In everyone's eyes, Pauli might have had a sharp tongue, but his abilities were the real deal.
Moreover, he