What Is Life?! Shocks the Entire Hall! Can Physics Explain Life?

October 30, 1929, University of Rome.

At Fermi's call, the first International Conference on Nuclear Physics was successfully held.

Scholars in the field of Nuclear Physics from countries around the world gathered together to discuss the latest developments.

The attendees included not only experimental giants such as Chadwick, Irène, Compton, and Fermi, but also theoretical giants such as Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli, and Dirac.

After all, many phenomena in Nuclear Physics required Quantum Mechanics to explain them.

The mechanism of Beta Decay, the possibility of heavy-nucleus fission, research into the form of the Atomic Nucleus, and so on.

In the field of Nuclear Physics, experiments were currently ahead of theory.

Thus, today was also the home ground of experimental physicists.

As the host, Fermi welcomed the arriving luminaries with a beaming smile.

"Welcome!"

"This way!"

"..."

The luminaries chatted and laughed, sharing their experiences and observations.

When Yu Yin and Deng Huaining appeared, a small wave of excitement swept through the venue.

Professor Bruce had not come after all.

Everyone's hopes had been dashed.

Fermi hurried forward and took hold of the two men. He thanked them first, then said regretfully:

"Professor Yu, it really is a pity that Professor Bruce did not attend this conference."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

At an occasion like this, if Professor Bruce had been present, the event would undoubtedly have risen to an even greater height of brilliance.

But everyone could understand.

If modern physicists were divided into several generations according to the development of physics—

Then Planck, Thomson, Lorentz, and the like belonged to the first generation.

Li Qiwei, Rutherford, Einstein, Marie Curie, and the like belonged to the second generation.

Schrödinger, de Broglie, Heisenberg, Pauli, and the like belonged to the third generation.

Of course, there were also figures such as Bohr, Laue,