Under the watchful gaze of countless eyes in the conference hall, Lynn stood up calmly and walked toward the platform.
"The professor should be able to withstand it, right?" Ailoke muttered to himself in a low voice as the wizards from the Prophecy School looked formidable with their overwhelming numbers, appearing ready to use their influence to pressurize.
Philip was also sowhat worried. He had just thought about going out together but was pushed back down by Lynn.
As soon as Yoland saw Lynn step onto the platform, he couldn’t wait to pose his question.
"Mr. Lynn, I have perused your doctrine, and according to your theory, all the stars, including the continent beneath our feet, rotate around the Sun, right?"
"To be precise, it’s the planets within this star system that rotate around the Sun," Lynn corrected the errors in Yoland’s words.
Yoland didn’t pay attention to this distinction and said with regret, "However, I find that you seem to have overlooked a very important issue!"
"What issue?" Lynn asked curiously.
"Since you ntioned in the ’Magic Daily’ that the continent beneath our feet orbits the Sun in a period of three hundred sixty days, exactly one year, then how should we explain the phenonon of day and night? It can’t be that there is only one day and night in a year, right?" Yoland asked skeptically.
According to the theory of the Prophecy School, it is precisely because the Sun rotates around the continent once a day that there are sunrise and moonset, day and night.
Lynn was at a loss for words, thinking Yoland was going to bring up sothing highly advanced, and he couldn’t help but explain with an incredulous laugh.
"It’s quite simple. That’s because, in addition to orbiting around the star, the planet under our feet is also constantly rotating on its own, which leads to the day and night changes we observe."
Lynn stretched out his hand and conjured two different-sized spheres of water in the air, making the smaller one revolve around the larger one while simultaneously rotating on its own axis, representing the alternation of day and night with each orbit.
"Self-rotation?" Yoland paused for a mont, not expecting Lynn to co up with such an explanation, but he quickly laughed.
"I must say, your theory is quite interesting, but if, as you say, the continent beneath our feet is constantly rotating and even moving continuously around the Sun, then why aren’t we thrown straight off?"
Yoland emphasized his tone slightly, with his voice echoing persistently within the auditorium.
The group of wizards present also started to murmur among themselves, and even those who originally supported the planetary theory began to waver under such sharp questioning.
After all, Yoland’s words were easy to imagine, like placing a grain of rice on a spherical object and then rapidly rotating it—the rice would inevitably be thrown off.
Not to ntion that the continent beneath their feet was so vast; once it started moving, it would undoubtedly generate a horrific force. Even if they were lucky enough not to be thrown off, they should undoubtedly be able to feel it!
Philip was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, as if the person being targeted on stage was himself.
Lynn’s expression remained unchanged, and he inquired with a smile, "You must have ridden in a carriage before, haven’t you, Mr. Yoland?"
"What do you ask that for?" Yoland hesitated to speak.
Lynn did not respond but turned to look towards the multitude of wizards at the seminar. "I believe everyone should have also noticed that when a carriage is moving, it is only at the start and the end that we can most clearly feel our bodies swaying back and forth. For the rest of the ti, what we mostly feel is the bumpy sensation as the carriage travels over uneven terrain."
"That’s because we are inside the moving carriage, and based on friction, move along with it. Of course, since the speed of the carriage varies, it is not very intuitive..." Lynn was saying, suddenly turned his head towards several archwizards. "I believe that Master Rafael and Master August, who have ridden flying ships, should have a better understanding of this point!"
All eyes in the room imdiately cast upon Rafael and August, who after a mont of contemplation, nodded in unison.
Flying ships are different from carriages, they are completely airborne. After an Array of Wind Protection is added, they travel very smoothly, and those aboard can barely feel that they are moving rapidly.
"This planet is the sa! The previous freefall experint has already proven that the resistance we feel is based on the presence of elents. Under the influence of gravitational binding, all elents and matter change position along with the rotation of the planet, so of course, we do not perceive ourselves moving. If one day it suddenly stops rotating, we would probably all be flung out..." Lynn said jokingly.
"Nonsense!" Next to Yoland, a red-haired witch interrupted Lynn loudly. "Lord Harrov has flown to the top of the world. If the land beneath our feet was truly turning, then with such a long duration, Lord Harrov would have been carried by the rotation to other places long ago..."
"Gravity has a very large influence, madam, much larger than you might imagine. So large that even when we ascend tens of thousands of ters into the atmosphere, we still cannot escape its grasp!" Lynn said lightly, then looked around at everyone and spoke aloud.
"Just as we cannot detect that the planet beneath our feet is round, the speed of the planet’s rotation is very slow relative to its massive size, and we are as tiny as dust particles. Like ants digging burrows in the hills, to them, the hill itself is the entire world."
The discussion in the hall grew more intense. So people highly approved of Lynn’s theory of planetary rotation, as it explained the problem of day and night transitions very well.
However, many more still harbored deep skepticism. According to Lynn’s words, simply because they are rotating along with the planet, they do not perceive themselves as rotating as well?
That’s preposterous!
Not magical at all!
"Evidence? What evidence do you have to prove our continent beneath us is rotaing? All this is nothing more than your fantasy!" Yoland jeered sharply. "By your theory, are we not also racing along with this land while we sleep at night..."
"Did you move yourself while you were in the carriage?" Lynn asked with amusent.
"Of course, I..." Yoland paused. He wanted to say he had not moved, but on further reflection, he indeed was moving.
This contradictory feeling plunged Yoland, who knew nothing of reference fras, into confusion, and he could only conclude that he had not moved; it was the carriage that carried him along.
But this conclusion undoubtedly corroborated Lynn’s theory of rotation, and Yoland was mired in conflict for a long ti, unable to speak.
"As for the evidence of the planet’s rotation, of course I have it!" Lynn did not pay attention to the conflicted Yoland but turned to look at the seats of the Prophecy School, and spoke.
"Johnny, Ailoke, Pearce, bring up everything you have prepared!"
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