Chapter 574: Chapter 501 Light Wave Theory and Double-Slit Interference Experint_2
Has today’s ditation been completed? Have you learned all the existing theories of magic? How much grasp do you have over calculus and electromagnetic equations?
Under Lynn’s three consecutive questions, the councilors gathered around him had no choice but to disperse dejectedly, realizing it was unlikely to gain any advantage from this star of magic through shortcuts.
Lynn also took the opportunity to leak so information, saying he was persuading the high-level mbers of the Secret Magic Society to see if they could connect the magic network with the microcosm to achieve mutual aid, thus giving everyone a heads up.
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The news of Lynn’s mass production of wizard plan and the academic seminar that would be held in three months had spread throughout the entire empire like the wind, thanks to the promotion by the Magic Daily.
The wizards, who had beco sowhat lax due to the smooth progress of the war, imdiately sprang into action, animated as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
Especially those third-ring wizards approaching the limits of their lifespan saw a new hope—once promoted to a great wizard, not only could they extend their lives, but they could also readily join the council and beco mbers who held power and could participate in major decisions.
Even great wizards like Alade, who didn’t need to comprehend realms, weren’t idle. In the future when they would be promoted to legendary status, they might need to harness the magic network as an aid.
The amount of magic power and energy consud by the legendary promotion ceremony was astronomical, and the council would not provide it for free. It had to be exchanged for solid achievents.
Now that the war against the empire was nearing its end, there were not many opportunities to earn military exploits, so the upcoming academic seminar beca particularly important—if one could obtain a few academic honor dals, they would certainly be able to acquire priority access to the magic network.
Thanks to recent advances in optics, electromagnetism, chanics, gravity, and higher mathematics, there were countless fields to conquer. Progress in any one branch was enough to earn a Morning Star dal, and if there were breakthrough developnts, the Silver Moon dal would be secured!
So wizards set their hopes on finding the dozens of new elents missing from the “Periodic Table of Elents,” causing the kingdom’s victorious musketeers to be overlooked in recent tis.
It was nothing more than conquering a few cities today and dealing with rebellions tomorrow.
Absolute technological suppression, coupled with the collapse of the church’s system of Divine Arts, ant that even the rare united front of the empire’s nobility could not stop the successive defeats of the army.
Within just one month of the Magic Kingdom switching from defense to offense, there had already been seven cases of soldiers mutinying on the battlefield—facing armored torrents that could not be cut by swords or penetrated by arrows, and the overwhelming fleet of airships, the army of the empire, devoid of Divine Arts, could only be described as utterly collapsing upon contact.
To change the unfavorable situation, the imperial royalty and nobles ca up with quite a few tactics.
For example, they planned to send a trusted aide to feign surrender, then blow them up from the inside, causing chaos, engaging in combined attack and overcoming the stronger with the weaker!
As a result, those guards who were sent to fake their surrender ended up genuinely defecting after spending so ti in the cities under the kingdom, and sold out their empire completely.
Helpless, who could bla them when the kingdom offered such good treatnt? Even as captives, they were treated much better than they would be as imperial soldiers. It was said that the captives sent to mine and build roads not only got enough to eat but also two days off each month.
If they were willing to be reford, they even had the chance to be released and start over.
Under such circumstances, no soldier would want to fight a war where victory seed impossible.
anwhile, by the nearly dry banks of Eers Lake in Fire Oil City, the Thunder Mages, who had exhausted their magic power to extract kilograms of tritium and deuterium, focused the remainder of their energy on academic research.
Compared to their colleagues involved in the war against the empire, although they avoided the risk of falling in battle by staying at the rear, they lacked the channels to acquire military rits.
Of course, their hard work existed—the fusion reactor could not run smoothly without their tireless efforts, and the nearly ionized Eers Lake was the best proof of that!
But with so many people sharing the credits, the portion that could reach each individual diminished, and standing out to secure a spot for promotion to a great wizard or a legendary wizard was no easy task.
Luckily, being in a safe zone wasn’t entirely without its benefits. It also ant having ample ti and resources for academic pursuits.
Those proficient in Thunder Mage spells had a natural advantage in the research of electric and magnetic fields. However, Jeffrey, who was also an expert in thunder magic, did not choose to devote his energy to electromagnetism since there were too many people specializing in it, and he had to find an alternative path.
Moreover, he was growing even more interested in optical research!
What is light?
According to the past understanding of wizards, light might be a kind of extrely tiny elent, invisible to the naked eye.
It is said that this hypothesis originated from a great wizard who studied optics. One day, while bathing, light shone through the window from outside, penetrated the thick mist, and he “saw” particle-like light!
But Jeffrey did not think so, it was nothing more than a natural phenonon ford by light shining on scattered dust, which Lynn’s Cloud Chamber could explain very well.
Another point solidified his guess even further, that the diffraction phenonon inherent to light completely contradicted the so-called elental theory!
This had to be wrong!
Jeffrey felt he was touching the gateway to the truth, and his ambition swelled rapidly.
One must know that optics is a very crucial field, and Lynn, the star of magic, had even promised that whoever understood the nature of light would be nominated for the Corona dal!
With this achievent, he could beco the first person to be promoted to legend beneath the several councilors!
“Teacher, the setup of experint number thirty-five has been completed!”
As Jeffrey was indulging in his fantasies, several Wizard Apprentices spoke cautiously, having already arranged seven experintal setups in front of them.
Each experintal setup had a laser emitter installed, capable of emitting seven different colors of light: red, green, blue, orange, purple, and so on.
Behind the emitters were several baffles with holes drilled through them of various sizes.
Jeffrey walked up to the experintal table and observed very carefully the scattering of light after it passed through these baffle holes. Within a few minutes, his brow furrowed deeply, utterly baffled.
When a beam of light passed through a relatively wide diater hole, the path of the light ford a very standard conical shape, which aligned with the common knowledge that light propagates in parallel paths.
However, when passing through a very narrow slit, the situation was different; the scattering range of the light noticeably increased. Not only was there a cone behind the baffle with a diater larger than the original beam’s range, but faint rings of light also appeared around the shadowed areas.
Jeffrey pondered for a long ti, holding a white paper filled with rules concluded from previous experints, with three being emphatically circled as definite.
First, monochromatic light cannot be further divided. Second, the sa dium refracts different colors of light to different extents. Third, all colors of light exhibit diffraction and it does not disappear with the weakening of its intensity.
Now was the ti to explore the fourth key point, which was the most crucial: a deeper study of the light diffraction phenonon.
Jeffrey’s hand was clutching an ink-dipped quill, yet he had not moved for quite so ti.
“Teacher, should we try adding a few more holes to the baffle?” a male wizard suggested suddenly.
All their previous experints had been with single-hole baffles. What if they used double holes, or even triple?
“We could also try different shapes for the holes, like triangles, rectangles, and the like; maybe we’ll find sothing new…” another apprentice suggested.
Jeffrey felt a flash of insight; he had not tried these two points before.
“Then let’s give it a try.”
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