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Chapter 501: Wave Theory of Light and Double-Slit Interference Experiment
The temporary meeting near the Holy City lasted for several hours before it was declared over. Before the meeting ended, Harov announced another important news: three months later, the parliament would summon wizards from the entire empire to hold the most grand academic seminar in the royal capital!
Lin En was also very interested in this. During the more than one year of attacking the empire, he did not have much time to pay attention to the development of magic, but from the advent of the first generation of cameras, it can be seen that the development and innovation of basic magic theory has never stopped, and even has explosive growth.
If nothing unexpected happens, this academic seminar will surely be very lively and will also promote exchanges.
The development of magic science cannot be achieved by simply searching for ideas behind closed doors; every result must be a theory that can withstand experiments and public scrutiny.
This series of shocking news did not stop the discussion among the congressmen even after the meeting. The most mentioned topic was naturally Lynn's plan to mass-produce wizards.
It has to be said that this magic star always comes up with some amazing ideas. If they succeed, this continent will have hundreds of thousands more wizards in just a few years!
"Speaker Lin, I wonder how much of the construction and research of the magic network has been completed now? Is it still needed manpower? When can it be used?" Tik asked enthusiastically after walking out of the meeting room.
The temptation to break through the current level and become a great wizard is too great. He is not the only one who cares about the construction of the magic network. Many congressmen left their seats and came forward impatiently to get close to Lin En, the magic star.
Although according to Lin En, after the magic network is built, every wizard can join in and use its power to experience a higher level of realm.
But anyone with a little bit of common sense can realize that the computing power of the magic network must be insufficient, otherwise Lin En would not have said anything about limiting the number of spells that new-school wizards can cast every day.
There are at least five thousand three-ring wizards waiting for promotion in the empire. Everyone wants to mobilize more computing power and comprehend the power of the great wizard, which inevitably leads to a first-come-first-served issue.
No one wants to be the one waiting, and they don’t know how long they will have to wait in line.
Therefore, it becomes particularly important to please Lin En, the creator of the magic network. To put it bluntly, it is just a matter of a word from the other party to mobilize computing power to help oneself get promoted!
Amid the enthusiastic support and flattery of the crowd, Lin En was exhausted from dealing with it. He never liked such hypocritical interactions.
If it were a debate on magic, he could talk to these hundreds of congressmen for three days and three nights without stopping.
"The general model of the spell has been completed. Recently, I am developing a magic that can allow every wizard to connect to the magic network anytime and anywhere. It should be able to produce results within three days..."
Lin En responded to everyone's inquiries concisely. In fact, he could connect to the magic network directly through the secret ring, but it was too obvious and would easily arouse suspicion, so he combined magic projection with the application of consciousness transmission to develop a small magic specifically for connecting to the magic network.
It’s like a magical version of the Internet, where magic is the transmitter, except that what’s connected is not computers, but the brains of wizards!
"As for the order in which to call upon computing power to comprehend the realm..." Lin En hesitated. Just as Tik and others thought, the computing power of the Magic Network could not be supplied to so many people at the same time.
It is not easy to allow a three-ring wizard to briefly reach the realm of a great wizard. At the beginning, the intelligent computer drained the computing power of nine three-ring wizards to allow Lin En to briefly experience the level of a great wizard.
After the war, these nine people either died on the spot or became vegetables.
According to Lin En's estimation, without affecting daily life, it would require the computing power of at least thirty wizards of the same level.
It would be good if ten three-ring wizards could sense the realm of great wizard for one minute every day. After all, all the computing power cannot be wasted here.
Lin En did not intend to abuse his power or engage in corruption in the allocation of these quotas. He had just become Speaker, and doing so would inevitably leave a bad impression on people.
Lin En quickly came up with a relatively fair and motivating method. "Why not just evaluate based on contribution? Whether it's military exploits, research on magic theory, or the development of new magic, they can all be converted into corresponding GPA points, and the GPA points can be used to purchase the right to use the magic network!"
"How many credits are needed to use it once? How are the military merits converted?" a congressman asked with a frown.
"This is something you should consider." Lin En shrugged. The detailed rules and regulations must of course be discussed and drafted by the parliament. He did not have the leisure to waste time on this.
He is only responsible for saying yes or sending it back for revision!
Providing computing power support is just one of the many functions of Magic Network. The rest are still under development. Lin En hopes that one day, Magic Network will be able to cover all aspects and truly live up to its name!
After giving the request for permission to use the magic network, Lynn acted impartially and rejected many invitations to banquets that were intended to curry favor with people.
The situation is so critical now, and Ella who has fled may come back at any time. How can you still have the leisure to hold a singing and dancing party?
Have you finished your meditation today? Have you learned all the existing theories of magic? How much do you know about calculus and electromagnetic equations?
After Lin En's three consecutive questions, the congressmen gathered around him had no choice but to disperse. They understood that it would be unlikely to gain some advantages from this magic star by relying on tricks.
Lin En also took this opportunity to reveal a little bit that he was trying to persuade the top executives of the [Society of Mysticism] to see if they could connect the magic net with the microcosm to achieve mutual communication and assistance, which could be regarded as a precautionary measure for everyone.
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The news about Lynn's plan to mass-produce wizards and the academic seminar to be held in three months spread throughout the empire like the wind with the publicity of the Magic Daily.
The wizards who had been a little slack because the war was progressing smoothly immediately perked up, each of them as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
Especially those three-ring wizards who are about to reach the limit of their lifespan have seen new hope. Once they are promoted to great wizards, not only can their lifespan be extended, but they can also smoothly enter the parliament and become members of parliament who hold power and can participate in major decision-making.
Even great wizards like Arad are not idle. Although they do not need to comprehend the realm, when they are promoted to legend in the future, they may need to mobilize the magic network as a help.
The magic power and energy consumed by the legendary promotion ceremony is also an astronomical figure. The parliament will not provide these for free. You have to show real achievements in exchange.
Now that the war against the Empire is almost over, there are not so many opportunities to gain military merit, so the upcoming academic seminar becomes particularly important. If you can obtain a few academic medals of honor, you will definitely be able to apply for priority access to the magic network.
Thanks to the development of optics, electromagnetism, mechanics, gravity and Olympiad mathematics in recent years, there are innumerable areas that can be tackled. Improvement in any one branch is enough to get a Morning Star Medal. If there is a breakthrough, the Silver Moon Medal will be a sure thing!
Some wizards also placed their hopes on finding dozens of new elements that were missing on the periodic table. On the contrary, the Kingdom Musketeers, which had been winning battles in succession in recent times, have been ignored.
It's nothing more than taking down a few cities today and then having a rebellion somewhere tomorrow.
The absolute technological suppression, coupled with the collapse of the church's divine system, meant that even the great nobles of the entire empire were extremely rare to unite and advance and retreat together, but they could not stop the army's successive defeats.
In just one month since the Magic Kingdom switched from defense to offense, there have been seven cases of soldiers mutiniing on the battlefield - faced with a flood of armor that could not be cut by swords or penetrated by bows and arrows, and a sea of airships that blocked out the sky, the Imperial Army, without the blessing of divine magic, could only be described as collapsing at the first touch.
In order to change this unfavorable war situation, the imperial family and nobles of the empire also came up with many tactics.
For example, send a trustworthy guard to pretend to surrender, then explode from the inside to create chaos, and then attack from outside to defeat the strong with the weak!
As a result, these guards who were sent to pretend to surrender simply surrendered after staying in the city under the jurisdiction of the kingdom for a while, and they were sold out completely.
There's no way around it, the treatment there is so good. Even being a prisoner is much better than being a soldier in the empire. I heard that the prisoners sent to mine and build roads can not only have enough food, but also have two days of vacation every month.
If you are willing to accept reform, there will be a day when you will be released and start a new life.
Under such circumstances, no soldier would want to fight a war that he had no chance of winning.
At the same time, in the City of Kerosene, on the shores of the nearly dried-up Lake Earls, the Thunder Wizards, who had used up all their magic power to extract several thousand grams of tritium and deuterium elements, spent the rest of their energy on academic research.
Compared with their colleagues who participated in the war against the Empire, although they stayed in the rear area to avoid the risk of death, they also had fewer channels to gain military merit.
As for hard work, of course there is hard work. The smooth operation of the fusion reactor is inseparable from their tireless efforts. This Lake Earls, which is almost completely ionized, is the best proof of this!
However, when the credit is shared among so many people, the amount that reaches each individual becomes less. It is not easy to stand out from them and successfully get the opportunity to be promoted to a great wizard or a legendary wizard.
Fortunately, being in a safe zone is not without its benefits. It also means having plenty of time and resources to engage in academic research.
As they have mastered the art of thunder, they have a natural advantage in the study of electric and magnetic fields. However, Jeffrey, who is also proficient in thunder magic, did not choose to spend his energy on electromagnetism because there are too many people specializing in it and he had to find another way.
And he is more interested in studying optics!
What is light?
According to wizards' previous knowledge, light might be an extremely tiny element that cannot be seen by the naked eye.
It is said that this hypothesis originated from a great wizard who studied optics. One day when he was taking a shower, light shone in through the window, and through the thick fog, he 'saw' granular light!
But Jeffrey did not think that this was just a natural phenomenon caused by light shining on the floating dust. The cloud chamber built by Speaker Lynn could explain this phenomenon well.
There is another point that makes him more certain of his guess, that is, the diffusion phenomenon of light is completely inconsistent with the so-called element theory!
This must be wrong!
Jeffrey felt that he had touched the door to the truth, and his ambition grew rapidly.
You know, optics is a very critical field. Lynn, the Magic Star, has promised that whoever can understand the essence of light will be nominated for a Corona Medal!
With this achievement, he will be the first person under several Speakers to be promoted to Legend!
"Teacher, Experiment No. 35 has been set up!"
Just as Jeffrey was fantasizing, several wizard apprentices spoke cautiously. Seven experimental devices had been set up in front of them.
Each experimental device is installed with a laser transmitter that can emit seven different colors of light, including red, green, blue, orange, and purple.
There are several baffles behind the launcher, and holes of different sizes are drilled in the middle of the baffles.
Jeffrey walked to the experimental table and observed very carefully the scattering phenomenon of light after passing through the holes in the partitions. After watching for a few minutes, his brows were furrowed, and he was puzzled.
When a beam of light passes through a hole with a wider diameter, the path of the light will present a very standard cone shape, which is consistent with the common sense that light travels along parallel paths.
However, when passing through a very narrow gap, the situation is completely different. The scattering range of light increases significantly. Not only does a cone with a larger diameter than the original light beam appear behind the baffle, but faint ring-shaped apertures also appear in the shadows around it.
Jeffrey pondered for a long time, holding a white paper in his hand, which was filled with the rules summarized from previous experiments. Three places were circled and could be confirmed.
First, monochromatic light cannot be divided. Second, the same medium refracts different colors of light to different degrees. Third, all colors of light have a diffusion phenomenon and will not disappear due to the reduction of their intensity.
Now is the time to explore the fourth key point, which is also the most critical, and to conduct in-depth research on the phenomenon of light diffusion.
Jeffrey's hand tightly grasped an ink-dipped quill, but he was unable to move for a long time.
"Teacher, do you want to give it a try by adding a few more holes on the baffle?" a wizard said on a whim.
They had been experimenting with single-hole baffles before. What if they changed it to double or even triple holes?
"We can also change the round hole into other shapes, such as triangle, rectangle, etc., maybe we will have new discoveries..." another apprentice also suggested.
Jeffrey's eyes suddenly brightened up. He had not had the time to try these two points.
"Then give it a try."
Chapter 502: Photoelectric effect and the world are fluctuating!
After Jeffrey spoke, the apprentices immediately got busy.
With the help of magic, it was easy to make a simple improvement to the baffle, and it was completed in just a few minutes.
The baffle was changed from one hole to two holes, and its shape changed from round to square.
When the powerful beam of light shot out from the transmitter and penetrated two extremely tiny gaps, everyone present showed a look of astonishment on their faces.
Because nine relatively clear rectangular light spots appeared on the black wall behind the hole. The middle spot was the brightest, and the brightness of the other two spots decreased successively.
"Why are there so many spots of light?"
The apprentice who had made the suggestion just now was stunned. If light really propagates in a straight line, then after a beam of light passes through two holes at the same time, there should only be two corresponding light spots with the same shape as the holes appearing on the wall.
Even if the light refracted after hitting the object, such a strange phenomenon should not occur - not to mention that the brightest light spot was located in the center of the two holes, which was completely contrary to common sense.
This discovery also made Jeffrey feel extremely surprised. He had vaguely realized something in his mind, but he just couldn't think of the key point.
"It's just like water waves..." a short wizard beside him muttered to himself.