I Made Scientific Magic

  Chapter 507 Mimic interference fringes, the great victory of particle theory

  The academic seminar lasted for several hours, and wizards continued to come to the stage to explain their inventions or magic theories.

   Apart from other things, there are three types of perpetual motion machines alone. Obviously wizards are very keen on creating infinite power.

  The most reliable one is the magnetic perpetual motion machine, which uses more than a dozen permanent magnets to provide power. It is expected to be used for more than ten years, but this thing is still rejected by Lynn.

   After all there are these strong magnets, why aren't they just used to make generators?

   Wouldn't it be more efficient?

  However, the minds of wizards are not always so pitiful. After more than a year, the achievements of various magic theories can only be described as a blowout, especially in the fields of algebra, mechanics, elements, and electromagnetism.

  During these few hours, Lynn, Harov and others had awarded six Morning Star Medals. You must know that this was only the first day of the seminar.

  Sean was the thirty-sixth person on stage, and he also presented his invention—a mechanical pendulum clock for timing!

  Today, the method of timing used by wizards is still the hourglass method, that is, the measurement is completed according to the time when quicksand leaks from one container to another.

   But the difference is that the magic hourglass made by wizards contains a special kind of sand of time with magical power.

   This thing has two important characteristics.

   First, in the characteristic hourglass, it will fall at the speed of ten grains of sand per second. Second, it is especially obvious under the unique spiritual perception of wizards.

  This means that wizards only need to touch the hourglass to know the amount of remaining sand through mental power, and their computing power can also distinguish the moment they appear in a very short time.

   Its accuracy can reach about 0.01 second.

  The mechanical pendulum clock made by Sean uses the isochronous principle of a simple pendulum.

  The so-called simple pendulum refers to a device that can produce reciprocating swings—one end of a string is suspended from the ceiling, and a small ball is placed on the other end to form a simple pendulum.

   Then as long as an initial force is applied to it, under the influence of gravity, the ball below will start to swing back and forth.

   And according to the law he discovered, the time it takes for the ball to swing back and forth is only related to the length of the cycloid, and will not be affected by the magnitude of the swing. This stability becomes the basis for measuring time...

  Sean directly disassembled the entire pendulum clock, pointed to the gears, balance wheel, mainspring, and hairspring inside, and explained its operating principle in detail.

   In short, the force of the pendulum drives the gear, and one revolution represents one minute!

  After listening to Xiao En's narration, Lin En understood that this is a relatively elementary pendulum clock, probably because it has just been developed, and its structure is very simple.

  After casually pointing out a few areas that need improvement, Lynn smiled and said again. "In my opinion, it is better to directly increase the number of gears inside the dial to three. Every time the small gear rotates, it drives the middle gear to rotate for a moment, and each rotation of the middle gear drives the large gear to rotate for a moment. I call it Seconds, minutes and hours!"

  Sean paused for a moment, with a look of surprise on his face, and quickly understood the benefits of doing this. In this way, he didn't have to calculate how many times the dial turned, and he could see the minutes, hours, and seconds at a glance.

   "Thank you for your proposal, Chairman Lynn, I didn't expect you to have such a high level of attainment in alchemy." Sean bowed slightly in thanks.

  Before he was in the empire, all he heard was how outstanding this magic star was in magic research, but he didn't expect the other party to be such an all-rounder.

   "In fact, Speaker Lynn is the most skilled wizard in alchemy in the entire magic world. My title of magic creator has long been misplaced." Vittorio, who was on the judging table, said quite ashamedly.

   In just a few years, Lin En, who has created airships, fighter planes, magic trains, and giant steel ships, is more suitable for the name of the magic creator.

  The Yangyan Cannon developed by myself is of course very sharp, but it’s just picking up people’s wisdom and recreating [Final Yan - Atomic Breath] by means of alchemy.

   "Actually, my alchemy is very average. At best, I just have some experience in engineering research." Lynn shook his head and smiled. He knew very well that he was just taking advantage of his knowledge.

  Even if he didn't remind him, Sean could improve it thoroughly over and over again.

  Lin En quickly skipped this topic, and instead discussed with Harov and others whether Sean should be nominated for the Morning Star Medal.

   Several people are very optimistic about this new timing method.

  Its accuracy is not as good as the magic clock, but its greatest value is that it does not require magic power, that is to say, even ordinary civilians can use it, and its structure is not complicated, which is extremely popular.

   This is a model of using gravitational potential energy, which is much more reliable than those so-called perpetual motion machines.

  Lin En also nodded. In his opinion, the meaning of this pendulum clock is deeper than its function, and it represents the innovation of timing devices.

  After gradually deepening the research target into the microscopic field, the magic hourglass with an accuracy of only one-tenth of a second is not enough. It must be accurate to one-thousandth of a second, or even one-ten-thousandth of a second.

  The wizard named Sean in front of him may be a good developer of new timers.

  In view of this, Lynn was not stingy with rewards, and directly awarded the other party a Morning Star Medal.

  Sean stood where he was flattered, watching the star of magic personally bring the medal to him, his face flushed with excitement, he had never enjoyed such respectful treatment!

   After bowing again to express his gratitude, Sean sat down again in the envy of everyone, and several wizards beside him even started to chat with him enthusiastically.

   "Then the next one is Master Sanchez's light particle scattering experiment." Harov glanced at the list in his hand and read out.

  Hearing this, the wizards present were all shocked, they understood that this was the focus of this academic seminar.

  The theoretical dispute between light particles and fluctuations has been going on for several months, and this is not as simple as a theoretical dispute, it is related to the attribution of a corona medal, and no one can give up.

  Under the attention of everyone, Sanchez got up and walked to the booth. After bowing to the speakers, he explained his theory of light particles.

This is the same as those papers previously published on [Magic Daily]. The fundamental argument is that light is composed of individual particles, and the number is extremely large, even within a beam of 0.1 mm in diameter. , the contained light particles are also hundreds of millions!

  While speaking, Sanchez raised his right hand and created a reddish translucent magic ball in the palm of his hand. A large number of mimetic elements inside were constantly surging to simulate the continuation form of optoelectronics.

   At this moment, a wizard who supported the wave theory suddenly sneered and interrupted Sanchez's words.

   "Wait, Master Sanchez, you just said that light is electricity, and electricity is light, and you even think that electricity is composed of finer light particles..."

   "Lightable candles can also continue to glow. Does this mean that candles can continue to generate electricity?"

   There was a burst of laughter in the huge conference room. Candles naturally cannot be used to generate electricity... But some people didn't laugh, Sanchez certainly didn't, but sighed helplessly.

   "I don't know if you are a wizard of the kingdom or a wizard of the empire?"

   "I come from Seltord, the city of steel..." the wizard said with an unwavering expression.

  Seltord is an important city located in the eastern part of the kingdom. It was 'recovered' late, and it had been under the rule of the great nobles before.

   It is at the middle and lower levels in the hidden wizard group division.

  Although everyone is a wizard, mutual prejudices still exist.

  For example, wizards born in the land of wizards look down on wizards born in the kingdom, thinking that they are a bunch of barbarians who have not received systematic magic education, while wizards in the kingdom look down on wizards in the empire...

  Even if the parliament is deliberately eliminating geographical differences, such contradictions cannot be avoided.

   Sanchez also realized that his words might cause some misunderstandings, so he shook his head and said. "In short, I suggest you buy a copy of Master Allard's book [The Essence of Flame], and then take a good look at Speaker Lynn's [On the Internal Structure of Elements, Electron Orbital Model], so as not to ask such stupid questions again."

   "What is fire? It is an oxidation reaction that occurs during the combustion of substances. If the temperature is sufficient, it is a mass of high-temperature plasma..."

   "And electrons exist inside every element, I think everyone of you should know this common sense..."

   Sanchez looked at the wizard disdainfully, let alone a candle, theoretically the temperature is enough, and all substances can be ionized!

  Hearing these words, the wizards who were still laughing just now were extremely embarrassed, and the wizard who spoke was even more speechless.

   After Sanchez explained a sentence, he ignored these ignorant people and continued to talk about his own particle theory, based on the pinhole imaging demonstrated by Glenn just now.

  With the efforts of the apprentices, a simple experimental platform was quickly built.

   There are only three things on it.

  On the left is a candle, in the center is a partition with a tiny hole, and on the right is a stone wall.

   Sanchez lit the candle, and a spot of light in the shape of a candle appeared immediately on the opposite stone wall, but it was upside down.

"We can imagine that the light emitted by the candle is composed of countless light points. Since the diameter of the firework is larger than the hole, the light point from the upper part of the candle flame will pass through the small hole along a straight line and will shine on the bottom of the wall. And the light from the lower part of the candle flame will shine on the top of the stone wall, and all the light spots will combine to form an upside-down candle flame!"

   "If light was a wave, it would be impossible for it to show such a clear image standing upside down, with completely opposite shapes and sizes!" Sanchez said loudly. "So there is no doubt that light is a tiny particle traveling in a straight line!"

   Sanchez's voice continued to echo in the exhibition hall, and the wizards present looked at the conspicuous candle shadows on the stone wall and talked a lot.

   "Then how do you explain the interference and diffraction of light?" Jeffrey, who had been silent all this time, finally couldn't help but speak, and the question was a dead end of the Particle School.

   "This is exactly the experiment I'm going to do next!" Sanchez showed a mocking smile at the corner of his mouth. "Just a simple simulation and everything will be clear!"

   Sanchez directly asked people to remove the candle, and replaced the middle baffle with a double-slit one, and then created a blue element cluster on the left hand again.

   "Now I assume they are photoelectrons!"

   Sanchez held up two element clusters, one red and one blue, and under the gaze of everyone, shot them towards the two gaps in the baffle!

   After the two clusters of particle elements hit the hole with a smaller diameter, the outer protective film burst directly, and the inner magical mimicry elements began to spread in all directions.

  Because there are two explosion sources at the same time, and the distance is very close, many scattered red and blue elements quickly collide with each other and fuse together, and their power becomes stronger.

  The wizard in the front row suddenly stood up from his seat, staring at the stone wall.

The red and green mimic elements hit the wall, leaving behind eye-catching potholes. About three seconds later, the result came out. The scattering elements were concentrated in several areas, forming nine streaks formed by impact craters.

  The middle of these stripes is not without potholes but relatively few in number.

   "Interference fringes, this is interference fringes!" Sean shouted in astonishment.

  More and more people have realized that if these potholes are compared to scattered light particles, then the place where the potholes are dense is the brightest area, and the rest of the place is relatively dark.

  That is to say, even if the light is a particle beam, light interference and diffraction may occur!

   Realizing this, the wizards who supported the theory of light particles were very excited. Sanchez's experiment undoubtedly eliminated the biggest obstacle of particle theory, and cheers and applause resounded in the exhibition hall for a while.

  The great wizard Arad even read out the result directly, shouting loudly. "This is the victory of particle theory!"

   Sanchez complacently turned his attention to Jeffrey and Anthony.

   "I have to say, this explanation is very ingenious, Sanchez!" Anthony sighed involuntarily.

  He had seen the photoelectron explosion theory proposed by Sanchez, but he didn't expect the other party to actually carry out this experiment, although it was only the experimental result of a mimic photon.

   "I'm sorry that you gave up a correct path, Anthony." Sanchez said with a chuckle. "It's still too late to repent!"

  Anthony shook his head and said with a sigh. "Unfortunately, this theory is wrong!"

   Seeing that Anthony was still stubborn, Sanchez frowned in dissatisfaction, but before he could reply, Anthony spoke again, speaking firmly.

   "Because I have found the essence of light, it is actually... an electromagnetic wave!"

  (end of this chapter)