Would it be fine if he could predict the date of the alignment of six stars?
Of course not. As an astronomy enthusiast and professional, how could he be satisfied with such a superficial prediction?
However, if he wanted to continue to improve the accuracy, there was another thing that had to be accurately defined, and that was time.
The biggest reason why this work had not been done was that the original observation data was not enough. Although after becoming an official mage, before preparing to start the exploration of the stars, he had thought about the precise definition of these useful tools. Even if it did not reach the height of the 21st century on Earth, it was still much better than the crude way of the indigenous people in the maze world.
However, this important work had not been carried out. The most important thing was that he had to run around for a living. In order to save the application fee for living in the Magic Tower, Marco Lin led the two magic apprentices who did not even know how to meditate and started a life in the wilderness. Perhaps it was an exaggeration to say that they were in the wilderness, but the two girls' magic enlightenment was really completed in the wilderness.
The time they could stay in Wulian City was basically waiting for the next good job opportunity, or occasionally picking up some work that could be done in the city, but these kinds of jobs were rare. In the situation where they were running around, there was naturally no way to do astronomical observations and record data.
It was not until they settled in the Tower of the Great Sage that the situation was really improved. It could be said that this Magic Tower, in addition to being the most important computing tool, was to give Lin a fixed place to observe the celestial bodies with peace of mind.
As for the source of income that he originally considered, he planned to rely on the monthly subsidy from the Association to eat and die. Therefore, Lin was still quite concerned about the progress of the two apprentices. After all, their achievements were related to the amount of his subsidy. However, the unexpected joy brought by the browser and the forum made him a lot more comfortable.
Now, it had been a year and six months since he settled in the Tower of the Great Sage. After a certain amount of observation data had been accumulated, the subsequent calculations could be carried out.
Considering that there might be an expansion of manpower in the future to join the great cause of calculation and observation, Lin did not intend to create a new calendar. Instead, he expanded the definition of the original calendar and timekeeping method in the maze world until it was accurate enough to be used.
However, there were many different systems of calendars in the maze world itself. There was almost no definition of time. Even the strict mages did not seem to care about such things.
As for the calendar that was accepted by most people and used by most magicians, it was the Aran calendar established by the God of Knowledge Enki, the representative god of the eight powers.
The shortest point of the shadow on the sundial was used as a record. The shortest time to complete a cycle was 365 days, which was one year in the Aran calendar. Among them, there were thirteen months that corresponded to the names of the twelve ancient gods. There was one month that didn't have a name, so some people called it the Hidden Moon.
Each month coincided with the twenty-eight days of Nana, which was divided into four weeks with seven days in each week. And there was a day that didn't belong to any month. As for the Lone Sun and the previously mentioned Hidden Moon, it was up to the astrologers to decide which day or month it would fall. There was no rule that could be identified at a glance.
However, under Lin's observation, the number of days per year should be 365.2422. In other words, every four years, there would be one more day, but every 128 years, there would be one less day …
If it weren't for the two satellites in the sky, Lin would have doubted some of the possibilities when he looked at the calculated numbers. As for which time the Hidden Moon and the Lone Sun should be placed, Lin suspected that there was also a pattern. It was just that the matrix of the cycle was so big that it was ignored by this world without mathematics. This part could only be confirmed by collecting the past calendars, comparing and summarizing them.
As for the time within a day, it was determined after a curious study after the eight power units were digitized. The change of one power unit was determined to be one unit second, and this change, regardless of whether it was one plus or minus, would take 86400000 unit seconds in a solar day.
And this time, no matter which power was used as the unit of observation, or if multiple units of power were used to increase or decrease the same number of units, it would still take one unit second to pass.
Then a certain transmigrator shuddered again. It was just like the old sci-fi movie he had watched, at the end of the first episode of Planet of the Apes in the 60s, the astronaut who returned to the surface and thought he had come to an alien planet saw the collapsed Statue of Liberty and screamed in pain. That was what he was feeling now.
Trembling, he redefined one unit second as one millisecond. One thousand milliseconds was one second, sixty seconds was one minute, sixty minutes was one hour, one solar day had twenty-four hours. This was the result of the previous calculation that the number of days in a year was 365.2422. And was this result some kind of strange coincidence, or was there some other reason? No answer …
Putting aside the distracting thoughts, Lin built a third server in addition to the domain name server and the web server, the standard time server. But it had not been announced to the public yet, and only the three of them were using it.
With the accurate time, Lin used the Light Spell to form a ball of light, using this to simulate the relative position of the six planets and the solar star in the solar system. He also calculated the exact time when the six planets entered the smallest fan-shaped area of the solar system.
If one wanted to observe it in real life, the Maze Earth was located in the fourth planet of the solar system. If one wanted to observe the three planets between the Maze Earth and the solar star, they would have to use special means. Even in the Maze Earth, the human eye could not look directly at the sun, and there was no related magic to avoid it.
On the other hand, the line between the Maze Earth and the Maze Earth could be blocked by the lunar eclipse. But all of this depended on the area where the Tower of the Great Sage was located. What kind of phenomenon could be observed, or nothing could be observed. After all, the Maze Earth rotated on its own, and the Tower of the Great Sage was only a small dot on the Maze Earth, and it was impossible to observe the complete starry sky with the naked eye.
But when the results of the calculation came out, Lin was once again stunned. The Tower of the Great Sage was in the area where a total lunar eclipse could be observed. In other words, when the six planets and two planets were aligned, the Tower of the Great Sage was also in the shadow of this line, and it was not biased at all.
After several rounds of calculation, the results were the same, which reminded Lin Xiang of a saying on Earth: When too many coincidences come together, it is no longer a coincidence.
This series of coincidences made someone feel a little uneasy. It was difficult to look at what was about to happen with a pure mood of welcoming an astronomical event. Because this was a mystical world with gods and magic.
Perhaps the alignment of several planets could only be used as a means of political propaganda by the ancient emperors on Earth, and in reality, nothing happened. But in the Maze Earth, Lin did not dare to have such thoughts. Not only did he learn how to use magic, but he had also seen real miracles a few times. Things like flesh and bones growing again, and the resurrection of the dead, these were not things that could be explained by science on Earth.
In the following time, Lin did not just wait for the results to arrive. Instead, he constantly added in various factors to perfect his simulation of the star system. He included the size and mass of each planet, the angle between the orbit and the Maze Earth, the distance, the satellites that could be observed, and the asteroid belt. By adding in new elements, and taking into account the gravitational attraction between the planets, he calculated the predicted value of the alignment of six planets again and again, and then he got the same result.
To be honest, to this extent, Lin was starting to feel uneasy.
He sat in the nuclear room, on the swivel chair beside the control panel, and looked at the star distribution chart formed by the Illumination spell. After entering the orbit, speed, and the characteristics of the planets into the program, according to the date and data that Lin began to observe after coming to the Tower of the Great Sage, the computerized magic tower used multiples to show the dynamic evolution of the star system. And in front of the control panel, there was a water mirror that showed the time represented by the changes in the star chart.
At first, it was a light ball that represented the Maze Earth, but as the observation data continued to increase, the positions of each planet and the sun were added to the star chart one by one. And the increased parameters were also reflected in the light balls that represented the planets and the sun. For example, when the data of the radius of the planet was added, the light balls would increase proportionally. Then, the orbit would be generated, and the revolution would begin.
On the light ball that represented the Maze Earth, there was also an arrow that represented the position of the Tower of the Great Sage on the Maze Earth. At the same time, it also showed the rotation of the Maze Earth. When the time ran to the end, it was not supported by the observation data, but the predicted trajectory, and the star chart stopped at the alignment of six planets. The satellite of the Maze Earth and the arrow pointed to the two planets, Force and Energy. The time stopped at three days later, 11: 54 at midnight.
Then, Lin vomited...
Sitting on the rotating chair for too many rounds, the three-semitransparent tube lost its balance, so Lin fell off the chair, knelt on the ground, and vomited all over the place.
He hurriedly called his two little apprentices to clean up the mess, and Lin slumped on the chair, staring blankly at the dynamic changes in the star chart that cycled back and forth.
While cleaning up the mess, the two girls looked at the light balls spinning. They praised and said, "Wow, so beautiful. Teacher, what is this? "
"This is our galaxy. The biggest one in the middle is the sun. "
Looking at the light balls that took up half of the nuclear chamber, the two girls counted the six small light balls that were spinning in the periphery. "Blazing, Intelligent, Seated, Maze Earth, Force, and Energy. Teacher, is this the right size? Why is Maze Earth the size of a firefly, but the sun is so big? "
With this question, Lin's dispirited spirit was lifted. Thinking about the astronomical observation data of the ancient people on Earth, they were all calculated in years, or even hundreds of years. He had only been recording for more than a year, maybe the lack of data caused the calculation and prediction errors.
But then, his body went limp again. It was just that within the galaxy, the stars that could be observed with the naked eye could be wrong, so what about the stars outside the galaxy?
Then, in the future, would man-made satellites be launched, space telescopes built, and ways to minimize the interference of the atmosphere? The countless problems that needed to be solved made a certain transmigrator worried.
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