On September 1st, Arcana was released as scheduled.
Lazar, Rock, Jerome, and the other sorcerers had enough arcana points after joining the Atom Institution. They no longer needed to borrow arcana books from the school or the basic arcana library to save money. Each of them could buy a copy of the arcana book and use it as reference materials for their future research.
"I can't imagine that there's such a hypothesis! But in this case, the formula seems to have complete arcana significance! " In the small meeting room of the Atom Institution, Lazar loudly expressed his surprise when he was waiting for Lucien's arrival. However, since he did not know enough about the whole arcana knowledge of thermal radiation, and the repeated emphasis of the grand arcanists and the board members, he was not too convinced. After all, it was just a hypothesis, and he believed that he could find other reasonable explanations in the future.
Only the arcanists who had derived the formula by themselves, when their explanations from different perspectives were rejected one after another, could not help but believe in the hypothesis when they saw Lucien's analysis. However, the hypothesis contradicted the foundation of the arcana world and Mr. Brook's theory. Therefore, there was a strong conflict between them.
Rock, on the other hand, stood up and walked around in excitement, "Only Lucien can come up with such an unimaginable hypothesis. Awesome! I love this kind of subversion! Oh, I'm going to give him a hug later. He's the one I want to learn from! How can arcana research be like a pool of stagnant water? It must be full of storms! "
It seemed that he only regretted that he was not the one who came up with the hypothesis that contradicted the current arcana system.
Jerome's face looked a bit pale, but he soon calmed down, "It's just a hypothesis for now. We don't need to think too much about it. Let's just use the formula and wait for the sirs and gentlemen to make the decision first before we talk about the continuity of the energy."
"Jerome, you're indeed a prudent man." Lazar joked. He did not really care about the hypothesis, or rather, he did not care about it on purpose.
Katrina, Annick, Heidi, and the other apprentices sat aside quietly. They did not understand what Lucien was talking about.
At this time, Lucien walked in with a thick stack of papers and the journal Arcana. He smiled and looked around the meeting room, "Let's talk about the experiment in the recent week."
…
In Allyn, in the magic towers, under the shade of trees, and in the carriages, countless arcanists were reading Arcana, which represented the cutting-edge knowledge in arcana and magic studies. They were all shocked by Lucien's bold assumption.
But it didn't take long for whispers of "this is just a hypothesis" to ring out, vaguely revealing a trace of fear and panic.
"I only need to use formulas and constants to modify the corresponding spells …"
"Cathode ray? What's that?"
…
Renstadt, Holm Royal Magic Tower, headquarter of the Will of Elements.
K, who was tall and honest, was reading Arcana carefully. His hands were shaking. His arcana badge already had three silver stars, and the silver dots around them seemed to be endless. It seemed that he was not far from becoming a level 4 arcana.
The improvement and citation of the valence theory and ionization theory brought him great benefits.
"Evans is really a genius." A heavy sigh came from the door, which woke K up from his temporary "nightmare".
Larry, who had a round face and a big beard, walked into the room with Arcana in his hand. The arcana badge on his chest also had five silver stars. "If it were me, I would never be able to make such an assumption. I can't imagine that I would completely abandon the foundation of the arcana system."
K said in a low voice, "Although it's just an assumption, it's still very frightening. If it's true, I don't know what kind of storm the Congress will raise, and Lucien will be under a lot of pressure … "
"Don't think too much. Let's continue our research." Larry understood the horror behind the assumption. Even the most enlightened middle-rank arcanists would take a long time to accept it. "By the way, in view of my contribution to the valence theory and ionization theory, the gentlemen have decided to award me the Holm Crown prize, and the name of the ring is' Ionization '. K, as my assistant, you've contributed a lot to my research. I'm sorry that I didn't get the chance to share it with you. "
Unlike Isabella's research, Larry's research on the valence theory and ionization theory was not a decisive result, but a gradual improvement. At the beginning, Larry did not realize the value of the theory and ionization theory. Many of his papers did not thank K, nor did he add K's name in the experiments he completed. On the contrary, K, as his student, had always put K's name in the first place in all his papers. Therefore, when K met the stingy president, Morris, the stingy president, he directly rejected the possibility of sharing.
After giving out Holm Crown prize three times in a row, Morris felt that the treasury of the Will of Elements was losing a lot of money.
K did not have a problem with it. It was the convention of the Congress of Magic, and Isabella and Rachel were special cases. He scratched his head and put on an honest smile, "It's okay, sir. What I'm most confused about is why the ions of matter carry positive and negative electric charges. What's the rule behind it? "
"You're starting to ask the same question as your friend. That's what we're going to focus on next." Larry touched his brown beard and joked, "Also, we're going to measure the cathode ray that Evans just discovered."
…
In the north, there was a crystal palace made of ice and snow.
The palace seemed to be in another world, and it was not affected by the blizzard at all. Also, it was vaguely connected to several blurry strange worlds.
In the study of the palace, Hellen Paris, who was as beautiful as a snow elf, was reading a letter with Arcana in her hand:
"… I think Lucien Evans' contribution in the field of thermal radiation is enough for him to win the Ice & Snow Medal … Although his hypothesis that energy is divided into parts has not been proved yet, it is a practical explanation. Also, his formula and constants are so correct that they can be of great help to the improvement of magic in this field …
"Of course, I have to admit that I like the term energy quantum, or quantum …
"Your friend Derek Douglas …"
After reading the letter, Hellen thought for about ten minutes and then wrote back to Douglas:
"… As far as I know, Lucien Evans' explanation is not widely accepted. Or rather, almost no one agrees with it. Many arcanists are trying to come up with other explanations. If we give him the Ice & Snow Medal now, all the sorcerers in the Congress will doubt it, which will be a great blow to the reputation of the award … Evans is Fernando's student, so we have to be more cautious …
"… In the next ten years, if no one comes up with a new explanation, and Evans' formula and constants are widely accepted in practice, giving him the Ice & Snow Medal will not cause too much controversy …"
…
In the conference room of the Atom Institution.
"… After revising the previous experiments, I found that the cathode ray can only travel a few centimeters in the air, which is one of the reasons why it has never been discovered before …" Lazar's face was flushed, and he shared his research results with a bright smile. The glass that reflected the green fluorescence was part of the discharge magic circle and the alchemy platform.
Under Lucien's guidance, Lazar, Rock, Jerome and the other apprentices worked hard in the past month. Each of them had completed at least seven papers. Annick, Sprint, Layria and the other apprentices had also written four papers. Lucien himself had written ten papers, in which different materials were used to verify the absorption and penetration properties of the cathode ray, as well as the position changes of the shadows of obstacles under the action of strong magnetic fields and electric fields.
Finally, it was concluded that the cathode ray was likely to be a stream of negatively charged particles, and an isolation device for pure rays was designed to determine its charge-to-mass ratio through its trajectory in the electromagnetic field. This data could be used to roughly determine what kind of particle it belonged to.
Since the cathode ray could penetrate the metal foil, Rock and Jerome also suspected that it might not be a particle stream, but they did not have a complete idea as to what it was, because the measurement of the speed of the cathode ray eliminated the possibility that it was an electromagnetic wave (light wave), which was much smaller than the speed of light.
After Lazar finished his report, Rock also reported his own progress, "… We didn't find any continuous deflection of cathode rays in the strong electromagnetic field. Maybe we were wrong in judging that the cathode rays were charged, and the previous experiment result was probably an illusion caused by the complicated gas environment in the discharge magic circle …"
"I think so too." Jerome and Lazar both agreed.
Heidi and the other apprentices had no problem in completing the specific experiments and writing the experiment reports, but when they listened to the formal sorcerers talking about arcana knowledge, they had to concentrate on listening, absorbing and learning.
"I think there might be some other interference. Let me think about it and redesign the experiment plan." Lucien expressed his opinion.
The pressure brought by the thin air would make it impossible for the particles with very small mass to be deflected, which could only be solved by a higher vacuum. So far, Lucien knew very well that even the magic circles used by the Congress to create a vacuum could not achieve this effect. After all, the cathode ray was a stream of electrons.
There were still some obstacles before the discovery of the electron and the fact that the atom had an internal structure could be revealed.
The theory that the atom was the inseparable foundation of matter would still occupy a lofty position for a while.
The gate of the microscopic world was looming, but it was not yet open!
Lazar, Rock, and the rest of the arcanists all agreed with Lucien's suggestion. Lucien was the best person to deal with such a complicated problem. They still had a lot of cathode ray experiments to do, and those were worth a lot of arcana credits! They could not waste their time on experiments that they could not find the right direction!
After the paper on the discovery of cathode ray was submitted, Lucien got thirty arcana credits, and Lazar, Rock and the other apprentices also got five credits each. As apprentices, they were not qualified to sign their names on the overall paper of the Atom Institution.
Although such a reward was very generous for junior arcanists, the papers on the different properties of cathode ray that Lazar and the other apprentices had completed were worth four arcana credits on average. Lazar had earned thirty arcana credits in the past month, and now he was only ten credits away from becoming a level three arcanist. Rock, Jerome, and the rest of the arcanists had also become level two arcanists, and they were not far away from becoming middle-rank arcanists.
Moreover, the citation credits that they would get in the future were not mentioned. How could they not be enthusiastic about their own experiments?
Even apprentices like Annick now had thirteen or fourteen arcana credits. If it were not for the lack of time to change their badges, they would have already become official arcanists.
Many arcanists would be shocked by such a fast promotion speed.
…
In a monastery in the city of Renstadt, Kingdom of Holm.
A bishop was explaining the foundation of the divine spells that had been modified by several popes to the apprentices.
"The Lord created different atoms. They are the smallest inseparable matter, and the Lord used these atoms to create different things …"
…
After the discussion about cathode ray, Jerome began to report the experiment that he was responsible for.
He looked very happy, "Lucien, we found that when the temperature is minus one hundred and eighty-five degrees Celsius, the charcoal can absorb air very easily."
"Very good." Lucien was not stingy with his praise. Although there were many other ways to create a vacuum, none of them could compare with this "weapon".
The next step was to modify the magic circle and measure the charge-to-mass ratio of cathode ray.
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