"How is this possible? How can he be so fast?" Sanchez's face was full of disbelief.

Hundreds of Thunder Wizards here spent several months analyzing Maxwell's equations and making ten kilometers of wires before they accurately measured that the speed of electric current in the conductor is equal to the speed of light, and then deduced the connection between light and electricity.

How could Jeffrey discover the photoelectric effect before them with only a dozen wizards and apprentices from different schools?

Anthony quickly snatched the Magic Daily from Kagar's hand and started to check it out. After seeing the title on it, he was stunned.

[Light elements are nothing but the nonsense of ignorant people. The explanation and demonstration of the phenomenon of light interference and diffraction - light has wave properties! ]

The following article, which was full of magical theories, contained only one point: light was not an element as they had thought before, but a wave that was transmitted through a medium! Just like water waves and sound waves! "Nonsense! How can light be a wave?" Anthony couldn't bear to read it any further and couldn't help cursing.

Sanchez came closer to take a look and was also furious. "The light element is just the nonsense of an ignorant person? How dare he say that?"

Just a minute ago, they were still delighted by the discovery of the photoelectric effect, thinking that photons were smaller electrons. Now they were only one step away from finding the real light element! Now Jeffrey suddenly jumped out and said that the light element did not exist at all, that it was all fake, and that light was actually a continuous wave rather than a particle. How could everyone accept this? It was simply a slap in their faces! "I think he is crazy about getting the Corona Medal!" Another great wizard who was also proficient in thunder magic said with disdain.

How can light be a wave? We can send out light in beams, and previous experiments have proven that light travels in straight lines. Its reflection phenomenon is also the best proof of the existence of light particles.

Most importantly, according to his theory of photoelectric conversion, light is actually a smaller form of electricity! The existence of positive and negative charges has long been discovered and confirmed, which further proves that the theory of light elements is an irrefutable truth!

"Don't be anxious, everyone. Jeffrey is just trying to attract attention. When we publish the theory of photoelectric conversion tomorrow, the so-called wave theory will be a complete joke!" Anthony quickly calmed down and spoke out.

Sanchez also nodded. He was just a clown who was destined to be exposed. It was indeed not worth their efforts.

A group of thunder wizards no longer paid attention to the nonsense in the newspapers. They went back to organize their notes and prepared to publish some of their research in the next two days to smite Jeffrey! At the same time, the wave theory of light also spread throughout the magic kingdom with the publication of the Magic Daily! Although there have been more than a dozen new newspapers in the kingdom in recent years, the Magic Daily no longer has its previous monopoly, but as the mouthpiece of the parliament and an officially recognized authoritative newspaper, its influence should not be underestimated.

Almost every official wizard who is keen on magic will regularly purchase a copy of the [Magic Daily], because it often records some novel and interesting magic papers, as well as the cutting-edge achievements of current magic theories.

As soon as Jeffrey's theory of light wave theory was put forward, it attracted the attention of many wizards.

Because this theory is very complete, Jeffrey used the operating principles of water waves and sound waves to explain in simple terms how light is transmitted in the form of waves, and used this to explain the interference and diffraction phenomena of light.

What is even more convincing is that this paper directly gives a detailed experimental demonstration method, which only requires a baffle with two holes poked in it and a light beam emitting device, which is very simple.

Even wizards who don't know thunder and light magic can make a few convex and concave lenses and use focused sunlight to complete this experiment.

For this kind of experiment that can be completed with just a little effort, there are naturally countless wizards who have personally tried it out.

According to the magic star, practice is also the only criterion for testing truth!

Theories spoken by others are naturally not as reliable as those obtained through personal experimentation.

It was this simple experiment that made Jeffrey's wave theory famous! Because it was so similar, after the light penetrated the two slits, the interference fringes that emerged were exactly the same as the positions of the crests and troughs produced by water waves! Could it be that light is really a wave?

This question has emerged in the minds of more and more wizards. In the past, the understanding of light was completely based on various conjectures. Even the legendary Speaker could not sense the existence of this thing. It was not until Lin En, the Star of Magic, conducted an experiment to measure the speed of light that the mystery was unveiled.

Just when the wizards of the kingdom were gradually accepting this statement, on the evening of the third day, the photoelectric effect and light particle theory jointly published by Anthony and others came out of nowhere, which was jaw-dropping!

Light is actually electricity, and electricity is actually light? In the explanations of these thunder wizards, light is a high-speed, extremely fine particle stream, and electrons are made up of these light particles, so the propagation speeds of the two are highly consistent.

The reason why electricity emits light is that when lightning is stimulated, it begins to radiate its "energy" outward in the form of light, just like radioactive elements.

This is undoubtedly completely contrary to the wave theory proposed by Jeffrey, but Anthony and others also provided strong evidence - they successfully made a photoelectric conversion device! The material used is silicon! As long as the silicon plate is illuminated with light of sufficient intensity, it can generate a continuous current.

This theory perfectly explains how laser magic works.

If light is fragmented electricity, then when a large amount of light is injected into the electrons outside the nucleus, its energy will surge, causing it to jump to a higher orbit, and then directly emit the excess energy in the form of light!

A group of thunder wizards also gave the light element a new name, called photonics!

He even said in the Magic Daily that the technology of internal combustion engines and generators was already outdated. Why bother with so much trouble? In the future, a huge silicon plate could be placed above each city to generate electricity directly using the nearly endless sunlight in the sky. Wouldn't that be perfect? ​​After explaining the photoelectric effect in a fluent manner, Anthony also personally wrote a long article to refute Jeffrey's wave theory.

What is a wave? It is the process of vibration propagation in a certain medium. For example, if you throw a stone into the water, it will directly displace the water surface. Then the water molecules in front will push away the water molecules behind, and the force will be transmitted in this way.

This means that the transmission of waves must have a medium, whether it is sound waves or water waves, but light is different. It can be transmitted in a vacuum where there is nothing.

So the wave theory of light is complete nonsense!

"What bullshit optoelectronics!" Jeffrey's face suddenly darkened after he got the new issue of [Magic Daily].

Just two days after his wave theory was published, Anthony and others came up with a photonic theory to undermine it. In his opinion, this was purely out of jealousy and malicious academic suppression! After all, he alone led a dozen apprentices to complete the research on the nature of light, so it was normal to arouse jealousy! However, out of caution, Jeffrey still asked his apprentices to do the photoelectric experiment recorded in the [Magic Daily].

After struggling for more than an hour, several apprentices reported cautiously.

Jeffrey couldn't help but froze in shock, his brows furrowed.

Could it be that light is really electricity?

Ever since the galaxy orbital element model of the magic star was proposed, the existence of electrons has been confirmed. They move in circles around the nucleus like planets orbiting a star.

If light is electricity, then it should be a particle rather than a wave...

Jeffrey's mind wavered for a moment, but he quickly reaffirmed his thoughts.

The wave theory is absolutely an indisputable truth. After all, the experimental results are there!

Regardless of whether you are a wizard or not, or whether you are proficient in electricity and optics, as long as you build a test bench, you can perfectly replicate this experiment! As for the so-called photoelectric effect, Jeffrey thinks that it may be just a normal phenomenon of mutual conversion of photoelectric energy! Rather than saying it is photoelectric power generation, it is better to say that the silicon board is generating electricity!

Wood can burn and make fire. Does that mean wood is fire?

Thinking of this, Jeffrey asked a wizard from the school to invite several great wizards who were friends with him and who were staying in the City of Kerosene.

Now his wave theory has been maliciously suppressed by jealous people. It is difficult for him to maintain the authority of the wave theory alone, and he needs more people to stand up for him.

About three days later, Jeffrey, together with several great wizards, published new research results on wave theory and applied corresponding patches.

The vacuum field created by their current capabilities is not completely empty. There may be some subtle elements that they have not yet discovered, or space itself is the medium of light! For example, the disturbance caused by force field magic uses space as the medium!

In addition, in response, Jeffrey also wrote a whole page to refute Anthony's particle theory - if light is a more fragmented electron, then a large amount of light gathered together will definitely produce a magnetic field!

The results were tested in a vacuum test field he had set up in collaboration with several great wizards, and it was found that the concentrated light beams did not produce the expected magnetic field phenomenon at all.

As soon as these words were spoken, they dealt a heavy blow to the photoelectric effect proposed by Anthony...

After all, electricity generates magnetism and magnetism generates electricity, which is the underlying logic that every thunder wizard knows!

Public opinion in the kingdom reversed again, and more and more people began to believe in Jeffrey's wave theory again, because the results of the experiment were there and could not be faked.

"What should we do now, teacher..." After reading the new issue of [Magic Daily], Fulla was a little panicked, especially after she did some emergency experiments and confirmed that the concentrated light beams could not generate a surrounding magnetic field, she became even more panicked.

Anthony paced back and forth in the laboratory, wondering what was wrong with his photoelectric effect and why the light beam could not generate a surrounding magnetic field.

"Could it be that the energy of a single light particle is not enough to generate a magnetic field?" Sanchez said thoughtfully. "It is also possible that the magnetic field generated is too weak for us to perceive."

"It's possible!" Anthony nodded. In short, more experiments are needed to prove this.

After Jeffrey's criticism, everyone was very motivated and tried to find any evidence in favor of particle theory!

After several days of painstaking research, Anthony did not find the magnetic field effect of the light beam, but he released another killer weapon. They developed a particle theory to explain the light diffraction phenomenon!

According to their conjecture, electricity is composed of a large number of photoelectrons. The moment electricity is stimulated, it explodes like a bomb, blasting all the light particles inside in all directions.

It's just that the number of these divergent light particles is too large and too dense, so a wave-like phenomenon occurs.

Furthermore, these light particle clusters that contain sufficient energy may explode and spread again, for example, if they encounter a gap that they cannot pass through...

This pseudo 'wave' nature will not disappear until it becomes a single particle state.

As for this distance... Thunder wizards believe that the distance from when the electricity begins to diverge to when it becomes dilute into individual light particles may be 100 million kilometers, or it may be more than 1 billion kilometers. After all, the speed of light is so fast, it will take at least a few minutes for it to stop, right?

Jeffrey was almost angry to death when he saw the newspaper.

One hundred million kilometers? Wouldn't that mean he would have to circle the Eternal Star 2,500 times? Where could he find such a large test site?

The other party clearly wanted to prevent him from using experiments to refute the particle theory. Even if he found a way to solve the distance problem, Anthony and others could say that the data they measured was not accurate enough.

Jeffrey's anger continued to rise. He immediately stopped sleeping and did not do the experiment. He got up from the bed and spent the whole night writing tens of thousands of words, angrily denouncing this theory as a fantasy without any factual basis! The war of words between the two sides lasted for more than a month. Not only did it not stop, but it became more and more intense. From the beginning of replying every three to seven days and refuting the other party's theory with rigorous experiments, it has now become a simple rebuttal and abuse.

As the editor of Magic Daily, Luo Er was so happy that he almost laughed like crazy. The various tabloids started to take sides and criticize each other without any bottom line. The sales of newspapers were rising rapidly every day...

(End of this chapter)