[The world is a wave, a conclusion about the propagation of light in a vacuum.], [Shocked, the latest explanation of the light diffraction phenomenon, the wave theory is nothing but the nonsense of a clown!], [The biggest omission in particle theory is this, optics is already in danger!]...
In the Optical Magic Laboratory in the City of Kerosene, Glenn slowly put down the newspaper template in his hand and couldn't help but complain. "Luo Er, you are really stupid. There is already enough noise outside. Is it really okay for you to send these things out?"
"Of course no problem. Look, it's only been a month and a half, and we have received more optical papers than in the previous year!" Luo replied with a smile, and then continued with a helpless look on his face.
"Besides, I can't afford to offend either Master Anthony or Master Jeffrey. I'll just post whatever they write!"
Luo Er said that at most he was only responsible for coming up with an eye-catching title and doing some minor polishing!
Glenn was speechless, but he had to admit that competition was indeed the biggest motivation for magic research.
These days, wizards who support particle and wave theories have conducted extremely detailed research on the various properties of light and have put forward a large number of conjectures.
Some conjectures are completely fantastic and illogical, but there are also many theories that have experimental evidence to support them. As long as these arguments are confirmed, they can get a Morning Star or even a Silver Moon Medal.
Seeing that Green had fully understood his difficulties, Roll took the template from his hand with a smile, handed it to his assistant beside him, and asked him to speed up the printing.
Yesterday they printed 900,000 copies of newspapers and distributed them to all the cities under the kingdom's rule and the newly occupied cities. However, they were sold out within a few hours. This shows that they are not printing fast enough!
"By the way, Glenn, I heard that Master Sanchez, one of the founders of the photoelectric theory, visited you in person last night. Is that true?" Roll suddenly asked curiously, his hand unconsciously picking up the pen, as if he was ready to record at any time.
It's easy to tell that Master Sanchez must be trying to win over Glenn, the famous developer of focusing magic.
If you agree, it will definitely be a big explosion!
Although Glenn is only a three-ring wizard, he came up with the shocking plan of measuring the speed of light with a thousand-faceted mirror at the last academic seminar, and accidentally created the focusing magic, which won the appreciation of the Magic Star and the Speakers. His potential influence is no less than that of a great wizard.
When Roll asked this, Glenn couldn't help but smile bitterly. In fact, it was not just Sanchez. Several wizards who advocated the light wave theory also came to him and explained to him in detail the superiority of the wave theory, but he did not respond to either side.
Firstly, they did not want to be involved in this dispute, and secondly, both theories had unexplained optical phenomena.
For example, the light wave theory explains the effects of light dispersion, diffraction, interference, and superposition very well, but it is very weak in explaining the photoelectric effect and pinhole imaging.
As for the theory of electric element explosion that was created by wizards who believed in particle theory to explain the diffraction phenomenon, Glenn felt that it was not reliable at all. It was like a theory that was forced together to explain the phenomenon without any actual experimental evidence.
Before figuring it out, Glenn thought it would be better not to take sides arbitrarily, so as to avoid a setback in the end.
Rawl, who wanted to make a big news, had to put away the paper and pen in disappointment and asked about the progress of lighting photography technology instead.
This is an optical phenomenon discovered by Glenn a year ago. When a plate with a small hole is placed between the wall and the object, an inverted real image of the object will be formed on the wall.
Glenn was very sure that he was not the first person to discover this phenomenon, but he was definitely the first wizard to use it!
There was an oil field not far from the Kerosene City, and while on duty he accidentally found a type of asphalt there that was extremely sensitive to light.
This asphalt will harden when exposed to light, and the degree of hardening will vary depending on the intensity of light. Using this characteristic and combining it with the principle of pinhole imaging, he successfully produced the first generation of light cameras.
The problem is that it is too troublesome to use this asphalt to make photographic plates, and the images taken are difficult to copy, which is not conducive to large-scale dissemination.
So over the past year Glenn has been trying to use different elements to make photosensitive equipment to improve the lighting camera. Now it has been upgraded to the third version, and the problem of photo copying has been preliminarily solved.
The first large-scale use of it was in the propaganda war to undermine the faith of the people of the empire.
"Regarding the improvement of the camera, I have already come up with a plan. The clarity of the photos can be further increased through the development technique. And the printing magic developed by Speaker Lin may also be used in the reproduction of images..."
Glenn talked eloquently about the latest achievements in optical photography, and when he was excited, he wanted to demonstrate to Roll the developing magic he had developed!
Luo Er was also very interested. After all, with every improvement in photography technology, the Magic Daily would sell better. Following Glenn's instructions, he quickly stood in front of a photosensitive screen.
"Just like this!" Glenn stretched out his right hand, closed his eyes and began to sense and generate electric current.
He had no way to create light directly, but could only manipulate the light beam indirectly through electroluminescence.
Of course, according to the particle school, photoelectricity and electricity are likely to be the same thing, except that light is a more microscopic entity than electricity.
Roll stood there with interest and waited for a long time, but to his surprise, Glenn did not move for a long time, and his face was full of fear.
"What's wrong, Glenn?" Roll immediately realized that something was wrong and felt vaguely worried about his own safety. Could something have gone wrong with the magic?
"Charge...where is the charge? The charge is gone!" Glenn suddenly opened his eyes and said in horror.
"What?" Luo Er was stunned. For a moment he didn't understand what this meant.
Of course he knew what electric charge was. It was a substance with positive and negative charges. Generally speaking, lightning magic relied on artificially creating this potential difference.
Roll hurried over but did not dare to disturb Glenn's actions. He could only watch him as his body shook unconsciously and rapidly under the attack of the electric current. It was several minutes before he stopped dejectedly.
"How is it?" Luo Er asked worriedly.
"Electricity exists...Electricity exists! It's just that I have no way to control it!" Glenn muttered to himself, his face full of confusion and bewilderment.
"Are you too tired? Do you want to take a rest?" Luo Er said soothingly. He thought that Glenn might have been mentally exhausted because he had been conducting research day and night these days.
"No, I'm fine, very good!" Glenn said firmly, and stretched out his hand with a crazy look, and a ball of exploding fire appeared in his palm.
This is the second level spell [Pyroblast]...
Apparently, his mental strength was not so weakened that he could not perform magic.
Without waiting for Rawl to reply, Glenn anxiously called his assistant and asked him to cast a thunder spell, any kind would do.
After hearing Glenn's strange request, the assistant was also confused. However, after trying it out, he showed the same horrifying look on his face and shouted in despair. "Where is the charge? Where is the charge?"
Luo Er and Glenn looked at each other, and a chill suddenly surged from the soles of their feet to their hearts. They immediately put down all the things in their hands, hurriedly wrote an express letter, sent it to the Holy City, and reported this strange situation to the speakers.
In fact, the desks of the Magic Council are already filled with similar letters. There are many wizards like Glenn who suddenly found that they had lost the ability to control lightning, and the news is spreading rapidly like a plague...
After some investigation, the parliament quickly came to the conclusion that as long as a wizard questioned the properties of photoelectricity, he would immediately lose the ability to sense electric charge within the elemental vision.
What puzzled them the most was that those wizards who simply believed in particle or wave theory all had normal spellcasting abilities, while the wizards who were just watching the fun were almost wiped out.
Those with milder severity only have intermittent spell-casting difficulties, while those with more serious conditions, like Glenn, have completely lost the ability to sense electric charge.
Panic spread throughout the kingdom. This kind of "disease" called spellcasting disorder had never existed before. Most wizards, whether they were affected or not, were worried. These worries and panic soon turned into anger towards the wave theory.
Everyone was casting spells just fine, but when Jeffrey's wave theory came out, they couldn't do it anymore. Now even casting thunder spells has become a problem! The next day, dozens of great wizards from the particle school jointly published an article in the Magic Daily, angrily denouncing the wave theory as a perverse theory that completely shook the foundation of magic!
Coupled with the criticism from many neutral parties, the wave theory, which was already at a disadvantage, was even condemned by everyone.
Until a piece of bombshell news blew away everyone's cognition!
Without any warning, Anthony suddenly turned to believe in the wave theory and published an article stating that he had found new evidence, and even discovered a new model that could explain the structure of atoms on this basis! Upon hearing this news, Sanchez, Arad and other great wizards of the particle school were completely stunned. They were about to take advantage of the situation to strangle the wave wheel in the cradle and return magic to orthodoxy, but Anthony, the number one hero who discovered the photoelectric effect, actually betrayed him! "Is Anthony crazy?" Sanchez was so angry that he jumped up and down.
The particle school's achievements over the past few months were destroyed just like that, and the furious Sanchez wanted to kill Anthony directly.
"Is light really a wave?" Arad was extremely confused. Apart from this, he could not think of any reason why Anthony suddenly switched to the wave faction.
"Have you forgotten our research, Arad?" Sanchez's face suddenly darkened. They have successfully used particle theory to 'explain' every phenomenon of light. Now they are just short of a few decisive pieces of evidence! What's more, Anthony boasted that he had found a new model to explain the internal structure of elements.
This is simply crazy. You know, Speaker Lynn's star orbit element model has been recognized by all wizards and can only be described as perfect.
Any wizard who saw the orbital model would recognize without hesitation that this was the ultimate form of the element! Also, light and electricity were originally one, so could it be that the electrons inside the element were also waves?
Sanchez absolutely did not believe in this perverse theory, but the impact of Anthony's "betrayal" as the originator of the photoelectric effect was still terrible. A large number of wizards who believed in the particle school were shaken and instantly lost the ability to sense electric charge.
This dispute, which has become increasingly widespread, has already gone beyond the boundaries of debate and naturally attracted the attention of Harov and others.
Even Lynn, who was immersed in the study of quantum theory, received the report.
"An obstacle to spellcasting?" After listening to the description of Philip and others, Lin En was quite surprised. He did not expect that the dispute between particles and waves would lead to such serious consequences.
"Dean, you should be okay, right?" Philip couldn't help but ask. Now nearly half of the people have lost the ability to sense electric charge.
"Of course I'm fine..." Lin En raised his eyebrows, and lightning surrounded him. This was the lightning spell - [Electromagnetic Barrier]! Seeing that this magic star was fine, Philip and others breathed a sigh of relief. You know, nearly half of the wizards have lost the ability to cast corresponding spells.
Many wizards who support the light particle theory even gave this spellcasting obstacle a new name, "wave plague", meaning that the wave theory is the source of this magic crisis and will spread like a plague.
After some thought, Lin En vaguely guessed the cause of this magical crisis.
Although the 'electrotherapy induction' method developed by Anthony enables wizards to have the ability to sense and control electric charges, to be frank it is just a trick, and their own understanding of electricity is very limited.
It's like a child who has barely learned to walk and run by muscle memory, and now two people suddenly appear and argue with each other, insisting on telling the child whether it is more scientific to take the left foot first or the right foot first when walking, and which leg nerve should be controlled, and what is the most appropriate step angle. This child who used to be able to run is confused, and now he can't even walk...
PS: To respond to some people's inquiries, although the course of magic in this book has referenced the development of modern science to a certain extent, it is impossible to follow the historical process directly because wizards themselves have the ability to perceive and manipulate elements. For example, when explaining gravity before, why did I briefly mention the distortion of the essential space of gravity? Because wizards have the ability to perceive space, they must be able to find the connection between the two... It's the same when explaining the wave theory now. Wizards know the existence of gravitational waves, so there is no need to invent a substance like ether as a carrier of light waves. As for blackbody radiation, it's too long to write about it, and I will mention it later. In addition, in addition to those scientific conjectures that have existed in history, I will also write some pure brain-opening theories that I saw when looking up information, such as the above photoelectric element explosion theory, which is derived from the [nuclear diffraction hypothesis]. I personally think it is very interesting, so I changed it and wrote it up. The wrong theories will be corrected by the protagonist later.
(End of this chapter)