The Primordial Wizard

"Ether drift?"

Allen savored this coined word carefully, and couldn't help being speechless: "Wonderful, this description is simply a perfect description of this state, so what are you waiting for, let's start."

Bruce shook his head, with a mysterious expression on his chubby face.

"When it comes to optics, we'd better ask a super expert for help."

Eva slapped him on the back, and said dissatisfiedly: "What's the matter, you can't say it directly if you have something to say."

Bruce rubbed his back, suddenly lost his momentum, and whispered: "I am a legendary wizard after all, can you give me some respect? What I mean is, let's go to Lord Warren."

Luther's eyes lit up, and he said loudly, "Your Excellency Warren, who weighed the center of the earth and invented the hanging wire torsion balance?"

Bruce nodded, his fat face trembling slightly.

"Yes, Mr. Varen is proficient in the manufacture of various precision instruments. I heard that he is currently working on a project of electromagnetizing a mechanical computer. But what we are asking for advice is not this so-called electromagnetic computer. Your Excellency Varen has a deep understanding of optics. We implore him Help design the interferometer."

"Interferometer? About light."

Allen murmured as he thought about the new term.

"Yes, it is an interferometer of light. If you want to measure the secondary effect, you must have an interferometer."

Bruce said firmly.

"Optical interferometer? This idea you put forward is very interesting and makes me think about it."

In Varen's wizard tower, next to the huge machine that is taller than ten people and glowing with light and buzzing, Bruce and his team put forward their own ideas. Varun pulled a switch of the machine, buzzing!

The current suddenly increased, a large number of electronic components were lit up, and complex integrated circuits were running at high speed.

Varun was dirty all over, he performed a trick on himself "clean and refresh" to become clean and decent, then turned to Bruce and the others and said: "This big guy is the main result of my recent research, you want to You know, I've been trying to compress it and make it smaller, I think it's a material problem. We wizards can't just use space magic to make the computer smaller and portable, that would be too expensive."

Bruce and his party followed Varun,

Nodding subconsciously, not quite sure what Varen wanted to do.

They left this place full of electric whizzing, and Varen pressed a button on the metal door, and they walked directly into a spacious and bright living room. There is no smell of engine oil here, and there are fresh green plants. All kinds of activated wooden figures are carrying tea and desserts.

The oversized floor-to-ceiling windows, the noon light shines through, making people warm.

Warren pointed to the sofa, and said kindly: "Everyone, sit down, where did you just talk?"

"You want to make the computer smaller."

Allen said with bright eyes.

Warren slapped his head with a smile: "Yes, being smaller means that it can accommodate more, and at the same time, the cost will be lower. We want to make the cost very low, so low that a junior wizard apprentice can buy it." Do you know what that means?"

Alan stood up and said excitedly: "I know, this means a new era, every wizard, even junior apprentices, has a computer aid, and the computer can transform some daily life magic, industry Integration of magic and battle magic!"

Varun snapped his fingers and said excitedly: "Yes, that's it. In my vision, we can build a magic net similar to the wizarding world in Kaya. Maybe this should be done by Mr. Ace. Anyway, with this After the infrastructure is established, not only wizards, but ordinary mages can use this tool to cast all kinds of magic in the future!

We will enter the era of great popularity of magic, and the start of this era requires two things, the first is the magic net, and the second is the micro-electromagnetic computer. "

He held his hands high, and the sunlight hit him through the floor-to-ceiling windows, like a saint descending.

"We wizards will start the era of great magic, benefiting all human beings and even intelligent life. They will get rid of the troubles of learning, and can memorize and cast various spells with the help of integrated microcomputer equipment.

Our computer equipment should be an open system, with many portable plugs, which can load and unload different functional molds. The computer is mainly integrated with semiconductors. I plan to call this equipment a magic guide! "

Allen couldn't help applauding, and Bruce, Eva, and Luthor were already dumbfounded.

Allen said longingly: "That will definitely be a great age of magic, and it should not be called the Great Magic Era. This is a great cause, please be sure to let me join."

Although Bruce knows that Allen has always been in love with the computer idea proposed by Mr. Ace, everyone came to Warren to design the interferometer. Now that the interferometer has not been designed, a partner is going to run away?

For a moment, Bruce felt a heat rushing to his forehead.

He looked at the two people who were having a heated discussion with some breathlessness. He listened to their mutual admiration, his cheeks puffed up like a big frog. Finally, as the sun gradually set, Bruce couldn't help but said: "Your Excellency, actually we want to ask you to help We research and design an interferometer..."

Before he finished speaking, Allen interrupted him and said, "You guys go back first, I will talk to Lord Warren slowly about this."

Varen pulled Allen and said appreciatively: "You really have a great idea, you should cooperate with me earlier, and don't worry about the interferometer. If there is no accident, just come to me in a week."

boom!

The three of them were almost pushed by Allen, and they were driven out of Warren's Wizard Tower. They looked at each other, and Luther scratched his head and said in confusion, "Are we missing one person?"

Bruce said angrily: "Yeah, the ether wind has not been found, and the idea of ​​the interferometer has not been mentioned yet, and there is one less person. I am not angry at all, really!"

Eva bit her lower lip and said softly: "Don't pay too much attention to it, Bruce. You know how much Alan loves computers. He's actually not very interested in ether wind. He just researched it out of friendship. How about you? I remember in Gensokyo, his dream space was full of mechanical computers."

Bruce nodded, kicked the stone on the side of the road, and walked slowly.

"I know, I just, I just feel a little angry, and a little pity. This is the discovery of the ether wind. It's a pity that Allen missed it."

Looking at each other silently, the three returned to Blu's wizard tower.

A week later, a shadow crow croaked and knocked on the window. Blue opened the window, and the crow croaked out a large box that was far larger than its size.

Blue opened the box and saw a sophisticated instrument and a roll of magic paper.

"Optical differential interferometer, great!"

Bruce looked at the instructions on the magic paper with bright eyes.

"It is composed of a plane mirror, a half beam splitter, a beam expander and a light screen, as well as screws, slide rails, drums, shelves, etc. Based on the principle, the plane mirror reflects.

The plane mirror is used to form a virtual air wedge and generate optical path difference, the half beam splitter is used to split the light wave, the beam expander is used to expand the beam for easy observation, and the light screen is used to receive the diffraction image.

Perfect. "

A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and Bruce was worried about Luther and Eva, and the three entered the laboratory together.

The entire laboratory is very tidy, with light shielding magic arranged around it, and the entire room is dark.

They fixed the interferometer on the stone plate, Eva used magic to drive the stone plate to rotate, and Luthor was in charge of making the light source. The light source was split by the beam splitter and turned into two rays, which reached the two mirrors respectively.

After being reflected, the two beams of light pass through the semi-mirror and interfere, producing circles of stripes on the light screen.

This instrument is very delicate, the stone plate rotates slowly, the three of them seem to have felt the coolness of the ether wind, and Bruce dare not breathe, he holds his breath and observes.

Disbelief flashed in Bruce's eyes, the stripes on the light screen were exactly the same!

"How is it possible? The two beams of light should have different speeds of light and different stripes. How could this be?"

He roared loudly, as if exhausting all his strength.

"Don't worry about Bruce, we may be too slow and need to speed up."

While speaking, Eva turned the stone disc faster.

But no matter how fast the turntable is, the interference fringes are only slightly different from when the turntable is stationary, which is far from the actual calculation.

The three of them lay sadly in Bru's living room, the magic paper was unfolded, and no one wanted to write down.

"The speed of light is constant when it propagates in the vacuum ether, and in fact the speed of light is also constant in the non-vacuum ether. Looking for the ether wind, but there is no ether wind, if analyzed from the perspective of dragging, the ether is absolutely static, but This cannot explain aberration!"

Bruce's face was full of sadness, and there seemed to be a slight crack in his mental image world, causing the entire space to shake unstable.

"Calm down, Bru, calm down. The ether is just a hypothesis in the final analysis, don't take the hypothesis as cognition, we need to believe the experimental results, maybe the ether doesn't exist?"

Eva was speechless for a moment.

Bruce felt that his mental imagery world was becoming more and more unstable. He sank his mind into it, tried to adjust his state, and said in a low voice: "If there is no ether, how to explain the propagation of light waves in the void is too absurd. The ether is electromagnetic. The cornerstone hypothesis! The frame of reference of the Thales-Brenya equations is the ether at rest."

He was very confused, and felt that the majestic building of electromagnetism seemed to have unstable foundations, and seemed to be about to collapse.

Luther hesitated for a moment, and finally asked: "Then shall we still publish this experiment?"

Bruce sank weakly on the sofa, and was silent for about half an hour. He opened his eyes wearily, and said in a hoarse voice: "Publish, Luther, you can summarize. Even if we don't publish, someone will do similar experiments in the future , it is better to publish it early, discuss it early, and try to avoid bad consequences.”

One stone stirs up a thousand waves!

The experimental report of Bruce, Wallen, Luther, and Eva caused a huge shock. Bruce thought for a long time. The interferometer was made by Wallen. Although the idea was proposed by himself, Wallen played a very important and key role. , thus listing him as the author.

The "Light Interference Zero Result Experiment Report" caused an uproar. Thales couldn't believe it when he looked at the experiment. He and Brinia immediately repeated the experiment, and the final result was the same as that of Bruce et al.

"This, this is unbelievable."

Thales felt trembling all over, and the perfect electromagnetism was greatly challenged.

Meanwhile, the wizards began to discuss eagerly, and no one noticed, and Ace signed a treatise on geometry.

Because it is pure mathematics, this paper was not published in "Magic", but in "Number and Geometry".

This paper is called "Ellipse Geometry". Simply put, this article discusses spherical geometry that is different from plane geometry, that is, triangle interior angles and spherical geometry greater than 180 degrees.

This little article went unnoticed amidst the tidal wave of zero-result reports.

This zero-result incident did not cause a wave of headshots. After all, the cornerstone is a hypothesis, and most people can overcome cognition, but this zero-result report has become a dark cloud, a dark cloud that hangs over the heads of electromagnetic wizards.

Their strength began to stagnate, and some people's mental worlds even shattered and solidified, and they could no longer be promoted.

"We need to defend the ether!"

Inside the wizard tower, Thales said to Brinia with deep dark circles under his eyes.

"How to defend?"

Brinia also asked a little confused.

"I thought about it for a few days and came up with a hypothesis.

It is assumed that there is some unknown force, which is also transmitted through the ether, and it has nothing to do with the electromagnetic force. When the object moves, the ether forces this force to change, then the length of the object will change accordingly, and this change just cancels out the change of the speed of light.

This is the 'scale effect'.

I need you Brinia, I need your mathematical genius that day. "

Thales hugged Brinia and said slowly.

Brinia stroked him, and the two faced each other and kissed. They said for a long time, "I'll help you realize this hypothesis. This force is called Thales' imaginary force."

Stacks of mathematical calculations, constant alteration, verification, and finally.

The genius Brenia used mathematical methods to obtain the hypotenuse equation of the Brenia-Thales equation, and then deduced a conclusion:

The shape of an object is determined by the balance of Thales' imaginary forces, and the object is bound to shorten when it moves.

She expressed this sentence with a concise formula. The formula is that the length of an object in motion is equal to the length of the object at rest multiplied by the root sign minus the speed of the object divided by the square of the speed of light, which is the Brignaya transformation formula.

"Wonderful, Brinia, you are my angel."

Thales looked at this equation and felt safe in his heart, as if Thales' imaginary power really existed.

Brinia said to him seriously: "Honey, don't rush to celebrate, here is a new discovery, not only the scale effect, according to calculations, not only the shape of the object has changed, but also the time of the object has changed. changed.

That is to say, the clock has slowed down! "

The "scale effect" and "clock slow effect" proposed by Thales and Brinia relieved everyone's anxiety, and the ether can continue to exist, and it seems that everything can continue.

At this time, Ace descended from the sub-plane body into the interior of the floating city.

"The time has come."

With bright eyes, Ace walked slowly into the central tower.