346 The Ignored Paper (2/2)
Her eyes and face started to be covered by a thin layer of ice-blue crystal.
Although her situation was way better than that of Cole, and she would say that she was more or less prepared for something big, Sonya was still unable to accept the assumption properly. If she nodded and conceded that the assumption made sense, she was, in fact, admitting that the foundation of the whole arcana system was an error, which was basically a denial of her life.
Unavoidably, Sonya's soul was hurt when her cognitive world was greatly shaken. Fortunately, she still managed to maintain her world of cognition and would still be able to progress further.
”Assumption, just an assumption so far…”
Sitting there, letting time pass by, Sonya finally slowly recovered and looked around.
”My wine!”
She had spent a lot of effort on collecting all the bottles of nice wine. However, right now, they were all on the floor!
Sighing, Sonya shook her head with a bitter smile, ”Working for the review board can be very dangerous. I shall have the board compensate for my loss. I wish I could directly have Lucien Evans pay for this!”
Taking a glance at the paper, there was still fear in Sonya's eyes, as if in the document bag was sealed a demon that was powerful enough to destroy the whole world.
Rubbing the corner of her forehead, Sonya started to write down her review comment,
”This paper has defined the arcane value of the Evans' Black-Body Radiation Formula and has solved the problem that has been troubling many arcanists for a long time. Although the premise of the explanation of the formula has not been confirmed, the fact that the formula is explainable is still of great value. It's an important paper in the field of Thermodynamics that is worthy of in-depth discussion.”
Like Cole, Sonya could not help but continued to write:
”Before the assumption is verified, it is not wise for one to put too much thought into it. Use Evans constant like the other common constants, and I suggest that, for the time being, the comment should be put at the beginning of the paper, so more arcanists could be more or less mentally prepared and previously warned. For the whole paper, I recommend that thirty arcana credits and three hundred and fifty arcana points shall be given as the reward.”
If Lucien had not also said repeatedly in his paper that the premise of the explanation was just an assumption, and the paper was very logically developed and clearly presented, Sonya was very likely to reject the paper or make it fail to pass the review.
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After the review result was available, many senior-rank arcanists had soon got the news and borrowed the paper to read.
In the headquarter office of Arcana, Drummond threw the paper fiercely on the desk. Although he was previously warned, his soul was slightly hurt, and his eyes turned red from the anger.
”It hasn't been verified!” roared Drummond angrily.
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Isabella, with the paper lying open in front of her on the desk, murmured to herself as if she was totally lost:
”Continuity… discontinuous... in portions…”
She saw illusions. She saw demons, devils, angels, gods, goddesses, as well as the stars of destiny. Her arcana world in her cognition now had cracks on it.
Wiping off the blood from the corner of her lips, Isabella comforted herself, ”There might be another explanation…”
A long time later, Isabella told her student, Rachel, ”When using the constant, I hope you can ignore the absurd assumption for now…”
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The senior-rank arcanists' response was within Lucien's expectation. He knew that they would feel greatly shocked and terrified, and then they would tell themselves that only using the formula itself should be enough and they should for now ignore the assumption.
The grand arcanists offered most of the other arcanists some buffering time.
Without the support of firm and solid evidence, the assumption that rebelled against the orthodoxy and was powerful enough to destroy the existing arcana world system was doomed to be ignored and exiled by the ruler.
That was the path that every new ruler had to take before reaching his or her throne!
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”Based on the comments from the two members, the overall comment on Lucien Evans' paper is: groundbreaking and worthy of in-depth discussion. The paper was of great value, but its premise has not been proved, and the conclusion of the paper goes against the current understanding accepted by the public. Therefore, the paper is not persuasive and convincing enough. Therefore, thirty-five arcana credits and three hundred eighty arcana points are given to Lucien Evans as the reward.”
Lucien had expected the result. He was already happy with the fact that the two members of the review board still had their heads on their necks intact.
At this time, Rock, who was responsible for the project of studying gas discharge walked in, and he said to Lucien in the office, ”We've found something strange. You might want to take a look at it.”