349 The Finding of a New Particle (2/2)
Abidal nodded with a triumphant smile. Those common pastors did not have to know more than this, since if they dug deeper, it would easy for them to step onto an evil sorcerer's path, and thus they were very likely to be devoured by the sacred light.
That was why the church was not affected at all by the recent theory put forward by the Congress that the energy was actually delivered in portions. The clergy did not care whether the form of energy was continuous or discontinuous, after all, the energy came from the Lord!
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From the trajectories, Lucien had found the wonderful magic symbol which could help him with building the order of the elements, but the symbols system was still not complete.
Although he roughly knew what the symbol was, Lucien did not force himself to change his cognitive world right way because he had to first finish the process of assuming, reasoning and verifying.
Despite the fact that the two constants were the same, Lucien could not take everything for granted based on his knowledge learned from the Earth, or very likely, his head would explode if anything unexpected happened.
The practice was the sole criterion for testing the truth!
After memorizing the magical symbol, Lucien redid the experiment by changing the composition of the metal and the low-pressure gas used in the core of the cathode magic circle.
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In Radiance Church in Holm.
Cardinal Philibell was holding the message from The Holy City, Lance, and read, ”It has been confirmed that Fernando's new student, Lucien Evans X, is the musician, Lucien Evans, who 'died' in Aalto. Sard has sent several night watchers and they're on the way to handle this.”
The Lord of Storm, as a grand arcanist, has always been one of the Church's main focus. As his student, the attention that Lucien got from the Church also increased. Soon, his background information was all clear.
”Is he the Lucien Evans who wrote the Ode to Joy?” Vaharall asked in an unbelievable way, ”Is he a psycho or something? Does he have two souls—one's an angel and the other's a devil?”
Varantine looked rather cold, ”What do you mean? Are you saying that he's an angel trapped in hell?”
”There's a possibility. His assumption on the form of energy shocked many senior-rank mages and almost destroyed them, which is way more impressive compared to the achievement of the most of the night watchers and red-robed cardinals,” said Philibell in a half-joking way, ”Anyway, the musician has died. The musician will never come back again.”
”So we're not planning on killing him?” Varantine was being very aggressive.
Philibell shook his head, ”He's not yet that important. We'll talk about this when the night watchers arrive.”
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It was already deep night when Lucien finished all the experiments. He had decided to live in the office tonight so he could finish developing the paper on the experiment.
”It has been proved by the experiments that all the negatively charged particles produced under different material conditions have the same charge-to-mass ratio no matter if the particles are brought by the cathode or produced in the tube. This suggests that many substances, in fact, contain the same particles…”
”…Its charge-to-mass ratio is about two thousand times that of the hydrogen ions in the electrolyte.”
”… Through rough calculation, we can find that the mass of this particle is about two-thousandths times that of a hydrogen atom…”
”… As we all know, the atoms consisting of Hydrogen are the lightest and smallest, which makes Hydrogen the first place on the periodic table. Then how do we understand this particle?”
”Is it a new kind of 'atom'? Or something else?”
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Around eight o'clock in the morning, Fernando was pondering about a problem in his study.
At this time, he saw Lucien, who arrived half an hour earlier than usual.
”Sir, I've conducted a series of experiments and developed a new paper. Please take a look at it,” said Lucien with a casual smile.
Fernando knew that there was something in Lucien's smile. He took over the pile of paper and saw the title,
”The Finding of a New Particle”
The look on Fernando's face became more serious. He started to read the paper very carefully. After a long time, Fernando looked up at Lucien's face without saying anything.
”… Yes, sir?” Lucien felt very insecure being stared at by Fernando's red eyes.
Fernando rubbed the corner of his eye and smacked his lips.
”I think you'll demolish the world one day.”