350 The Small Gathering (2/2)

The meeting room of the institution was completely filled. Lucien could not help thinking to himself that if something terrible happened to the meeting room, that would basically mean the end of the Congress.

”Lucien Evans, so this time your experiment was going to show us the discontinuity of the form of energy?” When Lucien was about to enter the lab behind the mirror, a tall and thin elder man of a quite good manner asked him in a slightly bit aggressive way.

Lucien just heard Fernando mentioning that this elder man was an archmage, Lauren, the major supporter of Energy Essentialism, the winner of Silver Moon Medal and Ice & Snow Medal, the member of Arcana Review Board, and he specialized in the School of Electromagnetics, Light-darkness, Thermodynamics, and Force Field.

Some other senior-rank mages also looked at this direction. It was also their question to Lucien.

”I've found a new particle,” answered Lucien briefly.

”Inside of an atom?” asked Gaston a bit emotionally, although he had been suggested in advance by Hathaway and Fernando and thus he was more mentally prepared.

”We'll see.” Raventi watched Lucien stepping into the lab.

Morris looked rather serious, ”I have the feeling that something not good is going to happen.”

The experiment was not challenging, and once the vacuum environment was created, Lucien adjusted the electric and magnetic field. Then the arcanists started to calculate using the data.

Soon, Raventi growled, ”The weight is… two thousand times smaller than that of a hydrogen atom!”

Even the heavy elements at the back of the periodic table had a way bigger atomic weight than that of a hydrogen atom. Therefore, it could be preliminarily determined that the particle was not an atom, but a smaller particle, unless there were a thousand more undiscovered elements in front of hydrogen on the periodic table.

Except for Raventi, the rest of the sorcerers were all a bit absent-minded. Although they had doubted the atom theory, and that was the reason why they were selected to attend the meeting, they still felt lost, as if something beautiful in their memory was broken.

Lauren watched the entire experience and said aloud, ”A great experiment!”

Lucien was surprised. He never expected that Lauren, who was just being so aggressive to him, would congratulate him like this.

”It is a radical repudiation of atom theory. It has confirmed that energy constitutes everything and that atom doesn't even exist!” Lauren's eyes looked a bit crazy.

The biggest enemy of Energy Essentialism was the theory of atom!

Ignoring how Raventi and the rest of the arcanists stared at himself, Lauren said to Lucien excitedly, ”Congratulations, Evans. You've brought people a step further toward the truth of the world!”

Before Raventi started his roaring, Lucien said seriously, ”On the contrary, I think the discovery of the even smaller particles further shows the physicality of atoms. Inside an atom, there is probably a unique structure…”

When Lucien was about to further explain his belief, Douglas raised his hand and stopped their argumentation.

Looking around in the meeting room, Douglas was gratified to see that all the selected arcanists had lived to their expectation and had basically accepted the existence of the new particle, thus he said a bit emotionally, ”We've witnessed this great experiment - an experiment that leads us to the real micro-world and a brand new research field! Although the more specific measurement of the particle's electric charge and its relationship with an atom requires more studies, Atom Institution's and Lucien's great contribution to this is enormous. The whole arcana world has marched forward in a big step because of it!”

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”To handle this kind of subversive research outcomes, I think it's good to inform some arcanists and sorcerers first just like what we are doing right now. We can use this as a regular method in the future,” said Douglas.

As the subversive findings emerged one by one in the past very short period of time, Douglas had made up his mind that a coping mechanism must be built up.

Oliver agreed but he soon came up with a question, ”So who should be the one judging what is subversive and what is not?”

As soon as Oliver put forward the question, most arcanists turned around to look at Lucien.

Lucien had some sense of foreboding.