438 The Second Reward (2/2)

”Lucien? Are you close to Aalto right now? Again?”

Through the satellite, her voice sounded a bit different, and the quality of the connection was not very good.

”No, I'm calling you at a super long distance through the artificial planet.” Lucien smiled. The quality of the call was within his expectation, and it could be improved later after they had more experience.

To utilize a satellite properly for communication, locating, and monitoring was not an easy job. With the more extensive applications, more and more problems would appear, some were going to cause a headache for the grand arcanists as they would not be able to find the reasons behind.

However, problems were exactly what Lucien was expecting!

He had two major aims behind putting forward the package plan besides proving Douglas's celestial body system: First, to talk to Natasha; Second, to make the problems emerge, and thus the foundation of the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity could be laid.

Although the related books in his spirit library had not yet been unlocked, Lucien still got to know the great influence that the two theories of relativity had on satellites, such as the velocity time dilation effect and the gravitational time dilation effect. Without a doubt, the problems were caused because of them.

Since he was using a synchronous-orbit satellite, the velocity time dilation effect can be ignored. Lucien only had to consider how to deal with the gravitational field. Also, because the satellite system was still very simple and there were very few users right now, he was able to talk to Natasha.

Natasha remained silent for a moment and asked, ”So the newborn star that day… was an artificial planet? No wonder the Pope used God's Arrival…”

Then Natasha recalled the scarlet moon, and she asked with complex emotions, ”you made it?”

”I made a proposal. Mr. Douglas put forward the theories and made it.” Lucien answered honestly.

Natasha clicked her tongue. ”I knew it! It was your idea. I feel like I am lagging behind those all kinds of thoughts of yours. And you're always able to turn these thoughts into reality! Making friend with you is something full of surprise, but I'm also concerned that maybe one day, you will fool me easily. Anyways, talking to you like this makes me feel we're in fact not far away from each other. I like it.”

”So I called you immediately after I could,” said Lucien ambiguously. He was too shy to say it out directly that talking to her was one of his main purposes for launching satellites.

”Haha, it's my great pleasure that you still remember… me.” Natasha laughed, but her voice paused a bit. Maybe it was because of the quality of connection, or something else.

Their conversation was very convivial, and it lasted until both Natasha's and Lucien's spiritual power could not support the calling devices anymore.

”Right, I noticed that the Grand Cardinal Sard disappeared from the public since what happened to the scarlet moon. No idea what he is doing right now.” Natasha gave Lucien a warning.

Lucien nodded as he felt the heat of the monocle that he was wearing. ”Considering what has happened, it's not surprising that he's behaving weirdly. Well… I'll put a cryptographic magic circle on the electromagnetism messaging devices as soon as possible, or our conversation can be easily exposed.”

”I see.” Natasha did not know much about electromagnetism, but she was rather assured that Lucien would take care of it.

After the conversation, Lucien saw Annick walking towards him, surrounded by the other apprentices. The apprentices all talked at once,

”Sir, Annick's paper has been published on Arcana! He's a level two arcanist now!”

Due to the citations of the study on cathode ray, Annick was not far from promoting to the next level. After gaining fifty credits this time, he became a level-two arcanist naturally.

”Really? Let me take a look.” Lucien was quite gratified and took over the journal. At first glance at the table of contents, he saw Artil's name. His paper was the last one in the issue and was still a discussion paper. The title was

A Reward offered for Theory Explaining the Photoelectric Effect.

”… From Annick's paper we can see that the electric currents produced by casting light on a piece of metal consist of electrons, which has made the question even more prominent: For light under a certain frequency, no matter how we try to increase its 'wave' intensity, photoelectric effect and electrons are always absent. Why? And also why, when we increase the energy intensity of the same frequency light, more electrons were emitted, but they are of the same intensity? It obviously contradicts the classic wave theory of light.

”… Here I offer a fifty-thousand-arcana-point reward to seek explanations, especially from you who support the wave theory! Use your imagination!”

Seeing the second declaration, Lucien became silent. He wondered if he should say something to first plant a seed in the arcanists' mind.