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Oliver was rather amused by their reactions. He smiled, ”Rest assured. Your head should still be intact after you read it, which is both my estimation and the prophecy of astrology.”

Mariana was still unrelieved. ”Mr. Oliver, you know that Mr. Evans' papers can be quite disruptive and… destructive. Also, you have summoned us in advance for the review. In my heart, I feel that a terrible devil has been projected into my cognitive world, and that my head will explode after one moment of carelessness. Could you tell me why you made such an estimation and why you chose us?”

Coughing to hold back his laughter, Oliver had an even deeper understanding about Lucien's image in the eyes of most arcanists. His name obviously sounded more distressing than the Lord of Hell and the Will of Abyss, particularly when his name was associated with a paper. Such an irregular review procedure was exactly like Brook before.

”I chose you for the review because, based on your papers in journals such as 'Magic' and ”Electromagnetism' in the past three months, you already had a rough idea and started researching it. Therefore, your cognitive world will certainly not be broken.” Oliver spoke of the real reason.

Of course, he did examine their fates with astrology in advance.

”We had a rough idea?” Annhora recalled in suspicion and soon remembered something. ”Do you mean the studies on your transformation formulas and the deeper understanding about the relationship between time and space?”

Oliver nodded softly. ”That's right. I believe you will earn a lot after reading this paper.”

Not entirely convinced, and taking over the paper with shivering hands, Annhora and Mariana both saw the title of the paper: On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and Mass-energy Equation.

Huh. The title does not look very disruptive, does it?

Therefore, the two of them began to read carefully, with quills and blank paper next to them for them to calculate with.

As he read on, Annhora's left hand, not occupied by the quill, scratched his hair subconsciously and turned his white wig wryly. He seemed both interested and overwhelmed by the research, and his head was swooning.

Mariana, on the other hand, bit her lip as she often did when she was still a little girl. She mumbled, ”Time? Space? How can they be like this?”

His fingers crossed, Oliver looked at them peacefully on the surface, but his eyes were rather solemn because of their reaction. After eight months of preparation, there shouldn't be another incident of massive brain explosions, right?

Also, the view on time and space in the theory of relativity was not perfect yet. They should be able to see the problems. Their worldview might be messed up, but their cognition wouldn't collapse for now.

After a long time, Annhora suddenly raised his head and said both frantically and confusedly, ”I find it hard to believe that time is the speed's function, but it is such a charming thought. Also… Also, there are a lot of problems.”

”As Lucien said himself, this is just a preliminary, inconclusive paper that hasn't introduced many things beyond the inertial frame of reference. There are also many unanswered problems. However, I think that the view on time and space is very interesting.” Said Oliver with a smile. For a man of liberal arts, such a view of time and space better fitted his appetite.

”This paper completely renews our understanding of time and space. Had it not been for the consideration in the past months, perhaps my cognitive world would've been broken and solidified because the chaos. Well, Mr. Oliver, Mr. Evans must've proposed the paper several months ago, right? The discussion since then was meant to psychologically and intellectually prepare us?” Annhora suddenly realized what happened.

Oliver nodded. ”Yes, it was written before my transformation formulas were published. This paper made groundbreaking contributions to the macroscopic and high-speed studies. Perhaps that was part of the reason why some planets are still undiscovered. I believe you can see its worth as well as its imperfect parts.”

”Yes. I believe that most of the senior-rank arcanists in the school of electromagnetics and the school of Light-darkness can accept the paper, however reluctantly. It is based on the classic electromagnetic theory and extrapolates it by sweeping the obsolete ideas in it.” Annhora said in approval.

Mariana, next to him, murmured to herself in bewilderment, ”But what about Ether?”

Annhora frowned. It was not until then that he discovered that, based on the paper, Ether was no longer of any use. It had quietly withdrawn from the stage of history. The foundation of the wave theory probably needed rectifying.

Hearing Mariana's words, Oliver said with a bitter smile, ”Ether, waves and particles, we've been arguing about them for nobody knows how many years, but it is more and more difficult to understand them as time goes on.”

”It's like two groups of knights in a battle. Both parties are fighting vehemently, but neither of them can crush the enemy and secure the final triumph.” Mariana was back to herself. ”Mr. Oliver, this paper needs to be proved by experiment phenomena and results in order to be aptly assessed.”