574 Value (1/2)
Inside the villa at the suburb of Allyn…
Blake completely devoted himself to the calculation of the redundant precession of the Morning Star at the perihelion according to Lucien's formula.
During Lucien's intentional pauses, he wrote quickly, his quill not stopping at all.
Suddenly, he raised his head, his eyes full of shock and disbelief. Then, he rushed into the library searching the arcana and magic books.
He was not a sorcerer who was good at astrology and force fields, and he did not remember the observation of the redundant precession carefully. However, the impression he had about the number was burning inside his head, making him unable to control himself and his head was swollen.
The result of his calculation seemed very close to the observed value in his impression!
What did it mean?
What did it suggest?
One book after another was drawn out by him, only to be thrown away after his casual look. Finally, he found his childhood book from a long, long time ago - 'Fifteen Conundrums About Astrology'!
His hands shivering, he looked into the table of contents and found 'The problem that the observed precession of the Morning Star at the perihelion does not agree with the prediction of Douglas' motion system - Page 39'.
Turning the pages quickly, Blake saw the eye-catching data at first glance.
After a crack, the hard-covered book fell to the carpet with a dull noise. Blake stood where he was like a statue.
The two values were so close. What did it mean?
At this moment, Lucien's voice spread out of the magic radio again:
”After calculation, we can determine the redundant precession of the Morning Star at the perihelion to be… which basically agrees with observation.”
His words were filled with such powerful charm that Blake was suddenly back to himself, whose facial muscles were horribly twisted because of his wild joy.
What did it mean?
It meant that the explanation on the nature of gravity had both the theoretical support and factual confirmation!
It meant that Mr. Lucien Evans' general theory of relativity was the theory closest to the truth of gravity so far!
It meant that the problem that baffled Mr. President and many other arcanists was not unanswerable. It was unnecessary to introduce a supreme being for gravity to be self-consistent! Mr. Lucien Evans had offered an explanation that completely surpassed the age and any imagination!
It meant that the path of arcana was not wrong. There were perhaps a lot of unresolved problems, but everybody was always on the path of working them out!
Although he could hardly understand Lucien's general theory of relativity, it did not prevent Blake from deducing and calculating with part of the conclusions. Based on the result, he believed that the theory could explain the nature of gravity. His previous confusion and loss were entirely gone.
Perhaps, it was exactly because he did not understand it that he had no suspicion and directly went for the answer.
The nature of gravity had been explained, and so would the other baffling arcana problems, as long as they forever pressed forward in exploration and research and never gave up!
”Mr. President, have you heard Mr. Evans' theory? I believe that your confusion must be gone now…”
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”After calculating, we can determine the redundant precession of the Morning Star at the perihelion to be… which basically agrees with observation.”
When Lucien said that, Samantha watched him in shock and excitement in the broadcast room. The problem that bothered the school of astrology for years was resolved in such a way. Also, it proved that Lucien's explanation on the nature of gravity was closer to the truth.
She had been admiring Lucien's talents and achievements, but she was very confident in herself when it came to horoscopes. Because Lucien had never made any accomplishments in this field, she never realized that he had such astonishing, profound and innovative understandings about gravity and astrology.
Looking at Lucien who was speaking casually, she had the same feeling when Mr. President answered questions for her teacher and herself. They were both so calm and remarkable.
In a trance, Samantha thought to herself. After Lucien resolved the time error on the artificial planets by introducing the gravitational time dilation, her cognitive world was suddenly seething. Even though she had only just learnt the basic content, her cognitive world was already half-solidifying. Her teacher, Neeshka, was an authority in mathematics and only second to Levski and Levski in geometry and tensor analysis. So, she was quite good at that field, too.
”This is definitely a groundbreaking paper… No, a paper that surpasses the age!”
Around her, most arcanists looked more or less the same, except that their achievement was not as great as Samantha because of their insufficient mathematical expertise.
However, the panic that Douglas' speech brought to them vanished. Confusion was acceptable as long as confidence was still there! Lucien Evans' accomplishment at such a moment showed them the bright prospect of arcana. Even though they could not understand it, the conclusion and the final calculation seemed fine.
Hellen had stopped reading the paper and decided to read 'Nature' of the past four years after she was back. She said to Fernando in a low voice, ”I seem to have seen another Mr. President…”