645 Return 2 in 1 (2/2)
Lucien only made such jokes with Natasha.
Natasha tried to smile. ”Am I that kind of person? I've been very confident. I would become a legendary knight if you were missing for another month!”
”Then, who played 'Fate' in the magic tower?” Lucien revealed her 'ruthlessly'.
Natasha moved her beautiful eyes away and held Lucien's head with both hands, giving him a long kiss.
”How about it? Do you feel my confidence?” After their mouths were separated, Natasha said while trying to catch her breath.
Lucien's breath was also unsteady. He chuckled, ”I do. With such progress, you will become a legendary knight in a few years.”
In a few years, there should be a chance for him to reach level three of legendary.
”I'll be able to explore with you by then.” Said Natasha firmly, ”In order to make advancements in the realm of legendary, let's not consider children for now, shall we?”
Lucien nodded softly. ”You have my full support.”
Then, he leaned his head forward and exhaled next to Natasha's ear before he chuckled. ”However, you need to make it up to me.”
The itch on her ear reminded her of certain things that she would rather forget, resulting in the hectic flush to Natasha's cheeks.
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Inside the Atom Institution, Sprint and the other arcanists were busy with their respective experiments. Suddenly, they heard a familiar, smiling voice. ”I'm delighted at your diligence.”
Oh, our teacher is back? Heidi turned around and said happily, ”Master, welcome back! There are so many questions that we would like to ask you.”
Because the exploration in the World of Souls had been kept highly confidential, they had no idea about the dangers that Lucien had been through and merely thought that it was a common business trip. Therefore, they were not particularly thrilled and excited after seeing him back.
Observing Heidi with a smile, Lucien said to Annick and the other students. ”Has the original Heidi been taken down and replaced by a devil? It's unbelievable that she is asking questions on her own initiative!”
”That's because we made a major breakthrough in the research program that you gave Chelly and me.” Declared Heidi proudly.
Lucien raised his eyebrow. ”The analysis on the mechanism of the ancillary computation magic circles?”
”Yes!” It seemed that Heidi could not wait to present her works.
At this moment, Sprint turned around and said to Heidi, ”Our teacher is only just back. We have to report the important issues to him.”
”What important issues?” Asked Lucien in confusion. Natasha didn't mention anything about it. However, she had been purely dedicated to her own practice and improvement of late. It was perfectly normal that she did not know what had happened.
With a brilliant smile, Katrina said, ”Congratulations on winning the first Evans Prize in Arcana with Mr. Dieppe, master, for the remarkable contributions you made to the wave-particle duality and the electron diffraction. The name of the medal is exactly 'Duality'.”
While she spoke, she displayed the appearance of the Evans Prize in Arcana with the manifestation magic. The medal had a black background on the upper half, which was embedded with a silver planet that represented the macroscopic world, and a silver background on the lower half, where the black symbols of atom were painted to indicate the microscopic real. It had a certain charming air with it.
That was the basic appearance of the Evans Prize in Arcana that Lucien designed based on 'Tai Chi'. The word 'Duality' had been embedded at the center.
”Why is there image? Who accepted the award on behalf of me?” Lucien speculated that the Congress of Magic held the award ceremony in advance in order to cover the fact that he and some major legendary arcanists had gone missing.
Layria couldn't help but grimace when she recalled it. ”It was the little crystal dragon who accepted it for you.”
They were already rather familiar with Alferris, the little crystal dragon.
I'm sure that he brought the medal straightly back to his own home. It's like feeding a goat to a tiger… Lucien shook his head with a smile. He was not particularly interested in the medal, but in order to restrain Alferris' greediness and to build up a healthy dragon-ality, he had to demand that the dragon return the medal to him at some point.
The students reported the important matters that happened in the Congress of Magic to him, as well as the research achievements recently that were worth paying attention to and the operation of the Holt Magic College.
After hearing their report, Lucien asked Blake, Lowi, Alfalia and the other assistances about their updates, before he finally went to the meeting room and convened the regular meeting. After Annick and the other students became middle-rank arcanists and sorcerers, there was no need for one of Lazar and his partners to stay in the institution all the time. Therefore, they had been away to accomplish the mandatory mission this year together.
Heidi was not in a rush at all anymore. She spoke frankly, ”Master, Sprint and Annick proposed a hypothesis regarding the unusual splitting phenomenon of the spectral lines.”
”What hypothesis?” Lucien vaguely guessed what it was. He looked at the two of them with a smile.
Annick replied, somewhat embarrassed, ”It's because of the electron spin. However, according to the result of our calculation…”
The more he spoke, the lower his voice became. Sprint simply helped him to finish. ”The speed of the electron spin on the surface that we calculated was ten times the speed of sound…”
His voice was loud at first, but he also lost his confidence as he approached the end.
”Give me your manuscript.” Lucien asked for their manuscript and read it carefully.
Heidi spoke for them, ”Not just now, many arcanists who work on the new alchemy feel that something is wrong with the concept of electron spin. Also, hasn't the model of the new alchemy presented by matrix mechanics abandoned the notions that are not readily observable such as orbits? Where is this spin from? This is almost identical to the astrophysical system again.”
”However, this spin model explains the splitting phenomenon perfectly and matches the other experiments. As for the classic image that it corresponds to, it is not necessarily the same as the spin of planets that we think. In the microscopic domain, we can only understand things based on math and experiment data. Since it is not necessarily the spin as we know, it's possible that the speed in the spin does not carry signals and energy, just like the wave speed of electrons in Dieppe's paper. This is not in violation of the theory of relativity.” Lucien said roughly and inaccurately. ”You may submit the paper to the Arcana Review Board.”
”However, you may encounter a lot of suspicions later. I suggest you deal with the spin problem with matrix mechanics first and see what you can get. I'll work on this aspect, too.”
”Alright, master.” Annick was more confident after receiving the approval of his teacher. Sprint, on the other, was greatly relieved. He was going to submit the paper even if his teacher did not agree with him.
After resolving their question, Lucien looked at Heidi and asked, ”What about you? What's the major breakthrough that you have achieved?”
Heidi suddenly became shy. ”It's not exactly a great breakthrough. When we analyzed the ancillary computation circles, we discovered that they could help with calculations because the results of different functions had been stored inside them in advance. After we gave the information, they searched for the answers in their storage, and ran simple calculations with the answers… In fact, we reached the conclusion by reading the relevant papers. However, we have gone one step further and described every specific procedure in the whole process.”
”There are too many functions and almost infinite results after they are calculated. It seems that the ancillary computation circles can only play a role in regular problems. Huh. Do you have any ideas on how to improve them? We can try to make them accomplish such a process in most of the problems: we give data and instructions, and we receive a result very soon. That way, it will be easier to popularize them among the magic apprentices.” Lucien said solemnly.
Heidi asked in confusion. ”In order to fix most of the problems, we have to store more functions and more results for their calculation, which will have a higher demand on the magic circles and make them even more expensive, just like how the ancillary magic circles we use are different from those you use. This is the opposite of the purpose of popularization.”
Chelly nodded her head in agreement. They seemed to be two different directions of development.
”That's why I said that you needed an idea. Has it occurred to you that the mechanism of the ancillary computation circles is different from the logic order of our regular thinking and calculation? Have you considered reconstructing the ancillary computation circles according to that and replace most of the functions of our brain with alchemical materials and electronic circuits?” Lucien tried to give them more inspirations.
Developing portable, diverse terminals of magic was one of Lucien's goals in this direction.It's the lines of a famous TV advertisement in China.