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After Neeshka and Samantha left, Bergner, after a long preparation, began to perform divination on the matter.
Crack. The crystal ball in his hands fell to the ground with a crisp sound. Thankfully, as an item forged with magic, it was not destroyed.
Frowning hard, he looked at the crystal ball on the ground in disbelief, while he murmured to himself, ”Why is this happening? Why is this happening?”
For the first time ever, he did not see any result from his prophecy. There was nothing but a mist, as if the future cannot be decided at all.
”What disrupted my prophecy?” After he calmed down, he began to consider other possibilities.
According to the theory of the school of astrology, the future was decided by all the statuses at present, and the inaccuracy of prophecies was because the prophets were limited and not as all-knowing as 'Thanos Demon'. As a result, their prophecy could be blurry. However, in any case, as long as they were not giving a prophecy when they did not know anything at all, they would more or less see a corner of the future. He had never seen nothing but an obscure mist before!
Bergner believed that he had enough understanding about the debate in the microscopic realm to get certain fuzzy hints. However, things turned out to be out of his expectation. He couldn't help but begin to consider other reasons.
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The Month of Gold (October) came as the hot weather faded away. The sorcerers in the Holt Magic College began to wait for the new issues of Arcana, Magic, Nature and other journals. After the few months, the magic apprentices who passed the College Entrance Exam of Advanced Magic had mostly become sorcerers successfully. The ratio of advancement had reached a remarkable 2/3.
It also increased the temptation of the Holt Magic College for the magic apprentices and the mysteriousness of the 'College Entrance Exam', as if it had become a standard to test if an apprentice could become a sorcerer.
Therefore, in the Douglas Magic School, in the magic schools of the branches, and among the magic apprentices, the books such as 'Simulated College Entrance Exams of Advanced Magic' and 'Evans' Secret Tests' became popular. Heidi, Layria, Alfalia and the girls made a huge fortune out of it.
Before the class of the special theory of relativity, Ernesto went into the classroom again and distributed the journals to the sorcerers. This time, he looked quite normal, if not vaguely delighted, because he finally did not have to study the painstaking matrix mechanics anymore!
His attitude of easiness informed the students that there was no disruptive content on the journals. Therefore, they opened them and began to read randomly. However, as they read on, Onore, Clark and the other students became excited and learnt what was on them greedily.
Two of the first three papers on this issue of 'Arcana' were Brook's, and the last one was written by Oliver. From the perspective of the wave equation, they resolved the problem of the hydrogen model, and their results matched various experiment data. They had established a new alchemy system that seemed entirely different than matrix mechanics. It was more simple, straightforward and easy to understand. Arcana was filled with charm again!
”This is real arcana…” Onore observed in a low voice. ”Even in the entire realm of elements and electromagnetism, the Oliver-Brook Wave Equation will still be one of the top three classic equations. That's a really great accomplishment!”
Clark followed him. ”I feel like crying when I see the wave equation. This is arcana, instead of a complicated mathematical monster! In the past months, I only managed to preliminarily apply matrix mechanics but could not understand it at all. However, after studying the wave equation for only one month, I seem to have understood the internal structure of atoms and learnt that everything in the microscopic domain could be so fascinating!”
”Also, the wave mechanics that they established are based on the classic arcana theories instead of completely abandoning them. Math is only used as a way of thinking. Mr. Evans' achievement is brilliant, but it is too brilliant for us the 'normal people' to imagine and understand.” His classmate next to him agreed.
Onore kept reading the paper while he said sincerely, ”I'll devote myself to that in the next year. I will study its mysteries every day. Huh. Mr. Oliver has proposed a theory to explain why electrons behave as particles. It's called a 'wave packet'?”
The theory was not very complicated. It claimed that many lines (waves) were jumbled in a certain way into a ball. Since those lines decayed fast when they spread out, they looked like balls in general. The bulging packets made the waves behave as particles.
Accepting such an explanation, Clark, as a supporter of the wave theory, was even more cheered up. He believed that it was the real truth of the microscopic domain that revealed the deepest law of the quantum world.
He was about to exclaim that the particle nature was included in waves, when he saw the papers of Douglas, Fernando, Hathaway and Hellen. They roughly proved that wave mechanics was mathematically equivalent with matrix mechanics, and they offered certain arcana changes that did not agree with the commutative law.
”…The two new alchemy systems are equivalent…” Clark couldn't help but blurt out.