Chapter 577: Chapter 503: The Dispute Between Waves and Particles, The Kingdom’s Spreading Quarrel!
The sudden news brought by Kajia’er was undoubtedly shocking!
The Thunder Mages, who were still immersed in joy, immediately changed their expressions.
“How is that possible? How could he have done it so quickly?” Sanchez’s face was filled with disbelief.
Here, hundreds of Thunder Mages had spent several months deciphering Maxwell’s equations and had constructed a ten-kilometer-long conductor, just to accurately measure the propagation speed of electric current in the conductor being equal to the speed of light, and thus deduced the connection between light and electricity.
And Jeffrey, with only a dozen magical schools’ wizards and apprentices, how could he possibly have discovered the photovoltaic effect before them?
Anthony quickly snatched the Magic News from Kajia’er’s hands to take a look, and upon seeing the headline, he was absolutely stunned.
[The Element of Light is Merely the Delusion of the Ignorant, On the Explanation and Demonstration of Light Interference and Diffraction—Light Has Wave Nature!]
The expository magical scholarly article covered the entire page, and it posited only one argument: light is not the element they had previously believed, but a wave transmitted through a certain medium!
Just like water waves, sound waves even!
“Nonsense, how can light possibly be a wave!” Anthony could barely get halfway through reading before he burst out cursing in anger.
Upon glancing over it, Sanchez was likewise infuriated. “The Element of Light is merely the delusion of the ignorant? How dare he say such things?”
Just a minute ago, they were rejoicing over the discovery of the photovoltaic effect, believing photons are smaller electrons, now just one step away from finding the true element of light!
Now, Jeffrey suddenly claims that the element of light doesn’t even exist—that it’s all a fallacy, and instead, light is a continuous wave rather than a particle. How could anyone accept this?
It was as if he was slapping them in the face publicly!
“I think he’s gone mad with his desire for the Corona Medal!” Another great wizard, equally masterful in the magic of lightning, said disdainfully.
How can light possibly be a wave? They could emit light in beams and previous experiments had already proved that light propagates in straight lines. Its reflection and refraction phenomena are the best evidence for the existence of light particles.
What’s most important is, according to his theory of light-electric conversion, light is actually just smaller electricity!
And positive and negative charges had been discovered and confirmed long ago, which further proves that the theory of light elements is an irrefutable truth!
“Don’t panic, gentlemen, Jeffrey is just trying to grab the spotlight. Wait until we publish our light-electric conversion theory tomorrow, and this so-called wave theory will become a complete joke!” Anthony quickly regained his composure and spoke.
Sanchez nodded as well, just a clown who was bound to be debunked, indeed not worth their substantial effort.
The group of Thunder Mages no longer paid attention to the nonsense in the newspaper and went back to organize their notes, ready to publish part of their research in the next few days to refute Jeffrey completely!
Meanwhile, the Light Wave theory was spreading throughout the Magic Kingdom with the printing of the Magic News.
Although the kingdom has seen a dozen new newspapers in recent years, and the Magic News no longer had the monopoly it once did, as the mouthpiece of the council and an officially recognized authoritative newspaper, its influence was still not to be underestimated.
Almost every wizard who was passionate about magical studies would regularly buy a copy of the Magic News, because it often records some novel and interesting magical scholarly articles, including the cutting-edge achievements of current magical theories.
Jeffrey’s Light Wave theory immediately caught the attention of many wizards once published.
The theory was quite comprehensive; Jeffrey used the principles of water and sound waves to intricately explain how light propagates as a wave and with it explained the phenomena of light interference and diffraction.
Even more convincing was that the article directly provided a method for detailed experimental proof; all that was needed was a board punctured with two holes and a light beam emitter, extremely simple.
Even those wizards who did not know lightning and light magic could make a few convex and concave lenses and use focused sunlight to complete this experiment.
For such hands-on experiments, naturally, there was no shortage of wizards eager to try it for themselves.
As per the words of the star of magic, practice is also the sole criterion for testing truth!
Theories spoken from the mouths of others are never as reliable as those verified by personal experimentation.
And it was this simple experiment that made Jeffrey’s wave theory sensational!
Because it was all too similar; after the light passed through the two slits, the interference pattern that emerged was indeed in perfect alignment with the crests and troughs produced by water waves!
Could light truly be a wave?
This question began to surface in more and more wizards’ minds. Their previous understanding of light came entirely from speculation, unable to be perceived even by the Legendary Councilman, until Lynn, star of magic, carried out a light speed measurement experiment that unveiled just a corner of this mysterious veil.
Just as the kingdom’s wizards were gradually accepting this idea, on the evening of the third day, the photovoltaic effect and the theory of light particles, jointly published by Anthony and others, took the stage and left people utterly astounded!