Chapter 345

(Author's Note: This chapter is purely theoretical and my own nonsense … For those who don't like this kind of plot, please skip it. Even if you subscribe, don't curse too much because it's really hard.)

It had been three days since the World Guardian demonstrated the power of the Hyperdimensional to him.

The Origin of Light had been used. Now, four-fifths of Adam's soul had the characteristics of the Origin. The quality of his mana had been further improved. The amount of energy per unit of mana had increased by several times compared to before. The power of his various spells had also increased by a lot.

He didn't pay much attention to this improvement. In the past three days, his mind was filled with thoughts about the two aspects of consciousness and matter. He kept thinking about how he could open a hole in the 'box' so that his subjective will could be integrated into knowledge and magic.

No matter how he thought about it, he still felt that it was too unobjective and too abstract. So he simply gave up on the idea of finding a direction from the ideas provided by His Holiness Croft. Instead, he collected his thoughts and prepared to continue his experiments.

He felt that no matter how difficult the proposition was, the result could be obtained from the formula and experimental data.

The Personal Chip Research Institute had become a large-scale research base that straddled the Holy Tower. In name, the person in charge here was Adam. However, in reality, other than the projects related to big data and cloud computing, Adam did not have the authority to mobilize and command the mages under his command.

Therefore, he still had to complete his own experiments together with his clones.

However, the clones were very different now. Every single one of them had contracted a chip and joined the joint computing network. Compared to before, the efficiency of the clones had increased by a lot.

Before he derived Maxwell's equations and Lorentz's equations, the derivation of classical electromagnetism was not difficult, except for the theory that started from scratch. This was because it described the macroscopic and visible phenomena. However, when Adam reached Level 9, he needed a further theory to support his research in order to advance to the Hyperdimensional and even open a hole in the 'box' of consciousness and matter. The following research became very difficult.

On Earth, the establishment of quantum electrodynamics was the result of the joint efforts of many great physicists. It involved many magical experiments and obscure theories. However, in the world of sorcerers, Adam was all by himself. Even now, he felt that it was almost impossible to achieve the results of so many geniuses by himself.

Previously, after deriving the complete set of Maxwell's equations in the Ether environment, he grasped the electromagnetic field from a macroscopic perspective and obtained power that was not inferior to various existing elemental magic. Therefore, he discovered electromagnetic waves and could use them to a certain extent. But in fact, he could only use them. In fact, he couldn't fundamentally analyze them at all.

After thinking for a long time, Adam decided to start from this aspect. Starting from the most basic visible light, he analyzed the nature of light in the Ether environment.

Here, he had to complete several classical physics experiments — the light interference experiment, the photoelectric effect experiment, and the black-body radiation experiment.

First, he had to perform the black-body radiation experiment. From this experiment, he could derive a very important constant, Planck's constant. Only by calculating the specific value of this constant could he proceed with the next series of research.

First, Adam needed to create an absolute black-body with materials. This was an ideal model that only existed in theory on Earth. It could not be completed in the world of sorcerers either. However, the power of magic and magical materials could make the black-body function closer to an ideal state.

After a few days of searching and experimenting with materials, Adam created an object that could absorb radiation of any wavelength at any temperature infinitely close to one. This object would serve as an absolute black-body.

After Adam's radiation output reached the correct stable value, the experiment was quickly on the right track.

During this period of time, Adam felt mentally and physically exhausted for the first time. The research he was going to do now and in the future was a set of knowledge that was completely different from the previous system. It was equivalent to starting from scratch again. And he could foresee that the difficulty in the future would often be higher than the previous one.

After a full seven days, hundreds of repeated experiments, thousands of data comparisons and analysis, Adam finally measured the value of Planck's constant in the Ether environment with difficulty, and replaced this value with the symbol "h".

The difficulty was to assume that the absorption and emission of electromagnetic waves were not continuous, but were carried out in parts. In this case, the calculation results would be consistent with the experimental results.

Adam still called this energy quanta. Each energy quanta was equal to hν, where ν was the frequency of the radiated electromagnetic waves, and h was a constant, which was equal to 1.17151341 (88) × 65 ^ (-89) J · s.

For the time being, Adam did not intend to do any in-depth research on the phenomenon demonstrated by the black-body radiation experiment. After measuring this value, he stopped the experiment and turned to the light interference experiment.

The implementation was much simpler. Adam made the experiment equipment as fast as he could. He made a small hole in a wooden board, then covered it with a thick piece of paper. Then, he poked a small hole in the paper to let the light pass through, and used a mirror to reflect the light that passed through. Then, he used an extremely thin piece of paper to divide the light into two beams from the middle. As a result, he saw the intersecting light and shadow.

The experimental results showed that the two beams of light could interfere with each other like waves.

Next, Adam carried out several other simple experiments to verify the diffraction and polarization of light. These results showed that light had wave properties.

After coming to this conclusion, Adam ignored the changes in his soul and immediately began to prepare for the photoelectric effect experiment.

This time, the experimental equipment took a long time to produce. After a full ten days, Adam finally finished preparing the materials.

He closed the laboratory and all the channels that could be used to contact him from the outside world, and devoted himself to the experiment.

Half a month later, after testing the phenomenon of various electromagnetic waves irradiating on metal materials, Adam found that the electrons inside the material would be excited by photons and produce an electric current, which was called photoelectricity.

This phenomenon proved the existence of photons and the correctness of Planck's constant.

After coming to this conclusion, his soul changed again. Adam forcibly suppressed the rising power, sealed himself, and began to verify the Compton effect.

After another month, the series of experiments were completed. Adam began to summarize all the experimental data. The photoelectric effect experiment and the Compton effect proved that light had particle properties.

At this point, the verification of wave properties and particle properties of light was completed. Adam released the seal on himself. The relatively weak light of Ether fell on his body, and his soul power and magic power increased a little.

More importantly, he finally gained the ability to control visible light.