Chapter 573 Interference

Summer is coming to an end.

The constellation of Fire at night began to drift towards the western sky, the heat began to recede from the entire kingdom, the winds in the morning and evening became cool and pleasant, and after a few plentiful rains, the breath of autumn became a day’s work. It's getting closer than a day.

The mysterious and complex magic runes are floating in the air like stars, and the crystal device used to display the structure of the runes is fixed on the base made of alloy. , Carmel floated quietly among those illusory magic runes, and the arcane brilliance of his eyes was as bright as ever.

This is the largest analysis room of the Rune Research Institute. Today's task is to analyze the technical data brought by the elves.

Several senior rune masters from the Rune Research Institute were transcribing the rune structure of several key nodes, while a tall, thin, splendid blond male elf stood beside Carmel, the elf's gaze Occasionally fell on Kamel—apparently, a powerful arcane creature caught the elven magister's attention.

Carmel did not pay attention to the gaze of the wizard wizard. He focused almost all of his energy on the runes that had just been translated and parsed. After carefully observing its core structure, he couldn't help but say: "Master Banner ——The core mechanism of this purification array is some kind of... tune and resonance?"

"You're right, Master Carmel," the elf magister known as Banner nodded, "through a long-term study of Chaos Magic, we found that it is still a kind of magic in essence, and It is not the 'extremely polluting waste energy' that was previously considered, since it is magic, it is possible to order it by re-adjusting the rate and resonance, which is the idea of ​​'purification'."

Carmel's eyes fell on the rune phantoms, and his tone gradually became a little excited: "That is to say, you are treating magic as a kind of 'wave' - and it was successful?! "

"'Bo'..." The wizard wizard was stunned for a moment and looked at Kamel unexpectedly, "You also introduced this concept?!"

"...we only introduced the concept not long ago, and we haven't been able to prove it yet, it's just a guess," Camel hummed, "we applied magic in the process of parsing and reconstructing the messenger spell. Its volatility properties have been confirmed mathematically and practically, but we still lack the key piece of evidence — observable evidence.”

"We introduced this concept forty years ago, the great astrologist Verania proposed the hypothesis that magic is a wave, and derived the theoretical wavelength of pure arcane magic through several spell models of arcane magic. Scope, her theory is the basis of the Purification Array - but unfortunately, we have not been able to obtain observable evidence either..."

Carmel turned abruptly,

Looking at the wizard wizard in front of him with burning eyes: "What are you encountering interference?"

"You also met?!" The elf magister named Banner was not without surprise. At this moment, his attention was completely lost on the arcane body of Carmel - the elf from the Silver Empire from Unexpectedly, in the faraway continent, in the country of foreign races, in the human society that is in complete decline, the human magicians are also studying the essence of magic power, let alone that the research of human beings has been so in-depth, even Also encountered the bottleneck encountered by the elves!

"Interference is everywhere, and the whole world is shrouded in a powerful magical environment, so that it is impossible to observe it at all," Carmel was also surprised that the elves were carrying out the same research as humans, which is like a lonely traveler in the desert Suddenly I met a traveling companion with the same goal, and his "heart" that had long since stopped beating seemed to be throbbing again, "What kind of experiment did you design?"

The elf magister quickly calmed down after a short period of consternation, and he did not hide the problem: "Master Verania has designed an interference experiment - we have prepared a pure arcane energy source to ensure that it has only a very small amount of 'impurity' ', and then focus the arcane energy into a beam and hit a lattice, the lattice is made of obliterated crystal flakes, and there are two narrow slits that are very close to each other in advance. Theoretically, pure arcane energy is passed through the suppression The magic crystal flakes will then show volatility: the magic waves passing through the two narrow slits should interfere with each other and form interference fringes on the projection plate coated with developing dust..."

"But there's just white noise, isn't it?" Carmel followed up. "Any pattern projected on the viewing interface is covered by a more intense natural magic field, like observing a faint beam of light in bright light. It's unrealistic like a shimmer, in fact, the weak pure arcane energy may not even reach the projection board at all, and it was neutralized by the magic field in the environment halfway..."

Banner sighed regretfully: "As you said, the experiment failed. It seems that you also..."

"We also designed a similar experiment, and the idea of ​​the experiment was proposed by Duke Cecil," Carmel said in a low voice. "We also failed to observe interference fringes, but mathematics told me that it should exist."

The wizard wizard was a little surprised: "Gawain Duke Cecil is so accomplished in the field of magic?"

"The Duke is very knowledgeable, and he has been exposed to extraordinary knowledge and wisdom in the state of being separated from the body for seven hundred years," Carmel said convincingly, "It's just... He can't solve the problem of the magic interference of the natural environment. Speaking of which, Have you tried banning the magic field?"

"The highest-level forbidden magic field only suppresses the magic reaction to a certain extent, and at the same time interferes with the mental power of the caster to block the casting process. The magic itself cannot be suppressed," the wizard wizard shook with a wry smile. Shaking his head, "We have also tried to create a 'dark room' with expensive oppression crystals to block the magic in nature, but due to technological limitations, we can't guarantee complete isolation of the entire dark room, and as long as there is a little leak... Distractions appear like the devil."

Carmel can imagine how much effort the elves put in to create such a "dark room".

Due to the pervasiveness of natural magic, the observation experiment of magic interference must ensure that the observer is also in a dark room environment, and a dark room that can accommodate the observer, even if the space is cramped, is a huge "box". Secondly, to process such a huge crystal and make sure it doesn't have any "leak points"...obviously exceeds the craftsmanship of the elf.

Even elves can't do it, and I'm afraid humans can't do it.

"Our next goal is to turn to the goblins of the Ogre Tribe for help. The goblins are small and can get into a very small dark room. It is possible to process a smaller dark room," Banner said with a sigh. "But it's hard to say if we'll be able to find goblins willing to help, after all...they don't really like being locked up."

...

Gawain sat behind the desk and listened to Carmel's report quietly.

"...Lord, to sum up the above, the elves have encountered the same problem as us - the interference of magic in the natural environment."

"It's a devilish distraction..."

Gao Wen sighed softly, his mind fluctuating.

What is the nature of magic?

This question began to haunt him shortly after he unveiled the coffin. The ubiquitous natural force, the seemingly endless huge energy source, not only brought convenience, but also made Gawain deeply suspicious. Want to understand the nature and source of magic, and until now, he and his research team have achieved little.

They can only be sure now that the source of magic is inseparable from the "sun" in the sky, and its essence... "maybe" is some kind of wave.

Yes, although there have been some application examples, such as magic net communication technology, and some calculation conclusions, but for this kind of real "thing", as long as there is no observable phenomenon, it will not be completely in one day. Determine its definition, at this stage, Gawain and Carmel can only say - magic, "maybe" is some kind of wave.

This is an unfortunate situation.

It is there, its nature, its possible nature, has been revealed, but the most critical observation has become the biggest obstacle to the researcher, the magic of nature is everywhere - which brings about the rapidity of magic technology The development has also brought great difficulties in some research projects.

The classic experiment that Gawain can think of to verify the volatility is the double-slit interference experiment. He knows how the double-slit interference on the earth is realized - but in this world, this classic experiment is difficult to verify, because in the natural environment The magic of , covers all observed phenomena.

The strength of magic in nature is far stronger than the two arcane streams that passed through the slit during the experiment. It formed a piece of white noise on the reflector, and the pure one-way arcane stream that should have interfered was completely erased. There are traces of existence, and for the same reason, the experiment to observe the magic version of the "Poisson Bright Spot" was also unsuccessful.

The idea of ​​the elves may be the best solution - build a dark room and find a way to block the magic interference of nature.

However this is not easy.

On Earth, if you want to avoid the strong light of nature from affecting the observation of interference fringes, you only need to use shading materials to block them. However, in this world, natural substances that can block magic power are extremely rare and difficult to process. Expensive anti-magic crystals are The most suitable material that can be found, it can effectively block the magic power, the baffle in the double slit interference experiment is made of it, but the oppression crystal must be processed into a dark room...even in the Gondor period, it was also Difficult to do easily.

"Actually, I have another solution," said Carmel, "using a more powerful arcane source, so that the energy passing through the double slit exceeds the magical base value of nature, so that interference fringes may be observed outside the dark room. ——Or even if you can’t observe it, you can observe two burning marks. At least we can verify whether the magic power is a wave. According to my calculations, the existing rainbow cannon completely meets this condition.”

"I've also thought about this plan, but the premise of this plan is that we have to find a material that is more stable and tougher than the Obliteration Crystal," Gawain frowned, "Although the Obliteration Crystal can block the magic power, it can endure after all. The limit, the rainbow cannon thing...would burn any baffles."

Carmel fell silent.

Gawain asked after a brief thought, "Is the elf astrologist who proposed the concept of magic power fluctuations called Verania?"

"Yes."

"Only forty years... As an elf, she should still be working for the elf royal court today."

"Yes, according to Banner White Feather, the astronomer Verania is still working for the Elf Royal Court, and is continuing to conduct research on the magic wave theory, and she is also one of the developers of the 'Purification Array'. "

"The elves are walking ahead of us... It would be great if we could reach a deeper cooperation with them," Gawain sighed softly, "Kamel, do you think... use the remaining magic power of the magnificent wall to connect, and then With our magic net communication terminal and a set of translation devices, can we establish long-distance communication with the Silver Empire?"

"It's a challenging idea, but I can give it a shot."

Gawain nodded: "Then go try it."