Chapter 112: Uproar and Slander
"Today's events will surely go down in history, and the second and third sons will also be able to shine for a thousand years!"
Seeing that Jimen was surrounded by bystanders who heard the news, including the nobles of the son, the children of the two families, the rangers of Lilu, the wanderer and the trader, and the farmer of the Qi country who stopped and looked at the distance with farm tools. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Mingyue smiled, and after putting down this sentence, she signaled that everyone in the Mo family could start the experiment.
Unlike the Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment, he and the Mohists did not need to overturn the Aristotelian theory that was enshrined as the truth, they only needed to challenge the common sense of the people's self-righteousness. In order to minimize the accident, Mingyue specially used a hollow copper ball and a solid copper ball, both of which are the same size, but one heavy and one light, so as to minimize the impact of air resistance on the test.
With the shouts of the countdown, the experiment began, and countless pairs of eyes looked at the Mo family disciples holding two balls above the Jimen, some were full of curiosity, and some were malicious.
Teng Geng also took a group of disciples to hide in the crowd, and they came to visit this farce named "free fall experiment" by Chang Anjun, of course, not because they were interested in the theories of Chang Anjun and the Mo family, but because they came to see them make a fool of themselves.
"How can a heavy object and a light object land at the same time?" This is unreasonable in the common sense of Confucianism, and it is self-evident, why do you have to make a special trip to verify it?
However, when the two copper balls really fell to the ground at the same time, in no particular order, Qunru's sour face immediately turned into shock and disbelief.
The people of Linzi who were watching under the Jimen Gate with them also rubbed their eyes and confirmed to the people next to them that what they had just seen was real? Many people shouted that they didn't see it clearly just now and asked to do it again.
So the disciples of the Mo family who were in charge of the experiment on the city tower had to put it again, this time everyone stared at the two copper balls without blinking, but saw that they fell side by side at the same speed visible to the naked eye, and at the same time fell into the puddle on the ground, splashing a splash, this time everyone saw clearly, and also caused an uproar.
Seeing is believing, hearing is false, the facts are in front of them, they can't be allowed not to believe it, someone has been selected to weigh it by hand, it is indeed one light and one heavy, one hollow and one solid two copper balls, and now, Chang Anjun and the Mo family have once again made the impossible possible, breaking through people's common sense......
Mingyue is not interested in explaining the principle to the general public, it is not good to say, ninety percent of the people present are illiterate, and it is purely in vain to tell them about the concept of free fall, besides, the general public is only interested in interesting results, only a few people will think about the reason, although the hundred schools of thought in the Warring States Period were prosperous, but the knowledge is still concentrated in the hands of a few "scholars".
Therefore, he was only willing to discuss with the small group of the Mo family.
"Ignoring the slight gas resistance in the air, the falling speed of an object is not related to its weight, but only to the falling time, which is the law of free fall."
At that moment, someone said timidly: "Although we have confirmed this, Zi Mozi said that if it is heavy, it will be collected by the upper Buddha, and the next Buddha will be collected, and the side Buddha will go straight down." Zimozi only said that the object fell vertically downward, and did not mention more. ā
They are deeply influenced by Mozi and are more receptive to new things than ordinary people, especially after this new thing is connected to the Book of Ink.
But once a result is not recorded in the Book of Ink, they will fall into deep self-doubt.
Fortunately, Mingyue has already prepared a speech: "The law of truth in the world is not a law proposed by Zi Mozi, but a law of nature, ordinary people close their eyes and listen to it and turn a blind eye, but Zi Mozi noticed it and wrote it on the Book of Ink." The mission of our post-graduate students is to inherit the cause of Zi Mozi, not only to verify the laws that have been discovered by Zi Mozi, but also to write down other laws that Zi Mozi did not have time to write, and we must also write them one by one, the previous three laws are like this, and the same is true of today's free fall law! Only when generations of ink writers learn from generation to generation, can people have an end to life, and there is no end to knowledge! Some of the boy's crude opinions, I don't know what you think? ā
"Chang'anjun is reasonable!"
After finishing the words, everyone in the Mo family was reassured, he did find the weakness of the Mo family, as long as everything is brought out of Mozi, as long as it does not violate the core concept in the "Book of Ink", they can accept it.
Not to mention, today's Jimen experiment has made the ink scholars know the taste of the marrow, and their Mo family has not received so much attention for a long time.
"Perhaps, as Chang'anjun said, it is more conducive to the revival of the Mo family to focus on the study of Gewu and carry forward the legacy of Mozi?" Chen Qiu, the leader of the Qi State Mo, fell into thought......
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The people didn't care about the discussion on Jimen, they just thought it was new, and the later people were still clamoring to do it again. In the end, the experiment was repeated five or six times, and the night was approaching, and the people dispersed contentedly. They talked a lot as if they had watched an interesting trick, and felt that today was not in vain, and they could brag about it with their wives and concubines and neighbors when they returned.
After the matter came to an end, and after struggling to persuade the Mozi to start exploring the areas that Mozi had not yet had time to cover, and continuing to search for more laws of nature, Mingyue returned to the Proton Mansion, only to find that her cuffs and plackets had been soaked with sweat.
For today's events, these days, he racked his brains to retell the poor physics knowledge in middle school through recalls, and selected a few carefully proposed that could be accepted by the world......
In this process, he took a huge risk, and although those later concepts were packaged in the cloak of "Mozi's Studies", it was still quite difficult for people to understand them.
Fortunately, in this era, the hundreds of schools of thought still believed in positivism, and the results of the experiment slapped many people in the face, and the people's reaction was also very good, which not only allowed him to raise Chang'anjun's reputation to a higher level, but also led the Jixia Mo family onto a broad road by the way.
No matter what happens in the future, at least Mozi's classic discoveries in physics will not be forgotten because they are ignored by later studies.
Before Mingyue could be happy, he received a handwritten letter that Xunzi asked his disciple Li Si to hand over.
Today, Xun Saijiu also visited the Jimen test, but he didn't say a word afterwards, Mingyue was very curious, how would this most materialistic university scholar among the pre-Qin princes evaluate him?
However, when I opened the hand, I found that there were only two sentences on it.
"Straight wood is cut first, Ganjing is exhausted first......"
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As an opponent of Chang'anjun and the Mo family, Lao Ruteng did not finish the whole process, and after the result was already doomed, he retreated with the disciples who were ready to cheer.
But this does not mean that he swallowed his anger, again and again, since the hunting in Yingqiu Mountain, Teng Geng was repeatedly mocked by Chang'an Jun, he felt that he had been greatly insulted, and he was unwilling, and the next morning, as the crown prince, he entered the palace of the king of Qi and asked to see the king of Qi.
King Qi's illness was getting worse and worse, and Teng stood at the palace gate for a while with gray hair, and only after the confessor did he summon him in.
Every time these Qilu Confucians are summoned, it is the time when Hou Sheng is the most impatient, because this group of people attaches great importance to etiquette, such as Teng Geng, who does not take a good fast road, and has to slowly tidy up his clothes: stand, he does not stand in the middle of the door; walked, did not step on the threshold, appeared cautious, and walked extremely slowly. Then, we have to learn the appearance of Confucius when he saw the king, three steps and one bow, nine steps and one bow, bowing like this, a cautious and respectful look, as if there is no place for him here.
When he arrived at the palace, he saw the king of Qi from a distance, Teng Geng was even more respectful and cautious, his face immediately became solemn, his steps also accelerated, he finished the steps, quickly walked a few steps forward, bowed his head, and bowed down like a bird spreading its wings.
Looking at King Qi, who had a sallow face and had to rely on the queen's support to come out to meet people, even his eyes were just right red, and he looked sad for the king, so he just grabbed the ground with his head and howled and cried.
But after listening to him concerned about the condition of Qi Wang Tian Fazhang, he said worriedly: "The good doctor has been diagnosed for a long time, but the king has not recovered from his illness for a long time, and the old minister has never understood why? He beat his chest and sighed, "Let the prince of benevolence suffer this pain, and he who is in the heavens, how can he be extreme?" ā
King Qi seemed to have given up resistance, and said weakly: "Death and life have life, and blessing is in the sky." ā
He also said: "The widow is not virtuous, and he has failed to revive the Qi country, so that he has been punished by his ancestors, and there is nothing to pray for!" ā
Teng Geng took the opportunity to speak: "In the eyes of the old minister, it is not that the heavens do not hang, but because the state is demonic, which causes the heavens to be dissatisfied, and the king is to blame for it!" ā
Qi Wangtian Fazhang sank his face: "What does the old lady mean by this?" Who is the so-called monster in the country? ā
Teng Geng was overjoyed and said loudly: "Naturally, it is Chang'an Jun, the proton of Zhao Kingdom!" ā