Chapter 14: Science Is Secretly Advancing (2)

A year later, the results of the experiment came out, and as the basic inverse school deduced, the pendulum in the southern mountains oscillated many days less than the pendulum clock of equal length and conditions in the hollows of the northern canyons, and the average number of swings per day was 70 times less.

It's not a perfect experiment because there are two variables instead of a single variable. Geocentric distance and rotational centrifugal force.

There were criticisms, but to everyone's amazement, it was a harmless mistake that was clearly an unforgivable mistake of the experiment - in fact, the experiment could not prove that all the conclusions they wanted existed, only that the conclusions they wanted to get existed, but it was not clear which or all of them existed.

But even this experiment, which made a major mistake, confirmed the correctness of the basic theories mentioned by Chen Jian: even if the errors of the two variables of the experiment were singled out, it was undeniable that the basis of these two variables was the system proposed by Chen Jian. Either it's the relationship between distance and gravity; Either it is a matter of the balance between the centrifugal force and the reaction force. It's just a mistake within the system, not a loophole that is enough to overturn the logic of the system.

This three-year controversy and experiment not only brought a sensation, brought a lot of citizens to watch the excitement, brought a secret gamble, brought more accurate gravitational acceleration values, but also brought a revolution in timing devices.

Since the pendulum has isochronism, since the pendulum swing period has a formula, and since the cycle time of the pendulum is an unchangeable mathematical time, the clocks based on the single pendulum as the new timekeeping device have also become the research direction of various watchmakers and craftsmen, and more craftsmen have come to Mincheng with new ideas to devote themselves to the "precision clock manufacturing plan" that is said to have succeeded with 50,000 silver coins plus oil workshop stocks.

Chen Jian believes that this incident is one of the two most important things in the scientific circle in the past few years when he went to sea.

It's not a pendulum period formula that he can copy, or a very close gravitational acceleration value, or a pendulum clock, or something like that.

Rather, it is a confrontation between logical deduction and traditional observational experience, a declaration that physics has moved from the observational stage to the inferential stage, an imperfect but confident empirical falsification has been attempted, and mathematics has been recognized as an indispensable tool in other disciplines...... And a big reminder to those who study arithmetic: if you don't summarize something like differential calculus, you will not be able to keep up with the needs of the times.

The important thing is not the copied formula, but a way of thinking that can move forward on its own, and this sensational experiment convinced Chen Jian that he was correct when he started with the quality of philosophical definitions instead of directly copying formulas and pretending to be a magic stick, and he had already begun to give him feedback.

As for the second extremely important thing in his opinion, it may be more important and complicated than this one, but for the time being, the sensation is far less than that of a single incident.

Just like the story he had heard the other day, the ignorant are fearless, and those who have just learned a little bit are often blindly confident, and the more they know, the more they will realize the grandeur of nature......

The students thought the story of the five loaves was ridiculous because they had just learned the chemistry of indoctrination that still belonged to philosophy and worldview, so they thought they were not far from the so-called gods.

Those who are truly devoted to these disciplines know that even if Jian Chen's system and worldview are correct, the matter of the five loaves is simply a deep chasm between fantasy and impassable - these systems herald the end of the age of alchemy, the advent of the age of synthesis and decomposition, but they do not explain the boundary between life and death.

As for the worldview of the immortality of matter, some people kept trying to do some experiments to try to overthrow it, but they were quickly refuted by Chen Jian's supporters, who now belong to the school valve, monopolize the right to speak on many things, and have a lot of financial support, and also promote his own enlightenment chemistry textbook in the school controlled by Minjun, so there are naturally many supporters.

There are three kinds of naysayers.

An opponent has no evidence and directly sprays Chen Jian's statement is pure nonsense, which is completely contrary to traditional cognition, how can matter not be destroyed? How is it possible for the soul not to determine matter?

After several rebuttals, the other part of the opponents finally realized that if they wanted to kill Chen Jian's system at the root, they could only find loopholes in Chen Jian's system. They are in line with Jian Chen's pursuit of one thing: a more precise scale. As long as the precise balance appears in the last experiment, Chen Jian can be defeated with Chen Jian's logical system, thus completely overturning the law of the immortality of matter.

There are also some opponents who want to revise Chen Jian's theory to ensure that their dualistic worldview of soul and matter supports Chen Jian's theory to some extent, but corrects it internally, so as to prove that matter does not make up the whole world alone, and that there is an insurmountable and inscrutable gap between life and non-life, and this gap is something related to soul or living beings that has not yet been seen at this time.

The three opponents objected in different ways, the first naturally ignored, the second was far away, and the third had a great impact after Chen Jian left.

The experimenters supported some of Jian's theories, and based on the theory proposed by Jian, they conducted an experiment to find the loopholes in Jian's theory.

Jian Chen gave the glory of the effect of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium on plant growth to Mr. Mu, the guide of his own hybrid learning valve, and the perfect comparative test proved that this result was correct.

As a result, the senior brother of the Department of Chemistry has died on the hydrogen fluoride produced by trying to make phosphate fertilizer from concentrated sulfuric acid and apatite.

According to Chen Jian's theory of the immortality of matter, since plants need nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, mature plants must contain nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. It's not a problem either, plant ash originally contains potassium carbonate, which is something that has been played with for hundreds of years. The remaining two opponents were unable to find evidence that it did not exist, and the proponents sprayed back with the fact that the ash contained potassium in the plant ash, so they could not open a breakthrough in it.

However, some people have raised the question: if matter is immortal and conserved, the world is really just a recombination of particles as Chen Jian said. Then the plant can produce carbonic acid and water after incineration.

Then removing the presence of oxygen in the air can prove that there must be carbon and hydrogen in the plant, and it is not clear whether there is oxygen or not.

Hydrogen is a good explanation, plants need to be watered to grow, and plants can't live without watering, so the problem of hydrogen can be solved with or without oxygen.

But what about carbon? Where does carbon come from?

Fertilization of plants, no charcoal is required. Originally, it was thought that plant ash contained plant creatures and could promote the growth of plants, but according to Chen Jian, potassium chloride or potassium carbonate had the same effect. Therefore, the presence of carbon in the plant ash is eliminated.

The questioner then heated and burned the sand in which the plants were planted to make sure that there was no carbon in the sand and that the clarified lime water did not become turbid after heating. The plants are then cultured with a certain amount of carbon-free grit and a prepared fertilizer, which ensures that the plants do not get carbon from their roots.

Opponents of the first two factions became excited, believing that the incident had turned the tide completely. Jian Chen's system is obviously wrong, if it is really the immortal recombination of matter and the indivisible cannot be converted, then where does the carbon in plants come from? If plants can conjure carbon, isn't alchemy impossible? It's just that everyone didn't find a way?

However, the faction that wanted to make corrections took the initiative to help Chen Jian find the loophole in this experiment, believing that this experiment did not take into account the existence of carbon dioxide in the air.

Their faction probably understands that Jian Chen's system is only afraid that the inside is round, and there is basically no way to refute it logically. Rather than wasting time on direct overthrow, it is better to go deep into the interior and make corrections, they can admit that matter is immortal and conserved, but they can find the gap between life and death, so as to complete the concept of the existence of a mysterious plant such as a living being or a personality soul under the premise of material immortality.

Not a disintegration, just a correction.

The third opposition not only devised an experiment in which plants could obtain carbon dioxide from the air, but also verified one thing: plants absorb carbon dioxide during the day to release oxygen, and at night absorb oxygen to expel carbonic acid.

The theory of plant respiration was proposed within Jian Chen's microparticle system, and his vivid and irrefutable experiments made this man a high reputation.

After gaining fame, he immediately began to revise Jian Chen's system.

He not only regarded himself as a supporter of Chen Jian, but also respected Chen Jian as his husband, but took advantage of Chen Jian's inability to answer at sea and wrote a sprinkling article, wanting to correct the system that Chen Jian had made in his worldview.

According to the system of the immortality of matter, whether there was life at the beginning of heaven and earth is meaningless, it is okay to have it or not, and the so-called life is just some kind of aggregation of particles. It may or may not happen, it may or may not happen, it may be inevitable or accidental.

In this case, all theories of heaven and earth, personality, soul, life, and the gap between life and death have lost their dominance in terms of world outlook.

This is unacceptable to many people, and it is absolutely unacceptable.

However, if matter is immortal, but life has been born from the beginning of heaven and earth, there is an insurmountable gap between the living and the indifferent, whether it is personality, soul, the spirit of all things, etc., it can become non-contradictory to Chen Jian's system.

It is true that matter is immortal, but there is an insurmountable gap between living things and dead things, and the immortality of matter is predestined, and life belongs to matter but is different from matter, so matter is not the first nature for man.

The things of the living are higher than the inanimate, and the things of the living can be divided into everything according to the theory of the immortality of matter, or the inanimate things can be turned into living things, but this process is irreversible. The reason why it is irreversible is that there is something mysterious that exists at the beginning of the world, and that is closely related to the soul of life and so on.

Basically, at this time, the opponents who had scolded this person before understood this person's good intentions, and suddenly felt that they could support each other to fight against Chen Jian's system, and admitted that Chen Jian's system "may have some truth, but it is obviously imperfect", and stood up for that person with great fanfare.

At the very least, it's a, or just a chemical or botanical thing.

But in reality, this is a battle of worldviews, and the chemical basis of matter firstness and materialist atheism: the creation battle between matter and personality heaven. The battle for the worldview of whether the personality is alive or not.

After some momentum, the man used Chen Jian's book "Induction, Summary and Logical Deduction" to slap Chen Jian's face - there is no experiment that can transcend living things and inanimate things, so his statement may not be right and not necessarily wrong, but it is definitely wrong to say that he is wrong. Aren't you talking about logic? If you talk about logic, you can't say that I'm not right, unless you really create. If you don't follow logic, then all your systems will collapse wrongly.

At the time of this correction and momentum, Jian Chen was floating on the sea, so this big mouth sobbed, but no one could refute it, causing a huge confusion of thoughts. What is corrected is the most difficult to refute, and it seems milder and more harmless than its direct opposition, and it is easier to demagogue more people, after all, the theory still admits the immortality of matter.