Act 460. Ernest's Conference (Part II)
Reiner's words fell silent in the room, and everyone pondered the meaning of his words.
"Absolute Truth, Relative Truth......"
Lord Pragues meditated on these two terms, thoughtfully.
Reiner's statement seems to have found a new direction for the mages.
But before that, many strange conclusions brought by Reiner's theory of relativity still need to be discussed by the mages.
"So, you deduced these conclusions on the premise that the speed of light is constant and cannot be exceeded?"
Lord Alberton asked, pulling out a page from the paper in front of him, which contained a description and mathematical argument of the theory of the shrinkage effect and time dilation.
"When the speed of a moving object is close to the speed of light, the length of the object becomes shorter and the time slows down, which is extraordinary."
Wild. Regens touched the few mustaches on his chin and said as if admiring.
"To be precise, Lord Regens, the actual length of an object does not become shorter, but the length of a moving object to observe it becomes shorter, and the same goes for time."
Reiner explained.
"For people who exercise at high speeds, the one second they spend is a normal second for themselves, but the same somatosensory time may have passed in the outside world, and the expansion of time is reflected in the observer of high-speed movement."
Hearing Reiner's explanation, Alberton frowned slightly, and he looked to the side, Surrey. Newington looked back, and both of them thought of the vision in the ruins.
"Wait, Reiner, are you saying that if a person can move at high speed, then by the time he passes a second, a long time may have passed in the outside world, is that the reason for the inconsistent flow of time?"
Alberton thought of the time asynchrony he had experienced in the Elliot half-plane, they had only spent less than an hour in the ruins, but in the outside world, two days had passed, which had always been difficult for Alberton to explain, because in the classical magic system, time is an absolute indicator, no matter what attitude the object changes, a second is always a second, no more, no less.
But according to Reiner's theory of relativity, time is not a constant element, but a variable, and a second has a completely different meaning to different observers.
Under the explanation of the theory of relativity, Alberton felt suddenly enlightened.
For the observer who is moving at high speed, his own time has not changed, but in the eyes of the observer from the outside, his time has expanded, and one second in high-speed motion is equivalent to a few seconds in the outside world, which is the fundamental reason why the speed of time in the ruins is inconsistent with the outside world!
The inconsistency of time flow is not the first time that has been discovered in the ruins of the Elliot Halfplane, and in the past, in some ruins from the Divine Generation, there have been occasional slight differences in the flow of time, but it is not as obvious as the Elliot Halfplane.
"But, wait, does that mean that the ruins are moving at high speed?"
Newington rubbed the corners of his forehead and asked a new question.
If the Elliot halfplane itself is in high-speed motion, the time flow rate of this half-plane is consistent with the outside world, although the time dilation effect can explain the inconsistent time flow rate, but there is no way to find out why this phenomenon occurs in the ruins.
"This is impossible, that ruin should be relatively stationary with the Elliot half-plane."
Alberton shook his head.
"Perhaps there are other reasons that can also cause time dilation, Excellencies, in my argument, although these strange phenomena occur in motion close to the speed of light, we need to look through the phenomenon to see the essence, the shrinkage effect and the time dilation effect are just external manifestations, we need to find the real reason for its occurrence, that is, why does this happen when moving at high speed to close to the speed of light?"
Reiner thought of some possibilities, but he hadn't had time to study them yet, so he said.
"These two effects are my conclusions through logical thinking and mathematical calculations based on the premise that the speed of light is constant and cannot be surpassed, but I think there are deeper reasons for the nature of these two effects."
His words caused His Excellency Braggs to raise an eyebrow slightly.
For the vast majority of mages, it is extremely difficult to make bold assumptions about the constant speed of light and deduce the shrinkage and time dilation effects from it, which requires a lot of imagination and a solid foundation of magical knowledge, and more importantly, an eclectic and unconventional boldness.
None of the mages here have studied magic for more than decades, and are the founders of many factions, but none of them dare to make the assumption that the speed of light does not change, and from this assumption, subvert all magic systems and deduce the theory of relativity.
It can be said that it is precisely because they have studied magic for too long and too much trust in the magic system that has been established and proven over the years that they have fallen into the prison of thinking.
However, Reiner, after getting the results of this subversive cognition, did not settle for the present, but chose to continue to explore, which made Praggs feel a little emotional.
"It is true that these effects are only phenomena, and the theory of relativity reveals why these effects occur in high-speed motion close to the speed of light, but the nature of these phenomena is still a mystery, and even, I think, there may be other factors that could cause similar phenomena to occur, and that is the truth in the semi-dimensional remains of Elliot."
Lord Braggs thus spoke.
Reiner was also surprised by the open-mindedness of this legendary mage who created modern magic, for ordinary people, it would take a lot of time and energy just to understand these two unbelievable phenomena, let alone think that there would be other factors behind this, but he didn't expect His Excellency Praggs to have a premonition.
"There are also some questions, such as why the speed of light is this number, what is the significance of this, we are now proving that the speed of light cannot be surpassed based on current observations, so whether there is a mathematically complete proof, whether this property is related to wave-particle duality, and what new theories can we deduce from it."
Lumia. Ms. Calvados added that many of her questions also hit the ground running, and for a moment, mages who thought they knew a lot about light were also a little confused.
They thought they had seen through the essence of light, but they didn't realize that they hadn't seen through anything at all!
Light, something that people are all too familiar with, is still a fog!