Chapter Ninety-Seven: Levsky's Persistence and Expectations (Second Monthly)
Seeing this topic, Eric sighed deeply: "It's useless, Levsky, it's useless, you're drilling the horns of the argument, no committee has accepted such a whimsical thing, it's completely different from what we see in the real world, it's completely contrary to the foundations of geometry, and it's undoubtedly wrong." We've been friends for so many years, and I advise you not to waste any more time on this. ”
Due to the need for magic to construct graphics and recognize the materialization of the world, the study of mathematics has been throughout the history of magical exploration, among which the currently recognized basis of geometry is the five axioms and five axioms proposed by the legendary magician Mentes in the "Theory of Geometry" of the ancient magic empire, which is called Men's geometry, because he is the founder of the tower organization, which is also called tower geometry.
The fifth of these, the equivalence proposition, is "One point outside the straight line, there is only one and only one straight line parallel to the known straight line. It's too cumbersome, it's not like a public assumption, but like a theorem that needs to be proven, which has attracted the interest of many magicians, especially after the establishment of the Magic Council, the results in mathematics and physics have been remarkable, and more and more magicians have joined the ranks, constantly trying various methods to prove this public assumption, but they have all failed and cannot give a convincing logical derivation.
In Eric's eyes, Levsky is one of them, he first assumes that "a little beyond the straight line, at least two straight lines can be drawn parallel to the known straight line", and then proves the error of this assumption, so as to prove the correctness of the fifth axiom of tower geometry, but the result is unexpected, with such a hypothesis combined with the five axioms and four axioms of gate geometry, it is actually a logically problematic but inexplicable, absurd, and contrary to "reality" geometric system. Received unanimous indifference from the tower's arcanists.
After Levsky submitted his paper unhindered, he was violently attacked and bitterly ridiculed, and undoubtedly failed the review.
"Erik, have you read my paper carefully?Have you carefully read the process of argumentation?Is there any error in its premise, its logical derivation??," Levsky trembled with emotion, and the years of blows did not give him a succumbing, no matter how much ridicule he received, no matter how much sarcasm he had, no matter how poor his life was, and how much magic research came to a halt. The stagnation of strength. Nor did he give up his theories.
Eric raised his hand and pressed down: "Yes, there is nothing wrong with the application of the counter-evidence method and the logical deduction, but, Levsky. Open your eyes. Look at our world. Look at this table, this room, this magic structure. They're different from what you imagined to be! They are real, you say, which one should we believe? Didn't you spend a lot of money to print a lot of copies and spread them to other Arcanists?
"Nope. Levsky bowed his head in a dejected manner, he had thought that the members of the review committee and the tower arcanists were too rigid and conservative to "kill" his thesis, so he intended to pay tribute to the young magicians who had not yet accepted too many inherent theories, and the authority in the field of mathematics and science, Speaker Douglas, Lord Hathaway, His Excellency Paris and others spread their own geometric system, but they were still mercilessly ridiculed and attacked by the young arcanists, what a joke, your propositions are simply against conventional cognition, you try to make two parallel lines a little outside the line!
Several authorities in the field of mathematics and physics have also remained silent.
"But I've perfected it. Levsky then emphasized, his tone a little weaker than the firmness just now, but quickly disappeared, "This time it should be passable, Eric, please." ”
Eric sighed sympathetically and headaches: "But, Levsky, you have submitted it several times in the past ten years, and each time you can't pass the review, and the committee has a rule that the paper cannot be submitted repeatedly, so as not to waste the time of the committee members, look at you, you are already in your forties, and you are still a low-level magician, have you spent time studying arcane and improving your magic strength, you can't go on like this......"
"This is the best argument and explanation, Erik, please, submit the paper to Commissioner Evans, and I'll be concentrating on magic for the next few years. Levsky looked pleading, hopeful.
Eric's unsmiling face twitched: "Levsky, Commissioner Evans only reviews subversive papers, the kind of papers that will shake the magician's cognition of the world and make his head explode, and yours is only a purely mathematical paper, even if it goes against common sense, it has nothing to do with the cognitive world, and it will not have serious consequences, so logically speaking, it cannot be submitted to Commissioner Evans." ”
The cognitive world is based on the magician's in-depth understanding of the real world and the results of exploration, and mathematics is only a tool, which does not affect the stability of the cognitive world.
Before Levsky continued to insist, Eric sighed again: "In this way, I will note the words subversive and mathematical physics on the surface of your paper, so that in addition to sending it to the two authoritative members of the mathematical and physical committee for review, I will also send a copy to Commissioner Evans." ”
He understood that the committee members in charge of the review had not changed much in recent years, and they had long hated Levsky's paper, and that if it weren't for the fact that the Evans Committee, which had just joined the committee, had reviewed the subversive paper, Levsky might not have been so determined to submit it.
A silver lining is at least hope!
"Thank you, Eric......" Levsky didn't know what to say.
Eric waved his hand: "You go back and wait for the results of the review, I hope your life can get back on track as soon as possible." ”
Levsky nodded solemnly, apprehensive and full of anticipation, would Commissioner Evans be able to view his paper fairly?
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The fifteenth floor of the Magic Tower, inside a spacious and bright room.
From time to time, the two sides of the magic array that shone with milky white light stretched out their arms and sent the papers out one by one.
"Mathematics and Physics, Subversive, Mr. Niesica, Ms. Mirina, Mr. Evans. The metallic voice paused for a moment before making a choice.
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In the world of cognition, the starlight is falling. Running the elements and surrounded by electrons, Lucien spread his spiritual power out of the arc, fused with starlight, elements, ice and snow from a wave-theory standpoint, and then carefully vibrated to gradually add the nature of "spirit particles" to the instantaneous nature of time.
Such a change, Lucien is very cautious, extremely small, worried that his spiritual power will get out of control because of this, and lead to the shock and destruction of the entire world of understanding.
I don't know how long it has been. Lucien had just finished his early morning meditation. Leave your bedroom, have breakfast, and take a walkout to the Magic Tower, the headquarters of the Parliament.
"Hi Lazar. Why are you smiling from ear to ear today?" Lucien saw Lazar, who usually never arrived early, pacing back and forth in the office alone. The mouth is open and there is a bright but goofy smile.
"Ahh Lazar was startled, and then said triumphantly: "I can fly!"
As he spoke. One side flew up and almost hit the light blue ceiling.
"Tsk, I've been promoted to the middle level, so I have to invite us to celebrate. Lucien finally understood what Lazar was so excited about, and joked with a smile.
Lazar staggered down and said happily, "There will definitely be a celebratory banquet!"
Then he brought a hint of gratitude: "Thank you, Lucian, following you to the most cutting-edge research in the elemental field in the past few months, which has made my understanding of elemental magic more profound, especially the discovery of electrons has made my cognitive world more stable, so that I can be promoted in advance when my mathematical ability has not improved too much." ”
"Why don't we explore the nature of the world?" Lucien joked, and then said in a slightly solemn tone, "But you can't ignore the improvement in mathematics and physics, the further back we go, the more we rely on mathematics as a tool." ”
Lazar nodded vigorously: "Don't worry, I know very well where my problem is, speaking of which, after joining the Atomic Research Institute, everyone's arcane level and magic strength have increased rapidly, Annick, Splinter, Katrina They also told me that they already have the ability to be promoted to a formal magician, and they only need a period of mental power accumulation and the assistance of potions." ”
During the time Lucien was away, Lazar and the others continued their experiments on cathode rays and the properties of cryogenic materials according to the pre-arrangement, but they no longer had such a compact content, and they could free up time to do some research on their own.
"I'm happy to see them grow. Lucien was satisfied.
After chatting for a while, Lazar suddenly said, "Lucian, what do you think of His Excellency Speaker's recent experiments?"
Sure enough, it was a hot topic recently, related to the eternal wave-particle controversy, Lucien sneered, and said simply: "If His Excellency's other theories are true, then the 'ether medium theory' can be discarded." Although there will still be many people who come up with various theories to make up for this doctrine.
"It's a sharp subversive, Lucien Evans who likes to blow other people's heads. Lazar joked, saying what many of the Arcanists thought of Lucian.
"Maybe I'll have a title in the future...... Well, Lazar, I'll go around the commissioner's office first, and then I'll study with the teacher, and I'll be back later to help you celebrate your promotion to the middle rank. "Lucien saw that the time was not early, Roque, Heidi and others had arrived, and his conscience found out, and decided to go to the Arcane Review Office for a walk, although if there is a paper, the Iron Golem will be delivered to his home in the evening, but since he has come to the headquarters, he should take a look by the way, so as not to leave the office empty forever.
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As soon as he stepped into his luxurious office on the fifteenth floor, Lucien saw the steel golem greet him, and said in a metallic voice, "Master, a paper has just been delivered." ”
"Got a paper?" Lucien asked curiously, in fact, he didn't expect that there would be a paper, because what needed to be reviewed was subversive content, how could there be so many in the Arcane World, "Take a look." ”
Taking over the paper in the hands of the Iron Golem, Lucien saw the words subversive and mathematical, and had a faint direction in his heart, and there were not many research results that could be called subversive in mathematics and physics and met the current level of knowledge.
"Rigorous Proof of the Principles of Geometry and the Theorem of Parallel Lines" ......"
Flipping through the pages at random, and finding that it was mentioned in the abstract as a complete version, Lucien frowned slightly and instructed the Iron Golem: "Go to the Arcane Library to exchange a similar paper that has been submitted before, uh, along with the evaluation opinions of the review committee." (To be continued......)
PS: My head is a little dizzy, change it first and then change it.
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