Chapter 394: Alpha Particles with a Speed of 20,000 Kilometers per Second
Under Lynn's order, Elok and the others, who were waiting in the audience, quickly brought up the props for this experiment.
It's very simple, there are only three things in total!
A palm-sized lead box, a ring-shaped detection device.
Finally, a piece of gold leaf is only 0.1 microns wide!
It took Lynn a full day to make this thing, and if he hadn't become a great wizard, it would have been impossible to achieve such precision with the current level of craftsmanship......
After the experimental equipment was ready, Lynn didn't sell it, looked around at the wizards in the conference room, and said solemnly.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the atomic model hypothesis you put forward just now is very exciting, but whether a theoretical theory is in line with reality or not must be proved by experiments after all!"
"It's nature!" Anthony nodded.
He was very confident in his Elemental Purple Fruit model, but he had to admit that the ideas put forward by some councillors were also very interesting.
For example, the Great Flame Wizard Adela believes that the electrons inside the elements are arranged in a way that positive and negative charges are intertwined, so they can be tightly combined, and will not be repelled by the same sex, so they will come together to form a solid atom.
In addition, there are more than ten different theories such as water dropletability, scattered shape, and elemental solidity, all of which have a certain degree of rationality......
However, how to verify it is undoubtedly the most troublesome problem for all wizards who propose elemental models.
Because the element itself is so small, they have tried countless methods but can't break it, and even some wizards have used the principle of the concave and convex mirror to study ultra-high magnification microscopic magic, but they still can't see anything, so they are very curious about what means this magic star will use to verify this.
Lynn didn't mean to sell it, and quickly explained.
The alpha particle is scattered from the interior of radium, which means that it is much smaller than many elements, extremely fast, and more importantly, has the ability to break free from the element's grasp.
"According to my calculations, the speed of the alpha particle is about 20,000 kilometers per second...... Lynn said.
"20,000 kilometers ......" Sanchez smacked his tongue, stunned by the outrageous data.
Although they have already calculated the speed of light that is even more outrageous, this speed in tens of thousands of kilometers per second is still beyond their reach......
Anthony was also extremely surprised, thinking that in the [Cloud Room] just now, the surge of the fog trajectory was almost instantaneous, so fast that they couldn't react to it, which was enough to prove that Lynn was not deliberately exaggerating!
"So you're going to use this new particle to hit and break the element's shell?" Harrov quickly thought of this.
Generally speaking, the faster an object is, the more destructive it is, and the alpha element has the advantage of being small enough to break through the element's shell and cause it to break apart.
"No, I don't think the atom has a shell, everything about it is exposed......" Lynn shook her head, very seriously.
"How is this possible?" Vittorio frowned and retorted. "All the elements are in motion all the time, and if it weren't for the protection of the shell, wouldn't the things inside have been thrown out long ago after thousands of years......"
The wizards in the audience were also arguing, Lynn's words were too outrageous, if it weren't for the fact that this magic star had proven his talent in magic research again and again, I am afraid that someone would have stood up to refute it.
In their imagination, the element should be in the shape of a sphere, encased in an incomparably hard shell, so as to protect the matter inside from damage over time.
Facing everyone's questioning eyes, Lynn asked with a smile. "Composite elements also have no shell, don't they last as long?"
According to the existing theory of the Wizarding Lands, the reason why those composite elements can be firmly glued together is that they are connected by something called the common bond of the elements, so they will not be separated easily, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is a chemical bond, but the name between the two worlds is different.
Hearing this, Vittorio and the others were stunned for a moment, and then thought about whether there might be a similar power inside the element, which could firmly bind the matter inside.
Lynn did not continue to explain at length, and the facts were the best evidence.
After a while, Elok and the others had already set up the experimental table, which was actually to cast a spell to levitate the gold leaf in the center of the detection device.
Then the lead box is facing the gold leaf, and a small hole is opened at the front end, in which a certain amount of radium is placed, because the lead can effectively protect against radiation, so the alpha particles will only shoot out from the small hole of the lead box, forming a beam of high-energy particle rays that continuously hit the gold leaf.
The gold leaf is surrounded by a ring-shaped detector with fluorescent paint attached to it, which emits light when it comes into contact with alpha particles, and can determine the movement of the particles.
As for why gold, of course, it is because it is extremely extensible, and just 1 gram of natural gold can stretch gold wires up to several kilometers, which ensures that the elements that can be passed in a straight line are limited, and the interference is minimized......
After explaining the process of the experiment in general, Lynn opened the hole in the lead box, and a beam of invisible rays immediately hit the gold leaf.
Both the alpha particles and the gold atoms are very small and cannot be seen with the naked eye, but wizards naturally have wizards' methods, especially the strong perception ability of the great wizards, who can detect subtle changes at the atomic level.
After unfolding the realm, the whole piece of gold leaf changed to a different image in their eyes, and the gold elements were arranged in an orderly manner, like a strong wall in front of them.
It's just that the wall is not as strong as they thought, because the detection device behind it quickly lit up with small dots, which means that the alpha particles directly passed through the gold leaf and touched the fluorescent material behind it.
"I went straight through!" Harrov muttered softly, the position of the light point and the direction of the hole in the lead box were directly opposite, without the slightest deviation.
Anthony, who also discovered this, couldn't help frowning, this was not the same situation he imagined would appear.
It is important to know that alpha particles also have a magnetic field reaction, which also means that if the other party comes into contact with positive and negative electrons, it will inevitably be disturbed.