I Created Scientific Magic-Chapter 406 - 394 Alpha Particles at 20,000 Kilometers per Second

Chapter 406: Chapter 394: Alpha Particles at 20,000 Kilometers per Second Chapter 406: Chapter 394: Alpha Particles at 20,000 Kilometers per Second Under Lynn’s command, Ailoke and the others waiting below quickly brought up the props for the experiment.

They were exceedingly simple, only three items in total!

A lead box the size of a palm, a circular detection device.

And lastly, a sheet of gold foil only 0.1 micrometers in thickness!

To make this object, it took Lynn a full day’s time.

If he hadn’t become a grand wizard, achieving such precision with the current level of craftsmanship would simply be a pipe dream…

Once all the experimental equipment was ready, Lynn stopped beating around the bush, looked around at the wizards in the meeting room, and spoke solemnly.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the atomic model hypotheses you just proposed were brilliant, but whether a theoretical proposition conforms to reality ultimately needs to be proved by experiment!”

“Of course!” Anthony nodded.

He was very confident in his elemental purple fruit model but had to admit that some of the ideas proposed by the council members were also quite interesting.

For example, the flame grand wizard Adela believed that the electrons inside an element are arranged in an alternating pattern of positive and negative charges, which allows them to bind tightly together and not repel due to like charges, thus forming a solid atom.

Besides this, there were more than a dozen other distinct theories, such as the water droplet model, external dispersal theory, and elemental solid theory, all possessing a certain degree of reasonableness…

However, how to verify their theories was undoubtedly the biggest headache for all the wizards who proposed elemental models.

Because elements themselves are too small, they had tried countless methods to shatter them with no success.

Even wizards who used the principle of concave and convex mirrors to develop ultra-high magnification magical microscopy couldn’t see anything, so they were very curious about what means the star of magic would employ to verify this.

Lynn didn’t intend to keep them guessing and quickly began explaining.

Alpha particles are scattered from within radium elements, which means they are much smaller than many elements and move extremely fast.

More importantly, they have the ability to break free from the control of elements.

“Based on my calculations, the speed of alpha particles is about 20,000 kilometers per second…” Lynn began to describe.

“20,000 kilometers…” Sanchez marveled, taken aback by this outrageous data.

Although they had calculated the even more astonishing speed of light, this speed measured in tens of thousands of kilometers per second was still beyond their reach…

Anthony was also incredibly surprised, recalling how in the Cloud Chamber earlier, the trail of mist surged almost instantaneously, so fast that even they, as grand wizards, couldn’t react.

This was enough to prove that Lynn wasn’t exaggerating deliberately!

“So you’re saying you plan to use this new particle to strike and destroy the outer shell of an element?” Harrov quickly caught on to this idea.

Generally speaking, the faster something moves, the greater its destructive power.

The advantage of alpha particles lies in being small enough, perhaps able to break the elemental shell, causing it to fracture.

“No, I don’t think atoms have a shell; everything about them is exposed…” Lynn shook his head and said earnestly.

“How is that possible?” Vittorio frowned, countering, “All elements are in constant motion, and if there were no shell to protect them, in a million years, the inner contents would have been flung out long ago…”

The wizards below were also arguing and debating.

Lynn’s claim was too far-fetched; if it weren’t for the fact that this star of magic had again and again proven his magical research talent, there likely would have been objections already.

In their minds, elements should be sphere-like, protected by an incredibly hard shell, which would keep the internal substances safe from damage over the years.

Faced with the doubtful gazes of the crowd, Lynn smiled and countered, “Composite elements also lack a shell, and yet they can persist for a long time, can’t they?”

According to the existing theory in Wizard Land, composite elements stick together firmly because they are connected by something known as elemental covalent bonds, meaning they won’t easily separate, which essentially is the chemical bond by another name in another world.

Hearing this, Vittorio and the others paused, then began to ponder whether a similar force might exist within elements that could firmly bind the internal substances.

Lynn didn’t continue with a long-winded explanation.

Words alone are no proof; facts are the best evidence.

The delay over, Ailoke and the others had already set up the experimental table, which was simply to use magic to keep the gold foil suspended in the center of the detection device.

Next, they placed the lead box directly facing the gold foil, opened a small hole in the front, and put a certain amount of radium inside.

Since lead can effectively protect against radiation, alpha particles would only shoot out from the small hole in the lead box, forming a beam of high-energy particles that continuously pounded the gold foil.

Around the gold foil was a circular detection device coated with fluorescent paint, which would glow upon contact with alpha particles, thereby determining the direction of the particles.

As for why gold was used, of course, it’s because of its excellent ductility; just 1 gram of natural gold can be stretched into a wire several kilometers long, ensuring that the elements the rays pass through in a straight line are limited, reducing interference to the lowest…

After roughly explaining the procedure of the experiment, Lynn opened the hole in the lead box, and a beam of invisible radiation immediately struck the gold foil.

Both the alpha particles and gold atoms were exceptionally tiny, invisible to the naked eye, but wizards naturally had their ways, especially the grand wizards with their strong sensory abilities to detect atomic-level subtle changes.

After expanding their realms, the whole gold foil appeared different in their vision, with neatly arranged gold elements like a sturdy wall blocking the way.

Yet this wall wasn’t as solid as they imagined because the detection device behind it quickly lit up with small dots, indicating that alpha particles had directly passed through the gold foil, reaching the fluorescent material behind.

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“It went straight through!” Harrov muttered softly; the glowing dots were directly aligned with the direction of the hole in the lead box, without the slightest deviation.

Anthony, who also noticed this, couldn’t help frowning; it didn’t match with what he had expected to happen.

After all, alpha particles also exhibit a magnetic field reaction, which means they should be disturbed if they come into contact with positive and negative electrons.