I Created Scientific Magic

The chatter in the auditorium was incessant, as those wizards proficient in Shaping Science were particularly excited, Lynn and Sanchez had undoubtedly pointed the way for the study of optics.

As long as one transformed more creatures and studied their perception of light, even dissected to find those so-called photoreceptive cells, and wrote a summary report, wouldn't the Morning Star Medal then be within reach?

"If only I had specialized in Shaping Science!" Ailoke sighed, being more skilled in elements and alchemy, and only just passing in Shaping.

Unfortunately, the easiest Morning Star Medal to obtain was slipping away from him!

However, Pearce, who was proficient in Shaping Science, was also immensely worried. Looking around, it was clear that there were too many competitors for the medal, and it wouldn't be long before the council was overwhelmed with related magical theories, leaving little chance for him.

On the stage, Glenn and others exchanged glances; they had little involvement with Shaping Science and feared it would be hard to catch up with others in the exploration of invisible light.

Lynn also considered the passion for optics among wizards not specialized in Shaping Science and paused before continuing. "In addition to searching for those invisible lights, you could also start from another angle… like measuring the speed of light!"

Measuring the speed of light?

Rafael and others were momentarily stunned; light, a magical and omnipresent entity intrigued many, but as they couldn't perceive the "light element," it proved challenging to observe and measure it.
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Decades ago, the Legendary Councilman Aurora had once conducted an experiment, placing a wizard a kilometer away from herself and using magic to reflect light on another person, measuring the speed of light based on the arrival time.

However, this substance was simply too fast, and even the reaction speed of a legendary wizard couldn't perceive this minute difference. In the end, the Legendary Witch could only guess that the speed of light might exceed one thousand kilometers per second, requiring measurements from a greater distance.

But this introduced a second problem, as light scatters, and the farther away it gets transferred, the weaker it becomes, making precise measurements difficult…leading to some speculating that light arrives instantaneously!

Yet, this experiment did have an unexpected outcome: the successful measurement of the speed of sound being between three hundred and four hundred meters, which fluctuates depending on the locale.

Sanchez elaborated to Lynn on the speed of light experiment once conducted by Councilman Aurora.

One kilometer? Indeed, it was too close, and lacking more specialized equipment, failure was also normal.

Lynn still didn't know the specific speed of light in this world... but was sure it wasn't slow, if based on the data from his previous life, a distance of one kilometer represented a difference of merely one hundred thousandths of a second, and even a legendary wizard couldn't measure it just by reaction speed.

Lynn pondered for a moment, then looked toward the crowd of wizards gathered at the seminar. "I have some ideas about measuring the speed of light, though unverified, and need a few days to prepare, probably after the seminar. I do not exclude the possibility of failure. If anyone can accurately measure the speed of light during this time, I will propose to the council to award him a Silver Moon Medal!"

"A Silver Moon Medal? Master Lynn, isn't that a bit exaggerated?" Sanchez hastily interjected.

There are two conditions for awarding the Silver Moon Medal, the first being proposing a theory capable of changing a mainstream magical system.

At the last seminar, when Lynn proposed the law of universal gravitation, they had planned to give him a Silver Moon Medal.

However, Legendary Councilman Harrov strongly disagreed, and with Lynn calculating the various speeds of the planet beneath them and proving through experiments that the planet was constantly rotating and revolving around the Sun, overturning everyone's views of the world, he was awarded the even more honorable Corona Medal!

The second method is making a significant contribution to Wizard Land or the council.

But now, it's just about measuring the speed of light, not deciphering the nature of light; he felt a Morning Star Medal would suffice…

"I think it's not exaggerated. A legendary wizard from the Secret Magic Society once said, compared to optics, existing magical theories can only be described as simplistic, even rudimentary, merely portrayals of macroscopic phenomena, while optics is one of the most important keys to unveiling the microscopic true world!" Lynn spoke earnestly.

The speed of light was not like the speed of sound, air resistance, gravity which may vary from one planet to another.

Similar in nature to it were constants Lynn had measured before, like the universal gravitational constant, and others yet to be determined like Absolute Zero, the Hubble constant, the Planck constant, etc.…

These values were not just limited to one planet but were universal laws applicable to objects across the universe… at least within the scope of human visibility and cognition, they are constant!

The speed of light was especially significant; many renowned formulas relied on this constant!

One example was the famous mass-energy equation — E=mc^2!

On the left, E stands for energy, m for mass, and c for the speed of light, this formula encapsulates the mysteries of mass-energy conversion, useful for calculational outcomes from nuclear explosions to more potent antimatter annihilation!

Of course, whether the constancy of light speed was universal still remained a question, all pending experimental verification.

Lynn had always wanted to measure these basic constants, but had so far devoted most of his efforts to the war in the kingdom, hence the delay.

It can be said that from the start of studying optics, they had only begun to unveil a corner of the real world, moving from a well-ordered macroscopic domain to a chaotic and bizarre microscopic domain.

Even the federation from his previous life hadn't thoroughly researched quantum theory, but even minor gains were enough to accomplish feats like interstellar travel…

Lynn's overly blunt words made the wizards present somewhat uneasy; the magical science developed in Wizard Land for centuries was just dismissed by him in simple and rudimentary terms, which was quite sensational!

"This legendary person from the Secret Magic Society, didn't he go mad studying light?" a high wizard in the audience sneered, very dissatisfied with Lynn's belittling of the existing magical theories; light was indeed magical, but at best it was just another brick in the magical edifice…

The theory of the light element in Wizard Land had developed and perfected over decades and had already constructed a general framework, just not yet verified.