Things about living in Marvel

Chapter 234 Ether
"Thank you." Reed took the tablet from Susan's hand, "Have you helped me rearrange the latest lecture schedule?"

"Yes." Susan replied, "By the way, you can make up for the class you missed when you left."

"Thank you so much." Reed smiled and began to check the timetable.

"Lecture?" Colt asked curiously.

"Dad has agreements with many universities, and he will give regular guest lectures." Valeria explained casually without raising her head.

"That sounds interesting?" Colt was rather interested.

"If you are interested, it will be available this Friday afternoon. You can go to New York University after school. Anyway, this is a guest lecture." Valeria said nonchalantly.

……

"So, why did I come here with you to listen to this boring lecture?" In the lecture hall, Valeria muttered dissatisfiedly, "If you really have any questions, you can ask him directly at home."

"But don't you think this is a very interesting experience? Looking at Reed speaking on the stage, I think it is very interesting." Colt explained with a smile.

"Besides wasting time, I can't think of any other meaning at all." Valeria pursed her lips, and then she leaned back on her chair and looked at the ceiling with a hopeless expression.

……

"People used to think that the propagation of light also needed a medium, and this special medium was called ether by the scientists at that time." On the podium, Reid showed his teaching plan.

"Ether was originally a substance conceived by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. The ancient Greeks used it to refer to the sky. In Aristotle's view, apart from the four basic elements of earth, water, wind and fire, the material elements In addition, there is a kind of ether living in the upper layer of the sky. In the history of science, it had a mysterious color at first. However, in the later development, it became a hypothetical substance that physicists relied on for thinking in certain historical periods.

"Everyone knows that the famous Michelson-Morley experiment denied the existence of ether as an optical medium.

"People used to think that ether is a kind of substance that does not exist at all, just like the four elements that exist as its basis.

"However, today, with the reappearance of real magic in this world, as far as I know, some magic systems exist based on the theory of four elements.

"If the magic system based on the four-element theory can exist, we may have to rethink our conclusions that completely negate the four-element theory. The four-element theory does not exist as a physical system itself, but perhaps initially The theory of the four elements does not represent the actual composition of matter, but something else that we cannot understand."

"Understood?" Valeria opened her eyes, and she glanced around the empty classroom, "His lectures contain too much Mister Fantastic content, and ordinary physics and science can no longer be simplified. Simply satisfying him, what he wants is to explain everything, just like now, the course is obviously only about the speed of light and special relativity, but he has completely deviated from the subject to the mystical theory represented by the theory of ether and the four elements.

"To be honest, the theory of relativity alone is already relatively obscure to most non-physics students, and Dad will add more questions that even he can't understand. Do you think there will be more questions?" How many people are willing to continue listening?"

"Ether, four elements..."

Valeria found that Colt ignored her and was muttering to himself.

She frowned, she had long been used to this expression, but now she didn't understand what kind of inspiration these things could bring to Colt.

"What do you understand?" Valeria frowned.

"Ether!" Colt said excitedly, "Don't you understand? Ether!"

Valeria blinked, feeling a rare sense of confusion.

"Four elements, the Fantastic Four. Ether, which is everywhere but cannot be perceived, the creator and foundation of the four basic elements!" Colt's voice could not hide his excitement, "Don't you understand? This It is the key variable that I have been unable to find!"

"Your thoughts..." Valeria's face was a little strange, "I don't have any objections if you want to name this new variable Ether, but why do you think so firmly that this is Ether itself?"

She thought for a while: "To be honest, even if Dad and the others correspond to the four elements, it is just our own guess, and there is no evidence to prove that they are really the four elements. Your guess is a bit too far-fetched.

"Of course, this is indeed a direction that can be tried, but I suggest that you prepare in advance for nothing. More importantly, even if the variable is really ether, the ether that is everywhere but undetectable, How are you going to find and prove its existence?"

At this time, Reed's lecture had ended, and he saw that there were only a few students who had fallen asleep in the empty classroom with no surprises. Suddenly, he was a little surprised to see the two people in the last row who were having a heated discussion.

"Xiaowa, Colt?" He walked over with his backpack, "Why are you here?"

"He said he thought it would be interesting to see you on the podium, so he dragged me here." Valeria shook her head and explained, "However, it seems that your speech had some unexpected effects."

Reed didn't know why.

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Colt is in the laboratory, pulling over a whiteboard.

Draw four circles on it and write Earth, Water, Wind and Fire respectively.

"According to our previous research, the abilities of the four of you correspond to the earth, water, wind and fire in the theory of the four elements." Colt scanned all the members of the Fantastic Four present.

Everyone nodded.

Then, he drew another one on top of the four circles, and pulled out four arrows pointing to the previous four circles.

"Our experiments have confirmed that the abilities of the four of you are related to each other, and this connection is connected by a mysterious thing that cannot be discovered by us, maybe it is energy, maybe it is matter, or it may even be something that we have temporarily lost Unknown form of matter."

"Do you think this is ether?" Reed understood, the element above the four elements, the foundation of the four elements.

"So, you made it so grand that you used an ancient Greek word to name something that has troubled you for so long?" Johnny raised his eyebrows.

"Of course it's more than that." Coltra pulled out another whiteboard.

"If I start with this theory, I can build a complete theory to explain everything.

(End of this chapter)