I Created Scientific Magic-Chapter 152 - 139: Lynn’s Pendulum Experiment (Please Subscribe)

"Alright! It’s finally our turn to make an appearance."

Having watched from below for quite some time, Ailoke and the others were already boiling with excitement. Receiving Lynn’s approval, they immediately ran up to the stage carrying a large box.

Yoland approached uneasily and took a glance at the box, which contained all sorts of strange objects; the most eye-catching was a large iron ball with a protruding spike embedded at the bottom.

"Distinguished masters, please allow me to use magic to make certain alterations here so that the effects of the experiment can be more visually direct!" Lynn said.

"If you think that will be of any help," Rafael nodded and agreed.

Lynn immediately cast "Stone to Mud," turning a large area of stone tiles beneath them into fine sand, then had Johnny and a few others piece together slabs from the box, forming a giant circular disc on the outer side of the stage.

Precise three hundred and sixty degrees were marked on the edges of the disc, and a stick was placed in front of each degree.

Finally, Lynn asked the wizard who had previously developed flying magic to tie the iron ball with a steel wire and hang it from the ceiling of the symposium hall.

Due to the need to demonstrate magic, the hall of the magic symposium was not only spacious but also built very high, with the ceiling sixty meters above the ground.

The thirty-kilogram iron ball was thus suspended by a slender steel wire, hanging just over ten centimeters above the ground, with the protruding spike already embedded into the sand.

"What are you trying to do?" Yoland was completely baffled, as he couldn’t understand the other party’s actions.

The rest of the wizards present also wore puzzled expressions.

"An experiment!" Lynn waved his hand for Ailoke and the others to stand aside, then asked, "Mr. Yoland, what do you think will happen if I push this iron ball forcefully?"

"The iron ball will be thrown out, then swing back and forth in a straight line, isn’t that obvious?" Yoland replied impatiently.

"I don’t think so," Lynn shook his head, "because you’ve overlooked a very important factor, that is, the continent beneath our feet is rotating, and the resulting Coriolis effect will surely affect the movement of the iron ball. Therefore, this pendulum, while swinging, will keep changing direction, rotating around this disc instead."

"Absurd!" Yoland didn’t believe in any so-called Coriolis effect, nor did he believe in the preposterous idea of a rotating continent—it was sheer nonsense!

Thinking this way, Yoland’s gaze fixed intently on the experiment, wary lest the other party resort to any tricks during the demonstration.

Lynn didn’t even use magic but pulled the iron ball to the zero-degree position on the sand disc and simply let go, allowing the ball to swing freely under the force of gravity.

The nearly sixty-meter-long steel wire, tense due to the weight of the iron ball, made a whooshing sound as the ball swung, hitting the stick at the one hundred and eighty-degree mark.

Just as Yoland had said, the iron ball’s trajectory was indeed a straight line.

All the wizards in the hall focused on the pendulum above, and since the steel wire restraining the iron ball was very long, the ball swung back and forth at a leisurely pace but in a very regular manner, not deviating as Lynn had claimed it would.

After waiting a while without seeing any changes, Yoland turned to Lynn and said mockingly, "Where is the phenomenon of the pendulum rotating around the disc that you mentioned just now? Why don’t I see it?"

"You are too hasty, and your observational skills are not careful enough, that’s why you can’t see it," Lynn sighed and replied.

Yoland was quite irritated; he wasn’t blind after all. Whether this thing was rotating or not, could he not tell himself?

Just at that moment, a cry of surprise suddenly rang out.

"It’s deviated, the trajectory has really deviated!"

Several great Wizards even stood up from their seats, staring intently at the sand table beneath the pendulum.

Where had it deviated? Yoland also looked in the direction of everyone’s gaze, only then realizing that the fine needle at the bottom of the iron ball had left a trail in the sand that was not a perfectly straight line; each back-and-forth movement resulted in a slight deviation.

But this deviation was so small that it couldn’t be seen with the naked eye; one could only judge by the path left as the pendulum swept over the sand table!

Thud...

With a soft thud, the wooden bar representing one degree was knocked down by the iron ball, and immediately after, the pendulum knocked down the wooden bar on the opposite side representing one hundred and eighty-one degrees.

Whether it was the traces left on the sand table, or the knocked-down wooden bars, both undoubtedly proved the pendulum was indeed moving slowly, and it was not swinging randomly but deviating in a pattern towards the left.

"The wind, it must have been the wind that moved it!" a Wizard from the Prophecy School shouted loudly.

Yoland also thought of this immediately, but before he could speak, he heard Philip mockingly say.

"This is indoors; where would the wind come from?"

"Even if there is no strong wind, the air is still moving, and the slightest influence is still influence!" Yoland insisted stubbornly.

In any case, he absolutely did not believe in something as un-magical as the rotation of the planets!

"Gentlemen, since Mr. Yoland has his doubts, why don’t you turn this area into a vacuum?" Lynn suggested with a smile.

This time, it was August who took action. Curious about such an interesting pendulum deviation phenomenon, he followed Lynn’s request and, being careful not to affect the pendulum, extracted all elements within the entire disk area, forming a vacuum domain...

Yoland held his breath, staring unblinkingly at the disk, eager to see if there would be any new changes to the iron ball’s trajectory.

Ten seconds... thirty seconds... one minute, the pendulum stubbornly continued to deviate towards the left, and the extent of each deviation was exactly the same as before.

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Soon the wooden bars corresponding to two degrees as well as one hundred and eighty-two degrees were also knocked to the ground.

"Now there’s no wind, right?" Philip said in a taunting tone.

Yoland’s face turned a mixture of green and red; he opened his mouth but was unable to speak. Without the use of Magic and without any interference from the wind, where did the force causing the pendulum to deviate come from?

Could it really be the so-called Coriolis effect due to the Earth’s rotation?

As time passed, more and more wooden bars fell, and in the great hall of the conference, the Wizards who had originally been seated had now all gathered around, crowding the platform just to closely observe this miraculous experiment...

"It’s really true, the land under our feet is moving, it’s really moving!" a Witch exclaimed loudly.

"It’s too incredible, this is simply a miracle in the history of magic, we are actually living on a planet that is constantly rotating!" Rafael also spoke up, filled with amazement.