I Created Scientific Magic-Chapter 157 - 144: Reference Objects and Pi (Subscribe Requested)

"Your Excellency Lynn, it seems you have won, and all our efforts over these years have been in vain," Yoland said after a long while, his words laced with despair.

That statement seemed to drain the little strength left in Yoland, and in an instant, he appeared to age several years.

The other wizards of the Prophecy School also appeared dejected, like souls separated from their bodies.

Their star chart was wrong; the Prophecy School’s efforts of over a hundred years had become a complete joke!

"There’s no need for such self-deprecation, Mr. Yoland; in some sense, your star chart is quite accurate," Lynn shook his head and said, offering consolation.

He could confirm that the law of universal gravitation still applied in this alternate world, using the celestial movement patterns observed by the Prophecy School over hundreds of years, and Lynn did not have the heart to crush these wizards who aspired to the stars.

"So you’re finally admitting that all of this was made up?" a witch from the Prophecy School said, agitated.

Lynn glanced at her, utterly speechless—when had he ever said such a thing?

However, before he could speak, Yoland stopped several colleagues who were attempting to continue the argument, his face etched with confusion, waiting for Lynn’s explanation.

Lynn paid no mind to the Prophecy School wizards, who were terribly shaken and slightly out of their senses. He looked towards Yoland and continued to speak.

"Do you remember the carriage problem I told you about? If one only considers the carriage itself as a reference point, the person inside is stationary. However, if we use the starting point as a reference, then he has indeed moved. In my view, both of these statements are correct…"

Geocentrism and heliocentrism are, after all, about different frames of reference.

Of course, heliocentrism is more suitable for solving some practical issues, since the essence of a star system’s orbit is the gravity of the star—therefore, the proposal of heliocentrism indeed represented a significant advancement!

Whether these people could grasp that was none of his concern.

Amidst the ongoing discussion, the magic conference that had lasted all morning soon came to an end, yet the topics of planets, stellar orbits, and airship range-finding remained as hot as ever.

Some of the top school wizards only realized as they left the conference hall that they had come to present their newly researched magic and theories.

In the end, they didn’t get to say a word, and the whole conference became Lynn’s solo performance.

But under such circumstances, there probably weren’t many people who cared what sort of novel magic they had researched; everyone was speculating about just how long and large the planet they stood on was.

Philip was so excited he could barely contain himself. Before attending the conference, he had worried that Lynn might not be able to handle the difficult questions posed by the Prophecy School wizards, but Lynn had refuted them easily with a few words and demonstrated the planet’s rotation with an ingenious experiment, even earning a nomination for the Corona Medal!

That was the highest award in Magic Academia. He had never thought that the Iyeta School could one day receive a prestigious Corona Medal, which in the past was the domain of legendary wizards!

Philip was thinking about using magic messaging to call Kevin, Orlando, and others to attend the upcoming award ceremony. That would surely be the most glorious day for the Iyeta School!

Compared to Philip, who was still basking in joy, Lynn had already been surrounded by a group of wizards with an insatiable thirst for knowledge. After learning the method to calculate the circumference of a planet, everyone was curious about how to calculate the mass of such an enormous celestial body.

Annoyed by the incessant questioning, Lynn had no choice but to give an excuse, saying that further calculations could only be made after determining the radius and gravitational constant of the planet.

Having finally sent the curious bunch on their way, Lynn then turned to look at the legendary Wizard Harrov, who had not yet left, and asked,

"Lord Harrov, is there anything else you need?"

"I still have several doubts that I hope you wouldn’t hesitate to enlighten me on..." Harrov’s demeanor was quite humble, showing no hint of arrogance despite Lynn being a mere level three wizard.

In fact, this question had been troubling him for a whole year.

"Please ask, as long as it’s within my knowledge," Lynn nodded.

"I’ve read your ’Three Laws of the Stars’, but how can you be so certain that a star’s orbit must necessarily be an ellipse?" Harrov asked with much confusion. "Based on my research on gravity, it spreads out like ripples in water, emanating from a central point, so the orbit it forms should also be a perfect circle."

"On this matter, I’ve discussed with several scholars within the Secret Magic Society, and we’ve proposed many conjectures. However, they can be essentially narrowed down to two points!" Lynn responded.

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"Which two points?" Harrov eagerly inquired.

"First, there are no perfect circles!" Lynn said smoothly. "After precise calculations in arcane mathematics, pi is an irrational number, so the perfect circle we imagine probably doesn’t exist in reality."

"May that not be the case?" Harrov’s brows furrowed. The wizards of the Alchemy Association had also studied the curvature of circles and reached a similar conclusion, but in his view, everything in the world must be orderly; they just hadn’t found the laws governing it yet.

"Unfortunately, this is indeed the reality. I’ve heard that an elder from the Secret Magic Society spent decades calculating pi to two hundred trillion decimal places, and the digits obtained were still without any discernible pattern, suggesting that it could be extrapolated indefinitely," Lynn said with a shrug, speaking very directly.

Two hundred... trillion places?

Harrov was left bewildered by the terrifying number, doubting if Lynn was even talking about the same thing. He wondered if he had misheard.

He remembered that the Alchemy Association had extrapolated pi to... which digit was it? The ninth?

"I don’t recall much, probably just the first two hundred digits," Lynn said as he raised his hand and used his magic power to materialize the numbers before them.

[3.1415926535897932…]

As Harrov looked at the long string of complex and chaotic digits before him, his face involuntarily twitched. The first nine digits were exactly the same as those derived by the Alchemy Association, and he had to admit that what Lynn said was likely all true.

But how idle must someone be to extrapolate a value to two hundred trillion places?

Harrov simultaneously admired the person who had spent decades working on the unsolvable pi, all for a definitive answer.

Harrov’s interest in the Secret Magic Society, mentioned in the invitation, grew—surely it was a gathering place for top researchers.