The study room is not very big, smaller than in the castle, but it is fully furnished: desk, wooden chair, bookcase, wooden shelf, oil lamp...
Lighting the oil lamp to illuminate everything in the study, Richard took several papyrus scrolls from the bookcase and spread them out on the table. Then he took the quill and ink bottle from the wooden shelf and placed them on the table.
By the light of the oil lamp, Richard looked at an open papyrus scroll on the table. This was some research and speculation on mana in the past few days, and it was full of handwriting. His eyes fell on it, and Richard read it out softly.
"What is the essence of mana? What is the essence of free energy elements? Since they can be used to release spells and produce certain changes, does it mean that they are a kind of substance, a special substance, a kind of substance on the modern earth? Undiscovered substance
In other words, could free energy elements be chemical elements? Could they be special chemical elements that have not yet been discovered on modern earth
As we all know, all substances are composed of elements. Hydrogen and oxygen elements form water molecules, which then form more than half of the components in the body. The same goes for other things. Numerous elements make up everything in the material world.
The modern earth is constantly exploring elements.
In 1789, French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier published a list of 33 chemical elements, which was the initial exploration. Then in 1869, Russian chemistry professor Dmitry Mendeleev published a periodic table of 63 elements, laying the foundation for the development of chemical elements. After that, chemical elements were continuously added to the periodic table, starting from 63 types and finally developing into a huge family covering 118 chemical elements.
However, this does not mean that we have a comprehensive understanding of these 118 elements.
Among the 118 chemical elements, only 98 elements from 1 to 98 exist in nature: 84 are primary nuclides, and the other 14 appear in the decay chain of primary elements.
Starting from the 99th element einsteinium to the 118th element Oganesson (Og, Simplified Chinese is one word, upper gas and lower ao, but it cannot be displayed), these 20 elements do not exist under normal circumstances. It is found in nature and can only be obtained through artificial synthesis. Even if it is synthesized, it will disappear quickly. This is because these elements are highly radioactive and decay rapidly into other elements, making them almost impossible to study.
For example, element 99, einsteinium, was discovered in the remnants of modern Earth's first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952 and was named after physicist Albert Einstein. It has a half-life of 20.47 days. Its isotope einsteinium-253 loses 3% of its mass every day and will soon decay into berkelium and californium. It is very difficult to preserve and even more difficult to study it. Because when it was put into the machine one second, it was still einsteinium, but when it was taken out of the machine the next second, it had turned into berkelium and californium.
Another example is Element No. 118, which was confirmed to decay on modern Earth in December 2015. Its decay time is on the order of milliseconds, which is about one thousandth of a second. Compared with einsteinium, Qiao didn't even have time to put it into the machine, and it couldn't even be observed. The shortest time for the human eye to recognize an object is 0.04 seconds. Before the human eye can react, Qi Ao has decayed dozens of times. Regarding Qi'ao, scientists can only use a series of data to prove that it has been created. They can only say, 'Look, Qi'ao once existed here', but they cannot say, 'Look, this is Qi'ao'.
Therefore, most of the elements after element No. 99, einsteinium, are temporarily unable to be observed and studied on a macro scale on modern earth. As for the elements behind Element No. 118, they cannot be synthesized due to technical problems.
However, there is no way to observe and study on a macro scale, which does not mean that elements have no properties. Because the technology is not developed, elements cannot be synthesized, which does not mean that elements do not exist.
In reality, the elements are there, technologically advanced or not. Just like Uranus and Neptune, they cannot be discovered for thousands of years because the astronomical level cannot be reached, but they are there.
From this, can we boldly guess that the free energy element is the special element after the 118th element Qi Ao that has not yet been discovered on modern earth
This speculation is very possible.
In fact, according to a series of studies on superheavy elements on modern earth, a common conclusion is that as the sequence number increases, the superheavy elements that will be discovered in the future will undergo some magical changes.
According to the calculation of Bohr model, v=Zac≈Zc/137.036.
Z is the atomic number, c is the speed of light, α is the fine structure constant, and v is the speed of electrons in the element. In this model, when the atomic number is greater than 137, the electron speed inside the element will exceed the speed of light and begin to have relativistic effects.
According to the calculation of Dirac's equation, E=mc2·√1-Z2a2.
When the atomic number is greater than 137, the wave function of the Dirac ground state will become a wave state, with no gap between the positive and negative energy ranges, forming a situation similar to Klein's paradox. That is, relativistic particles can easily cross high and wide potential barriers with a success rate of up to 100%, leading to the emergence of magical phenomena such as massless Dirac quasiparticles in graphene.
All in all, in short, elements with higher sequence numbers theoretically exist and will have a series of magical properties.
In addition, according to the "superheavy nuclear stability island" theory on modern earth, near a certain element in a higher sequence, the atomic nucleus will have higher stability, and around it there may be a "stable island" composed of hundreds of superheavy element nuclei. island'. The superheavy elements located in the 'stable island' will be delayed, which will greatly extend the time the elements exist in the environment, reaching several hours or even days, making them valuable for storage, research, and use.
These are completely consistent with free energy elements. "
"Huh", letting out a breath, Richard finished reading the contents of the scroll recorded in the past few days, put it aside, brought a blank scroll in front of him, held the quill, thought for a while, and continued writing.
"Shashasha..."
“To sum up, we can make a hypothetical inference that free energy elements are super-heavy elements with higher sequence numbers that have not yet been discovered on the earth.
Under this hypothetical inference, magic is like a chemical reaction.
Just like some substances that are combined with ordinary elements, specific reactions will occur when they come into contact with each other. For example, the reaction between sodium and water will explode. In the same way, when some free energy elements contact and react with each other, specific phenomena will also occur, such as explosions, freezing, or acid erosion, which are so-called spell effects. "
The quill pen in Richard's hand paused slightly, thinking, his eyes shining brightly. After a moment, he dropped the quill in his hand and continued writing.