Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 204 Light and Spiritual Energy
Lü Wenyuan is a very good partner.

Rich, hardworking, extremely talented, and exceptionally intelligent, he learned to communicate using flower language in just half a month. His teacher was Professor Wang, whose language teaching ability and level were quite questionable.

What's even more considerate is that no matter how outrageous the experiment or how demanding or difficult the requirements, he always does his best without complaint. Some of the problems that Professor Wang was stuck on were even solved with the help of Lü Wenyuan!
After all, Lu Wenyuan was an exceptional individual, one in ten thousand. His ability to rise from a commoner to a sect like the Taiyi Ziwei Sect, a second-tier sect in the Central Continent and a first-class sect in the entire Guixu Realm, was due to his extraordinary luck and talent.

Aside from his somewhat arrogant personality, which always makes him look down on everyone, he is practically the perfect lab partner!
To preserve this precious and perfect lab partner, Wang Qiqing logged off in tears, without even having a chance to look at the takeout that had just arrived.

"Is that dual-path experiment that Fellow Daoist Wang mentioned really that important?"

The two were eating takeout when Lü Wenyuan suddenly asked a question.

Tan Xin was almost speechless with astonishment: "A dual-path experiment? Professor Wang wants to do a double-slit interference experiment? That's simply impossible!"

"impossible?"

"Of course not! Did he ever explain to you what the double-slit experiment is?"

Lu Wenyuan hesitated, then shook his head.

"Simply put, it's an experiment on microscopic matter to observe its wave and particle properties. Microscopic matter refers to particles with a spatial dimension of less than 10 to the power of negative 9 meters... uh, that's one nanometer... In short, they are particles that are very, very, very small and invisible to the naked eye!"
"Then, think about it, such tiny particles are invisible to the naked eye, so you definitely need tools to observe them. But in the case of the Void Realm, it is almost impossible to have tools that are accurate to the particle level, so it is impossible to observe them! Especially the double-slit interference experiment, which is even more impossible!"
"The so-called double-slit interference experiment refers to obtaining an image projected by a single microscopic particle passing through two slits. However, with the current level of technology, it is impossible to project a single microscopic particle, so this experiment is simply impossible to achieve!"

"but……"

Tan Xin, who had been speaking with certainty, suddenly remembered what Wang Qiqing had just mentioned about yttrium and neodymium, and frowned: "However, he extracted yttrium and neodymium and said he wanted to develop a laser emitter... Does he want to use lasers for experiments? That's not feasible! The precision is simply not high enough!"

After Tan Xin, who had been talking non-stop, fell into deep thought, Lü Wenyuan tentatively spoke up: "Fellow Daoist Wang seems to want to do... a spiritual energy experiment..."

Tan Xin found it utterly unbelievable: "A spiritual energy experiment? What would you do with a laser emitter for a spiritual energy experiment!?"

Lu Wenyuan explained, “Not long ago, we accidentally discovered that the absorption and release processes of staghorn stone differed significantly between day and night. So we designed an experiment to record the diurnal changes in staghorn stone… Based on the data, we concluded that the concentration of spiritual energy is different during the day and night. Then Fellow Daoist Wang proposed a hypothesis, believing that light affects spiritual energy…”

"Light can affect spiritual energy!?"

"Oh, by the way, this is the preliminary data from the spiritual energy experiment. We just finished it yesterday."

As Lü Wenyuan spoke, he stood up, casually took a stack of papers from the only table in the lounge, and then took out a recording stone from his Qiankun bag, handing it to Tan Xin. Tan Xin hesitated for a moment, then first flipped through the data recorded on the papers.

The contents on the paper are all recorded in Chinese characters, which record the absorption and release of spiritual energy by several groups of stones at different times and in different environments.

The spiritual energy concentration reached its lowest point between 14 PM and 4 PM, then began to slowly rise from 16 PM, peaking around 18 AM before declining continuously. Overall, the average nighttime spiritual energy concentration was significantly higher than during the day, exhibiting a parabolic rise and fall pattern.

At first glance, it does seem like light is affecting the concentration of spiritual energy, but...

Tan Xin said, "But it's not necessarily light, is it? Temperature and humidity could also have an effect."

Lu Wenyuan nodded and said, "That's what Fellow Daoist Wang said too, so he did a lot of experiments to control the variables. At the very end, there are several data points that were simultaneously detected underwater and several that were detected in black boxes that were kept at different temperatures."

Tan Xin quickly flipped through a few pages and indeed found data records with obvious discrepancies.

The underwater data remained almost constant, and the overall values ​​were much lower than those of the control group in natural air.

In several data points within the black box, the parabolic curves almost disappeared, exhibiting an overall trend remarkably similar to that of the underwater data set. Moreover, the higher the temperature of the black box data, the more stable the trend! This resulted in a very clear straight line appearing in a data set with a temperature as high as 500 degrees Celsius!
At the end of these data, there is a note from Wang Qiqing: "I speculate that it is related to thermal radiation caused by rising temperatures."

After reviewing the data, Tan Xin began to agree with Wang Qiqing's conjecture, muttering to herself, "Could it be that light really does affect the concentration of spiritual energy? Even invisible light is involved in the influence?"

But then she shook her head and said, "No, this experiment is not perfect! Professor Wang's control group is not enough. If it's not light, but something else, and that thing can be isolated by a physical object like a black box, then this experiment is full of flaws. He should add another test with a transparent box at the same temperature as the black box. At least these two groups should be the control group!"

"Fellow Daoist Wang also thought of that, but the reason he hasn't done it yet is because the custom-made glass case hasn't arrived yet,"

Lu Wenyuan smiled and said, "Ordinary glass cannot withstand a temperature of 500 degrees Celsius, so Fellow Daoist Wang specially ordered a batch of special glass boxes. It will take a few days to make them, and then we can add more sets of data."

Tan Xin added, still troubled, "Besides, he can't explain this data underwater either, there's light underwater too!"

Lu Wenyuan explained: "This data was actually going to be invalid because, strictly speaking, there was no control group. At the time, because he couldn't find a suitable body of water, he went to the bottom of the underground river in the gray sand eye. There was no light there, so the data was still consistent with the hypothesis. But precisely because there was no light, it could not be used as an effective control group, because what we need is to eliminate the influence of water."

"The reason we added it is because we also plan to find several more suitable underwater environments for testing, so that we can generate multiple different control groups, not only for the hypothesis about light, but also for temperature, or other factors."

(End of this chapter)