Greetings, Mister Principal

Chapter 129: Ouroboros

The summer night in the Luna Nova Magical Academy was unbearably noisy with insects chirping endlessly. It was now the end of the Month of White Dew, which was midsummer, but Reiner was still in the laboratory, focusing on the complex structure in front of him.

The structure was designed by Fina's father and could be driven by standard magic stones. Even a low-level mage could control the electromagnetic acceleration magic circle. Its principle was that particles in motion with positive or negative charges would be deflected by the force in the magnetic field. Because of the different masses, the degree of deflection was also different. Shooting these particles into the magnetic field at a certain initial velocity could separate different particles.

On Earth, a similar device was called a magnetic separator, which was the prototype of a mass spectrometer. This device was usually used to separate atomic nuclei with the same number of nuclear charges but different masses, that was, to separate isotopes.

The first experiment that Reiner did was to place the "Borren" elements with different relative element masses that he had previously measured into the magic circle to verify that they contained two nuclides with different relative element masses.

Buzz

After five standard magic stones were placed inside the magic circle, the magic circle was slightly lit up by the energy, and a buzzing sound immediately appeared in the air, as if some kind of abnormality was brewing.

An insignificant light then appeared from the side of the magic circle. This was a stream of negatively charged particles, or electrons, produced by the magic circle using pre-stored material.

Because most of the elemental elements in nature were neutral and uncharged, it was necessary to use this electron current to bombard the elements, make them split, and become scattered free electrons and positively charged atomic nuclei.

Of course, Fina's father did not penetrate the microcosm to such an extent, he could only do so to expose the originally uncharged elements to electromagnetic fields.

Reiner gradually moved the electron stream, causing it to collide with a cloud of atomized "Borren" elements.

In the microscopic world that the naked eye couldn't reach, the masses of high-speed electrons collided with the dense cloud of elements, and the moment they passed by each other, some magical force caused the electrons that once surrounded the nucleus to break free and rush along with their own kind.

And the rest, the nucleus that had lost its guard, was drawn by a stronger force and rushed forward involuntarily.

With the activation of the electric and magnetic fields, in the corners that Reiner couldn't see, countless tiny particles moved extremely gracefully according to that amazing law. They moved forward, gradually deviated from a straight line, continued to move forward, and finally reached the end of the journey - the receiving board.

This thin board was constantly receiving impacts from particles, but the force of these impacts was too small to move this behemoth at all. However, the nature of the receiving board determined that when particles touch its surface, a trace would appear on the receiving board.

Here, Reiner could already observe the experimental phenomenon.

He saw that on the receiving board, two traces were gradually emerging. They were different in color, but they could be accurately distinguished. On the other side of the receiving board, another trace was also clearly visible, which was left by electrons.

Through this experiment, it could be clearly seen that the Borren element had two atoms with different relative element masses!

Reiner did not rush to a conclusion, and did the same experiment on several other elements, and finally got the same result.

Fina's father's magic could indeed separate isotopes!

Retaining his excitement, Reiner continued the experiment. This time, he wanted to isolate the special gas that Fina's father found.

Reiner repeated the experiment using Netron gas, which was normally produced by the academy. On the side of the receiving board, as Fina's father stated, three traces appeared.

Two of them were similar in distance, and the other was slightly farther away. After simple calculations, it could be known that the two traces that were closed to each other should be the isotopes of Netron gas. Their relative element masses were 14.00307 and 15.00108.

In terms of the farther element, according to calculations, its element mass should be 39.98062, which was ranked between the element "Clorin" and the element "Kayla".

This was exactly one of the several elements predicted by Reiner in the paper, and there was nothing here in His Excellency Steinen's order of elements.

Then, Reiner revised the description of the element between the element "Florin" and the element "Thordian" in his previous paper. He believed that the nature of this element should be similar to the element discovered by Fina's father, and it was difficult to separate from other places. It may require the fourth-ring freezing magic or above to search for it in the form of liquefied gas.

At the same time, he also put forward some conjectures about the internal structure of the element. He believed that the element was neutral because of the combination of these negatively charged particles with the mass-carrying, positively charged atoms.

In the past, it had been thought that the elemental particle was a single solid sphere, but Reiner suggested that it might not be the case. According to the Newington Holland Equation, the structure of the elemental particle might be more like a model of negatively charged particles orbiting a nucleus.

Of course, based on Reiner's knowledge on Earth, such a model was not correct, but based on existing knowledge, he could only deduce it to this extent.

The revision of academic papers was usually carried out after the review comments were obtained. These revisions were then appended directly to the original after it had been reviewed, akin to patches, so that when the original author wanted to fix minor flaws, he or she didn't have to write a new paper that looked very similar.

It was late at night after finishing the experiment, and the students left behind in the school had already gone to sleep. The campus was very quiet.

Reiner walked through the corridor and returned to his room.

He sat at the table, looking at the information he had compiled before.

Reiner sorted out Fina's father, Kailavin Napishtim's research data into different categories. There were more than 100 pages of drafts. Because these drafts were just experimental notes and drafts, they were not organized into the form of papers, so Reiner's current job was to use rigorous language to retell Fina's father's discovery.

Now, he needed to compare his own experimental records with Fina's father's records, and correct some errors caused by theoretical errors.

This was delicate and patient work.

When the basic work was completed, the clock in the room just showed that the time was two o'clock in the morning. Reiner stretched, stood up, and was about to change clothes to sleep, only to see that his bed had been taken.

The tiger-stripe-patterned cat was curled up in the middle of the bed, with its feet pointed upwards and its belly exposed. It was lying on the bed in a very awkward posture, slumbering, not paying attention to the actions of the room owner.

It's a pity that this cat won't become a cute cat-eared girl.' Reiner sighed in his heart. He ignored the sleeping cat and lay on the bed and shook the thin quilt lightly.

Unexpectedly, the cat just turned over, and didn't seem to want to wake up at all. It just continued to purr slightly.

"Okay then."

Reiner reluctantly put on the quilt and looked at the stars outside the window.

The stars were like particles constantly being accelerated in the electromagnetic field, colliding, breaking, and parting ways, and finally falling on the dark curtain, shining brightly.

The electrons rotating at high speed around the nucleus were like stars, dragging by the gravitational pull of the stars. The microscopic world and the macroscopic world had reached a harmonious unity in unexpected places, just like the reincarnation of Ouroboros, which was intoxicating