Chapter 145: Reference and Pi


    "Lynn, you have won. It seems all our efforts over the years have been in vain," said Ynde, who was in a daze, after a long pause.


    This statement drained the little remaining strength from Ynde, making him instantly appear several years older.


    The rest of the divination wizards had simr expressions of shock and disbelief.


    Their star charts were wrong, and the centuries of effort in the divination guild had turned into aplete joke!


    "No need to be so down on yourself, Mr. Ynde. In a sense, your star charts are still urate," Lynn reassured them.


    He could confirm that thew of universal gravitation still applied in this otherworldly realm. He couldn''t bear to crush the dreams of these wizards who yearned for the stars too much.


    "So, you finally admit that all of this was fabricated?" an excited divination wizard eximed.


    Lynn nced at her, somewhat speechless. When had he ever said such a thing? But before he could speak, Ynde stopped several colleagues who were still trying to argue and looked at Lynn, awaiting an answer with a puzzled expression.


    Lynn paid no attention to the disoriented divination wizards and continued speaking. "Do you remember when I mentioned the carriage problem? If we use the carriage as a reference point, the people inside are stationary. But if we use the starting point as the reference, then they have indeed moved. In my opinion, both of these statements are correct."


    Geocentrism and heliocentrism, in simple terms, are based on different frames of reference.


    Of course, inparison, heliocentrism is more suitable for solving practical problems, as the essence of a star system''s orbital formation is the gravitational pull of the stars. Therefore, the proposal of heliocentrism was indeed a significant advancement!


    As for whether these people couldprehend it, that was not his concern.


    Amidst the discussion, the magical symposium that hadsted all morning quickly came to an end. However, the topic ofs, ster orbits, and airship range measurement showed no signs of cooling down.


    Some of the top schrs from various guilds suddenly realized, as they walked out of the symposium, that they hade to showcase their new magical theories and spells. But in the end, not a word was said; the symposium had turned into a solo performance by Lynn.


    In such a situation, there was probably no one who cared about what new magical theories they had developed. Everyone was specting about the size and circumference of the beneath their feet.


    Philip, still immersed in his joy, couldn''t contain his excitement. Before attending the symposium, he had been worried that Lynn might not be able to handle the challenges from the divination wizards. However, Lynn had easily refuted them with a well-structured experiment and even received a nomination for the Sr Crown Medal!


    The Sr Crown Medal was the highest honor in the field of magical academia. Philip had never imagined that the Iyeta Guild would one day be awarded such a prestigious honor, which had previously been the exclusive domain of legendary wizards.


    Considering using a magicalmunication spell to summon Kevin, Ondo, and the others for the uing medal ceremony, Philip knew it would be a day of great glory for the Iyeta Guild!


    Compared to Philip, who was still reveling in joy, Lynn was now surrounded by a crowd of inquisitive wizards with an insatiable thirst for knowledge. After providing them with a method to calcte the''s circumference, everyone was curious about how to determine the mass of this massive celestial body.


    Lynn was bing exasperated with the questions and tried to exin that further calctions required knowing the''s radius and gravitational constant.


    Finally, after shooing away these curious minds, Lynn turned to the legendary wizard Harof, who hadn''t left yet, and asked, "Lord Harof, is there anything else I can help you with?"


    "I have a few questions I hope you can answer," Harof said with a humble demeanor, not disying any arrogance just because Lynn was only a third-circle wizard.


    In fact, this issue had been bothering him for a whole year.


    "Please, ask your questions. I''ll do my best to answer," Lynn replied.


    "I have read your Three Laws of Celestial Motion, but why are you so sure that a star''s orbit must be elliptical?" Harof asked, clearly puzzled. "Based on my research into gravity, it acts like ripples in water, spreading out from a central point to create orbits. It should be a perfect circle."


    "On this matter, I have discussed it with some schrs within the Secret Arts Society, and many spections have been put forward. But in summary, there are two main points," Lynn responded.


    "Which two points?" Harof inquired eagerly.


    "First, there is no perfect circle," Lynn said matter-of-factly. "Through precise mathematical calctions, pi is found to be an irrational number. So, the perfect circle we imagine may not exist in reality."


    "Are you sure about that?" Harof''s brow furrowed, and the alchemists in the Alchemical Association have also been researching the curvature of circles. Although they''ve reached a simr conclusion, he believed that everything in the world must have a pattern. They just hadn''t found it yet.


    "Unfortunately, it''s true. I''ve heard that a prominent member of the Secret Arts Society spent decades calcting pi to over two hundred trillion decimal ces, and the result still disyed no discernible pattern, able to continue indefinitely," Lynn shrugged and stated bluntly.


    Two hundred trillion decimal ces?


    Harof was struck dumb by the horrifying number. He began to doubt whether he and Lynn were even talking about the same thing or if he had misheard something.


    He vaguely remembered that the Alchemical Association had only calcted pi to a few decimal ces, maybe... the ninth ce?


    "I don''t remember much, maybe just the first two hundred digits or so," Lynn raised his hand, using magic to disy the numbers before them.


    [3.1415926535897932...]


    As Harof stared at the string ofplex and chaotic numbers in front of him, his face twitched involuntarily. The first nine digits were identical to the Alchemical Association''s calction. He had to admit that what Lynn said was probably true.


    However, he couldn''t help but wonder just how much free time Lynn had to calcte pi to two hundred trillion decimal ces.


    At the same time, Harof was bing increasingly interested in the Secret Arts Society mentioned in the invitation. It must be a gathering of top academic researchers.


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