The sun was setting slantingly, and the waves on Lake Patzcuaro shone. The majestic Qincongcan City stands beside the lake, and the brand-new Sunway University symbolizes a broad future.
In the ancient mythology of the Prepecha people, Lake Patzcuaro is the driving force behind the world, and Chinconcan is the center of the world. At this moment, in the inspired words of the king and on the shoulders of countless giants of later generations, Mesoamerican civilization’s exploration of the laws of the world will be born in a new form, and the light of science will be nurtured from religious beliefs!
"I hope that one day, this place will become the birthplace of modern science in the entire human world!"
With a smile on his face, Shulot looked at the young apprentices under the altar, his face full of expectation, and he was thinking silently in his heart. Most of these priest apprentices are fifteen or sixty-seven years old. Their active minds are not bound by traditional ideas, and their world concepts have not yet been formed. They are far easier to shape than adult priests...
The king pondered for a moment and announced loudly.
"My students! Whether you understand it or not, listen patiently to my teachings and learn the mysteries of the gods! When you come out of here qualified, you will be my students and my disciples!"
Upon hearing the king's words, hundreds of apprentices collectively lost their voices for a moment, and then burst into excited cheers. The cheers echoed enthusiastically in the university, like rolling thunder before the spring rain.
Shulot's face was full of joy. Looking at the enthusiastic young faces, he felt the sense of belonging as the principal. Newly born seedlings need to be cared for and grown up, and the status of a disciple given to a divinely inspired person is an effective encouragement and protection.
The divinely inspired priest in charge of recording walked up to the altar and respectfully handed over the recorded instructions to the "divinely enlightened one" for review. Shulot checked briefly and nodded slightly. The seven recorded "mysteries of the gods" unfold one after another, laying the foundation for natural science. These "divine mysteries" may seem mysterious and difficult, but if they were expressed in the language of later generations, they would be simple and straightforward.
Article 1: Matter is composed of particles. Particles are broken down into molecules, atoms and smaller elementary particles.
Article 2: Different atoms form molecules in different ways, which determines the physical and chemical properties of matter.
Article 3: Energy is transferred between materials, causing materials to move and change. When the structure of molecules is changed by energy, the physical and chemical properties of the substance will also change.
Article 4: Energy is released in the form of heat, following the second law of thermodynamics, and flows spontaneously from a high-temperature heat source to a low-temperature heat source.
Article 5, the definition of force, the effect of changing the speed of an object or deforming it.
Article 6, three laws of motion. Law of inertia, law of acceleration, law of action and reaction.
Article 7: The components of life are cells.
Of course, if you want to truly lay the foundation of natural science, these "mysteries of the gods" are far from enough. Shulot has an ambitious plan to gradually transform the laws of physics, chemistry and biology learned throughout the compulsory education stage into a language that can be accepted by the times. Then, as today, it was taught to apprentices in universities as an inspiration to science.
The process of scientific enlightenment can be long, lasting many years. The first students may not be able to truly understand it, and will only memorize it as a hadith. But there is no doubt about the significance of this kind of teaching, and the sense of accomplishment it brings is unparalleled!
"I'm changing the world for the better!"
The king nodded with a smile and handed the recorded admonishment to Bravo.
"Bravo, carve what I said today on the stone wall so that all apprentices can ponder it over and over again."
"I will obey your decree, Lord Priest!"
Bravo bowed his head respectfully. He received the instruction and saw that "everything in the world is composed of particles of God." After thinking about it for a moment, panic arose in his heart.
"Sir, the sect leader..."
"Um?"
"While recording your lecture, could you please add a few additions?"
Bravo on the altar lowered his voice and warned cautiously.
"Everything in the world is composed of particles of God... Are the noble descendants of gods and humble slaves the same in origin?"
Hearing this, Xiulote raised his brows and understood in his heart. He glanced at the uneasy Bravo lightly and asked.
"How do you want to change it?"
"Can I add a sentence at the end? The divine grains that make up the divine descendants were endowed with divinity by the Lord God himself, so they have a noble status and are above everyone else..."
The king pondered for a long time. No matter what the instructions he uttered, they must be interpreted by the people of the era according to the wishes of the era. If these enlightening scientific teachings are to be spread within religious systems, footnotes that fit the times must be added.
"Yes! Don't change what I said. Leave it alone at the back with scripture notes!"
"Obey you! Great Divine Enlightenment!"
Bravo saluted solemnly and breathed a silent sigh of relief.
As long as he can write notes, he can find a way to deal with it in front of the traditional high priests. Otherwise, after engraving so many astonishing "instructions", his position as vice principal would be over. The alliance's group of priests and elders has always been conservative. They can't take action against the king, so why can't they sacrifice him as a little third-level chief priest?
Thinking of this, Bravo hesitated for a while and then gave another admonishment.
"Dear sect chief priest, when you go to the capital city in the lake, it is best not to mention these instructions..."
Shulot stared at Bravo calmly for a moment, nodded and smiled.
"Bravo, I understand what you mean. Don't worry about me, and don't worry about yourself. As long as you manage the university well, one day, there will be a place for you in the highest group of priests and elders!"
"Ah! Obey your decree! I will follow your footsteps to the end of the world!"
Bravo suppressed the excitement in his heart and solemnly bowed to the ground. Then, he stood up and stepped back, leaving the king alone in the center of the altar.
"Boom~bang~pah!"
A red firework bloomed in the sky and made a strange sound! The cheers under the altar gradually subsided, and the apprentices looked to the stage and returned to silence.
Shulot put down the diabolo tube in his hand, gathered his thoughts, and preached loudly again.
"My students, raise your heads and look to the sky! What do you see?"
"Strange red fireworks..."
Several priest apprentices mustered up their courage and spoke softly.
Shulot has good hearing. He looked at the people who were talking, smiled and nodded.
"Yes! These red fireworks are fire and light, the power of God! The divine energy of the burning gunpowder changes the state of the particles of God. The divine energy is transmitted in the added divine particles, and the divine particles absorb the divine energy and release it again. Different divine particles will release red, yellow, blue, green...different colors of light according to their own characteristics!... As long as a fixed divine particle is burned, a fixed divine light will be released!... "
The king organized the words, describing that in atoms, electrons absorb heat and jump to an unstable state, and then release fixed-frequency photons to return to the ground state. This process is to identify the flame color reactions of different elements.
Among the crowd, Elaine blinked. She was a little confused and a little curious.
"Burn fixed divine particles and emit fixed divine light...could it be that the priests can artificially create all kinds of strange light flames without communicating with the gods?"
On the altar, Bravo lowered his head and his body trembled slightly. Hearing the king's narration, he was sweating all over. The blue flame is a standard equipment for priests in the Lake District, used to "communicate with the kingdom of the dead."
"The spring sun is so hot! ... Let me think, let me think carefully, how to interpret the precepts..."
Shulot looked at the many apprentices and explained patiently.
"God particles make up all things in the world, and the types of all things are different, so the types of God particles are naturally different. Metals and stones, flowing water and air, earth and sky... They contain different types and different combinations of God particles... And The most essential difference between the God Particles lies in their core! The God Particles are too small to touch. Based on the color of the burning divine light, we can see the core of the God Particles through the numerous appearances and identify their types. !..."
As she listened, Elaine's eyes were filled with "???" signs. She tried hard to listen for a while, then decided to give up. The girl's gaze gradually deflected, finally stopping on the red altar.
There, the divine priests and craftsmen were already busy. A strange ball with a diameter of several meters gradually bulged, and was then fixed by ropes and suspended on the altar.
The ball seemed to be made of bark paper, a specialty of the kingdom, with a terrifying red eye engraved on the surface, like the cold gaze of a god, staring closely at everyone in the field.
The brave Tekos girl shuddered. She lowered her head slightly, guessing at the power of the gods, and did not dare to look directly at the mysterious and terrifying ball.
On the yellow altar, Shulot stopped talking. He looked at the distracted apprentices, smiled, walked off the yellow altar and walked towards the red altar.
As he approached, the hot air balloon on the altar appeared clearly before his eyes. Under the guidance of the king, the craftsmen's prototype hot air balloon was made of tough bark paper, and the joints were carefully bonded with isinglass, and then coated with expensive rubber juice to reinforce it to prevent air leakage.
There are huge red eyeballs painted on the surface of the hot air balloon, which are named "Eye of the Lord God". It has a diameter of six meters and a volume of more than 100 cubic meters. It can be regarded as a small hot air balloon or a large Kongming Lantern. Similar to the Kongming Lantern, there is a simple wooden frame at the bottom of the "Eye of the Lord", which is then hooked with a rope to fix a thin pottery brazier.
There are several kilograms of fine charcoal placed in the brazier and it is burning! The hot flame rises from the brazier, heating the air inside, causing the entire hot air balloon to inflate. Under the hot air balloon, a lightweight bamboo basket is connected with a rope.
A fat turkey cackled, its wings and feet were tied, and it was stuffed into a small but tough bamboo basket. Little does the turkey know at this moment that it will become the first land creature to fly high in the sky in a hot air balloon. It just struggled repeatedly uncomfortably, raising pieces of chicken feathers and shaking the hot air balloon above.
The inflated hot air balloon was suspended in mid-air, bound by the ropes tied by the priests, and could only helplessly sway up and down, like a huge divine beast with life, and then let out shocking breaths.
Seeing this scene, Shulot nodded with satisfaction. For the Kingdom in the Lake, the pre-requisite technologies for making small hot air balloons are already mature. The production of hot air balloons is carried out in the name of offering sacrifices to gods. More than a dozen outstanding craftsmen work hard and strive to make every detail the best, and the manpower and material resources are sufficient. Compared with the explorers of the Old World, he also has rubber unique to the Americas for sealing and reinforcement.
The priest apprentices looked at the suspended huge "Eye of the Lord God" and exclaimed in uncontrollable awe. Under the admiring eyes of everyone, the king walked under the hot air balloon. He raised his hand, touched the rubber coating at the bottom of the hot air balloon, looked at the thin brazier that emitted heat waves, and checked the fixed frame. Then, the king raised his head and silently stared at the huge sky creation.
The production of the "Eye of the Lord God" was carefully calculated by Shulot.
It is six meters in diameter and has a volume of more than one hundred cubic meters. When a cubic meter of air is heated from 20 degrees to 80 degrees, the weight will be reduced by 200 grams, providing approximately 2N of lift. In other words, a hot air balloon with a volume of 5 cubic meters is estimated to be able to lift an object weighing 2 kilograms when sufficiently heated. In the entire hot air balloon, more than 100 cubic meters of heated air can carry about 40 kilograms of objects.
In a hot air balloon, a thin pottery brazier weighs about 4 pounds and charcoal weighs about 4 pounds, which can burn for more than an hour. The paper balls, frames, ropes, and bamboo baskets weigh more than 10 kilograms in total. In total, the hot air balloon itself weighs a little more than 20 pounds and can provide half of the lift as a load.
The turkey in the bamboo basket weighs about 10 kilograms, and the remaining 10 kilograms are used to load the hemp rope. Yes, Shulot was not going to fly this oversized "Kongming Lantern", but connected a 200-meter-long hemp rope. After the experiment, he planned to use ropes to pull down the hot air balloon and recover it.
A 6 mm thick hemp rope weighs about 1 pound and 10 meters. According to rough calculations, if everything goes as expected, the "Eye of the Lord God" will fly to a height of about one or two hundred meters, and then it will float and stop with the rope until the firepower of the charcoal weakens, and then slowly fall.
Shulot stared in trance, his yearning and longing for the sky surging in the king's heart. The "eye of the gods" in front of you will be the starting point for the entire human civilization to explore the sky!
418 After a while, he smiled and asked the divine priest in charge of the hot air balloon.
"Chimel Knowledge, are you all ready?"
Chimel, the second-level divine priest, pursed his lips and tried to keep his face calm. However, his trembling voice betrayed his inner excitement.
"Dear sect leader, everything is ready!"
"Okay! The Lord God bless us!"
Shulot nodded solemnly. He looked at the awed apprentices under the altar and announced loudly.
"Priest apprentices of the kingdom, my students! Let us witness this great and immortal moment together! The Lord God establishes the order of the world, and all things follow the laws of nature. You must always remember that as long as you master the mystery of the gods, even if Even a small mortal can reach the high sky!"
Under the altar, hundreds of apprentices listened solemnly, watched, and expected. The king smiled lightly and proudly ordered.
"Chimel, untie the rope and let the Eye of the Lord rise into the sky!"
"I obey you, the chief priest of the Divine Enlightenment!"
With trembling fingers, Chimel untied the rope. Then, under the gazes of the priest apprentices and janitor warriors, under the gazes of countless shocks and awes, the "Eye of the Lord God" finally broke free from all restraints, and rose with the turkey in the bamboo basket toward the sky of the Kingdom of God. Fly away!
