If you predict the date of the six-star continuation, will everything be fine?
Of course not. As an astronomy enthusiast and professional, how could I be satisfied with such a superficial prediction?
But if we want to continue to improve in accuracy, there is another thing that must be accurately defined, and that is time.
The biggest reason why this work has not been done is that the original observation data is insufficient. Although after becoming an official magician and before starting to explore the starry sky, I had thought about accurately defining these useful tools. Even if it doesn't reach the height of the 21st century on earth, it is still much better than the crude way of the indigenous people in the Lost World.
But this work, which should be very important, has never been carried out. The most important thing is that I had to run for a living. In order to save the application fee for entering the magic tower, Lin Ke took two magic apprentices who couldn't even meditate to start a wild life of life and death. Maybe the term "barbaric" is an exaggeration, but the magic enlightenment of the two girls was really completed in the wilderness.
The time that I can stay safely in Wulian City is basically waiting for the next good job opportunity, or occasionally missing some jobs that can be completed in the city, but such jobs are very few. In such a situation of running around, there is naturally no way to make astronomical observations and record data properly.
It wasn't until he settled in the Tower of the Great Sage that this situation was truly improved. It can be said that this magic tower, in addition to computerizing it as the most important calculation tool, also allows Lin to have a fixed place to observe celestial bodies with peace of mind.
As for the source of income that was originally considered, he planned to rely on the association's monthly subsidy to survive until death. Therefore, Lin is quite concerned about the progress of the two apprentices. After all, their performance is related to the amount of his subsidy. However, the unexpected blessings brought by the browser and the forum made me have a lot more money.
It has been one year and six months since I entered the Tower of the Great Sage. The observation data has been accumulated to a certain extent, and subsequent calculations can be carried out.
Considering that the manpower may be expanded in the future to join the great cause of calculation and observation, Lin does not intend to reinvent a calendar. Instead, the original calendar and timekeeping methods of the Lost World were expanded and defined until they were accurate enough to be used.
That being said, there are many calendars with different systems in the world of Lost World itself. There is almost no definition of time. Even as rigorous as a magician, no one seems to care about this aspect.
As for a calendar that is more accepted by most people and is used by the vast majority of magicians, it is the Aramaic calendar established by the sect of Enki, the representative deity who is the head of the eight powers and the god of knowledge.
The shortest point of the sundial shadow is recorded. The shortest point of a cycle is 365 days, which is the year defined by the Aramaic calendar. Among them, there are thirteen months, corresponding to the names of twelve ancient gods. One month has no name, and some people call it the hidden moon.
Each month has exactly 28 days in a cycle of Nanna month, which is divided into four weeks, each week has seven days. And there is a day that is a unique day that does not belong to any month. Which day or month this single sun and the previously mentioned Hidden Moon fall on is determined by astrologers, and there are no rules that can be followed at a glance.
But under Lin's observation, the number of days in each year should be 365.2422. That is to say, every four years there will be one more day, but every one hundred and twenty-eight years there will be one less day...
If there weren't two satellites in the sky, Lin would have doubts about certain possibilities when looking at the calculated numbers. As for the time period in which Yin Yue and Du Sun should be placed, Lin suspected that there were rules, but the matrix of the cycle was so large that it was ignored in this world without mathematics. This part requires collecting past calendars, comparing them, and summarizing them to make it possible to verify them.
As for the time within a day, it was determined through a curious study after digitizing the eight power units. The change of one unit of power is one unit of time, and whether this change is plus one or minus one, one solar day will pass through 86,400,000 unit seconds.
And this time, no matter which power is used as the observation unit, or whether the power of multiple units increases or decreases by the same number of units, it will still pass through one unit second.
Then a certain time traveler trembled again. Just like the old science fiction movie I watched, at the end of the first episode of Planet of the Apes in the 1960s, the astronauts who returned to the surface and thought they were on an alien planet screamed in pain when they saw the collapsed Statue of Liberty. . That's how I feel now.
Carefully redefine one unit second as one millisecond, one thousand milliseconds as one second, sixty seconds as one minute, sixty minutes as one hour, and a solar day has twenty-four hours. Only then can we have the result of the previous calculation that the number of days in a year is 365.2422 days. Is this result some kind of weird coincidence, or is there another reason? No solution……
Putting aside the distraction of not having an answer, Lin established a third server in addition to the domain name server and web server, the standard time server. But it has not been announced to the public yet, and only three masters and apprentices are using it.
After getting the precise time, Lin used bright light magic to form a ball of light to simulate the relative position changes of the six planets and the sun in the star system. And calculate the exact time when the six planets enter the sector-shaped area with the smallest angle.
If you want to actually observe it, you must use special means to observe Midi, the fourth planet in the star system, and the three planets between the Sun, Chi, and Zhi. Even in the Lost Lands, human eyes cannot look directly at the sun, and there is no related magic to avoid it.
The connection between the force earth and the energy earth star on the other side may be blocked by the lunar eclipse. But all this depends on the area where the Tower of the Great Sage is located. What kind of phenomena can be observed, or nothing can be observed. After all, Midi Star will rotate, and the Tower of the Great Sage is only a small dot on Midi Star. It is impossible to observe the complete starry sky with the naked eye.
But when the calculation results came out, Lin was shocked again. The Tower of the Great Sage happened to be in the area where the total lunar eclipse could be observed. In other words, when six plus two stars are connected, the Tower of the Great Sage is also on the shadow side of this straight line, impartial.
After several consecutive calculations, the same result was obtained, which reminded Lin of a saying on Earth: If too many coincidences come together, they are no longer coincidences.
This series of coincidences made someone feel uneasy. It is difficult to look at what will happen this time with a simple mood of welcoming an astronomical event. Because this is a mysterious world with gods and magic.
Maybe a few stars in a row could only be used as a means of political propaganda for ancient emperors on Earth, and in fact nothing happened. But in the Lost World, Lin didn't dare to have such thoughts. Not only had he learned how to use magic, but he had even seen real miracles several times, such as bones growing flesh and the dead resurrected. These were definitely not things that the earth science he knew could explain.
In the following time, Lin did not wait for the results to arrive. Instead, he constantly adds various factors to improve the star system map he simulates. It includes the size and mass of each planet, the angle and distance between its orbit and Midea, and the observable satellites and asteroid belt. By adding new elements and taking into account the gravitational attraction between planets, the predicted value of the six-star continuum was simulated and calculated again and again, and the same result was obtained.
To be honest, Lin was already feeling frightened when he reached this level.
Sitting blankly in the core room, on the rotating chair next to the console, spinning while looking at the planetary distribution map formed by bright light magic. After inputting parameters such as orbit, speed, and planetary characteristic values into the program, the computerized magic tower will dynamically evolve in multiples according to the date and data that Lin started observing after arriving at the Tower of the Great Sage. One of the water mirror screens in front of the console is the time represented by the changes in the star map.
From the original light ball representing the star Midi, as the observation data continued to increase, the positions of various planets and sun stars were also added to the star map one by one. The increased parameters are also reflected in the photospheres representing planets and stars; for example, if the star radius data is added, the photosphere will increase proportionally. Then the orbit is generated and the revolution begins.
On the light ball representing the lost land, an arrow was erected, which represented the location of the Great Sage's Tower in the lost land. It also shows the rotation of Midi. When time ran to the end, it was not supported by observational data, but by predicted trajectories, and the star map stopped at the position of six stars in a row. The satellites and arrows of Midi point to the two planets Earth and Energy. The time stayed three days later, at 11:54 midnight.
Then Lin vomited…
One too many turns in the swivel chair caused the three semicircular canals to lose balance, so Lin fell off the chair, fell to his knees, and vomited.
Two young apprentices were urgently called to clean up the mess, while Lin slumped in his chair, staring blankly at the changes in the dynamic star chart that was played back and forth.
While cleaning up the mess, the two girls watched the light ball spinning. He praised and said: "Wow, so beautiful. Teacher, what is this?"
"This is our galaxy. The biggest one in the middle is the Sunstar."
Looking at the ball of light that occupied less than half of the core room, the two girls counted the six small balls of light rotating in the periphery. "The blazing ground, the wise ground, the seated ground, the confusing ground, the powerful ground, and the capable ground. Teacher, is this the right size? Why is the confusing ground about the same as a firefly, but the sun star is so big?"
After asking this question, Lin's sluggish spirit was revived. Think about the astronomical observation data of ancient people on Earth. They are all measured in years or even centuries. I have only recorded it for more than a year. Perhaps it is the lack of data that causes errors in calculations and predictions.
But then he went limp again. It’s just that all the stars that can be observed with the naked eye within the star system are wrong, so why should we still think about the stars outside the star system?
In the future, will we need to launch artificial satellites, build space telescopes, and find ways to minimize atmospheric interference factors? Countless problems that need to be solved make a certain time traveler feel worried about gains and losses.
