Prince of Chaos

Chapter 673 The Crown Prince’s Third Experiment

Everyone was waiting nervously. They really couldn't think of any way to prove that the earth would rotate.

Just to demonstrate that the earth is round, it took thousands of years for human beings to barely see it clearly, and this result has not yet been recognized by the Holy See, but the argument that the sun is the center of the universe and the earth is round is almost unanimous. To be hit.

Now, here at Daming, not only did Daming not reject such a theory, he even had a way to prove that the earth can rotate on its own. This is really a paradise on earth!
It is no exaggeration to say that this is a paradise for human beings.

The Taixi scholars present all held their breath and focused all their eyes on Zhu Changluo.

Zhu Changluo looked at everyone in the auditorium with a smile on his face.

He didn't know how excited these people were, but their nervous eyes and expectant expressions had already told Zhu Changluo that they were all eager to know the result.

In the inertial thinking of later generations, the Ming and Qing dynasties were two generations with solidified thinking.

actually not.

Especially Daming, Daming's preferential treatment of scholar-officials exceeded any previous court.

Although, some people actually said that the Ming Dynasty was harsh on the scholars, and their salaries were the lowest in all dynasties.

However, which of the Ming officials paid taxes?Which does not annex land?Which one is not in business?
They took advantage of the power and position given by the court to push the enjoyment to the extreme.

If it is said that these people suffered and suffered in the Ming Dynasty.

That is playing hooligans!
In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's high-handed rule may have really caused great losses to the scholar-officials.

However, after Zhu Yuanzhang, these people have not suffered any losses.

Although a group of former Jianwen ministers were also killed in the Jingnan Battle, in the final analysis, Emperor Yongle did not severely criticize the entire civil official group for the sake of social stability.

He even reused and promoted those small officials who had been mixed with Jianwen, gave them great honor and favor, and greatly won the hearts of scholars in the south of the Yangtze River.

It can be said that since Zhu Yuanzhang, the ever-increasing civilian group will only get better and better, and it will never be sad every day.

Therefore, this also caused the social phenomenon of loose rule of law in Ming Dynasty society.

Many people who have read to the extreme, they began to let themselves go in this relaxed environment, pursuing their personal hobbies.

For example, the popular transvestism in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, the budding of capitalism popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and late Ming scientists, thinkers, political commentators, and writers such as Song Yingxing, Li Zhi, Huang Zongxi, and Zhang Dai.

If these people did not live in a comfortable era, how could they enjoy their hobbies so leisurely and redundantly?

Therefore, anyone who explains that acting as a scholar-bureaucrat is the worst is a person whose thinking does not go through the brain.

In the original historical time and space, court officials like Xu Guangqi and cabinet bachelors were baptized with Matteo Ricci and learned foreign classics.

Such a relaxed atmosphere, if we talk about hardship, then I really don't know what kind of life is not difficult.

Of course, it is precisely because of this relaxed social environment that various theories have been given the opportunity to make their debut.

Although the stubborn old master will be xenophobic, the general atmosphere of the whole society is active in a state of novelty and novelty.

Therefore, in the late Ming Dynasty, the enlightened scholar-officials did not reject or hostile to any knowledge and learning in the world, and they would put down their bodies to study and study hard.

This is why there were so many inventors, writers, and thought reformers in the late Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this is just an appearance.

The lives of scholar-bureaucrats and landlords are naturally quiet and elegant, carefree, and even moaning without illness.

But the people at the bottom are still suffering.

Therefore, many people who study the history of the late Ming Dynasty in later generations will find that the late Ming Dynasty was a very divided era.

In the end, all these prosperous scenes festered in the north, and the people were in dire straits. Under the iron hoofs going south, they became a dream bubble and became an eternal pain in the hearts of Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats.

Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world.

Now, though, there is a dose.

That was the birth of Zhu Changluo!
If Zhu Changluo can complete the balance between the north and the south and complete the control over the gentry and landlord class in his lifetime, then there is still hope for the future of Ming Dynasty.

If you can't finish it, then I'm sorry.

According to the current national situation, the current Daming will at most last a few years longer than the Daming in the original historical time and space.

After all, the various extreme climates brought about by the Little Ice Age were not just for fun.

After the extreme cold in the north, earthquakes, plagues, extreme droughts and other natural disasters and man-made disasters appeared, it would be a fool's dream to hold on to the situation with the current Ming Dynasty!
Unless someone wants to be a sinner through the ages, saying that the north is no longer there.

However, how can a nation with a deep-rooted idea of ​​unification just say no to it?

No one can bear the title of this national sinner!

Therefore, no matter how difficult the north is, Da Ming still has to stick to it. If the north is lost, Da Ming's blood and integrity will be just a joke.

Zhu Changluo withdrew his thoughts, still looking at everyone in the auditorium.

Zhu Changluo asked: "Have you ever seen a pendulum?"

Ever since the imitation mechanical clock in Xishan Huangzhuang was born, everyone present knew the word pendulum.

Now, in Xishan Huangzhuang's Xishan Academy, Xishan Institute of Technology, Xishan Institute of Physics, Xishan Wanli Street, Xishan Station and other important occasions, tall bell towers have been built.

Anyone who is active in these areas, as long as they arrive at a fixed time, they can hear the clanging bells above these bell towers.

Therefore, for pendulums, even ordinary people who cannot afford household clocks are familiar with what a pendulum is.

Everyone was a little confused, what does the rotation of the earth have to do with the pendulum?

Everyone replied: "I have seen it."

Hearing everyone's positive answers, Zhu Changluo was very happy. What he wanted was this sense of participation.

Zhu Changluo smiled and said: "The pendulum is a very common phenomenon, but there is another interesting phenomenon of the pendulum. I wonder if you have observed it?"

Everyone is at a loss, is it a fun phenomenon?Isn't that the phenomenon of bells ringing?

For the phenomenon of the bell ringing, even those who understand the principle can't help but look at it more curiously.

After all, in their view, this kind of movement is almost comparable to the buffalo Trojan horse invented by Zhuge Liang in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

However, the buffalo Trojan horse is a legend after all, and more than 500 years have passed, and no one can argue whether this invention is a rumor or a false exaggeration.

However, the movement of the mechanical clock above the clock tower is indeed powerless and automatic.

Zhu Changluo continued: "Today Gu also made a pendulum. Whoever is interested later can volunteer to come up to the stage to have a look at this pendulum."

After Zhu Changluo finished speaking, he clapped his hands, and then Sun Xian brought a few people up to carry a large circular sand table.

Then a rope was lowered from the beam at the top of the Great Hall.

Everyone watching this scene didn't know what it was going to do.

Immediately afterwards, four wrestlers came up with a large iron ball, and there was a bull's nostril on the upper end of the ball. Obviously, this hole was used for threading.

Several wrestlers tried their best to bind the ball, which weighed more than tens of kilograms, firmly to the rope hanging from the top of the auditorium.

After Zhu Changluo watched them finish their work, he said, "This top is about nine feet away from where Gu is standing now, and this ball weighs about fifty catties. Who would like to come up and push this ball? Let it swing like a pendulum stand up."

Everyone looked at me and you for a while, but no one dared to stand up first.

At this time, the always stubborn little old man Bruno raised his hand high.

Zhu Changluo looked at the stubborn old man and said with a smile, "Mr. Bu, please come up."

Bruno, led by the guards, walked to the stage.When he was about to walk in front of Zhu Changluo, he seemed to suddenly remember something.

Immediately, he stopped in his tracks, clenched his hands back and forth a few times, and finally made a nondescript fist and bowed to Zhu Changluo.

Zhu Changluo smiled kindly: "There is no need to be formal today."

Bruno glanced at Zhu Changluo gratefully, and then fixed his eyes on the iron ball hanging in mid-air.

Zhu Changluo looked into Bruno's eyes, and he said, "Mr. Bu, you can push the iron ball to see if there is any problem."

After Bruno heard Zhu Changluo's words, he immediately stepped into the sand table, stepped on the thin sand in the sand table to the middle, reached out and grabbed the rope on the iron ball, and then tried to hug the five-year-old ball. A ten-pound iron ball, when it is determined that there is nothing wrong with it.

Bruno held the iron ball and dragged it to the extreme edge, then let go of his hand lightly, and the iron ball wandered out following the inertia.

After coming here for a while, he stopped quietly.

Bruno on the stage and the people in the audience were all at a loss, not knowing what the pendulum meant.

At this time, Zhu Changluo looked at Bruno with a blank face, and asked, "Mr. Bu, in your eyes, does the iron ball you just pushed move back and forth in a straight line?"

Bruno felt that this question was an insult to IQ, could it be a straight line?
Isn't it all straight from one wandering to another and wandering back again?

Is this also a problem?
However, Bruno didn't dare to speak out so presumptuously.

Bruno said: "Your Highness, the iron ball goes in a straight line."

Zhu Changluo looked at everyone in the audience and asked, "Do you think so too?"

Everyone hesitated, but no matter how much hesitation, the ball was still swinging back and forth in a straight line, so in the end, a sparse voice began to respond, "The ball swings in a straight line."

Zhu Changluo was very satisfied after hearing these answers.

A smile appeared on his face again.

Then Zhu Changluo said: "Ten more people can come up and observe together."

At this time, everyone raised their hands.

However, in the end Zhu Changluo randomly ordered ten people to come up together.

Among these ten people, five are from Daming and five are from Taixi.

Including the original Bruno, there are eleven people in total.

Zhu Changluo said: "Eleven of you can stand around this sand table in a balanced manner, and then choose one of you to swing the iron ball."

Eleven people looked at each other, and soon a young man was determined to go to the middle of the sand table to hold the iron ball, drag it to the edge, and make it swing freely.

At this time, the eleven people gathered around the disc and watched the iron ball swing.

After a while, the iron ball stopped moving.

Zhu Changluo asked again: "Is the iron ball going in a straight line?"

At this time, the eleven people were a little bit at a loss, some said yes, some said no, there were different opinions, and one thing could not be unified.

At this time, their discussion gradually aroused the thinking of everyone in the auditorium.

Isn't the iron ball going in a straight line?

Everyone has a question mark in their hearts.

At this time, Zhu Changluo said again: "Come here, hang a bag of lime under the iron ball, and poke a small hole under the bag of lime."

Two wrestlers came to the stage. According to Zhu Changluo's instructions, a lime bag was hung under the suspended iron ball, and then a small hole was poked in the lime bag, and the lime inside leaked evenly from the small hole.

Zhu Changluo said: "Go to another one and pull the iron ball back to the edge of the sand table and let it go freely."

At this time, Bruno volunteered to go over again.

He dragged the iron ball to the edge and let it go.

A magical scene appeared!

In their eyes, the iron ball swinging back and forth was no longer a straight line.

Every time the iron ball swings back and forth, the lime powder leaked from the lime bag under the iron ball will leave a trace of the iron ball swinging on the sand table.

This trace actually deflected!

It's no longer straightforward.

This scene shocked everyone on the stage.

When the iron ball came to rest, the lime powder had drawn deflected lines one after another on the sand table.

Zhu Changluo's voice appeared again, and Zhu Changluo asked: "Is the iron ball moving in a straight line?"

Everyone on the stage was stunned, and no one spoke.

People in the audience anxiously waited for the announcement of the result.

Finally, Zhu Changluo turned around and said, "The route the iron ball swings out and back is not the same, which shows that our earth is in motion!"

Zhu Changluo's words were deafening!
Everyone present was stunned.

This overturns their common sense.

Does the earth really move?But why can't I feel it at all?
Zhu Changluo went on to say: "The earth is constantly moving and rotating. It's just because the earth is too vast and our senses are too small. Therefore, we can't feel the movement of the earth at all."

"However, this pendulum can be fixed at a top, and then move freely. At this time, the force of the earth's rotation is exerted on the iron ball, so that we can clearly see that the earth is constantly rotating. Stop exercising."

"And this is also a strong proof why we have day and night. Because the earth is rotating, when she turns to the side facing the sun, we have day. When she turns to the sun, we have night!"

"And this is the way of heaven that can be observed through experiments! The way of heaven is mysterious and supreme, but it must be indescribable. As long as we explore it carefully, dare to make bold assumptions, and carefully verify it, all the mysteries of the world will be presented to us!"

"The ancients said: Man will conquer the sky! And this word of victory is to explore the unknown. As long as we discover the unknown and understand the unknown, we can understand why we can survive on this land? Enjoy being bathed in the sun!"

Zhu Changluo's words immediately shocked the souls of everyone present.

At this moment, everyone looked at Zhu Changluo as if they were looking at a holy god!

If it weren't for the divine holiness, who would be able to see the mysteries between heaven and earth so easily?
Therefore, at this moment, Zhu Changluo's image in people's minds was sanctified again.

In their eyes, Zhu Changluo is a god walking in the world. His prophet and his wonderful thoughts all set off that he is the only true god in this world!
The Taixi people who have worshiped God since ancient times also knelt devoutly in front of Zhu Changluo at this moment, praying and blessing devoutly to Zhu Changluo.

According to their legends, people like Zhu Changluo are either prophets or sons of gods!
The emperors of the Ming Dynasty all claimed to be the Son of Heaven, and the crown prince will also be the Son of Heaven in the future.

Therefore, in the minds of these people, Zhu Changluo's status has already caught up with Taixi's Jesus.

Zhu Changluo's vanity was greatly satisfied when he looked at the crowd's eyes of almost crazy admiration.

This experiment was not Zhu Changluo's own idea. His experiment was completely plagiarized from a later French physicist, Foucault.

The original version of this experiment was an experiment done by the French physicist Foucault in the French Pantheon in 1851.

Later, the pendulum used to observe the rotation of the earth was named Foucault's pendulum.

However, it is now the 29th year of Wanli, which is only 1601 according to the Western calendar, which is 250 years earlier than Foucault!
Therefore, from now on in this historical time and space, this experiment will no longer be called Foucault's pendulum.

Its new name should be called - Crown Prince Pendulum!
After the space-time industry progresses to a certain level, this pendulum may be built in planetariums all over the world.

And it is explained aside that this is an experiment on the rotation of the earth conducted by the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty in the auditorium of Xishan Academy in Xishan Huangzhuang in the 29th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking that in the future, planetariums all over the world will have their own names and their own experiments to reproduce.Zhu Changluo couldn't help grinning.

After reaching a certain level of power and wealth, who doesn't love posthumous fame?

Zhu Changluo is not immune either.

He is also a mortal, an ordinary mortal who only knows a little more about the future than people of this era.

But this future is enough for Zhu Changluo to stir up troubles in this era.

In the end, Zhu Changluo left quietly, leaving only the people in the auditorium as if they were on a pilgrimage. They went to the stage to test and observe over and over again, watching the deflection force of the suspended iron ball rotating on the ground. Swing freely.

And this is the third experiment of the crown prince!
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