Chapter 572 Witness the Miracle! (Part 3)

"Catch the wave in the electromagnetic field?"

Upon hearing Xu Yun’s words,

Faraday instinctively turned his head and exchanged a glance with his good friend William Weber.

Then the two electromagnetism experts thought of something simultaneously.

They shifted their gaze to the large galvanized metal plate in the classroom.

Unlike ordinary visible light,

if there truly exists a wave within the electromagnetic field, it must possess a property that is invisible to the naked eye.

This is a principle even children understand, after all, if electromagnetic waves were visible, Faraday and others would have noticed them long ago.

So when Xu Yun mentioned ’catch’, it certainly couldn’t have meant directly presenting electromagnetic waves to everyone. Instead, it must refer to using a certain phenomenon or reaction as evidence.

Just like the iron filings experiment Faraday conducted:

At that time, he sprinkled a fine layer of iron filings on a sheet of paper, placed a magnet underneath, and then tapped the paper lightly.

The iron filings, impacted by the vibration, aligned in neat lines from the magnet’s north pole to the south pole.

Faraday thereby discovered the concept of magnetic lines of force.

So undoubtedly...

Xu Yun’s ’capture’ this time clearly also involves using a phenomenon instead of the actual substance, and this certainly comes without any surprises.

But what phenomenon will it be?

A physical reaction?

Or perhaps using a phenomenon to substitute for an invisible object?

As Faraday and others pondered this, Xu Yun spoke again:

"Professor Faraday, can we start the experiment now?"

Faraday snapped back to reality and cast an inquisitive glance at Prince Albert beside him.

Although the Unofficial King of the British Peninsula lacked some professional knowledge, he was, after all, the highest-ranking person present, and the experiment had to have his consent to commence.

Prince Albert nodded slightly to Faraday and said to Xu Yun,

"Please start, Student Luo Feng."

Xu Yun acknowledged and then subtly glanced at Prince Albert.

In those few words just moments ago, Prince Albert paused twice, swallowing in between.

It was quite evident.

The gastric and esophageal spasms that ultimately led to Prince Albert’s premature death were already displaying symptoms by this time.

As the most famous ’son-in-law’ in British history, Albert—particularly in terms of future British medical inquiries—had his health conditions rigorously studied.

What can be confirmed is that,

while alive, Prince Albert suffered from lumbar rheumatism, an enlarged prostate, gastric spasms, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Among these, the latter two were most likely responsible for Prince Albert’s demise.

The UK of this era did not have omeprazole, and the pain and threat posed by gastroesophageal reflux disease were much more severe than in later times.

But Xu Yun was somewhat hesitant...

He was unsure if he should intervene.

Because, in the original history, Prince Albert had an oddly peculiar stance towards Huaxia.

First, as a member of the interest class, Prince Albert would have undoubtedly benefited from the First Opium War’s gains for the United Kingdom.

Yet, as the Unofficial King of my England, he never expressed any attitude or directive towards Huaxia.

He remained indifferent to the Eastern situation throughout his life, focusing mainly on Germany, America, industry, and the economy.

The East seemed almost nonexistent, with the British Prime Minister always responsible for strategies towards Huaxia.

In his past life, Xu Yun even asked a friend to spend over seven hundred bucks collecting scanned versions of the UK’s proposals towards Huaxia between 1840 to 1865, yet none were found to be determined by Albert.

His character aside, this is utterly unreasonable from a national decision-maker’s perspective—who in any European class in the 19th century would ignore Huaxia?

Yet Albert inexplicably did so.

It’s like having stock software that yields tens of millions in dividends annually, but never caring about this portion of money or even thinking of using a phone to check yesterday’s gains.

This behavior is indeed very, very strange.

Jinling University even initiated a topic to study Prince Albert’s attitude towards Huaxia due to this, but ultimately no definitive conclusion was reached.

So Xu Yun truly couldn’t grasp what kind of personality this person had.

If it were someone like Grant, the heinous captain of the Foreign Gun Team, or Lindsay, a respectable international friend, dealing with them would be much easier.

Thinking of this,

Xu Yun couldn’t help but shake his head, temporarily dismissing this thought.

Time is long, better to observe slowly.

The pressing matter is to handle the experiment and establish a connection with Faraday.

Then he went to the experiment generator and said to Thomson,

"Mr. Thomson, please draw all the curtains in the room."

Thomson immediately nodded and replied,

"Understood."

Rustle—

A moment later,

the black curtains of the classroom were completely drawn.

Given that the classroom was already in a remote corner, the interior was, if not pitch black, at least meeting the standards of a ’dark room’.

Xu Yun made a final check of the equipment, then pressed the switch.

Compared to yesterday’s experiment, today’s generator prepared by Xu Yun was more refined in specification:

The copper ball remained the same, but the length of the copper rod connecting the copper ball was standardized at 12 inches, and the side length of the square zinc plate was 16 inches.