Chapter 46: Chen Gong: Inspirational to become a great physicist!
"It's amazing, it's really amazing. I didn't expect that the heat generated by burning candles can have such a magical effect!"
After Chen Gong got the fairy book, he disguised himself as a Taoist priest and came all the way to Xuzhou. He hid in Langya County of Xuzhou and started studying the physics book. There were too many things in it that he couldn't understand, so he could only pick the ones he could understand.
look.
For example, why it rains in the sky, why you see lightning and hear sounds when thundering, how rainbows are formed, etc. are all explained in this book. Chen Gong was mesmerized when he read it!
This book even records that the land under their feet turned out to be a sphere! It also records how far away the sun is from them, how light has speed, and other incredible things that subvert Chen Gong's three views.
This book directly smashed Chen Gong's three views and reassembled them. I, Chen Gong, have no interest in fighting for royal power. Now I just want to be a physicist!
"Sir, sir, what are you doing?" At this time, a little boy poked his head out of the door and shouted to Chen Gong.
"Oh, it's you, little Kong Ming. If you've finished your homework, run to me. Be careful if your uncle finds out you're running around and spanks you." Chen Gong replied to the little boy.
This person's name is Zhuge Liang, the second eldest son of the Zhuge family, a prominent family in Langya County, Xuzhou. He is a nine-year-old child who Chen Gong met accidentally when he first moved to Langya, Xuzhou.
Originally, Chen Gong just planned to chat with him so that he would not be bored by studying the Book of Heaven alone. Unexpectedly, when Chen Gong chatted with Zhuge Liang about the contents of the Book of Heaven, Zhuge Liang could not only understand but also draw inferences from one instance to another. For such a smart kid, he
It's unheard of.
From then on, Chen Gong looked at Zhuge Liang with admiration, and would chat with him about the contents of the book whenever he had anything to do. Zhuge Liang was also deeply attracted by what Chen Gong said, and would run to Chen Gong when he had nothing to do.
"Those master classes are not as interesting as here." Zhuge Liang replied disapprovingly. Ever since Chen Gong made a rainbow with water, Zhuge Liang often skipped class and went to Chen Gong.
After hearing this, Chen Gong immediately couldn't laugh or cry, thinking that this little guy was skipping class again.
"No one discovered it."
"Don't worry, sir, no one knows I'm here." Zhuge Liang replied with assurance.
This is the agreement he made with Chen Gong. He cannot let others know that he is here.
"Okay, come in, I just want to conduct an experiment!" Chen Gong asked Zhuge Liang, who was still standing at the door, to come in.
"Come here, sir, what are you doing for this experiment?" After receiving Chen Gong's instructions, Zhuge Liang couldn't wait to run in and looked at Chen Gong with curious eyes. The last time Chen Gong made a rainbow with water, Zhuge Liang couldn't wait to see it.
I was stunned, wondering what kind of interesting experiment this time would be.
"This time we will make something that can fly into the sky." Chen Gong answered mysteriously.
"Sir, are you going to give me a pair of bird wings?"
Upon hearing Feitian, Zhuge Liang instantly became excited.
Flying to heaven!
This is flying to heaven, something that many people dream of!
If he could do it, wouldn't he be able to fly like a bird?
"Haha, no, what we made this time cannot make people fly."
After hearing what Chen Gong said, Zhuge Liang looked a little disappointed, but he still held his chin and looked curiously at Chen Gong who was starting to work.
Chen Gong cut out several pieces of black cloth and glued them together with some branches he had prepared to form a lampshade.
Then Chen Gong was seen gluing a cross base on the lower part of the lampshade, then placing a small vessel on the base with wax oil in it, and then he took out a wick and inserted it into the wax oil.
"Okay!" Chen Gong looked at the lampshade he made and clapped his hands with satisfaction.
"Sir, why are you making a lampshade? Can this thing fly?" Zhuge Liang looked at the lampshade made by Chen Gong and thought to himself. He had never seen this thing fly at home. Zhuge Liang was skeptical that this lampshade could fly.
"Sir, can this thing fly?" Zhuge Liang asked curiously.
"Hmm~ It should be okay." Chen Gong looked at the lampshade in front of him and replied uncertainly.
If you did nothing wrong, you should be able to fly.
After saying that, Chen Gong took out the fire box and lit the candle.
The candle at the base of the lampshade began to burn. Chen Gong carefully held the bottom of the lampshade, waiting for it to fly up.
Zhuge Liang looked at the lampshade curiously with his big eyes open, waiting for it to fly up, but after a few minutes, the lampshade showed no sign of flying up.
An hour later.
"Sir, the wax has burned out." Zhuge Liang reminded Chen Gong when he saw that the candle at the base of the lampshade had burned out, but the lampshade still did not fly up.
"It shouldn't be. The book says that the heat brought by combustion has a certain degree of buoyancy!" Chen Gong stroked his beard and recalled the contents recorded in the Book of Heaven to find out if he had done anything wrong.
"Sir, could it be because these pieces of cloth did not retain the heat?" Zhuge Liang guessed as he looked at the lampshade made of cloth in front of him.
When Chen Gong heard this, his eyes lit up. Yes, the tiny holes on the cloth could not block the heat generated by the burning candle. That was why the lampshade could not fly up.
"Hahaha, Kong Ming, I am not as good as you!" Chen Gong laughed loudly. He had forgotten such a big oversight, but a child actually saw it.
"Do you have any other good suggestions?" Chen Gong continued to ask, this child is really smart.
"Sir, I think we can use some paper to make the four walls and top of the lampshade, and use reed rods for the brackets, so that the weight of the lampshade made can be as light as possible." Zhuge Liang continued.
"Hahaha. Kong Ming, you are a child prodigy!"
After saying that, Chen Gong went back to the room to get some pieces of yellow paper, while Zhuge Liang ran out to find some reed poles for Chen Gong.
Not long after, Zhuge Liang ran back holding a few reed poles.
Now everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.
Chen Gong began to re-use yellow paper to make the four walls and top of the lampshade, using reed rods as supports.
After the first experience, new lampshades were quickly remade.
Chen Gong relit the wax wick and carefully held up the bottom of the lampshade again, waiting for it to fly up.
Through the yellow paper you can clearly see the burning candle inside.
Soon, the lampshade in Chen Gong's hand began to tremble slightly, and there was a slight feeling of floating upward.
"It's moving, it's moving!" Zhuge Liang exclaimed when he saw the slightly trembling lampshade.
Chen Gong, on the other hand, didn't dare to take a breath and stared at the lampshade, fearing that he would ruin the experiment by doing anything.
As time went by, the heat from the burning candle gathered inside the lampshade, and the lampshade gradually began to float. Chen Gong's hands left Chen Gong and floated upward into the sky, flying faster and faster.
Chen Gong and Zhuge Liang were dumbfounded when they saw the lampshade flying into the sky. They had really created something that could fly into the sky!
"Sir, have we succeeded?" Looking at the lampshade fluttering in the wind and disappearing into the sky, Zhuge Liang still didn't come back to his senses and asked Chen Gong blankly.
"Yes, we succeeded!"
"Kong Ming, we succeeded!" Chen Gong shouted excitedly.
Looking at the lampshade disappearing into the sky, Chen Gong felt refreshed as never before. It was so refreshing to do such a miracle!
Physics is truly a sacred book. He and Kong Ming were able to fly into the sky that no one before them could do with ease. Since heat can drive a lampshade into the air, is there enough heat to lift a person up as well?
