Chapter 160: Magical Theory

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Chapter 160: Magical Theory

We are deep into the night. I dont know how late exactly. And its not like knowing would change anything. We are on it. We are so damn close.

Lets start with something that might have been a little confusing for you. My first assumption while creating gamma rays was that Light Magic would have a wave-like behavior. What does that mean? Well, gamma rays are electromagnetic radiations. They are photons that run very fast. I mean, its not that easy. But yeah you get the point.

Now, if gamma rays are not particles and we know that it means that they could be generated directly in the form of [Light]. Why? Well, we supposed that Light Magic was not particulate. Therefore, as long as you accelerated [Light] fast enough, it would become a gamma ray. Again, not exactly. Just bear with me.

Lord Juler and I had tried to mix and match electromagnetic waves made of [Light] again, not 100% sure what we were doing to accelerate them. Or just to fuck them up bad enough to create X-rays. From there, the idea was just to amplify the process enough to produce gamma rays.

Turns out we were doing it all wrong. I got a suspicion from the book we just read. As he was explaining the weird nature of [Light] magic, I realized that I had always considered the magic as a wave. I also ran a couple of experiments to confirm that. And, man, even though I hypothesized that magic existed in a different dimension and stuff like that, I still didnt think of the most likely option.

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Elegant, almost.

Now.

To us.

If magic does not need to change its pre-reality to any specific form, we can simply try to reproduce gamma rays. We dont need to find ways to accelerate [Light] to insane speed and spew gamma rays from our butts. We simply need to create a pre-reality that fits an outcome that poops out gamma rays.

Do you know how the stupid hat improves visualization and a thousand other things? It also helps retrieve information from your brain. And even though Lord Juler believed that it would only help with processing power, it actually gives you a better memory. Not surprising. The brain is quite complex, and things often end up in a different place than what we had planned for them.

If I think of my spells as electromagnetic waves, or even better, particulate rays, I can do great stuff. Why? Well, thanks to the hat, I remembered an experiment where they produced gamma rays through. Lets review for a second how you usually obtain gamma rays mostly through radioactive decay. So, you would put something like an isotope of Cobalt into your machine to create a gamma knife. Also, cosmic rays, and I have been thinking about them a lot.

To be fair, cosmic rays are what triggered this epiphany about magic.

Why?

Cosmic rays are high-speed electrons or protons that collide with random stuff and generate high-energy waves like gamma rays. And here, my trail of thought gets a bit metaphysical and hard to follow, be warned. If Light Magic is the manipulation of stuff that brings to radiation meaning that manipulating any radiation, ionizing or non-ionizing, is a thing of [Light] Then magic itself can only be made in particles. Why? Because if it were not, parts of this class would be impossible to access. Not even Lord Juler, the [Supreme Archmagus], managed to produce anything that would give us real results for the guide or the gamma knife. And based on this very empirical finding, I firmly believe that magic has its own particles and that these particles can create gamma rays if used properly.