The academic conference lasted a full seven days, and each day brought astonishing discoveries capable of shaking the world's understanding.
During the first two days, the academy's mathematics and physics teachers demonstrated Greiman's Three Laws of Motion with precision brass instruments.
(Paul: Well, if everyone insists on calling them that, I can't exactly stop them. No one would believe me if I claimed they were discovered by an ancient sage.)
A copper ball rolled endlessly down a smooth inclined plane, allowing everyone to understand the concept of "inertia" for the first time. Wooden carts of different weights displayed different speeds under the same pulling force, perfectly demonstrating the relationship between force and mass. And when two assistants shoved against each other on skateboards, the sight of them moving backward simultaneously drew gasps from the entire hall—the symmetry of action and reaction was breathtaking.
The highlight of the third day was the Universal Gravitation Theory. This discovery should have been unveiled personally by Lord Greiman, but now the teachers could only present it on his behalf.
A massive pendulum swung in the center of the hall, demonstrating the constant pull of gravity on objects at the ground, while an exquisite orrery displayed the invisible force drawing celestial bodies together. Whether it was a falling apple or the orbiting moon, both astonishingly followed the same mathematical laws.
When Terry Cable, who was presenting in his stead, read from Greiman's manuscript, "Between all things exists a mutual attractive force directly proportional to mass and inversely proportional to the square of distance," the scholars present drew sharp breaths. Some were even so excited that they knocked over their ink.
These laws should have been explained personally by the lord, but now the academy's teachers could only present them on his behalf. The sharp-eyed scholars