Another round of waiting began.
The entire Empirical Department remained silent through the night. Those who knew they had nothing to do quietly meditated and visualized, circulating their heavenly cycles in silence and tempering themselves. Nearly every cultivator from Sky Spirit Ridge, meanwhile, stared with bloodshot eyes at the water baths.
Even Ai Qinglan had lost the mood to play with her son.
So-called "empirical verification" meant, under conditions that excluded external interference as much as possible, artificially altering, controlling, or simulating the object of study with the fewest possible variables, causing certain things or phenomena to occur or recur, thereby understanding natural phenomena, natural properties, and natural laws—approaching the Dao.
Repeated verification was a particularly important part of empirical verification. It referred to the consistency among a series of results obtained using the same method, the same experimental materials, and the same conditions.
"Same conditions" could mean the same operator, or the same measuring instrument, the same location, the same measurement procedure, and repeated measurements within a short span of time.
In short, every possible variable had to be excluded.
This time, Ai Qinglan had truly gone all out. Every variable she could imagine had been thoroughly eliminated.
Operator, instruments, reagents, time period, location...
She had considered virtually everything.
This kind of consideration was truly rare.
When ordinary people conducted empirical verification, would they consider gravitational changes caused by shifts in the relative positions of the sun, earth, and moon?
Of course not. Those changes were far too slight to even qualify as "variables."
But Ai Qinglan was now considering precisely such things.
This was the final gamble.
If this attempt failed again, she would truly have to admit that she had inadvertently missed some crucial opportunity.
In the silence, the woman revealed the eyes of a beast.
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