The murals on the wall had a slightly eerie style.
But what made them eerie was not anything frightening depicted in them. It was that a group of people dressed in ancient clothing were conducting scientific research like modern scientists.
And their clothing looked like something from the Warring States period.
Previously, to learn more about the Mohist School, I had leafed through quite a few books about the Warring States period, gaining a rudimentary understanding of some of its culture and customs.
And on one of the murals, these words were written: "Force is that which the body exerts. Force refers to weight; downward movement and weight are exertions."
This passage actually came from the upper section of the Mohist Canon.
Its general meaning was that force was what caused an object to move and accelerate, and that when an object was subjected to a force, it also produced a reaction force.
This was the definition of "force" given by Mozi, the founder of the Mohist School, and was known as Mohist School mechanics.
And two thousand years later, a foreign physicist named Newton proposed the same view, which was called "Newton's First Law of Motion."
Talk about a coincidence.
I remembered reading in a book in Qingyang Temple's scripture library that Mozi and his disciples had spent years painstakingly researching before developing Mohist School mechanics.
Yet this foreign physicist had been struck on the head by an apple and grasped Newton's First Law of Motion, along with the second and third laws that followed.
Either this physicist was heaven's chosen one, with humanity's most powerful genes activated from the moment he was born.
Or the story about Newton getting hit on the head by an apple was false, intended to conceal the real reason he had grasped those