Hogwarts: And he said you're not a dark wizard

Chapter 254 The exponential explosion of technology

"Your Majesty the Queen." Murphy waved, turned the boot that turned into a bat and flew away back into shape, and put it on Sophia's feet.

Then he stood up and said, "Actually, what I want to do has never changed."

"Since I came to this world, that idea has been brewing in my heart. It wasn't until after graduation that it began to sprout and grow. Now, I just continue to water and fertilize it."

"My way is consistent. This way is to understand magic."

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and flowers bloomed on the spear made of tree vines, then turned back into an ordinary flower vine.

Since the last battle with the shaman, Murphy's understanding of "magic wands" has increased. Now for some small magic effects, he can use his fingers instead of the wand as the magic tip to complete whatever he wants.

"What I want is actually to understand magic more clearly, more intuitively and accurately, and to understand it closer to the essence and truth of magic."

"Whether I'm selling potions to Muggles, starting a Muggle business, or trying to save the country of Su, it's all for this purpose."

The Queen put her foot on the ground and tapped it gently. It seemed that the pain no longer existed. She tilted her head slightly in confusion, "I'm sorry, Mr. Darkholm, I didn't hear any connection between the two?"

Murphy smiled and said, "What does your Majesty think magic is?"

"Magic?" Sophia thought for a while, "Isn't it just magic?"

"Yes, for most wizards, magic is as natural as breathing and eating."

"That's why so few wizards try to understand magic."

"Wizards are just using magic, just like fire. We know that fire can bring warmth, cook food, light up the night, and burn enemies. To do all this, we don't need to know What is fire?"

"However, there are limits to such application. A simple summary of life experience cannot replace rational deduction and deduction."

"If we don't know the specific temperature of the flame, it will be difficult to design a blast furnace and we will not be able to manufacture steel in batches. If we don't know why fire can boil water, we will not be able to invent the steam engine, let alone build a power plant. We will always be in a dilemma. In the days when candles were used for lighting.”

"The same goes for magic. Only when we understand something more deeply can we use it better."

Murphy took out the bottle of whitening spray that he had just used on Sophia.

"For example, white essence can heal wounds. Most wizards will only use it to treat obvious trauma. But when we know that sprains, strains and other injuries are also tissue damage, and white essence can act on the cell level and promote cell growth. As the tissue breaks apart and the tissue heals, we can reasonably assume that it should also be used for bruises."

The Queen nodded slightly, "I understand that you want to understand the reason for magic, but what does this have to do with what you want to do to the Muggles of Su country?"

"Because studying magic requires the use of science." Murphy said.

"Science, you mean Muggle knowledge?"

"Science is not just knowledge, but also a set of effective research methods." Murphy said, "Wizards are not good at using such methods, Muggles can, so I need Muggles to study magic." "But, In this way, we will be exposed to Muggles?" The Queen said, "Even Alkaim must abide by the International Wizarding Secrecy Law, do you want to break it?"

"Your Majesty, I do not intend to defy this law."

"However, the Wizarding Secrecy is bound to be broken." Murphy said, throwing out a violent argument, "In the next 50 years, it will be broken by others either by me or by others."

"Are you saying there are other wizards who want to break the Wizarding Secrecy?" the Queen asked.

"No, not wizards, but Muggles. Your Majesty."

"We live in the same space as Muggles, we breathe the same air, and the same land is under our feet. Although we use spells to hide ourselves, this hiding is not perfect. With the advancement of Muggle technology, It will become increasingly difficult for us to hide ourselves.”

"Technology?"

"Yes, technology based on Muggle science is technology. You can think of it as a kind of Muggle magic."

"I know what technology is. But... the law of secrecy has been in place for 300 years..." The Queen obviously didn't believe it.

"That is the question, Your Majesty."

"The Law of Secrecy has been in existence for 300 years." Murphy said, "In these 300 years, our magic has hardly made any progress. Our most powerful spell was already in existence 300 years ago, and even the magic of more than 1000 years ago is still the same. We are still functioning, and we have not become stronger in the past 300 years. On the contrary, we may have degraded a lot."

"But in comparison, in 300 years, the Muggle world has been transformed."

"Three hundred years ago, Muggles still used oxen to plow the fields and draw water from wells. They had no trains, no airplanes, and no powerful artillery and weapons. But now, their weapons can destroy a city or even exterminate a race. Their satellite can see a train on the ground from an altitude of 300 kilometers away."

"They don't have magic, but technology is their magic. They don't have broomsticks, but their planes can fly faster than the speed of sound, transporting hundreds of people from one end of the earth to the other in a few hours. They don't have magic wands. , but believe me, the Gatling gun kills people a hundred times faster than the most powerful magic wand."

"What's even more frightening is that Muggle technology is still developing, and it is developing explosively in the form of exponential growth."

"Two hundred years ago they invented the steam engine, 200 years ago they invented the telephone and the light bulb, 100 years ago they invented the atomic bomb, and just last year they had the internet."

"The development of technology is not linear. It is an exponential curve that opens upward. The technological progress achieved in the past 1000 and 100 years now only takes ten years, or even five years, and in the future, it may even only take one year. Half a year, even a month.”

"The explosive technological singularity is coming soon. In the next few decades, Muggles will update the world at a rate of one disruptive invention or discovery every month or even every day."

"Their capabilities will become stronger and stronger, and the area they can control will become larger and larger. Their satellites, radars, cameras, drones and other detection and monitoring equipment will become more and more accurate, and they can distinguish abnormal information. Their abilities will become stronger and stronger, and it will become more and more difficult and impossible to deceive them."

"Not only that, at the micro level, they now have femtosecond-level observation capabilities. They can clearly see the movement of an atom. In the future, they will even create attosecond-level lasers."

"Do you know what that concept is? Ten to the power of -18 seconds, which is one billionth of a second. I told you before that lightning is very fast, but even the fastest lightning It cannot move an atom in one attosecond."

(End of this chapter)