The Academy’s Health Teacher Wants to Take a Break

Episode 34. Is willpower energy?

Dale Enverton.

He was regarded as a thorn in the eyes of the students in the top class.

He is from a commoner, and there is a perception that commoners are inferior regardless of country.

Students could not understand the current situation as long as such a prejudice existed.

“Entropy is leftovers…”

To a humble person who is completely unsuitable for this position.

“Why did you express it that way?”

That the naive and arrogant professor gave me a chance again and again.

“Uh, um. So… First of all, unlike objects with fixed mass, thermal energy moves very chaotically, right?”

However, what we need to pay attention to now is not the gaze of the people around us, but the professor himself.

When Dale asked carefully, Kronos nodded his head in reply, not caring about the atmosphere.

“Yeah, to give an analogy, it’s like a rubber ball that randomly bounces around the room.”

“When something small that we can’t see with our eyes moves chaotically, it means that it is impossible to intentionally control it. That is, in the process of going through ‘transformation’ to utilize energy, It’s just that energy is wasted.”

“Energy is wasted… For example?”

“As an analogy… Well, yes, it would be like throwing all the rubber balls in the box into the room in order to get the rubber balls the professor said into the hallway.”

I hope the ball will enter the aisle by throwing many at once, rather than throwing them one by one.

Obviously the balls won’t bounce the way you want them to, they’ll even bounce around, bumping into each other or bouncing in directions you don’t want their paths to bounce.

As a result, the number of rubber balls entering the passage will be only a small fraction of the total.

“Here, if the rubber balls entering the aisle are the energy we want to use, the rubber balls that have fallen without entering the aisle will remain in that state unless they are retrieved again… In fact, it can be called ‘remaining energy’. .”

“Yes. According to that metaphor, energy is very irregular and disorderly, so it is difficult to control, and the word created to describe the rate of energy loss that occurs as a result is entropy. So, you use entropy as ‘leftovers’. Did you compare it to ‘?”

“Yes, that’s right. Energy is energy… But since everything that can be used has already been consumed, it can be called ‘energy that has become difficult to recycle’. Just like picking up the balls one by one and putting them in the box for the same try again.”

Literally the crap of heat.

When explaining the second law of thermodynamics in a nutshell, there could be no analogy better than this.

In fact, the students around me were also showing signs of understanding slowly while comparing the contents of the textbook.

“Then here is the question.”

Professor Cronus immediately asked in such an atmosphere.

To drive a wedge into the current question and answer.

“What does the second law of thermodynamics that deals with the concept try to explain?”

“The more you use energy, the less useful energy you can use, so the entropy of an isolated system… That is, a certain space always increases.”

“Then, what is the total amount of energy that exists in space with increased entropy?”

“It will be the same as before. Mass and energy are only converted under certain conditions, and do not dissipate in a limited space.”

“… It is correct.”

The professor smiled and turned his back to the blackboard.

“Yes, as the chief explained, entropy itself is a word used to describe the remaining by-product of the energy we used. The energy used leaves by-products… That concept is something you can easily encounter in everyday life.”

Burned wood becomes ashes, and the ashes cannot be burned again.

Since the material separated from the ashes is burned in the air, the total amount of the material is the same, but it takes a lot of strength and investment to put the material back together and make it into another material.

And collecting and reusing materials that have already been consumed is much less efficient than converting something that already exists.

If there is no specific intention, it will lead to great inefficiency when looking only at the loss rate.

“The reason this concept is important in magic is that it applies to mana driven by will. Mana transferred through physical force is also what we call energy in the end. Rather, it is invisible to the eye and can only be grasped with the senses, so a lot of energy is inevitably lost beyond imagination.”

-Ugh.

Once again, a ring of physical force created in Professor Cronus’ hand.

The flow of power was very stable, unlike normal wizards.

Smoothly, not shaking. It looks like a piece of glass, but at the same time there are faint vibrations and ripples on the surface as if to prove that it is not in a solid state.

“For that reason, when using high-level magic, you inevitably have to rely on the circle. ‘Rotational motion’, which constantly circulates in one place in a certain direction, is the best way to reduce entropy.”

I realized just by looking at it.

Circle is a skill that focuses on stabilizing the flow, not just collecting mana, and mastering it is not about collecting more mana, but about reducing energy loss.

“How about it, do you get a sense of why I only emphasized the basics for a month?”

Looking at the circle, the students felt admiration on the other hand.

The eyes wide open and the mouth open showed that they were slowly immersed in this class.

Yes, interest is the driving force of learning.

“Okay then let’s continue with the class. The advanced course of thermodynamics that we will learn from today is… ….”

“Teacher.”

It’s been a while since I tried to hold the class in such an atmosphere.

In the process, a student raised his hand and stopped Professor Cronus.

The current flag bearer’s chief who sat down after the question and answer session with himself. It was Dale.

“…… Not a teacher but a professor Dale Enverton.”

“Uh, yes. Sorry. By the way, I have a question, can I ask you a question?”

A cautious question.

The eyes of the students turned wild as if it were annoying, but Professor Cronus only raised his glasses.

“If it is a useless question, I will not answer it and continue the class. Keep that much in mind.”

“Oh, yes. Then… ….”

After Dale asks a question.

I calmly took a breath as if to calm myself down.

Also, it was something that the students around me looked down upon.

“The will… ….”

When I heard the next question.

“Can a person’s will, which derives physical force from mana, be defined as energy?”

No one in this room dismissed the question I just asked as ‘stupid’.

That would be valid as a question, but even so, it was a topic that no one thought of until the words were spoken.

“…… Whoa.”

And the same goes for Kronos.

No, beyond just being surprised, he was interested in the question of the stupid boy in front of him.

“Yes, will is energy… …. If you study about mana, you should be curious about it at least once.”

Isn’t it strange?

Why can mana be converted into physical force in response to a person’s will?

According to the law of conservation of momentum, an existence without external pressure remains stationary if it is stationary, and its force remains in motion if it moves.

In other words, energy is required for transformation and for all phenomena called flow.

If the will is not injected, the thesis that a person’s will must be energy is naturally followed in order for mana, which has the property of just dwelling in everything, to be converted into physical force.

“But before I answer that, let me ask you a question back to you who brought up that question.”

“Ah, yes.”

“If will is energy… ….”

Professor Cronus asked Dale soon after.

“Do you think that alone can prove the existence of the soul?”

“…Soul?”

“Yes, soul.”

Soul.

Especially, it is a concept that those who believe in religion have affirmed its existence, and in the case of scholars, they only considered ‘there is such a thing’ and did not delve further into it.

That’s right, what they seek is the truth of the world, not the people who roam that world.

Nevertheless, the reason why I have recently deeply considered its existence is that medicine, a newly emerging discipline, has raised an opinion that denies the existence of the soul for the first time.

‘They denied the existence of the soul through medicine. Then, how do you define the power that converts mana into physical force, and the will?’

Is it because the concept of soul exists as we originally know?

Or are living beings naturally drawn to it like magnetism?

“Isn’t the soul originally there?”

However, such considerations have not yet entered the academic world, and are only being discussed intermittently among some scholars.

“Everyone says that. The heart beats because the soul exists.”

“…… Right. Everyone knows that.”

Ironically, people in this world still didn’t know much about the human body.

Wasn’t it the latter part of the war when medicine made its presence known in the academic world in the first place?

“Please forget about the question I just asked. This is the realm of hypotheses, and it is not something to actually discuss.”

Moreover, he is a person who exchanges information with others rather than fantasizing alone, and believes in the answers derived from it.

I had no intention of bringing up fantasies that the times had not yet accepted in lectures that preached guaranteed knowledge.

“Then let me come back to the question. Is will really defined as energy? All I can say about this is ‘I don’t know’.”

“…Doesn’t the professor know?”

“Yes, will is nothing more than an ‘abstract concept’ at this stage. At least until I retire from academia, its existence will not be clarified.”

So let’s keep this joy to ourselves.

A question that even the leading scholars of the present age have just come up with.

The fact that a boy who was not yet familiar with the concept of medicine remembered it.

“But that’s why people like me focus on educating people like you.”

Moreover, take this moment to admit your helplessness.

While revealing the will to transfer that possibility to the future, not the present.

“Things that remained unknown in the past are revealed in the present are still happening frequently in academia. Therefore, questions that have not been revealed until now may be revealed by your hands. Even if you guys can’t figure it out, it might come out later.”

Knowledge is inherited, and the ideology and passion contained in it are also passed on to the future.

Humanity’s culture and civilization have grown that way, and that’s why Professor Cronus wanted the students in front of him to be reborn as more outstanding beings.

These are selected and selected among all the children of the continent.

Because they are children who will soon be reborn as ‘leaders’ who will lead the future of this continent.

“So even if you can’t find the answer to the current question right away, don’t forget it. You never know when the opportunity to find the answer will come.”

Of course, conveying that ideology is only in terms of atmosphere.

The important thing right now is class, so if you’re done talking, you’ll have to go ahead with the class.

As the class progressed, Dale quietly looked down at his hands as he watched him tap on the blackboard.

‘Unknown… ….’

Uncharted territory.

A field that cannot but end in hypotheses and fantasies because it is currently unknown.

‘Dale, your power seems to have properties similar to mana.’

Dale couldn’t help but listen to those words more deeply than anyone else.

***

“Then let’s end the morning class with this. Practical lessons are scheduled in the afternoon, so make sure to replenish your energy by eating and resting until then.”

After the bell announcing the end of class rang, Professor Kronos left the classroom after arranging the rollbook and textbooks as usual.

If there is nothing special, we will meet again in the afternoon practical class.

While the students were preparing their lunch break in their own way, a student started approaching Dale as he was tidying up his desk.

A girl with long red hair.

“Dale Enverton, I have something to say to you… ….”

“Sorry! There is something I want to find out!”

Even though the girl was the first to talk to him, Dale ran out of the classroom as soon as he could pack his things.

Because I couldn’t stand the growing doubt after this class.

“Books, books, books, books, books, books!!!”

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“Be quiet!”

“Hee! I’m sorry!”

Dale walks around screaming and is warned by the librarian.

After that, Dale walked around the library in a dignified manner. He picked out the books he needed and settled down.

“…I found it.”

And what I found at the end was a book with similar content to what I read at a garbage dump a long time ago.

[Three major demons in the history of science.]

Devil.

The concept is closely related to religion, not science, but what is covered in the book you are reading now is a materialized ‘thought experiment’ derived from the stage of establishing a hypothesis.

It doesn’t exist in reality, but if there is such a thing, it deals with how the existing laws of physics are distorted.

At the time, he didn’t have the knowledge to understand it, but now Dale came to the academy and had further reinforced the knowledge he had learned through self-study.

‘I found it.’

After going through the contents, Dale focused his attention on one being.

Laplace, who grasps all the causal laws of the universe and even predicts the future.

Descartes changes the world he perceives by controlling his senses.

“And Maxwell, the devil who insists on the law of entropy.”

Dale thought as he looked at the words on the page.

Maybe he himself.

The fact that, like this Maxwell demon, he may have the power to defy the law of entropy.