Sitting in his room, Dieppe was lost in his thoughts as he stared at the derivation in front of him, as if he were experiencing a nightmare that he had never had before.
He repeatedly looked at his logical deduction process from the beginning, trying to find out where the problem was. He kept muttering:
He kept muttering to himself, "How can an electron be a wave?"
After repeating it over and over again, his muttering became:
"How can an electron be a wave?"
His confusion covered his other thoughts. He began to study the meaning of his paper:
"How can an electron be a wave?"
The feather-like snow covered the outside of the room. Reflecting the dim light, Dieppe gradually stopped laughing and crying and put on a thoughtful look.
"… According to this reasoning, it seems that all moving microscopic particles have a corresponding wave frequency or wavelength. But why is that so?" Dieppe frowned harder and harder. Suddenly, he recalled two sentences from this strange phenomenon, which were said by Mr. Evans in different papers:
"… Perhaps we should treat the wave-particle problem with a more open attitude."
"… Since the wave-particle nature of light is irrefutable, and both of them have been proved by solid experimental results, why don't we unify them? Perhaps light has wave-particle duality."
The latter sentence appeared in a simple paper, and it was said in an uncertain tone. Therefore, it did not leave any impression on Dieppe. However, Dieppe remembered the concept of wave-particle duality very well. Now that he recalled it, he was touched and finally clarified his own point of view.
Taking a deep breath, as if he was about to release a monster that could destroy the whole world, he wrote at the end of the paper: "We can conclude that wave-particle duality does not only exist in photons, but can also be extended to all moving microscopic particles, including protons, neutrons, and electrons, which all have wavelengths corresponding to their energy. That is to say, they all have wave-particle duality."
After finishing the sentence, Dieppe felt exhausted as if he had lost all his strength. All kinds of weird thoughts popped up in his head, "If microscopic particles have wave-particle duality and have their own wave frequency, what about moving macroscopic objects?"
It was truly an 'absurd' generalization. Dieppe looked at his stable existence and shook his head in amusement. He subconsciously stopped thinking about it and thought of something else. "The special theory of relativity can also be applied to the microworld represented by the new alchemy. The two systems are not completely independent but seem to be able to be unified in a certain way. Perhaps, the studies of the two systems in the future will have to use each other's knowledge, like the new alchemy based on the theory of relativity?"
As Dieppe calmed down, all kinds of weird thoughts started to disappear. But when he looked at the paper in front of him, he still felt an indescribable heaviness in his heart.
Standing up from behind the desk, Dieppe walked to the window and pushed it open. What came into his face was a cold wind that was bone-chilling.
Dieppe, who had not cast any magic, shivered a few times in a row. His head was abnormally clear because of the cold. He saw that the sky was glowing, and the ground was covered in white. It seemed to be a brand new world.
"It's dawn …"
Dieppe sighed to himself.
… …
During breakfast, Dieppe, who was holding his paper, did not see his teacher Raventi. So, after some hesitation, he went straight to Raventi's library and knocked on the door.
"Come in." Raventi knew that it was Dieppe outside through the feedback from the magic tower, so he did not refuse.
Pushing the door open, Dieppe walked in quietly and saw his teacher walking out of the magic lab. It seemed that his teacher had been verifying Mr. Brook's paper all night.
"What's the matter?" Raventi asked straightforwardly.
Dieppe hesitated again. Fear, nervousness, worry, and lack of confidence surged in his heart. His deduction result might not be accepted by anyone.
"Speak!" Raventi was also an arcanist who was used to roaring.
Dieppe gritted his teeth and took out the paper, "Sir, this is my latest paper. I'd like to ask for your guidance and see if there are any mistakes."
After all, there was no experiment to prove it. His cognitive world should not be shaken.
"Why are you hesitating?" Raventi's voice was loud and clear as he took over the paper.
He did not have much experience in this field. If it were Fernando, he would have asked Lucien if the paper was subversive, how subversive it was, and how he should read the paper in the correct way.
Dieppe opened his mouth, but no words came out. He did not know how to answer his teacher's question. He could not say that he was worried that his teacher would roar at him, or that his paper would be criticized as worthless.
As Raventi read the short paper, he walked towards the desk. Suddenly, his footsteps stopped. The expression on his face was like that of an opera actor. Shock, indignation, anger, doubt, and disbelief were constantly repeating.
Dieppe quietly took a step back, as if he had sensed the horrifying pressure from his teacher. His teacher's cognitive world had already reached the level where it could reflect and influence the current world!
After a long time, Raventi came back to himself and looked at Dieppe.
"You told me that electrons are waves?"
His voice was so low that a terrible storm seemed to be hiding in it.
"Yes, all microscopic particles should have wave-particle duality …" Before Dieppe finished his words, he heard Raventi's roar.
"You told me that electrons are waves?"
"After we measured the mass of electrons, observed their trajectories, and confirmed that they had momentum and met the conservation condition, you told me that electrons are waves?"
"Then why didn't you tell me that those noble ladies who did give birth to a few children after they got married were actually men?"
…
The roars made Dieppe step back until his back was against the door. Although his teacher's analogy was not wrong, he felt that it was not right to generalize the duality of the microscopic world to the macroscopic world. Also, Dieppe had a feeling that it was not right to generalize the duality of the microscopic world to the macroscopic world.
"It's true that some special magic creatures are hermaphrodites. The nobles who have their bloodline can change their gender automatically after being activated …" Dieppe murmured in a low voice.
Raventi stared at Dieppe with his dark gray eyes. Chaos like the tides of elements appeared around him. "Follow me to the lab."
Dieppe wiped his face and walked behind his teacher in silence. He saw that Raventi stopped in front of Lucien's cloud room and turned on the cyclotron.
"Come on, tell me. Electrons with such beautiful trajectories are waves?" Raventi roared again.
Dieppe did not need to look to know that there were dreamy trajectories of particles in the cloud chamber. They were so clear and stunning.
Taking a deep breath, he said firmly, "Electrons can also behave like particles. They are both waves and particles."
In Raventi's ears, such words sounded like someone saying, "I'm a man, I'm a woman, I'm a giant, I'm a dwarf, I'm a living person, and I'm a dead person." It was so absurd and unreasonable!
Waves and particles, which were incompatible like fire and water, were actually one entity?
He was about to yell at Dieppe again, but when he saw his student's bloodshot eyes staring back at him, he calmed down a bit. When it came to arcana, he was a teacher who only recognized logical deduction and experiment results.
He recalled Dieppe's deduction process and the whole paper and found that there was nothing wrong with it except that it was hard to accept.
"Maybe you confused the concepts when you connected several formulas. Let me take a closer look." Raventi softened his tone.
Dieppe knew that it was indeed hard for his teacher to accept it. Even he, the one who came up with the conclusion, struggled for a long time before he believed it. He was still uneasy and did not have much confidence. Therefore, he nodded in frustration and said, "I'll be waiting for your guidance, teacher."
Raventi looked at his student's frustration and walked out with the paper, "This paper is simple and not too long. I'll send it to Morris and Gaston first and see what they think. I don't mean that I'm right."
This was something that he always emphasized. He could not blindly follow his teacher.
The flame of hope rekindled in Dieppe's heart.
In his anxiety, Dieppe did not do any research but kept checking when the "messenger" would come back. At noon, after confirming that the letters from the senior-rank arcanists had arrived, Dieppe came to his teacher's study again.
"Sir, what's Mr. Morris's opinion?"
Raventi read the letter without any expression on his face, "Morris's opinion is that 'a hypothesis that is strictly deduced but is too bold to be true. It is inconsistent with all the experiment results. In what form should particles and waves be unified and exist? Currently, no model can match it '. "
Dieppe's hopeful face collapsed. His confidence was shaken again.
"Gaston's opinion is that 'any hypothesis must be strictly confirmed by experiments and phenomena. Obviously, I don't see that. Electrons are both particles and waves. They exist in an unimaginable form.'"
Since it was Raventi who sent the paper, Morris and Gaston's words were not too harsh.
Dieppe sat on the chair bitterly. His mind was in a mess. Maybe he was wrong?
"It's hard for your paper to convince other people. Even the insiders of the wave theory only focus on electromagnetic waves and photons. They've never doubted the existence of electrons. They'll certainly be happy with your hypothesis and deduction, but they won't give you enough support." Raventi concluded.
Dieppe scratched his head, "We need a small enough gap. Then we should be able to see the diffraction or interference of electrons, just like waves."
Deep in his heart, Dieppe was still determined.
Raventi nodded at his student's determination. He thought that he should stop Dieppe from thinking too much. So he said, "I'll send your paper to Lucien. He's the absolute authority in this field. If he doesn't agree …"
"Then maybe I'm wrong." Dieppe's eyes were burning with hope and expectation. He added in his heart, "But I still need to wait for the rebuttal of the experiment results …"
After the "pet messenger" sent the paper away, Dieppe began to wait anxiously. He was as nervous as he was when his spiritual power talent was tested.
"I don't need the support of those bastards in the wave theory …"
"If anyone agrees with my paper, then Mr. Evans is undoubtedly one of the few. If even he thinks it's ridiculous, then …"
"What will Mr. Evans think …"
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