"Don't prescribe what the truth of the world should be."
After Lucien said that, Douglas, Fernando, Brook and the rest of them fell silent for a moment. It was true that they believed that the truth of the world should not be a die, but it didn't mean that it wasn't. It was just their own opinion that had been inferred from natural phenomena.
After more than ten seconds, Douglas sighed. "I will prove that the truth of the world is not a die with experiments. In fact, has it ever occurred to you that the so-called cloud of probabilities does not exist at all? What the wave function represents is only the group of electrons that fit the probabilities, not the individual electrons. Their trajectories are not everywhere but have fixed routes that are closely related to the probability distribution. However, we cannot observe and confirm it for now. So, they are in a disordered state after passing through the single crystal until the overall probability appears."
Whether or not he was willing to admit Lucien's probabilistic explanation and uncertainty principle, he had reflected on himself. He should not replace the real nature of the world with the truth that he believed and then refute it from that perspective. Instead, he should prove that Lucien's theory was wrong from the contradictions in itself and the rigorous experiment results. That was a good arcana attitude.
Therefore, he put forward his opinion based on his impression after roughly reading the paper.
The Land of Truth disappeared, and so did the other anomalies. Lucien also retracted the Atomic Universe and replied solemnly, "Mr. President, let's not talk about the contradictions of your conjecture and many deductions. As long as we complete the double-slit experiment with electrons, we will be able to verify whether or not it is correct."
"If electrons have their own trajectories like real particles before they are observed, they can only pass through one slit at a time and cannot split into two. The appearance of the interference fringes and the appearance of the patterns in the end are all related to the distance between the two slits. So, if the double-slit experiment is true, how can the electron know the distance between the slit it passes through and the other slit, so it strictly demands that it land in one area instead of another?"
This was like a maze. There were seven different colored passageways at the entrance, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple respectively. For the exit, there was only the correct blue passageway. For a "wave" that could extend in space, it was equivalent to opening both the entrance and the exit at the same time. Naturally, it knew that the blue passageway was the correct one. As for a particle with a fixed trajectory, it was impossible for it to know the state of the exit after opening the entrance. How could it strictly follow the correct path every time and not another passageway?
For Douglas, Brook and the other legendary sorcerers, the double-slit experiment was the central area of the War between Waves and Particles. It was not difficult for them to understand Lucien's words at all. They all nodded. As long as the experiment on electrons was completed, it would be enough whether or not they were everywhere before they were observed like weird ghosts.
Lucien continued, "In fact, there are a lot of interesting verifications in this experiment. If double-slit interference fringes do appear, and we close the other slit the moment the electron passes through one of the slits, do you think it will still go to the sensor screen according to the path of interference, or will it immediately 'know' that the other slit is closed and change its status to go to the path of diffraction?"
For Douglas, Fernando and Hathaway, who were more inclined to the particle theory, such a thought experiment pushed the weirdness of electrons to an even more shocking level. If the electron changed its status, it either meant that it was a real wave that did not have the characteristics of particles, and that was why it passed through two slits at the same time, or they could only believe in Lucien's description that it was a probabilistic wave that spread out in space and was everywhere. Or, there was another possibility that was even more unbelievable. Electrons were intelligent lives with their own self-awareness and abilities. Therefore, they could 'sense and know' the situation of the other slit and adjust themselves accordingly.
Although the latter possibility fit the situation of the magic world, it was contradictory to the existence of human beings. If the foundation of matter had its own self-awareness, wouldn't it mean that everybody had infinite self-awareness that did not belong to them inside their body?
Seeing that Mr. President and his teacher were deep in thought, Lucien nodded his head and said, "I know that the double-slit interference of electrons requires very narrow slits that cannot be achieved under the current conditions of magic experiments. However, I also know that many legendary spells are based on applications before theories. I believe that after a few years of improvement, Mr. President, you will complete similar magic circles, alchemical devices or legendary spells. By then, everything will be clear."
At this moment, Oliver looked at Lucien solemnly, no longer as gentle as a playboy. "Even if electrons can complete the double-slit interference, it does not mean that your probabilistic wave is correct. It only further proves my idea that electrons are real waves, and they only show the features of particles in the form of wave packets in special states."
Lucien smiled. "Oliver, your idea contradicts the results of the many experiments so far. The messy light spots are the best proof. Also, your explanation has certain problems even in your paper on the atomic structure model. I believe that somebody has pointed out that out. The features of electrons as particles are unquestionable. The experiment results such as mass, charge and momentum have all proved it beyond doubt."
"Problems do not mean that it cannot be improved. At least, it is more reliable than your probabilistic explanation, which is like a lunatic talking in his sleep." Oliver expressed his hatred for probabilistic explanations. "I will find a way to prove its falsehood!"
After that, he turned around and left. He needed a quiet environment to consider the loopholes in Lucien's three papers that could be fatal.
Seeing that Oliver left, Douglas looked at Lucien solemnly. "I will try the double-slit interference experiment, and I will design more thought experiments to prove it."
The so-called thought experiment was an experiment that existed in one's imagination. Excluding the influence of environment and other factors, as well as the limitation of the experiment conditions, the arcanists often used to investigate whether or not the experiment could be completed under perfect conditions based on the theory, thus proving whether or not the experiment was wrong or not.
Brook also nodded his head. "Everything depends on the experiment results."
"I believe that the abundant experiment results so far fit your probabilistic explanation, but I also believe in your explanation that your quantum mechanics is incomplete and ignores a lot of things." Said Douglas kindly but firmly. Then, he left together with Brook and Vicente, leaving Fernando, Hathaway and Hellen who was in a daze.
Fernando's red eyes were still staring at Lucien, and Lucien looked back at him fearlessly. After a long time, he finally waved his hands. "I need to be quiet for a moment. I need to think about how to prove that your probabilistic explanation is wrong."
It was a subversion of the entire arcana and magic system. Even as open-minded and caring as he was, he had to stand on the side of truth in his heart. It was the glorious belief that had been passed on for too many years from the Magic Empire to the Congress of Magic!
Lucien nodded his head and sighed, leaving Fernando's library together with Hathaway and Hellen.
Hathaway was basically back to calmness. Thinking for a moment, she said, "The electrons in the cloud of probabilities are even more unacceptable than waves, but if all the results point to it strictly, we have to accept it however hard it is to accept it. The world does not move according to our will, but at least so far, we are not convinced yet."
She expressed her objection too, but she was not as determined as Douglas of the school of astrology, Brook of the school of electromagnetics, Oliver and other grand arcanists.
It was not because her arcana attitude was better, nor was it because she was more open-minded. It was only because she was good at elements, atoms, microscopy, particles and the new alchemy!
Hellen was back to herself from her daze and looked at Lucien in a daze. "In your report, the Pathway of Immortality is very similar to the cloud of probabilities. Did you get the inspiration from here? But how can the quantum state of microscopic particles appear in the macroscopic world? Is this the mysteries of immortality? The real secret is not in the Chamber of Immortality but in the Pathway of Immortality? "
As expected of Douglas' half-student, she asked the question out of instinct. Also, she, who was not involved in the debate, could recall the report on the Pathway of Immortality that Lucien submitted rationally.
"It was indeed the report that inspired me, but it was more based on abundant experiment results. As for why the Pathway of Immortality allows the weirdness of the microscopic to appear in the macroscopic world, that's a question that we need to study. Perhaps the mysteries of immortality do exist. " When Lucien proposed the probabilistic interpretation, he had guessed that other people would associate it with that. So, he admitted it generously.
With the endorsement of the Pathway of Immortality, Hellen was deep in thought. Hathaway also rubbed her chin in silence.
"I'll design experiments to prove the probabilistic interpretation and the uncertainty principle." Hellen said dutifully. The Pathway of Immortality was like that, but it didn't necessarily mean that electrons were like that. Maybe it represented something else?
However, because of this, her tone was more neutral than that of Brook, Oliver, and Vicente.
… …
Because the probabilistic interpretation and the uncertainty principle hadn't been proved yet, Lucien did not have to build an atmosphere of discussion to make the arcanists accept it slowly like before. Instead, he simply submitted the synthesized paper, "Basics of Quantum Mechanics and the New Alchemy", to the Arcana Review Board.
Undoubtedly, the paper was forwarded to the member of the School of Elements. As a new member, Larry read it in his home.
"Mr. Evans' paper?" Such a paper certainly wouldn't be reviewed by students or arcanists. Larry browsed through it expectantly.
As he read, the expression on his round face was completely frozen, as if it were the most horrible and shocking monster before him that was about to break free and swallow the entire arcana system!
"How can it be … This explanation is too absurd …" Larry mumbled to himself, but he soon recalled the abundant results of his experiments and frowned. "Perhaps, such an explanation isn't impossible. There must be other factors from the microscopic domain to the macroscopic world that make probabilistic disappear. At the very least, the world we're in is real, objective and material."
It was exactly in the tides brought by the new alchemy that he truly grew up in recent years. Therefore, he sincerely acknowledged the weirdness of the new alchemy and the microscopic particles. The influence of his past experience and theories was much less on him, and he did not reject such an absurd theoretical explanation, especially when it matched the results of abundant experiments and could solve many problems.
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