Act 496. Baltic explained
Reiner's words caused the older woman to raise an eyebrow, and she wanted to refute it, but Lord Calvados thought about it carefully, and although Reiner's words were somewhat direct, they were true.
No one has the power to dictate how the world works, and so far people have only summarized the laws they have discovered into laws, but have not been able to create or even change them.
His Excellency Calvados, although he refuses to admit that the foundation of the world is probabilistic and uncertain, may be the nature of the world.
As a legendary mage, His Excellency Calvados naturally knows that the fundamental reason why mages can continue to move forward is doubt, and mages doubt everything they see, dare to question, and at the same time are good at using known means to verify their ideas, which is the source of mages' progress.
If a mage gives up on exploration and begins to believe firmly in what he has seen, in what he has achieved so far, then he is not far from falling.
Therefore, after Reiner's response, none of the mages stood up and had a meaningless argument with Reiner, they were all thinking, thinking about what they had just seen and heard, thinking about this theory that seemed strange but made some sense.
At present, the experimental phenomenon in front of the mage is the double-slit interference of electrons, and all the current theories cannot explain why a single electron will form a diffraction distribution after passing through the double-slit and falling on the receiving screen, but Reiner's theory explains this phenomenon relatively perfectly, so from the perspective of correctness, the quantum theory is acceptable.
Even from the perspective of quantum theory, the whole world is based on probability, but according to Reiner's explanation, quantum effects can only occur in microscopic situations, so there is not much impact on macroscopic theories.
However, by accepting the quantum theory, the mages seem to have to re-understand objective reality and the nature of the world.
This world is a product of probability, not a definite existence, that is to say, at the moment when the world is formed, if there is a slight error, the whole world may be different, and the laws that the mages have tried their best to find and summarize are just accidental products under probability.
"To accept quantum theory, but also to accept the dismantling of causal determinism."
Lord Alberton reminded.
"In the past, we thought that the trajectories of particles were traceable, and in the theory of relativity, the concept of the world line was proposed, that is, the trajectories of all the particles that make up an object change according to time, and using this trajectory, as well as the properties of the particles themselves, we can infer what may happen in the future."
He glanced at Reiner, because the world line and the theory of relativity were the same theories that Reiner proposed.
In the spatio-temporal view of the theory of relativity, events can be predicted, and in fact, what mages have been pursuing is this kind of predictability, as long as the initial conditions are the same, then even if it is repeated thousands of times, it will be the same result, such a law is called the truth by mages.
But in the microscopic world, the position and momentum of the particle are an uncertain value, and the movement of the particle after being disturbed is a probability function, even if the initial conditions are exactly the same, even a slight difference in the course of the event will lead to a huge difference in the result, and the whole event process is like a chaotic cloud, and no one knows whether it is a rainbow that shines on the world or a lightning bolt that destroys everything.
If the quantum theory is established, then at least at the level of microscopic particles, the theory of causal determination that the mages have always adhered to will be challenged, and the world will go from being explorable and masterable to the unknowable again.
Even, this is not simply shrouded in a layer of fog, but completely tells people that the nature of this world is unknowable.
If it weren't for the glorious scene shown by the memories from the previous era, I'm afraid that most high-level mages would have felt gloomy and exhausted about the future when they heard the news.
"But now, we have encountered the principle of uncertainty, which is like chaos, we can no longer accurately infer the development of events according to the laws that already exist, nor can we completely separate the cause and effect of events, and some trivial disturbances may cause events to go in a completely different direction."
Lord Alberton continued.
"Who knows if the act of a butterfly flapping its wings in the Baltic Half Plane will cause a storm in the Main Plane?"
His example, although exaggerated, is exactly what quantum theory presents.
Everyone was silent.
They are scholars at the forefront of academia, exploring the world beyond ordinary people, and it is for this reason that they are amazed by quantum theory.
Things that were unimaginable in the past are hidden in the depths of the microscopic world, and if the time dilation and length reduction shown by the theory of relativity are also unimaginable, then quantum theory has refreshed people's worldview.
"All the people who are not surprised when they see the quantum theory show that they don't understand the theory at all."
His Excellency Praggs said slowly.
His words were agreed by everyone present, quantum theory is indeed a theory that subverts cognition, and more importantly, it is not a simple conjecture, but is supported by experiments.
However, Reiner didn't speak.
In the entire process of deriving quantum mechanics, until now, Reiner has not received feedback from the world, but in perception, the sea of magic is not immovable, but gradually sets off a surge and is ready to go.
This means that there is nothing wrong with Reiner's derivation, but that electron double-slit interferometry alone is not enough to prove quantum mechanics.
Reiner needed more experimentation to perfect.
But for the needs of the current mages, that is, to understand the situation inside the Great Void, Reiner's quantum theory is clearly sufficient.
"Now that you have basically accepted this theory, let me explain the nature of the tidal phenomenon of the great hollow in the Baltic half-plane where the concentration of mana suddenly rises and then falls rapidly."
He said, pulling everyone's minds from the magnificent and strange quantum world back into this unfathomable void.
"I think that the concentration of magic in the big hole itself is extremely high, but these magic power is not a physical existence, but turned into a quantum, into a superimposed wave function, when detected from the outside by conventional means, the wave function does not collapse, causing the detector to show that the concentration is normal, and when the detector actually enters it and observes, it will disturb the entire large hole, causing it to collapse into an abnormal concentration, but because the macroscopic quantum effect is not significant, this disturbance can only last for a moment."