Chapter 66 Wave function collapse
Song Huiqin loves to learn, likes to delve into problems, and likes to do experiments. The old man invited her to the underground laboratory of this abandoned factory and demonstrated to her the famous electron double-slit experiment in the field of quantum mechanics.
The old man said that in order to complete the electronic double-slit experiment through human consciousness, it is necessary to hide the experimenter, and through the means of "deceiving" the electrons, the electrons are required to expose their whereabouts without being aware of them. If you want to make the electron undetected, you should not provoke it with physical particles or even photons, but only experience it directly with human consciousness. Is human consciousness an immeasurable intangible? Or do you have some essential attributes that people don't discover? First of all, it is certain that consciousness exists, for example, when a knife cuts a finger, people feel pain; For example, people will feel joy when they achieve success; People feel sad about setbacks. Since consciousness exists, does consciousness have quality? If there is existence without mass, then what kind of existence is this? The old man has not yet figured out these problems, he believes that human consciousness is an intangible thing, and only the invisible thing will not disturb the behavior of electrons, so as to "peek" into the secret of electrons passing through the double slit.
Song Huiqin was lying on the experimental bed, and the old man had to complete a "disappearing" experiment, and hide Song Huiqin through technical means to prevent the electronics from discovering her.
What is the "vanishing" experiment? History: In October 1943, the U.S. Navy conducted a secret experiment of artificial magnetic fields in Philadelphia, known as the "Philadelphia Disappearance Experiment", which successfully plunged a destroyer and its entire crew into another space. During the experiment, the experimenter activated the pulsed and non-pulsed devices, causing a huge magnetic field to form around the vessel. Then the entire ship was enveloped in a cloud of green light, and the ship and crew began to disappear from view. By the time the experiment was terminated, the ship had been moved to the Norfolk dock, 479 kilometers away. Since then, some of the crew members have still had experimental reactions, whether at home, on the street, in a bar, or in a restaurant, suddenly disappearing and reappearing, to the surprise of onlookers. The main person involved in the experiment committed suicide a few days later, and before he died, he said that the experiment was related to Einstein's theory of relativity. This adds an extra layer of mystery to the experiment.
It turned out that the theoretical basis of the Philadelphia experiment was Einstein's unified field theory, which held that gravity and electromagnetism are connected and connected, just as mass and energy are connected by the mass-energy formula. Proving the unified field theory was the last wish of Einstein's life, and although he never finally solved the unified field theory, the results of the Philadelphia experiment seem to show us something. If Einstein is right, then time, space, and then matter, are all interrelated. And we know that there is one thing that is common to the entire universe - electromagnetic energy.
When you look at a bagel of bread, is the outer ring of the loaf the first thing you see, or is it the hollow in the middle? This is a psychological problem, but it can also help us understand "disappearance" from a new perspective. According to our current knowledge of physics, it is inconceivable that things "disappear" for no reason, probably because we always focus on the outer circle of the loaf and ignore the ubiquitous "empty" part of nature - space, and the electromagnetic energy that pervades it. The reason is simple: the ubiquitous space is actually full of electromagnetic energy, and all the changes that have occurred in the "bagel" itself that we have been concerned about in the past are just an explosion of electromagnetic energy.
If we put 1 million volts on ourselves, we would definitely die, but by changing the frequency of the current, to a certain value, we can let the high voltage of one million volts pass through our body without being harmed, and this experiment has been successfully tried by many people since 1952. Does this freak you out? It is not difficult to achieve this, all you have to do is change the frequency, for example, if the frequency of all the atoms of the human body is the same as the frequency of all the atoms of the wall, the person can pass through the wall at will; If the frequencies of all the atoms of the human body were uniform, the person would suddenly disappear. The destroyer in the Philadelphia experiment may have disappeared under such circumstances.
In the laboratory, the old man first hypnotized Song Huiqin, and then changed the frequency of the atoms in Song Huiqin's body through relevant electromagnetic instruments, so that Song Huiqin suddenly disappeared from the laboratory, and the electronics could not find Song Huiqin, which was her first invisibility. The second stealth method is that Song Huiqin enters the fourth-dimensional supernatural space through dreaming, and directly observes the passage of electrons through double slits through consciousness without the help of photons. Even if Electron found Song Huiqin lying on the lab bed and "disappeared", it didn't know that her stream of consciousness had come to it.
When the assistant fired electrons one by one at the baffle again, Song Huiqin in the dream entered the fourth dimensional supernatural space, and like a fairy, she could fly freely in the air and track electrons. During the flight, she did not find an electron like a ball, but only an electron wave packet in front of her—the wave packet corresponding to the electron's material wave. Wave packets are superimposed by simple harmonics of different wavelengths, and their size is limited, so they are called wave packets. The electron wave packet is actually the solution of the Schrödinger equation, the wave function.
The wave function of the electrons flew towards the double slit in the baffle, and Song Huiqin quietly followed behind it. In the process of tracking, Song Huiqin felt that the wave function seemed to look back at her. Because the fourth-dimensional Planck supernatural space where Song Huiqin is located is too small, its size is 10-33 to the power of centimeters, and the electron wave function actually did not find her. There was no one to follow, and there was no photon or anything like that to disturb it, the wave function finally came to the double slit with confidence, like a fat man about to pass through a very narrow door, the wave function was stuck in the doorway, it found it difficult to pass through, so it slowly shrunk its body, and when it was finally able to pass through the slit, Song Huiqin's consciousness found that the wave function had collapsed, no longer a wave, but a particle. After a large number of wave functions passed through the doublets, they all collapsed, and in the end only two bright lines appeared on the screen, and there was no interference!
The old man had been observing the results of the experiment, there was no camera installed at the entrance of the double slit, he and his assistant did not know which sew the electrons from, and their consciousness did not interact with the electrons. Song Huiqin's consciousness in the fourth-dimensional supernatural space traced the path of the electron, and because the electron exposed its whereabouts and was detected by the consciousness of the person, the wave function of the electron collapsed irresistibly even if he was unwilling. When the wave function collapses, it behaves as a "particle" instead of a "wave", so there is no interference after passing through the double slit.
The wave function is a function in quantum mechanics that describes the state of a microscopic system. Since microscopic particles have wave-particle duality, the position and momentum of the particle cannot be determined at the same time, that is, you cannot know the position of a particle and its momentum (or velocity) at the same time, so you cannot use classical equations to describe the state of microscopic particles, but can only use the probability wave function to describe the behavior of particles at the macroscopic scale, which is the wave function. For example, the distribution and momentum of the electron cloud in space exist with a certain probability, which can be described by the wave function. When people observe the wave function, the wave function randomly selects a single result to be presented. If the wave function (e.g., the electron cloud) is compared to the dice, the "wave function collapse" is equivalent to the dice falling to the ground, and the result is the electron that appears as a point on the screen. In other words, when we want to measure the position of an electron, that is, when we judge whether the electron passes through the left or right slit, the electron does not necessarily happen to be in a certain eigenstate, when we measure the electron with an instrument, or when we use human consciousness to perceive the state of the electron, we can only get one of the countless states, that is, the wave function collapses from the original state to the eigenstate at the time of measurement. Wave function collapse refers to the transformation of a non-physical "wave packet" into a particle-like dotted entity. Do electrons pass through the double slit in the form of "particles" or "waves"? Why is it not detected, it is a "wave"? Once it is detected, it becomes a "particle"?
From this point of view, the world is becoming more and more puzzling. According to the view of quantum mechanics, there is no law of cause and effect in this world, everything is "God rolling the dice". According to the wave function collapse theory, when you are dancing, there is a possibility that a peerless beauty will suddenly appear in front of you to dance with you, but the probability of this kind of thing happening is extremely small, almost 0. It's also possible that a car suddenly appears in your living room, but the probability is very small and tends to 0. In this way, quantum mechanics is more unreliable than feudal superstition, according to the theory of feudal superstition, there can never be a living "person" in front of you, at most there will be a "ghost" that you can't see and may not really exist.