Chapter 411: The Observer Effect, Quantum Ghost?

Elemental Ghost ...... A word that scares all who come from the land of wizards.

No one can forget more than a decade ago, when the study of elemental wizards was almost equivalent to a catastrophe.

It is said that at the time, Artok, the master of the elements, and the wizards of his school were studying more microscopic areas.

Until today, Harrov finally realized what this friend saw before the madness, they must have also touched the quantum realm, and it is even possible that they had done similar double-slit interference experiments before!

[It's avoiding me, it's knowing I'm watching it...... They are ghosts, ghosts of the elements! 】

Harrov's mind couldn't help but recall the manuscript Artok had left behind, and the contents of it were chilling.

The rest of the wizards in the large hall were even more frightened and panicked.

Electrons are everywhere and are one of the most critical microscopic particles that make up an element!

If this thing had consciousness, it would be a terrifying being......

Seeing that everyone began to discuss the quantum ghost, and the form on the field was faintly at risk of getting out of control, Lynn couldn't help but raise his voice a little and interrupted everyone's words with a speech. "I don't subscribe to the speculation that there is consciousness in microscopic elements...... At least not yet, there is no valid evidence to prove it! ”

"But...... The results of the experiment just now are clear, and it is our observations that have changed the trajectory of the electrons......" said an old wizard with a frantic expression.

"Isn't that what Speaker Lynn is saying?" Sanchez also added in surprise.

The wizards in the exhibition hall were also arguing, and some even said that the electronics were afraid of them, so they hid their true forms.

Lynn was speechless, so she had to raise her voice a few points and say emphatically. "It's just a probability, just like the gold coin just now, for you, its state is also unknown until it is revealed, but can you say that it has intelligence?"

"It's completely different!" The old wizard slapped the table excitedly. "That gold coin, whether we look at it or not, it's there, and the state will never change."

This is the difference between the two, for microscopic particles, the observation can only confirm the current position and trajectory, and once the observation is stopped, it becomes a chaotic probability cloud again.

"At least, we'll never be able to confirm its state at the moment without looking at it!" Lynn shrugged, then spoke again. "And I already have some preliminary ideas about the collapse of the probability cloud."

Harrov and the others immediately looked over, and the exhibition hall immediately became quiet.

Lynn cleared his throat, but he didn't mean to sell it, and said directly.

"I think there's power in the observation itself! To see an object, we need light, and to hear sound, we have to feel vibrations. In other words, we can't get information about something without affecting it at all, and this effect may be causing a change in the state of the electrons. ”

"What do you mean is that it's not necessarily the observation that causes the electrons to change from superimposed to particle, but other incidental factors?" Harrov said with a deep groan. "For example, we use magic to make observations, so it has an impact on them."

It's like a fish swimming in the water is firmly bound by a sturdy fishing net, unable to stretch its body freely, swimming in the lake, and can only struggle weakly in the grid.

This explanation is a little more acceptable.

"No, that's not quite right!" Vittorio on the side shook his head, just now the four of them and the great wizards in the exhibition hall were not just making observations, but they had also done some experiments, and expanding the field itself would not have any impact on the results of the experiments.

This is evidenced by the interference fringe-like dots of light on the electronic screen.

The real change is the moment they start to observe, and it doesn't matter which person it is, anyone's observation can be, and there doesn't seem to be a requirement for strength.

Whether apprentices, official wizards, archmasters, or legendary wizards can do this, Vittorio even suspects that even an ordinary person can cause electrons to change from a wave-particle superposition state to a stable particle state.

"The power of observation itself?" Aurora's brain was a little confused, and the strangeness of the quantum realm made her understand a little painful, and she could only guess that it might be the power of psionic energy that affected all this.

Lynn was thinking about that too.

In the previous life, the Federation had actually conducted in-depth research on the quantum field and made a lot of scientific research results, but how to explain the observer effect more scientifically is still a maddening problem.

In order to crack it, researchers in the Federation racked their brains to try to restore this phenomenon without observation.

If it's a magnetic field, then use a strong magnetic field to interfere, if it's gravity, then create a gravitational field, and if it's other microscopic elements, then create a stream of particles to try to intercept the electron.

The result is that these things do affect the trajectory of electrons, but they can only reproduce them if they carefully adjust the various data.

And people only need to look at the observation results, even if they don't use their eyes, and directly input the results directly into the brain, which can affect the trajectory of electrons.

Federal researchers are puzzled, and many insist that they don't want to believe that it was the observations that caused all this.

After all, people are just carbon-based organisms, and there is nothing special about being able to use cloning technology to produce them in batches.

It is hard to imagine that such a thing could have a decisive impact on the mystical microcosm.

But now the situation seems to be a little different, the soul really exists, and can be visualized with the help of magic, and can even be used as a high-level energy, this has been confirmed.

Lynn quickly broke free from the confusion of thoughts, looked at the speaker and the frightened wizards who were still frowning and pondering, and spoke again.

"Electrons exist in any element, and if they possess intelligence, they are not left to us to do whatever they want, but it is more like a law, a new law, different from the laws of the macrocosm!"

Lynn's words eased the wizards' fears of elemental ghosts a little, as he said, if electrons had intelligence, they would never have been so smooth when casting spells.

"In short, we need experiments, more experiments!" Harrov said categorically. "Only more rigorous experiments can answer all these questions!"

Both Lynn's proposed wave-particle duality and probability theory require further experiments to prove.

Aurora also put forward some experimental hypotheses, because the emission and movement of electrons are not regular, so they could not 'see' electrons at a fixed point in the past.

Is it possible to find a way to suddenly observe how electrons are transported in the form of probability waves by suddenly observing the moment the electrons pass through the crack?

You can also increase the number of gaps to three or four to see if the results of the experiment change.

Vittorio even had the brains to propose that he could build an instrument that could detect the trajectory of electrons, record the process of the double-slit experiment without anyone observing it, and then review it afterwards.

Listening to the discussion of several people, the corners of Lynn's mouth twitched.

Good guys, this is going to do even more terrifying delayed choice quantum erasure experiments......

Lynn opened her mouth, hoping that they would stop a little, at least until they understood what probability clouds and wave-particle duality were before considering these more esoteric questions, but after thinking about it, she still kept her mouth shut.

Because it was not only Harrov and others who could think of these experimental methods, it was impossible for him to stop every wizard from conducting experiments in private, and if they were allowed to study on their own, they might be able to come up with some sensational theories.

It's better to do research in a bright way, at least I can help explain some weird microscopic phenomena, so that people don't take magic to the ditch.

After a period of discussion, Harrov and the others did not choose to put their ideas into action now, but prepared to go back and study how to conduct the experiment next, when even announced that today's academic symposium would end here.

Glenn and the others still felt a little dizzy when they walked out of the exhibition hall, and Lynn's improved double-slit interference experiment completely destroyed their previous perception of the world.

In fact, Glenn's situation was quite good, and many wizards were still muttering about it when they left the venue. "Ghost...... Elemental ghosts actually exist! "The world is fake!" "Magic doesn't exist, magic doesn't exist!"

"Teacher, do you really think that the world is determined by probability?" Fura said with a look of horror. "It's just too ...... It's so weird! ”

Anthony was also a little shaken, according to Lynn, all microscopic particles have similar properties, and light is no exception.

Could it be that electromagnetic waves are also particles? Or does it really have the properties of a particle?

It was a long time before Anthony came to his senses, took a deep breath, and replied. "As Speaker Lynn said, the laws of the world do not need to conform to our cognitive ......"

"But how to be, you still need to conduct experiments yourself to demonstrate!"

Anthony did not deny the results of the experiments he had just conducted in the exhibition hall, but he did not completely abandon his theory of fluctuations.

A double-slit interference experiment is not enough to overturn the cornerstone of magic, and perhaps as they delve deeper into the microscopic realm, many new and curious discoveries will be made that the world is still cognitively compatible, but some key factors have been overlooked.

There are not a few people who think like Anthony, and great wizards such as Sanchez and Arad who support the particle theory want to find evidence that can refute probability waves after leaving the seminar grounds.

They can never believe that the world is determined by probability, and that everything must have a law!

On the other side, in the seminar field, Lynn was directing Jonny and the others to put away the various instruments on the test table, and he could already think of what kind of uproar would be caused after the [Magic Daily] announced the results of this experiment tomorrow.

Quantum theory is subversive to the challenge of traditional magic concepts, and it is bound to have a great impact, so he deliberately made a disclaimer.

In any case, this difficulty and ideological obstacle must be overcome after all, otherwise the magic science will probably stop there, and they will never be able to defeat the gods on high!

"Speaker Lynn."

Behind him, a shout interrupted Lynn's thoughts.

"Speaker Aurora, do you have any questions that I need answered?" Lynn turned her head and asked with a smile.

"If you want to talk about questions, of course, there are a lot of questions, but I want to ask about the Secret Law Society." Aurora said bluntly.

The expression on Lynn's face remained the same, and it wasn't surprising that the other party would ask about this.

After all, he said to Harrov and others before that the main body of the [Secret Law Society] was within the empire.

Now that the army of the Magic Kingdom has occupied more than seventy percent of the territory of the empire, even though he has made some preparations before, and has also recruited many talented wizards to join the [Arcane Society] to expand the number of people, there is still a substantial problem that has not been solved.

That's where the leaders of the [Arcane Society] and all the 'legendary wizards' are going!

In the past, they could excuse themselves on the grounds that the situation was unknown, but now that they have defeated Ella, these people have not yet appeared, and it is obviously a little too much to say.

In fact, Lynn had already thought of a solution, and it was beyond his expectations that Aurora and the others could endure it until now to ask.

"Since it's about the [Secret Law Society], why don't you just convene a legendary meeting and ask in person? Although I am also a member of the [Arcane Society], I don't know as much about learning as Albert and Isaac. Lynn said with a smile.

Aurora paused for a moment, then remembered that she who owned the [Arcane Ring] did have the authority to convene a legendary meeting, but she had never used it.

"Well, the time for the meeting might as well be set for twelve o'clock tonight." Aurora nodded and said freely.

It would be more desirable for her to ask in person, in addition to the confusion about the [Arcane Society], maybe they could also discuss all kinds of counterintuitive phenomena in the quantum realm together.

You must know that it was only a few months before Lynn was promoted to legend, and this magic star, no matter how talented he was, could not understand the microscopic realm so deeply in such a short period of time, so she guessed that some of Lynn's research materials on microscopic particles must have come from the [Arcane Society]......

"By the way, call Haroff and Speaker Vittorio." Lynn reminded that it had been delayed for so long, and now it was time to solve it!

(End of chapter)