Hathaway was silent for a while, seeming to organize her words: "I think your evaluation is too high, which will make arcanists have rash and unrealistic fantasies. Although the volatility of electrons is applied to the new alchemical model,
Here, it is true that some of the imposed quantization conditions can be derived naturally, but to evaluate a hypothesis without any guidance from experiments and signs in this way does not take advantage of the serious and practical arcane atmosphere."
What she said was a bit messy, but Lucien still managed to understand it. Since treating electrons as waves can solve some of the current problems of new alchemy, her hypothesis about Dieppe was not as conservative and stubborn as she imagined.
After a certain amount of mental preparation, for her, the perfection of the new alchemy is more important and is her future direction.
Moreover, she used "wave nature" to describe electrons instead of "electrons are waves", which obviously attributed the problem to the special properties of certain particles, just like the explanation of light quantum diffraction and interference images by supporters of particle theory -
Although these conjectures are full of contradictions and none of them have been taken seriously yet, they do not prevent Hathaway from drawing on similar ideas.
What she really wanted to refute was Lucien's comment, which she thought was too high. You must know that any previously unbelievable and bold hypothesis was due to the discovery of certain problems and loopholes, and related associations, such as Lucien's
The light quantum hypothesis is based on the fact that the wave theory cannot explain the photoelectric effect.
This time, Dieppe's hypothesis was purely the product of a broad-minded thinking. It pushed the wave-particle duality of light to all microscopic particles. However, whether light is a particle or not is a question mark, and there is no sign that it is not.
With its unique properties, how can it be rashly and blindly promoted in the particle world?
The most important thing is that this hypothesis only seems to be possible to solve the problems of new alchemy, and does not explain the photoelectric effect as clearly as the light quantum hypothesis. Even before there is no precise experiment, it is consistent with all current experimental results, so for
Such a hypothesis, Hathaway believes, Lucien should not have such a high evaluation, which will allow other arcanists to put forward completely divergent and fanciful hypotheses for theories that have no previous problems, allowing rigorous exploration, practical research, and careful application.
The arcane ethos was completely ruined.
Simply put, she felt that Lucien's praise of Dieppe's hypothesis would create a trend of speculative arcane research.
All the members of the Supreme Jury present were well aware of Hathaway's language skills. Oliver was worried that Lucien would not understand the point, and specifically added: "Your evaluation of Dieppe's unfounded paper will make other Olympians
Magicians feel that they have an opportunity, because they can accuse a classical theory of errors without the discovery of any problems, and then start from this fantasy and use mathematical methods to obtain a rigorous deduction process. As for how absurd the final result is, they
I won’t care.”
"For example, I can directly accuse you of being a spy for the church without any evidence. With this premise, I can rely on what you did, and then use rigorous but selective deduction to prove that you published a subversive paper.
It’s to blow the heads of more magicians, and even to kill us, the Supreme Council members, to achieve the purpose of wiping out the Magic Council. Don’t you think this is ridiculous? Do you want to encourage such behavior?”
Lucien said seriously: "I got some inspiration from the hypothesis that electrons are waves. I seem to have seen the dawn of solving the problem of new alchemy. That's why I gave such a high evaluation. If this hypothesis can solve the problem of new alchemy,
The problem, on the other hand, also confirms it."
"Moreover, since photons can be wavelike, why can't electrons? Can't neutrons? Can't protons? In the microscopic field, this is a relatively traceable hypothesis and not a pure fantasy.
When it comes to arcane discussions, Lucien is a person of his own perseverance. He cannot admit that his evaluation is too reckless just because of the accusations of the two great arcane masters. He admits that Dieppe's thesis is indeed too bold and too unrealistic.
It is not fair to the professionalism and authority of my own review, and it is also unfair to Dieppe's efforts.
Even if I have not done any experiments to prove it, I will still have the same persistence. Those who can make me give this comment must have merits. However, if a loophole is really pointed out or there are experimental results to refute it, then I am not the same.
Stubborn person.
"When was light recognized as a particle?" Vicente, a pale middle-aged man wearing a black cloak, said coldly, the dark red flames in his eyes beating fiercely.
Hathaway looked at the Lord of the Dead and said: "Whether you admit it or not, the photoelectric effect and the Brooke scattering experiment are all there, clearly showing everything."
"But I think scattering experiments and other experiments may also have wave explanations, such as..." Oliver said his own ideas, constructing special waves that can express particle properties.
Douglas frowned and said: "There are no experiments or theories that can support your idea."
"This may not be a direction." Brooke said succinctly.
Suddenly, due to the dispute between the wave theory and the particle theory, the entire Supreme Council meeting room became very noisy. Gradually, as the quarrel deepened, they even experienced emotional fluctuations.
"Construct your special complex wave first, Oliver." When Klaus spoke, countless light points seemed to appear behind him, forming different phantoms of alchemical things, including golems, dolls, and floating cities.
There is an alchemy fortress and a magic steam train...
Oliver shook his finger: "No matter how you look at it, this is also a way to explain the photoelectric effect and Bruker's scattering experiment. Moreover, before discussing my question, you'd better re-examine the particle theory. Maybe there have never been any particles, they are all
It is a special manifestation of waves.”
Scenes of destruction appeared one after another around him, giving the conference room an aura of doom.
"If particles are all waves, then are the elements composed of these microscopic particles waves? Is the life composed of these elements a wave? More precisely, are we waves?" Vicente did not agree with Oliver on this inference,
He is an authority on the human body and soul. It is difficult to believe that the body is a wave? How can a body with real touch be a wave?
Black tombstones of peaceful eternal sleep seemed to grow one after another on the conference room carpet, and a silent death enveloped everything.
Oliver waved his hand, indicating that his words were not rigorous enough, and said again: "To be honest, although I appreciate Dieppe's hypothesis, I also want to give him a high praise for opening up a corner of the world... But at least so far,
I still don’t believe that electrons are waves.”
As he spoke, he used magic to directly construct a scene of electronic movement in the cloud chamber. The pale mist droplets formed a wonderful electronic trajectory, full of dreamy and shocking flavor.
"I am not so bold to believe that an electron with such an obvious particle trajectory is a wave for the time being. However, since Lucien agrees with Dieppe's hypothesis, does it also mean that he agrees that waves are the essence of light?" said the speaker.
At the same time, Oliver set his sights on Lucien.!
He was using Lucien's comments to attack his own light quantum theory.
"I said, maybe electrons can show volatility under special circumstances, such as when they are bound around the nucleus." At this time, Hathaway was in Lucien's camp again.
Helen is one of the rare legendary magicians who has no cognitive world projection. She has been quietly listening to the argument between the supporters of the wave theory and the supporters of the particle theory. At this time, she couldn't help but interjected: "In fact, the light quantum hypothesis has been confirmed.
After that, I was very confused. Why is light both wave and particle? Is it true that this problem should be viewed from a higher level as Evans said?"
"It can be explained from the wave theory..." Oliver emphasized his opinion again. Those who can become a great arcanist must persist.
Seeing that the two sides were about to have a "frank and friendly conversation" again, Douglas quickly signaled them to be quiet with his gestures, and all the strange phenomena in the conference room suddenly disappeared, and the hellish scene changed back to the real world.
"The confrontation between the wave theory and the particle theory has been going on for a long time. There is no need to waste today's time. Since Lucien insists that there is no problem with his comments and it is not the result of the paper review, it seems that there is no need to discuss it anymore?" Douglas looked around.
One glance at everyone.
Oliver nodded lightly: "Let me ask one more question. I believe everyone is also curious. Lucien, in your mind, is light a wave or a particle?"
"Also, are electrons waves or particles?" Vicente added coldly.
Hathaway, Helen and others also looked at Lucien, quite curious about his true arcane stance.
Since the strange phenomena began to appear frequently, Lucien has been quietly watching this situation that is completely different from any scene. This is a unique scenery that may appear only when the Supreme Council meets.
At this time, after hearing their questions and feeling everyone's eyes, Lucien did not refuse to answer, but looked at the abnormal teacher with a slight worry, and asked seriously: "What is a wave? What is a particle?"
Well? None of the members present were at least ninth-level arcanists. They didn't expect Lucien to ask the most basic concepts, and were a little stunned for a moment.
"Lucien, this is not the time for lectures, although your nickname is professor." Oliver said consciously and humorously.
There were only two dark red flames in Vicente's eye sockets, and only the thin skin covering the bones was left on his face, making it difficult to see his true emotions: "The definitions of waves and particles are in the basic arcane book.
It has been mentioned that everyone's time is precious. If you don't want to answer, just stay silent.
"Wave is a phenomenon. It was originally defined from various fluctuations in nature and used in the study of arcana. The specific definition is..." Hathaway did not worry about Vicente and roughly defined the definitions of waves and particles.
Talked.
Lucien smiled and said: "It can be clearly seen that the definitions of waves and particles come from us, from our experience summary of the real world that can be directly observed."
"What's the problem?" Brooke put his fingers on his chin, as if he was guessing.
Douglas, Seer Bergner, and Hathaway seemed to have remembered something, and each showed a thoughtful expression. The difference was that Hathaway's expression had almost no change, and it was difficult to detect it if you didn't look carefully, while Fernando, the master of the storm, still maintained his previous expression.
attitude of silence.
Lucien did not answer directly, but looked at everyone and said, "If you don't think it's a waste of time, I want to tell a story first."
"No problem." Oliver has always been tolerant of stories.
Since he has spoken, other members of the Supreme Council will naturally not object to such a trivial matter, and they believe that Lucien is definitely not telling random stories to perfunctory everyone, and must have his own intentions. Besides, the previous quarrels and questions were all based on
Above the arcane, it is not specifically about Lucien. If you can explain the problem clearly, what does it matter if you tell one story? It doesn't matter if you tell ten!
"Once upon a time, there was a king who got a newly dead dragon. He was very happy and placed it outside the palace as a symbol of his bravery so that every noble and commoner passing by could see it." Lucy
En spoke in a gentle voice, "One day, a group of blind people who didn't know about the dragon heard about it and were curious about what the dragon looked like, so they went outside the palace together and stroked the dragon's body."
Hearing that a group of blind people wanted to figure out what the dragon looked like through the action of "touching", Oliver, Klaus and other relatively cheerful members of the Supreme Council all smiled, while others speculated on the results.
Lucien continued: "With the help of a soldier, a blind man touched the wings of the giant dragon and said happily: 'The dragon is a terrifying big bat!"
"'No, the dragon is a big lizard!' Another blind man who touched the scales of the dragon retorted loudly. Before he lost his eyesight, he had caught a lizard and touched its scales."
When hearing the first blind man's words, most members of the Supreme Council showed smiles, but after the second blind man's answer appeared, they all became solemn. Douglas, Hathaway and others made some guesses and comments.
The mentally prepared person nodded slightly.
"I don't want to go into details about the answers of the other blind people. I just want to ask: Is the dragon a big bat or a big lizard?"
"None of them." Helen probably knew what Lucien meant, but she still answered seriously.
Lucien smiled and said: "So, for me, light, electrons, etc. are neither waves nor particles. The only thing that can be confirmed is that they belong to matter. Of course, I prefer to call them particles."
"Neither waves nor particles?" Oliver frowned slightly, "You want to say that they are actually something else?"
Lucien looked around the conference room: "We cannot directly see electromagnetic waves including visible light, nor can we directly see particles in the microscopic field. Our research in these fields is like blind people, so we can only rely on
Observable phenomena cannot be blindly imposed on them by definitions and concepts summarized from past experience.”
"Take light as an example. Without preloading it with the concept of waves or particles, we can describe it like this. This material shows obvious wave properties and obvious particle properties. What is the frequency range?
What is the speed in various media? As for what the substance with these properties is called, that is not the point. It can be defined as anything. As for why it exhibits wave properties or particle properties respectively, wave properties and particle properties are different.
How to combine it is what we need to further study, and it must be based on experimental results and real phenomena."
"The reason why we are arguing endlessly is that we mechanically apply past concepts and definitions to the microscopic realm, and apply them to places closest to the reality of the world. I once said that our experience will deceive us. This is the manifestation.
One, and such deception is not only reflected in research, but also in our interactions with others."
Having said this, Lucien once again looked around at the members of the Supreme Council who had different expressions, and said solemnly:
"Only by learning to temporarily abandon the original concepts and firmly base them on current phenomena and experimental results can we survive in this micro world
‘See, the reality of the world.”
After Lucien finished speaking, there was a strange silence in the conference room. Everyone was thinking in different ways.
"But without the original concept, how can we study the microscopic world? Experimental results and phenomena also need to be processed and constructed into a system." Oliver agreed somewhat, but was more skeptical.
Lucien simply said: "Mathematical tools."
"If you don't know what it is, how do you know what mathematical tools you need to use?" Vicente didn't agree with it either.
"Previous concepts and definitions can be applied to experimental results that can be directly observed, but not directly observed. However, it can be deduced from the experimental results, and guesses and hypotheses can also be put forward, which can then be confirmed through rigorous experiments." Lucien
Explaining his own views, this is a view that has been gradually formed and solidized due to the influence of magic, souls, feedback and other strange things in the real world, as well as the study of quantum theory.
"So it is speculated that electrons are waves? But there is no strict experimental confirmation." Vicente continued, and after a long circle, the topic returned to the beginning.
Douglas nodded slightly and said: "I think Lucien is right. We see something because light is reflected into our eyes. The magnification magic is also based on the same optical principle, but light will react with electrons.
It will make it jump, that is, change its state, so at least so far, it is difficult for us to find a way to directly observe the microscopic world. We can only rely on the results of various experiments to make assumptions or interpretations from induction, and hypothesis
When interpreting, we cannot substitute too many original concepts, as this will constrain our thoughts and blind our souls.”
"But no matter what, it is too unrealistic to directly guess that electrons are waves. At least the current experimental results do not show any signs of this. They all show particle properties." Oliver shook his head, while Hathaway and others said
Nodding slightly, I agree with his view. At least the particle nature is an obvious experimental result, and it is difficult for people to associate wave nature from the distinct trajectory.
However, they also initially accepted that in arcane research and in the microscopic world, original concepts cannot be blindly substituted.
"Can we see the reality of the world only by giving up the original concepts?" Brooke sighed with a sigh, "But we who have studied arcana since childhood and accepted various definitions and concepts may accidentally substitute the original concepts during our research.
Concepts without knowing it. And, maybe sometimes, introducing original concepts will make things simpler."
Douglas looked at his pocket watch and said, "It's getting late. Lucien has also expressed his views. You can communicate in private."
"Well, I will try to use the concept of electronic waves to reconstruct the new alchemical model and give its wave function to see if I can solve the problem to verify this hypothesis." Brooke is very interested in this direction and seems to have found it.
Reshape your own way of understanding the world.
Oliver also nodded and said: "I will also put my own ideas into the concept of electronic waves and try to construct its wave function, hoping to gain something."
Hathaway didn't express anything. She never spoke when she could.
"Lord of the Dead" Vicente said to the Storm Lord with a sarcastic smile: "Old pervert, why haven't you spoken? Is it because he is his student, so he doesn't want to yell at him in front of us? This is not like in Arcane.
You are very persistent in the truth."
When he said this, the other members of the Supreme Council realized that the Lord of the Storm had never spoken! You must know that when this kind of debate occurred in the past, the conference room would have been dominated by lightning and thunder, heavy rain, and roaring. Today, it turned out that
So abnormal?
Storm Lord Fernando seemed to be suppressing something. After looking at Vicente, he glared at Lucien: "Take it out, they should be able to withstand such an impact."
"What did you take out?" Lucien pretended to be dumbfounded.
"What to bring out?" Other members of the top panel were full of questions.
Fernando roared violently: "When you gave your comments, I knew you had completed the experiment! Take it out and let us see what the reality of the world is! See what it means to give up the original concept!"
"You think we can't even withstand such an impact? Especially in an unknown territory!"
Is the experiment completed? Oliver, Klaus and others looked at Lucien in shock. Is it really completed? Doesn't Lucien's attitude mean...how is this possible?
Even Hathaway, Helen and other legendary magicians with indifferent expressions showed a little shock and surprise, which made them full of life, as if they were now flesh and blood.
Douglas looked at Lucien solemnly: "If it is completed, then take it out. The people sitting here will not be so narrow-minded and stubborn."
He added in his mind that most of them were supporters of the wave theory, while a small number were mentally prepared because this hypothesis seemed to be able to solve some of the problems of the new alchemy.
Lucien looked at them in silence, received unanimous nods, took a deep breath, took out a large single crystal, and arranged a magic circle so that the image could be displayed directly.
Brooke said nothing, raised his hand, and directly fired the electron stream.
Time seemed to have frozen, and there was an unusual depression and silence. Not long after, the magic circle lit up, revealing a classic picture like an X-ray diffraction pattern!
In the eyes of everyone, this pattern is so familiar, so dreamy, yet so shocking and unbelievable!
"This..." I don't know how many inner self-talks came out unconsciously.
Boom!
Countless bolts of lightning danced wildly, the sound of thunder struck in waves, and a black storm enveloped the sky;
The surrounding black magnetic field is distorted, and the invisible electromagnetic waves are abnormally disordered;
Stars emerged one after another, emitting bright light, distorting the surrounding space, and exerting gravitational pull;
White, black, gold, silver, a little bit of elements condensed into a sea-like tide;
In the quiet and peaceful place of eternal rest, black tombstones are slanted on top, filled with a strong aura of death;
The black universe is vast and vast, and planets are annihilated one after another, falling into endless waves of destruction;
Snowflakes were falling, the temperature of the entire room dropped by a hundred degrees, and there was crystal clear ice everywhere;
Many strange phenomena emerged bit by bit, stirring in the conference room, forming a terrifying scene where light, shadow and colors intertwined, destruction and death danced together!
Boom!
Amidst the illusory thunder and destruction, they all turned to look at Lucien, and saw Lucien standing there with his hands in the pockets of his black double-breasted gown, half-repeating Brooke's words in a low voice.
say:
"Only by giving up your original concepts can you see the reality of the world."