"This iron box is equipped with a set of exquisite mechanisms inside, including a sealed poison gas can, a hammer, a small mechanical device, and a Geiger counter."
He could understand the other words, but Lei Luo really didn't know what a "Geiger counter" was, but he didn't rush to ask, because Alaya's next explanation came quickly:
"The Geiger counter is a highly sophisticated physical device that I created by absorbing certain information from different latitudes. It can detect the decay of heavy metal atoms and respond in real time."
"By the way, some of the high-tech technologies of the Evil God Religion use these unique alien-dimensional technological equipment. The Geiger counter is just one type. We will not mention more here."
Lei Luo still didn't say anything, with his arms folded on his chest unconsciously, and listened quietly to Alaya's story. Naruto felt quite bored, but he was worried about the cat's psychology, so he still had to endure it and stood beside Lei Luo for the time being.
Luo listened.
"Suppose the uranium atom you just put in suddenly decays, then the Geiger counter will detect this event, start the mechanical device, and use a hammer to break the gas canister..."
"Then the cat will naturally be poisoned to death by the gas."
Lei Luo frowned slightly and found that Alaya paused when he said this. He couldn't help but asked inexplicably: "Then what? What does this mean? What do you want to express?"
In Lei Luo's view, a cat is stuffed into an iron box equipped with a fatal mechanism, and then the condition that determines whether the fatal mechanism is activated is whether the uranium atom it releases decays...
Decay, also known as "transformation", refers to the process in which a radioactive element emits particles and transforms into another element. For example, radium emits alpha particles and turns into radon. The same is true for uranium atoms, and fission reactions originate from this.
Of course, just the decay of a uranium atom and the energy level is too low will not cause any explosion. In other words, there is no possibility that the unlucky cat will be killed by a nuclear explosion.
But what does this mean?
Facing Lei Luo's puzzled gaze, Alaya chuckled, patted the iron box casually, and asked without answering:
"Lei Luo, although you can control atoms and electrons to perform various microscopic interferences, such as releasing radiation, creating plasma, and detonating nuclear weapons, have you really understood these little things?"
"For example, their nature?"
Their...essence?
Atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, hadrons... all kinds of pictures that can be sensed using high-level dust escape came into mind, but the more Lei Luo thought about it, the stranger he became. Aren't microscopic particles just microscopic particles?
Their essence...could it be something else?
"The pictures you perceive do not mean that they are actually like that." Lei Luo became increasingly confused by what Alaya said. It was not until the next sentence came that he suddenly understood:
"Your perception, whether it is with chakra, spiritual power, electromagnetic waves, or any other power... perception itself means observation, which means that your behavior affects the movement patterns of microscopic particles."
"Before you observe microscopic particles, their state, position, momentum, and speed are actually uncertain, and this uncertainty itself is part of the laws of the objective world."
"It is your perception and observation that make them certain."
At first glance, ordinary people may think that Alaya's statement is nonsense, just like a pen or an apple. If you observe it, it will look like that. If you don't observe it, its state will be like this.
Randomly transformed.
The so-called uncertainty, to give an inappropriate example, is probably: the pen can be broken, it can be brand new, it can be old, the apple can be whole, it can be bitten, or it can be rotten.
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What state they are in is not determined by themselves, but by the "observation" behavior of the observer. This concept can be said to be very contrary to common sense and extremely anti-intellectual.
If Lei Luo hadn't had some background in high-energy physics, he might have praised Alaya as an "old idealist", but it was precisely because of the existence of that knowledge that he suddenly realized:
Isn't this... the theoretical cornerstone of quantum mechanics?
"For example, let's take the uranium atoms in this box..."
Alaya looked at the thoughtful Lei Luo, patted the iron box again, and said with a smile: "If we never observe it, then the state of the uranium atoms will be uncertain."
"In this state, its natural decay probability is about 50%. In short, uranium atoms may have been decaying, or they may not have been decaying. We don't know the specific situation because we have no observations."
"After all, the observation itself will affect its decay."
"In other words, if the Geiger counter is triggered, the poison bottle is broken, and the cat is poisoned, the probability is also 50%. This state of the cat is very strange. It seems to be dead and alive. None of us can say
Not clear."
Lei Luo subconsciously fell into deep thought, while Naruto shouted from the side: "Isn't it right? Even if we don't use our eyes to see, we can still use our ears to listen! When the poison bottle breaks, there will definitely be a sound, right?"
Alaya glanced at Naruto in surprise, but then a smile appeared on his lips and he waved to him: "Come on, put your ear to it and listen."
Naruto looked very unconvinced. He didn't know whether he was dissatisfied with Alaya's controlling smile, or he felt pity for the cat that was neither alive nor dead. In short...
Without hesitation, he put his ear against the box.
Then, his expression changed.
Lei Luo noticed this scene from the corner of his eye, and immediately came out of his meditative state. He hurriedly stepped forward and asked Naruto nervously: "How is it? What did you hear?"
Perhaps he was a little shocked, and Naruto opened his mouth subconsciously. He first looked up at Alaya who was smiling and said nothing, then turned to look at Lei Luo, and said stutteringly:
"I, I, I...I heard..."
"Continuous...sound of breaking glass?"
The glass was broken? Does that mean the gas leaked and the cat died?
Thinking of this, Lei Luo's eyes narrowed, but just when he was about to say something, there was a sudden movement from the box, which made him suffocate and his face suddenly became dazed.
The movement... seemed... to be a series of chaotic cat meows?
"Meow meow meow meow..."
"Now let me popularize a concept to you." The curvature of the corners of Alaya's mouth became wider and wider, and he suddenly opened the lid, revealing the scene inside to Lei Luo and others, and laughed loudly at the same time:
"The cat's state is in an extremely weird and high-speed quantum superposition state. This is not only the embodiment of my ability, but also the power you have to master next."
Lei Luo looked intently and saw that the inside of the box was blurry. The movement trajectories of various objects and the continuous flashing of various colored light spots seemed to have turned into groups of afterimages, which he could not see clearly with his dynamic vision.
Until the five times speed is turned on, it can barely be recognized...
The hammer is constantly raised and dropped, the poison gas bottle is broken and healed, healed and broken again, the poisonous gas either floats away or disappears, the white cat runs for a while and freezes for a while, everything seems to be repeating some kind of "process".
Is this the so-called... superposition state? Uncertainty?