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"This is a gift I prepared for you, Speaker Lynn!" Boulder said, pointing at the cage.
Lin En took a look at it and was somewhat curious about its huge size.
"There is a camel beast inside. Of course, according to your quantum theory, it is probably a camel beast that is both dead and alive!" Boulder introduced it with a smile.
Inside this cage, he released a delayed lethal toxin, causing a healthy camel to usually faint and die within six to ten hours.
"And now seven hours have passed. It is possible that it is dead or alive. So we can say that it is in a superposition state of both dead and alive, right?" Boulder said proudly.
The wizards present all laughed.
This is of course impossible!
Even without observing them, they knew that the camel in the cage could only be in one of two states: dead or alive!
It has to be said that Boulder's metaphor of the opposition between life and death to compare waves and particles is very appropriate, because logically they cannot coexist.
A living thing cannot be both alive and dead, and an object cannot be both a particle and a wave.
Arad and other great wizards all turned to look at Lin En, extremely curious about how this magic star would answer this sharp question.
The smug expression on Boulder's face gradually faded, and he felt vaguely uneasy in his heart. He began to wonder whether the "gift" he had given would offend the new Speaker too much.
Although he had heard that the Magic Star was always open-minded in debates on magic, it was ultimately just a rumor.
Boulder somewhat doubted whether he had been too credulous in the instigation of Jeffrey and others.
Under everyone's attention, Lynn suddenly raised his hand and reached out to Boulder.
Just when the great wizards were wondering whether the Magic Star was angry and embarrassed, they saw him just pat Boulder on the shoulder and then spoke with appreciation.
"Your understanding of quantum physics is very thorough, Master Boulder!"
"Huh? Ah?!" Boulder paused, almost wondering if he had heard it wrong.
Arad and the others were also stunned where they were, totally unable to understand why the Magic Star would praise Boulder for getting the camel beast out of the cage.
This is clearly used to ridicule his wave-particle duality and probability theory.
However, Lin En didn't care about this. He looked at the confused Boulder and explained with a smile, "A camel beast that is in a closed state and may die at any time can indeed explain some of the quantum properties..."
"But the state of this camel beast can only be dead or alive, not a superposition of these two states!" A great wizard couldn't help but interrupt. "Whether it is observed or not, it is impossible for it to be dead and alive at the same time!"
"But without observation, we really can't confirm its true state, right?" Lin En raised his eyebrows, and then without waiting for the other party to continue speaking, he looked at Boulder and spoke again.
"Your idea is good, but this description is not appropriate enough. How about this, why don't we modify the conditions a little bit!"
"Change? How?" Boulder looked confused.
"First of all, this cage is not closed enough. We can add magic to isolate perception and detection, and ensure that there is enough oxygen inside." Lin En knocked on the large iron box in front of him where the camel was placed.
Boulder's considerations were clearly insufficient. There was limited oxygen in this closed cage, and the poisoned camel would have suffocated to death by now!
"The second thing is to put a living thing in it! Considering what to put in it..."
"Just treat it as a cat!" Lin En smiled. "Then put a device in the sealed box, and put poisonous gas in it, the kind that will kill anyone who touches it!"
"And the condition for activating the poison gas is that the switch of the device is hit by decay particles!"
"Let's assume that the radioactive elements in the device have a 50% chance of releasing alpha particles every second, and the probability of the particles freely diverging and hitting the switch is also 50%. This is more like a quantum superposition state!" Lynn said as he stretched out his hand, and a black, fully sealed box made of magic power appeared in his palm.
"Now I ask you, is it alive or dead at this moment?"
Lynn's voice echoed throughout the large exhibition hall.
All the wizards present looked at the black box in Lynn's hand!
Although they all knew that this box was created temporarily and nothing was put in it, Arad and others seemed to see a strange-looking quantum cat staying in the box!
Every element may decay at any moment, which means that the cat is always on the boundary between life and death!
The corner of Boulder's mouth twitched involuntarily. He thought the camel beast in his cage was weird enough, but now compared with this quantum cat, it is nothing!
"I can't be completely sure whether it is dead or alive, but I know there is a one-fourth chance that the cat will be killed, and as time goes by, it will almost certainly die!" A wizard retorted anxiously.
"Yes, it's possible, just possible!" Lin En laughed. "I can also tell you that the electrons that are continuously emitted have a great chance of falling into the area I drew after a hundred observations, and this probability will increase as time goes by!"
“This is my probability cloud theory!”
The state of the cat inside the box is unknown, and it cannot affect the outside world.
To outside observers, the cat is always in a state of probability of death. Only when the box is opened, the result is fixed!
Chapter 518: Grand Medal-granting Ceremony and Three Corona Medals
Lin En held the black sealed box in his hand, and used this cat that existed in the illusion, between life and death, as an example to explain the mysterious yet real quantum phenomenon.
Inside the large exhibition hall, tens of thousands of wizards were arguing fiercely.
If quantum is a probability wave, then this cat can be called probabilistic death!
This undoubtedly proves that there is indeed something that transcends order and laws, and its form is beyond their cognition!
For example, luck, or probability!
However, there are also many people who don’t believe in this thing at all. Arad is one of them. He still believes that everything has its own rules, just as he never believed that pi is an infinite non-repeating number.
As long as there is enough data, everything is knowable and predictable!
The weirdness of the quantum field is simply because their understanding of the quantum field is too superficial and they have not found any rules!
Seeing that the situation on the field was gradually reversing, the wizards who had originally firmly opposed quantum theory began to waver. Arad glanced at Boulder with extreme dissatisfaction.
Which side is this guy on?
Without the camel in the cage that he mentioned, I'm afraid this Magic Star would not have thought of such a strange quantum cat!
Fortunately, at this time, Sanchez stood up. He directly skipped the discussion of wave-particle duality and instead began to attack the various formulas of quantum theory.
For example, the quantum constant mentioned by Lynn earlier, how is this smallest component defined and measured?
As for the wavelength formula, its correlation with mass can be explained by the argument that [macroscopic matter is composed of countless microscopic matter, which interfere and influence each other]. Then why can speed also have a decisive influence on it?
A large number of questions kept coming up like the tide. Lynn was not flustered at all. He answered Arad's questions one by one with a light tone and soon refuted them speechless.
After all, he is not just the founder of quantum mechanics, but he possesses a relatively complete quantum theory model. The database of the intelligent brain contains hundreds of millions of related papers. It is simply a fantasy to want to win the debate against him in theory!
About an hour later, more than 30 great wizards who tried to stop him were defeated one after another. Some were so angry that their faces turned red and they were speechless, while others sighed like Jeffrey.
"It looks like this debate has come to a conclusion!" Vittorio, who was in the exhibition hall and did not participate in the debate, said with a smile.
Naturally, they tacitly approved of the debate in the exhibition hall. Quantum theory is about the origin of magic, and it cannot be overemphasized. If it has obvious loopholes that can be easily refuted, then the issue of promotion must be carefully considered.
Before, Vittorio was a little worried that Lynn would not be able to win the argument with Jeffrey and others, and he was even prepared to smooth things over, but the other party actually withstood the pressure.
"In that case, let's start today's awarding ceremony as early as possible," Aurora suggested.
Harrov also nodded, and after Lynn, Jeffrey and others who had finished the debate were seated, he took out the list of people who would be awarded medals, cleared his throat and announced the official start of the awarding ceremony!
The deliberately amplified sound soon drowned out the noise in the exhibition hall, quieting the wizards who were discussing and arguing.
"First, Mr. Glenn, your optical camera plays a very important role in publicity and some magic research fields. According to the review of the seminar, you will be awarded the Morning Star Medal!"
Glenn immediately stood up and accepted the honor with excitement.
Then, Harrov read out the next name, which was Sean, who invented the pendulum clock.
One wizard after another walked up to the stage under the envious gazes of the crowd.
There are more than ninety names in this list of honors. Although half of them were awarded for their military exploits, the rest are also amazing!
You know, in the past it was considered good to be able to issue five Morning Star Medals a year, but this time more than forty were issued, which is equivalent to the accumulated number in the past decade. The development of magic can only be described as a blowout.
Anthony and others are also on the list. Although the theory of light waves and light particles has been replaced by Lynn's quantum probability cloud, they still made some achievements - such as the photoelectric effect, the theory that light is an electromagnetic wave, the double-slit interference experiment that provoked the wave-particle debate, and so on.
Among them, Jeffrey and Anthony won a Silver Moon Medal, while Sanchez won a Morning Star Medal with his solar silicon panels.
The most unlucky one was Arad. He was originally confident in his element scattering experiment and believed that it was the most important evidence to defeat the wave school. However, the result undoubtedly became a joke.
This was also the reason why he tried to refute Lin En in the debate just now. It was related to the ownership of at least one Silver Moon Medal!
The result was undoubtedly that he failed and did not gain any results from his magic research. In addition, Arad and Anthony both stayed in the Kerosene City to conduct research, and only had the hard work of guarding the city and extracting tritium and deuterium elements.
Arad sighed secretly. It was a pity that just one week was not enough time to make an alchemical instrument to monitor the movement of electrons and see how the particles passed through the two gaps at the same time. Otherwise, he felt that his scattering mimetic wave theory still had some hope!
It took about three and a half hours to distribute medals to more than a hundred wizards. After Harov read out the last name, he looked at Lin En and spoke.
"The next step is the distribution of the Corona Medal!"
"I believe everyone has witnessed Speaker Lin's contribution to the Magic Council. After review by me and the other two speakers, we have unanimously decided to award him three Corona Medals!"
Upon hearing this, all the wizards present were shocked. Although they already knew that this magic star would once again receive the highest honor in the magic world at this awarding ceremony, this was a bit too much.
Three full Corona Medals!
Even Lynn himself was a little surprised.
According to the regulations of the parliament, I cannot participate in the discussion and voting on all honorary awards in order to avoid internal manipulation.
The issuance of the Corona Medal was decided by the Speakers' internal discussions, so Lin En did not know until now that he had received three Corona Medals in a row.
Amidst everyone's questioning and puzzled looks, Harov began to explain.
“These three Corona Medals are to recognize Speaker Lynn’s three important contributions!”
"The first is to perfect the periodic table, propose the theory of divisibility of elements, use this theory to build the solar furnace (nuclear fusion reactor), and create a ritual to break through the legend!"
As soon as these words came out, all the questioning voices stopped immediately.
This Corona Medal is well-deserved, and no one can say anything against it!
The periodic table that ranks all elements has undoubtedly become the most solid foundation of elementology. This theory reveals that serial elements can be transformed into each other, right down to their origin!
The most important achievements are the nuclear explosion that can destroy a city with one blow and the solar furnace that can provide massive energy!
Not to mention the ceremony for creating a breakthrough legend. Many great wizards feel that this alone is worthy of a separate Corona Medal!
Probably because they complement each other they are counted together.
Harov looked around the exhibition hall and seeing that no one objected, he spoke again.
"The second reason is because of Speaker Lin's outstanding contribution to the war against the Empire!"
"Including but not limited to joining forces with Master Anthony to seize the capital, developing war weapons, defeating the saint of the church many times, and expelling the false god Ella in the battle of the holy city..."