Chapter 83: Parallel Worlds
"Participating in a variety show?!"
When Lao Chen heard the whisper behind him, his eyes narrowed, and his heart became even more disdainful.
He originally thought that Lin Jiaojiao was just an over-packaged false genius, that is, their elders would only listen to other people's words when they were dizzy, believing that this mass-energy equation was solved by her, but now that he looks at it, he ......
Hehe, it's just a piece of mud, and it can't hold up the wall.
There were faint exclamations behind him, "Are you telling the truth, actually doing such an outrageous thing?" β
"Lao Chen said before that this girl can't be the real solver of the mass-energy equation, and I think it's the same, I've never heard of a child who is dedicated to learning to participate in a variety show after living for so many years, and it can't be a physical genius or an imposter who can be contaminated with that kind of impetuous circle."
"I think our president is really dizzy this time, believing in this kind of 'genius' packaged by the media, then our Chinese physics community will really be nailed to the pillar of shame, and we will never be able to raise our heads again!"
Speaking of the president...... What about the president? β
"yes, what about the president?"
Several of the whispering physicists looked around, looking for the Chief.
"I'm here." The door of the conference room on the other side was opened, and an old man with silver hair but good spirits walked in with a smile.
Lin Jiaojiao actually didn't know any of these people here, but the old man in front of her was still a little familiar, although she rarely paid attention to the physics community in this plane, and she couldn't bear that the old man Qin in front of her was the first person in the physics community in China, and there were texts in primary school textbooks to introduce him.
Although Old Man Qin's status in the academic world is high, he has no frame at all, but with the eyes of caring for the seedlings of the motherland, he asked Lin Jiaojiao with a smile: "You solved the mass-energy equation?" β
Lin Jiaojiao was embarrassed, and thought to herself that this is not me, it was Albert Einstein who solved it, but there is no Einstein in this world at all, and there is no Planck, Bohr, and SchrΓΆdinger......
Whether it's a plane or not, you don't know these big bulls of modern physics at all, and you don't know either.
She shook her head helplessly, Lao Chen saw her denial, and snorted coldly, thinking that this stinky girl finally admitted that she was not the real solver of the mass-energy equation, and this wave slapped Old Man Qin's face, which was really ridiculous.
But Old Man Qin didn't think she was denying it, thinking that Lin Jiaojiao was just shy, or didn't know how to answer.
There was a little more love on his face.
"We've calculated the answers you came up with, and there's nothing wrong with that."
"It's just that this answer indirectly proves the wave function, which is an important proposition of the experiment of 'single-electron double-slit interference', but this experiment has long been denied by the physics community......"
"Because, when scientists try to determine which slit an electron passes through through an instrument, they will always find only one of them. The two instruments also did not detect electrons at the same time, and the electrons could only pass through one slit at a time, and could not interfere with the double slit, so that the experiment had to be abandoned and declared a failure......
Listening to Qin Lao's words, Lin Jiaojiao nodded, the physicists in the previous plane also took such a detour, but the fact is that this experiment can be completed, and the physicist Bohr even proposed the famous "Copenhagen interpretation".
Thinking back to the knowledge she learned in class when she was Lu Jiao, Lin Jiaojiao found that the "Copenhagen Interpretation" clearly appeared in her mind.
"But have you ever considered the probability that electrons are present at both slits when people are not observing? However, once it is measured, for example, at the left seam position, the electron has an exact position, and the probability of it is 1 at that point, and 0 at the other points. In other words, the wave function of the electron "collapses" to that point at the moment it is measured......"
Qin Lao listened and listened, and there was a light in his eyes, "Yes, it's collapse!" β
He was excited that the girl in front of him could put forward such an opinion, and it seemed that there was something really there.
"How collapse happens, whether it happens in an instant, or when it doesn't start until a photon enters people's eyes and triggers an electrical impulse signal on the retina, is something we have never been able to understand."
So, is there a way for you to bypass the so-called "collapse" and "observer" and remove the subjective element of the observer from physics, which is supposed to study objective laws? β
After Lin Jiaojiao put forward this hypothesis, most of the physicists present fell into deep thought.
She continued: "What if the wave function doesn't "collapse"? β
No collapse?
Just as they were brainstorming, a beautiful voice fell into their ears again, peeling back the cocoon for them to explore the truth.
"If the wave function does not collapse, it must increase linearly. In other words, the electrons in the experiment are still in a superposition state of the left/right slit even after re-observation. β
Therefore, we can further propose that people's worlds are also superimposed, and when electrons pass through the double slit, it is not only the electrons that are in a superimposed state, but also the whole world. That is, when the electrons pass through the double slit, two worlds are superimposed, and in one world the electrons pass through the slit on the left, and in the other world, the electrons pass through the slit on the right. β
In this way, the wave function does not need to "collapse" and randomly choose left or right, because it appears as a superposition of two worlds: people living in one world find that electrons pass through the slit on the left where they are, and in the other world, people observe electrons on the right. β
"There was once a very powerful physicist who came up with a thought experiment in which a cat was kept in an airtight container with a small amount of radium and cyanide. There is a chance that radium will decay, if radium decays, it will trigger a mechanism to smash the bottle containing cyanide, and the cat will die; If radium does not decay, the cat survives. According to the theory of quantum mechanics, since radioactive radium is in the superposition of decay and non-decay, cats should be in the superposition of dead cats and live cats. β
When Lin Jiaojiao said this, many physicists here were shocked, what they heard was a bold hypothesis that they had never heard before, although it was supported by so-called "experiments", but they had never done it themselves, and they had never explored in this direction.
"Two worlds?"
"Is it the so-called parallel world?"
"Heh, are you reading a fantasy novel, how can there be two parallel worlds, this is not supported by any theory!"
Many physicists are deep in thought, and many more present are subconsciously denial!
Impossible, there has never been such an unbelievable setting, this stinky girl is not very old, she came as soon as she opened her mouth, is she teasing them?!