Chapter 384: Fanatic

What is light?
Is it wave?
Is it a particle?
Or both.
Regardless of the truth, the [wave-particle duality of light] has long been written into high school physics textbooks.
90% of the students just remembered such a concept.
A small group of people went a little deeper and roughly understood the double-slit interference experiment.
After this short study, the concept of light returned to the examination paper and became a branch line in the question. It would reflect a symmetrical straight line when hitting the mirror, and by calculating the angle in between, you can get the score you deserve.
But to resolve their disputes, they stopped here.
Waves are waves and grains are grains.
Duality?
What is this explanation? What is this concept?
As a young man, it was hard for him to imagine, a paragraph of such an absurd description of why he was so grandiose was written in his textbook.
It is as absurd as saying "a person has duality between men and women, she is a woman in clothes, and he is a man without clothes."
Although Jie Qifen had such a big doubt, he didn't want to ask the teacher.
After all, since he mastered calculus, the science teacher has been unable to answer any of his questions positively. Before that, he could have said perfunctorily, "This has to be explained by calculus. Let's talk about it when you learn it."
So, Jie Qifan stopped here.
Perhaps he himself did not expect that this stoppage would be 27 years.
Initially, in the era without the Internet, his only choice was the university library. Whether it was after school or on weekends, he would take a long bus to go to the most prestigious university in his city, and then he would stand at the door, begging The passing college students led him in.
College students naturally like such a studious little brother. Not only will he take him in, but he will also listen to his questions, either try to answer them, or lead him to the bookshelf of related textbooks.
In these countless days and nights, a magnificent epic of physics is slowly unfolding in front of the solution.
He only knew that the wave-particle duality of light was not written down by a single person, but the result of a century-long debate.
Lupai believes that only small particles that can be quantified and have quality. Newton, Einstein, and Planck all proved this point without doubt.
Bo School believes that light is an electromagnetic wave, which interferes and diffracts. Huygens, Maxwell, and Hertz have all proved this point.
It is like a group of people proving that someone is a man, and another group of people proving that someone is a woman.
This result is so absurd, but in fact, for a long period of time, such two completely contradictory conclusions were correct at the same time.
Until the double-slit interference experiment, with the breakthrough of observation technology, scientists decided to follow the observation of each photon to put a conclusion on this controversy.
The principle of the experiment is very simple. Find a board and make two vertical slits, then aim the photon transmitter at the double slits, and continuously emit, and finally observe what kind of light spots will be left on the screen behind the board.
In Lupai’s vision, such photons are unambiguous particles. They either pass through the gap on the left or pass through the right, and the probability is 50%. In this way, two clear vertical bars will eventually be obtained. .
In Bopai’s vision, the light splits into two after passing through the double slit, which will undoubtedly cause interference, so a series of beautiful zebra stripes must be reflected on the screen.
However, the final result silenced everyone--
Observe it, it is a grain.
Do not observe it, it is a wave.
Be more specific.
Wherever the photon camera is placed, two bars will appear on the screen behind the double slit.
Nothing, let you stare at it with your naked eyes, and the result will be beautiful zebra stripes.
Just like a person, she is a woman when you look directly, but once you pick up the camera, he becomes a man.
No matter how incomprehensible this is, this is a fact that has been demonstrated time after time.
No one expected that this experiment that should have been finalized had revealed a series of even more terrifying mysteries.
On this basis, Niels Boll turned out to be the beginning of quantum mechanics, and put forward the three principles of the quantum world that are still unbreakable.
The principle of superposition of states: In the quantum world, various possibilities coexist. A person can really be both male and female.
Uncertainty principle: Because the superposition state is not measurable, we never know what will happen next. The ghost knows whether Ta will be a male or a female next moment.
Observer principle: Although this person is both male and female, and Schrodinger’s cat is both dead and alive, we will never be able to observe such a thing. Once observed, the gender of the person will be determined, either male or female. As for whether it is male or female, it is determined according to the probability distribution of the superposition state of the person at that time. It is essentially a random meeting probability, just like a mobile game. The same as drawing cards.
Einstein mocked for this: God rolls the dice?
Ball's response was even more mocking: Don't command God!
The dazzling quantum dispute among the stars unfolded.
If you have to pick out a few typical examples in this great scientific history, it would be that Einstein and Boll sprayed all the way to death from the time they met. Schrodinger took advantage of the sage state in the gap between the sisters, and from time to time came out to stir up and abuse a cat. .
Of course, in the juvenile's reading of his ambitions, what he saw was a series of great names and beautiful numbers
Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, Enrico Fermi, Paul Dirac, Albert Einstein...
Planck constant, de Broglie material wave, Schrödinger equation, Heisenberg's uncertainty...
Although he still couldn't understand the full meaning of it, it didn't affect his fascinating obsession.
If anything, he has never been in love, never fell in love with anyone.
Quantum mechanics is his only, mysterious, and permanent first love.
He followed her footsteps, walked through high school, through competitions, won the world championship trophy, and entered the country's most prestigious physics institute.
But she never looked back at him.
Bell's inequality is her last voice, and the ghost imaging experiment is her last showy.
After that, there was a mess.
From philosophical sticks to engineering liars, everyone must go up and pinch her.
From local tycoons to professors, everyone wants to cut a piece from her.
They dress her up, mythical her.
They corrupt her, demon her.
She gradually became coquettish and decadent, psychedelic and foul.
The teenager started to hate her.
He only wanted to remember her in the beginning.
Perhaps the person who should yell "Smash the reality" most should be him.
He therefore rejected all quantum myths since the 1990s.
The boy at this time has become a youth.
The young man returned to the point where he first met by himself.
Then he returned to the boy.
That place is called the "wave-particle duality of light".
He put aside the reality and returned to the beautiful world of abstract mathematics.
He wants to find the bridge between them, the bridge between waves and grains. He is convinced that this is the last key in her heart.
If "observation" can really change the result.
Then try to be like those great names.
Write it in a formula.
Waves have formulas, grains have formulas, so "observation" must also have formulas.
Set together.
She will come back.
From then on, the young man walked on the path of destruction that was unresolved.
In the conference room, Zhong Ping restated the past lightly.
"The solution to the differences during the postgraduate period is very prestigious. It is greater than you and Gui Jianfeng combined. The domestic academic circle must not find a second one."
"I'm not saying that you are inferior to him. It is just a miracle that under the material conditions of the year, it is a miracle that a local scholar who is listed in the top international journals like Jie Qifen and who has been born and raised by the world is recognized."
"Therefore, no one dared to doubt what he was going to do. Both the college and the school cooperated."
"In addition to the enthusiasm for qigong at that time, even the leader really believed that he could study some incredible theory of creation, and he was our Einstein."
"You know, in pure theoretical research in mathematics and science, computers, or computing power, are the most core resource."
"Let's put it this way, at that time half of this thistle's computing power was his."
"This stage will last for about three years until he graduates with a PhD."
"Basically 0 results."
"Even negative results."
"Don't talk about top journals, he has only published one article in third-rate journals, and he has been scolded to death."
"He is trying to reconstruct physics with the most basic mathematical methods. This does not need to be scolded, but he has not achieved decent results for a long time, but he always throws out a bunch of mathematical content in his system to attack cutting-edge quantum mechanics. , This has caused a lot of notoriety."
"It's just to use his own self-talking theory to deny others, it's a bit like Minke's set."
"But the key point is that he has the name of Ji Da and uses Ji Da's resources."
"During this period, there are more and more returnee doctors, including me. Of course, the Jinghua who went first after returning to China did not have direct experience of the situation at Ji Dayuan at that time, but they can always hear some."
"At least at that time, the returnee doctors were indeed stronger than the local doctors. The strength was in the area of'international information absorption.' Whether it was thoughts, knowledge, or research methods, they were indeed smarter. Such a group of people would naturally not be able to understand the college’s resolution of their disputes. The indulgence of the people is as funny as the whole people practicing qigong."
"Additionally, I don't know how to behave in the world. I always spray whatever I think of, or spray it with my own theory. This caused him to be an enemy of the quantum world."
"Later, as the leadership changed, the resources to resolve their disputes were naturally cut down every day, and in the end even his students ran away."
"In fact, even so, his foundation and contributions are still there. It shouldn't be a problem to comment on a professor."
"But he is his bones, he obviously has nothing, and he denies the progress of quantum mechanics since the 1990s every day, and defines 90% of the school's people who engage in quantum mechanics as mischief and pyramid schemes."
"This has caused almost 90% of the teachers to fiercely oppose the school's job title evaluation several times."
"If he is a person who has no knowledge and no fart, he should be judged after all these years of confusion, but he is like this..."
"After a long time, I just skipped him and didn't comment."
"To this day, these things have actually passed away a long time ago. Now these quantum teachers have changed a group long ago, let alone arguing with him, they don't care much about him."
"I meet occasionally, and I will tell him to apply for it and comment again."
"He just shook his head, and left without care."
"As for transferring him to the experimental center, that's what I meant."
"The grades of ordinary students in his class are very poor, and few people can understand them. The test basically depends on self-study. There are also a few times before the test that he simply published the test paper, saying that it doesn't matter what the test is broken. Everyone is not here to mix the diploma. Well, no one really wants to figure out physics anyway..."
"Based on this, letting him go to class again will not have a good result for him or the Institute of Materials."
"For his situation, most people think it is self-inflicted and deserves it."
"I personally agree with this in part, but I also understand him at the same time."
"He has a sufficient mathematical foundation, and his thinking is even more different from ordinary people. If there is really a theory that you must adhere to even if you die, I believe that theory will have the value of persistence."
"Even I don't reject you trying to understand his theory, but..."
Zhong Ping solemnly focused on Li Zheng.
"You approached in this form and a team of this size... All our teachers are very worried."
"As long as mediocre students contact him, we won't have any doubts."
"It's just you, and you are the ones most likely to be caught in it."
"Although I have limited knowledge, I probably know that his theory is beautiful and tempting. It may be as good as string theory in terms of form. What's more terrifying is that it is still a semi-finished product, cut in the middle... …It’s hard for students like you to restrain themselves from turning it into a finished product."
"But from my perception and reality."
"It can never become a finished product."
"At least not in my life."
"That's it, Li Zheng, we don't want to see the second resolution."
"I know these words sound annoying, but they are all for your good."
"If you insist on doing research on superconductivity theory, I can contact you with the best professor of theory in our institute."
"This is my attitude."
Li Zheng was silent for a long time.
In this silence, I seem to see a more beautiful and even more annoying solution.
All these descriptions are correct. I imagined that he used to spread his teeth and dance claws, and he was ugly.
But under the skin, that unwilling soul is so beautiful.
"Never before..." Li Zheng shook his head in a choked voice, "Dean Zhong, these concerns of yours have never happened before. Teacher Jie has not shaken off half a word of private goods with me from beginning to end, including you at the time. He didn't say anything about the cellular automata and the game of life."
Zhong Ping also pondered for a while: "I can imagine how restrained he is, but if you study superconductivity together, many things will not be circumvented."
"Yeah." Li Zheng helped the table and slowly got up, "I understand the situation, I will go back and consider it carefully."
"Okay, it's hard for you." Zhong Ping got up and sighed, holding Li Zheng's hand. "Please also understand the teacher of our school. It is our responsibility to say these words. In the end, no matter how you decide, we will also Everyone will definitely support it, and even if we insist on resolving disputes, I will definitely approve it."
"Thank you, Dean Zhong."
"Okay, don't make it so heavy." Zhong Ping smiled and pushed Li Zheng, "Let's go to dinner. When you want to do high-energy physics, welcome to my class."
"Definitely, I only recognize Teacher Zhong in high energy physics!"
In this laughter, the final atmosphere is rare to ease.
Li Zheng strolled down the stairs. In fact, he didn't think about anything at this moment, but he still subconsciously walked to the door of the laboratory where he knew Qifen was.
As soon as he opened the door to see if Xie Qifen had left, there was a voice that seemed to be reprimanding and persuasive.
"Resolve the dispute...You can do it well, don't harm people, can you..."
"Remember the former graduate student? People are going crazy... I don't even read the book and go home to do your stuff..."
"Take a step back, even if Li Zheng and the others really come up with something famous, once your name appears in the paper, do you think there is hope for publication?"
"This time, they are all top-notch talents in the school. How many years have been invested in the entire education system to raise such a few, so you have to hold your own theory, is it okay to be at home?"
Li Zheng heard that he wanted to kick in, but couldn't find a reason to interrupt.
It should be Professor Lu who said this. It seems that as long as Zhong Ping talked to himself, how long he was here to talk to Xie Qi's dispute.
Just when Li Zheng made up his mind to go in, he heard a faint answer to understand him again.
"No way."
"This kind of subject is something they can't do with others. Only I can understand quantum."
"What they do is their business, but if they find me, I will take it."
"Unless you fire me now and kill me."
"Let's all go, I'm off work."
Immediately afterwards, the voice of the former associate professor came from inside.
"Teacher Jie... I know that you are aggrieved here... want to find a reason to go out."
"This is good, I think of a way, apply to the dean, and let you go to the theoretical research institute for teaching and research."
"Neurotic?" said Xie Qifen incomprehensibly. "I said it a long time ago. I won't talk about my theory in the teaching process. A physics person has given up on telling the truth he believes most. How am I?"
"This way... this way..." Professor Lu said in a low voice, "You let Li Zheng go to my side and have a look. You also help me persuade him. After the article, we can also put your name on it... No matter what, it is not a problem to comment on the professor... It is better than the useless work of your group..."
Then, there was the sound of smashing things inside.
"Fart! Shit!" Xie Qifen pushed the two away and walked quickly and cursed, "Cooperate with you and take Li Zheng and the others as fat sheep? Who is it? Who is it? What is it! That was the one with me back then The helper is more spineless than you again."
"Resolve the dispute!" Professor Lu immediately yelled, "It gives you enough face, right? You can teach Li Zheng as a waste of food in the courtyard??"
"That's... don't go too far." The associate professor beside him couldn't help but said, "Sometimes you should also take a closer look at yourself. Apart from wasting funds and misleading people, what else have you done?"
Then, the door shuffled open, giving up the refutation, and Jie Qifen, who was walking away from him, ran into the stupid Li Zheng.
Jie Qifen's expression was also suddenly embarrassed.
He didn't even look at Li Zheng, so he felt the cigarette and left.
The two people inside were even more embarrassed when they saw Li Zheng.
Li Zheng looked at the two and shook his head in disappointment.
All the way to the old place, smoking corner.
Jie Qifen didn't care about him, only took a stick in his mouth, and just about to receive the cigarette, Li Zheng snatched the cigarette case and smoked one.
"Just learn anything, give it to me." Xie Qifen raised his hand and grabbed it. "Get out of here if you have nothing to do. I'm annoying."
Li Zheng flashed over cheerfully, fiddling with the cigarette and said, "This thing can really improve thinking efficiency?"
"What a fuck." Jie Qifen couldn't grab it, so he had to order it for himself, "If you can't, you can find someone else. I can't bear these people toss me every day."
Li Zheng raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Oh? This is different from the attitude just now, isn't it only you who can understand quantum mechanics?"
Xie Qifen's face blushed, and he turned his head and said, "Some said nothing?"
"Just to comfort you, we have all been under a lot of pressure today." Li Zheng stretched out, looked at the cigarette in his hand, and finally put it back into the box, "I am not as weak-willed as you. Cigarettes are a short relief."
"Good luck, I hope you never use it."
"Okay, I'll just ask you one thing." Li Zhengning asked Xie Qi, "Don't be angry, really as you said, no one knows quantum physics better than you?"
"This is to tell the truth..." Jie Qifen suddenly became a little vacant, "If it's all over the world... there should be two or three people who understand better than me, one from Germany..."
"Okay, enough." Li Zheng patted and explained his dispute, "I'll go back and deal with it. We will start class tomorrow."
"Hey...what do you think..." Xie Qi snorted and said, "Although the old surnamed Lu is farting, but it is basically the truth. If you want to achieve results, don't ask me. You want to learn. no problem."
"Oh, when you learn it, the results are naturally uninvited." Li Zheng raised his eyebrows, rubbing his hands, "Come on, old prince of physics, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time... Maybe you were the first to be taught. , Or maybe I learn to vomit first... who knows..."
At this moment, Jie Qifan felt a fear of being dominated while studying for the first time.