As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 54 The Existence of the Soul

A group of criminals who were about to face the death penalty were taken to the Oak Ridge Laboratory overnight.

Jha and Donna worked with researchers from Oak Ridge to build the device.

The room was surrounded by people, basically all the researchers from Oak Ridge were there.

"Do you think souls really exist?"

"Who knows? Merlin's thesis theory is very solid, and the relationship between soul, body and memory is explained well enough. But its authenticity is questionable."

"If the soul really exists, then the entire biology will be overturned, and many phenomena that humans could not understand before will have a new theoretical system to support them."

"Even if this experiment can really observe the substance that appears after human death, we cannot be sure that this is the soul!"

"Also, how do we capture souls?"

"The biggest flaw in his paper is that he cannot prove how the observed matter is the soul."

The room had large floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and the researchers were all chattering away. Zheng Li's paper, published on magic.com, had been distributed to everyone.

When the FBI found that they could not block the domain name through any technical means, they released the arrested astronomers after making them sign a confidentiality agreement.

Since it is impossible to keep it confidential, there is no need for the magic.com paper to be kept completely confidential. What they have to do now is to keep it partially confidential. At least the public cannot know about this and cause unrest.

Americans have been hurt enough by the epidemic, and they don't want any social unrest.

After reading the paper, researchers have been discussing it. Some believe it while others disagree, saying that the existence of the soul is a myth.

This is a theory made up by a troublemaker who calls himself Merlin.

But they couldn't explain how Merlin bypassed American surveillance and launched a probe to Pluto.

"Everyone please keep quiet, our experiment is about to begin." Jha shouted.

It gradually became quiet outside the room. In the room in front of the transparent floor-to-ceiling glass, the death row prisoner had his head covered and was waiting for death to come.

"You're getting a good deal." The anesthesiologist in charge of euthanasia thought to himself, because euthanasia for death row inmates was a relief for them.

The anesthesiologist first injected the anesthetic and then the potassium chloride.

There is a period of time between the time a death row inmate is injected with potassium chloride and the time he dies. The observation device is already turned on when the anesthesiologist injects the anesthetic.

Under the observation of combined wavelength lasers and ultrashort light pulses, researchers in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass clearly saw a white mist-like soul leaving the body of the death row prisoner and slowly floating in the air.

"OMG! Is this the soul?"

"I want to know, are all people's souls white? Or do different people's souls reflect different colors under the observation device?"

"Can we capture souls?"

"If the soul really exists, will it age?"

“Are those who are brain dead but still physically alive considered to be spiritually dead?”

“If we can preserve memories and souls in the future, how do we legally define when a person is truly dead?” Many of the researchers present have obtained law degrees in addition to their research fields.

"From a legal perspective, both spiritual death and physical death should be considered death."

"How do we capture souls? In the future, we will be able to transfer souls and memories. Wouldn't that allow a person to live forever?"

"Will the hibernation device have any side effects on the soul?" "How can we prove that this is the soul?"

All the researchers present here have at least a PhD, and after observing the out-of-body soul, their minds are filled with flames of inspiration.

Jha was also shocked. Although he did not believe in the existence of the soul, he was shocked after observing it: "It's so beautiful!"

But he didn't hesitate for long before saying, "We need more experiments to determine the nature of the soul."

Raymond, who was standing next to him, nodded and said, "We need to use particle observers and neutrino observation detectors to observe which basic particles the soul experiment is composed of."

Jha: "I feel like it's definitely a particle we haven't discovered before, and we need more experiments."

"Merlin proposed in his paper that some intelligent life forms also have souls in their bodies."

"We need more experiments to conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses of the soul."

The physicists present were thinking about the material composition of the soul, while the biologists were thinking about the relationship between the soul and the body, and how the soul is stored in the human body.

Why can’t we observe the existence of the soul when we are alive, but can observe it after we die?

In fact, the mages have also researched a method to observe the soul of a person while he is alive, but Zheng Li did not write it in his paper because he did not want anyone to discover that the body in Lion City had no soul.

"The existence of the soul is a big thing, and we need a comprehensive arrangement and plan."

"The most important thing is to find Merlin. Who is he and what is his purpose?" thought Tom, the head of Oak Ridge Laboratory.

Among the three articles published by Zheng Li, the last one on the trinity of body, soul and will is unfalsifiable.

The second article proves that the soul exists which is relatively easy. You can just conduct the experiment according to the method in the paper.

The first one is just as easy, but involves making the simplest magic brain, which takes time.

The difference between the simplest magic brain and the standard magic brain is probably the difference between a steam tea kettle and a steam engine.

Both use the steam principle to pry materials, and their essence is the same, but their roles at the application level are completely different.

Zheng Li also stated in the paper that this magic brain is limited to use on small mammals, such as mice. Using it on humans will have unpredictable consequences.

This experiment was actually a verification experiment that Zheng Li conducted after the end of his first semester at Jiangcheng University.

Basic experiments in the mage's theoretical system.

This is a completely unfamiliar area for Blue Star's theoretical system.

This experiment was not located at Oak Ridge, but at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

During this week, researchers from the five major alliance leaders of Blue Star completed experiments on the existence of the soul, and all parties reached a consensus through remote meetings.

The existence of Merlin and the contents of magic.com are to be kept secret from the public.

They couldn't be sure whether Merlin was an alien or a Blue Star, but the consensus reached was that at least he was an alien who had acquired theoretical knowledge that was completely different from the Blue Star's scientific system.

Various countries are monitoring the movements of magic.com in real time. According to the analysis of top cognitive behavioral experts in various countries, Merlin will definitely take further action.

When the state apparatus really wants to control a certain topic so that it does not appear, you will find that countries such as America, England, and France are no different.

(End of this chapter)