1900: A physics genius wandering around Europe

Chapter 604: Beyond the Limit! Supo Bruce! Experiment Upgraded! Devil of Consciousness! The Heroes Asked!

The fourth mythical beast of physics!
Bruce's cat!
The name Lang Zhiwan was recognized by all the bigwigs present.

Everyone knows that Professor Bruce had previously given a lecture at the University of Paris, where he first proposed the concept of the three mythical beasts of physics.

Zeno's tortoise, Laplace beast, Maxwell's demon.

These three mythical beasts are fantastical beings that almost subvert physics.

Although Maxwell's demon has not been completely disproven, Professor Bruce's information theory has pointed out its problems.

At least many physicists believe that Maxwell's demon is most likely wrong.

Compared with the three mythical beasts, Bruce's cat is even more shocking!
Because the former are purely physical problems, while the latter involve taboos in biology such as life and death!

In other words, Bruce's cat is not only a physical problem about quantum mechanics, but also a life philosophy problem about consciousness.

The combination of the two gives it a veil of mystery.

The mystery of quantum mechanics once again shocked everyone!

"Who else can explain the fourth beast?"

Everyone was talking about it.

"According to Bruce's interpretation, before the box is opened for observation, the person in the box is in a superposition state of life and death."

"Only by opening the box and observing it can we truly determine whether the person is alive or dead."

"This is the current orthodox explanation of quantum mechanics for this problem."

Obviously, this explanation avoids a lot of questions.

It even sounds a bit overbearing.

"Don't ask so many questions. This is the fact. Believe it or not."

Planck said with emotion:

"No wonder Bruce said it was a dark cloud over quantum mechanics."

"I'm afraid he himself can't accept this explanation."

"But he had to bring it up, even though he had put so much effort into quantum mechanics."

"In his eyes, scientific truth is countless times more important than honor."

Wow!
Planck's explanation made everyone suddenly understand the greatness of Professor Bruce.

Professor Einstein's previous questions were all easily resolved by the other party.

Bruce's interpretation of quantum mechanics is about to become the orthodoxy in academia and be studied by countless people.

Professor Bruce could even keep silent and hide the experiment to ensure the status of quantum mechanics.

But that man didn't do that!

Einstein's eyes were sharp and he said excitedly:

"Because he's Bruce Lee!"

"He was never afraid that someone would surpass him, and he even hoped for it."

"He has reached the top, but he still hasn't stopped."

“Because science is a journey to continually transcend the past.”

"If no one can surpass Bruce, he will find a way to surpass himself!"

"There is a Chinese saying: You must be ready to survive after you have put yourself in danger!"

"Bruce pioneered quantum mechanics, and now he wants to bury it himself!"

"He did this not to show off his intelligence, but to open up the future of physics!"

Wow!
Einstein's words shocked everyone!

Especially the younger generation like Heisenberg, their blood was boiling, and they couldn't wait to fight three hundred rounds right now!

This is the extraordinary style of the world's number one scientist!

"In order to surpass everything, I defeat myself!"

"Subo Saiyan. Oh no Subo Bruce!"

Heisenberg was influenced by Professor Bruce's broad-mindedness and no longer obsessed with his own pitiful achievements.

"Isn't it just about creating matrix mechanics?"

"Compared to Professor Bruce, what is that?"

There is nothing in this world that is unquestionable, and the same goes for quantum mechanics.

He began to rethink the weird thought experiment of "Bruce's Cat" with an objective and fair attitude.

At the same time, everyone, like Heisenberg, calmed down and returned to the problem itself.

It is obvious that there must be some kind of qualitative change from the microscopic to the macroscopic that makes quantum mechanics so incredible.

And this qualitative change is most likely the so-called "consciousness"!
Measuring instruments, cats, people.

If consciousness is excluded, these three as observers are completely consistent with Bruce's interpretation of the nature of the world.

Although humans are living beings, they play the same role in measurement as inanimate instruments.

That is to collapse the wave function of the quantum system into a certain eigenstate.

However, the problem of consciousness has left the bigwigs puzzled.

At this time, de Broglie put forward a point of view.

"Professor, can you explain it this way?"

"According to the theory of matter waves, any matter has the dual nature of wave and particle."

"From atoms to celestial bodies, everything has the properties of probability waves."

"The reason why macroscopic matter such as celestial bodies does not exhibit wave properties is because their wavelengths are too short."

"For a person moving at 1m/s, his wavelength is about 10^-36m."

"With the sensitivity of human sensory organs, it is impossible to detect the existence of such a short wavelength."

"So, the person in the box may really be in a superposition state of life and death."

"It's just that this superposition state is like the de Broglie wavelength of a person, and cannot be distinguished by human senses."

Many people nodded, thinking that de Broglie's views were quite interesting.

However, some bigwigs shook their heads slightly, saying that this explanation was weak.

Li Qiwei said:
"No, de Broglie, you are confusing one thing."

“The boundary between life and death is a continuous mutation, with no intermediate process.”

"And the wavelength of a matter wave, no matter how small, is always continuous."

"One is a qualitative change, the other is a quantitative change, they are not comparable."

De Broglie seemed to be thinking deeply after hearing this.

He probably gets it.

Suppose there is an alien who can sense wavelengths, he might be able to sense the existence of extremely short wavelengths.

But between life and death, he could only feel one of them.

Because this is the limitation of natural rules.

If a person is both dead and alive, then when he is in a state of death, he cannot return to a state of life.

Unless the laws of physics are higher than the laws of life!

If the physics experts present dared to draw this conclusion, they would probably be criticized by the biologists the next day.

At this time, the mature Bohr said:
“Professor, I think this is a black box system problem.”

"Whether there are people or cats in the box, they are just part of the system."

“A person’s life and death are both his own state and the state of the system, so he cannot judge himself.”

"So I think this thought experiment is theoretically impossible."

Wow!
Bohr's bold conjecture opened everyone's eyes.

This is a good angle.

Perhaps there is something wrong with Bruce's cat thought experiment itself.

For example, Einstein’s light box experiment.

However, Li Qiwei smiled and said, "I can upgrade this experiment."

“This time, I put both the man and the cat in the box.”

"But people wearing gas masks can protect themselves from poison gas attacks."

“From the perspective of someone outside the box, when the box is not opened, the cat inside is still in a superposition of life and death.”

“But from the perspective of the person inside the box, it looks different.”

"Since the man was wearing a gas mask, he must be in a state of life."

"In his eyes, what the cat went through, whether the cat lived or died, were all very certain things."

"When he walks out of the box alive, he will tell people outside that the cat has always been alive and there is no superposition state."

"And most importantly, if the cat was poisoned in advance, the result would have already occurred before anyone outside opened it."

"Because the person inside the box can see that the cat is dead."

"So, whether observation causes the collapse of the wave function is also debatable."

"This shows that as long as someone is there, everything in the box is certain."

“When a conscious person acts as an observer, he is fundamentally different from a cat or an instrument.”

hiss!
After hearing this, everyone felt their scalps tingling.

The upgraded version of Bruce's cat is even more bizarre.

When a person wearing a gas mask stands next to a cat, life and death can never be superimposed!

“This thought experiment is absolutely amazing!”

"It's terrifying to think about it, and it makes people shudder!"

This experiment solved the doubts just raised by Bohr.

As long as people are guaranteed to be alive, they can of course observe the cat.

And after everyone thought about it carefully, they found that this experiment was not impossible to achieve.

All it takes is a sophisticated design.

The only difficulty is that it is impossible to actually find someone to try it.

It would be bad if I died.

Everyone wondered:
“Does quantum mechanics really fail when applied to the macroscopic world?”

"Or is it that microscopic physics and macroscopic physics cannot be considered in the same system?"

Bohr frowned slightly. He already understood his teacher's dilemma.

Current quantum mechanics really has no solution to Bruce's cat.

This kind of unsolvable problem is not even a question of difficulty, but it is logically unsolvable.

It's like you can't build a train using the theory of evolution.

The two are not in the same dimension.

Bohr murmured:
“Is there really an incompleteness in quantum mechanics?”

At this moment, Einstein, Schrödinger and others not only did not refute the joy of quantum mechanics, but instead became worried.

All their doubts about quantum mechanics had just been resolved by Professor Bruce, and they were ready to accept Bruce's interpretation.

Now the other party actually raised a question himself.

This made the two of them laugh and cry, and they were deeply moved.

However, they, like everyone else, now have only one goal:
Kill Bruce's cat!
Give quantum mechanics a clear and bright future!
Li Qiwei's deep eyes swept over everyone one by one, and he felt the same emotion in his heart.

If it were him before, he would have no solution to this problem.

Because the problem of Bruce's cat was not solved until later generations.

Quantum mechanics has developed so many different interpretations, and each has its own opinion, but none of them can convince everyone.

But now, Li Qiwei is full of confidence!

He believed that he would be able to solve the fourth mythical beast in physics in his lifetime!

The answer lies in the Theory of Everything!
Once he breaks through the Theory of Everything, he will be able to break the boundary between the micro and macro and sweep away everything!
Time, space, dimension, life, matter, there is no phenomenon that cannot be explained by the theory of everything!
Li Qiwei is full of passion!
“Einstein was right!”

“I’m just challenging myself!”

"If you want to become a god, you must first kill yourself!"

"What about the origin of the universe, what about quantum entanglement, what about Bruce's cat? In front of my theory of everything, none of them are anything to worry about!"

"I am the truth!"

boom!
A domineering aura suddenly erupted!

Everyone in the room was suddenly shocked!

"Professor Bruce suddenly became so scary!"

"I even feel like he's about to become a saint!"

However, this breath only lasted for a moment, and Li Qiwei calmed down.

At least for now, his theory of everything is only 50% complete and is not enough to explain these classic problems.

He now brings up Bruce's cat in order to inspire the great men of the time, stimulate their wisdom, and bring more inspiration to himself.

Wisdom will only spark when it collides!
At this point, Lorenz concluded:
"Let me give you a brief overview of the current situation."

"Bruce's cat experiment is a thought experiment on the probabilistic interpretation and superposition of states in quantum mechanics."

"If you use the Bruce interpretation, it means that people are in a state of both life and death."

"As for how to describe this state and how life and death overlap, Bruce's interpretation is not responsible for explaining."

"Or rather, we can't ask any further questions at all."

"Obviously, I think there are many people here who would not agree with this view."

"So, everyone can speak freely and come up with some new explanations while there is still time in the meeting."

“I think this is also the original intention of Professor Bruce when he proposed this thought experiment.”

Li Qiwei nodded and said with a smile:

"good."

"The Bruce Conference is the highest conference in the field of physics. We who are present here shoulder the responsibility of developing physics."

“No matter how big the problem is, we will be the first to bear the brunt of it!”

"Quantum mechanics has now developed into every corner of physics."

"Even if we can't solve this thought experiment today, it won't affect the status of quantum mechanics in physics."

“Students use the Schrödinger equation to calculate exam questions, and professors use probability explanations to study chemical reactions.”

"For them, quantum mechanics is perfect enough that the life or death of a cat is of no consequence."

"But for us, the life and death of cats is the life and death of quantum mechanics, the life and death of physics!"

“Even if we can’t solve it, we should provide more inspiration and reference for those who come after us.”

“Science is a process of continuous accumulation. Ideas that seem impossible now may be realized in the future!”

After a bowl of chicken soup, everyone's emotions were completely aroused.

Especially the younger generation, they are crying out loud!

Today's meeting is destined to go down in history and be worshipped by countless people in the future.

Therefore, any of their remarks will be recorded in history and will be repeatedly pondered and analyzed.

It is even possible that some of these points will inspire the physics community a hundred years from now.

No one can refuse such an honor!
At this time, Dirac spoke first, and he shocked the whole audience as soon as he opened his mouth!

"Professor, I think it is consciousness that causes the wave function to collapse."

Wow!
Everyone was shocked!

Young people are really brave!
Even Professor Bruce does not dare to say directly that consciousness can really affect objective matter.

If this were true, philosophy would be consigned to the dustbin.

(End of this chapter)