Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 378 I Want to Pursue True Love (3k)

Is Luo Qing here?
Tu Hengyu raised his head, walked out the door, and looked up at the sky.

Luo Ji explained from the side, "The person is probably not here, but they can hear us talking, so there might be a fragment of their soul here."

As soon as Luo Ji finished speaking, a streak of light shot down from the sky and appeared as Luo Qing's phantom. Luo Qing addressed Luo Ji as "fellow Daoist" and then greeted the others, especially Einstein.

As expected, a fragment of a soul descended.

"Everyone, I won't participate in your debate. I'll just be a listener." Luo Qing's divided soul cupped his hands to the crowd, then found a place to sit quietly, his eyes closed, like a background figure.

“What is he…” Tu Hengyu said, pointing to the faint, illusory figure.

Luo Ji explained, "Just pretend he doesn't exist. I can sense extremely strong spiritual energy fluctuations in near-Earth orbit. His true form is probably setting up some kind of formation. Let's continue talking about our own things."

Little Moss also sat in the corner, her gaze towards Luo Qing's divided soul filled with more admiration.

“Soul splitting…” Ding Yi glanced in Luo Qing’s direction and explained to everyone present, “I don’t know what you all think, but when I’m doing theoretical research, I will directly remove Luo Qing and pretend that this person does not exist in this world.”

Luo Ji asked, "Is this 'burying one's head in the sand'?"

Ding Yi replied, "It's about eliminating interference."

Luo Ji: "What do you mean?"

Ding Yi: "I assume that the universe is a closed system, so naturally we have to exclude this external variable. Moreover, many theoretical studies cannot be applied to Luo Qing. There is a saying in Buddhism: 'One thought leads to error, one thought leads to erroneousness.' That's how I feel about Luo Qing."

Tu Hengyu joined the discussion: "I have previously speculated that the civilization of Professor Luo Qing's homeland should be a superhuman civilization in or outside the universe. Otherwise, there would be no way to explain Mr. Luo Qing's feelings for humanity and his human nature."

In front of Luo Qing, everyone began to discuss Luo Qing's background.

Einstein said: "Regarding Luo Qing, I remember that the country once made a conclusion about him: to regard him as the embodiment of the collective obsession of the Chinese people who have longed for immortality and Taoist cultivation since ancient times, rather than as an independent individual."

Ding Yi and Luo Ji exchanged a glance.

Is this how the national leadership views Luo Qing? That's quite a unique perspective.

Luo Ji looked at Einstein: "Then what about me?"

As he spoke, he demonstrated the blue spiritual energy in his palm that resembled surging ocean waves.

Einstein shook his head: "I don't know."

Ding Yi sighed, "See? This is why I had to exclude Luo Qing from my research. Not only is Luo Qing abnormal himself, but he's also making others abnormal as well. Since the Altar of Truth, humanity has obtained many universal truths, but none of them can fit our Nascent Soul cultivator into them. Luo Qing is theoretically unsolvable."

After saying that, Ding Yi turned to look at Luo Qing's split soul and said, "Luo Qing, you should also jump out and take a look. Don't limit yourself to this universe."

Luo Qing's divided soul opened its eyes, speaking sparingly: "Okay."

Tu Hengyu asked, "Then, Professor Ding, what was the problem you just mentioned? And why did Einstein tell you to shut up?"

He also remembered that Ding Yi had just stated that Einstein had told him to stop.

All eyes turned to Einstein. Instead of answering the question directly, Einstein told a story.

"When I was young, during my postgraduate studies at Southwest Associated University, I had endless debates with two close friends about various topics in physics, including the precise meaning of 'measurement' in quantum mechanics, a significant and subtle topic within the Copenhagen interpretation. More than 200 years have passed, and although the specific details of my debates with my friends are no longer clear, I still remember that our discussions touched upon deep-seated issues related to the observer effect, such as the state of microscopic particles and the influence of observation on particle states. This planted a seed in my heart."

Later, when I delved deeper into the field of quantum mechanics, my work with another friend on the theory of parity non-conservation in weak interactions, as well as on gauge field theory, also yielded certain results, deepening our understanding of the fundamental laws of the quantum world to some extent. Although it was lauded at the time, neither my friend nor I truly understood one factual phenomenon—that observation leads to a change in the state of a particle.

What is the underlying reason for this phenomenon? Later, I started with the non-conservation of parity, attempting to establish a completely unified and intuitively understandable ultimate explanation, just like Einstein did, but I clearly failed. This is also one of the reasons I joined the Trisolaran organization; I once pinned my hopes on extraterrestrial civilizations, but now it seems I significantly overestimated the Trisolarans, and they are still far from finding the answer to this question.

I remember Xiao Ding once said something famous: "If all those who study theoretical physics are prostitutes, then I'm the head of the brothels, the madam of a brothel."

After Einstein said this, everyone present burst into laughter.

Einstein smiled and continued, "Later, the physics community offered a tentative explanation for this problem: From the perspective of the nature of observation, when we want to observe a microscopic particle, it must interact physically with the observation tool, such as a detector or photons. For example, we need to use photons to illuminate an electron in order to 'see' it, but this interaction will disrupt the particle's original probability distribution, causing the wave function to 'collapse.' In this way, the particle will exhibit a definite state, such as a specific position or momentum, instead of the previous superposition state."

Therefore, it is not our subjective observation that changes the particles, but rather the physical interactions that inevitably accompany the act of observation, which disturb the quantum state of the microscopic particles. This is a fundamental law of the quantum world, completely different from how we observe objects in the macroscopic world.

Ding Yi, Luo Qing, Luo Ji, and Little Moss all understood.

Only Tu Hengyu was scratching his head in frustration. He suddenly felt that he was no different from Luo Zhenxing, who was fast asleep in Xiao Taixian's arms.

Ding Yi said, "But this is just wishful thinking, a psychological comfort based on the materialistic rather than idealistic view of the world. There is no evidence to support it, is there?"

Einstein nodded with satisfaction upon hearing this: "Xiao Ding is the third person after Einstein and me to try to summarize the truth and remove this dark cloud from the edifice of physics. I had high hopes for him and believed that he would succeed."

Ding Yi nodded: "I am also very confident in myself. If it weren't for the sophon blocking technology, I could have tried to use the super particle accelerator to break through quarks, directly reach the end of the microscopic world, and study the true standard model of the universe."

“But… the Altar of Truth has appeared.” Ding Yi’s voice suddenly became heavy.

Luo Ji frowned upon hearing this. He was still in hibernation when the Altar of Truth incident occurred and missed the whole drama.

Tu Hengyu also said, "Aren't the risk mitigaters there to prevent vacuum decay from destroying the universe?"

Ding Yi chuckled but offered no explanation.

Einstein explained: "According to the conversation between the Carbon-based Federation and Comrade Co-Chairman, similar disasters to vacuum decay have already occurred all over the universe. To put it bluntly, it wouldn't make a difference if we had another solar system. After all, vacuum decay can only spread at the speed of light. It's still a long way off before it can destroy the entire universe. Moreover, advanced civilizations seem to have ways to slow down the spread of vacuum decay. Although it is irreversible, it can be slowed down."

Einstein looked at Ding Yi: "So, you just felt a surge of anger dissipate because the Risk Eliminator directly gave you the standard model of the unified universe formula?"

Ding Yi nodded: "When Luo Qing told me about these cosmological models, I was very excited, even to the point of being crazy for a while, just like Fan Jin. But I still couldn't escape the essence of a prostitute."

Ding Yi continued, “But now I suddenly realize that the invincible universal formula doesn’t fit into the three problems of parity non-conservation, the observer effect, and the upper limit of the speed of light. Parity non-conservation is a zero-sum game, the ultimate principle of the observer effect is what, and the upper limit of the speed of light in eleven-dimensional universe are the three problems that have been troubling me.”

Luo Ji was starting to lose his composure. He asked Ding Yi, "So what exactly are you looking for?"

Upon hearing this, Ding Yi's eyes seemed to glisten with tears as he uttered those few words indistinctly.

"I want to pursue true love."

(End of this chapter)