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

Chapter 435 Ball Lightning Thunderstorm (4k)

When discussing the 'quantum uncertainty principle,' one cannot ignore ball lightning, the first method by which humanity can quantize macroscopic matter.

Through Ding Yi's narration, hundreds of thousands of students gradually learned about the causes and consequences of 'ball lightning', as well as some of Ding Yi's past experiences.

According to the current mainstream view, the first formal scientific record of ball lightning was made in 1837, on the eve of the British Industrial Revolution, in the book "On Lightning" by French astronomer and physicist François Arago, which recorded 37 instances of ball lightning.

However, the phenomenon of ball lightning obviously cannot exist only in modern times. Records of this phenomenon, commonly known as "rolling thunder," can be traced back to more than a thousand years ago.

The earliest record in China is the account by Shen Kuo, a scientist from the Northern Song Dynasty, in his book "Dream Pool Essays," while the earliest record in Europe dates back to 1195 AD, when the English monk Gervis witnessed a thunderstorm accompanied by ball lightning.

If the monk did not exaggerate, then the thunderstorm consisting of "ball lightning" that occurred in 1195 AD would be the largest natural ball lightning spectacle ever recorded by humankind.

Ding Yi told the students that this was a natural upheaval of the quantum uncertainty principle.

In addition, Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty also made detailed records about ball lightning... There is no historical record of Zhang Juzheng, but Old Yang told Ding Yi with certainty that Zhang Juzheng had seen ball lightning.

Ding Yi was somewhat at a loss.

The first systematic study of ball lightning by modern humans was conducted in 1959.

Ding Yi recounted this almost forgotten history.

In 1959, the Soviet Union launched the top-secret Project 3141, a study of ball lightning and its weaponization. The project leader, Nikolai Narnov, was an academician of the Soviet Union. Alexander Gemov joined the project after graduating with a doctorate in physics from Moscow State University.

Among them, Ding Yi's two friends, Dr. Chen and Lin Yun, had some connection with Dr. Alexander Gemov. The Chinese government also had no relevant intelligence about the Soviet Union's top-secret Project 3141, and Ding Yi only learned about it from Dr. Chen.

Compared to Ding Yi, Dr. Chen was the one who pursued ball lightning his entire life.

According to Dr. Chen's account to Dr. Alexander, in 1962, the Soviet Project 3141 base successfully generated ball lightning for the first time.

Subsequently, the Soviet Project 3141 base conducted over a thousand experiments to induce ball lightning, but ultimately only produced 27 ball lightning bolts. According to the project leader, the process of producing ball lightning was "completely irregular," and Project 3141 ended in failure.

Almost in the same year, a professor of electromagnetism at the University of Kent in the United States witnessed a ball lightning at an airport in New York. Ball lightning was recognized by the scientific community as a "natural phenomenon".

Then, in the 20s, the young Ding Yi took to the stage of ball lightning for the first time.

As she finished speaking, Ding Yi gave the students in the classroom a gentle smile.

"Now everyone knows what ball lightning is, right?"

The audience below chanted in somewhat unison, "Hong Electronics~"

Ding Yi nodded: "In 1998, I proposed that ball lightning is visible, and that unexcited ball lightning (cavitation) is a transparent sphere that can bend light. Subsequently, I announced the then-astonishing conclusion that ball lightning is [macro-electrons]."

A student below said, "You are right, ball lightning is macro-electrons."

Ding Yi shook her head. "I was wrong."

The students below were somewhat taken aback.

For some reason, the students felt that today's physics class was different from usual. Some quick-thinking students had already secretly turned on the recording function of their mobile phones or personal computers—although Zhizi was live streaming, if Teacher Ding talked about something scary, the government would definitely cut off Zhizi's live stream.

“Professor Ding, the outside world’s understanding of the microscopic world has now reached the proton level, and they can even unfold microscopic particles in lower dimensions. Countless studies on macroatoms have shown that you are right... Why do you say that it is wrong?” a student asked.

Ding Yi frankly admitted: "I love guessing questions... Thanks to my intuition for physics, I have guessed countless physics questions correctly in the past, but for ball lightning, I obviously guessed a seemingly correct but actually wrong answer."

Ding Yi slowly said, "Ball lightning is uncertain."

"What does that mean?" Even the smartest students couldn't understand what Ding Yi was trying to say at this moment.

Ding Yi was about to answer.

Suddenly, a completely black humanoid creature appeared in the huge classroom. It was dressed in human clothes and stood in front of Ding Yi.

"Disaster!"

"sensor!"

"My Lord Blackface!"

"Holy crap, so handsome."

"Great Lord of the Altar of Truth! Grant me knowledge—"

"Strengthen xx!!!"

The classroom erupted in gasps and shouts, a jumble of random names, with even some Tsinghua students taking the opportunity to create abstract art.

The student who had turned on the recording function beforehand slapped his thigh excitedly.

The government staff controlling the sophon reacted swiftly and cut off the live stream.

The 37 people watching the live stream fell into deep thought as they stared at the black screen.

Standing behind her, Xizi was equally astonished.

"Can I attend the class?" the Risk Mitigator Sensor asked Ding Yi.

Ding Yi began chanting emotionlessly: "According to the principle of knowledge sealing..."

Revenge, blatant revenge. This old man is quite vengeful.

He still had his eye on the Einstein Ring Equatorial Particle Accelerator.

But the risk-taker sensor, devoid of emotion, said, "After listening to your lesson, I can self-destruct."

"what?"

"What?"

“Mr. Risk Eliminator Sensor, please don’t make such a scary joke.”

The students stopped their abstraction, startled, and hurriedly tried to stop them.

"Reason?" Ding Yi asked calmly.

"If I hear the Way in the morning, I can die content in the evening." The risk-mitigating sensor provided the answer. ...

Ding Yi repeated: "Ball lightning is unpredictable."

"The theory of macro-electrons, and the existence of macro-electrons, is just one of the expressions of ball lightning."

"Just as 'water' can be a mountain stream, rain or snow from the sky, or liquid in a cup or ice in the cold winter—these forms, whether flowing, solidified, or falling, are all different manifestations of the same substance; the 'macro-electron' form of ball lightning, which releases ball lightning through macro-electrons, is essentially no different from evaporating liquid water into water vapor."

"Ball lightning is uncertain, and so are macro-electrons; they are part of the great uncertainty principle, a manifestation of it—note that I've removed the 'quantum' prefix. I'm talking about the uncertainty principle, not the quantum uncertainty principle."

Ding Yi turned his head and used chalk to fiercely cross out the word "quantum".

It seems that this would allow the "uncertainty principle" to be removed from the larger framework of quantum mechanics.

"Excuse me, what is the scope of application of the uncertainty principle?" the Risk Mitigator Sensor asked.

Ding Yi slammed down the chalk, the sound resounding.

"The whole universe."

The students looked at each other, seemingly unable to grasp the message.

"Is the universe uncertain?" a student murmured.

The risk-mitigator sensor pressed further: "So, the uncertainty principle is one of the underlying logics applicable to the entire universe, and therefore not covered by the grand unified model formula?"

"It's not that it doesn't exist, but rather that your so-called unified formula doesn't exist." Ding Yi's voice was as calm as ever, which was very unusual for someone as arrogant as him.

Ding Yi said coldly.

"To summarize the universe, we must stand outside of it. To obtain a unified model of the universe, we must look at it from the perspective of a trans-universe."

"Whether you are the risk-mitigators or the nebula civilizations that inherited the legacy of the previous cosmic era, you are all civilizations born in this universe. Do you really think that paying the price of a small vacuum decay catastrophe is enough to derive the true universal unification formula? You gods are far too underestimating this universe."

The risk-mitigator sensor fell silent, organizing its own database.

The demise of the previous cosmic era was indeed due to the vacuum decay catastrophe, but when the Nebula civilization caused the vacuum decay catastrophe, the universe was still in an eleven-dimensional state... Therefore, vacuum decay spread at the speed of light in eleven dimensions.

The universe thus 'died at the speed of light'.

In today's three-dimensional universe, the dangers of vacuum decay are greatly reduced due to the limited speed of light, and are not as terrifying as they seem.

The Risk Eliminators were the first civilization to analyze the 'Universal Unified Model' from the remaining information bodies of the Nebula Civilization. Later, the Risk Eliminators actively shared this theory with the Absolute Light Rule Gods, including the Zero-Returners.

However, all the god-like civilizations that knew the formula of the unified cosmological model quickly realized one thing... the unified model seemed unable to explain the so-called 'quantum uncertainty principle'.

Whether it's the thoughts of life or the thoughts of the universe, they all have a "flash of inspiration" effect, which cannot be captured or predicted. Even if the memories of a living being are synchronized, and two identical beings are completely copied and placed in the same environment, there is still a slight probability that they will behave differently, thus leading to different lives.

Moreover, according to the theory of causality, if the Grand Unified Model formula is truly completely effective, then it would mean that a god who is "omniscient and omnipotent" in this universe would inevitably be born within the universe.

The formula of the Grand Unified Model of the Universe itself implies "omniscience and omnipresence" of the universe.

However, such a god does not exist, which shows that the Grand Unified Model formula does not achieve a complete analysis of the universe.

The gods simply couldn't find the problem and could only attribute it to the 'uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics.' Moreover, the grand unified model formula applies to almost all physical rules, so over time, no god bothered with this issue anymore.

God-level civilizations have become accustomed to a world with a slight element of 'uncertainty,' and such a universe is actually more interesting.

As for the second point on the blackboard, 'parity non-conservation,' it seems to have fallen out of the spotlight at this point, being a negligible and minor cosmic anomaly.

Having figured out all the key points, the Risk Mitigator Sensors were ready to fulfill its promises.

The risk-taker sensor says, "As agreed, I will now self-destruct."

Ding Yi calmly said, "The day after you self-destruct, I will have the Solar System Federation build a 'Solar Equatorial Particle Accelerator,' with super high power, the kind that can smash quarks. Just thinking about it is awesome."

The sensor's usually expressionless black face finally froze.

It is caught in a conflict stemming from a fundamental logical contradiction.

The conflict between "fulfilling promises and self-destruction" and "the instinct to eliminate risk".

“You…” The risk-eliminating sensor pointed at Ding Yi.

"Go, die." Ding Yi smiled slightly.

After a long pause, the sensor finally managed to utter, "I'll wait for the other sensors to come and relieve me."

"how long it takes?"

"The nearest sensor is 1682 light-years away."

"Congratulations! You can live for another 1,682 years with the answer. We only had 30 minutes back then," Ding Yi said sarcastically.

The risk-taker sensor left the classroom in shame.

Ding Yi's expression also calmed down immediately. He looked at the silent classroom and spoke in a steady voice.

"Those who didn't pay tuition have already left, and those who are left are the ones who paid tuition, right?"

"Let's continue with the lesson."

But just as Ding Yi was about to explain the "uncertainty principle" and "parity non-conservation" together, the six-dimensional sophon in the classroom suddenly expanded into a five-dimensional shape, forming a mirror sphere with a diameter of more than ten meters, and flew to the position of the blackboard.

Ding Yi frowned and voluntarily gave up his seat.

Zhizi started an emergency live broadcast to the entire class.

[Urgent Live Broadcast Announcement: Solar System Defense Advisor Luo Ji, speaking to all humanity via the Sophon from the Joint Command Center in the Sea of ​​Tranquility on the Moon regarding the clearly unusual activity of the Trisolaran Second Fleet, will begin the live broadcast in three minutes. All non-emergency personnel are requested to listen.]

"Oh, the news has started. Let's watch TV, everyone," Ding Yi said nonchalantly.

(End of this chapter)