This question of Ke Xun suddenly caused everyone to be confused. Using scientific theories to explain a supernatural event seems a bit out of tune. However, this question cannot be thought deeply because it is extremely frightening.
If supernatural powers really exist in this world, is there any point in all scientific research? Is it, as those scientists once feared, that if everything in the universe is really random, or unpredictable, or beyond the scope of natural laws, then science becomes a completely useless study
People who thought of this couldn't help shivering. Deng Lin gritted his teeth and said, "No, although I can't explain what I see in front of me, I still believe in science. Unexplainable phenomena do not mean that Beyond the scope of nature, it is probably just because our cognition is still too small, and our existing knowledge is really insignificant compared to the entire universe, so for things beyond our knowledge, it will be considered as a Paranormal, but I think everything is natural!"
Zhu Haowen nodded and said, "Your view is in a sense similar to Einstein's view, and the fundamental problem of the debate between the two factions in the physics community just mentioned is here.
"The orthodox school, that is, the school that supports randomness, believes that the physical quantities in the microscopic world have a certain randomness and cannot be accurately predicted. All measured results are only probabilistic results. The quantum state of the particles cannot be accurately predicted, so how can we predict the macroscopic material world
"For example, there are many things in this world that cannot be accurately predicted, such as the outcome of the lottery ticket, such as the magnitude and speed of the wind, the weather conditions tomorrow, and the number of points in the next dice roll.
"And Einstein believed that these things are not really random, it's just that because our knowledge is limited now, we don't have the correspondingly more knowledge to predict these things.
"For example, in the lottery lottery, as long as we know the force of each point of the lottery ball and the flow velocity distribution of the surrounding air, we can predict the result of the lottery ball. For another example, if we can grasp the movement of each air molecule, The weather in the future can be accurately determined.①
"And the reason why these phenomena seem to be random now is because we do not have the knowledge to grasp them, and there is not enough data to support them. Therefore, in Einstein's eyes, there is no real randomness in the world, so-called randomness. It’s just a manifestation of people’s lack of knowledge leading to lack of cognition.”
"So what you mean is," Shao Ling looked at Zhu Haowen, "what we have experienced is not necessarily a supernatural force, but another scientific phenomenon that exists in this world, but humans have not yet Master it, and discover the knowledge related to it?"
"I don't think so," Zhu Haowen said lightly. "The mechanical determinism represented by Einstein was derived from fatalism by some people. Fatalists believe that since Einstein said that all phenomena in the universe are like machines , there are certain rules and running trajectories, and the last moment determines the next moment, so doesn't it mean that the fate of all of us has long been doomed, and everything is going on in accordance with the pre-set procedures , And our life and death have long been doomed, so no matter how hard we try now, the damned will still die? And I'm not a fatalist, I don't believe in fate."
"In fact, Einstein did not completely deny the randomness of quantum phenomena," Mu Yiran said. "He just believed that the random phenomena in the microscopic world cannot represent the essence of the entire universe, and should try to establish new theories to explain these randomness."
"Brothers," Luo Meng raised his hand, "I still don't understand, why did we start rolling dice to talk about quantum mechanics and other topics? You remind me of the fear of being dominated by physics teachers in high school."
"I don't think the program's mention of 'God throws dice' is not meaningless crazy talk, he must have a purpose." Zhu Haowen said, "After all, in the history of physics, Einstein Shortly after saying this famous sentence, the famous theory of 'Schrödinger's cat' was born. You must know that the problem of Schrödinger's cat was proposed by Schrödinger, who is also a member of the classic school with Einstein, and this picture The painting is named after this, and I think there is an inevitable connection between the two.”
"I don't understand what the meaning of this experiment is," Deng Lin frowned. "The cat is both alive and dead, which is impossible in the real world."
As he spoke, he subconsciously glanced at Qi Muhuan and Dong Yao. At this moment, the two of them were still fainting on the ground, their faces lost their mouths, and they looked very strange. When he said the words "both dead and alive" When the two were half-dead, it was even more creepy.
Deng Lin couldn't help shuddering, and quickly withdrew his gaze to look at Qin Ci, who seemed to have the best temper among the old members.
Qin Ci looked at Zhu Haowen: "Let Haowen explain this question. I wasn't very good at science when I was in school."
"This is the meaning," Zhu Haowen continued Deng Lin's question just now, "light has wave-particle duality, you must know this."
"So what?" Dunlin asked.
"Light has always been considered to be the smallest matter. It is an electromagnetic wave and has particle properties," said Zhu Haowen, "and the 'matter wave hypothesis' holds that the wave-particle duality is not just for photons, but for all microscopic particles. All have wave-particle duality.
"And all matter in the macroscopic world, including humans, is composed of a large number of microscopic particles, so in this calculation, it is equivalent to humans and cats also have wave-particle duality.
"Then here comes the problem. The orthodox believes that quantum phenomena have randomness and uncertainty. Without measuring it, it is impossible to determine its position, mass, and speed. At this time, all its possible states are entangled. , can also be understood as a 'superposition state'.
"Schrödinger of the classical school therefore proposed the cat experiment. Since the cat is also composed of a large number of microscopic particles, it also has the wave-particle duality and the so-called randomness and uncertainty of the orthodox school.
"The cat's state is now 'entangled', according to orthodoxy, until the box is opened, which is equivalent to measuring it. The so-called superposition of life and death, only by opening the box, that is to say by 'measuring' it, can we determine whether it is alive or dead.
"However, as you said, in the real world, even if the cat is locked in a box, it cannot be a superposition of life and death. This state cannot exist. Schrödinger used this example to satirize the so-called orthodoxy. the uncertainty of quantum phenomena."
"Then what does this cat have to do with rolling dice?" asked the shawl-haired girl.
"Maybe we can find the signature by finding the relationship between them." Zhu Haowen said.
"Using the dice to decide the way to test us, does it represent the randomness of fate?" Ke Xun asked.
"So I think Cheng Cheng is on the side of the orthodox school." Mu Yiran answered, "Ke Xun and I learned through visiting Cheng Cheng's neighbors, relatives and friends that Cheng Cheng had a strong interest in physics when he was in school. This interest has also influenced the style and thoughtfulness of his paintings. The reason why he is considered to be on the side of the orthodox is because he uses the randomness of dice to decide how to test us, and the painting is named " "Schrödinger's Cat", I'm afraid there is another deep meaning. I think this is closely related to finding his son, as far as I know... "
Mu Yiran just said this, when suddenly interrupted by a warning sound, everyone quickly looked at the big screen on the wall, and saw a line of huge bold characters flashing constantly: [Please roll the dice, the countdown is 60 seconds]
Everyone was shocked, Wei Dong scratched his hair: "This is the beginning again? How long did we take a break? Is the time of each dice roll random?"
Ke Xun suddenly thought of something, and hurried over to check on Dong Yao and Qi Muhuan, but found that these two people had lost their breath and became two corpses.
Ke Xun took out his mobile phone from his pocket to check the time, and saw that the number was displayed at nine o'clock in the morning.
"The time is wrong," Ke Xun said, "The time inside is faster than outside. I feel that we only spent two or three hours analyzing the clues just now, and the time on the phone obviously follows the time in the painting. Yes, an afternoon and a night have passed in the picture."
"It's too late to think about the reason, there are only 10 seconds left." Shao Ling said, "We must—"
Before the words were finished, Fang Fei saw that Fang Fei had already taken two steps, and reached out and clicked on the icon of the dice.
The dice spun rapidly, stopped slowly after a while, and what was displayed in front of everyone was a 4.
Everyone raised their vigilance and stared at the big screen in front of them, seeing the icon of the dice disappear, and new handwriting appeared:
[Dad, are all theorems and laws necessarily correct?]
[At least, within the scientific system constructed by human's existing cognition, cognition defined as theorem is correct.]
[That is to say, if human beings make a new discovery one day, and this new discovery overturns the previous theorem, then the previous theorem is wrong?]
[Yes, not only the theorem, but also many other situations. For example, when my father was young, people always believed that there were nine planets in the solar system. However, in 2006, Pluto, one of the nine planets, was removed from the list and redefined as "Dwarf planet". The reason is that astronomers in country M have always misestimated the mass of Pluto. Its mass is lower than that of the moon, and in its orbit, some celestial bodies are even larger than it. It is obviously not among the nine planets. suitable. This is a typical example of overturning old knowledge with new knowledge.]
[So, Dad, I personally think that what schools should teach us is how to question and discover what is known and unknown in this world, instead of teaching us to unconditionally believe those things defined by "M-country astronomers", They are likely to be overthrown one day like the nine planets.
Since everything that happens in this world cannot be determined to always and completely operate according to theorems and laws, then rote memorization cannot be questioned, and this is used as an exam to determine the pros and cons of students and the future direction of life, what is there to do? Meaning
I think the purpose of learning should not be to use an exam to determine our life direction and define our wisdom, but to let us learn how to understand things and reason so that we can be sober, objective, speculative, thorough and full of imagination. Powerful ways to think about life and create life.]
After the dialogue between the program and the son disappeared, it was replaced with new text:
[Law World]