592 Waiting (1/2)

Sitting in the study, Dieppe was overwhelmed by his own endless thoughts from his own deduction, as if he was in a nightmare.

He kept going through the entire process over and over again, trying to find the problem. He could not stop murmuring,

”How is it possible that electrons take the form of wave?”

A while later, he started asking himself,

”How can it be?”

Then his confusion beat all the other thoughts, and Dieppe started studying the implications of his findings,

”Why wave…?”

The heavy snow was silently falling outside of the window. The dim light coming out from Dieppe's place, however, looked enthusiastic in such bad weather. The frustrated look slowly disappeared from Dieppe's face and was replaced with the look of contemplating.

”…If that's the case, it seems that all microscopic particles in motion have their corresponding frequencies and wavelengths. Why is that…” Dieppe's brows frowned tight. Suddenly, he recalled Mr. Evans's words from the two separate papers.

”…Perhaps we should be more open-minded facing the argument.”

”…Since it is for certain that light has both a wave nature and particle nature as it is supported by solid experiment results, why don't we combine the findings together? Perhaps it can be explained by Wave–particle duality.”

The latter showed up in a simple paper, and Lucien Evans was saying this in an uncertain tone. Therefore, the words rarely left a deep impression on the readers. But the word concept of dualism had deeply stuck in Dieppe's brain, and now everything made sense if the duality theory was applied.

He took a long, deep breath, as if he was going to release a world-shattering monster. He finally put it this way in his script, ”So here is the conclusion we can draw: Wave–particle duality does not only exist in quantum photons, but also all the microscopic particles in motion, including protons, neutrons, electrons, etc. They all have their corresponding wavelengths based on the energy they carry. In other words, they all share the duality.”

Finishing the sentence, Dieppe had been deprived of all his strength. Even that, he could not help thinking, ”If those microscopic particles all share duality, what about those macroscopic objects in motion?”

That was a ridiculous deduction. Dieppe looked at himself and was amused by his own crazy thought.

Then he turned to think about something else: Special relativity could be applied to New Alchemy as well. The two systems were not completely separate from each other. Instead, somehow they could come together. Maybe they would promote each other, like… New Alchemy based on theory of relativity?

Dieppe slowly calmed down, and the strange thoughts began to disappear. But the paper in front of him was still like a huge heavy stone suffocating him.

Standing up behind the desk, Dieppe walked to the window and pushed it open. Coming to him was the freezing cold wind.

Dieppe shivered in the cold wind, but his brain was refreshed. The skyline had lit up. The world was covered in a layer of snow, as if it was a brand new one.

”It's dawn now…”

Dieppe sighed to himself.

...

During breakfast time, Dieppe did not see Raventi, his teacher. After some hesitation, he went directly to Raventi's study.

Dieppe knocked on the door.

”Come in.” Raventi knew that it was Dieppe outside from the magic circle.

Pushing open the door, Dieppe walked in quietly. He saw that Raventi was walking out of his magic lab. It seemed like he had been verifying Brook's paper all night.

”What is it?” Raventi asked directly.

Dieppe hesitated. He felt nervous, worried, afraid, and very self-conscious. He did not think that his teacher would accept his findings.

”Speak it out!” Raventi was also used to roaring.

Dieppe gritted his teeth and took out his paper, ”Sir, this's my latest paper. Please… have a look.”

Without any firm support from a solid experiment, the paper was very unlikely to shake Raventi's cognitive world.

”I don't see where the hesitation comes from.” said Raventi in a loud voice, as he took over the paper.

Raventi did not have much experience in this. If it had been Fernando who was going to read the paper, he would have definitely asked whether the paper had anything to do with being subversive, and how subversive it would be.

Dieppe opened his mouth silently but could not say a word, as he had no idea how to respond. He could not simply confess his concerns and worries in front of his teacher.

Raventi started reading this short paper, as he walked back to his desk. Suddenly, he stopped, and the look on his face quickly changed. There was shock, confusion, and even anger.

Dieppe silently took a step back. He could feel the horrible pressure coming out from his teacher, a top sorcerer whose cognitive world could affect the material world.

After a long time, Raventi pulled himself out of the paper and turned to stare at Dieppe,

”You're telling me electrons are waves?!” roared Raventi.

Raventi's voice was deep and low, as if there was a horrible storm hiding inside.

”Yes… in fact all microscopic particles…” Dieppe stammered.