592 Waiting (2/2)

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

”After weighing the mass, catching the track, and making sure that electrons do have momentum and comply with conservation law, you're telling me this?”

”Then why don't you tell me those married noble ladies who are also mothers are in fact males?!”

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Raventi's roaring made Dieppe keep stepping backward until his back hit against the door. Although Raventi's analogy sounded correct, it did not seem right to apply the duality to the macro world.

”Some special magic creatures are hermaphrodite. Once gaining the blood power, human beings can also…” murmured Dieppe.

As Raventi's dark grey eyes stared at Dieppe, the elements in the space rippled chaotically like water.

”Follow me to the lab,” said Raventi.

Dieppe wiped his face and followed his teacher silently. Raventi stopped in front of the cloud chamber invented by Lucien Evans, and he turned on the cyclotron.

”Now you tell me: What are those beautiful tracks left by electrons? You still want to tell me that electrons are waves?!” Raventi shouted at Dieppe again.

Dieppe did not have to take a look at the cloud chamber. He knew how the tracks looked very clearly.

Dieppe took a deep breath. He did not answer his teacher's question, but instead, he repeated, as if he was assuring himself, ”Electrons also show the features of particle. They are both waves and particles.”

In Raventi's ears, Dieppe's words were totally ridiculous. Basically, his student was saying that a man could be both male and female, tall and short, live and dead.

The war between particle and wave theory had been going on for ages. How was it possible that both of the viewpoints were in fact correct?

Raventi was about to lash out a few more questions at his student, but when he saw his student's red, tired, but still determined eyes, Raventi calmed down a little bit. When it came to arcana, he only followed logical reasoning and experiment support.

Raventi recalled the entire deductive reasoning in Dieppe's paper, and found that there was no problem in it.

”Maybe you mixed a couple of formula. I need some time.” Raventi's tone softened slightly.

Knowing that the finding was hard to accept to his teacher, Dieppe nodded in frustration, ”Take your time, sir.”

As the one who did the deductive reasoning, even Dieppe himself was having a difficult time believing it.

Seeing the run-down look on his student's face, Raventi took the paper with him and walked out, ”This paper isn't long. I'll send it to Morris and Gaston to have a look to see what they think. I'm not always correct.”

This was always Raventi's belief. A student should never follow his teacher blindly.

Dieppe had hope in his chest again.

So the entire morning Dieppe was waiting rather nervously for the letters to come back. When the letters were back at noon, he hurriedly rushed to Raventi's study,

”Sir, what did they say?”

Raventi answered expressionlessly, ”According to Morris, your deduction is bold and reasonable but it strays away from reality. No experiments or models can support it. There's no way that waves and particles can exist together.”

Dieppe's hope collapsed again.

”According to Gaston, your hypothesis is based on imagination, as there's no evidence support from any experiments.”

Because it was Raventi who sent the paper, both Morris and Gaston chose to use softer comments.

Dieppe fell back to a chair. And he started doubting himself again.

”Your paper is hardly persuasive, even for those who insist wave theory, as their main argument always focuses on electromagnetic waves and photons, not electrons. They will be happy to see your hypothesis, but they neither could offer you solid support.”

”If the gap is narrow enough, we should be able to see electron diffraction, just like waves.”

Dieppe was still insisting.

Raventi nodded in his mind, approving the spirit Dieppe showed. However, Raventi also believed that he should not let his student's mind wondering like this. So he said,

”I will send your paper to Lucien, the authority in this field. If even he says no…”

”Then perhaps it is wrong.” Dieppe's eyes lit up with the flame of hope and expectation.

He added in his mind, ”…but I will still wait for the solid experiment result showing disapproval.”

The pet messenger sent away the paper, and Dieppe started waiting restlessly again. The last time he was this nervous was when he was still an apprentice waiting for his spiritual power talent to be checked.

”I don't need the support from those wave theory believers…” murmured Dieppe.

”If there's going to be some people agreeing with me, Mr. Evans will definitely be one of them. But what if the paper even seems to be ridiculous to him…?”

”What will he say?” Dieppe kept asking himself.