601 Another Hallucination (1/2)

Lucien had only just learnt the matrix mechanics. Also, he intentionally did not refer to the files in his spirit library but inferred it with his memories and understanding. Therefore, it was not as fluent and natural as the papers he wrote before, when he could write more than ten pages without any stop under the assistance of magic. It was quite troublesome this time.

Lucien could've picked Dirac's version of quantum mechanics that was more concise, beautiful and easier for the arcanists to understand, and he could've handled it with the mathematical tools in the previous arcana system. However, the matrix could be applied to a variety of fields in the future. This was the best opportunity to come up with it. After all, he would throw out Dirac's paper in two months and free the arcanists from the maze of matrix.

In the first part of the paper, Lucien spent plenty of time constructing the matrix as a mathematical tool, explaining its definition, rules of calculation, etc. Before he really began the content of quantum mechanics.

Starting from the equations of electron movement, Lucien expanded it mathematically and, through the enormous and intricate calculations of the matrix, based on the observed arcana values, he constructed the whole model into what seemed to be the classic Douglas-Oliver system, except that the means of calculation in the new system was the matrix.

While he wrote with difficulty, Lucien gradually grasped the knowledge about the matrix and had a deeper understanding about the unfriendly, complicated mathematical tool. In the meantime, he had a deeper interest in its arcana significance in quantum mechanics.

Time went by, and the night out of the window was darker and darker. The ground was covered in a thick layer of snow.

After a long time, the paper before Lucien was already a thick pile, and he wrote faster and faster.

Finally, Lucien raised his hand after drawing to a heavy full stop, which marked the end of the main body of the paper and the establishment of the real quantum mechanics, unlike the half-classic and half-quantum amalgamation in the model of the new alchemy!

Lucien did not stop there. Instead, he continued his deduction with the new theory that was matrix mechanics. The quantization conditions that were imposed on electrons were inferred after the complicated but clear calculation!

Soundlessly, Lucien's cognitive world surfaced. Already half-solidified, it was no longer satisfied by the illusionary changes in the soul but filled up the whole library. The stars high above were like lamps illuminating the floor. The spots of elements were displayed as models of atoms. The electrons which moved around neutrons and protons were like an unreal, unpredictable cloud that now behaved as waves and as particles.

The floating light and shadow in the show was like the most hideous and peculiar hell, in which a lot of devils seemed to be roaring crazily. ”Stop! Stop! It's going to be the deepest level of hell if you go down any further!”

”Go on! Just go on! You will release the most terrible and unimaginable monster!” The falling snowflakes were like pure angels.

”It will destroy the entire world! And you, vicious sorcerer, your heart will be dug out and air-dried on the volcano!”

The hallucinatory sounds entered Lucien's ears, but he did not stop. He continued his deduction with the matrix and compared it with the data of the spectral experiments, the empirical equations and the many experiments regarding the new alchemy.

After his cognitive world surfaced, the model of the atom was kept the same. Until the data was perfectly matched, Lucien was not going to change his cognitive world recklessly.

…

Results were accomplished. They matched the experiment results perfectly!

The equations were deduced naturally and fit the empirical equations!

The dark night reached the deepest and most intense moment. Snowflakes were flying like the paper flowers at a funeral, bringing forth desperation, grief, silence and death.

The roars of the devil were more and more ghastly. ”You are peeping at the truth of the world! You will be torn apart!”

”I curse you to eternal pain and suffering!”

Angels also threatened him. ”You are not opening the gate to Mountain Paradise but the cage of destruction! Sinner! The world will be the opposite of your imagination!”

”Die now! The truth of the world must not be desecrated and approached! Damn arcanist, you will never find anything you want! I will pluck your soul and burn it in fire for ten thousand years!”

Lucien heard the hallucinatory sounds again. Not knowing whether it was because of the unsteadiness of his mind, or the feedback of the real world, or perhaps both, he shook his head, took a deep breath, and came up with the most pivotal equations in matrix mechanics that were most in violation of general mathematical rules: The multiplication of the momentum and the location was not equal to the multiplication of the location and the momentum!

The moment the equation that did not agree with the commutative property was inferred, the roars of devils and the threatenings of angels all became begging:

”End it! Please tear it apart! This is the key to the gate of destruction!”

”If you stop, you will be the savior of the world that will be remembered forever.”