720 Brooks Expectations (1/2)
In the Thunder Hell, Fernando's magic tower…
As long as he was in Allyn and not occupied by other things, Lucien would communicate with his teacher on arcana and magic once a week. When he walked into his teacher's library today, he discovered, to his surprise, the old-school gentleman Brook who was wearing his white wig.
Didn't they ”dislike” communicating with teachers face to face and prefer letters? Lucien secretly thought to himself.
Before Lucien greeted him, Brook had already raised his glasses and smiled. ”Your paper on the source of magic has been a hit in Allyn in the past few days. I've gotten a lot of inspiration from it too. Congratulations on proposing the first official model on the essence of magic.”
Fernando complained not far away, ”The observer effect is not a good thing. It will make the world unreal…”
Lucien smiled. His teacher's persistence in the objectiveness of the world could barely make his teacher think highly of the observer effect, particularly since the explanation did not have any convincing proof or meticulous deduction yet. It was nothing more than a scary ”prophecy” that a grand arcanist randomly proposed.
”Thank you. To be honest, I'm just getting started about that. There are many parts in the paper that still need discussing, and so does the ocean of negative-energy state,” said Lucien sincerely. He believed that his teacher and Mr. Brook could tell that, too. Then, he intentionally changed the subject. ”Master, Mr. Brook, what were you discussing?”
He would rather not face his teacher's roar if he could avoid it.
”I was inspired by your quantization of the electromagnetic field when you studied spontaneous radiations. Also, Annick and Sprint's similar works on electrons have shown remarkable value too. Therefore, I'm hoping to introduce the quantum theory into the classic electromagnetic theory to establish a quantum field theory so that electrons and photons can be better studied and the essence of the electromagnetic force may be figured out.”
When he mentioned the essence of the electromagnetic force, Brook's old, slim face seemed to be glowing. That was his cognitive world subconsciously influencing the reality.
On the other hand, when he mentioned the studies in the microscopic domain, he cautiously used photons instead of electromagnetic waves. It was obvious that he found the wave-particle duality of light much more acceptable now. He did not reject the theory that made his cognitive world broken and solidified at the beginning at all. Instead, he was full of momentum to study it.
Fernando, whose hair seemed to be always messy, added in a bad mood, ”Then, he dragged me into his studies to solve his problems, completely ignoring that I was busy studying the reason why the reactor lost control and the theories on the weak interaction…”
”Weak interaction” had been named by Fernando with reference to ”strong interaction”, the nuclear force that Lucien and Hathaway proposed.
He looked reluctant and unwilling, but his red eyes were glittering. Lucien secretly chuckled about it. If his teacher was unwilling to, nobody could or dare force him to study the quantum field theory. It seemed that he had fun in it and was passionate and motivated to establish such a system.
But of course, Lucien knew very well that the establishment of the quantum field theory would go through a long and difficult process from ”second quantization” because of the unavoidable problems that loomed in calculation right now, such as the infinite greatness caused by divergence, which had to be resolved through new mathematical approaches. Also, it was only one of the obvious problems.
”After recent studies, we have basically established a general quantum field theory, but it is so flawed that we plan to publish it in advance so that more arcanists could discuss it.” Brook's delighted and thoughtful reply was within Lucien's expectation. ”It's great that you've come. There are some questions that I would like to discuss with you.”
He sent an invitation straightforwardly.
Fernando's expression slightly collapsed. He cursed in a low voice, ”Goddamn infinity!”
Lucien did not refuse it. He was always happy to join such arcana discussions, which could help him transform the knowledge inside his spirit library into the knowledge that he grasped himself.
Taking over their manuscript, Lucien browsed through it quickly and asked, ”Is it not a relativistic quantum field theory?”
”That's the future plan. Now, we are focused on solving the general problems. If you are interested, we can discuss more often.” Brook did not keep it a secret. The discussion he said was clearly one that entailed paternity right.
It seemed that his teacher did not invite Mr. President to join the discussion. Perhaps because he was worried about the relationship between Mr. Brook and him? Lucien concluded. However, Mr. Brook was not wrong that research should be conducted one step at a time.
”Douglas is too busy preparing for his super-remote space jumps and working on his own projects to pay attention to any more fields. Otherwise, he would be happy to join our work. But right now, discovering a planet may be more important than living for him…” Fernando said, as if he knew what was on Lucien's mind, not caring that Brook was right next to them at all.
Lucien had studied the problems before. Therefore, he successfully joined Fernando and Brook's discussion and proposed many insightful ideas.