799 The Worldview Destroyer (1/2)

”The observer effect!” At the same time, in the Maple Palace in Antiffler, the previous Sun King, as well as the current Rudolf II of the empire, stood upon his throne and blinked to before the screen. His eyes were deep and solemn but also filled with delight.

At this moment, he seemed to have grasped the key to return to the demigod level!

Although the current experiment did not have double slits and the beeping alarms and that it adopted a brand-new design, through which the purpose of recording and erasing was cleverly achieved, Douglas and Lucien had demonstrated the equivalence of the two experiments a moment ago. According to Lucien, the current experiment had ruled out many unnecessary ”interferences” so that the subtle ”effect” would not be sabotaged. That was the reason why the experiment could only be conducted after Douglas became a demigod.

Therefore, all the intelligent lives with the slightest knowledge felt that their whole bodies were shaking. Was their observation the key to the disappearance of wave features and the appearance of particle properties?

Then, was the world still objective and actual?

Was it the observer effect that Lucien Evans proposed?

Before the experiment table, Douglas' raised hands were obviously shaking. It was obvious that he found the result unacceptable. However, everything had been designed and conducted by him in person, without any negligence or other influences. The result was real and trustworthy.

Lucien proposed the thought experiment at the beginning exactly to prove the observer effect!

Although the reasons other than the observer effect could not be excluded just yet, all the arcanists were forced to consider the possibility that the observer effect did exist. At the very least, until they found another theoretical explanation, they could not neglect the observer effect anymore!

Douglas stabilized his hands that seemed to be dispersing and repeated the experiment, but the transformed interferometric fringes were as clear as before.

Once, twice, thrice… After five times, Douglas raised his head and said solemnly in a low voice, ”The duplicability suggests that the result of the experiment is legitimate. After today, all the arcanists can apply to repeat the experiment with those devices.”

The studio was in dead silence. Samantha, Louise, and some members of the Highest Council were still in confusion, disbelief, and resistance. Brook, Fernando, Hathaway, Hellen, Oliver, Vicente, and the other legendary sorcerers were deep in thought. After the great shock, they began to consider alternative explanations other than the observer effect.

Inside the Atom Institution, Annick shook his head and paced back and forth, not bothering that he was walking on pieces of glass. His mouth opened and closed, as if he wanted to propose another reason. Sprint, on the other hand, was stunned. There was no telling what he was thinking.

”The observer effect… Is there really an observer effect?” Heidi murmured.

The experiment was designed to confirm the observer effect, and the result undoubtedly showed that it was working.

Inside the generic school, Ali looked at his classmates and asked both them and himself, ”It's impossible. If our senses are the reason for everything, will our world still be objective and actual? This does not agree with arcana at all…”

The comparison of the two experiments had manifested a horrifying conclusion.

”At the very least, it's our own observation, not gods, that caused it. Our fate is still in our hands,” Charlot, the monitor, replied subconsciously.

”Well… Well…” The students next to them were so overwhelmed that they felt the arcana they learned had been entirely overturned. What was right?

On the stream screen, Douglas no longer looked as grave as before. Gently and solemnly, he said, ”This is the end of the quantum eraser experiment. In the next, we will run the second and the last experiment, which is Lucien's experiment of deferred choice. We are going to transform the classic double-slit experiment again to better highlight the result.”

He replaced the double-slit experiment with another experiment and demonstrated the equivalence.

”The previous double-slit experiment let us know that, if we choose the wave features and design an experiment accordingly, we will eventually see the diffraction patterns, but if we want to see the particle properties and add alarms, it will be the pure overlapping spots of light on the screen.

”In such cases, our choice and the corresponding arrangement lead to different results.”

Douglas was cautious enough to not speak of the observer effect but said ”choices” and ”corresponding arrangement”.

The arcanists who watched the live stream nodded. Whatever the theoretical explanation was, Mr. President had just described the objective facts of the experiment. There couldn't be anything wrong about that.

Douglas went on. ”What if we delay the choice? In the previous experiments, the electrons had obviously passed two slits and two routes, thereby engaged in self-entanglement, when they behaved as waves; and when they behaved as particles, they must've passed only one of the slits. Then, what will happen if we make a choice after the electrons choose a route but haven't reached the screen? Will we see the electrons coming from two routes or from one?”

Since the double-slit experiment had been transformed, Douglas used routes instead of slits to refer to the process in between.

”Whatever the choice is, the route of the electrons has been fixed before the choice, and it cannot change…” The ordinary people like Ali had recovered from the shock of the quantum eraser experiment just now. They began to speculate what might happen with their shallow knowledge of arcana.

Annick shook his head to keep himself away from other explanations of the quantum eraser experiment and focus his attention on this experiment.

The new experiment that his teacher proposed was also related to the observer effect, but Annick did not think that the result would be in favor of the observer hypothesis. After all, whether the electrons walked on two routes or on one had been fixed before the choice was made. ”Observation” couldn't change what had already happened, could it?