I Pioneered Scientific Magic

Chapter 516: Everything Has a Wavelength!

Calculate a person's wavelength?

The wizards present could hardly believe it—could people also exhibit wave-like properties?

Jeffrey's face was full of disbelief. Even as one of the pioneers of light wave properties, he dared not claim that people have wave-like properties—such a bizarre statement!

Lynn acted as if he hadn't seen the surprise of the crowd. Using his hand as a pen, he casually wrote a few symbols in the air—the famous de Broglie wavelength formula!

The formula was incredibly simple, clear at a glance.

It was even unbelievably simple!

λ=h/p!

The symbol λ represents the wavelength.

P was very familiar to them—it's momentum, the product of an object's mass and velocity!

The only unfamiliar element was h, which Lynn explained.

"This is the quantum constant, like the gravitational constant, it is a fixed value, 6.626×10^(-34) joules per second!"

Hearing the term "quantum constant," the wizards keen on researching the microscopic domain immediately showed a look of realization.

This was a concept Lynn mentioned in his paper "The World of Probability—Quantum Mechanics" published in the Magic Daily, discussing studies on radiation light and the particle nature of electromagnetic waves.

Electromagnetic waves propagate as electromagnetic fields, but when interacting with charged particles, they exhibit discontinuities in energy and momentum.

Thus, the Star of Magic hypothesized that they are emitted and absorbed not continuously, but in quanta—there must be a minimum value!

This value is the quantum constant—the smallest divisible amount of energy!

And the entire wavelength calculation formula translates to an object's wavelength being the quantum constant divided by its momentum!

With the computational power of a grand wizard, Anthony calculated in just a second that an adult moving at a normal speed would have a wavelength of about 10^(-37) meters, a scale almost negligible.

Not to mention the naked eye, even the perception of legendary wizards couldn't possibly reach such a scale.

"If you're talking about predicting, of course, that can be done," Lynn laughed, then continued to explain. "But this isn't the kind of precise prediction you're thinking of. It should be called a probability cloud distribution model!"

Predicting the exact location of a quantum at any given moment is nearly impossible.

Because the Federation has

proven countless times through experiments that this thing is truly random, not cyclical pseudo-random.

But if over a hundred thousand electrons are emitted, then the accuracy of this probability cloud distribution model could reach over 99.9%!

Just like flipping a coin in hand, as long as the number of flips is sufficient, the number of times it lands heads or tails will tend to approach 50%!

"So every microscopic particle is constantly throwing dice, deciding where it will appear the next moment when observed?" Jeffrey couldn't comprehend. "Doesn't this need to consume energy?"

"Why not the other way around? Maybe energy is only consumed when the probability collapses," Lynn shrugged.

This strange yet plausible statement left Jeffrey speechless.

Alade and others were contemplating Lynn's wavelength formula and probability cloud model.

They hadn't yet confirmed the latter through experiments and couldn't evaluate it temporarily. However, the former perfectly matched what Lynn had just stated: the more macroscopic an object, the weaker its wave-like properties show.

After all, the larger the divisor P (momentum), the smaller the resulting wavelength value, making it trivial compared to its mass and volume.

Only quantum particles, also in a microscopic state, would exhibit wave-like properties that are particularly noticeable compared to their mass.

Or perhaps, this conclusion itself was deduced from this formula!

Pondering this, Alade quickly thought that this wavelength formula and probability cloud model might be one of the entry points for studying the quantum field...

Wait, weren't they here to oppose the theory of probability?

Alade suddenly realized this.

Damn, almost got roped in by this Star of Magic!