Chapter 602: Chapter 518: The Award Ceremony and Three Corona Medals
Lynn held a black sealed box in his hands as he used this cat, which existed in the realms of illusion, hovering between life and death, as an example to elaborate on the mystical yet tangible phenomena of quantum mechanics.
In the grand exhibition hall, tens of thousands of Wizards were engaged in fierce debate.
If quantum is said to be a probability wave, then this cat could be termed as probably dead!
This undoubtedly proved that there was something that superseded order and law, and its form was beyond their comprehension!
For instance, luck or, should we say, probability theory!
However, there were also many who simply did not believe in this stuff, and Alade was among them; he still maintained that everything had its rules, just as he never believed that pi was an infinite non-repeating number.
Given enough data, all things are inevitably known and predictable!
The peculiarities of the Quantum Domain were merely because their understanding of it was still too superficial and they had not yet found the pattern, that’s all!
Seeing the situation on the floor gradually reversing, those Wizards who had initially been firm opponents of quantum theory began to waver, and Alade cast an extremely displeased glance at Boulder.
Whose side was this guy on anyway?
Without his proposed cage beast, even the Star of Magic wouldn’t have thought of such a bizarre Quantum Cat!
Fortunately, at this moment, Sanchez stood up. He directly skipped the discussion on wave-particle duality and began attacking the various formulas related to quantum theory instead.
For example, the quantum constant Lynn mentioned earlier, how was this smallest unit defined and measured?
And that wavelength formula, if it could be explained by the argument that “macroscopic matter is composed of countless microscopic entities that interfere and influence one another,” then why does speed also have a decisive influence on it?
A deluge of questions surged like the tide, but Lynn was not at all flustered, answering each of Alade’s questions one by one with a light tone, quickly leaving him speechless with his rebuttals.
After all, he wasn’t just the founder of quantum mechanics; he possessed a relatively complete model of quantum theory, and the number of related papers in the intellectual brain’s database was in the hundreds of millions. Defeating him in theory was simply a pipe dream!
About an hour later, over thirty of the senior Wizards who had challenged him were successively defeated, either left red-faced with anger, unable to speak, or like Jeffrey, sighing endlessly.
“It seems this debate has come to a conclusion!” said Vittorio, who was in the exhibition hall but not involved in the debate, with a smile.
This debate in the exhibition hall was naturally sanctioned by them. Quantum theory was a dispute about the origin of Magic, and no amount of emphasis was too much. If there were obvious flaws that could easily be refuted, then they would need to carefully consider the problems with its implementation.
Previously, Vittorio had been somewhat worried that Lynn might not be able to beat people like Jeffrey, and he had even prepared to smooth things over. As it turned out, Lynn actually withstood the pressure.
“Since that’s the case, let’s start today’s honors ceremony as soon as possible,” Aurora suggested.
Harrov also nodded. Once the debate had ended and Lynn, Jeffrey, and others had taken their seats, he took out the list of honorees, cleared his throat, and announced that the honors ceremony was officially beginning!
The intentionally amplified voice quickly drowned out the noise in the exhibition hall, quieting down the Wizards who were still discussing and arguing.
“Firstly, Mr. Glenn, your optical camera played a very important role in promotion and certain Magic research fields. According to the conference’s judgment, you will be awarded a Morning Star Medal!”
Glenn immediately stood up, excited and thrilled to accept this honor.
Then Harrov read out the next name, Sean, who had created the timing pendulum clock.
One Wizard after another ascended the stage under the envious gaze of the audience.
There were over ninety names on the honors list, and although half were honored for their military achievements, the remainder was still remarkable!
To know that issuing five Morning Star Medals in a year was considered good, and this time around, more than forty were given out, equivalent to nearly a decade’s accumulation. The development of Magic Studies could only be described as an explosive surge.
Anthony and others were also on the list. Although the theories of light waves and light particles had been replaced by Lynn’s quantum probability cloud, they still made some achievements – such as the photoelectric effect, the theory of light as electromagnetic waves, and the double-slit interference experiment that sparked the wave-particle debate, and so on.
Among them, Jeffrey and Anthony won a Silver Moon Medal each, and Sanchez received a Morning Star Medal for his solar-powered silicon panel.
The unluckiest was Alade. He had been full of confidence in his elemental scattering experiment, believing it to be the most important evidence to beat the wave faction, but unsurprisingly, it turned into a joke.
This was also the reason he endeavored to refute Lynn in the debate just now, as it concerned the ownership of at least one Silver Moon Medal!
Undoubtedly, he failed; he did not earn any Magic research achievements and, like Anthony, remained in Fire Oil City to engage in research, with only the slight consolation of guarding the city and extracting tritium and deuterium elements.
Alade silently sighed. It was a pity that just a week was not enough to construct an alchemical instrument to monitor electron movement, to see how particles passed through two slits simultaneously; otherwise, he felt that his scattering wave theory still stood a chance!