Ninja at the top of the food chain

Chapter 1127 God's Dice

"This iron box is equipped with a set of sophisticated mechanisms inside. There is a bottle of sealed gas canister, a hammer, a small mechanical device, and a Geiger counter."

Others can be understood, but Lei Luo really doesn't know what a "Giger Counter" is, but he is not in a hurry to ask questions, because Alaya's next explanation comes soon:

"The Geiger counter is a high-precision physical device manufactured by me by absorbing certain information from different latitudes. It can detect the decay of heavy metal atoms and respond in real time."

"By the way, some of the high technologies of the Cult of the Evil God use these unique different-latitude technological equipment. Geiger counters are just one type, and we won't mention more here."

Lei Luo still didn't say a word, he folded his arms unconsciously on his chest, and quietly listened to Alaya's story. Naruto was quite bored, but he was worried about cats, so he could hold back his temper and temporarily stood by Lei Luo. Lo listened.

"Suppose the uranium atoms you just put in suddenly decay, then the Geiger counter will detect this event, and activate the mechanical device to smash the gas tank with a hammer..."

"Then the cat will naturally be gassed to death."

Lei Luo frowned slightly, and found that Alaya stopped at this point, and couldn't help asking inexplicably: "Then what? What does this mean? What do you want to express?"

In Lei Luo's view, a cat is stuffed into an iron box equipped with a deadly mechanism, and the condition for determining whether the deadly mechanism is activated is whether the uranium atom released by itself decays...

Decay, also known as "decay", refers to the process by which a radioactive element emits particles and transforms into another element. For example, radium emits α particles and becomes radon. The same is true for uranium atoms, and the fission reaction originates from this.

Of course, just one uranium atom decays, and the energy level is too low to cause any explosion. That is to say, there is no possibility of the unlucky cat being killed by a nuclear explosion.

But what does this mean?
Facing Lei Luo's suspicious gaze, Alaya smiled, patted the iron box casually, and asked without answering:
"Lei Luo, although you can manipulate atoms and electrons to perform various microscopic interferences, such as releasing radiation, creating plasma, and detonating nuclear weapons, have you really understood these little things?"

"For example, their nature?"

Their... essence?
Atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, hadrons... all kinds of images perceived by using high-level dust escape came to mind, but the more Lei Luo thought about it, the more strange he became, isn't a microscopic particle just a microscopic particle?

Their nature... Could it be something else?

"The pictures you perceive do not mean that they are actually like that." What Alaya said, Lei Luo became more and more incomprehensible, and it was not until the next sentence came that he suddenly realized:

"Your perception, whether you use chakra, spiritual power, electromagnetic waves, or any other force... Perception itself means observation, which means that your behavior affects the laws of motion of microscopic particles."

"Before you observe microscopic particles, their state, position, momentum, and velocity are actually uncertain, and this uncertainty itself is part of the laws of the objective world."

"It's your perception, your observation, that makes them certain."

At first hearing what Alaya said, ordinary people may only think that this is nonsense, just like a pen, an apple, you observe it, it will look like that, if you don’t observe it, its state is Randomly transformed.

The so-called uncertainty, to give an inappropriate example, is probably: the pen can be broken, it can be brand new, it can be old, the apple can be whole, it can be bitten, or it can be rotten .

And what state they are in is not determined by themselves, but by the "observation" behavior of the observer. This concept can be said to be very contrary to common sense and extremely anti-intellectual.

If it weren't for Lei Luo's background in high-energy physics, he might have praised Alaya as an "old idealist", but it was precisely because of the existence of that knowledge that he suddenly realized:
Isn't this the theoretical cornerstone of...quantum mechanics?
"For example, the uranium atoms in this box..."

Alaya looked at the thoughtful Lei Luo, patted the iron box again, and said with a smile: "If we don't observe it, then the state of the uranium atom is uncertain."

"In this state, its natural decay probability is about 50%. In short, uranium atoms may or may not be decaying all the time. We don't know the specific situation because we haven't observed it."

"After all, the observation itself will affect its decay."

"That is to say, when the Geiger counter is triggered, the poison bottle is broken, and the probability of the cat being poisoned is also 50%. This state of the cat is very strange. It seems to be dead, but also seems to be alive. None of us can say Unclear."

Lei Luo fell into deep thought subconsciously, while Naruto yelled from the side: "Isn't it right? Even if we don't use our eyes to see, we can still use our ears to hear! A broken poison bottle will definitely make a sound, right?"

Alaya looked at Naruto in surprise, but then, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he waved to him: "Come on, put your ears on it, come and listen."

Naruto looked very dissatisfied, and he didn't know whether he was dissatisfied with Alaya's controlling smile, or he had a feeling of pity for the cat that was neither alive nor dead. In short...

Without hesitation, he put his ear on the box.

Immediately afterwards, his face changed.

Lei Luo noticed this scene out of the corner of his eye, and immediately recovered from his contemplative state, hurried forward a few steps, and asked Naruto nervously: "How? What did you hear?"

Xu was a little shocked in his heart, Naruto subconsciously opened his mouth wide, first looked up at the smiling and silent Alaya, then turned to look at Lei Luo, and said stammeringly:

"I, I, I... I heard..."

"Continuous... the sound of glass breaking?"

The glass is broken?That is to say, the poisonous gas leaked and the cat died?

Thinking of this, Lei Luo focused his eyes, but just when he was about to say something, the sudden movement from the box made his expression suffocated, and his expression instantly became dazed.

That movement... seems to be... a series of chaotic meows?
"Meow meow meow..."

"Now I want to popularize a concept to you." The corner of Alaya's mouth became wider and wider, and he lifted the lid violently, revealing the scene inside to Lei Luo and the two, and laughed loudly at the same time:

"The state of the cat is in an extremely weird and high-speed quantum superposition state, and this is not only a manifestation of my ability, but also the power you need to master next."

Lei Luo looked intently and saw that the inside of the box was blurry. The trajectories of various objects and the flashes of light spots of various colors seemed to have turned into groups of afterimages, which he couldn't see clearly with his dynamic vision.

It was barely recognizable until the five times speed was turned on...

The hammer keeps rising and falling, the poison gas bottle breaks and heals, heals and breaks again, the poison gas drifts away or disappears, the white cat runs for a while and freezes for a while, everything seems to be repeating a certain "process".

Is this the so-called... superposition state?Uncertainty?
The power of the Quantum Realm... I see!
(End of this chapter)