From a university student to a chief academician

Chapter 271 Parallel Universe Quantum Suicide Quantum Immortality
Jinling, Institute of Cosmos, in the laboratory!
Ye Fei sat on a round stool, surrounded by many researchers.

On the first day after returning from Kyoto, Ye Fei called the researchers of the research institute to discuss academics.

Ye Fei has a habit. When discussing academics with others, the atmosphere must be very relaxed.

Only in a relaxed environment can everyone relax their bodies and minds, open their brains, make their thinking more active, and inspire more inspiration.

Ye Fei smiled and said, "Many of you must have watched the event I held in Kyoto this time!"

Everyone smiled, they would naturally watch such an important live broadcast.

Not only them, but many people in the entire academic world have read it.

Ye Fei said: "Come on, can anyone tell me what you think after watching it?"

Next some researchers expressed their thoughts.

Of course, the activities held by Ye Fei were too high-profile, and the participants were all top scholars in the world. Most of the researchers present could not understand what they said.

Therefore, their ideas are also relatively shallow.

After a long time, Ye Fei said: "Everyone said very well, let me talk about what I gained from this meeting."

"I won't talk about some gains in mathematics, let me talk about physics."

"We have been studying Schrödinger's cat. The experiment of Schrödinger's cat was just a matter of quantum superposition principle at the microscopic scale."

"Later, with the research of the problem, we cleverly connected the existence form of microscopic matter, whether it is a particle or a wave after observation, with the macroscopic cat, so as to prove the existence form of quantum when observation is involved."

"Some time ago, our research added consciousness to Schrödinger's cat, or to add consciousness to quantum superposition."

As mentioned earlier, Ye Fei added consciousness to quantum entanglement, thus developing information that can be transmitted instantly.

Quantum entanglement is called an entangled state, and quantum superposition is called a superposition state.

The entangled state is a superposition state of a multi-particle system or a multi-degree-of-freedom system that cannot be expressed as a direct product.

Therefore, entangled states are superposition states.

Therefore, it is correct to say that Schrödinger's cat is the study of superposition states.

"This allows Schrödinger's cat to study the macroscopic world, and there is one more direction."

"After discussing with many physicists during this period of time, I found that Schrödinger's cat should also be researched in the direction of parallel universes."

"As we all know, the concept of parallel universes is not proposed because of the time travel paradox, it comes from quantum mechanics."

"Because there is an uncertainty in quantum mechanics, which is quantum uncertainty."

"Assuming that Schrödinger's cat should live in two worlds, these two worlds are parallel universes."

"A living cat is in one universe, a dead cat is in another."

"It then turns out that the problem with Schrödinger's cat is not whether the emissive atom in the box decays, but whether it both decays and doesn't decay."

"When the observer looks into the box, the wave function itself collapses, and the world splits into two versions of itself."

"The two versions are identical in all remaining respects, the only difference being that in one version the atom decays and the cat dies."

"And in another version, the atoms didn't decay and the cat was alive."

When everyone heard Ye Fei's explanation, they stared at Ye Fei with wide eyes in surprise.

Ye Fei's hypothesis is both bold and crazy.

Because the hypothesis put forward by Ye Fei is to admit the existence of parallel universes.

Moreover, the two parallel universes are exactly the same.

For a long time, the parallel world is just a hypothesis, and no one knows whether it exists or not.

But Ye Fei admitted the existence of parallel universes in his Schrödinger's cat hypothesis.

This idea is very crazy.

If the existence of parallel universes is admitted, then it is possible that in the time and space in which we exist, there is another self.

If one day a person from another parallel universe comes to his own universe.

Their first thought is not to integrate into their own universe, but to destroy their own universe.

This will break out a war between the two universes.

This is like the law of the dark forest in the three bodies.

All civilizations in the universe are in the dark forest. Once discovered by other civilizations, they will definitely be attacked by other civilizations.

The same is true for parallel universes. Each parallel universe is a civilization. Once discovered by other civilizations, it will definitely be attacked by other civilizations.

The more Ye Fei talked, the more ideas he had, and many other topics were derived from this topic.

When it was one-third of the time, everyone couldn't keep up with his train of thought.

But these people didn't care. They encountered this situation many times, and every time they wrote down what Ye Fei said, and studied it slowly after returning home.

If you can't study it thoroughly, when you do research with Ye Fei in the future, you will slowly study it through.

After the academic discussion, Ye Fei wrote a paper on the parallel universe view and posted it on arxiv.

And, it titles this theory as a multiverse interpretation.

North America, MIT!

Ernie Thorne is the dean of the School of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Nobel Prize winner in physics. He mainly studies gravitation and quantum particle science in quantum mechanics.

Thorne went into the office early in the morning, sat down, and then turned on the computer to browse arxiv.

Suddenly, a paper caught his attention.

It was not the title of the paper that attracted him, but the author of the paper that attracted his attention.

"Huh?" Thorne said in amazement: "Ye Feike rarely publishes papers on physics!"

Then, he said with interest: "I want to see what papers he will publish."

With that said, Thorne clicked on the paper.

Soon, his eyes widened in surprise, and his eyes were filled with deep shock.

After a while, Thorn muttered to himself: "It's crazy, Ye Fei actually proposed such a hypothesis."

"Although this assumption makes the Schrödinger wave equation always hold, the wave function never collapses, and it also simplifies the basic theory."

"But this idea is too bizarre. It actually admits the real existence of parallel universes."

"If this assumption is true, then the existence of parallel universes must also be admitted, which is impossible."

People like Ye Fei can't talk nonsense.

One wrong sentence can have an impact on the whole world, especially in research.

It's as if one day Einstein said that there are aliens who are light-years away from us.

In a few decades, this group of aliens will call.

Then, people all over the world will be in a sense of crisis.

This is because the person who said this has a high status and high authority, and it is impossible to be aimless. Many people around the world believe what he said.

If Ye Fei's point of view is recognized by people all over the world, then the existence of parallel universes will also be recognized.

Professionals will know the truth, but ordinary people will not understand it.

If ordinary people know that there is a world exactly like the earth above or under their feet, or beside them.

There is exactly the same you in that world.

At this time, ordinary people would wonder if their self in another world would suddenly appear beside them and kill them.

In this way, many people will live in fear all day long.

It's as if someone knows that there is always another self beside him who wants to kill him.

Thorne's eyes flickered wildly: "If the hypothesis proposed by Ye Fei is true, then it will also distinguish a thought experiment on quantum mechanics proposed by Hans Moravec and Bruno Machar in 1980."

The quantum mechanics thought experiment proposed by Hans Moravec and Bruno Machar in 1980 is the most famous interpretation in quantum mechanics, the Copenhagen interpretation.

Thorne continued to look into the paper: "Well...Ye Fei explained Cenhagen's interpretation."

"He calls the Cunninghagen interpretation quantum suicide and the many-worlds interpretation quantum immortality."

Thorn nodded slightly: "This title is very appropriate."

"Quantum suicide, quantum immortality!"

"Quantum suicide is the Cunhagen interpretation, which says that a cat has a 50% chance of surviving or not."

"Quantum immortality is a multiverse interpretation, saying that the experiment will have a cat in two unrelated worlds, one of which is alive and the other is dead."

"Then, if the MWI is correct, after any number of experiments, there will always be a world where the cat never dies."

The more Thorn thought about Ye Fei's interpretation, the crazier he became.

As a researcher of quantum mechanics, it is difficult for him to accept Ye Fei's ideas.

Of course, what Ye Fei put forward was just a hypothesis.

Assumptions are representations that do not necessarily hold true.

This is the same as quantum suicide, with a 50% chance of being true or not.

After a long time, Thorne sighed: "It's really crazy. The hypothesis proposed by Ye Fei should be difficult for scientists all over the world to accept!"

"After all, parallel universes only exist in theory."

"Also, most scientists do not admit the existence of parallel universes, or are unwilling to admit the existence of parallel universes."

Shuimu University, Yang Zhenning's office!
Yang Zhenning looked at Ye Fei's paper on arxiv on the computer.

Yang Zhenning thought secretly: "Multiverse interpretation?"

"He is assuming the existence of parallel universes, so that he can explain the quantum theory interpretation of various phenomena in the microscopic world."

Quantum theory, also known as quantum theory, is one of the two cornerstones of modern physics, the other cornerstone being the theory of relativity.

"Although this simplifies the basic theory and makes it unnecessary to consider the collapse of the wave function, it also has a big disadvantage, which is to admit the existence of parallel universes."

"In doing so, the multiverse interpretation does not hold unless it is proven that parallel universes exist."

"But if it turns out that parallel universes exist, the whole world will panic."

"However, from another perspective, the hypothesis proposed by Ye Fei can better study quantum theory."

"It's more convenient than the Copenhagen interpretation, which can lead a trend!"

Seeing this, Yang Zhenning shook his head slightly, and said, "It's still young people who have ideas!"

"The older I get, the more worries I have. I dare not come up with such a crazy idea."

"And young people can think whatever they want, even if they imagine the earth exploding, they dare to think about it."

"His hypothesis is very good, but he just doesn't know whether the world can accept it."

"Since Ye Fei mentioned parallel universes, he will definitely study them in the future, so I will send him the literature on parallel universes!"

"I hope these parallel universe documents will help him."

After finishing speaking, Yang Zhenning found the parallel universe literature, packaged it and sent it to Ye Fei's mailbox.

Jinling, Institute of Cosmos!

"Huh?" Ye Fei saw that someone sent him an email in the mailbox. After seeing the email, he said in astonishment: "It was Mr. Yang who sent me the email. Why did he email me? If you need anything, you can directly call me!"

As he spoke, Ye Fei opened the email, and said in surprise, "It's a document from a parallel universe."

"He must have seen the paper I posted on arxiv, so he sent me the parallel universe literature."

"He must have thought I was going to study parallel universes."

"But I don't have the idea of ​​​​studying parallel universes for the time being."

"The parallel universe is too difficult. For me now, it is not suitable for research."

What Ye Fei thought was that after studying Schrödinger's cat, he would consider studying other fields of quantum mechanics.

For the time being he only works on Schrödinger's cat.

The road has to be walked step by step, and the meal has to be eaten bite by bite.

You can't study Schrödinger's cat today. If you haven't studied Schrödinger's cat, you will study parallel universes tomorrow.

This is not feasible.

"Although I don't study it for the time being, you can still take a look."

"Mr. Yang is the No.1 in the physics world today. His research in any field should be very deep!"

With that said, Ye Fei opened the literature to read.

At this moment, many scholars around the world have seen Ye Fei's paper on arxiv, which has aroused heated discussions around the world.

Andrea Hope, a senior researcher at the School of Physics of the North American Academy of Sciences and winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics, was the first to stand up and refute.

"If Ye Fei's point of view is correct, it is to admit that parallel universes exist."

"Does the existence of parallel universes mean that there are four-dimensional universes?"

"Then what are we?"

"What is our world?"

"Is our world, and us, a ranch raised by aliens?"

"And we are chickens raised by aliens ready to be slaughtered?"

"Parallel universes are impossible."

"The world we live in is the only world."

"So, Ye Fei's multi-world interpretation is not valid."

Andrea's point of view has been recognized by many scientists.

They cannot accept the existence of parallel universes, and the existence of parallel universes will make many people feel panic.

Israeli physicist and winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics Sefivor House said: "I think the many-world interpretation proposed by Ye Fei should not be interpreted in this way."

"He just wanted to better prove Schrödinger's cat, and he didn't have to admit the existence of parallel universes."

"After all, the multiverse interpretation proposed by Ye Fei can prove Schrödinger's cat more simply than the Copenhagen interpretation."

"Also, you didn't find out."

"In the past, we studied quantum mechanics macroscopically and microscopically."

"We simply can't draw a clear line between the micro and the macro."

"Until not long ago, the awareness proposed by Ye Fei allowed us to find a way to distinguish the dividing line between macro and micro."

"However, this has gone astray and entangled with self-awareness, which has long been far from the original intention of Bohr and the Copenhagen School."

"Also, if the evolution direction of Schrödinger's wave equation is strictly followed, a system will not evolve from a superposition state to a pure state, which means that the collapse does not conform to the basic principles of quantum theory."

"But in the face of the results of the electron double-slit interference experiment, the collapse must be attached to give a reasonable explanation."

"The addition of consciousness can explain the electron double-slit interference experiment."

"But it violates the evolution and principle of Schrödinger's wave equation and the original intention of Bohr and the Copenhagen School."

"However, if Ye Fei's multiverse interpretation can kick away consciousness and bypass collapse, it can better explain the problem of quantum theory."

When many people heard this speech, their eyes suddenly lit up.

Yes, Ye Fei's multiverse interpretation not only kicks away consciousness, but also bypasses collapse, which can better explain the problem of quantum theory.

But soon many people were dumbfounded.

Consciousness was proposed by Ye Fei. Not long after he proposed it, he was kicked away by the multi-universe interpretation proposed by Ye Fei before his butt was hot.

In the words of Xia Guoren, success is Xiao He, and failure is Xiao He!
It was Ye Fei who raised consciousness, and it was Ye Fei who destroyed consciousness.

After the debate between these two big names in the physics world, many people began to face up to the multiverse interpretation.

They find that the multiverse interpretation is far superior to the Copenhagen interpretation.

Soon, someone exclaimed in their hearts: "This Ye Fei is too strong, and I don't know how his brain grows. How long has he just entered the physics world!"

"Firstly, consciousness is proposed, the macrocosm is distinguished from the microcosm, and quantum entanglement is used to develop the instantaneous transmission of information."

"Now the multiverse interpretation is proposed!"

"Although the idea is bold, it kicks away consciousness and bypasses collapse, making quantum theory more convenient and concise to study."

"This Ye Fei is really amazing."

(End of this chapter)