I Created Scientific Magic-Chapter 592 - 510: Your Probability Theory Is a Blasphemy to Demonology!_2

“Take a gold coin, for example. Without any tricks or magical interference, if we casually toss it into the air, it has an almost fifty percent chance of landing heads or tails up.”

“No matter what, until it has completely fallen, and before we observe it, anything is possible!”

The thrown gold coin spun incessantly in midair, drawing the gazes of all the wizards. At the moment it fell, Lynn abruptly brought his palms together to encapsulate the coin in the center, cutting off everyone’s line of sight.

“Can you guess which side of the coin is facing up now?” Lynn asked with a smile.

The tens of thousands of official wizards in the exhibition hall began to ponder.

Heads or tails?

No, it should be said that both are possible…

“Of course it’s heads!” Jeffrey said with absolute certainty, interrupting everyone’s thoughts. Although they were hundreds of meters apart just now, thanks to his exceptionally keen eyesight, he could clearly see the last trajectory of the falling coin.

“Are you sure?” Lynn asked again. “What are your odds?”

Jeffrey opened his mouth to say he was ninety-nine percent sure but quickly realized that would fall right into the trap of this star of magic, so he stiffened his neck and said, “As long as you didn’t use any method to move it, I am one hundred percent certain it’s heads!”

He trusted his eyes, he trusted his judgment even more…

However, Lynn shook his head disappointingly and moved his hands apart. “Of course, I haven’t moved it, but sadly, you are wrong!”

Wrong?!

Jeffrey looked over in confusion,

The gold coin had landed perfectly in the center of a table, right in the tiny gap formed by two planks of wood!

“I forgot to mention just now that there’s also an extremely slim chance it could land on its edge!” A faint smile appeared on the corners of Lynn’s mouth.

Jeffrey’s eyes widened in disbelief. He suspected the star of magic might have used a slight sleight of hand at the last moment, but he couldn’t voice his suspicions, because indeed, there exists a possibility that a coin could land on its edge!

Lynn just smiled without a word and put the coin away, adhering to his promise, he had not interfered at all after tossing the coin.

But naturally, this was not due to luck!

His luck was not so good as to reach that extent!

In fact, from the moment that the gold coin had been tossed, it was destined to fall into the crack!

Because he had chosen, out of countless possibilities, a particular force and angle that would result in the coin landing in the crack, so its fate had been determined from the beginning.

The one who threw the gold coin was not only an observer but also a pusher of fate…

In that instant, Lynn felt as if he had grasped something, as if his understanding of the Quantum Domain had deepened further.

Although Lynn had used a gold coin to demonstrate what probability, choice, and possibility meant, it was obviously not enough to dispel the doubts of the other Wizards.

“This is different, this is not the same! If everything in the microscopic world is probabilistic, uncertain, then how do they make up the macroscopic matter? Does that mean if I don’t look at a flower on the ground, it disappears?” Sanchez said with utter confusion.

The rest of the Wizards also brought up various examples to contradict him, and the great hall immediately erupted into a noisy debate.

Fortunately, they did not understand what is meant by idealism and materialism, otherwise, they would inevitably have accused Lynn of harboring extremely dangerous idealist thoughts, and he would have been subjected to criticism!

“The question of how microscopic matter constitutes relatively stable macroscopic matter is a problem worth delving into,” Lynn nodded, not going into a lengthy explanation, because if all the arguments were thrown out in one breath, these Wizards would probably find it even harder to accept.

Lynn simply indicated that these issues would be addressed in his forthcoming new work, “The World of Probabilities — Quantum Mechanics”.

“Gentlemen, let me remind you of one thing, our cognition needs to conform to the underlying logic of the world, not the operational logic of the world to match our cognition!”

“This is very important!” Lynn said assertively.

The macroscopic world is deterministic and regular, and this certainty makes understanding the laws of the microscopic world particularly difficult.

The so-called probability wave and the probability cloud are incredibly counterintuitive, even more against common sense, but it must be said that it is indeed one of the underlying logics of how the world operates.

There was once a great scientist, the most outstanding person in the Quantum Domain, who refused to believe that the world is probabilistic, but without a doubt, he was proven wrong, whether by the Federation’s centuries of in-depth research and several overhauls of the microscopic world or by many scientific achievements related to quantum mechanics that demonstrate that the world is indeed as strange as it is.

No, in a sense, it is stranger than anyone could have imagined!

“Alright, Speaker Lynn, let’s pause the discussion on probability waves for now, we’ll come back to this later!” Harrov suddenly spoke out from the judges’ bench, interrupting the debate on probability waves.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to delve deeper, in fact, these legendary Wizards were the ones most affected!

Aurora’s body was trembling like a wave, as if she was about to disintegrate at any moment, though she ultimately stabilized, her expression turned very pale.

She had lost the ability to convert her body into energy.

Or rather, Aurora dared not use this ability anymore, or else she wouldn’t be able to ensure that her body wouldn’t collapse or turn into a probability group, right?

Vittorio was not faring any better; the deeper he thought, the more likely he was to question the nature of magic.

“Compared to the probability waves, I’m more curious about the second problem,” Harrov began slowly, his voice trembling slightly. “How do electrons know that we are observing them?”

As soon as he spoke, the entire hall fell into a silence as still as death.

Preoccupied with the debate on probability waves, they had indeed overlooked a very crucial and even more terrifying issue: how electrons detect that they are being observed and thus collapse into a single particle.

Alade once thought it was because of the influence of magic power within the domain, but Lynn had already refuted this possibility.

So, does that mean microscopic particles have self-consciousness and can sense their observation, thus changing their form…

Thinking this, a chill crept up Alade’s back.

Suddenly, an Elemental Wizard blurted out as if he had realized something terrifying. “I’ve got it, Elemental Ghosts, it’s the Elemental Ghosts!”