Chapter 65: The Nature of Magic

In the mansion's Magic Research Institute, on the first floor, in the meeting room, Laura Krueger is delivering a report to Murphy.

"Currently, the institute has produced three valuable papers, and one paper, 'The Essence of Magic,' is under peer review. It is considered the second major conjecture after 'The Path of Transformation.'

"The other two papers are 'The Nature of Magic' and 'Study on the Genetic Probability of Magical Qualities,' and 'Aerodynamics of the Levitation Spell.'

"The authors of the first three papers all received point rewards. Andrew, the author of the transformation path, received the most points, about 30 points. If subsequent citations and paper ideas are verified, there will be a share reward.

"Andrew chose to save the points, but Mitra Gallia, the author of 'Levitation Spell,' used her 15 points to buy a bottle of Maze.

"In addition, after the formation of the transformation research group, it now has 17 members, including the Animagus Research Group, the Disguise Magus Preliminary Research Group, the Werewolf and Vampire Research Group, and the Boggart Preliminary Research Group. There are 10 groups in total, including the research team, the compound soup potion research team, and the research team on transformation potions such as gill grass and beauty potion.

"Currently, most of the teams are in the preliminary research stage and are collecting relevant information, except for the werewolf and vampire teams. After receiving the vampire blood you provided, we are ready to carry out several experiments."

"After the transformation research team was formed, several researchers proposed to form their own research groups, including the mind magic research team, element magic research team, and space magic research group, non-human intelligent biology research group, death research group, etc.

"I have approved several of them, but there are currently no relevant research outputs. I am planning to follow the transformation method of the research team, designating the proposer as the person in charge when a guiding research direction emerges for each topic. What do you think?"

Murphy nodded, "Okay, let's do it this way."

"Yes. Well, the author of the 'Essence of Magic,' please summon him and ask him to share his conjecture."

Laura hesitated, "That paper has not passed peer review yet."

"It doesn't matter, just hear out the idea."

After a while, a young man with long hair and a pair of slippers approached Murphy.

"Are you the author of 'The Essence of Magic'?"

Murphy looked at the guy dressed as a hippie in front of him. He was not surprised. Hippie culture had swept the world in the last decade, and even Gang Leader Qiao was one of its supporters. It still had a huge influence, and because of this influence, many Western young people liked to dress themselves up in various strange ways to show their individuality.

Murphy didn't care about other people's value orientations and cultural attributes. "Tell me what you think."

"Okay, boss. My name is Haldane Haber. I am a researcher in basic physics, focusing on cohesion. My conjecture about the nature of magic is also related to my research direction."

"Okay, let me tell you my conclusion first. I think magic is actually a kind of manipulation of the material world. The essence of magic is the directional collapse of the wave function.

"First of all, since magic is an objective and universal existence, it cannot be completely independent of non-magic physics.

"The year before last, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope. With the help of various similar observation tools, the reach of modern physics has been extended to the nanometer scale."

"If magic is something completely different from what is known in modern physics, it either exists on smaller scales below ten minus 9 meters, and its impact on the physical world is limited to this scale, or it is a kind of dark matter and dark energy that is difficult to interact with ordinary matter.

"Based on the current properties of magic, both possibilities are unlikely.

"Magic can show macroscopic physical effects. Therefore, there can only be one reason why it has not been observed by Muggle scientists: magic does not subvert the physical facts we know, it just adds some power based on ordinary physical facts."

"When the power of this magic is used. If given to a person, he can control ordinary physical facts and show the appearance of magic.

"Quantum physics believes that matter does not exist; only particles and fields exist, and even particles may not exist. There is only energy and energy in the world. Fields, and things that make energy and fields look like particles and matter - probability clouds, or wave functions."

"The collapse of the wave function depends on the rules within this system, such as an electron appearing somewhere. The probability of being there depends on its quantum number, etc."

"In the ordinary physical world without magic, everything is in this system, so everyone has the same authority."

"In this world, if you want to let . When something changes, the effect can only be transmitted through the field and the purpose is achieved indirectly.

"But magic may be able to directly affect the collapse of the wave function.

"It can bypass these indirect effects and directly specify a certain phenomenon. Happen. Therefore, magic can have no intermediate process, and can even transcend logic."

Murphy frowned, "If magic is really what you said, something that transcends logic, how can we study it?"

"It can still be studied," Haldane said confidently. "Different wizards have different levels of magic, different affinities for various magics, and different difficulties in learning to use certain magics. What exactly causes this difference? Is there no way to enhance the wizard's magic power, increase the wizard's affinity, and make the magic stronger and easier to use? These are the issues we need to study."

Murphy nodded, "What are your thoughts on these issues you mentioned?"

"Of course. Based on my conjecture about the nature of magic, I conducted special research on the form of magic and put forward several hypotheses," Haldane said. "I also preliminary verified it through some experiments with Teacher Alex."

"First of all, based on the conjecture about the nature of magic, I derived the first hypothesis. I believe that there is a price to pay for the interference of magic. The greater the difference in results in the interference state, the greater the cost. The measurement unit of this difference is the wave function, which is probability."

"For example, the probability of an electron appearing at a certain point outside the nucleus is 1%. But the magic makes it appear at that point, so the difference between the intervention result and the non-interference result is 99%."

"The smaller the possibility of something happening, the greater the price the magic has to pay to achieve it."

"In other words, the natural operation of physical phenomena is inertial. If you want to make it transcend the natural state, you must apply 'magic'.

"This is somewhat similar to Newton's first law."

"Second, the necessary condition hypothesis of the spell."

(End of chapter)