Chapter Three: Quantum Mechanics is Correct.
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A melodious, ethereal sound drifted to his ears, followed by a burst of red light.
Ahead, within the red light, stood a magnificent palace, its spacious halls and three courtyards, its imposing architecture, soaring eaves, and majestic presence.
"Hmm? Where is this? Why is there an ancient palace here?"
Fang Yi wondered, puzzled.
After a moment's thought, he slowly walked forward.
In an instant, he arrived before the main hall.
He looked around and saw that the main hall had three rooms on each side, tall and imposing, with "cloud dragons" adorning the roof ridges, a bronze mirror in the center, and upturned eaves. Above the hall's entrance was a plaque inscribed with the four characters "****" (Pu Ji Quan Shan, meaning "Universal Salvation and Persuasion of Goodness").
Fang Yi looked on with interest and then entered.
Inside, the vermilion pillars rested on stone drums with intricate reliefs.
Two dragons, seemingly alive, danced on the large pillars on either side, their claws hovering in the air.
He continued walking slowly forward.
In the center of the hall stood a vermilion, intricately carved, red-lacquered wooden square table depicting a hundred birds paying homage to a phoenix. Seated atop the table was a middle-aged man with a long beard, dressed in red robes and a yellow sash, holding a whisk. His demeanor was dignified and righteous. Above his chair was a plaque inscribed with the five characters "Chisong Huang Daxian" (Chisong Huang the Great Immortal).
On either side of the Great Immortal were golden boys and jade maidens.
Below, rows of red-carved wooden square tables were laden with unidentified flowers and fruits.
Upon seeing the man, Fang Yi's guard immediately went up. He
shouted, "Who are you?" The Great Immortal did not react, nor did the golden boys and jade maidens. Despite their lifelike appearance, they remained as still as lifeless wax figures.
Hmm?
Why are they unresponsive?
Intrigued, Fang Yi cautiously approached and tried to touch the golden boy, but found he couldn't touch him at all. Everything before him seemed ethereal, like the moon's reflection in water—visible but untouchable.
Unconvinced, he tried to touch the jade maiden, but the result was the same.
Having touched it twice without incident, Fang Yi grew a little bolder and tried to touch Huang Daxian.
However, the moment his "hand"—or rather, his consciousness—touched the deity, the palace, pavilions, and everything else
before him collapsed. The scenery rapidly changed.
For some reason, everything seemed to vanish into nothingness.
Then, a singularity was born.
Suddenly, this singularity exploded, emitting an incredibly blinding light.
As the light faded, the entire spacetime became pitch black.
Suddenly, a meteor-like streak of light pierced the void in the distance.
The next moment, stars rose and gathered, transforming into galaxies. A
magnificent starry sky emerged!
The universe!
It was actually the birth of the universe!
Fang Yi was utterly astonished; he never expected that touching the deity would reveal the process of the universe's birth,
including the particles that make up matter!
Unlike the previously seen, chaotic mass of particles,
this time Fang Yi even saw the colors and arrangement of the particles.
There were three different types of particles: one resembling rotating galaxies, another point-like particles, and the third small spheres.
These three types of particles were further divided into many smaller categories, all with the same shape but different colors.
For example, the rotating galaxy-like particles had twelve colors.
Some colors were even invisible to the naked eye, only visible to those with a transcendent consciousness and the aid of a divine image.
The point-like particles had thirty-six colors.
The remaining small spheres had fourteen colors.
A total of sixty-two colored particles!
Every substance was composed of these particles, only differing in quantity and arrangement.
Of course, this was Fang Yi's subjective observation. In reality, atoms in nature have no concrete form, and these particles were neither molecules, atoms, nor any quarks or similar particles observable by humans.
Fang Yi was deeply shocked, thinking to himself, "Is this the most basic matter that constitutes the world?"
What astonished him even more was that he felt as if he had merged with the universe.
He could clearly sense how the entire universe operated.
It's like a sophisticated supercomputer programmed with everything—the sun, moon, stars, living beings, even a speck of dust—pre-defined by the program.
They will all follow this pre-programmed path towards a certain change.
This change may have countless variations, but its outcome is fixed: until the task is completed, they perish.
"Classical mechanics is correct?"
A thought suddenly flashed through Fang Yi's mind, filling him with utter terror.
He simply couldn't imagine that classical mechanics could be correct!
Originally, with the rise of quantum mechanics, classical mechanics had been heavily criticized, mainly because quantum mechanics, to some extent, overturned determinism.
Classical mechanics tells people three things.
First, when someone observes an event, that event has indeed occurred.
Second, choices can be made freely, or at least probabilistically.
Third, a choice made in one place will not immediately affect another distant event.
What does this mean?
Einstein believed that if we know the current state of all particles in the universe and the physical laws governing all particles, then we can calculate the future trajectories of these particles.
In other words, whether you are destined to fail or succeed is not a multiple-choice question, but a physics calculation problem.
Because everything in the universe is composed of the most basic particles, including every cell in the human body, every element that makes up those cells, the electrons in the atoms of these elements, and the quarks, gluons, bosons, etc., in the protons. Our brain's neural network relies on electrical signals, which are released through the interaction between particles. Therefore, the underlying logic is still the physical interaction between particles. The massive particle interaction ultimately determines whether you will perform poorly or exceptionally well.
In short, your life's final outcome is already predetermined.
No matter how the process changes, it will not affect this final outcome.
Just like the moon in the sky, whether you see it or not, it exists because it is the ending itself, a predetermined ending by the universe, this massive supercomputer.
People have once proposed that once classical mechanics is proven correct, then a person's life will become meaningless.
"If that's really the case, wouldn't our lives be meaningless? Because our ending has already been set, and no matter how hard we try, we can't change it?"
Fang Yi was somewhat disheartened, never expecting it to be like this.
But at this moment, as a "cosmic observer," he witnessed a strange scene.
One of the "particles" deviated from the system's original trajectory.
According to its trajectory, it should have completed its task and perished in the next instant, but it unexpectedly survived.
This state persisted for a long time.
The "supercomputer" seemed to have discovered a loophole in the system and once again enveloped the particle with countless particles to correct it, ultimately causing the particle to dissipate and perish.
But this alone wouldn't have been enough to shock Fang Yi.
He observed that this wasn't the only particle that "jumped out of the program"; there were tens of thousands, even hundreds of millions more. However, the vast majority of these particles could only survive the first round, with only a handful managing to escape the "supercomputer's" second round of correction.
The reason for this was that the particle, under microscopic changes, was subjected to a massive impact of uncertain energy, thus altering its original trajectory.
This process repeated itself countless times, tens of thousands, even tens of millions of times.
Among countless billions, even countless millions of particles, finally, one completely escaped the system's correction, ultimately radiating endless light and transforming into another singularity!
Fang Yi clearly "witnessed" everything and vaguely understood what had happened.
Because this "particle" was subjected to a massive energy impact each time, it evaded every system correction.
The probability of this is extremely small, almost impossible.
The process is free, but the outcome is not necessarily controllable!
"Classical mechanics is correct on a macroscopic level, but quantum mechanics is correct on a microscopic level!"
He suddenly realized that perhaps everything in the world has a predetermined "ending," and no matter how the process changes, it will eventually reach that predetermined "ending"—this is the macroscopic change of everything.
But because the process is not predetermined, only the general direction it is heading in is known.
Therefore, observing changes in microscopic particles also reveals unexpected possibilities, like those particles that jump out of their orbits and are then corrected.
Isn't this the viewpoint of quantum mechanics?
Quantum mechanics believes that the uncertainty of particles creates countless futures; you can predict the future, but you cannot necessarily determine it.
It is precisely because of this that quantum mechanics, while not overturning fatalism, has overturned absolute fatalism.
What does this mean?
It means that from the moment you are born, your ending may already be predetermined, but if you keep striving, it is still possible to change it.
Of course, only the microscopic ending is changed, not the macroscopic ending.
The macroscopic ending will not change; everything will still wither, and humanity cannot escape death.
Fang Yi then thought of other things. Because particles lack intelligence, they can only allow the probability of each energy impact, so small as to be almost impossible, to change their original trajectory.
What if they could observe in advance?
Like in his current state, could he observe the operation and changes of the entire universe?
Fang Yi tried to find his own "particle" within the vast computer of the universe.
Because he was currently "integrated" with the universe, he quickly found it.
To his surprise, the "particles" belonging to other humans emitted ethereal "lines" closely connected to the universe, and would eventually move in a predetermined direction, with very few able to change direction.
But his "particle" was different from both of those situations!
He had actually severed his connection with the universe and "jumped out" of his orbit.
Most importantly, Fang Yi had a clear feeling that, if he wanted, he could jump into any orbit at any time, or even manipulate someone else's orbit.
However, he also sensed that jumping into an orbit was easy, but manipulating someone else's orbit required endless energy.
At least in his current state, he couldn't manipulate someone else's orbit.
One thing was certain.
That means he has transcended the predetermined macroscopic outcome of the universe and will no longer be affected by any matter within it.
From now on, his life and death are firmly in his own hands!
Like the particle that ultimately escaped the universe's correction, he has taken control of his destiny and may even be able to create a new universe.
The reason for this situation is that his previous cultivation had created an independent "singularity"
—that is, the golden elixir.
Although this golden elixir is now inside the statue, it is closely connected to him.
Fang Yi never expected that the blooming of youthful brilliance at night would allow him to transcend the Three Realms and be outside the Five Elements. To paraphrase a famous Taoist saying: "Once a golden elixir is swallowed, my fate is always in my own hands, not in the hands of Heaven!"
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