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Chapter 1 - 時空船員 ～ Sailors of Spacetime
They came back to me as I was searching through my old 1PB drive from my university days. In fact, I had been looking for them, as they had particular insight into a problem with my current research. They were recordings of my office hours with Professor Okazaki. It was something I had done to help with some of the more complex topics of Super Unified Physics. I opened the first file, and let it play:
"I swear you kids keep getting younger and younger," the voice of my old professor sounded tinny through the dusty speakers on my monitor. "I guess it just goes to show how effective education has gotten. So, Kitashirakawa, was it? What did you want to go over?"
"I'd like to go over Section 2: Observation, Prof-"
"'Miss' is fine. That's an interesting section to need help with, though. It's pretty straight forward."
"I understand that collapse is a process that doesn't happen instantaneously, but how do we know that?"
"Now that's an interesting question! Unfortunately, the answer itself isn't as interesting. In the time before Physics was unified, and the field of Quantum Physics was still brand new, many of its founders asked the same question. Their first thought was that consciousness caused the collapse."
"But that's not what's in the textbook, so what happened?"
"Well, Albert Einstein said that they were introducing mystical thinking into Physics, and then they reevaluated collapse as something that happens as information is being observed."
"That didn't really answer my question though, Ms. Okazaki. In fact, it really just sounds like Einstein didn't like the idea of Psychology being linked to Physics."
"That's an interesting take," Professor Okazaki let out a small chuckle. "The truth is we actually don't know, at least in any certain terms."
"So why isn't any of this in the textbook?"
"Well Kitashirakawa, the answer isn't that far from what you said. But Psychology itself was also new at the time, at least as science it was. Many of the most influential people in both fields were talking with each other, but tests were never done, so no evidence was ever found. With the lack of evidence, most scientists simply left the possibility unexplored, not wanting to step on the toes of the great Einstein."
"So is that it? Physics is just reconfirming what Einstein said over and over again?"
"No, that would just be crazy. Listen, you may not understand this now, but remember that the truth is what it is. Be devoted to the truth, no matter what you think about it."
It was true, I didn't understand what that meant, 'the truth is what it is.' At the time, it seemed as if the truth was being hidden from me, but sometimes it really is something that cannot be known. Yet despite that, it is still the truth.