Chapter 471 Exploring
The Supreme Administrator's answer answered Liu Hanyang, Zhou Yun and others about the relationship between the countless tadpole-like objects released by the electromagnetic vortex formed by the explosion of the giant light ball. Both belong to the Boltzmann brain, but the degree of civilization is different. However, the two have one common attribute, that is, they are another form between life and non-living bodies.
Liu Hanyang seemed to think more deeply, what is the "another form between life and non-living body"? It is his deep question at this moment.
"Supreme Administrator, I have a question to ask you," said Liu Hanyang.
"Ask, as long as it is within my answer, you can ask."
He nodded politely and then said, "We humans have certain research on life and non-living bodies. Both are composed of matter. According to biological definition, the biggest difference between the two is that life is a molecular system composed of substances such as nucleic acids and proteins. It has the ability to continuously reproduce offspring and react to the outside world."
After he took a breath, he continued: "Not living organisms, which we generally call matter, are composed of only atoms, and atoms are composed of interactive subatomic particles, including atomic nuclei composed of protons and neutrons, and electron clouds composed of many electrons. They cannot reproduce offspring and react to the outside world. What are you, as Boltzmann brain or Boltzmann consciousness?"
"Before answering your question, I want to correct you humans is that at the cosmic scale, your understanding of life and non-living bodies is still very superficial and vague. Only by truly understanding the meaning of both can you understand what we are?"
After a moment of pause, he continued: "If according to your logic, the biggest difference between life and non-living bodies is whether they can reproduce offspring and react to the outside world, then please tell me how the elements originated?"
"The universe was born in a big explosion 13.8 billion years ago, producing a large number of fundamental particles. As the universe continues to expand, its radiation temperature and material density continue to decrease. Neutrons decay or combine with protons to produce hydrogen, deuterium (heavy hydrogen), helium and a small amount of lithium. After that, in the 200 million years of the Big Bang, nebula appeared and continued to shrink and consolidate under the action of gravity. After reaching the critical temperature, hydrogen nuclear fusion will occur, and stars will be born."
Liu Hanyang became more and more advanced as he spoke, as if he was showing his rich knowledge of the universe to the Supreme Administrator. He looked around and said with his head high: "When hydrogen fusion occurs inside the star, new element helium will be produced. If the star has enough mass, it will continue to trigger the nuclear fusion reaction of the helium nucleus, producing new element carbon and oxygen."
He glanced at the top executive and continued: "If the star's mass is larger, it will trigger nuclear fusion of carbon elements, and then produce new elements neon, sodium, magnesium and iron; if the star's mass is more than 9 times the mass of the sun, its core exceeds the Chandrasekar limit, resulting in the core collapse, and eventually trigger a supernova explosion, which will produce new elements such as gold, silver, platinum, iridium, and sulfide."
"According to your previous judgment, the biggest difference between life and non-living bodies is whether it can reproduce offspring. So, can the process of the element generation you explained be considered a series of reproduction of non-living bodies?"
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The third experiment proves that the measurement or observer effect triggers the collapse of superimposed states, that is, once the observer is introduced in the second experiment, the superimposed states of the two paths collapse into a single result of a single path.
Before we knew it, about 20 minutes had passed, and these 20 minutes were Liu Hanyang's memories and thoughts on the double-slit interference experiment.
The Supreme Administrator's words were remembered in the space: "So, please tell me, what conclusions did you come to through the double-slit interference experiment?"
"The measurement or observer principle causes the collapse of the superimposed state." Liu Hanyang replied.
"Very good, so can we look at it in the opposite direction: the photons have a reaction ability to the outside world?"
"Outside reaction ability..." Liu Hanyang murmured, a cold sweat oozing out from his forehead.
"Yes, that is, once an observer intervenes, the photon collapses from the superimposed state into a single result, and it has a responsive ability to the outside world?"
His rhetorical question made Liu Hanyang fall into deep thought... Indeed, judging from the results of the experiment, the observer effect triggered the collapse of superposition states, resulting in a single result. On the contrary, the photons reacted to the outside world.
Now, both from the macro and microscopic worlds seem to point to a result, that is, the definition of life and non-living bodies under the cosmic scale, that is, the definition of "life has the ability to constantly reproduce offspring and react to the outside world" does not seem to be rigorous.
If we really want to define the two, we can only use the earth as an isolated system to give them a simple distinction.
"His Excellency, the discussion with you has given me a new understanding of the universe." Liu Hanyang said, his words earnest and respectful, "So, please tell me, in the double-slit interference experiment, are the observers of you Boltzmann brains, or are we humans, or some kind of cosmic will that we do not know?"
"Together with your consciousness, we constitute the will of the universe, and are all inseparable parts of the universe."
Liu Hanyang understood that since the known low-entropy universe produced lonely Boltzmann brains, that is, independent self-conscious bodies, in the fluctuations of entropy, the probability is much greater than the probability of the brains that have emerged such as those of us humans.
In other words, there should be many such lonely Boltzmann brains floating in disorder in the universe. They have different consciousness and memories from us. Therefore, for the universe, observers are more likely to be brains that appear due to this random fluctuation and fall, rather than just an evolved brain like humans.
Also, it is proved from the city of all realms where they live that they have a certain social form, and like human society, there are racial reproduction, evolution and civilization progress.
Perhaps, the universe we are in is a huge living body, perhaps a Boltzmann brain that we cannot understand, or perhaps one of many parallel universes.
Whether it is the macro world dominated by gravity, the micro world dominated by quantum mechanics, or the dark matter, dark energy, or the Boltzmann consciousness that we cannot touch or see, and of course, including our human consciousness, they are inseparable parts of this universe.
Matter and consciousness are not the one who dominates, and the universe is not the existence of me thinking, so I am, but what it should have been.
The universe is right next to us, and is also out of reach billions of light years. The big explosion 13.8 billion years ago laid the prototype of it. Since then, everything it contains is developing, changing, and never stops...
Chapter completed!