I read a small article introducing scientific knowledge from the media: "There is a "Golden House in the Air". It is said to be 175 light-years away from the earth, and a planet made of gold was discovered, and its gold reserves are one million times that of the earth, "but unfortunately it is too far away from the earth, so human beings can only hope and sigh. "In addition, a metallic asteroid was discovered near the earth's orbit, and it also contained 10,000 tons of gold and 100,000 tons of platinum, with a total value of trillions of dollars. "What's especially exciting is that it is only one kilometer away from the earth." Tens of millions of kilometers can be said to be within reach.”
After reading this short article, I just thought it was interesting to talk about, but I didn't feel so "regret" or "exciting", and as for "hope and sigh", it was even less affectionate. There is gold in space, just like there is mud on earth, it is just an objective existence. I think the planet made of gold may not be more suitable for human survival than our earth.
According to introduction, gold, as one of the most precious metals in the world, is only "with extremely high financial value and craft decoration value", which is very disappointing to me, because these two values are not irreplaceable . There may be more valuable uses for gold, but of the two known uses, it's really nothing, not even air and water. It is no wonder that in the ideal of utopia , toilet should be built with gold. And Lenin made a similar suggestion, of course after the demise of the currency . At that time, a toilet was built with gold, which could be used as a tourist item, but there was no need to charge any more.
There was a time when gold was less valuable than copper and iron. At that time copper and iron were monetary commodities, which can be known from ancient coin collectors.Moreover, copper and iron also have an advantage that cannot be compared with gold, that is, because of their appearance, it has caused the transformation of production tool , thus greatly improving productivity. Later, gold became a precious metal, just because it is easy to divide, store and carry, and it is not easy to deteriorate. Marx said: Gold and silver are naturally not money, but money is naturally gold and silver. It can also be understood that gold is not born with wealth and honor, it is chosen by currency, and it is only used for convenience. Gold is favored by human beings because of its natural properties, just like a person has won a lottery just because he looks good.
Having said that, even if gold has these advantages, if the earth is full of gold, does it still have extremely high financial value and craft decoration value? This reminds me of the "El Dorado" in Voltaire's novel, where village children wear clothes embroidered by gold and silver shops, and the stones thrown by them turn out to be gold, jasper, and ruby, the smallest of which is One piece is enough to make the most brilliant decoration on the throne of the emperor. They build gardens with gold, as we build walls with stone. The intruders tried to pay for their meals with gold, but were ridiculed as stones in the road. What the locals don't understand the most is that foreigners love their mud and rocks. Love so mad, even at the expense of killing them all. Such an "eldorado" is certainly an illusion, but if there is a place full of gold, the situation must be like this.
So I thought, would it really be so "exciting" if the discovered golden planet was so close to us, or even simply moved to Earth? Wouldn't it be more exciting if the Earth became a golden sphere? Maybe. Without water and air, people can still spend gold into dishes, eat golden dishes, and drink golden wine ... and it is said that " Compendium of Materia Medica " records: "Gold is edible and can be antibacterial".It is also said that, according to experts' identification, golden wine "has the functions of relaxing muscles, beautifying and delaying aging, etc."... I am afraid that if the golden banquet is held again at that time, I will not be able to taste the feeling of today, but it must taste the same. Mud. Because the gold at that time has become authentic mud.
People are accustomed to use their likes and dislikes to evaluate things, even if it is a scientific evaluation; people are accustomed to add their own values to the world, even to observe distant celestial bodies. Looking at the gold on a distant planet and sighing, excited by the gold reserves on a celestial body, and being able to calculate its value in US dollars immediately, this reflects the deep love of human beings for gold. Will be jealous of .
People who love gold have a beautiful golden dream in the distant space. You don't need to feel sorry for it, and you don't need to be sighed. You only need to drink a few glasses of golden wine, and when you are drunk into yellow beams, you can wander into the golden world.
(author profile: Jiao Jia, former senior editor and senior commentator of a newspaper. He has been engaged in editorial work for 34 years and has been a commentator for 26 years. The column he edited won the first column award for the first major news unit of the central government and the first column award for Chinese news. Personally, he won the nomination award of the second Taofen News Awards. The comments he wrote have won dozens of awards in national awards. He edited and published the newspaper essay series of nearly 20 kinds, and wrote and published the essay collection "Reading in person." " and other 4 kinds, among which the article "Reading in person" was selected for Peking University Press publication, Zhang Zhigong edited the sixth volume of junior high school "Chinese" textbook . In recent years, he has devoted himself to writing a series of essays on literature and history, and published "The Landscape in My Eyes" ——Life·Death".)
