See the other half of the story of the atom and the void | Soft Science Project Vol. 8

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Soft Science Popularization Project Vol.8

The person you see

does not exist because you see it

He exists

Yes Because he is looking at you

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Olga Tokarchuk

is another long-awaited compilation of 10 pieces of the "Soft Science Popularization Project", which happens to allow readers to look back on the past. Those sentences that may have been missed~

From Greek philosophy to modern physics throughout the history of science, people are constantly trying to reduce those superficially complex natural phenomena into a few simple basic concepts, trying to explain The basic principles of natural philosophy.

As early as 2,300 years ago, Democritus wrote in his atom theory: "According to the usual saying, sweetness is always sweet, bitterness is always bitter, and coldness is always cold. , Heat is always hot, and colors are always colors. But in fact, there are only atoms and voids. That is to say, we are used to regard the things we feel as real, but in reality, they are not real. There are only atoms and The void is real."

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Xingmei Røse (author)

Why is it 200 years old? This happens to be the average period of carbon dioxide molecules staying in the air. After floating on the surface for a short period of time, the carbon will return to the earth and return to the plant. It may rot or be eaten by something and become a part of him or its body.

Extended reading → A story of carbon atom

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Then I also didn’t know that I lived in the leaves once hundreds of years ago

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are souls that reincarnated between the life and death of stars. They merge into a galaxy and then fly away like dust. It can be said that all of us are the stardust of the universe.

Philosophers and scientists have been arguing over a question: Can all biological phenomena be reduced "in principle" to atomic activities?

When we look at living things, we see their physical bodies. If we explore the inside of the body, we will see organs, cells, subcellular organelles, chromosomes, and even (with sophisticated instruments) the molecules themselves.

But we can't see information-we can't see the whirlpool pattern of information flow in the brain circuit; we can't see the information engine like Maxwell's demon in the cell, or the organized cascade reaction triggered by the dance of signal molecules; also The dense packing information stored in the DNA cannot be seen.

We see matter, not information. Then what we know is only half of the life story.

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I wish you all sleep

Do you think I am a simple handstand

Actually I am recommending the earth

Lawyer Wang Huan

When I was young, I naively thought that the world revolves around me. When I grow up, I know that each of us revolves around the world like a dust.

Chaoge

Set out to the moon, even if you can't reach it, you have to stand among the stars. ✨

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Xingmei Røse (author)

Extension: During the development of the embryo, part of the brain stretches forward and long fibers grow back. Connect the eyes and brain. The retina is organized according to the way the brain is organized. In addition, the retina not only collects signals, but also carries a part of the task of processing visual information. In addition, no other sense organs do such analysis before sending the signals to the brain.

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When you can’t help but want to peek at someone, it’s because your brain says: "I miss him so much."

DawnTide

not only wants to observe

light Time within the wave range, it wants to see the entire universe.

In a sense, "eyes" are not a miracle of life on earth -Although we have not found the intermediate steps in the evolutionary history of the eyes, we have indeed discovered the continuous distribution of the eyes in the ecosystem. started from the simple light-sensitive spots on an ancient worm, and the independent evolution of the eyes has been repeated dozens of times.

It can be said that as long as there is complex life, eyes will definitely appear on this planet. Creatures have evolved various eyes with different shapes in different environments. There are at least 9 distinct mechanisms. Differential evolution makes the compound eye of the fly very different from the mirror eye of the scallop.Convergent evolution makes humans and octopuses have very similar camera-like eyes.

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Zhenfan

The smaller the life, the more meaningless it is, the more it makes me think the universe is so big , There are so many unknowns, but I feel happy

Sharon|' 梦时光

As one of the geological phenomena, I suddenly felt that I was integrated into the nature of the universe, and I also added an unknown and mysterious team.

8:8

There is only one moon on the earth. It has no life and is scarred by the asteroid hit, but it symbolizes romance.

The unforgettable past events in the memories are like high-quality central celestial bodies.

General relativity believes that the earth is not simply trapped in orbit by some invisible gravity, but the space around the sun is bent under the influence of mass. The earth thinks it is moving along a straight line, but in fact it never goes out of the elliptical circle.

We are the same.

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Feng Youshi

"When I was in high school, the teacher said that the tide is the gravity of the moon to the earth. It is the moon in my heart, so the heart has gravity, blood The tide rises.”

The sinking of the sea is also a manifestation of gravity,So no response is normal.

Among the four basic forces in nature, gravity is so weak that people are overwhelmed.

For example, it takes the mass of the entire earth to keep a few sheets of paper on the desk—however, by combing the hair a few times with a comb, we can overcome the gravity of the earth and use static electricity to suck up the paper. The electrons on the comb are stronger than the gravitational pull of the entire earth.

So, girls remember: When you hear a guy say "you attract me", don't take it too seriously, know that he is more likely to be influenced by other forces.

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Zichuan

In the 0.5s of the jump, my thoughts and I passed by one star after another. The stars saw me, but you couldn't see my thoughts.

It's not autumn

You and I are both romantic star wanderers.

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My heart beats 3,000 times in the 5 seconds your eyes are watching me

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I think you are probably the treasure I am looking for in ordinary life. I have been taken by the universe to complete a magnificent flight, and I feel very beautiful and warm~

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So, no matter how mediocre life is, it’s not stagnant water. You still have a vast universe. The waves are magnificent.

Anyone who studies general relativity will be fascinated by its beauty.

Newtonian Mechanics The originally cold, mechanical concept of space, time and gravity,Replaced by Einstein with a geometric and dynamic curved space-time picture, gravity is embedded in the basic structure of the universe.

Space and time are curled and wrinkled, rippling in turbulent waves, and vividly expressing what we call "gravity" in our daily lives.

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Would you like me to eat a cabbage

"Do you know what it means to fall into a black hole?"

"What?"

"Fall Entering a black hole means that you will let your entire body and soul escape into the universe in the form of Hawking radiation."

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You disappeared in this world, I miss you Will last forever, it is faster than light and warmer than light.

The ultimate imagination about gravity is a black hole.

How would you feel if you fell into a black hole? Unexpectedly, compared to people observing outside, you can say that you don’t have any feelings—no body stretching, slowing down, or terrible radiation waves. It’s like Einstein once said: "A free-falling object cannot feel gravity." -Until you reach the singularity in the center of the black hole, you will be instantly squashed.

But at the same time, it may be a visual feast to accompany you. From the moment you cross the horizon, the world outside the black hole is moving at high speed. If you can see the outside scene, you will find that the sun quickly collapsed into , the white dwarf star, , the Milky Way and the fairies. Galaxy undergoes a grand collision and fusion; then,All the stars in the visible area extinguish, and the entire universe becomes dark; in the end it is dead, and a new big bang may be born-all this may happen before you are instantly crushed.

Further reading → What happens when I fall into a black hole? One is dead and the other is alive.

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Skyblue

It seems that the gravitational force between souls is also the result of space contraction. So interesting souls will eventually meet, even if you and me are in the north and south, when the souls are attracted to each other, the stars and the universe will definitely shrink for it.

Jiujiu Yuanzi

"Force is the fold of time and space", this is what I remember at first sight

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So, when we get close, it is not we are crossing the world , But the power of the world between us and us opposes, getting closer and closer. As soon as anyone relaxes, the wrinkled world opens the distance again.

American physicist John Wheeler once brilliantly summarized Einstein's theory into two sentences:

matter tells how space is bent, and space tells matter how to move.

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Eeyore

All romances have shapes.

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The sharp difference between time and space will eventually become blurred,In the thousands of rebirths in the sea of ​​time, we, as matter, will eventually become blurred and produce ripples. People are perishable, and matter perishable, but to a certain extent, the connection we have-ripples, lasts forever.

Xianliang

The combination of light is like a chord, and the flow of light and shadow is the direction of the chord, and we say that the direction of the chord is colorful. It turns out that various disciplines will eventually meet aesthetically. "Because of the yearning for beauty, mankind has an eternal pursuit"

JustKidding

Physics, the original beauty of the world and the truth of everything.

🎴Elaine

What is the beauty of string theory? Not only is it a set of scientific theoretical systems that can explain everything in our universe, but more importantly, it depicts a higher-dimensional and more marvelous time and space, giving curious humans a possibility to play their fantasy. You can imagine that by our side, under those invisible scales, lightly vibrating strings are dancing gracefully all the time.

When people consider some issues related to the universe, music is always the direction we choose.

From Pythagoras’ ancient “celestial music” to “natural harmony”, for thousands of years, we have been guiding us to pursue the natural music of the peaceful movement of celestial bodies and the chaotic hustle and bustle of subatomic particles .

Since the discovery of superstring theory, musical fantasy has become an astonishing reality-this theory holds that small strings are everywhere in the microscopic world, and their different vibrations form a symphony of the evolution of the universe. Under the superstring theory, the changing wind roars in a universe full of strings.

String theory has the ability to prove that all the wonderful things that happen in the universe-from the crazy dance of quarks in the subatomic world,The elegant waltz of double stars in space; from the original fireball of the big bang to the magnificent vortex of the galaxy-all embody a great physics principle and a great mathematical equation.

-"The Strings of the Universe"

"Things that the outlook on life cannot solve, leave it to the outlook on the universe."

To be continued.

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