Chapter 312: A Stone Causes a Thousand Waves

There is no doubt that if there is no life, the universe will eventually move towards chaos and death, as described by the second law of thermodynamics.

Of course, there are loopholes in using the second law of thermodynamics alone to infer the end of the universe. In his published opinion, Gander pointed out that people have long been blinded by the second law of thermodynamics.

In fact, from the beginning of the universe to the present, the entire universe is an evolutionary process from equilibrium to imbalance, from structureless to structured, and from chaos to order.

First of all, Gander pointed out that in fact, the early universe after the Big Bang was in an extremely hot state, a "fireball" with uniform temperature. Because entropy is equal to the transferred heat energy divided by temperature, the universe at this time is exactly what the second law of thermodynamics says, in an extremely disordered thermal equilibrium state with the maximum entropy value.

After that, the balance of the universe was broken, and then it slowly moved towards order, thus constantly creating more and more ordered, advanced, and complex things and structures, such as quarks, protons and neutrons, atoms and molecules, planets, nebulae, galaxies, and gorgeous large-scale structures of the universe.

And intelligent life can only be born in this highly ordered cosmic background.

As for why intelligent life is the universe saving itself, it is because intelligent life was born in such a background, and naturally it would think that the universe with such a background is the most beautiful and harmonious, and it is also the most comfortable environment for intelligent life to survive.

Then, one day, intelligent life finds that the universe it is in will eventually go to the dead silence of nothingness, and everything will eventually return to nothingness, so what will happen to intelligent life?

Will it wait to die with the universe? Or escape from reality and try not to think about the end of the universe? Or try to save the universe through its own efforts?

If other factors are not considered, the answer is that all three are possible.

But Gander told everyone in his argument that the answer is that intelligent life will try to save the universe in the end.

As a scientist, Gander will naturally not speak without evidence.

The viewpoint he gave in the paper is: Gene instinct and wisdom.

First of all, genes. Now humans know that genes are the source code of life, and the instinct of genes is to continue. In order to continue itself, it shows an extremely selfish side.

The book "The Selfish Gene" discusses this point very well. The book even goes to the extreme of believing that our lives are just carriers of genes, and our behaviors and decisions are controlled by genes. The selfish nature is deeply engraved in genes, whether it is human or animal.

The love that people admire is just a behavioral product dominated by genetic instinct in this book. The continuation of offspring is the result of genes unwilling to die with the short life of the previous generation. From another perspective, because genes want to continue by any means, genes are more impulsive in males.

After mating, females often need to spend more time taking care of their offspring, so they become more dependent on males, so they are not easy to betray, while males are the opposite. They are more inclined to abandon females and look for other females in order to spread their genes more widely.

From the perspective of gene continuation, this is the strategy of gene continuation.

So what does this have to do with saving the universe?

Of course, the instinct of genes to continue will make the individual lives that carry them strive to survive, and the instinct shown is greed for life and fear of death.

In this case, genes naturally do not want to die with the universe. Of course, gene instinct alone is not enough, it only provides a driving force.

When the organisms carrying genes have wisdom and are intelligent organisms, this continuation will rise to a higher level and become the continuation of civilization. If it is a little crazier, it will become the continuation of civilization at all costs.

Of course. "Civilization" is not created by gene instinct alone, but also by wisdom.

Wisdom and gene instinct are interdependent and also struggle with each other.

Among the intelligent life that forms "civilization", when "wisdom" cannot overcome "gene instinct", then the individual of this "civilization" will hardly live forever. At this time, the characteristic of this "civilization" is to continue all the information of the "civilization" that carries this intelligent life, generation after generation, as much as possible.

And when wisdom obtains the continuation of overcoming the most primitive gene instinct, this intelligent life individual will be immortal, and at this time, it will be manifested in the "civilization" composed of these intelligent life individuals, and it will continue to exist.

Because there is an "eternal existence" hidden in the intelligent self.

Therefore, the intelligent life evolved from the universe, whether it is genes or wisdom that prevails, will eventually find a way to survive, so they will not sit idly by and watch the end of the universe.

Of course, this alone is not enough, after all, intelligent life is too small for the universe. Even if it develops into one civilization after another, it is just a big ant. It is far from enough to save the universe, and it may even become the culprit that accelerates the extinction of the universe.

Therefore, the evolution of the universe in the dark has also given intelligent life some inexplicable but reasonable "materials", such as knowledge, curiosity, and imagination.

The vast universe, the stars are bright, deep and mysterious. When intelligent life first looked up at the starry sky, the curiosity deep in wisdom had already raised the sail of knowledge.

Under the combined influence of various forces, each intelligent life has ignited the desire to explore, and among them, there may be a civilization that can develop to the point of saving the universe from extinction.

The views published by Gander on the Human Science Network provide humans with a new perspective. In this perspective, all intelligent life, including humans, has the potential to become the savior of the universe.

Although it is only his personal opinion, it puts humans in a glorious image, and to some extent, gradually forms some lofty ideals in people's minds.

Perhaps, this ideal will trigger the lofty goals of some human individuals, thereby causing the entire human race to undergo some kind of transformation and sublimation at the ideological level.

Of course, this effect is bound to be impossible to happen overnight, but a long process of subtle influence.

Well, in fact, not all human scientists accept Gander's views. After Gander published this theory of cosmic evolution, a large group of scientists from all walks of life sneered at it and formed groups to find loopholes in this view.

These scientists believe that the emergence and evolution of life is a series of common results of natural laws, one of countless possibilities, and not an inevitable result of cosmic evolution.

They pointed out that the original starting point of this article was wrong, just like biological evolution should be changed to biological evolution. The word "evolution" is very inaccurate and wrong, and should be used as evolution.

Some of these scientists pointed out that in Gander's view, the universe is intentionally or unintentionally compared to a being with will, which is unacceptable.

With the publication of Gander's article, human scientists were like a stone that caused a thousand waves, and it suddenly became lively, and scientific meetings became more frequent.

For a while, scientists were divided into two factions, one supporting Gander's view and the other opposing it, and the two views were verbally arguing in scientific seminars again and again.