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Chapter 1012 Chapter [-] The Pope and the Eternal Faith (Second Change)
The conversation, which took place at Castel Gandolfo, included the pope, Salomon, Praetorian guard Hammurabi and Father Mauru, head of the Vatican's occult and military departments.Among them, Hammurabi, the Imperial Guard, just followed from a distance. Since Father Moru assumed the responsibility of supervising the Imperial Guard, he could only follow Hammurabi, and could not hear the Pope and Salomon. The conversation——Francis had known Salomon’s identity from Father Moru for a long time, and there was also a ceremony performed by a group of cardinals as an example, so he didn’t have too many doubts.

However, the conversation between Salomon and the Pope was not as serious as Father Moru imagined. Most of the early conversations focused on football, music and children in the slums. This relaxed and happy atmosphere even if Salomon showed the Pope immortal The results of the Micah-Uriel experiment simulations by the city's supercomputers did not disappear either.

This is a very famous experiment, also known as the Soup of Life experiment.

Although Darwin proved that life is constantly evolving, he failed to solve the mystery of how the evolutionary process began.So in the 50s, two chemists, Micah and Yulie, conducted a bold experiment, hoping to unravel the mystery of how life began, and tried to create life from inanimate chemical substances.

On March 1953, 3, the "New York Times" published an article entitled "Looking Back 8 Billion Years Ago". At that time, the impact of this article was earth-shattering, especially for the religious circles.If life miraculously emerges in the test tubes of Micah and Uriel, then one conclusion can be drawn: we no longer need a supernatural being to fall from the sky occasionally and give mankind the fire of creation, which will prove that life is inevitable by the laws of nature Products to avoid.Similarly, this can also lead to a conclusion that since life can spontaneously arise on the earth, there will also be life elsewhere in the universe.

However, Micah and Uriel's experiment failed.

Although several amino acids have been produced in test tubes, they are far from the birth of life.No matter how Micah and Yuri tried, life still failed to be born in the test tube.Micah's test tube was rediscovered in a closet at UC San Diego in 2007, long before the Chitauri descended and proved extraterrestrial life.The students were amazed when they reanalyzed the samples using more advanced means, including liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.After reanalysis of the tubes, several important nucleobases were identified.

That is, the amino acids in the test tube make up the bases.

This finding is exciting.Life has evolved over billions of years, and those test tubes have changed within 50 years of being thrown in the closet.The 50 years of human beings on the road of exploring life is just a blink of an eye for the evolution of the whole life.After this, people's interest in creating life in the laboratory was rekindled.The pope remembers the incident when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a member of the Jesuits. "Evolution does not violate God's creation. As early as 1950, Pius VII stated that the theory of evolution does not contradict the doctrine. In 1996, Paul II also agreed with this view." The Pope said with a smile, "But you Still no proof of where life came from."

"That's why supercomputers are mentioned." Salomon stretched out his fingers and stroked the leaves in the flowers. "Humans cannot go forward 2 billion years to see what is in a test tube, but mathematics can. We can put everything we The required parameters are built into a model. We need to simulate all the parameters of the original ocean. The computer needs to understand motion, thermodynamics, gravity, etc. Only in this way can the computer accurately simulate and reshape the combination relationship between each atom in the original ocean. Very Coincidentally, I have such a computer and more than one, so I can't wait to start calculations and simulations."

"So what was the result?"

"After 50 years, the basic material of RNA appeared in the flask, which is completely consistent with the Micah-Uhle experiment. The simulation continued, and when the computer cooling pool boiled, the time stretched out for tens of millions of years, and there were still only compounds and some in the flask. A messy mixture."

The Pope raised his eyebrows in surprise, "No life?"

"No." Salomon admitted his failure openly, without seeming to care.

"This is really surprising." There was no schadenfreude in the pope's words, on the contrary, there was only regret in his emotions.

"This is easy to understand. The second law of thermodynamics states that heat cannot be transferred from a low-temperature object to a high-temperature object without causing other changes. In a closed system, all energy will eventually become entropy."

"Can you enlighten me?"

"Entropy disintegrates structures. For example, hot water becomes cooler, and beach castles are washed into loose sand by the beach. This is entropy, and this process is irreversible energy conduction. How inanimate chemicals self-organize into complex life forms, this is The greatest mystery of life. There is no doubt that the laws of nature are random rather than organized, but that is not why we seek the Creator." Salomon held out his hand and used a tablet computer to show the pope regular phenomenon.Such as gravity, snowflakes, eddy currents, quartz crystals, etc. "The universe organizes matter from disorder to order, which seems to be the opposite of entropy. Most physicists conclude that the universe is disorder, and the universe drives entropy and disorder."

The Pope spread his hands, motioning for Salomon to continue speaking.

"Yet another fact proves that the universe operates on a single order with one purpose, and that is to dissipate energy. Let us go back to the examples of self-organization in nature, such as tornadoes, snowflakes, ripples, etc., which belong to Dissipative structure—that is, the self-organization of molecules in the structure to promote the system to diffuse energy more effectively. In simple terms, the purpose of the organization of the matter group is to better dissipate energy. The universe promotes disorder and creates Order in small pieces, a progressively escalating structure of disorder in a system, ordered small pieces enhances entropy. To effectively create disorder requires some degree of order."

Salomon drew up a mathematical symbol representing the Big Bang and entropy, which is an arrow pointing out from a central point in eight different directions. "Order will emerge from disorder, and entropy increases in this self-organizing way. This process does not require God to kick the first kick. So I added an instruction to this calculation model, which is to dissipate energy for the goal."

"So what's the result?"

Salomon called up an animation with a time axis, and the time axis was located at 50 years, showing the experimental results of Micah Yuri.The compounds in this closed system continue to move and combine with each other, gradually evolving from a basic protein chain to a honeycomb hexagon.Here are the nucleotides, and then the chain of nucleotides begins to wrap around itself, curling up into a helical structure.Then, the helix gradually evolved into a double helix structure, which is the life code DNA.

"This is a very simple truth. If you want to dissipate more energy, then the easiest way is to reproduce yourself. Life is just the inevitable result of entropy, and it is a means to increase entropy. The Battle of New York proved that If there is life outside the earth, it proves that life can take root and sprout anywhere, and life is not just something created and reproduced by the universe to dissipate energy, but an inevitability in chance, a spontaneous product of the laws of physics.”

"Then why don't you continue?" The Pope shrugged. "Continue, the life in the flask might become a rock musician!"

"You are the Pope with the most sense of humor I have ever seen, Holy See." Salomon said with a smile, "This kind of work is still going on. In alien civilizations, aliens have also created their own race through similar means. God. Located on the planet Hala in the Large Magellanic Cloud, there is a supercomputer called the Supreme Intelligence, which is a life that exists in the computer. The establishment process can be compared to the simulation I showed you. If we continue, the flask The life here is not as simple as playing rock music. I changed the algorithm and used a method similar to logical derivation to speed up the evolution of compounds. We created virtual life, which is a group of virtual prokaryotes in the mathematical sense. However, here we If you want to evolve, you must increase the capacity, introduce more substances, calculate the changes of all compounds, and take up a lot of resources for the simulation of the brain."

Having said that, Salomon's expression was a bit regretful. "Whether DNA mutates is Schrödinger's cat, which is a compound in a quantum state, and it is not enough to directly use qubits to calculate-no quantum computer can run such a huge intelligent life, and all the computers on the earth can't do it together. My scientific research team is still working on further methods. We have the technology and theory, but we are still busy converting it into practical use, which is like the beginning of life, a progress from 0 to 1, every step."

"Father Moru is a pious man, and he tried his best to facilitate this conversation." The pope said with his hands behind his back, "I know your identity, the meaning of your existence and the results of the mass in the Alps. Every era has different Main theme, the enlightenment you brought is different in each era. In the past, you believed in the Creator, but now you believe in science. Although they are different, they are all what human beings need at that time. I know that you came to see me to make me, an old guy, feel better Some."

Before Salomon could continue, the Pope patted his arm with a smile, "It doesn't matter if I am the last Pope. Whether it is crucified or slaying a dragon, this world will last forever." Faith, even your "Unity of Truth" is no exception. No matter where mankind will go in the future, but compared to the past, you are at least walking among us now, aren't you?"

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(End of this chapter)