Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Lights Shine Forever (2)
Does this unusual lamp represent ancient high technology? How did our ancestors set out to light these lamps that never go out?
The unquenchable fire first appeared in various mythological stories. It is said that this unquenchable flame is the fire of the heavenly palace, and it was Prometheus who smuggled it to mankind. In short, human beings knew this secret by chance. Maybe it was a certain sage who passed it on to human beings, just like the Shennong clan taught humans to grow crops, and the Youchao clan taught humans to build dwellings. As soon as humans learned how to make permanent lights, word spread, and temples all over the world wanted to install such lamps that would never go out.
According to the customs of places like ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the dead also needed lights to dispel darkness and illuminate the way. Therefore, it is customary to put a lamp inside the tomb before it is sealed. And the house of wealth and glory should be more luxurious, put on an unextinguished lamp, and always illuminate the dead. Thousands of years later, when the vaults of these tombs were opened, the excavators found that the lamps inside were still burning well.
To make lamps that do not go out, were the ancients familiar with the road? There is no such lamp. However, such lamps can also appear in the tombs of ancient alchemists who are not rich and luxurious. For example, in 1610 A.D., the tomb of an alchemist named Losscruz was excavated 120 years after his death, and it was found that there was such an unextinguishing lamp inside. As a result, it is suspected that the alchemists and casters of ancient times knew how to make such lanterns. Isn't the light that doesn't go out related to metal?
Unfortunately, there is no trace of this unextinguished lamp, and are those past records of what they have seen and heard true? The never-extinguishing lamp is a natural topic of debate in academic circles.
Some people believe that the records of the ever-bright lamp in various countries in the world are enough to make people affirm that there is indeed such a lamp that does not go out, or a lamp that burns for a long time, but the technology is lost, and our people can't understand it. Most of the people of insight in the Middle Ages believed that there was such an unextinguished lamp, and that it had some magical powers.
Others believe that although there are so many records about the ever-bright lantern, in reality? There is not a single ever-bright lamp in plain sight, and the energy problem of this lamp seriously violates the law of conservation of energy, so this lamp that does not go out should not exist. There are also many who believe that this may be a clever joke made by the ancients in the book.
If ever-bright lamps really exist, then what is their source of energy? Or are they? It is not permanent, but it burns for thousands of years, and if it is an ordinary kerosene lamp, it will consume tens of thousands of liters of kerosene. Is it possible that their fuel can be replenished continuously? After the Middle Ages, many thinkers tried to make a permanent light by refueling, that is, to quickly refuel when the fuel was about to run out. But none of the experiments were successful. Even with modern technology of continuous fuel replenishment, it is not realistic to make a lamp that will last for thousands of years.
Some people boldly speculate that this kind of lamp is a lamp that uses electricity, and the liquid in the lamp bowl that looks like fuel may be mercury used to conduct electricity, so the "fuel" seems to be never less, and this kind of electric lamp is not afraid of wind and rain.
The ancient Hebrews kept secret what is now called electricity. It is described that in the 13th century, a Frenchman named Gercheri owned a lamp without any oil or wick. Usually the lamp was placed on the front porch of his room, so that everyone could see it. When Jacheri was asked why the lights were on, he always smiled: "Confidential! "Jackcherry has done a lot of experiments related to electricity. In order to protect himself from being violated by his enemies, he invented a discharge button that emitted a stream of electricity to the iron handle on the door. When Jacheri presses the button, a shiny blue spark pops up.
If the magic lamp is really lit with electric energy, then how is the electrical energy generated? Is there a machine installed in a temple or tomb that can generate electricity? To achieve a continuous supply of electricity once and for all, only solar power can do it. Is the magic lamp really using solar energy to generate electricity? The ancients seem reluctant to tell us the secret.
"Look at him Liu Liu Yu, he has talked so much, have you told the principle of the ever-bright lamp? It's been a long time and it's still a bunch of conjectures and speculations. Wang Fugui said: "Instead of wasting time here, it is better to write about us." ”
Yin Shenglin said: "You be quiet, we are in the tomb now, and scolding the author is easy to be punished." ”
"This everlasting lamp, our imperial thieves also have taboos." Li Runlin said: "What Liu Liu said is basically fooling children, but in fact, the real Changming Lantern is much more dangerous than what he said. When our emperor enters the tomb, he is absolutely not allowed to take away the lantern, or even touch it. ”
The tomb is full of dangers, the most dangerous of which is the everlasting lamp on the top of the tomb. When the newcomers join the imperial thieves, the veterans always have to tell them some truths, such as "the south does not steal the maple tomb, the north does not enter the jade" these are commonplace, one of them is called "the everlasting lamp is bright and never extinguished", many newcomers will only think that the reason why the everlasting lamp can be illuminated, do not destroy the everlasting lamp so as to cause darkness in the tomb, but in fact, it is because of a poisonous spell issued by the ancient anti-tomb robbers!
Anti-tomb robbers, also known as tomb keepers, were ordered to guard the royal tombs and create various mechanisms. But the anti-tomb robbers were no match for the tomb robbers, until one of the anti-tomb robbers invented the ever-bright lantern, which they believed to be treasures to dispel evil spirits and avoid tomb robbing. So he put a poisonous curse: "The lights are extinguished, and people are left." "Therefore, if you take away the lantern, you will inevitably leave your life, and many tomb robbers have been tricked.
About 40 years of the Dou Guoli calendar, once the emperor thief excavated and completed an ancient tomb, a soldier secretly took away the lantern, in fact, he knew the poisonous curse, but he didn't believe it, how did he know that he was killed by a mad cow on the street on the day he returned to his hometown, so the family hurriedly sent the lantern back to the emperor to deal with. There is more than one such thing in the imperial thief.
Another incident was when a young member of the Imperial Thieves took a lantern from the tomb, and a few days after returning home, he suddenly fell off his horse and broke his feet. When the thieves went to see him, they asked him if he had stolen the lantern from the tomb, and they immediately sent it back. It turns out that many people in the Dou Kingdom and the imperial thieves also know about this, but some of them don't believe in evil and cause trouble!
There are many people who die because of taking away the lantern, so the thief has long had rules, and the lantern is not a valuable thing, but it is too mysterious.