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That's how I got to know Professor Elia. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

He was a Jew in his 50s, slightly bald on the top of his head, and of short stature, but with bright and bright eyes, he seemed to be a very sharp and intelligent type. He reacts quickly to anything and speaks quickly, and likes to make various gestures while talking. He is good at speeches and speaks very infectiously.

Sometimes, when I see him, I can't help but think of Lenin.

They give people the feeling that they really resemble.

Sometimes, I also think of Dr. Asasa from the Detective Conan cartoon series.

In fact, although Elia is best known for his academic field of basic astrophysics, he also presides over a research laboratory with a considerable number of invention patents in applied science and technology. This is indeed very similar to Dr. Asasa.

He was a humorous and gentlemanly man, and he had an insight into literature, and in his spare time, he also liked to write poetry and travelogues. He even published a book about the culture of castles in Europe, which was a bestseller and made the bestseller list.

He told me that he was very fond of Oriental culture. He even studied the Chinese guqin with a Chinese musician. He felt that this kind of instrument was particularly easy to have a wonderful resonance with his heart, both internally and externally.

After that talk about eyeballs and sunglasses, I also talked to Professor Elia about eyeballs and sunglasses.

I told Professor Elia, a Chinese Zen master, who often said, "When you open your eyes, your delusions fly, and when you close your eyes, it's pitch black."

Zen masters often scolded their disciples and said, "You people are sitting there and messing around, all of them are tossing in a "black paint bucket"! He scolded his disciples for "having something in front of him, but not seeing the light".

Elijah asks: What is that "bucket of black paint that blocks the light"?

I said, I think, it's our physical and mental structure.

When we close our eyes, the world still exists, but we can only see a black hole through our eyelids.

And when we open our eyes, the situation is not much better, because we can only see the projection of it in a spherical crystal.

Between our ideology, our entire knowledge system, and the truth of things, there is "one thing", and this "one thing" is the limitation of our sensory structure.

And the whole secret of omniscience and omnipotence lies in how to not fall into the limitations of this structure.

Professor Elia immediately said, "You mean that we are in the same world as the horse, but the projection of this world in our sensory system is very different from the projection in the horse's sensory system. The world is a completely different way in the eyes of the horse. ”

I said, "Hmm. In the eyes of a fly with a thousand compound eyes, the way the world looks like it is to us humans is very different. There is no consensus. In the eyes of a fly, we may be non-living things, maybe nebulae, maybe the Himalayas, maybe a food storehouse. Flies don't identify with our cosmology, just as we can't identify with theirs. ”

Professor Elijah said: "Did Orientals see the world this way for a long time? ”

I said, "Yes." In fact, the Orientals do not believe that there is any objective world beyond us and horses, us and flies. ”

Professor Elijah said: "There is no objectivity? ”

I said, "Yes." All worlds are subjective. ”

Elia said, "No matter? ”

I said, "Yes." There is no substance. The world is the observer itself. ”

Elijah said, "You have just denied duality. ”

I said, "Yes." ”

Elijah said, "You are not a materialist? Aren't you Chinese all materialists? ”

I said, "Have you ever heard of a saying?" A flower is a world, a leaf is the same. ”

Elia said, "Have you ever heard of quantum physics? ”

I shook my head. I said, "Is it different from traditional physics?" ”

Elia said, "You've never studied, haven't been exposed to quantum physics? ”

I shook my head and said, "No." This is the first time I've heard from you that there is such cutting-edge science. ”

"It's not a frontier," he said, "and quantum mechanics is the foundation of modern physics." ”

"You've just spoken the core idea of quantum mechanics," he said. ”

I was surprised, "Huh? ”

He said: "Quantum physics has drawn some important ideas from observing and studying the laws of motion of microparticles, which subvert the foundation of traditional physics: first, there may be no chance in nature, everything is inevitable; Second, subjective changes, and objective changes with them. That is, what you just said, most likely, there is no objectivity. ”

He said, "When did the Orientals say the words you just said, flowers, leaves, and flowers? ”

I said, "2,500 years ago." ”

He looked at me and said, "East." ”

I said, "There is another saying in the East: it turns out that regression is forward. ”

Elijah said, "Mysterious. Mysterious and mysterious. ”

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Later one night, Elijah and I also talked about the "superstring hypothesis".

Since I'm not a scientist, I don't know exactly how to describe this kind of thing, but I can only say a few things that I understand and that I'm interested in.

Elijah told me that day that this was a relatively new hypothesis about the nature of the universe.

This theory suggests that the universe may not be made up of elementary particles at all, but that it is likely to be made up of many tiny, vibrating strings and loops (?). I don't know if it's a word).

This theory holds that although we may only feel that we are living in a 4-dimensional space of three-dimensional space + time, there may actually be as many as 10 dimensions of space, just like the "ten worlds" in Buddhism. The other six dimensions that cannot be perceived are rolled up or compressed into the four-dimensional space that we can see.

(When he mentions that dimension of compression, it reminds me of what Buddhism says, Mustard Na Sumeru.) Shrinking many worlds into a mustard seed. ）

According to M-theory, there may be 11 dimensions, including one known as "hypergravity".

Those subtle dimensions that cannot be perceived have the potential to merge into some kind of infinite state and manifest themselves in the form of light.

To be honest, I didn't understand a lot of what Elijah said that day, but the overall impression was very impressive.

I have a strong feeling that he is not talking about modern physics, but like chanting some ancient religious scriptures.

But he's really talking about modern physics, because that's what he eats off from.

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Later, in Fondafeng's circle, Elia also introduced me to another cutting-edge physicist named David.

His expression is almost identical to that of Elijah.

David said something that I still can't forget. He said, "If I understand correctly, your desire to resurrect the dead, or to extinguish death, is to pass through the irreversible nature of the universe. ”

"We are just a speck of creation," he said, "but we believe we can understand the whole of creation." ”

However, I do not agree with him. How can he prove that we are only the dust of creation, and not the creation itself?

In dreams, we will also think that we are just a speck of dust among the many beings in that dream world, but the truth is that we dream of that world. The whole dream is the world, and the world is my dream.

It's just that I couldn't hold back and didn't continue to discuss with him. After all, he is such a famous scientist, and I am just a novice who can't even understand the most basic formulas of astrophysics.

That night, David showed me something strange: a color photograph of interstellar space taken back by the Hubble telescope.

When David showed it to me, he didn't say what it was.

He kept making me guess what it was filming.

That's what I felt first. I said, "It looks like some kind of very low-level microcosm seen under an infinitely precise microscope." ”

David was astonished when he heard this. Then he told me what it was.

He said, "Exactly the opposite of what you said. It's a very big picture. Here is a picture of the Eagle Nebula 7,000 light-years away. ”

"This is what happened there 7,000 years ago," he said. ”

"This picture is taken 7,000 years ago, where some new stars were born out of something," he said. ”

He said, "Those three pillars are like nebulae matter, we call them the Pillars of Creation. The stars began to arise in it, just as human life began to arise from within another pillar. ”

I took the picture from David and looked at it repeatedly. The image of the Creation Pillar resembles the little brother of the human male.

At this time, I heard him say, "Although you guessed wrong, there is one thing about you that impresses me and inspires me." ”

I looked up at him. Yes? Can I still inspire him?

He said, "You say, that's happening in the microcosm. You're probably right. ”

Since my English was not good enough to communicate in such a deep subject area, I don't know if the sentence I heard at the time was really what I now describe in Chinese.

I remembered that when I was studying hard in the library, I read a book called "The Holographic Theory of the Universe". The structure of the macrocosm and microcosm is exactly the same. In each of our molecules, there is a microcosm that is exactly the same as the outside. This is layered on top of each other, and there is no end to it. "Big without outside, small without inside."

Einstein's teacher Planck once said that matter does not exist, they are actually generated by consciousness.

I am also reminded of Socrates' famous quote: "I only know that I know nothing." ”

Do we really understand what the world is like?

Is the world really what we think it is?

Are we really who we think we are?