What is life?

Life moves forward in a continuous trajectory of events, and can only move forward in it, but it can never be defined. Such a seemingly ordinary question has thus become an indispensable and pretentious fragment in the writings of countless literati.

It wasn't until the middle of the twentieth century that one man stopped his eyes on the issue for a moment. So, the time came to change everything.

That man's name was Elwin Schrödinger.

This man, who seems to have nothing to do with life sciences, has come to an unprecedented conclusion.

There are no beautiful sentences, and there are no moving rhymes. However, it is more powerful and shocking than the poetry of any literati.

Under his conclusion, the secrets hidden deep in the genes began to open up for humans.

The so-called life is nothing but an eternal spiral of the contradictions of AGCT.

From this moment on, humanity begins to come into contact with the essence of life. From this moment on, the essence of life will be able to be interpreted by human intelligence.

That is undoubtedly one of the greatest triumphs of human reason.

However, when life can be interpreted with wisdom, how should wisdom be interpreted? If life can be explained by physics, then how can we define the apex of life—wisdom?

What is the reason for the difference in wisdom?

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After the holiday routine, Mitsuki Umihara returned home.

"I'm back."

I habitually said hello, but I was surprised to find that my sister was coming down from the upper floor.

"You're back? Brother. ”

My sister's name is Umihara Utsuno, and she is preparing to enter middle school this year.

It's not that Haihara is boasting, he has always felt that his sister is an extraordinary person.

Dome made her way down the stairs, her long smooth hair swaying like silk. She has no habit of wearing makeup, and she is breathtakingly beautiful just by simply dressing up. Due to her congenital heterochromia, her two eyes are golden-green and violet, respectively. The congenital genetic condition did not affect her beauty in any way, but it made her appear more mysterious and moving. Although she herself doesn't like it because she thinks it's weird, she even wears purple contact lenses on weekdays to make her eyes look different. But in fact, in the eyes of others, this difference adds a dreamlike mood to her.

Since she has no plans to go out today, her sister is not wearing tinted contact lenses. When the beautiful two-colored pupils looked at Haiyuan, Haiyuan even felt a little fascinated.

However, in the choice of dress, my sister seems more casual. She hasn't been too picky about what she wears. It's not that she has bad taste in clothes, on the contrary, she has quite good taste. It's just that she's not influenced by other people or trends. She only chooses what suits her and does not change for others. So she is not the kind of girl who is very fashionable, but because of this, she has a charm that never compromises with the world.

Although there is still some immaturity in appearance, her sister is a super beautiful girl, which Kaihara believes no one will object. It does sound like he is boasting about his sister, but in fact, it is just a very straightforward narrative of the facts.

However, the transcendent that Umihara speaks of is on a completely different level.

"Hmm. How's it going on on your side? ”

"The curvature check is not difficult, but it is cumbersome. But I think I can do it today. ”

"Don't push yourself too hard, it's just an additional simulation result anyway, and it's okay to delegate this part to someone else."

"I'm not very comfortable and I don't like to leave it to someone else."

I'm afraid most people can't understand the content of the conversation between the brother and sister. In fact, what they are referring to is the calculation of the curvature of space-time in the general theory of relativity, which is the conclusion obtained through Einstein's field equations.

If you pay attention to the fact that Dome is only 12 years old, you will understand how unusual this is.

Yes, the extraordinary thing about Dome is her incredible talent. It's hard to believe she's just a girl who hasn't even entered middle school. If nothing else, her goal for junior high school should be the famous Tokiwadai Junior High School.

To be honest, Mitsuki Umihara is a little envious of her talent.

"Then wait for me. I'm not as powerful as you, but if it's just a check, I can do it. I'm going to take a shower now, and you can get some rest. ”

"Huh? Isn't that right? ”

"Be obedient, my sister. Occasionally, I learn to trust others. ”

Haiyuan reached out and flicked his sister's forehead gently.

"Uh......h I don't distrust others......"

Dome covered his forehead with both hands, deliberately posing a little angry.

Hey, wouldn't that be too cute?

After drinking the sports drink in his hand, Haiyuan walked to his bathroom.

There is no deliberate ostentatious ingredient, and the Haiyuan family is actually quite wealthy. Because on a certain level, companies that are directly related to Tokiwadai Junior High School, one of the five famous schools in Gakuen City, can be said to be the Kaihara family.

This is quite remarkable, almost a chaebol-like family. So, he's definitely not ordinary.

However, the teachers and classmates at Mitsuki Umihara School did not know about this. It's not that he's low-key, it's that he doesn't think there's anything worth mentioning.

Mitsuki Umihara is a year older than his sister Dono, and is already attending a prestigious middle school. Although he was only in the first grade, he was already a very visible figure in school.

As I said before, he is not very low-key. At the same time, he doesn't think there is anything worth mentioning about his family background. So it's clear that the reason he's so compelling is entirely because of himself.

Although he was only in his first year, Haiyuan was already working as an accountant in the student council. At the same time, he is also a well-known athlete in the school. In addition, he has excellent grades and is quite popular in appearance. With these conditions, it's impossible not to attract attention.

"I always feel that you have been taken care of too much by God."

The vice president of the student council of Haiyuan's school, Ji Yanbi, once jokingly said this.

Although he didn't refute his senior sister's words, Haiyuan didn't think so at all.

If there are too many people who are really taken care of by God, their sister is the only candidate.

What no one knows is that in fact, Mitsuki Haihara's results are not as good as they seem. Although his grades in mathematics, physics and other science subjects are indeed excellent, his real grades in liberal arts are only barely enough to pass the standard.

So, why did he get full honors in all subjects? The answer is simple, in some subjects, he cheated.

Indeed, in most schools, this is probably an unforgivable act. But in School City, that's not entirely the case.

Because the school city itself,It's a school consortium with superpower development as the core.。 Since superpowers play an extremely important role in this, superpowers themselves are also a basis for evaluating students' grades.

This leads to a concept similar to self-directed voting, which is that if you can use your superpowers to cheat on an exam in a subject without being caught on the spot, then your final grade can be considered an acceptable grade. Because that means that you will get enough extra points for the use of superpowers to qualify for this subject.

There are many ways for Umihara to cheat, but all of them use the superpower of his own telekinesis. One of the most common ways to do this is to overlay the surface of the computer screen on which the question is edited with a mental force. The content on the screen is then inversely extrapolated through the perception of various waves.

Therefore, Haiyuan's cheating itself does not need to bear any accusations of integrity, because it is completely allowed.

However, he only cheats on liberal arts. If you want to say why you did this, Haiyuan himself is not very clear. But one thing is certain, that is, if he does not concentrate his experience on science as much as possible, he simply will not be able to catch up with his sister.

In fact, just maintaining that your physics and math are not too far away from your sister is already a very draining task.

From this point of view, it is simply an incredible thing that Dome can maintain excellent grades in all subjects.

Not only that, but my sister seems to be very good at painting. Although Mitsuki Kaihara himself is a complete layman on this, it is difficult to make a more detailed evaluation. On top of that, Mitsuki Umihara had even seen her sister show off her piano skills with the family's piano – and she couldn't read piano scores until that week.

If there's one thing that can beat my sister, it's probably sports. Although it seems that boys outperform girls in athletic ability at all, and my sister's athletic performance among girls is no worse than her own athletic performance among boys. However, this alone can at least make people feel that Dome is still a mortal after all.

Seriously, it can only be emotionally felt through such details, which in itself is enough to explain the transcendence of Dome.

There are indeed geniuses in this world that are beyond common sense.

One thing is that Haiwon has always been a little difficult to adapt to. It's even a bit ridiculous. That is, he clearly felt that his sister actually had a kind of admiration for him, which really made him a little confused.

Indeed, in the eyes of outsiders, it is very normal for my sister to have an adoring mood for her excellent and abnormal brother. But what if you add that my sister is actually far better than my brother? In this way, what seems normal immediately becomes weird, right? At least as an elder brother, Mitsuki Haihara felt that it was really difficult for him to accept it with peace of mind.

What makes Mitsuki Haihara unable to let go is that he can also feel that his sister's admiration for him is completely sincere, and he sincerely thinks he is amazing. In this mood, she did not take herself into account at all for comparison, and did not even realize herself at all, but came to a conclusion very objectively.

Sister she is too flawless, which Haiyuan Mitsuki thinks is impossible to do.

It's not that he doesn't think he's good, but honestly he thinks he's actually done a great job. The problem is that if you compare yourself to your sister, you look as ordinary as a mortal.

This made Haiyuan Mitsugui very embarrassed, and it was also something that he couldn't let go.

However, it is difficult to understand why I feel that I can't let go of it. After all, my sister didn't mean to compare the two, but not only that, but the relationship between the brother and sister was quite good.

Generally speaking, a sister who is so good that she is almost perfect and has a good relationship with her that she adores herself so much, shouldn't it be a proud thing for an older brother?

It's really hard to understand.

It was as if he was becoming more and more unable to explain himself, which was the only thing Mitsuki Kaihara could understand right now.

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Uploader's Note:

I wrote the first short paragraph of this chapter. There is a very important concept mentioned here, which is what life is.

In fact, it wasn't until the 40s of the last century that people really began to try to answer this question. As its beginning, Schrödinger's earth-shattering masterpiece "What is Life".

In this modest pamphlet, Schrödinger presents a series of hypotheses that were astonishing at the time. For example, life phenomena can be explained by physical and chemical formulas, life is an organization that continuously extracts negative entropy from the environment to maintain the system, mutation is the product of quantum transitions in gene molecules, heredity itself is based on quantum mechanics, chromosomes are carriers of genetic information, and so on.

Someone once said of Schrödinger's What is Life: "It was the first book to define life as a system of matter with precise mathematical calculations." (Pay special attention to the phrase "a system of matter that rigorously executes precise mathematical calculations.") ）

If you want to know how important the impact of this book is, there are too many examples to count. But I'll give you just one example, because this one is enough:

Wilkins, Crick, and Watson were all inspired by Schrödinger's What is Life—and the result was a DNA model.

What Schrödinger brought to humanity was much more than just the Schrödinger equation and the immortal cat.