Chapter 145: Heat Death
The old sow in Mao Bowu's family froze to death, and he was heartbroken. He examined the scene carefully and reasoned like a detective: "It is clear that when my sow first fell into the pool, the water was not frozen. When my sow fell into the water and struggled desperately, the water quickly froze and my sow froze to death. ”
"It's really strange that the current temperature is not up to the conditions for freezing." Hong Daoshi said.
According to Mao Bowu, when Xie Juying washed her hands after feeding the pigs, she fell ill when she touched cold water, and she was shivering from the cold on the bed. The sow fell into the pool, and the water suddenly froze and the sow froze to death. Both of these things are related to "freezing", isn't there a connection between them? Master Hong pondered for a long time, but could not understand it.
Master Hong guessed that the old sow had also hit an evil spirit, and it was not an ordinary evil. He took out a spiritual rune from his body, stuck it to the sow, and read: "Five-star town color, light Xuanming." Thousands of gods and saints, protect my true spirit. The giant beast subdues the five soldiers. Five days of the devil, dead and extinct. Wherever it is, all gods are welcome. Haste as the law......"
I saw a black gas rushing out of the sow's body and changing into a human shape, and Hong Daoshi clearly recognized this person as the man in black that night in the col down the Jinguang Valley in Banpo Village, Calamus Township, Yin Devouring King. The Yin Devourer King found a mummy whose body was not decomposed, and possessed the soul of the new dead to the mummy, making a zombie, and later Hu Kehao wore an invisible Sherpinsky carpet and killed the zombie with General Zhao's ancient knife.
"Master Hong, you are so powerful, do you know what this sow froze to death?" The Yin Devouring King looked at them triumphantly and said.
"What good things can you make up this demon? You've been in trouble in a nearby township lately, and we're about to clean you up. Hong Daoshi said fearlessly.
"Can you do it by your ability? Hahaha...... I found a mysterious substance called 'heat death' and froze the old sow to death. I did an experiment today, and it seems to be working well...... I think you should submit to me, build me a small temple in the village, and worship me often, so that I can obtain the blessings of the villagers, enhance my energy, and ensure that you have a good life. How about I will give you the good fortune and wealth of other people and use them for you? The Yin Devouring King said arrogantly.
"Yin Devouring King, you have done a lot of evil, and we are inseparable from demons and monsters!" Hong Daoshi replied with dignity.
"This king can make you go up in smoke with a little finger. If you know the times, don't go against me! In a burst of laughter, the Yin Devourer King turned into a cloud of black gas and fled northwest.
It turned out that the old sow of Mao Bowu's family was frozen to death by something called "heat death".
We've all had the experience that when you wash your face, the water is hot, so you add cold water to it. What happens when you add it? Will cold and hot water be separated in the basin? No, cold and hot water will be mixed evenly, that is, the order of the water will be reduced, the degree of chaos will increase, that is, the "entropy" will increase irreversibly. After the cold water and hot water are evenly mixed, the thermal movement of the molecules turns the water into a dead state of thermal equilibrium, and the water temperature is equal everywhere, completely lifeless, and it will never become cold water and hot water in an orderly state.
Heat death is a theory about the irreversible conversion of all forms of motion into heat, and the universe will eventually be in a dead state of thermal equilibrium. It is a conclusion drawn by the German physicist Clausius (1822~1888) and others in the process of applying the second law of thermodynamics to explore the changing trend of the universe. According to this theory, the whole universe changes in a single direction with the increase of entropy, and all mechanical, physical, chemical, life, and other forms of motion in the universe will eventually be transformed into thermal motion, and heat will always spontaneously flow from the high temperature part to the low temperature part until the thermal equilibrium state is reached. Once the universe reaches this state, no further changes will occur. At this time, the universe enters a hot, yet dead, eternal state, that is, the cosmic heat death state.
After the theory of cosmic heat death was proposed, many physicists criticized this theory from different angles, believing that it was the result of absolutizing the second law of thermodynamics regardless of its application conditions and limits. In a letter to Marx in 1869, shortly after the theory of heat death was introduced, Engels pointed out that I now expect that the priests will seize this theory and use it as an argument for the necessity of conceiving the existence of God. Later, in the book "Dialectics of Nature", he criticized the theory of heat death in the universe according to the dialectical materialist view of the immortality of motion.
Professor Ilya Prigogin, the founder of the dissipative structure theory, pointed out that a nonlinear open system far from equilibrium (whether physical, chemical, biological, or even social or economic system) through the continuous exchange of matter and energy with the outside world, when the change of a certain parameter within the system reaches a certain threshold, through fluctuations, the system may undergo a sudden change, that is, a non-equilibrium phase transition, from the original chaotic disorder state to a time, space or functional order state. This new stable macroscopic ordered structure formed in the nonlinear region far from equilibrium is called a "dissipative structure" because it requires a constant exchange of matter or energy with the outside world to maintain. There are several necessary conditions for the transition of the system from a disordered state to this dissipative structure: first, the system must be open, that is, the system must exchange matter and energy with the outside world; Second, the system must be far from equilibrium, and the relationship between matter, energy flow and thermodynamic force in the system is nonlinear; The third is that there is a nonlinear interaction between different elements within the system, and it requires constant energy input to maintain.
From this point of view, the dissipative structure theory essentially solves the paradox of the "heat death theory". On the one hand, heat death makes the universe gradually more chaotic, and on the other hand, the maintainers of cosmic order have to find ways to prevent heat death from happening. Therefore, the evolution of the universe seems to be very orderly on the whole, for example, electrons never stop revolving around the nucleus, and the atoms gather together to form molecules, and the atoms are not scattered in the universe under the effect of heat death to form a pot of soup.
Despite this, there is still an extremely cold "heat death" floating around among the stars in the universe, and this "heat death" always hopes that the universe will become more chaotic so that it can "fish in troubled waters". Defenders of the cosmic order, such as the mythical Heavenly Court, have been fighting against "heat death" with the help of Prigogin's theory of "dissipative structure". Back then, after the Monkey King made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, he destroyed some things in the Heavenly Palace, and as a result, the "heat death" qi was scattered between the stars through various different reflections, and wherever it was reflected, there was something strange.
This "heat death" aura was reflected somewhere on Earth in Calamus Township, S County, and was captured by the Yin Devouring King. When Xie Juying was cutting pigweed and looking for stones on the slope, he encountered the Yin Devourer King who was conducting a 'heat death' experiment, so the Yin Devouring King possessed Xie Juying and wanted to freeze her to death. After Hong Daoshi forced the Yin Devourer King out of Xie Juying's body with a peachwood sword, the Yin Devouring King came to his pigsty, possessed the old sow, and froze the old sow of Mao Bowu's family to death in the pool.