The next day, the Hongdao Master of Calamus Township recites the scriptures for the deceased early in the morning. Hong Daoist is a well-known Taoist master, who understands the five elements of yin and yang, Qimen gossip, and Jingdao method, and can drive away ghosts and demons. Mao Bowen told Hong Daoshi about the strange dream he had last night and asked him to explain the dream. Master Hong took the spirit banner around the mourning hall, asked about the approximate time when Mao Bowen dreamed and woke up last night, and then pinched with his fingers, and said, "Not good! The old woman's spirit is not here, but has been taken captive elsewhere. ”

Mao Bowen was shocked. His father, Mao Guolong, blamed Mao Bowen, blaming him for not being lazy and napping and sleeping during the wake last night, and accidentally lost his mother's soul. Hong Daoshi said: "Don't blame Mao Bowen, this is a catastrophe. If this soul is not recovered, it will affect the reincarnation of the old woman. ”

Mao Guolong's family of four kindly begged Hong Daoist to get Jiang Cuizhi's soul back. Hong Daoshi calculated carefully again and said, "This calamity is the old woman's own fault. Tell me, what did the old woman do that was unseemly? What did you do to hurt the heavens and the truth? ”

"She's a good person, she didn't do anything bad!" Mao Bowen said.

"People are doing it, the sky is watching, please think about it. Condemned to heaven, there is nothing to pray for! If you don't make things clear, I won't be able to do this thing. Hong Daoshi said.

Mao Guolong said that Jiang Cuizhi is a famous matchmaker in ten miles and eight towns. For decades, he has been connecting young men and women from towns and villages near and far to tie the knot. Jiang Cuizhi said that the matchmaker neither distorts the facts, nor exaggerates, and seeks truth from facts when introducing the family situation and character of both men and women, unlike other matchmakers who say that straw is gold in order to succeed, but they are complained by the men and women after marriage. Jiang Cuizhi is very honest, whether the men and women are compatible, whether they are the right people, she has been confident before talking about the matchmaker, saying that the success rate of the matchmaker is very high, and the thank you gifts she received are also very rich, and she is famous far and wide, and she never thought that she had done anything bad. If you have to say that he has done anything bad, it may be that there are several couples who got married and divorced, and it is no wonder that Jiang Cuizhi is not a husband and wife, and they can't complain about others.

"To tell you the truth, I calculated that the old woman would suffer this catastrophe when she met a very obsessed ghost. You make things clear, and I can help you solve it. Hong Daoshi said.

Mao Guolong also said that in recent years, it has become more and more difficult to talk about matchmaking. Many young men in the village went out to work, and many girls went to school or work, and then married in other places. A local boy can't marry a local daughter-in-law, and it's even more difficult to marry a daughter-in-law from a foreign country. Jiang Cuizhi said several media, the woman asked the man to have a car and a house, but the man failed to meet the requirements, and finally failed. In recent months, Ms. Jiang has been in frequent contact with a labor service company in the city, which is said to be recruiting young female college students who are not well versed in the world for interviews, and then abducting and selling them. Jiang Cuizhi has been talking about the media for decades and understands the needs of many towns and villages for new daughters-in-law, so she colluded with those labor companies and started selling daughters-in-law.

"I see! Sinful! Amitabha! Hong Daoshi said.

Mao Guolong's family of four knelt down for Hong Daoshi, and Mao Guolong said: "My family Cuizhi died violently this time, and she has been retributed. Please cast a spell to find her soul and let her be reincarnated as a good person in the next life! In the future, our whole family eats fasting and recites Buddha, and accumulates virtue by doing good deeds. ”

Seeing that the Mao family had repented, Hong Daoshi promised to retrieve Jiang Cuizhi's soul. Since the soul has been gone for several hours, if you want to get it back, you need certain technical means and advanced equipment. For Hongdaoshi, this professional method is to turn water.

The so-called turning water is to hold a bowl of water, light three sticks of incense, and then ask the gods, chant mantras, etc., to dissolve the incense ashes into the water. We all know that water molecules are constantly doing irregular movements, constantly hitting the incense ash particles randomly, and due to the imbalance of the impact of the water molecules in all directions, the incense ash particles will do irregular Brownian motion. According to the Brownian motion of incense ash, Master Hong can figure out the cause and effect of some things, such as whether someone's child has bumped into something and whether he has offended some people in the underworld. These things can be solved by some technical means.

It is said that humans live in three-dimensional space, and ghosts live in the fourth-dimensional space, or the fourth-dimensional underworld, the fourth-dimensional supernatural space, etc., so ghosts can see people, but people cannot see ghosts. Where is the fourth dimension? Why can't people see ghosts in the fourth dimension? According to scientists, the fourth dimension is curled up to the size of Planck's size – 10 to the 33rd power (i.e., one billionth of a millimeter), so people can't see it. If the space of this scale is not affected by special forces, it will not open, and ordinary people will not be able to enter. However, characters such as goddesses, gods, Taoists, immortals, and Monkey Kings can enter. Within Planck-scale space, ordinary physical laws have become invalid and are dominated by other mysterious forces of nature.

In Baishi Township, Calamus Township and other places, water is a relatively technical work. Generally, if you lose your soul and hit the evil spirit, you can get rid of the evil thing by turning the water and pointing out the people. Someone once asked Master Hung Dao what principle is used to explain the effect of this water? Master Hong smiled but did not answer. He had worked hard to study the technology of chemical water. Although many people engaged in spiritual activities are able to turn water, the Hongdao Master's water transformation skills are much higher than theirs. It has been seen that the Hongdao Master often hangs a bucket of water on a roof beam with a rope, then causes the bucket to rotate rapidly, and then observes and thinks there, like a contemplative philosopher............

By observing this colorful nature or the vast world, Hong Daoist is trying to think about a basic question: we are facing a world in which the five elements are mutually reinforcing, changing, and moving. So, what is movement relative to? If this problem is not solved, the laws of motion are nothing but roots. To do this, the floodmaster hangs a bucket of water on the roof beam with a rope, and then makes the bucket rotate rapidly, and at the beginning the bucket does not turn the water, and the water surface is flat; Later, he observed that the surface of the water became concave due to the frictional force that caused the water in the bucket to rotate with the bucket, and the rotating water was moved from the center to the wall of the bucket by centrifugal force, causing the water surface to become concave. Master Hongdao asked himself: To what does the water turn? The common sense-based answer is: turn relative to the Earth. Not content with this, Hongdao imagined that if the same experiment was not done on Earth, but in space, what would the water in the bucket turn to? After thinking about it again and again, the answer he got was: absolute space. Master Hong continued to think deeply: If this experiment was done in another world (the underworld), what would the water in the bucket turn to? He believes that the answer is still absolute space. Absolute space is the basic idea of Newton's view of absolute space-time, that is, Newton's absolute space is nothing, and it is the constant framework of all motion, which the ancient Greek philosophers called "ether".

The famous German philosopher and mathematician Leibniz disagreed with Newton's theory of absolute space, he pointed out that space is only the relationship between the positions of objects. It's like a sentence is an arrangement of letters, and if you remove the letters, how can you make a statement? Leibniz's thought was so profound that it even touched the forefront of physics three hundred years later.

Because of Newton's fame, the rigor of his system of mechanics and the success of its application in all aspects, absolute space has rarely been questioned by anyone for centuries except Leibniz. It wasn't until the 19th century that the famous Austrian scientist Mach thought about Newton's rotating bucket and put forward different opinions. Mach said that the water in the bucket of space does not revolve relative to absolute space, but to all the stars in the universe. He pointed out that if there is nothing in the universe except the bucket, the water in the bucket will not turn at all. The dispute between Mach and Newton involves the nature of space and centrifugal force, and touches on the very essence of physics. Newton believed that in virtual space, where there is nothing but the rotating bucket, the centrifugal force is still there; Mach believed that centrifugal force no longer exists. The two factions of cattle and horses have their own opinions, and it is impossible to do experiments to determine them, so they have to suspend them.

Fast forward to the twentieth century, and a great scientist Albert Einstein appeared, whose special theory of relativity published in 1905 denied the existence of the ether, and Newton's absolute space was shattered. However, Newton did not lose everything, because although the special theory of relativity denied absolute space, it defined the space-time continuum by combining time and space, and it can be considered that the water in the bucket rotates relative to absolute space-time.

After the establishment of the special theory of relativity, Einstein began to discuss the general theory of relativity, and he was inspired by Mach's theory of rotating buckets, which he called Mach's principle. In 1913, when Einstein was making the final push to the general theory of relativity, he wrote an impassioned letter to Mach. The letter says that the general theory of relativity will confirm the Mach principle. In 1918, Albert Einstein listed Mach's principle as one of the three basic ideas of general relativity in an article. However, the good times did not last long, and it turned out that the meaning of general relativity was so rich and profound that even Einstein himself could not grasp it all for a while. As he gained a deeper understanding of the true meaning of general relativity, Einstein drifted away from Mach's theory of the rotating bucket, and in his later years he even denied that general relativity had anything to do with it.

In a real universe with many stars, both Newton and Mach believed that the water in the bucket was spinning. The difference between the two is what the water turns relative to. Newton considered it absolute space, while Mach thought it was all the stars in the universe. General relativity takes some of Mach's ideas and provides the material basis for how distant stars exert influence on the water in the bucket – the gravitational field.

Newton's rotating bucket problem is essentially the nature of space, and it is still a fundamental problem in physics more than 300 years later. Quantum theory reveals that a vacuum is an entity, and that there is no space without anything. Some scientists exploring superstring theory are more radical, advocating the replacement of space with "interrelationships". In short, the splash from Newton's bucket is still inspiring a new generation of physicists. Kiss! Would you like to try it?

For his part, he was unaware of these arguments between Newton, Leibniz, Mach, and Einstein. Hong Daoshi abandoned these scientists' view of time and space, and he only cared about how much karma, good and evil could be illuminated by the bucket of water on the roof beam. Einstein believed that a figurative metaphor for space-time curvature is: put an iron ball on the mattress, the iron ball causes the mattress to bend, the closer to the iron ball, the greater the bend of the mattress, and the greater the curvature of space-time, just as the rays near the sun are the most curved, and the space-time distortion is the greatest. However, in Hongdaoshi's opinion, the mattress was bent, but the room containing the mattress was not bent. So the Hongdaoist can't figure out whether it is the gravitational field that causes the space to bend? Or is it the gravitational field that causes the large container containing the space to bend? For example, near the sun, the gravitational field causes the light to bend (i.e., space is bent), but is the large container of space containing the sun bent?

Master Hong stared at the bucket of water on the roof beam every day, meditating, at first he thought about the relativity between movements, but this kind of thinking made him sink into the quagmire of thinking. Later, he jumped out of this kind of thinking, and finally came to his senses, and through the water of the bucket, he saw the things of another world (the underworld). How so? Because the rotating bucket does have a distortion of time and space, under the influence of Master Hong's Dao Method, he can see the reflection of another time and space (the underworld) in the water, and he can find out the things in the underworld and the relationship between cause and effect.

With the improvement of technology, under normal circumstances, when the Hongdao master turns water, he no longer needs a bucket of water, only a bowl of water. When it was time to turn the water, he first made the bowl of water rotate at high speed, then burned incense and prayed to find out what was going on. For other water dissipators, they didn't have the trick of making the bowl spin, which is exactly why Hongdao Master is so skilled.

Mao Guolong brought three incense sticks, and Master Hong Dao made the method. Some time ago, Hong Daoshi upgraded the method of divination, that is, by flipping a coin, he can not only give "yes" and "no" answers, but also judge the direction according to the direction of the coin landing (relative to the phase of the wave function in quantum mechanics). This time, Hong Daoshi failed to use this method, and could not find out the whereabouts of the old woman's soul, so he had to apply the latest technological research results to turn the water into water.

Hong Daoshi has experienced some twists and turns in this time. Master Hong first filled a bowl of water, lit three incense sticks, and then recited a mantra and prayed, but there was no reaction in the water, and the location of the old woman's soul could not be found. This method did not work, so Master Hong went to fill a basin of water again, and then did it, but still did not find out where the old woman's soul was. In the end, I had to fill a bucket of water, hang it on the roof beam, make it rotate at high speed, and then light three giant incense sticks to make a move. A few minutes later, another distorted reflection of time and space appeared in the bucket, which of course only the Hongdao Master could recognize.

"I finally found out that the old woman's soul was on a hill more than 30 kilometers away." Hong Daoshi said.

Mao Bowen thought that his mother had worked hard all her life for the whole family, especially for her sons to marry daughters-in-law, and had not enjoyed any blessings, but he didn't expect that she would not be at peace when she died, so he cried sadly.