Domino is a game, domino is a sport, and domino is a culture.

It originated in China and has a history of more than 1,000 years. The long process of development has given it a unique warning meaning. Generally, when stacking, dominoes will fall down again and again due to accidents, and the operator is always faced and subjected to the blow of failure. This requires us not to be discouraged or retreat from setbacks, but to build up confidence and have the courage to start again. It is only after countless such experiences that a person becomes mature and eventually succeeds.

There is an interesting legend about dominoes in history. It is also named after this legend:

According to legend, in the second year of Emperor Xuanhe of the Song Dynasty (1120 AD), a game called "dominoes" appeared among the people. This domino game was introduced to the palace during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty and quickly became popular throughout the country. At that time, dominoes were mostly made of tooth bones, so dominoes were also called "tooth cards", and folk called them "pai gow".

Dominoes are actually the "Pai Gow" that originated in ancient China.

After it spread to Italy in the 19th century, people used the points on pai gow to make some jigsaw puzzles. Later, an Italian curiously put up the dominoes, which gradually developed into the original "domino".

On August 16, 1849, the Italian missionary Domino returned from China to Milan after an eight-year absence. He gave one gift after another to his family, but his daughter Domino, Jr., only loved a set of 28 bone products, Pai Gow.

Little Domino's boyfriend, Arend, is an impetuous person. In order to change his habit, Little Domino asked him to put up the 28 cards one by one, not to fall, and set a time limit to complete them. If he doesn't succeed, he is not allowed to attend the ball for a week.

After seven hundred and forty-nine days of training, Arend finally succeeded. What's even more amazing is that Aaron has since become a strong personality and a steady worker. Surprise the Milanese!

So, in order to make more people play dominoes, the missionary Domino made a large number of wooden dominoes and invented various ways to play. Soon, the wooden dominoes quickly spread throughout Italy and Europe, and the game of dominoes became an elegant sport for Europeans.

Afterward. In order to thank Domino for bringing them such a good sport, people named this domino game "Domino". By the 19th century, dominoes had become a worldwide sport.

In fact, the principle of the "domino effect" is very simple: the center of gravity is higher when the domino is upright, and the center of gravity is lower when it falls. During the fall, its gravitational potential energy is converted into kinetic energy. It falls on the second card, and the momentum is transferred to the second card. The second card transfers the kinetic energy transferred from the first card and the kinetic energy converted from the gravitational potential energy that it has during the fall, and then transfers it to the third card

So, when each card falls. All have more kinetic energy than the previous card. Therefore, each of them is faster than the other, that is, the energy they push down in turn is greater than the other.

In everyday life, the "domino effect" can be seen everywhere. It often refers to a series of chain reactions, i.e., "pulling a trigger and moving the whole body".

It has been predicted that when the first vigorous tree is cut down, it will eventually lead to the disappearance of the forest in the high mountains. The weathering of high mountains and the frequent occurrence of rock-falling landslides are frequent; The practice of one day of waste may be the result of a lifetime of waste; The first war of great power appeared. It is the initial force of the entire world civilization that has been reduced to ashes.

These prophecies may be somewhat alarmist, but in the future. We may have to admit their accuracy. Perhaps the only thing that is difficult to foresee is how long the passing process from the first domino to the last domino will take. Some foreseeable events will eventually appear in a century or two, but their changes have already occurred from places that people have not noticed.

In seismology, seismic waves are the cause of earthquakes. When the kinetic waves generated by the inner layers of the earth reach the rock layers. These powerful fluctuations caused the rock faults to begin to crack and collapse. This leads to cracking, collapsing, shaking, and shaking of the surface. Seismic energy accumulates and releases into the surface layer, causing the surface layer buildings to shake and collapse.

The rock formations are like playing cards, bricks or dominoes arranged in a neat row. In an interconnected system, a small initial energy can produce a cascade of reactions. They are known as the "domino effect" or "domino effect".

From this "domino effect", many theories have been derived.

For example, it is normal for a person to lose a hair on his head; If you drop another one, you don't have to worry; Give one back, and you still don't have to worry...... Over time, the hairs fell out, and finally the bald head appeared. Philosophically, this phenomenon is called the "bald argument".

A straw was put on a sturdy horse, and the horse did not respond; Add another straw, and the horse still doesn't feel it at all; Add another ...... The straw was added to the horse, and when the last fluttering straw was placed on the horse, the horse collapsed to the ground. In social studies, it is called the "straw principle".

The loss of the first hair, the appearance of the first straw, are just insignificant changes. However, once this trend appears, it is still only a matter of quantitative change, and it is difficult to attract people's attention. It only attracts the attention of the outside world when it reaches a certain distance, but once the "quantitative change" appears in a geometric progression, a catastrophic shot inevitably appears!

The domino effect tells us that the smallest force may cause an imperceptible gradual change, but it can cause a radical change. This is somewhat similar to the butterfly effect, but more focused on the development and change of the process than the butterfly effect.

In the real world, the occurrence of many natural disasters is also a valid proof of this effect. Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and so on.

Tracing back to the source, from another point of view, where do the earthquake waves come from? Why do the Earth's inner rock formations rupture? What are the factors that cause the vibrating surface to collapse and create an epicenter?

There were many animals that inhabited the depths of the stratum, and later they migrated in large numbers. Their collective movement will produce powerful fluctuations due to the destruction of the inner layer of the earth's crust. Such movements are often areas of a certain size, also known as "earthquake sources" or "epicenter bodies", which are one of the factors for the accumulation and release of earthquake energy.

The epicenter of an earthquake caused by human factors is called an "artificial source". Such as manual blasting (explosive blasting, nuclear bomb test), etc. There is still a big difference between the nature of "natural source" and "artificial source".

Generally speaking, natural earthquakes mainly occur on faults, until they are shear-dislocated; On the other hand, the artificial blasting source is a process of expanding to the periphery with one point as the center. This process is also often larger than the natural one at the same magnitude. By using seismic waveform data and seismic moment tensor inversion, one can roughly distinguish these two types of sources.

These are the causes of earthquakes, the causes of the "domino effect".

There are many examples of this "small initial energy producing a cascade of reactions that lead to changes in the whole pattern", and they abound throughout history:

According to legend, there was a border city in the state of Chu called Beiliang. The girls there were picking mulberry leaves on the border with the girls in the border towns of Wu, and they were playing games in their spare time, and the girls of Wu accidentally stepped on the girl of Beiliang. So, Beiliang's people took the injured girl to reproach Wu Guoren.

Unexpectedly, Wu Guoren had to apologize and speak disrespectfully, and the Beiliang people were very annoyed and killed Wu Ren and left.

Later, the people of Wu went to Beiliang to take revenge and killed the entire family of the Beiliang people.

When the doctor of Beiliang heard this, he was furious and said, "The people of Wu dare to attack my city!" So he sent troops to counterattack the Wu people, and killed all the local Wu people, regardless of men, women, and children.

When Wu Wang Yifu heard this, he was very angry and sent people to lead troops to invade the border cities of Chu State, and only left after capturing it. As a result, there was a large-scale conflict between the states of Wu and Chu, and the two armies went to war on a large scale. Gongzi Guang of Wu led the army to fight with the people of Chu at Jifu and defeated the Chu army. captured the commander of the Chu army, Pan Zichen, Xiao Weizi, and Chen Guo's doctor Xia Yan, and then attacked Yingdu, capturing the wife of King Chuping and returning to China......

From stepping on your foot while playing games, to the outbreak of a large-scale war between the two countries. Until the Wu army invaded Yingdu, a series of evolutionary processes in the middle. This phenomenon is the true portrayal of the "domino effect" in real life.

Take the "9/11" incident in the United States as an example, the 110-story "sister building" of the World Trade Center in New York fell to the ground with a bang. On the face of it, the immediate cause of this shocking disaster was the hijacking of the plane by terrorists and crashing into the building. However, according to the comments of American construction experts, the reinforced concrete structure of the building itself is difficult to withstand the big impact, especially the ensuing fire.

There was a problem with the design of the World Trade Tower: the fire cut off the upper and lower connections between the impacted floors and caused some floors to begin to collapse, which were reinforced concrete floors and were very heavy, so once they collapsed and hit another floor, a domino effect occurred, and the layers smashed each other until the entire building collapsed completely.

For example, the "Maccabeeus Incident" in the early years is a living example. This lady of the sky was buried in his love out of control.

When something doesn't go our way, we feel as if we've entered a dense forest and can't see where the exit is. If we can adjust with a positive mindset at this time, then we will soon find that outlet; And if you are just blindly discouraged and frustrated, then you can only linger in the concentric circles of the mind and never jump out.

It has long been mentioned in "Zhou Yi": "Things can't be finally passed, so Taiji will not come; But things will not be denied, so no pole Tailai. That is what we often say, "Blessing is the cause of evil; Woe to you, blessing to lurk".

The old ghost's "kick in the door" magically caused the "domino effect", and the snowy labyrinth that trapped us collapsed into ruins in an instant. (To be continued......)