Chapter 35: Soul Weighing
When everyone heard that Xu Shuqing had planned a clear route to march, they felt very stable in their hearts.
The fact that there is a war-ready warehouse in the Dragon Garden and life-saving equipment in Yihe Garden has also spread layer by layer. Almost all the students of various universities have been to the Dragon Garden and the Yihe Garden, and they never imagined that these two places would hide two such huge secrets.
The architecture major said: "How many materials do 100,000 people need for a year? How much space can be stored? It is estimated that almost all of the bottom of the Hualong Garden has been hollowed out of such a large space! Is the ventilation, electricity, fire prevention, insect prevention, refrigeration, and transportation all complete? How do you do it? What if the warehouse is not strong enough and collapses after the earthquake? Can the food still be eaten? Can the equipment still be used? How can the door enter?"
The economics major said: "The country's annual consumption of trillions of people's eyes and ears is not just a cover-up, but in fact, more than half of it is used for stealth military investment?"
The geology major said: "Metro Line 16 passes all the way through the gap between the Hualong Garden and the Huaxia Party School, the middle zone between the National University and the Yihe Garden, and the construction period has been delayed for several years.
Military fans said: "What kind of equipment will the life-saving equipment under Yiheyuan be? Nuclear weapons? That's killing, not life-saving! Attack, defense, and integrated giant space? Well! This may be possible!
The command committee continued to discuss many details of the transfer, and the stars shifted into the night.
Long Yuandong was worried about the lax vigilance, so he went out to inspect several times with Kong Zhenghou, Cheng Gongyuan, Xu Yue and others. This time, I returned to the command headquarters, but I heard He vigorously ask Jiang Mantian: "Teacher He and Principal Xu have evolved, one has appeared as a lotus, the other has appeared as a night pearl, and I have also evolved, why is there nothing?"
Curious, I sat down and listened.
"Have any of us here ever heard of the soul weighing experiment?" Jiang Mantian swept his gaze over the surrounding crowd and said, "Can you raise your hand to show you?"
Several students raised their hands.
Jiang Mantian randomly ordered a classmate: "Then tell everyone, what's going on with soul weighing?"
The classmate's face flushed slightly, and he said a few words shyly, "I just saw it on a web page by chance, and I don't remember the specifics clearly." It seems to be an experiment done by a scientist in the United States, which measured that in an instant after death, the weight of a person decreased by 21.3 grams compared with before death, which is claimed to be the weight of the soul. But because of some problems with the experimental design itself, the scientific community generally did not recognize his conclusions. So I didn't pay much attention to it and left only a rough impression. β
You're right. β
Jiang Mantian affirmed the classmate's statement, scratched his messy hair, and continued:
The experiment was done in 1906 by Dr. Duncan McDougall, a physician at the Massachusetts State Hospital in the United States, and measured a total of six people. According to records, his first subject was observed for three hours and forty minutes before death, during which time the patient slowly lost weight, averaging about one ounce (about 28.35 grams) per hour. According to him, this decline is due to the water emitted from the body by breathing and sweating. At the moment when the patient dies, the hand of the scale drops by three-quarters of an ounce (about 21.3 grams), which is a loss of 21.3 grams. β
Unfortunately, none of the next five measurements of the experiment could replicate the three-quarters ounce result. After the experiment was completed, McDougall published the process, content, and insights of the experiment in the journal "American Medicine" in April 1907, entitled "The Hypothesis of the Soul as Matter and Experimentally Proving the Existence of Soul Matter." At the time, the 'soul weighing experiment' shocked the world and caused a protracted controversy. β
"Because from a rigorous scientific point of view, McDougall's The 'Soul Weighing Experiment' was not a good experimental study, and the problems were several ways: first, the error rate was too high, and five out of six cases were basically unusable and not statistically significant; second, since the evaporation of bodily fluids was taken into account, the evaporated bodily fluids should be collected in a hood and the weight should be taken into account; third, the precise time of the patient's death as stated by McDougall was not credible, because it was difficult to determine under the conditions of the time; and fourth, the special scale he used was too difficult to adjust and did not seem to be so preciseγ β
"In 1966, German psychologists spent a lot of money to develop a soul measuring machine to weigh the souls of nearly 100 deceased people, and the result was that the weight of the souls was about 35 grams. The principle of the so-called soul measuring machine is also to compare the patient's weight before death with the weight at the time of death, and get the difference result. Here are some old questions that still remain unanswered, such as:
Is the weight of the soul lost by the patient at the moment of death?
If it is not the weight of the soul, then what is the weight of the person lost at the end of life in an instant?
If the weight lost is not the soul, then how can one be sure that a person must have a soul?
If man has a soul, but exists in the universe in the form of waves and complexes, and fills space without occupying it, then what weight does it have?"
Crick, who won the 1962 Nohard Prize in Medicine in 2003 for his discovery of the long-chain DNA (gene) of the double helix, said in the Neuroscience section of Nature that he and his research team had discovered that the human soul is produced by specific cells in the brain. However, in the article, there is no definite experimental data to prove his point, and he has not been seen to make more comments on this argument in other media, so this conclusion is closed. β
"More than five years ago, I started to conduct in-depth research on this topic. Fortunately, it took a year and a half to extract a substance called 'trans-ribonucleotide' from living organisms. This substance and deoxyribonucleotide are isomers, just like the left hand and the right hand, the components are the same, but no matter how they rotate, they cannot coincide, just like the image in the mirror, it looks the same, but in fact, the spatial structure is opposite. β
"After trial and error, we found that, unlike deoxyribonucleotides, which are distributed in every cell, 'trans ribonucleotides' can only be extracted from specific cell tissues in the brain or spinal cord, and they can only be living organisms. After the death of a living organism, this substance is gone. The higher the level of life, the more 'trans ribonucleotides' there are, and the easier it is to extract.
They are combined in a certain way to form a 'trans RNA' with a long four-helix structure, which carries the core information of mental consciousness and physical consciousness. After it leaves the organism, its state is extremely unstable, and most of it will directly transform into an energetic state. Although it is not certain whether it is because it leaves the organism that the organism dies or whether the organism dies and it leaves the organism. However, if the substance is injected into the brain cells of the vegetative counterpart, there is a chance that the vegetative person will return to normal.
In short, this substance is exactly the same as what we define as 'soul'. It can exist in a living person, but not in a dead person, and it can exist separately from the body, but it is very difficult to maintain.
It not only has a certain hereditary nature, but also has the possibility of grafting. If one person's 'transRNA' is successfully and completely transferred to another person, the other person will exhibit the previous person's way of thinking and behavior, just as one body has different souls and the same computer has different software.
Therefore, we call 'trans ribonucleic acid' 'soul hormone'. It is a special substance that can be easily converted from the form of matter to the form of energy, but cannot directly undergo a reversible reaction. When it accumulates to a certain amount, it condenses into 'soul crystals' or 'soul bones'. It is like the inner pill of the immortals in ancient legends, which can be adducted or released. When the 'Soul Element' evolves into a 'Soul Crystal' or 'Soul Bone', its state is much more stable. β
"So that's what happened!"
"It's shocking!"
"Sure enough, in this world, there are no groundless legends!"
"I can't imagine that Xianxia novels have a scientific basis!"
"So can people really live forever?"
"Is it true that the soul can live forever?"
"Is it really possible to take the house?"
Everyone is boiling!
This is truly a great scientific discovery!
It is conceivable that if you continue along this line of thought, the mystery of life will be completely solved!
Jiang Mantian continued: "Everyone's life intensity, ideology, and physical habits are different, so the characteristics of 'soul element' and 'soul crystal' are naturally different.
Just as genes determine a person's height and appearance, 'soul hormone' determines a person's martial soul and its expression. People who have not evolved have very little soul element, and there is no 'martial soul expression'. After human evolution, as long as a large amount of energy in the body is consciously mobilized, there will be mimicry martial spirits around the body, as if a projection of the soul from the inside out, which is called 'soul expression'. β
Jiang Mantian said a long paragraph in one breath, afraid that everyone hadn't understood it yet, for example: "Compared to how the teacher evolved, there was a mimic lotus leaf, her martial soul was the lotus leaf, and when Principal Xu evolved, there was a mimic night pearl, and his martial soul was the night pearl." They are able to release mimic martial souls, which means that they have truly completed their evolution, and the soul crystal or soul bone is strong enough. He Dali can't release the mimic martial spirit, that's because the evolution has not yet reached the fire.
Or it can be said that Teacher He, Principal Xu, and I took the lead in awakening the martial spirit. Others, although they have some simple abilities, have not yet awakened their martial spirits. β