Chapter 1012 Chapter 1008 The Pope and the Eternity of Faith (Second Update)

The participants in this conversation, which took place at Castel Gandolfo, included the Pope, Salomon, the Praetorian Guard Hammurabi, and Father Mauroux, head of the Vatican's occult and military departments. Among them, Hammurabi, the Praetorian Guard, only followed from a distance. Since Father Moru assumed the responsibility of supervising the Praetorian Guard, he could only follow Hammurabi and could not hear the Pope and Salomon. Conversation - Francis has long known Salomon's identity from Father Moru, and there is also a ceremony performed by a group of cardinals as an example, so there is not much doubt.

However, the conversation between Salomon and the Pope was not as serious as Father Moru imagined. Most of the early conversations focused on football, music and children in the slums. This relaxed and happy atmosphere even though Salomon showed immortality to the Pope. The city's supercomputer did not disappear when analyzing the results of the Micah-Ule experiment simulation.

This is a very famous experiment, also known as the original soup of life experiment.

Although Darwin proved that life is constantly evolving, he failed to solve the mystery of how the evolutionary process began. So in the 1950s, two chemists Micah and Yulie conducted a bold experiment, hoping to unravel the mystery of how life began and try to create life from inanimate chemicals.

On March 8, 1953, the New York Times published an article titled "Looking Back Two Billion Years Ago." At that time, the impact of this article was earth-shattering, especially for the religious community. If life is miraculously born in the test tubes of Micah and Uriel, then we can draw a conclusion: we no longer need a supernatural person to descend from the sky and give mankind the fire of creation. This will prove that life is an indispensable law of nature. Products to avoid. Similarly, this can also lead to the conclusion that since life can arise spontaneously on the earth, there will also be life elsewhere in the universe.

However, Micah and Uriel's experiment failed.

Although several amino acids have been produced in test tubes, they are far from the birth of life. No matter how Micah and Yuri tried, life could not be born in the test tube. Long before the Chitauri arrived and proved the existence of extraterrestrial life, in 2007, Micah's test tube was rediscovered in a closet at the University of California, San Diego. The students reanalyzed the samples using more advanced methods, including liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry, and the results were surprising. After reanalyzing the test tubes, several important nucleobases were identified.

In other words, the amino acids in the test tube make up the bases.

This discovery is exciting. Life has evolved over billions of years, and those test tubes have changed in just fifty years since they were left in the closet. The fifty years that humans have been exploring life are just a blink of an eye for the evolution of life as a whole. After this, interest in creating life in the laboratory was reignited. The Pope remembered this when he was still Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and a member of the Jesuit Order. "Evolution does not conflict with God's creation. As early as 1950, Pius VII stated that the theory of evolution does not conflict with doctrine. In 1996, Paul II also agreed with this view." The Pope said with a smile, "But you It still doesn’t prove where life comes from.”

"That's why super computers are mentioned." Salomon stretched out his fingers and stroked the leaves in the flowers. "Human beings can't go forward two billion years to see what's in the test tube, but mathematics can. We can combine everything The parameters we need are constructed into a model. We need to simulate all the parameters of the primitive ocean. The computer needs to understand motion, thermodynamics, gravity, etc. Only in this way can the computer accurately simulate and reshape the combinatorial relationship between each atom in the primitive ocean. By coincidence, I had more than one such computer, so I couldn’t wait to start calculations and simulations.”

"So what's the result?"

"Fifty years later, the basic material of RNA appeared in the flask, which was completely consistent with the Micah-Ule experiment. The simulation continued, and when the computer cooling pool boiled, the time stretched out for tens of millions of years, and there were still only compounds and compounds in the flask. Some messy mixture.”

The Pope raised his eyebrows in surprise, "No life?"

"No." Salomon admitted his failure openly and seemed unconcerned.

"This is really surprising." There was no gloating in the Pope's words. On the contrary, his emotion was only regret.

"This is easy to understand. The second law of thermodynamics shows that heat cannot be transferred from a low-temperature object to a high-temperature object without causing other changes. In a closed system, all energy will eventually become entropy."

"Can you enlighten me?"

"Entropy will disintegrate structures, such as hot water becomes cold, and beach castles are washed away by the beach into loose sand. This is entropy. This process is irreversible energy conduction. How inanimate chemicals organize themselves into complex life forms, this is The greatest mystery of life. There is no doubt that the laws of nature are random rather than organized, but that is not why we are looking for the Creator." Salomon stretched out his hand and used a tablet to show the pope the laws of nature. regular phenomenon. Such as gravity, snowflakes, vortices, quartz crystals, etc. "The universe organizes matter from disorder to order, which seems to be the opposite of entropy. Most physicists have concluded that the universe is disordered, and the universe drives entropy and disorder."

The pope spread his hands and motioned for Salomon to continue.

"However, other facts prove that the universe operates according to a single instruction, with only one goal, which is to dissipate energy. Let us return to the cases of self-organization in nature, such as tornadoes, snowflakes, ripples, etc., these are Dissipative structure - that is, molecules complete self-organization in the structure to promote the system to diffuse energy more effectively. Simply put, the purpose of material organization is to better dissipate energy. While the universe promotes disorder, it also creates With the order of small pieces, the disordered state of a system gradually escalates, and the small pieces of order enhance entropy. To effectively create disorder, a certain degree of order is required.”

Salomon drew a mathematical symbol representing the Big Bang and entropy, an arrow from a central point extending in eight different directions. "Order will be born out of disorder, and entropy will increase in this self-organizing way. This process does not require God to kick the first kick. So I added an instruction to this calculation model, which is to dissipate energy. for the goal.”

"Then what's the result?"

Salomon called up an animation with a timeline, and the results of Micah Uriel's experiment appeared at the fifty-year position of the timeline. The compounds within this closed system continue to move and bind to each other, gradually evolving from basic protein chains into a honeycomb-like hexagon. This is a nucleotide, and then the nucleotide chain begins to wrap around itself, curling into a helical structure. Then, the spiral body gradually evolved into a double helix structure, which is the code of life, DNA.

"This is a very simple truth. If you want to dissipate more energy, the easiest way is to reproduce yourself. Life is just the inevitable result of entropy and a means used to increase entropy. The Battle of New York proved "If we find out that there is life outside the earth, it proves that life can take root and sprout anywhere. Life is not something created and reproduced by the universe in order to dissipate energy. It is inevitable by chance and a spontaneous product of the laws of physics."

"Then why don't you continue?" The Pope shrugged, "If you continue, the life in the flask might become a rock musician!"

"You are the pope with the most sense of humor I have ever seen, Holy See." Salomon said with a smile, "This kind of work continues. In alien civilizations, aliens have also created their own races through similar means. God. Located on the Hala star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, there is a supercomputer called the Supreme Intelligence, which is a life that exists in the computer. The establishment process can be compared to the simulation I showed you. If we continue, Flask The life in it is not just as simple as playing rock music. I changed the algorithm and used a method similar to logical deduction to speed up the evolution of compounds. We created virtual life, which is a group of virtual prokaryotes in the mathematical sense. But here we are It can no longer proceed. If you want to evolve, you must increase the capacity, introduce more substances, calculate the changes of all compounds, and the simulation of the brain also takes up a lot of resources."

Having said this, Salomon looked a little regretful. "Whether DNA mutates is Schrödinger's cat. It is a compound in a quantum state. It is not enough to directly use qubits to calculate - no quantum computer can run such a huge amount of intelligent life, and all the computers on the earth combined cannot do it. My scientific research team is still studying further methods. We have technology and theory, but we are still busy converting it into practical uses. This is a progress from 0 to 1 like the beginning of life, every step."

"Father Mauroux is a pious man, and he tried his best to facilitate this conversation." The Pope said with his hands behind his back, "I know your identity, the meaning of your existence and the results of the Mass in the Alps. Every era has different Main purpose, the revelations you bring are different in each era. In the past, you believed in the Creator, and now you believe in science. Although they are different, they are all things that human beings need at that time. I know that you came to see me to make this old guy like me feel better. Some."

Before Salomon could continue, the Pope smiled and patted his arm, "It doesn't matter if I am the last Pope. Whether it is being nailed to a cross or killing a dragon, this world will always exist. Faith, even your "Unified Truth" is no exception. No matter where mankind will go in the future, compared to the past, you are at least walking among us now, aren't you?"

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