After dreaming of getting rich, I dressed up as a collapsed idol

Chapter 293

[…I have traveled all the way to the edge of the world and seen with my own eyes the solid chrome wall extending from the ground upwards…]

[…Considering that it would take centuries for our atmospheric pressure to equal that in the underground tanks, the panic subsided…]

The beginning of the universe was like taking a deep breath and then holding it...

Gu Deyou has read this story three times.

As a high school physics teacher, he was amazed that the author was able to explain the second law of heat so thoroughly and poetically in the form of a novel.

Anyone who has studied for a few years should know the first law of thermodynamics, which is the law of conservation of energy.

As for the second law, I guess not many people understand it.

It would be too complicated to explain the second law of thermodynamics clearly.

Simply put, in an isolated system, entropy can only increase or remain unchanged, which is the famous entropy increase principle.

To put it simply, heat cannot be transferred from a low-temperature object to a high-temperature object spontaneously and without any cost.

From the perspective of energy consumption, it is impossible to extract heat from a single heat source and convert it all into work without any other effects.

Based on this law, the scientific community gave birth to the theory of heat death.

If the entire universe is viewed as a closed system, entropy will increase over time, eventually leading to an even distribution of energy, which will approach absolute zero and the universe will be unable to sustain life.

An infinitely pessimistic ultimate fate of the universe.

To put it more simply, the birth of the universe originated from a big bang, and all subsequent activities in this space were the residual heat generated by the big bang.

And all activities will increase the entropy of the universe, making the residual heat cool down faster.

Only after understanding this information can you read this science fiction novel called "Breathing".

In the article, the author has a wild imagination and created an argon-based civilization based on the second law of thermodynamics. The robots of this civilization rely on argon, which can also be called air, to survive.

Their lungs are like batteries; when the air inside runs out, they take them to a refilling station to inflate them.

If it is not replaced in time, it will die in just a few seconds.

Although the dead robot will be revived after being equipped with a new air lung, its memory will be completely lost and it will become a fool.

The story begins with a scene that cannot be smaller than the one in the story. The poetry recitation and the clock are out of sync. The protagonist of the novel, that is, me, as a code-breaker, decided to do an experiment.

Dissect yourself and explore the secrets of memory storage.

A short story of less than 20,000 words, without any dramatic plot.

The second law of thermodynamics is subtly expressed in an easy-to-understand way.

The entry threshold of this story is very high. If you don’t know the second law of thermodynamics, you will find it confusing.

But for Gu Deyou, it was not a problem at all.

The connection between "air", "pressure difference", "entropy" and "entropy increase" in the story corresponds to the narrator's discovery of the impact of airflow on argon-based life during the final self-dissection.

It is the final result of entropy increase, heat death.

In this article, Gu Deyou saw rigorous settings, interesting ideas, and extremely romantic creative techniques.

"However, there are still some loopholes. The narrator, through observation of the brain, concludes that the clock speeds up because the robot's brain slows down. Because of the pressure difference, the pressure of the balloon passing through the brain becomes smaller."

"But honestly, if the brain slows down, the person's reaction times will also slow down. If the acceleration due to gravity remains constant, the fall will actually be faster. Logically, someone should notice."

After closing the book, Gu Deyou began to think further.

But after thinking about it for a while, he found his idea a little funny.