Tracing China: Through history, dialogue between ancient and modern

Chapter 231 The Ancient Chinese People Ten Thousand Years Ago
1 years in the future.

Relatively modern is the era of 12222. Outside the starry sky, two major civilizations are fighting fiercely.

One side is our human carbon-based civilization.

On the other side is the silicon-based civilization of aliens.

Two giants.

Fight fiercely in the center of the universe tens of billions of light years away.

there is a question.

Perhaps many people have not considered it.

In the ancient times of the earth, why did you choose "carbon-based life"?Instead of the more advanced "silicon-based life"?
Regarding this question, many modern audiences sparked a heated discussion.

"Hey, because what silicon-based life exhales is not air, it's sand!"

"There is sulfur-based life near the black volcano on the seabed, I have full confidence in the diversity of life in the universe!"

"Everything is random. At any moment, the vast and uncountable lives and objects interact with butterflies, and the possibility of obtaining a vast Cartesian product is even greater, which is almost equivalent to randomness. Therefore, how life develops has no rules , the universe only needs to be eliminated, and only those who are not eliminated in the new environment from time to time can survive.”

"Once a living body is created, there will be new possibilities, just like human beings have changed the earth like a spark, and further advance to the universe, but the universe is no longer within the scope of the power of carbon-based organisms, but human beings will eventually create silicon. The basic species, with an immortal body, a fearless spirit, and the speed of light, shuttles through the vast time and space with the will of mankind, and will never die."

"The original probability of silicon-based life is low, but it can be based on the emergence of carbon-based life in the later stage and then complete the iteration probability of carbon-based life is still very high! Because of faster speed, larger capacity, less demanding physical environment conditions, longer stability, The dependence on the body carrier is lower, and it can live forever. What remains is how to build the environmental boundaries for initial setting and learning, so that artificial intelligence can fully go through in the biological evolution furnace! If you go right and complete, you will have thought and self-awareness."

"Brother, your explanation seems to also explain why silicon-based life is more advanced."

"Robots should be considered silicon-based life, if they are intelligent enough."

"Not entirely. After all, robots have a variety of structures, and can also be composed of various alloys and rare substances in the universe."

"The phenomenon of life is just a form of material circulation in nature, because the temperature, gravity, air pressure and other environments of each planet are different, and the form of matter is also different. Take water as an example, it can only be under the pressure of the earth's atmosphere. Only then can it exist in a liquid state between 1-99 degrees C. If the air pressure increases, the temperature of liquid water will also increase. Water can do this, and so can other substances. So I have always believed that in the universe Carbon-based life will not be the only form of matter cycling."

"If you make a distinction, it should be primary life and secondary life. Primary life can only be carbon-based, and secondary life may be silicon-based."

"The problem is, it has been stated in the program that an extremely advanced silicon-based civilization can be born."

"You also know it's a show? Can you take it seriously?"

"Other programs are not good, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with the content of "Tracing Back to China"."

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Some professionals also explained:
Since the rapid development of chemistry, especially molecular biology, scientists have discovered that all life forms and species on earth are composed of 25 chemical elements.

一个典型的生物细胞比如人体细胞的总质量当中，有96%是由氧（65%）、碳（18%）、氢（10%）、氮（3%）这4种主要元素构成的，其余的则是由少量其他元素构成的，比如说钙、磷、钾、硫、钠、氯、镁、铁等等。

Some people will immediately ask, isn't the oxygen element accounting for the majority of the total mass of the human body?

Up to 65%!

Aren't we oxygen based life forms?Why don't we call it oxygen-based life, but carbon-based life?
It is like this, for all life on earth including human beings, most of the oxygen elements in the living cells actually exist in the form of water, which is contained in the water molecule H2O.

However, another element plays a key role in the structure and function of cells - carbon.

So, we say that life on earth is based on carbon, so it is called carbon-based life.

Why did life choose carbon instead of other elements?

To answer this question, it is necessary to enter into the particle scale and look at the characteristics of carbon element.

Many people know that the atoms in a molecule are connected to each other by chemical bonds.

What is a chemical bond?
It is a kind of attraction between particles, which allows atoms and molecules to form substances that can be seen at the macroscopic scale.

Chemical bonds can be imagined as the arms of each element. With such hands and arms——chemical bonds, atoms can hold hands and flirt with each other.

Different elements have different numbers of arms.Like a hydrogen atom has only one hand, which means it can only hold hands with one other atom at a time.For example, an oxygen atom has two hands, which means it can hook up with two atoms at the same time.

Like a carbon atom has four hands, which means:

"It can hook up with up to 4 atoms at the same time..."

This is interesting. Think about it, each carbon atom has four hands. If they are connected together, up and down, left, right, front, back, and hand in hand to form a three-dimensional structure, various carbon skeletons with thousands of differences will be created-this becomes the basis of each hand. basis for a wide variety of organic compounds.

Scientists call such carbon-containing molecules collectively organic molecules, ranging from the simplest organic molecules to complex and diverse high-molecular organic substances, namely DNA molecules, which provide a rich material basis for the formation of carbon-based life.

Just like building Lego blocks, nature builds colorful carbon-based life through the magical carbon element.

This process is the magnificent evolution history of life on earth, and it is also the only way for nature itself to naturally select life forms.It is also the only path known to man so far.

Some people may ask: carbon atoms are only four hands, isn’t it better to deduce all kinds of strange molecular structures if there are more atoms than carbon atoms?Avalokitesvara, isn't it more exciting? !

The problem is that in the three-dimensional world at the particle scale, the more arms the better.

Although the heavier elements have more arms, the complexity is enough, but the stability is far from enough.

In the world of chemistry, what matters is not quantity, but cleverness.

You must know that carbon has the most types of compounds among all elements. As far as 0222 is concerned, there are nearly 1000 million known pure organic compounds, but this is only the tip of the iceberg in the world of theoretically existing compounds.

Look at the different shapes of carbon (scientifically called allotropes): from extremely soft graphite to extremely hard diamonds, they are all different shapes of carbon.

Look again, the richness of carbon element ranks 15th on the earth's crust, and it ranks even higher in the universe, ranking fourth.

So it is no exaggeration to say that carbon is the cornerstone of life on earth and the chemical foundation of carbon-based life.

Maybe someone will jump out and question:

"In terms of element abundance, silicon is much more abundant than carbon. On the earth's crust, silicon is 1000 times more than carbon! Sooner or later, silicon-based civilization will replace carbon-based civilization, occupy the earth world, and even rule the entire universe!"

Complex molecules based on the element silicon break down so easily that they are so fragile that they cannot form the structures of living cells.

Another defect of silicon element is that the chemical relationship of silicon element, which cannot form double bonds, can participate in very few chemical reactions.

It is incompatible with other elements and has few chemical reactions. How can complex and diverse life forms be derived?

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No matter how the audience discusses, questions, or expresses their views.

In fact.

Silicon-based life really exists.

Moreover, their super-civilized level is not weaker than the human civilization that has conquered the stars and seas.

Human life expectancy has skyrocketed, and silicon-based life is almost immortal.

Human beings create all kinds of mechanical beasts in the starry sky, and all kinds of huge monster machines created by silicon-based life do not give in too much.

Human beings have mastered countless truths of the universe.

Silicon-based life also uses its own technology to understand the essence of the universe.

Both sides in every respect.

Can be described as comparable.

Even worse.

At this time, the fierce battle between the two civilizations has shown a one-sided trend.

The aliens of silicon-based life, using the "white hole position" that has been researched, filled the sky with white and miserable light, and traversed the surrounding thousands of miles of high sky. All kinds of weird cosmic rays that can erode life have steadily suppressed human beings.

Maybe not for a few days.

Human civilization is going to capsize in this gutter, and if it fails, it will completely withdraw from the stage of starry sky history.

"Are you going to help?"

Lin Feng scratched his head. For this era, he is an ancient man 1 years ago.

As a Chinese ancestor.

It seems bad to intervene in things that will happen ten thousand years later, right?
however.

Aliens with silicon-based life found him.

These aliens are very similar to human beings, their body shape and appearance are almost exactly the same, but their skin is earthy yellow, revealing a whirling texture of sand grains, like carved stone figures and clay figures...

"Boom boom boom!"

A gigantic upright steel behemoth shaped like Godzilla rushed towards it in an instant.

It was really faster than lightning.

Stomping down, wanting to smash the surrounding hundreds of meters into ashes.

Lin Feng didn't dodge or dodge, just quietly looked into the distance, there were dozens of aliens there.

They are the top elites of this civilization.

"go to hell……"

One of the brownstone-skinned men spoke coldly.

His voice was stiff.

It should be using its own technological system to convert human language.

The results of it?
Lin Feng just stood where he was, quietly standing in the air a hundred meters above the ground, motionless.

The towering giant steel beast passed through his body without causing any damage.

"you……"

In an instant, dozens of aliens stared at the study of the color of the gray soil, looking extremely shocked.

In the huge roar.

The giant steel beast rampaged back and forth, but unfortunately, its heavy hooves, sharp claws, harsh mouth, etc., and even the ray beams that burst out from its chest, all passed through Lin Feng's body again and again, in vain.

Standing there, Lin Feng seemed to melt into the air.

"You are... No. 1 of your Chinese civilization, aren't you?" An alien woman with a complexion like amber glass asked.

The word Huaxia.

Even after ten thousand years.

It still resounds through the universe and starry sky!
"myth……"

"shape……"

"Turn on..."

Lin Feng opened his mouth word by word, and as he swiped his palm, the terrifying rays of "white holes" intertwined across the sky immediately faded away like a tide.

Behind Lin Feng.

The endless black mist was surging, and in the dark, it seemed that a strange scene of a super black hole had risen.

Black hole.

white hole.

One has infinite gravitational force, the other has infinite repulsive force, which miraculously restored the calm of this vast area.

The human civilization that was being destroyed in the distance temporarily avoided the crisis.

after stabilization.

Three men and women wearing high-tech battle armor came quickly and stood beside Lin Feng.

They came here out of gratitude, and at the same time, the three men and women also looked extremely confused. In their Chinese human camp?When did such a great man with astonishing abilities emerge?

And still so young?
I don't know.

The Lin Feng in front of them is the ancient Chinese from ten thousand years ago!

(End of this chapter)