In class, I don't know what to say, Mr. Luo said, 'Once a parent asked me, is astronomy a liberal arts or science?'"It's a very difficult situation.Not to blame, "astronomy" really sounds like liberal arts.If astronomy is a science subject, it is historically untenable, and astronomy has always had an ambiguous relationship with astrology, theology, history, philosophy, and so on.People often ask, 'Does the Observatory predict the weather?'"Three years ago I would have looked up and said, 'Idiot, that's what the weather station does.'The Observatory and the Meteorological Observatory are indistinguishable!Astronomy studies things outside the Earth's atmosphere, and the inside of the Earth's atmosphere is entirely under the control of the Meteorological Observatory.When I go abroad, I feel a little wrong, and the observatory abroad will also carry out weather forecasts!
Now if you ask me if astronomy is liberal arts or science, what do you study?I don't think it's a simple question, not a good one.This question is a space hole and not specific, so I can only come up with a bad answer: what I look up at is all astronomical, whether it is literal or logical, but we never care about what is under our feet.Astronomy doesn't care about the end of the world unless the sky collapses.
The sky will fall, but the sky will not fall, because there is no heaven, then of course there are no angels and Buddha and God.What is life like, I'm a little scared.Life is not really scary, flowers have life.What people fear is "thinking about life," and if they think about it a little bit, they will find that "death is a terrible thing."Happy is the plant, for though there is life, there seems to be no thought, and there is nothing to be afraid of.Only humans seem to think, so only humans seem to be afraid of life and death.What, you asked me what astronomical nonsense 'life exists' is, didn't you say you don't study what's under your feet, your integrity?Who says there is no life in the world if aliens are discovered?Should we look inside more from the outside?
The contradiction between 'life really seems to exist' and 'wanting to get rid of the fear of life and death' is the driving force behind a person's life, and the search for life is nothing more than a process of questioning the meaning of life.This contradiction is not so difficult to alleviate, as long as there is faith and stop "thinking about life."Either go to heaven with good piety, or do good deeds in the next life to cast a good birth, or cultivate feathery ascents.But the development of astronomy has greatly broadened people's horizons, so that everyone can see that there is no sky, and the earth is not flat, but a ball!Suspended entirely in a vacuum, revolving around the sun, which revolves around the Milky Way, which revolves around something unknown.What are the people on Earth doing around here?We are completely dizzy, and we can't find the "God" that doesn't turn.
This becomes terrible, human beings become helpless, life becomes impossibly dependent.Thinking about this in the sleepless night, you will feel the fear of helplessness returning to nothing.Only when we think of the fullness of the gods and Buddhas will there be a little hope of fire, but this fire is also shaky, which is all due to astronomy.You can't go that far, why do you have to look so far away?Nothing to turn around, turn around can't find the north, see what you can do.Anyway, I can't feel the rotation, I still think, 'Earth is the center of the universe' so I feel a little safer.Even the strictest astronomers can't argue that I'm the center of the universe, or you tell me where the center of the universe is.
However, what you see is what you see, and it's hard to ignore it; although you don't feel it, there is evidence of rotation.So 'I'm the center of the universe' is not that powerful.Fortunately, no 'alien' has been found, and no one has questioned that 'human' is the center of the universe.But the sun is very ordinary Earth is not great, there are so many stars and planets in the universe, there is a probability that there are 'alien'."If alien civilizations were higher than ours, it would be difficult to shout 'I am the center of the universe' any more, or 'alien' might be upset and hit us.Only those who are strong can speak with their fists.
If we talk to aliens from the perspective of all mankind, there is really no point in living or dying.Why is the life span of an individual limited?Because populations of finite life individuals are more conducive to survival.Those species with infinite lifespan may not have existed in the first place, but were eliminated from the "survival of the fittest."Imagine an infinite-life species evolving slowly due to variation, either eliminated or evolved a finite life in a long-term species competition.So most of the species we see now have a finite lifespan.It can be seen that the survival of individuals and the survival of populations are not worth mentioning.In population competition, individual life and death have nothing to do with the overall situation, the survival of the whole is a matter of heaven.This is the evolutionary law of nature.
People are just ants that live longer, and unfortunately people think, and there are more people who say, "I'd rather not teach the world to defeat me."So the pursuit of eternal life has been constant, but eternal life is beneficial to the individual and harmful to the collective, in fact, it is something that does more harm than good."The way of heaven is greater than the way of life, and the way of life is greater than the way of life."Individuals seeking eternal life will harm others, and if everyone lives forever, it will harm the environment, so it is not allowed by heaven.The life and death of the individual and the existence of the population are one pair of contradictions, limiting the individual; man and nature are another pair of contradictions, limiting the human race.
If mankind can find a way to live forever without harming the environment, longevity is not necessarily harmful.Is there such a way?I think so, I have practiced immortality in the science fiction novel Immigrant Sun Road.The law of eternal life undoubtedly comes from science.Because science is a discipline that has been moving forward, the future can be expected; while metaphysics is something that has been declining, ancient times can still "create eternal life", but now it can not.
Newton's laws do not limit human longevity, Darwin's theory of evolution will limit.The limitations of evolution come from the cruelty of the environment, and the development of science can slowly ease the competition between man and nature.If one day, there is no competition between man and nature, then longevity should not be a problem.The problem is that by relying on science, it is possible to grasp the secret of eternal life before then, and then this secret may kill all mankind.The individual's pursuit of eternal life has caused greater damage to mankind, and the disorderly expansion of mankind has brought greater natural counter-phagocytosis to mankind.Man has never been a human being, and man has never been a species.Man is the product of interaction with nature.
Breaking the limits of biological life does not mean that we can say goodbye to life and death.There are no accidents and thoughts, life or death is still an inescapable topic.In fact, science can make people live forever, and that rejuvenation estimate is no problem.But even if they can be resurrected, some people just don't want to live.So life and death will still be talked about, and talking about life and death is the after-school homework of those who don't want to die yet.If you don't want to die, you can live, if you are interested in this setting, you can watch Migrant Sun Road.In this novel, human technology has developed to the point where everyone can "live forever" and "resume from the dead."The decision to die is only a matter of personal will.You can even choose to die for a while before you come back to play, basically if you want to die and live.The question of "why am I alive?" actually translates into the question of "why am I alive?"
Basically, I think the "life and death problem" is a primary stage problem, God does not limit longevity, when the productivity is highly developed, you want to die or live freely.But life and death are really a big problem right now, so we need God and the full angel Buddha."The question of life and death" is a scientific problem that can be solved by science.But when solved, it translates into the question of 'why am I alive?' which is a liberal arts question.It is conceivable that this will be a time of great literary explosion.And when we return, we can understand why the primary human race is now "prioritizing the text."
At the advanced stage of civilization, it is actually "death and life", but at this stage it is difficult for us to understand, the ancients said, "Chi Pengpai is delusional, death and life are absurd", and now how many people feel "death and life are also".Because we are not yet free from nature and civilization is not yet highly developed, most people have not yet transitioned from the question of "life and death" to the question of "why am I alive?"In the end, because of the lack of material resources, the survival and development of the population must sacrifice the life and death of the individual.Migrant Sun Road tells the story of the birth of a high-level civilization - a star-level civilization.
Star-level civilizations can be separated from nature, and everyone is "immortal" and "resurrected."And our present Earth civilization is a planetary civilization, and it is difficult to see life and death on the material basis of this civilization.It's normal, like apes can't see a light bulb.Star-level civilizations are 'dead or alive' civilizations that are no longer limited by Darwinian evolutionary theory of the fittest due to limited resources, but are still limited by Newton's laws that prevail in the universe.Therefore, the 'death and life' of a star-level civilization is closer to the understanding of 'death and death' by the laws of physics.
Physically time-space is one Minkowski four-dimensional space-time, there is no so-called "life and death", only space-time coordinates.