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Chapter 1008 The Pope and Faith forever

Participants in the conversation that took place in Gundolph Castle were the Pope, Salomon, Hammurabi, the Imperial Guard and Father Moru, the head of the mysterious and military department of the Vatican. Among them, Hammurabi just followed from afar. Because of the responsibility of supervising the Imperial Guard, Father Moru could only follow Hammurabi and could not hear the conversation between the Pope and Salomon. Francis had long known Salomon from Father Moru, and there was also a ritual conducted by a group of cardinals as an example, so there was no doubt about it.

However, Salomon's conversation with the Pope was not as serious as Father Moru imagined. Most of the previous conversations were concentrated on football, music and children in the slums. This relaxed and pleasant atmosphere did not disappear even when Salomon showed the supercomputer of the Immortal City to the Pope's experimental simulation results of the Micah-European experiment.

This is a very famous experiment, which is the so-called Life Soup Experiment.

Although Darwin proved that life is constantly evolving, he failed to solve the mystery of how the evolution began. So in the 1950s, two chemists, Micah and Yulei, conducted a bold experiment in the hope of solving the mystery of how life began and trying to create life from inanimate chemicals.

On March 8, 1953, the New York Times published an article titled "Reviewing Twenty Billion Years Ago". At that time, the influence of this article was earth-shaking, especially for the religious community. If life was miraculously born in the test tubes of Micah and Yule, then one can come to the conclusion that we no longer need a supernatural man to descend from the sky and give humans the fire created by humans, which will prove that life is an inevitable product of natural laws. Similarly, it can also come to the conclusion that since life can spontaneously occur on earth, life will also be found elsewhere in the universe.

However, the experiments of Micah and Yule failed.

Although several amino acids were made in the test tube, they were far from the birth of life. No matter how Micah and Yule tried, life still failed to be born in the test tube. As early as before the arrival of the Zitaris, it was proved that life existed outside the earth, in 2007, Micah's test tube was rediscovered in a closet at the University of California, San Diego. The students used more advanced methods such as liquid chromatography and mass spectrometers to reanalyze the samples, and the results were shocking. After reanalyzing the test tube, several important nucleobases were identified.

In other words, the amino acids in the test tube form the base.

This discovery is exciting. Life has evolved for billions of years, and those test tubes have changed in just fifty years. The fifty years of human beings exploring the path of life are just a blink of an eye for the evolution of life. After that, people's interest in creating life in the laboratory was rekindled. The Pope remembered this incident, when he was still the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and a member of the Jesuit. "Evolution does not violate God's creation. As early as 1950, Pius VII showed that evolution and doctrines did not violate. In 1996, Paul II also agreed with this view." The Pope smiled, "But you still did not prove where life came from."

"That's why this is the mention of supercomputers." Salomon stretched out his finger and stroked the leaves in the flowers. "Humans cannot move forward for more than 2 billion years to see what is in the test tube, but mathematics can. We can build all the parameters we need into a model. We need to simulate all the parameters of the original ocean. Computers need to understand motion, thermodynamics, gravity, etc. Only in this way can the computer accurately simulate and reshape the combination relationship between each atom in the original ocean. A coincidence, I have such a computer and more than one, so I couldn't wait to start computing and simulation."

"So what's the result?"

"Fifty years later, the basic RNA material appeared in the flask, which was exactly consistent with the Micah-Eurel experiment. The simulation continued, and when the computer cooling pool boiled, the time lasted tens of millions of years, there were still only compounds and some messy mixtures in the flask."

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

"No." Salomon admitted his failure openly and seemed to be careless.

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

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

"Can you inspire me?"

"Entropy will disintegrate the structure, such as hot water becomes cooler, and the beach castle is washed away by the beach into loose sand. This is entropy, and this process is irreversible energy transmission. How inanimate chemicals themselves organize into complex life forms is the biggest mystery of life. Natural laws are randomized rather than organized, which is undoubtedly, but this is not the reason why we look for the Creator." Salomon reached out and used a tablet to show the pope regular phenomena in nature. For example, gravity, snowflakes, vortexes, quartz crystals, etc. "The universe organizes matter from disorder to order, which seems to be the opposite of entropy. The conclusions given by most physicists prove that the universe is disordered, and the universe drives entropy and disorder."

The Pope spread his hands and signaled Salomon to continue the conversation.

"However, other facts have proved that the universe operates according to a single command, with only one goal, that is, dissipation of energy. Let us return to the self-organization cases in nature, such as tornadoes, snowflakes, ripples, etc., which are all dissipative structures - that is, molecules complete self-organization in the structure to promote the system to diffuse energy more effectively. Simply put, the purpose of my organization is to dissipate energy better. While the universe promotes disorder, it also creates small pieces of order. A system's disordered state gradually upgrades the structure, and the orderly small pieces enhance entropy. If you want to effectively create disorder, it requires a certain degree of order."

Salomon drew a mathematical symbol representing the Big Bang and entropy, which is an arrow with a center point extending in eight different directions. "In disorder, order will be born, and entropy will increase in this self-organization method. This process does not require God to kick the first kick. So I added an instruction to this calculation model, which is to target energy dissipation."

"What's the result?"

Salomon calls out an animation with a timeline, and the timeline is located at fifty years ago. The compounds in this closed system continue to move, bind to each other, and gradually evolve from basic protein chains to a honeycomb-shaped hexagon. This is a nucleotide, and then the nucleotide chains begin to wrap themselves around and curl into a spiral structure. Then, the spirochete gradually evolves into a double helix structure, which is the life code DNA.

"This is a very simple truth. If you want to dissipate more energy, the easiest way is to replicate yourself. Life is just an inevitable result of entropy and is a means to increase entropy. The Battle of New York proved that life exists outside the earth, which proved 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 an inevitable in chance and a product of spontaneous generation of physical laws."

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

"You are the most humorous pope I have ever seen, the Holy See." Salomon said with a smile. "This kind of work continues. In alien civilizations, aliens have created gods of their own race through similar means. Located on the star Hara in the Great Magellanic System, there is a supercomputer called Supreme Intelligence. It is a life that exists in the computer. The establishment process can be similar to me to show you simulations. If we continue, the life in the flask will not only play rock music. I changed the algorithm and accelerated the evolution of compounds in a similar way to logical deduction. We created virtual life, which is a group of virtual prokaryotes in the mathematical sense. However, we cannot continue here. If we want to evolve, we must increase capacity, introduce more substances, calculate the changes in all compounds, and occupy a lot of resources for the simulation of the brain."

Speaking of this, Salomon's expression was a bit regrettable. "Whether DNA mutates is Schrödinger's cat, which is a compound of quantum state. It is not enough to directly use qubits to perform calculations - no quantum computer can run such a huge intelligent life, and all computers on the earth combined cannot do it, and 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 the same as the beginning of life, and every step is."

"Father Moru is a devout man who strives to promote this conversation," the pope said with his hands behind his back, "I know your identity, and the meaning of your existence and the results of the mass in the Alps. Every era has a different theme, and the revelation you bring in each era is different. In the past, I believe in the Creator, and now in science, although it is different, but it is all things that humans need at that time. I know you came to see me to make me, the old guy, feel better."
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