Chapter 2685 Sacrifice of Truth

Don’t listen, don’t listen, the bastard chanting, the chief covered his ears and didn’t want to listen to those questions that could solve his doubts and problems in his mind, those scientific and technological problems that were not solved eight hundred years ago, and the unresolved law verification...

All those problems that the elf chief couldn’t solve at all were now all told by Anna. If it was a real scientist who was willing to die in the evening, he would definitely cry with joy.

The author of "The Three-Body Problem" wrote the story of the Altar of Truth, which is that a super powerful alien came to the earth and stopped humans from exploring the universe, because exploring the universe is a very dangerous act, so they specifically stopped backward civilizations from committing suicide. But a group of scientists on the earth said that if they didn’t commit suicide, they couldn’t explore the truth of the universe, so what was the meaning of their lives? At this time, a scientist named Ding Yi proposed an idea, that is, aliens could tell them the truth of the universe model, and then kill them.

Even if the dead knew the truth, they would not have time to practice it, which meant satisfying their curiosity and letting them die peacefully.

So the aliens built the Altar of Truth, the function of this altar was to tell the truth to the earthlings and then sacrifice them. The truth is the universe model that contains everything. Someone may ask, since exploring the truth will lead to the destruction of the universe, how do alien civilizations know the truth of the universe? Could it be that the officials are allowed to set fires but the people are not allowed to light lamps? The aliens are madly studying the truth but suppressing backward civilizations under the pretext of safety?

Not really. The truth of the alien universe model was sent to future generations by a certain civilization in the previous universe at the cost of the destruction of the universe. The determination of the civilization is the same as that of the earthlings on the altar of truth, and they will do anything for the truth. So they used everything to destroy the universe and create a universe model. It is estimated that they only grasped the truth for a moment, and then the universe was gone. However, they sent the truth to the next universe through a time capsule. The aliens did not discover the truth themselves, but discovered the time capsule, from which they obtained the universe model and knew the danger of exploring the truth of the universe. From then on, they began to prevent backward civilizations from committing suicide in the entire universe.

When the earthlings step onto the altar of truth, any mathematical, physical, and chemical questions can be answered. After knowing the answer, they have ten seconds to savor it, and then die.

But there is only one question that the aliens do not know, that is the purpose of the universe. This question is not within the scope of science, but philosophy. How can aliens know, because the universe was born in the Big Bang, and no one has ever said that the explosion of the universe must have a purpose.

So aliens can't answer this question either.

Now Anna is like an alien who announces the truth on the altar of truth. She speaks out all kinds of knowledge in an endless stream, which makes the elf chief almost collapse.

This scene is like Tang Monk chanting the tight hoop curse to Sun Wukong.

The chief is terrified, because he dare not imagine that there is any existence that can answer all his questions and solve all the problems faced by mankind. Even gods may not be able to figure out these things. After all, many times gods do not represent powerful knowledge, but only powerful blood.

The stronger the blood, the stronger the god. Knowledge is just icing on the cake. Most gods behave like illiterates. For example, the ancestor of the dragon is a god in the universe, but his behavior is very illiterate.

God is not omniscient and omnipotent. The most powerful thing about gods is that their local advantages can crush all living beings. Without considering local advantages, gods are also very sparse and ordinary.

So Anna is a more outrageous existence than God in the eyes of the patriarch. The elf patriarch can ignore God, but he is afraid of an omniscient existence. Because in front of omniscience, his meanness, his smallness, his evil, and his ignorance will be exposed.

Now the patriarch seems to be passively sent to the altar of truth and passively accept all kinds of knowledge.

"Stop, don't say anymore." The patriarch is terrified from the bottom of his heart.

Sister Gang looked at the changes of the patriarch in disbelief, thinking that language is indeed sharper than swords. She thought there would be a fight, but she didn't expect Anna to say something inexplicable and defeated the arrogance of the patriarch. Sister Gang is a liberal arts student who teaches ancient Chinese. She can't understand what Anna said at all.

Anna didn't stop, she seemed to answer the questions of the entire universe.

The patriarch can no longer understand, but his memory will record all these contents. Once he remembers them, his life will have no meaning.

Why do people live? It is to solve contradictions one after another. Everything will tolerate its opposite, which is the endogenous nature of contradictions.

People live to have contradictions, solve contradictions, and encounter new contradictions...

To solve contradictions, you need to learn knowledge and master skills, just like the patriarch did before. His contradiction is to explore the truth of the universe and the constraints of ethics and morality.

But when the truth of the universe does not need to be obtained through pursuit, but is continuously instilled into his brain, the contradictions in his body are broken one by one, and when he has no contradictions, he has no existence.

Buddhists say that the sea of ​​suffering is boundless and turning back is the shore, and only liberation is the way out. In fact, contradictions are boundless and there is no way back. Survival is to solve contradictions one by one until death.

No contradiction means death.

The meaning of existence is to encounter contradictions, find solutions, and solve contradictions, and what people do most in their lives is to find solutions.

Now the meaning of the patriarch's existence is being taken away by Anna like a spoiler. The patriarch no longer needs any subjective initiative. He is just a carrier of infinite knowledge. His own self-awareness is worthless and has no effect.

Some people may want to ask, why didn't Anna become a puppet of the truth? Because Anna didn't understand these things at all, she just memorized them by rote.

The patriarch is a scientist. Although a lot of knowledge is too advanced to be understood immediately, his logic as a scientist will sort out the knowledge by himself, and he can integrate it with a little study. So to a certain extent, it was the patriarch's proudest scientific expertise that was destroying him.

The patriarch is a selfish scientist, who can be said to be like a dragon. He uses the pursuit of truth as an excuse to trample ethics and life, but when the truth conflicts with his own existence, he rejects the truth.

A selfless scientist will never be like this. When the truth conflicts with one's own existence, only a qualified scientist can embrace the truth and give up oneself.

In fact, it is not bad to become a puppet of the truth, but the patriarch cannot do it, because he only regards science as a comparative advantage, a means to gain a sense of superiority, rather than a force to transform the world and benefit life.

"Because you can do it, but we can't, so you can treat us as experimental materials." Anna stopped, looked at the kneeling patriarch coldly and said, "You always use You claim to be a scientist, and you always say that you should not be blamed. However, these remarks are just to elevate yourself and belittle us. When the real truth appears, when you face the truth of the universe, you are so afraid and afraid. Resistance, so you don’t love science, you just love the sense of superiority that science brings you.”

The patriarch was speechless, and his fig leaf was mercilessly torn off. At this time, he only felt shocked and frightened, because he was almost dominated by the truth. Now his main contradiction is the vast amount of knowledge he has mastered and his own The self-consciousness is contradictory, and knowledge has an absolute advantage, and the self-consciousness will face collapse at any time.

Because of the existence of the opposite of the unknown, scientists have the meaning of existence. Without the unknown, there would be no scientists. Only with contradictions can there be life; without contradictions, there can be no life. The patriarch was deprived of his contradictions and thus his life.