104. People know (Part 1)

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"You can indeed know the past and the future."

The curved surfaces of the buildings in R'lyeh City began to change, like a living plant sprouting from a seed.

Straight lines and surfaces reconstructed the disgusting architecture in Luoyan City and became more in line with human aesthetics and the way humans perceive the world.

"But you can't grasp the moment."

With the end of Animusfia's words, Cthulhu's tentacles entangled in every corner of R'lyeh city passed through as if entangled in the air.

Cthulhu's body, which had lost its point of strength, fell back into the crack that tore open the earth under the pressure of the water and the magic of Animusfia.

There is no true "omniscience and omnipotence" in the world.

Otherwise, Cthulhu would not have simply entered into Animusfia's plan.

Even though Cthulhu "can" observe things that are in the future for Animusfia, he cannot be omniscient.

Everything in the universe is present to Cthulhu, and Cthulhu transcends time.

The boundaries between the past and the future are blurred. The real Cthulhu is transcendent from the universe and humans, watching everything from a dimension beyond length, width, height and time.

But this only gives it a chance to observe things that humans cannot observe.

Rather than making it omniscient.

Human beings can also understand a certain existence in the "now".

"Knowing" itself is not difficult; what is difficult is "knowing everything".

"Ability" itself is not harsh, what is harsh is "omnipotence".

The French physicist Laplace once proposed one of the four mythical beasts of physics that has troubled the scientific community for a long time, the Démon de Laplace.

Also famous are Zeno's tortoise, Schrödinger's cat and Maxwell's demon.

Together with Laplace's demon, classical mechanics (Laplace's demon), calculus (Zeno's tortoise), quantum mechanics (Schrödinger's cat) and the second law of thermodynamics (Maxwell's demon) are respectively demonstrated.

Before quantum mechanics and the second law of thermodynamics were explored.

People who believe that the classical mechanics proposed by Newton are absolutely correct naively believe that as long as they grasp the position and momentum of all atoms in the universe at this moment, they can accurately calculate what the universe will be like at the next moment through a series of formulas.

Therefore, Laplace hypothesized that there is a demon who can know the momentum and position of all atoms in the universe, and also has superb computing power, then it can achieve "omniscience".

This demon was interpreted as Laplace's Demon.

Considering only the existence of classical mechanics, the existence of Laplace's Demon is reasonable, and Cthulhu seems to be exactly this kind of existence that can achieve omniscience.

But classical mechanics cannot be used on extremely macroscopic scales, where the theory of relativity is followed.

Nor can it be used at extremely microscopic scales, where quantum mechanics is followed.

Electronic uncertainties in quantum mechanics make it useless to try to calculate the position of a gaseous oxygen molecule after 0.1 nanoseconds, even if only the effects of Newtonian classical mechanics are taken into account.

The second law of thermodynamics stipulates that the process of entropy increase is irreversible——and all phenomena in Newtonian mechanics should be reversible.

[Therefore "omniscience" does not exist at all. 】

Although he was one of the founders of quantum mechanics, Einstein always disagreed with the correctness of quantum mechanics.

But even Einstein was wrong sometimes.

To disprove quantum mechanics, Einstein once said: “God does not play dice.”

It is true that God does not throw dice, but there does not seem to be an omniscient and omnipotent God here.

Then there’s “Almighty”————————

Everything has its limit, which is stipulated by the second law of thermodynamics.

In a closed system, entropy is constantly increasing.

What is entropy?

Entropy is the degree of chaos in the universe.

Suppose you pause and observe at the moment when the universe was born, all the matter in the universe gathered at the singularity of the Big Bang.

There is no complex molecular structure, no as many as 119 elements, no magnificent nebula structure, and no vast deep space.

The hot places gather all the heat, while the cold places have no heat at all.

There is no distinction between the sun and the earth, nor between Saturn and Jupiter.

At this time, the universe is single, pure, and the entropy (chaos) is zero.

As time progressed, the universe began to expand and matter began to differentiate.

Celestial objects began to form, and stars that accumulated enough mass to trigger nuclear fusion began to radiate heat outwards.

Temperature began to grow in the cold void, and life began to appear on the earth that should not have moved.

If the earth is regarded as a system, the heat radiated from the sun offsets the increase in entropy emitted by the earth itself, so the earth is not an isolated system.

So the earth will have a temperature.

But the sun will one day go out, and one day it will release all heat to the surroundings.

So is the universe.

The gravel collected in the box was scattered throughout the room, and the chaos reached its peak.

Unless there is some system that can heat the universe from outside the universe, just like the sun heats the earth.

Outside time, Cthulhu in higher dimensions seems to be the perfect "omnipotent" candidate again.

But a system capable of heating the universe must also face an increase in entropy.

Cthulhu is only eternal relative to humans and this universe.

Except for the "perpetual motion machine" that can create something out of nothing, no existence can escape the ultimate fate of entropy.

Maxwell's demon is an idea proposed by James Maxwell, the great physicist and founder of electrodynamics, who tried to inverse the second law of thermodynamics.

He hypothesized that there is an intelligent demon who can observe the speed of molecular motion and then operate a valve that ideally neither consumes nor releases energy.

The devil would place fast-moving molecules on one side of the valve and slow-moving molecules on the other side of the valve.

Fast-moving molecules have a higher temperature, while slower-moving molecules have a slightly lower temperature.

The movement of the molecules themselves does not require external force, but if it is evenly distributed in the universe, there will eventually be no temperature difference. Even with the movement of molecules, the temperature can only bring the temperature of the entire universe to minus 273.1499... degrees.

It just prevents the universe from reaching the most extreme absolute zero of minus 273.15 degrees Celsius.

Dead silence but still the same dead silence.

But Maxwell's demon can create a temperature difference, and with the temperature difference, it can perform work on the outside.

Even if it takes billions of trillions of years, Maxwell's demon can indeed restore the universe to the state before the Big Bang.

Then there must be light.

Then there was light.

The first words of the "Almighty" God in the Bible when he created the world were what Maxwell's Demon was going to do.

If only that was the case. The second law of thermodynamics is called the greatest enemy of science because of the death ending it predicts.

It's great to have a Maxwell's Demon that can defeat the notorious bad guy known as the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

But Maxwell's demon does not exist.

There is no perpetual motion machine either.

Maxwell ignored the crucial fundamentals at the very beginning of his hypothesis————

The devil also needs to do work when distinguishing molecules, and there is also an increase in entropy.

[Therefore "omnipotence" does not exist either. 】

Since it is not omniscient, Cthulhu cannot fully know Animusfia's plan. Since it is not omnipotent, Cthulhu cannot completely escape.

Losing its focus, Cthulhu's bloated and fat body completely entered the crack that tore open the earth's crust.

Together with Animusfia, we continue to sink in the whirlpool.

to the depths of the earth.

Even a being as great as Cthulhu couldn't help but be amazed by Animusfia's actions.

It's not that what he did was incredible in the eyes of Cthulhu, but that he was able to do all this as an individual human being.

The spirals of the buildings in Luoyan City turned into straight lines, and the curved surfaces turned into flat surfaces.

Everything in R'lyeh has gradually changed from the cognition of the Star Familia to the cognition of humans.

Animusfia overwrites reality.

Humanity as a whole may be able to change reality easily.

Turn mystery into science and drive magic out of existence.

But to defeat the entire Star Familiar clan's cognition by just relying on his own strength, it is obviously impossible to forcibly transform R'lyeh into a human structure.

But Animusfia did it.

It even allowed Cthulhu's body to travel through the entire city in an instant, successfully pulling it into the rift.

That is also part of human knowledge.

"Human beings' understanding of the world, although they may feel short-sighted, is far deeper than you imagine."

After witnessing Cthulhu's bloated body above completely falling into the gap, the symbol of Neptune appeared on Animusfia's body.

Another wave of earthquakes struck, and the rock walls on both sides began to shake violently, and strong shock waves spread through the earth's crust.

The trenches, which are comparable to the Great Rift Valley in East Africa, began to merge under the power of nature, vowing to trap Animusfia and Cthulhu in the rock formations and the earth.

Animusfia's plan was already half successful.