Nightcrawler: 20 Years of Peaceful Demons

Chapter 517 Swimming and Fitness, Find Out

After returning to Hong Kong Island, it was still early, and Ma Yi'ao saw that I was very interested in the "Gaia Hypothesis", so he took me to a nearby bookstore to find relevant information.

However, most of the bookstores on Hong Kong Island are popular books, especially Apple Daily, which has the most gossip books, followed by martial arts and the like. There are almost no books about the Gaia hypothesis. The two searched everywhere. I read After a while, some right-wing literati wrote some domestic high-level gossip, and found that they were all nonsense, so they lost interest.

But before I left, I still bought a set of Mr. Huang Yi's "Looking for Qin Ji".

This set of books is very classic, time travel, history, romance, heroes, a collection of many elements, I just read a little bit of the beginning, and I can't stop.

But you can't read too much of this kind of book, otherwise your body will be very weak.

The two discussed for a while, and decided to go to the Central Library on Hong Kong Island, where there would be more books collected.

Anyway, we were fine, so we went to the library. After arriving, we registered and entered. Then Ma Yi'ao found the catalog and started to search in the huge library. After a while, we found several books and came over. The most important one is "Scientists on Gaia". This book has a Chinese translation. It was chosen by the American Geophysical Union as the subject of an academic conference in 1989. Hundreds of scientists and scholars participated in it. After the conference, a book was assembled and published.

And this book represents a beginning, and there will be many related research and results to be presented later. Ma Yi'ao selected several representative works for me, and these are all in English.

I have a diploma from a technical secondary school, but when I was a medicine supplier, I had to deal with a variety of customers. The boss in Taiwan also had strict requirements, so I worked hard on English.

Of course, even so, I can only cope with ordinary English reading. There are too many professional vocabulary, and I still need to use a dictionary.

Although Ma Yi'ao has been involved in this kind of theory, after so long, some new research results have appeared one after another. When he helped me search for the discussion, he found some related results in scientific newspapers and magazines. So I didn't have time to translate for me, so I carried a bunch of materials by myself and started studying there.

Ma Yi'ao and I were not at all anxious about the changes in the situation two days later. Wandering in this ocean of knowledge, we felt extremely peaceful.

These are entry-level works, but after reading through them, I can roughly understand the core content.

In fact, the "Gaia Hypothesis" is not complicated. To sum it up in one sentence, it is "the goddess Gaia, the earth we live on".

Its core theory holds that the earth is a living organism, namely "Gaia", which has the ability to self-regulate, and all life forms evolved on the earth are part of the life form of Gaia, just like the human body Cells, like cells, the different life forms that make up Gaia interact to contribute to the health of the entire organism.

The reason why it is named "Gaia" is because she is the god of the earth in ancient Greek mythology, the mother of all gods, and the most respected and prominent god among all gods. She is the first primitive god born in chaos , is also one of the original natural forces that can create life.

The "Theogony" describes her like this: Conflict and chaos come from Gaia, the mother of all gods, and it is this great mother who gave birth to all the gods of the bright universe.In her, we see both creation and destruction, both order and chaos, and in general, darkness and chaos are her essence.

The above is the origin of the Gaia hypothesis, and the collection of papers uses a large amount of data accumulation to discuss the possibility of this hypothesis.

I have never heard of such an exposition before, and now I read it carefully, and I find it more interesting.

And after I finished reading "Scientists on Gaia" and consulted other materials, I was able to answer the true meaning more and more, and some hypotheses and guesses were derived from it, which fascinated me very much.

For example, "21 grams of soul theory", this is a very famous experiment. It is an analogy experiment conducted by the doctor Duncan McDougall in Massachusetts in 1907. Through extensive sampling investigation, it is calculated that before death, the After death, there is a missing mass, and that mass, which is very magical, is almost always around 21 grams.

21 grams is generally considered to be the mass of the human soul, but where does this mass disappear in the end?

Another example is the "140-year regression theory". Some scientists conducted investigations and studies on a large number of people who claimed to have "previous life memories", including the most frequent XZ reincarnated living Buddha, and finally came up with a logic, that is, the human soul is actually What is immortal will only be accumulated in one place for purification. After washing away the lead, it will return to the world in another form.

And those who have residual thinking are likely to have various chances, or they have mastered a certain method to avoid the cleaning of the huge consciousness.

And this hypothesis is very interesting. The so-called "cleaning" corresponds to the ancient Chinese myth, which is called "drinking Mengpo soup".

by coincidence?

There are also many interesting theories, and these theories are published with the support of quite a lot of theoretical data, and they are verified by specialized personnel, basically there is no possibility of academic deception.

I looked at them one by one, and when I came across relatively uncommon words, I would compare them with a dictionary and study them carefully.

I don't know how long it took, but I suddenly felt that there was an extra girl next to Ma Yi'ao, who was wearing a pair of round glasses, had her student's hair cut off, and was talking to Ma Yi'ao.

I raised my head and saw this pure-faced girl accosting Ma Yi'ao. At first they spoke English, which I could barely understand, and then they actually spoke Japanese.

I was immediately stunned, and I was a little envious when I saw the pure Japanese that Ma Yi'ao spoke, which was comparable to the quality of a small movie.

This guy is really versatile.

I looked at the two of them for a while, and after thinking about it, I found that the pure girl who was like a schoolgirl probably struck up a conversation with him because she saw the books Ma Yi'ao was reading.

The two seemed to be discussing some academic topic, and although Ma Yi'ao was disguised and didn't have that kind of "disaster for the country and the people" face, he had a gentle demeanor, and the girl chatted with him very well. Very happy, occasionally talking about a certain fun, and laughing so hard that the flowers and branches trembled.

Tut, tut...

I don't know why, but I suddenly feel jealous of this close friend who is like a brother and sister.

Seeing this girl's beaming face, I feel that if Ma Yi'ao proposes to have a candlelight dinner with her at this time, it will basically be no problem, and after dinner is shared, can the matter of sharing the same bed at night be far away? ?

I am not someone who has never seen beautiful women, but I have never met such exotic and alternative beauty.

Especially the matter of "winning glory for the country" is really tempting for men.

but……

I looked at it for a while, and suddenly felt something was wrong. Looking carefully, I found that the girl was wearing a delicate platinum necklace on her chest, and the pendant was a green gemstone.

The radiance of that gemstone is somewhat...

This necklace is some kind of magic weapon.

And then, in my qi-watching technique, I faintly observed an unusual aura.

This is... a rabbit?
I saw the clue, and I was a little anxious, but at this moment, the girl stood up, bowed to Ma Yi'ao, and said with a sweet smile, "ごGuide ありがとうございました..."

Afterwards, she exchanged contact information with Ma Yi'ao, then turned and left.

I waited for people to leave before I asked, "What did you just say?"

Ma Yi'ao smiled and said, "It means thank you for my advice. This little girl is quite polite."

I said little girl?Do you know what other people are?

Ma Yi'ao said: "Yutu—don't be nervous. There are 600 million people in Hong Kong Island. It's normal to meet one or two night walkers occasionally. I just chatted with her and found out that she is very interested in the 'Gaia Hypothesis'. It's quite a research..."

As soon as he finished speaking, an old man with white hair and glasses suddenly walked up to us and said to us with a smile: "I am also very interested in the Gaia hypothesis."

The old man walked up to us and said, "I see that the two young brothers are quite researched on this, can we have a chat?"

This is really strange. If it was just a little girl, I would still understand it. Suddenly an old man appeared. What is going on?

However, Ma Yi'ao is quite an academic. If someone came to discuss, he would not refuse, but chatted with the old man.

I didn't pay much attention to it at first, thinking that someone came to join in the fun. I didn't expect that the old man who looked like an old professor, after chatting for a while, actually took the initiative of the topic and began to tell us about many ancient myths and legends, and Gaia. hypothesis, and he does not like to call this topic the Gaia hypothesis, because before 2000, Lao Tzu had expounded this thought in the Tao Te Ching.

"The world is not benevolent, and everything is a humble dog."

Heaven and earth don't care about benevolence, nor does it care about inhumanity. Dao, who gave birth to all things, didn't want to get any rewards. It sees all things as the same as the discarded straw dog. It doesn't treat people particularly well, but treats other all things particularly badly.

This is the way.

Dao is ruthless, but also affectionate.

These words made Ma Yi'ao excited immediately, but at this moment a phone call came in, Ma Yi'ao glanced at me, made a gesture to me, and then left.

This is a call from his master Wang Chao, and he has to answer the arrangements for the day after tomorrow.

Ma Yi'ao went out with a confession, and after he left, the old man smiled at me and said, "Great Sage Equaling Heaven, are you interested in knowing more about the six-eared macaque?"

(End of this chapter)