My Super Black Technology Empire

At the same time, while the "farmer" hypothesis and the "shooter" hypothesis are popular, they will inevitably create a large number of pessimists.

If the influence of this group of pessimists is not good, there will definitely be big problems in the future, and it will even affect the next generation, or even several generations.

This kind of consequence is extremely serious, and at the same time, no one can bear it.

In the same pessimistic doctrine as the "farmer" hypothesis and the "shooter" hypothesis, there is another law that a large number of people believe in.

This is what many pessimists hold true: the entropy increase theorem.

The sum of entropy can never decrease.

People may not understand the law of entropy increase, which Einstein called "the first law".

The law of entropy increase is a law of thermodynamics proposed by Clausius. He introduced the concept of entropy to describe the irreversible process, that is, the flow of heat from a high-temperature object to a low-temperature object is irreversible.

Clausius once published a paper on thermodynamics, which clarified the basic concept of the second law of thermodynamics for the first time.

As early as 1865, he also proposed the concept of entropy. Clausius proved that in any isolated system, the entropy of the system will never decrease, or that the natural spontaneous process proceeds in the direction of entropy increase, which is The principle of entropy increase.

For a long time many scientists have tried to create perpetual motion machines to break the pattern of cosmic energy, but all failed, because energy is conserved, every force will be consumed in motion. A lonely system always tends to increase entropy, and finally reaches the maximum value of entropy, that is, the system is in the most chaotic and disordered state. The increase of entropy will make the universe change from order to disorder and eventually destroy.

Regarding entropy increase, Schrödinger once said that the birth of life itself is a kind of "reversal entropy increase", but because of the irreversibility of entropy, life will die, and human beings will release heat back to the universe through chemical reactions. To some extent, the increase in entropy is reduced, but the power of human beings is insignificant and not enough to resist the increase in entropy.

The word entropy was originally a concept in thermodynamics. Later, everyone seemed to think that it was very useful, so other probability, information theory, physics, life sciences, etc. began to use this word.

To put it simply, entropy can be understood as the degree of chaos, and the larger the entropy, the more chaotic a system is, and the smaller the entropy, the more orderly a system is.

The entropy increase theorem means that for a closed system, its development direction can only be that the entropy is getting bigger and bigger, and the system is getting more and more chaotic.

And the universe we live in can also be regarded as a closed system, so the direction of its evolution should also be that the entropy is getting bigger and bigger, and it is becoming more and more disordered.

So the question is, since the universe should be becoming more and more disordered, why is there such a highly ordered thing as life including us? Doesn't this violate the entropy increase theorem?

At this point, Asimov's "The Last Question" explained the entropy increase theorem very well from the perspective of time reasoning.

In the book, humans have invented a particularly powerful machine, which people call AC (automatic computer), which can solve almost any problem and iterate by itself.

But there is a problem that it has no way to solve. When humans ask it "how to reduce the total entropy of the universe", it always answers "there is insufficient data to answer".

In this way, AC itself develops iteratively. Humans don’t know how AC evolves, nor how much energy and resources AC consumes during the evolution process. They only know that AC’s functions are getting stronger and stronger. The more difficult problems are overcome by AC.

Human life is getting better and better, death has long been conquered, human beings have become immortal, and the scale of time seems to have no end for human beings.

Planets began to perish one by one, but it doesn't matter, AC can always help humans find new planets suitable for human habitation. Everything is so perfect, but the already powerful AC still can't solve the question "Can the entropy increase of the universe be reversed?"

sorry! Not enough data to answer...

Until finally, all planets are destroyed, all suns cease to shine, and all human beings die...

At that moment, AC already living in hyperspace suddenly thought of the answer: let there be light! And so there was light...

This book is the same as the three-body problem. After reading it, many people can't calm down for a long time.

As a creation of human beings, AC is constantly evolving and iterating itself in order to solve the problems of human society, especially the unsolvable problem "Can the total entropy of the universe be reduced?"

Every time it evolves, its own stability and order will go further, and its own entropy will be lower. In order to maintain its own low entropy, AC must continuously obtain low entropy from the outside, and this process also accelerates the external world. entropy increase.

In the end, although AC came up with the answer "Can the total entropy of the universe be reduced?", the entropy of the universe has increased to the maximum, and all planets have been destroyed. Humans, the creators of AC, have conquered immortality, but In the end, it still faded into ashes...

Yes, the entropy increase theorem is not wrong, and the development of the universe does not violate the entropy increase theorem.

For a closed system, its entropy is constantly increasing. If a system wants to maintain constant entropy or decrease entropy, it must absorb low entropy from the external system and consume external available energy.

Life, human beings, including man-made machines, are extremely stable and orderly. To maintain this order, we must constantly absorb low entropy from the external world to obtain usable energy.

The emergence of life, the existence of human beings, and the development of science and technology, no matter what the reasons are, the objective result is to accelerate the entropy increase process of the universe as a closed system, making the universe more and more chaotic.

The development of science and technology is nothing more than improving the efficiency of energy utilization. The more advanced the technology is, the more energy will be consumed, and the universe will be destroyed faster.

So since the development of science and technology is of no benefit to the evolution of the universe, why do we humans still vigorously develop science and technology?

It's easy to understand. Since resources are limited, it's better to use them as soon as possible. The more you use, the better, because even if we don't use them, who knows who will use these limited resources?

The reason why the law of entropy increase is hopeless is because the law of entropy increase reveals the essence of the evolution of the universe. It is doomed to the inevitable demise of the destiny of space and time, and everything in the universe cannot escape the "corrosion" of entropy increase in the end.

Everything in the universe will decay with time, even the sun will use up all its energy and go to destruction in the days to come.

For example, the earth, it is precisely because the sun provides huge energy to the earth that the living things on the earth can exist.

Once the sun loses its light, the earth full of vitality has only one ending: it becomes a dead planet without any living things.