Into the Immortal Cultivation - Chapter 2014

[Chapter 28 The Half-Life Calendar]

For the human race, having a “calendar” is a natural thing.

The human race has an innate biological clock, and this biological clock is completely consistent with the rotation of the planet. Perhaps for creatures living on the surface, having such a rhythm is more conducive to foraging. Or conversely, their foraging behavior has formed a screening mechanism during evolution. In short, when people evolved the advanced entertainment function of “consciousness”, the “rhythm” they had was already bound to circadian changes.

This is the most natural time unit “day” and “day”.

In addition, the “month” caused by the change of the satellite’s shadow, and the “season” and “year” caused by the constant change of the sunlight caused by the angle of the yellow-red angle are very natural units.

The only problem is that several units, in fact, do not bite very well. For example, a sidereal year in China has about three hundred and sixty-five and one-third days, while a sidereal month and a round of moon phase changes have twenty-seven and two-fifths of days.

Unless someone is willing to live a calendar with 13.33327 months a year and 27.4 days per month, the natural lunar and solar calendars are somehow mixed up.

This is obviously counterintuitive. The pure lunar calendar can hardly be used to guide Nongsang. The pure solar calendar is difficult to correspond to the month.

It is only in the long history that the Chinese people developed the great invention of the “Yin-yang Calendar”.

That is to say, the concept of “30 days in a month”, which is taken for granted by today’s human race, was not so taken for granted in the past, it was self-evident.

Shenzhou also has “natural rhythms”, “stars”, and “the only satellite” to specify the calendar, which is simply blessed.

Among the recorded species, there are two satellites in Tianyu, where the Ju tribe is located, and the moon phase changes are extremely complicated. Strictly speaking, a complete moon phase cycle change is even longer than a local sidereal year. It is even longer, so the Yi people cannot understand the concept of “monthly”.

And the hills are even worse. The hills were covered by the powerful Astral Qi created by the mysterious powerhouse Black Star, and the entire planet could not see the sun, and could not feel the changes of the sun, moon and stars.

And they can only use their own natural rhythms to sleep and wake up, develop, reproduce, and so on, as their own calendar.

As far as Wang Qi knows, the True Flame God also designated the calendar in this way. The stars are so bright that observing them is very difficult for them. Although their light perception has a wide range, they are not as sensitive as the human race. After all, the environment is so bright, and being too sensitive is equivalent to being allergic every day.

Therefore, they can hardly see the stars.

Without a reference, they couldn’t specify a rhythm based on that, even if the star would rotate.

On the other hand, the true flame gods do not have a state of “sleep”, so they do not have the concept of “awakening” similar to the people of the hills.

In theory, the Ming family should be about the same.

“According to my personal experience, this… I don’t know how to read it, it is equivalent to a day and a half, it is not a time when the Ming people are lethargic and awake. They do have the concept of ‘rest’, but not like us. A clear rhythm.” Wang Qi bucked a carp and stood up: “Actually, it hardly conforms to any biological rhythm of the Ming clan…”

Bai Jizhen thought for a moment: “By the way, the three of us have chosen positive incarnations, right? ?”

Ke Like nodded thoughtfully: “It makes sense.”

Wang Qi was taken aback: “What do you mean?”

“Maybe it’s the female’s menstrual cycle.” Ke Like explained.

According to the classification concept of “yin and yang gender” by the ancestral family in the past, masculine is “sex that provides half of the variables”, while negative is “sex that provides all other structures”. This means that in order for a feminine creature to complete reproduction, it must prepare a thing with a life structure.

For organisms with cellular structure, it is “female gamete” and “egg”.

Negative gametes are more complex and more troublesome to conceive than positive ones. Because, in addition to the “half variables” that male gametes also have, female gametes also have the basic “structure” of life. Negative individuals of many species require a specific time to produce negative gametes.

“The reproductive cycle of once a day and a half is too short, isn’t it?” Wang Qi blinked: “According to the Yin-Yang Policy Theory [k/r Theory], it is almost impossible for this kind of creatures that rely on rapid reproduction to evolve intelligence. Fertility’ and ‘Linghui’, one is Yin policy and the other is Yang policy. If such a creature happens to evolve intelligence and get out of the original natural selection, then its number will expand to the environment that cannot accommodate it in a very short period of time. Ke Like nodded again: “Indeed, I

monitor my spiritual sense day and night, and I haven’t seen any Ming people doing it. If a small group of Ming people are abstinent individuals, it would be better if they don’t do it, but none of the Ming people did it. , it’s not normal.”

Bai Jizhen whispered: “Senior, that, the species that feel comfortable with that is not the mainstream…”

“Isn’t this a matter of considering whether their menstrual cycle is only a day and a half?” Ke Like looked at Wang Qi: “What else did you find?”

Wang Qi nodded: “Really. These are the two most commonly used practice units. On top of this, there is another one that is roughly equivalent to ‘year’. Unit. According to my estimation, the time is about two hundred and seventy days.”

Bai Jizhen nodded: “Dividing two hundred and seventy days by forty-five days is really divisible. Ingenious, six months a year. , the sense of design is very strong.” “However, when describing the cultivator’s life, they usually use another time unit. I have calculated that it

is about 1,600 years.”

If you follow the normal path of Nascent Soul Law, your lifespan will be much shorter than that of people of the same level. Low-level monks have only a few hundred years of lifespan, and high-level monks have only a few thousand years. It would be appropriate to describe this length in time units approximately equal to sixteen hundred years.

“One thousand six hundred years?” Ke Like pondered: “This number is a little familiar…”

“And I asked them what time they used to describe their own world.” Wang Qi said: “In the Ming people’s world view, after a long period of time, Guangming will exhaust its own strength. But it really exhausts itself. In fact, it is only a part of the light that appears. ‘Light’ is a metaphysical concept to them, and what they come into contact with in their daily life is the appearance of the metaphysical object of this light in the present world. And in their concept , this time is probably 1.4 billion and 7.7 million years.”

Bai Jizhen was stunned: “This number…why is it so specific?”

“They don’t have the concept of ‘year’, in their eyes, this is a A complete unit of time.”

“1.4 billion and 7.7 million years can be divided by the previous forty-five days or two hundred and seventy days… can’t be divided…” Bai Jizhen said, “Is this… crazy? ”

And then they have a smaller time unit, which describes daily actions, equivalent to a quarter and a half, or about twenty-three minutes.”

Bai Jizhen was even more puzzled: “This time unit…”

Ke Like suddenly said: ” The half-life of radium is exactly the half-life of radium 226, which is 1,600 years! Radium is a radioactive metal with high element abundance!”

He suddenly remembered. For him, Mrs. Ma Juli is the last generation of the previous generation, but in the era of his entry, Tai Tianzun’s theory made some people pay attention to radioactive elements again, and the scientific research value of radioisotopes was almost mentioned in that era. .

Before joining Tianlingling, he was a disciple of the Misty Palace and was very sensitive to this.

Wang Qi applauded: “Actually, I’m not sure about the first few time units, but the time unit they describe the world…”

Bai Jizhen said: “However, there is a half-life of radioactivity with a half-life of 1.4 billion and 7.7 million years. Elements?”

Wang Qi prompted: “Try to divide it by two?”

“Seven hundred million is three million and eighty-five thousand…” Bai Jizhen pondered for a moment: “A very familiar number, it’s that… it’s that one. …”

“The half-life of uranium 235.” Wang Qi folded his arms and shook his head. Uranium 235 is one of the most abundant and most abundant natural isotopes of uranium. On Earth, as long as anyone who knows about “nuclear weapons”, has basically heard of its name.

However, Tianjian skipped the fission directly, and used fusion as the foundation.

After all, the abundance of hydrogen is really far better than that of uranium. In other words, in the universe, all other elements are added together, and the abundance of the elements is not as good as that of hydrogen.

Uranium 235 has no strategic position in this world.

“Then, eighteen hours, forty-five days and two hundred and seventy days are…”

“This is not a common isotope.” Ke Like thought for a moment: “They are nickel 57, iron 59, and cobalt 57 respectively. Ah!”

Under normal circumstances, the three elements of iron, cobalt and nickel are not radioactive. Because the most common iron, cobalt and nickel, namely iron 56, cobalt 59, and nickel 58, are stable isotopes and are not radioactive.

“However, the iron, cobalt and nickel that the Ming people can face cannot be mined from the surface ores.” Wang Qi said, “If I remember correctly, these three elements happen to be the main components of the earth’s core. On the other hand, radioactive metals are also easy to deposit due to their relatively large relative mass. Coupled with the high pressure in the ground, fission occurs naturally, and there may indeed be three relatively rare isotopes.”

Bai Jizhen was shocked: “I … This… They don’t even have the concept of ‘mass’, yet they can still recognize isotopes and half-life? How is this possible?”

Wang Qi spread his hands: “I don’t know either, but how many time units they have ? The small ones are okay, the big ones are hard to divide each other. Apart from this set, I can’t think of any other internal connection.”

[End of this Chapter]