Into Unscientific

Chapter 125 – The Microcosm From Electrolysis

Chapter 125 Microscopic world starting from electrolysis

“Xiao Wang, why can salt water produce such highly toxic substances after such treatment?”

The yard.

Facing Lao Su’s question, Xu Yun suddenly felt a sense of solemnity.

Sure enough, it came.

This is what he had foreseen in advance, and it is also his purpose today.

Actually let alone Lao Su, any ancient person who saw the previous scene would inevitably have doubts in his heart.

Then Xu Yun took a deep breath, and instead of directly explaining the concept, he asked:

“My lord, I wonder if you have read “The Fundamentals says everything has a hundred and one karma” translated by Master Sanzang Yijing?”

Speaking of Master Sanzang, the brain of Xuanzang in “Water Margin” may pop up in many people’s minds.

But in fact, Master Sanzang is a “professional title” just like Professor Lucas introduced before.

It refers to the Buddhist mage who is proficient in the Tripitaka of Sutras and Laws, and Yijing is one of them who is not very famous.

But right now, Lin Lingsu, the patriarch of the Shenxiao Sect, is still in the stage of fame, and there is still a certain distance from the peak period of exterminating Buddhas in history.

In addition, the time span of Tang and Song Dynasties is not long, so Lao Su still has heard about this work of Yijing:

“Of course.”

“Then do you remember a sentence in the book?”

“Which sentence?”

“Ayu led the man Aniluduo to look at the water with the eyes of the sky, and then he was able to see it clearly.”

Before Xu Yun finished speaking, Lao Su subconsciously continued:

“There are countless living beings in the water.”

Xu Yun nodded, and heaved a sigh of relief.

It’s good that Old Su knows this sentence.

Then he organized some language and continued:

“Sir, have you ever thought about it.

In the world you and I live in, whether it is air, utensils, or even human blood, are there countless sentient beings?

Or in layman’s terms

All substances visible to the naked eye are actually composed of tiny particles? “

“Particles?”

Old Su was taken aback when he heard the words.

It looks a little unclear.

But soon, he understood what Xu Yun meant.

In an instant, Lao Su only felt a tingling sensation from the tailbone to the head.

He subconsciously lowered his head and glanced at his arm.

Due to the decline of qi and blood in his old age, the blue veins on his hands are extremely conspicuous.

As a great medical scientist, Lao Su is naturally very clear.

In these blue veins, what flows is the blood of the human body.

But if it is according to what Xu Yun said.

Could it be that there are all living beings in this blood?

Or particles?

This. How is this possible?

This concept has already involved the cognition of the world view, and Lao Su subconsciously wants to refute something.

But thinking of Xu Yun’s previous actions, he finally just opened his mouth and didn’t speak.

Looking at Lao Su who seemed to have countless things to say but didn’t know how to speak, Xu Yun was also deeply moved.

Now it is 1100 AD, and there are still more than 500 years before the microcosm is discovered by real scientific instruments.

It would be even further away from microcosmic theories being aggregated into a system, and the guarantee is seven or eight hundred years old.

So he is clear.

What kind of impact the words I said had on Lao Su, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the world was turned upside down.

Of course.

With the beginning of the Buddhist gatha, the impact of this topic has been minimized.

Many people in later generations talked about the microcosm, and often quoted another Buddhist verse:

“Buddha sees a bowl of water, eighty-four thousand insects”.

However, this sentence will not be recorded by Duti lawyers in the “Vini Daily Record” until the Ming Dynasty, so now Xu Yun can only quote the book “Basically speaking, everything has a hundred and one karma”.

The title of this book can also add a few words, which is quite good.

Then Xu Yun observed Lao Su for a while, and seeing that he gradually recovered from the impact, he continued:

“Master, according to the handwriting of the Fengling Moon Shadow Sect, everything in the world is composed of smaller particles.

These particles are called molecules, and molecules are composed of atoms, and atoms are the smallest things in the world.

Therefore, it can also be said that everything in the world is composed of atoms. “

Old Su repeated:

“Atom? Molecule?”

Xu Yun nodded, pointing to the remaining coarse salt solution in front of him:

“For example, salt water, which is a substance composed of sodium chloride molecules and water molecules.

Contains chlorine, sodium, oxygen, hydrogen and other atoms.

Among them, the combination of chlorine atoms and hydrogen atoms will form hydrogen chloride gas. When hydrogen chloride is dissolved in water, it will form the hydrochloric acid we see. “

be honest.

Xu Yun’s remarks are actually not rigorous from the perspective of later generations.

In later generations, matter from the largest to the smallest is almost like this:

The entire universe can be decomposed into various galaxy clusters and galaxies.

Galaxies can be broken down into stars, and stars can be broken down into molecules and atoms.

Molecules can be broken down into atoms.

Atoms can be broken down into nuclei and electrons.

Atom nuclei can be decomposed into protons and neutrons.

Protons and neutrons can (in theory) be decomposed into quarks.

Current theories and technologies are reaching the quark level. There are 62 kinds of “elementary” particles such as quarks, leptons, and gluons, among which photons are more special.

Therefore, Xu Yun’s correct statement should be ‘sodium chloride is an ionic compound, consisting of a sodium ion and a chloride ion in the form of an ionic bond’.

For example, when referring to chemical properties, it is more accurate to describe sodium, chlorine, hydrogen, and oxygen with elements.

However, for a beginner like Lao Su, the most urgent task now is to establish microscopic cognition as soon as possible, so the subdivision of matter is not so important:

It doesn’t make much sense for you and him to explain ions, protons, and atomic numbers.

Sometimes it may be a good thing to exchange academic slack for easy-to-understand knowledge.

As he spoke, Xu Yun grabbed the air again, and said to Old Su:

”In fact, not only the solution, but also in our air, there are gas molecule particles formed by oxygen atoms and carbon atoms.

These are things that cannot be seen clearly.

These particles are inhaled into the body, and some of them provide the energy our bodies need to survive. “

Old Su also took a handful of air, looked at the empty palm, and suddenly thought of something.

I saw him turn his head to look at Xu Yun, and recited in his mouth:

“A one-foot stick, take half of it every day, and it will last forever?”

Xu Yun was taken aback when he heard the words, then his eyes widened suddenly, and he took a deep breath.

Good guy.

Old Su’s acceptance speed is so terrifying!

If Lao Su was born in a later life, he would probably be a super genius.

A one-foot-long stick, take half of it every day, and it will last forever.

This sentence comes from “Zhuangzi · Tianxia Pian”.

Actually.

The original meaning of this sentence is that Zhuangzi is satirizing Huishi, saying that he likes to create weird theories through sophistry.

But the understanding of later generations has gradually become distorted, and it is regarded as a question of exploring the origin of the world:

A one-foot-long stick keeps taking half of it, so isn’t it endless?

Also worth mentioning.

The posterity here does not refer to the 21st century, but refers to the period of the feudal dynasty, from the beginning of Tang Dynasty to the end of Ming Dynasty.

It is clear.

This sentence involves a certain microscopic concept—especially in the current environment, so there is no need for Lao Su to quote it.

Under the premise that the distance between the two parties is close to a thousand years or a complete scientific theoretical system, this is already the most suitable sentence that Old Su can find.

This is like a junior high school student who has only mastered basic algorithms and is learning Maxwell’s equations across stages.

The two are clearly separated by an insurmountable barrier, but the junior high school student just found a generalized solution of a linear group.

Then Lao Su tapped the table where Xu Yun was doing experiments with his fingers, and the stone table made a dull sound:

“Xiao Wang, according to what you said, this stone table is also composed of molecules?”

Xu Yun nodded, affirming:

“Yes, its constituent molecules are called calcium carbonate and silicon dioxide, which are composed of calcium atoms, carbon atoms, oxygen atoms and silicon atoms.”

Old Su blinked, noticed a word, and said curiously:

“Xiao Wang, if the old man remembers correctly.

In the three examples you mentioned, it seems that the word oxygen atom is mentioned? “

Xu Yun was no longer surprised by Lao Su’s sensitivity, and nodded neatly:

“That’s right, oxygen and carbon atoms are basically one of the most common atoms in nature, so the number of occurrences must be higher.”

Old Su nodded slightly, just when Xu Yun thought he was going to ask some more questions related to particle structure, he suddenly changed the subject:

“Xiao Wang, according to what you said, your illness is also caused by molecules or atoms?”

Xu Yun was stunned for a few seconds in surprise, and after recovering, he was silent for a moment:

“Although Zhonghou’s illness can be said to be related to atoms, it is more accurate to say that

Bacteria cause disease. “

“bacteria?”

Xu Yun took a deep breath and explained:

“Master, do you still remember the sentence I quoted earlier? There are all kinds of beings in the air.

This word is not an exaggerated description. In fact, in the air, there are a large number of tiny creatures that are difficult to see directly with the naked eye.

In the handbook of Fenglingyueyingzong, they are called microorganisms.

Some of these microorganisms are beneficial to the human body, some are relatively neutral, and some are extremely harmful.

For example, Zhonghou’s disease is bacteremia and sepsis caused by Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus saprophyticus, and Gram-positive bacteria, which can be regarded as a serious illness.

After these microorganisms entered Zhonghou’s body, a large amount of toxins were carried in Zhonghou’s blood.

These toxins reach the whole body through the weekly circulation from the wound, which makes it severely comatose. “

Same as the previous particle structure of matter.

Xu Yun’s explanation of microbes is also a bit broader:

He temporarily concealed the key distinguishing point of cell structure, and directly classified the properties of bacteria and viruses together. The purpose is the same, or to make Lao Su understand.

Maybe it is because of the background of the previous material particles.

After Xu Yun said something that contradicted the eyes of this era, Lao Su’s reaction was not so gaffe.

After all, he is also a quasi-authoritative doctor, and there is a relatively slight cognitive fit for the concept of ‘microorganisms’.

After all, the descriptions of many diseases in traditional Chinese medicine start with the word ‘feeling’, such as the often heard ‘evil qi/yin qi/turbid qi entering the body’ and so on.

Chinese medicine believes that the human body has a normal operating state, and any factors that cause problems in this operating state are evil.

Wind-cold is cold evil, tuberculosis is epidemic evil.

Actually, the word epidemic is enough to explain many things.

But in order to avoid tearing, let’s be conservative.

Not to mention the microscopic concept, at least it is at least a judgment on the source of the disease. There is nothing wrong with this, right?

This is a relatively primitive cognition, so it is quite easy for Lao Su to understand what he said about ‘microorganisms’.

But just listening to it does not mean accepting this concept. Lao Su’s temperament is obviously not the kind of person who listens to the wind and rain.

I saw him pondering for a while, and then asked aloud:

“It doesn’t matter whether it’s an atom or a microbe.

These things cannot be seen by naked eyes, so how do you know they exist? “

Xu Yun was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled:

“Sir, have you ever heard of a microscope?”

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(end of this chapter)