In the dead of night, or when you are bored, I wonder if you have ever thought about some unrealistic problems.
Where do we come from and where do we die?
How are we connected to the world?
How did the universe in which we live be born, and will it perish?
Is our destiny a paved track or an unknown fork in the road?
If you have even thought about it for a moment, please don't miss this documentary——
"Miracle of the Universe"
I don't need to introduce too much about the documentary produced by the BBC.
With the broadcast of "Blue Planet 2" and "Earth Pulse 2" on domestic online platforms in recent years, the BBC is widely known to domestic audiences.
"Miracles of the Universe" is not a blunt and preachy popular science film, but a poem written by human beings to the universe.
It looks at the most grand and vast themes, and tells the universe and the connection between each of us and the universe from the four aspects of fate, stardust, gravity and light.
In the face of the 13.7 billion-year lifespan of the universe, time seems pale.
A person's life is a drop in the ocean.
It is not easy to experience "infinite" time with limited life.
Abstract time can actually be seen and touched.
In Costa Rica's Ostional National Wildlife Refuge, hundreds of thousands of Pacific ridley turtles come to lay their eggs every year.
And the habit of these ancient creatures to thrive here has lasted for 100 million years.
This time span is unimaginable, and the entire human history is only a few million years.
One hundred million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the earth.
After feeling the time, feel the distance again.
On September 5, 1977, the unmanned outer solar system space probe "Voyager 1" developed by NASA lifted off.
Its mission is to fly, as far as possible into outer space.
So far, it has been wandering the universe for more than 40 years.
In 1990, when it flew to the boundaries of the solar system, a photo was taken.
The looming bright spot in the picture is the Earth.
Humans used their own wisdom to complete the most magnificent "selfie".
At the same time, we also know how insignificant human beings and the earth are in the universe.
Although tiny, each of us is inextricably linked to the universe.
Actually, it's not just the earth.
From the sun to the earth, from the stars to the nebula.
From an animal to a plant, from a rock to a human.
They are all composed of these chemical elements, but the arrangement and composition ratio are different.
And these elements all come from the dazzling demise of stars.
Like people, stars (like the sun) have lives of their own.
Although its life is much, much longer than ours...
But in the end, the stars will end with a gorgeous big bang.
At a high temperature of 100 million degrees, protons form neutrons, and the two continue to collide and fission, eventually generating various chemical elements.
And these elements are the necessities that make up each of our lives.
Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, Chlorine, Magnesium, Iron, Zinc…
It is with the sacrifice of stars that other life forms are possible.
The most indissoluble bond with us humans is the Orion Nebula, which is about 1,500 light-years away from the earth.
Nebulae are the products of the explosion of stars.
With the gushing out of light and heat, new life is conceived in it.
See the sparkle in the animation? Those are newborn stars.
And the sun, on which we depend, used to be one of the bright spots.
The chemical elements that make up our life also come from the Orion Nebula.
Therefore, each of us and the universe have such a romantic and subtle connection.
It turns out that we often say "dust to dust, dust to dust."
It doesn't mean mortal dust, but star dust.
How beautiful! Whenever we look up at the stars, we look to where we came from.
"Miracles of the Universe" will make you understand that science is not boring and obscure calculations and deductions, but a romantic feeling.
to feel the life elements that the demise of the stars has given us;
Feel the miracle of evolution from a quark to a life;
Feel the sun just right to provide us with light and heat;
Feeling the earth's home allows human beings to stay in the universe for a while .
Yes, I used the words "stay for now".
Flowers have no re-opening day, and people have no whereabouts.
In Miracles of the Universe, there is a concept called the "arrow of time" .
This is an abstract concept, which regards time as an arrow from the string, from the beginning to the end, unchangeable and irreversible.
For example, the iceberg in the animation above.
All we can see is that it melts and disintegrates, falls into the sea, and becomes one with the water.
But we can never see the water leap out of the sea, freeze itself into ice, and become part of the glacier again, other than by playing it backwards.
This is the arrow of time.
Why does time pass?
Why are past and future different?
Why does everything keep changing?
Here, it is necessary to mention the second law of thermodynamics, also known as the "law of increasing entropy".
The formula in the figure may be difficult for you to understand.
But in my opinion, who is keen on science, I am also confused...
Therefore, the picture is not important, let me explain it briefly and briefly:
Everything will go from order to disorder , and this gives the "arrow of time" one of the biggest characteristics: the irreversibility of change .
That is to say, everything in the universe is changing, and this change cannot be reversed.
Broken mirrors cannot be reshaped, and sand dunes toppled cannot be rebuilt.
The film "Interstellar" also mentioned the irreversibility of time
In his masterpiece "A Brief History of Time" , the late British physicist Stephen Hawking divided the arrows of time into three categories:
1. The thermodynamic arrow of time, i.e. an increase in disorder or entropy;
2. Psychological arrow of time, feeling the direction of the passage of time, remembering the past rather than the future;
3. The cosmological arrow of time, the universe is expanding, not contracting.
The arrow of time will eventually lead mankind and the universe to the end of extinction.
This may be an unavoidable sad ending.
But the arrow of time has to go through a long flight, longer than we can imagine.
And when it flies, will it have already outlined the life trajectory of each of us?
The title of the first episode of "Miracles of the Universe" is: Destiny .
Science begins with religion and ends with philosophy.
Think about it, have the three been trying to answer the following three questions since their birth-
So, don't think it's a feudal superstition, it's just something that humans don't know or understand at the moment.
Cinema itself is the art of time.
In the 123 years since it was born, countless great filmmakers have spent their lives trying to find the ultimate answer to the 13.7 billion years of the universe in 90 minutes.
Perhaps, the answer is that everything is doomed?
"The Rainstorm Is Coming", "The Twelve Monkeys", "The Butterfly Effect"
"Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Another Spring", "Terrorist Cruise", "Big Brother"
"Pre-Destination", "Arrival", "Interstellar"
Cause and effect, fate, cycle, numerology, reincarnation ... always accompany these films that explore time.
In all contingency, there is a hidden necessity.
Watt was destined to invent the steam engine;
Van Gogh was destined to paint the "starry sky";
Newton was destined to propose the law of universal gravitation;
Beethoven was destined to compose a "Symphony of Fate";
Orson Welles was destined to make Citizen Kane.
"Arrival" lines
you are destined to meet someone;
you are destined to go to a certain school;
you are destined to work in a certain industry;
You are destined to settle in a certain city.
"Big Guy" lines
Of course, this does not mean that we should surrender to the gear of fate, be pessimistic and passive, and be passive and world-weary.
Through the crystallization of civilizational wisdom such as religion, science and philosophy, we can help us to recognize the road under our feet and the future in front of us.
That's the point.
Zeng Guofan said: "There are things you can do in life, and there are things you can't do. What you can do, you should try your best to do it, this is called doing your best; what you can't do, you should follow it with all your heart, this is called knowing your destiny."
"Butterfly Effect" lines
The future is doomed, but also unknown.
Don't give up because of the first half of the sentence, please do your best for the second half of the sentence.
"Arrival" lines
The dialog box replies to [Universe] to get the juice source.
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