pertwk Chapter 119 Riley and Edith
Chapter 119 Riley and Edith
Chapter 119 Riley and Edith
Children are a topic worth mentioning.
Especially for Riley and Edith.
Because in the beginning they didn't have the ability to create a child.
It should be said that they really belong to their children.
This is also the helplessness of the machine girl.
But after the transcendent gave them something, the impossible became possible.
Silicon-based life refers to organisms based on silicon as an organic substance.Among the amino acids that make up silicon-based organisms, the link between the amino group and the carboxyl group is silicon, so it is called silicon-based organisms.
At the moment when the universe was born, everything collided with each other until it became a kind of coincidence.Planets and planets, many suns, because of mutual attraction, produced the law of the universe.Planets are more like those creatures that colonize the universe, and the production of all life is closer to the body of bacteria.And the silicon element and liquid oil are produced due to the reflected energy of the universe.In human language, it is as if the universe produced robots.
For robots, their lifespan is closer to time in Greek, a kind of time that won't break.But the silicon-based life is close to this kind of eternity, but it is in this kind of time of destruction.
This is because silicon and carbon belong to the same group in the periodic table, that is, in the same column, that is, silicon is directly below carbon.
The carbon element has 6 protons, the innermost layer of the atom has two electrons, and the outer layer has four electrons. Silicon has 14 protons and three layers of electrons, 2, 8, and 4.
That means, both carbon and silicon want to get four electrons in their outermost electron orbitals, so they have a lot of the same chemistry.
Carbon can bond with four hydrogens to form methane (CH4), and silicon can also bond to form silane (SiH4); there are also silicates and carbonates that are similar compounds; and silicon polymers can also form long chains, Compounds that may contain oxygen atoms to form silicones.
For example: siloxane, we often use it to synthesize fibers, so some people think that silicon-based life is some movable crystals, and this kind of life may be connected by transparent fiber filaments.So is it possible that such a creature exists?
We cannot accurately predict what silicon-based life will look like, but according to some situations on the earth, the formation of life requires extremely complex chemical substances. If we want thousands of atoms to form long chains of organic molecules stably , carbon appears to be the only option.
Because carbon has some advantages that silicon does not have.Carbon is much more active than silicon, and it is very easy to form arbitrarily large and complex molecules, but silicon is not good, and the bonding ability of silicon is very poor, and the chemical bonds are not stable, that is to say, long chains of organic molecules formed by silicon Its thermal stability is very poor, it is easy to break, and the silicon-hydrogen and silicon-oxygen bonds are easily broken by protic solvents (that is, solvents containing OH bonds or NH bonds).It is important to know that solvents with OH bonds (water) and NH bonds (ammonia) are very common in the universe.
In this way, if silicon-based life really exists, they are really fragile, and the chemical bonds may be broken and fractured by a slight fall. That is to say, the structure of this kind of life cannot be very large. very bad.
Of course, this is completely designed according to the conception of the earthlings.In fact, don't forget that silicon-based life may be transparent on different planets, or it may be a kind of life that comes and goes without a trace.This kind of life completely subverts the laws of carbon-based life,
Some people think that this kind of carbon-based life can kill 10 silicon-based life.Because our own long chains of macromolecules based on carbon are more stable than their bonding ability.If this is the case, you can't even discover silicon-based life, so how can you fight ten of them?
When carbon is oxidized on Earth, it forms carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, two gases that break down easily even at low temperatures.This property means that carbon can form the basis of any life at the bottom of the food chain, such as plants.Although carbon dioxide is a trace gas in Earth's atmosphere, plants filter it to make the food they need and more plants.Carbon is the most reducible and oxidizing element, and there are countless high molecular organic substances based on carbon, which are also the products of the chemical reactions of life on earth.Carbon-based life is the leader on the earth, but in the environment outside the earth, carbon-based organisms cannot survive.It seems that the only planets that meet the conditions for the existence of carbon-based life are the earth.
Many planets in the universe have very strong cosmic rays, the air is very thin, or the temperature is very high-or low. Under some conditions, carbon-based life cannot survive. For any life Both are fatal.The most important point is that the activities of carbon-based life cannot be separated from water. Water and oxygen are necessary to maintain normal life activities, and both are indispensable.
If carbon-based life really wants to go out of the earth and go to more distant outer space, it must be protected by thick protective clothing.Even on some planets with harsh environments, even with adequate protective measures, it is difficult for human beings to set foot.If these life forms are not carbon-based life forms but silicon-based life forms, will all these problems be solved?From a chemical point of view, although silicon and carbon are very close, there are still essential differences.
On a planet with no oxygen, no water, and a temperature above 1000 degrees, it should be the most suitable environment for silicon-based life to survive. Silicon-based life does not reproduce by parent cells, it should be split by its own elements, there is no respiratory system, and it is not afraid of cosmic rays. Infringement, their technological development may be far beyond what we don’t know how far away, maybe our earth has already had silicon-based life activities, but they see us, just like we see ants, and they don’t bother to pay attention That's all for you.
Of course, in the vast universe, life forms should not be limited to carbon-based life or silicon-based life, and there should be other forms of life forms, but we have no way to discover them, just like someone proposed an eleven-dimensional universe Like space, you are not in one dimension, there is nothing you can do about it.
This is why Edith is so powerful as soon as he comes out.
All carbon-based life on earth is based on carbon, but silicon-based life is dominated by silicon. In addition to silicon, there are also some material elements such as boron and phosphorus. Unlike the human body, these silicon-based Life does not need protein and DNA, which means that they do not need oxygen in the process of survival. In this way, their living range becomes larger, and our search for alien life is limited The sex is also reduced, and the forms of their existence in the universe are more changeable.
In fact, Edith has already broken away from the shackles of the body and can exist consciously.
Everything the Transcendence envisions is based on theory, but has never been actually tested.
Conceiving offspring requires effort from both the uterus and both partners.
And now, two people are not actually one person at all.
Why do you say that the stronger you are, the harder it is to reproduce?
That's it.
And the two people can now change this step, and the sphere provided by the transcendent can replace the function of the uterus.
Just add love and some power after adding your own genes.
Although it sounds simple.
But that's not easy.
It will take a long time and years to create the descendants of the gods outside the territory.
What is more important is gestation.
If there is no device provided by the transcendent, then even billions of years will not have any results.
This is far more complicated than building a universe.
Riley and Edith also thought about it for a long time.
Do you want a child or not.
In a way, reproduction is the instinct of human beings and the first condition for the continuation of civilization.
No matter how the social form changes, as long as it is not replaced by other species, childbearing will be an important theme of human existence.
But technically Riley isn't human right now.
In fact, having a child has little effect on him.
But this will cause great troubles in the follow-up life.
For what he was about to create was a god.
Educational issues are the first to be considered.
As the saying goes, no matter how poor you are, you can't have poor education.
If you can't develop a good three views for your future children.
Then the troubles that will follow will become more and more serious.
Also as a god, the limit is the same.
Riley will not have the idea of killing his son, and under eternal life, one day the two will have equal power.
At that time, if there is a conflict between father and son, how should we face it?
"Edith, have we really decided to have a baby?"
Edith didn't know the answer.
So no answer either.
For the first time, Riley recognized the same obsessions as ordinary people.
Face your child's problems.
Of course children will definitely want it.
Even without watching The Beyonder, Riley wants to have a love affair with Edith.
But still the problem.
education.
Riley really knows exactly who he is.
Understand better what you can and cannot do.
When it comes to educating children, he obviously can't do it.
Only the environment can change people.
But in the face of those who can change the environment, he really has nothing to do.
The two fell into deep thought.
After a long time, Riley spoke slowly.
"How about we simulate it?"
"simulation?"
Riley nodded, "Well, since we have no parenting experience, why don't we come to be parents once."
Edith didn't know why.
When it comes to the role models of parents, the most popular ones are the three relocations of Meng's mother and the tattooing of mother-in-law.
Riley, on the other hand, is creating a whole new world and making himself ordinary.
The salary is only [-] to [-] a month, and I live in a small single-family house, and I have to work hard to make a living every day.
After all, no matter how poor you are, you can only be so poor, right?
The extraterrestrial god status is turned on.
Riley created a planet.
But it must be remembered that Riley is not going to create a child, but possesses a pair of parents with Edith.
(End of this chapter)