Myth novels are novels with myths and legends as the theme and content and with the help of their forms of expression. The details and characters of fantasy often come from the author's imagination or the oral tradition of the ancients, which is a blank social and artistic embodiment in the field of ancient science and technology. However, the scientific attributes hidden in the unique The Journey to the West are surprising.
Banana fans can really blow strong winds. There are quite a few people who can have the final say in Journey to the West. Among them, Huang Fengguai and Princess Tiefan are considered as "meteorologists".
Huang Fengguai is half academic. After all, he once "studied" with Ji Ling Bodhisattva in Little Sumi Mountain, where he took the right path by stealing lamp oil. This kind of behavior is equivalent to skipping classes in college, and he is a diligent "inspirational brother" in top student. The other character's "education" is not high, but her technical attainments are not small, just because she has a coveted magic weapon, she is the Monkey King's sister-in-law, the wife of Niu-Princess Iron Fan.
Princess Iron Fan is also called a rogue, and there is a baby named Banana Fan. This kind of fan can immediately blow strong winds, which are strong enough to put out the flames of the Flame Mountain and even bring downpours. The Tang Priest's master and disciples had a great effort to borrow this treasure from Princess Iron Fan. The wonderful description of this story in the novel makes people clap their hands, and at the same time, everyone knows that there is no such treasure in the world, so just watch.
Of course, there is no such thing as a banana fan, but from a scientific point of view, fans are not incapable of blowing strong winds. This phenomenon involves the theory of "butterfly effect" put forward by American meteorologist edward lorenz, and if this scientist knew that there was such a beautiful woman in China more than 0/000 years ago, I'm afraid he would think it more appropriate to name this discovery "fan effect".
So flapping the banana fan can really cause a huge storm. Theoretically, it is possible, because the Flame Mountain is located in the northern edge of Turpan Basin in Xinjiang, and it is a famous tuyere at home and abroad. Even in the summer when the wind is relatively light, there is often a strong wind of magnitude 89. Taking a fan down from this place, according to the "butterfly effect" theory, the storm that may be caused is no small matter. Of course, the disaster area is a little farther away, and it will not be in front of you as in the novel.
Are there really sleepy people? Sleepiness can be regarded as Sun's simplest and most effective magic weapon, and it is also the most harmless. I saw the Monkey King pluck a few hairs and read a short spell. Several sleepy people pounced on their faces, and soon, the victim would fall asleep peacefully. This spell will not cause any harm to the caster. On the contrary, it seems to be very popular with insomnia patients. Sleepiness looks like today's anesthetic, but it is much more comfortable than anesthesia.
So, is there a sleepyhead in reality? Of course, this kind of real drowsiness is much more ferocious than Sun's hypnotic gadgets.
Sleepy people in reality are also called trypanosomes. Its hypnotic routine is to make people tired first, and then let them sleep. Of course, after falling asleep, they will probably never wake up again. Trypanosoma is mainly distributed in Gambia and Zimbabwe in Africa. Although there is a word "worm", they are actually smaller than sand grains and invisible to the naked eye. So, how did such a tiny species enter the human body and "hypnotize" humans?
It turns out that this terrible drowsiness can't invade the human body on its own, but also depends on a means of transportation-tsetse flies. Tsetse fly is an insect that feeds on animal blood. Trypanosoma feeds on Tsetse fly and spreads everywhere. In this way, tsetse flies can spread trypanosomiasis between humans and animals just like mosquitoes spread malaria.
Today, this sleepy bug is still prevalent in Africa, killing tens of thousands of people every year. By contrast, it is very kind of us to defeat Buddha in the struggle. One day in the sky, one year on earth.
According to other ancient myths and legends in The Journey to the West or China, in the heavenly palace where the Jade Emperor and the immortals lived, one year passed by. This algorithm seems to be one of the laws that must be referred to in writing myths and legends. The world is not good, I really envy the gods. If I can swim in the Heavenly Palace for a day or two, taste all the delicious food that I can't eat on earth and appreciate all the scenery that I can't see on the ground, I can "fast forward" the hard years in my life. Isn't that beautiful?
However, when I grew up, I suddenly realized that the seemingly absurd myth of "one day in the sky and one year on the ground" was completely possible. The person who indirectly proves this bizarre setting is physicist Einstein. 1905, Einstein published a paper on electrodynamics of moving objects, and put forward the flat space-time theory of special relativity for the first time. 100 years have passed, although countless people have tried to challenge this "anti-human, anti-intuition" theory, they all ended in failure, further suggesting the possibility of this view's real existence.
According to the special theory of relativity, when an object runs at a high speed close to the speed of light, from our point of view, we will find that the passage of time experienced by this object is slowing down; When the speed of this object exceeds the speed of light, it will go back to the past, back to the past.
From this, we can imagine that if the speed of the Tiangong is fast enough and close to the speed of light under the control of the immortals, a day in the Tiangong may really be a year on the ground for mortals on the ground.
How does the hooping spell work? Sun Walker, who is omnipotent in heaven and earth, saw Master chanting and immediately surrendered. Why? This is all because Guanyin Bodhisattva put a golden hoop on the head of the Great Sage.
The golden hoop is an ornament made by Bodhisattva to restrain the Monkey King's behavior. In order to make the golden hoop stick work and tighten the monkey head, it is necessary to cooperate with the magic of Elder Tang. In fact, the gold hoop is a decorative metal ring, and its diameter can be enlarged and reduced, which is similar to a kind of "smart wearable device". With today's technology, if we want to restore this golden hoop, the simpler solution is to use a motor to drive the lead screw transmission system and adjust the diameter of the threaded metal ring. However, if you do this, the whole equipment will be unsightly in appearance and there will be noise during operation. So there is a higher solution, which is to use memory alloy as gold hoop. Memory alloys take on different shapes at different temperatures.
When the "golden hoop" is done, it is easier to realize the "magic". Speech recognition and voiceprint recognition technology have long existed in the field of electronic products. When Guanyin Bodhisattva cast a spell on Tang Priest, it was actually equivalent to inputting Tang Priest's voiceprint into the "golden hoop stick", an "electronic product". From then on, the "golden hoop" can only recognize the voice of Tang Priest.
What material is the golden hoop stick made of? There is an ancient artifact in The Journey to the West, that is, the wishful golden cudgel forged by Taishang Laojun with divine iron, which was later borrowed by Dayu to control water and left in the East China Sea.
The golden cudgel is a weapon used by the Great Sage to satisfy himself. It is a natural divine power. It is as thick as a bowl, 20 feet long and weighs 13500 Jin. According to the measurement and conversion at that time, the diameter of the golden hoop is about 10 cm, the length is more than 3 meters, and the weight is 8000 kg. It can be inferred that its density is about 107 times that of water.
In reality, if you really want to build such a golden hoop, is it possible to find the required material "divine iron"? The answer is yes, the "divine iron" comes from the core 6000 kilometers below our feet.
The core is mainly composed of iron and nickel. The pressure in this depth exceeds 3 million atmospheres and the temperature exceeds 5000℃. In this environment, the form of iron becomes very strange, both crystal and fluid, and its density is more than 100 times that of water. If an object with such a high density is touched by it, it will certainly be either dead or injured.
The golden hoop can be big or small. When it becomes the smallest, it is similar to an embroidery needle. Monkeys can hide it in their ears. If the golden hoop is reduced to such a small size, its density will be 2 million times that of water.
Matter of this density really exists in the universe, that is, white dwarfs. White dwarfs are the old age of many stars. After 6 billion years, the sun may also become a white dwarf. When the time comes, go to the sun and cut an iron bar the size of an embroidery needle, which is the golden hoop in the smallest state.
It turns out that what our ancestors thought was a fable may really become a reality with the development of science and technology. Then the fantasy that seems impossible to us now may come true one day in the future.