"The Chronicles of the Earth"--homework and minor theory

This is undoubtedly an unprecedented great book.

Tens of thousands of years before the time span, detailed to the heinous textual research details, very familiar, maneuvers of the data quoted, eloquent and introduced into the victory of logical reasoning, history is rare, no one does not reflect the author's demeanor.

I am a layman in archaeology, so I cannot set the rafters for this book, but because of my homework, I can only talk about the origin of life on Earth from other perspectives.

Notice that I used the word "eloquent" because in today's scientific sense, the logical reasoning in the book cannot be called Rigor. This book was written in 1977, this is a very interesting era, the era of human exploration of extraterrestrial civilization is just beginning, all is unknown, all the people are enthusiastic to play their own imagination, imagining the human past, imagining the future of mankind, imagine the human and extraterrestrial civilization contact what kind of? I think the book appeared in that era and was widely admired, not by accident.

In modern times, I think that the human attitude towards extraterrestrial life can be broadly divided into three stages:

The first stage was in the 70 's NASA and ESA launched the Voyager 1th Deep space probe, this phase is mainly in the external star civilization form of imagination and various (blind) search-oriented. Because there is no understanding and experience can be consulted, human beings for extraterrestrial life form of imagination, a variety of, difficult to do the table;

The second stage after the launch of the Voyager 1th probe, this period of human feelings for extraterrestrial civilization seems to be dominated by fear, through a variety of works of art to express the fear and anxiety of alien life, very typical of the 1979 began to shoot and lead the trend of the first film "Alien" series, And the "Independence Day", which everyone is familiar with, is a work of art produced by mankind's fear of the unknown world.

The third stage marks the 30 anniversary of the launch of the 2007 Traveler's probe, in which scientists have published a large number of informative solar system planets in 30 years, and for the first time humans have a real understanding of extraterrestrial civilization and the possible forms of life, and thus have never had the confidence to do so. The understanding of extraterrestrial life, from the earliest fear, myth and exaggeration, to objective and cool data-based analysis, is increasingly accepted by the general public, and this sentiment is also gradually reflected in literature and film works. For example, in the recent Hollywood sci-fi films, human beings can often rout aliens, which is not the same as a few decades ago after the human and alien encounters basically can only be resigned to the film and television works compared.

Several of the more important conclusions of this 35-year exploration have been: 1. There is no doubt about the existence of extraterrestrial life. 2. But at least in the solar system, extraterrestrial life forms are far lower than ours. 3. In the lifetime of our generation, it may be possible to have personal exposure to extraterrestrial life (no sci-fi!). ）。

At the same time, in another field, the changes in the understanding of the origin of the universe from the point of view of physics have also quietly and dramatically changed people's views. For the last 10 years, the concept of parallel universes has gradually become a theory accepted by most physicists. Contrary to the traditional view that the history of the universe is a single-threaded form of development, multiple universes coexist and may collide with each other in a mainstream view. For example, a hot topic a few years ago, a person claiming to be named John Tito, said on the internet that he was a time traveler from another parallel space (see http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E7%BA%A6%E7%BF%B0%C2% B7%E6%8F%90%E6%89%98), has aroused strong concern in the Western society, the Japanese also according to this event filmed a cartoon "Destiny Stone Gate". And Hollywood's recent work on parallel universes is endless. "Star Trek" this year's hot sci-fi film, in fact, also contains such ideas, in this film, ultimately help the hero to save the human "they"-those who began to be regarded as the god of the species, in fact, is the future of human themselves. If we look at the history of the universe and the Earth from this point of view, we will have a tremendous change in our understanding of the unidirectional linear development of Earth's history.

Having said so much before, and then back to the Book of the Earth Chronicle, if we look at the book with the knowledge we have today, then the various textual evidence in the book can actually be interpreted in another way (of course, in the context of the author, he made this interpretation in the book is fully understandable). But the most important thing is that today's human beings are thinking about things that may have gone beyond what was considered in that era: the mere understanding of what human ancestors are, I am afraid, cannot explain our doubts about Earth and life, because where did human ancestors come from? When the contemporary humanity is trying to find the answer to Earth's history and life, it is understood that the universe itself may be a form of life, and that human existence may be a part of this life form, and a process. In this new framework, the journey of human beings to find their own beginnings and ends has only just begun.

"The Chronicles of the Earth"--homework and minor theory