Mythological novels, that is, with the help of myths in the form of expression, to myths and legends as the subject matter, the content of the novel, in which the details of the metaphysical, the characters often come from the author's imagination or the ancient people's oral tradition, is the ancient period of science and technology in the field of blank social and artistic embodiment. Yet the hidden scientific attributes of the unique "Journey to the West" are a revelation.
The banana fan can really blow a gale. Counting the characters in the Journey to the West who can call the wind and rain, there are really quite a few. And among them, the Yellow Wind Monster and Princess Iron Fan, the two masters of wind mechanics, is considered a "meteorologist".
The yellow wind monster can be counted as half of the academy, after all, he had "master from" the small Sumeru Mountain Lingji Bodhisattva, where he stole to drink the lamp oil to get the way, this behavior is equivalent to the University of dilly-dallying classes, can be described as a hard-working bully, "inspirational brother". Another character's "education" is not high, but in the technical attainments is not small, just because she has a coveted treasure, she is the Monkey King's sister-in-law, the wife of the King of Ox Demons - Princess Iron Fan.
Princess Iron Fan, also known as the Rakshasa Lady, possessed a treasure called the Banana Fan, which, with a single blow, could immediately blow a gust of wind powerful enough to extinguish the flames of the Flaming Mountain, and even bring about torrential downpours. The Tang Monk and his disciples went to great lengths to borrow this treasure from Princess Iron Fan. The wonderful description of this story in the novel makes people applaud, but at the same time, we also know that there is no such treasure under the sky, just as a hilarious look.
Of course, there is no such thing as a banana fan, but from a scientific point of view, it is not a mirage that a fan can whip up a big wind. This phenomenon involves the American meteorologist Edward Lorenz put forward the "butterfly effect" theory, and if the scientist knows that in China more than a thousand years ago, there is such a beautiful peer, I'm afraid he will think that the "fan effect" to name this discovery It is more appropriate.
So a banana fan can really cause a huge storm. Theoretically, this is possible, because the Flaming Mountain is located in Xinjiang Turpan Basin on the northern edge of the Chinese and foreign famous wind mouth, even in the wind is relatively small in the summer, there are often eight or nine gusts of wind. In this place to take a fan fan down, according to the "butterfly effect" theory, may cause a storm is not trivial, of course, the affected area is a little farther away, not as in the novel as in front of you.
There really are sleepyheads. Sleeping insects can be considered the most simple and effective, but at the same time the most harmless magic weapon of Sun Da Sheng. Just see the monkey king plucked a few hairs, read a short incantation, a few sleepy worms will pounce on the human face and go, in a short while, the pounced person will sleep peacefully. This kind of spell does not cause any harm to the person being cast, on the contrary, it seems to be very popular with insomniacs. The Sleepy Worm spell seemed much like today's anesthetics, yet it was much more comfortable than anesthesia.
So, are there any sleepyheads in reality? Of course there are, and these real-life sleepyheads can be far more vicious than Sun Da Sheng's hypnotic gadgets.
The real-life sleepyhead, also known as the Trypanosoma cruzi, has a hypnotic routine that first makes people tired, then puts them to sleep, and of course, after they fall asleep, they're likely to never wake up again. Trypanosomes are mainly found in Gambia and Zimbabwe in Africa. Although there is the word "worm", they are actually smaller than a grain of sand and cannot be seen by the naked eye. So how does such a tiny species get into the human body and "hypnotize" humans?
Originally, this horrible sleepy bug can't invade the human body by itself, and it has to rely on a kind of carrier - the tsetse fly. The tsetse fly is a kind of animal blood-sucking insects to survive, and trypanosomes live in the tsetse fly body to travel around, so that the tsetse fly can be like mosquitoes to spread malaria, between humans and animals to spread trypanosomiasis.
Today, the sleepy bug is still endemic in Africa, claiming tens of thousands of lives each year. In comparison, our fighting Buddha is truly merciful. "One day in heaven, one year on earth."
According to "Journey to the West" or other ancient Chinese myths and legends, a day spent in the heavenly palace where the Jade Emperor and the immortals live makes a year pass on earth. This conversion method seems to have become one of the laws that must be referred to in writing myths and legends. When times are bad, I really envy the immortals, if I can go to the heavenly palace for a day or two, taste all the food that is not available on earth, enjoy all the scenery that is not available on the earth, and also fast-forward the difficult years of my life, wouldn't it be great?
However, when I grew up, I realized that the seemingly ridiculous myth of "one day in the sky, one year on the ground" is entirely possible. Indirect proof of this bizarre set of people, is the physicist Albert Einstein, 1905, Einstein published "on the electrodynamics of moving bodies" article, the first proposed special relativity theory of flat space-time theory. More than 100 years later, numerous attempts to challenge this "anti-human, counter-intuitive" theory have failed, further suggesting the possibility that it is real.
According to the theory of special relativity, when an object is traveling at a speed close to the speed of light, we can see from our point of view that it is experiencing a slowing down of the passage of time; and when it is traveling faster than the speed of light, it will experience a reversal of time, going back in time.
From this, we can envision that, assuming that the heavenly palace is maneuvered by the immortals to run fast enough to approach the speed of light, a day in the heavenly palace could truly be a year on earth for mortals on earth.
How the tightrope works. The Sun Walker, who can do anything in heaven and on earth, immediately surrendered as soon as he saw his master reciting the tight-band incantation, why. This is all thanks to the golden hoop that the Goddess of Mercy put on the Great Sage's head.
The golden hoop is an ornament made by the bodhisattva to restrict the behavior of the Monkey King. And for the gold band to work and tighten the monkey's head, it had to be coupled with an incantation from Elder Tang. In fact, the gold band is a highly decorative metal ring, the diameter of which can be changed to a larger or smaller size, similar to a "smart wearable device". With today's science and technology, if we want to restore the golden hoop, a simpler solution would be to use an electric motor to drive a screw drive system to adjust the diameter of the metal ring that is engraved with threads. But if you do this, the whole device will not be beautiful enough in appearance, the operation will be noisy, therefore, there is a more lofty program, is the use of memory alloy to create a gold hoop. Memory alloys can take on different shapes at different temperatures.
The "gold band" is built, and the "spell" is much simpler to realize. Speech recognition and voiceprint recognition technology has long been used in the field of electronic products. When the Goddess of Mercy granted the Tang Monk the spell of tight bands, in fact, it is equivalent to the "gold band" this "electronic products" recorded in the voiceprint of the Tang Monk. Since then, it has only been able to recognize the Tang monk's voice.
What material is the golden rod made of. In the Journey to the West, there is an ancient artifact, which was originally forged by Lord Taishang with sacred iron, and then borrowed by Dayu to heal the sea and left behind at the bottom of the sea in the east - the "divine needle" - Ruyi's Golden Hoop Cudgel.
The golden rod was used as a weapon by the Great Sage, who was born with divine power, and was as thick as the mouth of a bowl, as long as two zhang, and as heavy as 13,500 pounds. According to the metric conversion, the golden rod diameter of about 10 centimeters, more than 3 meters long, weighing 8,000 kilograms, which can be calculated, its density is about 107 times that of water.
In reality, if you really want to build such a stick, it is possible to find the necessary materials "iron". The answer is yes. The "iron" comes from the earth's core, which is 6,000 kilometers deep beneath our feet.
The earth's core is mainly composed of iron and nickel, the depth of the region's pressure of more than 3 million atmospheres, the temperature of more than 5,000 degrees Celsius, in such an environment, the form of iron has become very strange, both crystalline, but also fluid, the density of more than 100 times that of water. Density of such a large object, be touched by it, of course, is either death or injury.
And the golden rod can be big and small, to the smallest case, with the embroidery needle, Monkey can hide it in the ear. If the golden rod were to shrink to such a small size, its density would be two million times that of water.
Substances of this density do exist in the universe: white dwarfs. White dwarfs are the oldest state of many stars, and six billion years from now, the sun could become a white dwarf, and at that time, go to the sun and chisel out an iron rod the size of an embroidery needle, and that would be the smallest state of the golden rod.
Originally, the things that seemed like a fantasy to our forefathers could become a reality with the development of science and technology. So the fantasies that we see as impossible today may also be realized in the future.