Chapter 29: The Most Desperate Law

As Jiang Zhe analyzed the situation word by word...

All the experts and viewers who had previously looked down on Jiang Zhe were stunned.

This was a question many people had never paid attention to.

The Moon rotates around the Earth, the Earth rotates around the Sun, and the Sun, forming its own system, rotates around the Milky Way Galaxy...

Tracing back upwards, there must always be a maximum point.

Even the observable universe rotates around an even larger unobservable universe.

The culprit behind all of this is 'Gravity'!

Even an ordinary middle school student knows that because of the existence of Gravity, all things move, and particles continuously cycle through the universe.

"Holy crap... I actually understood it. What time rotates around—this explanation and viewpoint feel so badass, I can't even argue with it!"

"It's not that you've suddenly become smart; it's that Host Jiang is explaining it so clearly that everyone from the elderly to the young can understand."

"Damn, I thought I'd become smarter. I didn't expect Jiang Zhe was just looking out for us. How embarrassing."

"It's true. Gravity. Whether it's something small or large, everything rotates around something bigger. Even time is no exception!"

"..."

These questions were novel to the general audience.

But for the professors and graduate students who had questioned Jiang Zhe earlier, they realized he was indeed being very considerate of the general public's understanding.

Professor Feng looked at the large screen.

"Yes, his explanation is very basic, but his viewpoint is quite novel. What time rotates around must certainly be Gravity."

"The essence of Gravity is the warping of spacetime; if we ask what time is, the simplest answer is nothing more than the process of collisions, annihilation, and rebirth between particles—that is time."

"This sentence can also be understood as: Why do particles move? Because particles are also influenced by the Gravity of various celestial bodies like planets and stars within the space of the universe."

"Yes, his explanation is correct!"

At this moment, Leng Fei asked in confusion from below the stage, "Does this have any connection to time being a spiral, Professor?"

Professor Feng shook his head slightly. "I'm not quite sure."

...

Inside an office at the Yangcheng University of Science and Technology.

Professor Tang Yan watched the new viewpoint presented on the television, her face full of surprise.

"What time rotates around... Gravity."

"Time is within the entire universe, and particle movement is also within the entire universe... Explaining it this way isn't wrong."

"But what does this have to do with time being a spiral?"

At that moment, on the screen.

Jiang Zhe's powerful voice rang out once more.

"Everything in existence follows a dependence for survival."

"We have finished talking about how time depends on Gravity to exist."

"Or it can be understood as: the state of particle movement depends on Gravity to exist."

"Now, let's assume: what if time no longer exists?"

"If time does not exist, then it means a law of physics—Gravity—also ceases to exist."

Explaining up to this point, Jiang Zhe leaned over his desk and wrote two terms on the whiteboard.

[Destruction] and [Universal Nirvana]

He held up the whiteboard, faced the camera, and continued to explain.

"Now, based on this premise, we need to understand the ultimate root of all things: naturally, there will be a day of destruction."

"To explain the ultimate source of the Elixir of Immortality in the Bootstrap Paradox, and even to solve the complete version of the Bootstrap Paradox itself, we first need to understand [Destruction] and then [Universal Nirvana]!"

"What is [Destruction]? Let's use celestial bodies as an example!"

"A satellite rotating around the Earth has several possible outcomes. One is to orbit the Earth indefinitely until its life is exhausted."

"The second is falling because the Earth's mass gradually increases, causing it to be pulled in by Earth's Gravity."

"The last is breaking away from Earth due to a decrease in Earth's mass or the influence of other gravitational forces, perhaps to orbit another planet or crash into one."

"By comparison: our Earth also has many possible outcomes."

"1: Orbiting the Sun. One is to orbit the Sun in an infinite cycle until life is exhausted."

"2: Because the Sun's Gravity increases, being pulled in by the Sun and destroyed by the fall."

"3: A solar stellar storm destroys the Earth."

"There are also planets, stars, galaxies, even superclusters, and the entire universe—they all have a moment when they are exhausted."

"And the exhaustion of the universe is heat death, also known as [Nirvana]!"

Hearing this, the bullet comments in the livestream suddenly vanished; no one spoke anymore.

Everyone was listening seriously and intently, for fear of missing any part of the process.

They knew Jiang Zhe was analyzing every step in detail, afraid they wouldn't understand.

Occasionally, a few bullet comments appeared, mostly from curious elementary and middle school students.

"He's so considerate of someone like me who only finished middle school. He explains things more clearly and simply than my teachers. He's really capable!"

"Really, even I, in sixth grade, understood it."

"..."

On the screen.

Jiang Zhe deliberately slowed down his speaking pace, telling the story steadily.

"As our universe is an 'isolated' system, the entropy within the universe will increase over time, moving from order to disorder."

"There are quite a few knowledge points coming up, so please keep them in mind, viewers!"

As he spoke, more and more viewers who knew nothing about physics began to listen with even greater concentration.

A uniform wave of bullet comments drifted by: [Whatever, I don't understand anyway. You keep talking; it won't stop me from boosting your popularity!]

"What is entropy? This is also very simple."

"Its physical meaning is a measure of the degree of disorder in a system."

"Let's use us humans as an example."

"When we humans are first born, we are clean, tidy, and meticulous. Life begins from a new day."

"But as we age, due to the pressure of studies and work, more and more problems accumulate. When these problems reach a certain level..."

"That will be the moment of 'Game Over' for us humans!"

"At that time, when you enter the intensive care unit, your final hope is a lingering attachment, followed by the wish to ideally restart life once more!"

Jiang Zhe's explanation was easy to understand and involved things they encountered in their daily lives.

The arrival of various pressures caused them to suffer from various ailments.

Minor illnesses won't kill you, and major ones can't be cured.

"To combat these ailments, what do we humans do?"

"We eat healthy food and drink clean water, all to combat the onset of disease."

"We wear comfortable clothes to keep our body temperature at a level suitable for our survival, 36.5°C, so we can temporarily stay warm and maintain our health."

"Those of us at the bottom of society go into factories to turn screws or deliver takeout... In reality, it's all for that bit of salary, to obtain more food resources—that is, for survival."

"We reproduce, which is actually also to combat the increase in entropy. Since we know we cannot escape death, we leave behind our descendants to live on in our stead."

"It can also be said that our children will replace us who have died, living for us in this complex world full of desires!"

These words were highly educational!

Especially the students and professors studying physics, who one after another gave Jiang Zhe a thumbs up.

Not only in physics, but even students and professors of biology showed appreciative smiles.

"Badass. As a biology student, your example really opened my eyes."

"This seems like a very interesting and brand-new path!"

"No wonder this livestream is so popular. It turns out the host is unique and unconventional!"

"..."

While the audience was praising him, Jiang Zhe's speech continued.