Chapter 114: [Poincare Returns]

Ma Shao fell into silence for a long time.

Looking at his expression, there was gradually some despair in the old bear's eyes.

At this moment, this old man who was about to leave the world looked like a child who had just come into the world, as if he was about to cry out in grievance: "Really? No?"

Ma Shao finally sighed: "Yes."

The old bear's eyes regained their spirits, and his breathing became rapid: "Is there really a heaven and a hell?"

It was raining when he looked at Ma Shao, and everyone looked over too.

After all, Ma Shao had never said such words. He had always denied all ghosts and gods, including himself.

Ma Shao nodded and said slowly: "Yes, both heaven and hell can exist. They also exist in the human world, just like the world we live in now."

The old bear seemed to understand what he heard, and confusion was written on his face: "Heaven and hell are on earth?"

"In the future human world," Ma Shao explained, "the future human world will become heaven or hell. If the human world eventually becomes heaven, the dead can be resurrected there."

"Really?" The old bear seemed to understand, and a smile of surprise appeared on his haggard face.

Ma Shao: "Everything is in an endless process of evolution and change. As long as our universe becomes an eternal paradise, human consciousness will surely return to its place in this evolution."

"So, our death is like a sleep. No matter how long the outside world has passed, whether it is a hundred years or a hundred million years, it will all be a dream for us. When we wake up from the dream, we will go from the human world to heaven."

The process he described is actually the famous "Poincare Recurrence Theorem" or "Poincare Recurrence Theorem".

In the theory of Poincare recurrence, a system can return to its previous state after a long period of time. Of course, the premise is that the system meets some basic conditions, such as the system has enough time.

Because the Poincare recurrence takes too long.

Not to mention a person, even a grain of sand would take much longer to return than the expected lifespan of the universe. Under such time requirements, the Poincare recurrence has no practical significance.

So Ma Shao added a limiting condition: the world becomes heaven.

What he meant by the transformation of the earth into heaven was actually that the universe had gained eternal evolution time and was no longer limited by life span. Of course, future generations would inevitably attach other conditions of Poincare recurrence.

All in all, he used this method to promise a paradise to Old Bear and others without going against his own beliefs.

After all, the Poincare recurrence has been rigorously proven mathematically. As long as the universe meets the conditions, it will eventually recur.

The old bear was even more surprised, and his breathing became more rapid: "As long as I take a nap, I can go to heaven when I wake up?"

Ma Shao smiled: "Yes, and maybe that's the scene right now. You close your eyes, take a nap, then slowly open your eyes and see us standing by your bed and telling you: Dear old bear, we are in heaven now!"

The old bear laughed until tears came out of his eyes. "Great! I'll talk to you guys again after I wake up. I actually have a lot to say! A lot of things!"

His lungs were gasping violently and painfully, but his body lay quietly on the bed, looking at the ceiling with satisfaction and longing in his eyes.

Finally, the old bear slowly closed his eyes with a peaceful look.

Obviously, he was looking forward to the moment when he would open his eyes again.

Many people gathered around him and cried.

After a while, Ma Shao and Xia Yutian walked out of the room. Xia Yutian said, "Are you here to comfort Old Bear?"

"Yes, but that's not a lie," said Ma Shao.

Rainy Day was surprised and said, "But you have always said that there is no heaven or hell, only the human world. I also wrote in the book that everything is in the human world. Are you going to change it back now?"

"No." Ma Shao shook his head. "What doesn't exist is the heaven and hell described by other religions. But this heaven and hell can exist. We can even find proof."

Rainy Day was incredulous: "Proof? You mean, proof like in mathematics? Is it true or not?"

"Really." Ma Shao said affirmatively.

"This is too outrageous." Rainy Day still didn't believe it, "Are you too sad? If you really can't help it, I suggest you just cry it out. It's not good to hold it in."

"." Ma Shao was silent for a moment, then explained in more popular language, "Think about how our bodies came about. You have to know that the materials in nature are constantly circulating. Corpses rot and merge into the soil, and plants grow in the soil. The plants are eaten by cows, and the cows are eaten by humans. The food is absorbed by the human body, and part of it becomes the body of a baby in the mother's belly. Then the baby grows up, ages, dies, merges into the soil, and repeats the process."

"As long as our universe is eternal, sooner or later, the matter that once made us up will be reassembled into us after countless cycles, and we will open our eyes and return to the world of the living."

Listening to his narration, Rainy Day's eyes gradually brightened, and a look of shock appeared on his face. He was so excited that his whole body was shaking: "This... This is simply, this is simply!"

Faced with such a charming scene, even with his level of Chinese language skills, he couldn't find a suitable adjective for a moment.

Compared with this wonderful and true theory, the heaven depicted by other religions seems to be a remote and dull place.

But Rainy Day soon realized something: "But, I remember you also said that the universe is not eternal."

Ma Shao nodded: "So I added a prerequisite - when the world becomes an eternal paradise. In an eternal paradise, time is endless, which is naturally enough for all consciousness to return to its original position."

Rainy Day thought for a moment and said, "According to this theory, anyone can return, good people and bad people can return. Doesn't this mean that our religion has lost its moral significance? Moreover, heaven is always a hope for the afterlife, which tends to be out of touch with reality and easily makes people lazy in this world. This is also one of the reasons why you oppose heaven."

Ma Shao: "The world doesn't necessarily have to become an eternal paradise. It could also become a hell."

"Moreover, turning into hell is a high probability event, while turning into heaven is a low probability event. After all, everything has its 'original calamity'."

In the system of the Oracle religion, there is no such thing as original sin, but there is the concept of "original catastrophe", which means that all things have to go through eternal catastrophes and have a natural tendency towards chaos and destruction.

Everything in the world is in a state of either advancement or regression; this is the nature of matter.

He continued: "If we want to overcome the original catastrophe and turn the world into a paradise, we need people with faith to actively fight in this world, fight forever, and work tirelessly for the great ideal..."

"Heaven can exist, but it depends on our own construction, not on the natural setting of the universe, or on gods or saviors."

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