1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 194 [End of Speech]

Who is George Boole?

If it is not the same name, this is the founder of Boolean algebra. If you have a little understanding of computer science, you must have heard his name.

But obviously, Mr. Boolean has not made such great achievements at this time, and it is quite unusual to appear here. After all, he is a mathematician, and his status is a bit amateur, and he has only recently shown some prominence in the academic circle.

It is not surprising to meet academic celebrities at Cambridge University. After talking and laughing with Kelvin and Joule for a period of time, Horse Whistle has already adapted to this.

But Boole's situation is a bit special, because speaking of it, the research results of this great mathematician are somewhat related to entropy, or have something to do with Shannon.

In the future, Shannon's master thesis, which will shake the past and the present, will be based on Boolean algebra.

"Please, Mr. Bull," said the horse whistle.

George Boole: "This is a great discovery, but I have a question, if according to the definition of the later formula, the increase of entropy does not seem to be an inevitable event?"

"Theoretically, it is true." Ma Whistle nodded, and then stretched out his hand to gesture, "But as long as you estimate it, you will know that even if it is just the air molecules in my palm—there may be ten to the power of ten, the probability of its entropy decrease It's also unimaginably low, almost impossible."

"We can set a probability, call it N, which refers to the probability of spontaneous entropy reduction visible to the naked eye."

Whistle wrote a letter N on the blackboard, then continued to hold the chalk and said, "How small will this N be? I guess, throw the chalk from one side to the other so that it just writes a line of Shakespeare on the blackboard." poem, the probability of this event may be N."

Bull frowned slightly, as if he was still a little confused, but he didn't know what to say.

Ma Whistle smiled: "I can probably guess your thoughts, Mr. Bull, in fact, before and after the birth of this formula, various doubts kept pouring out of my heart, and I recorded many of them. I will make them public shortly."

Next, someone asked: "Why can't entropy be defined as 'the degree of energy conversion' instead of the other way around?"

Ma Shao: "You have such doubts, probably because you haven't understood my further explanation of entropy. If it is only used as a data for the study of steam engines, it is fine to define entropy in reverse, but obviously, entropy will not be limited to The field of steam engines is not even limited to thermodynamics and physics..."

Hundreds of people in the audience raised their hands, and there are still many questions.

But the horse post doesn't have that much time.

In fact, he had taken up a lot of extra time in the meeting, and the next few speakers were already in line.

The line did not continue to extend, because it was obvious that it would be dark if we continued to line up.

"Last question." Horse whistle pointed at a random person.

"The concept of entropy is a bit obscure, but I have to say that you are an excellent lecturer, and I think I have understood the meaning of the word." The questioner said cautiously.

After a pause, he continued: "The law of entropy, or the 'Second Law of Thermodynamics'...it seems to reveal a destructive ending—our world will eventually evolve into the state of maximum entropy and chaos, towards Annihilation?"

People have responded to this question.

"Yeah, this is what I want to say, this law is too scary!"

"I'd rather believe that this law is false."

"Oh, chaos, is this the end of the universe..." People were pessimistic.

Ma Shao smiled slightly: "Everyone still remember what I said, the meaning of the word 'entropy' in the Apache language - Yuan Jie?"

"We must admit that this law reveals some unfortunate and pessimistic truths." He paced the podium, said slowly, "The first law tells us that you can never win the universe, and the second law tells us that you can never win the universe." Seems to tell us that you can't even tie."

"But things are not so absolute. After all, I also said that entropy reduction is theoretically possible, and even the reversal of the entire universe is not impossible."

"A...reversal of the universe?"

Horse whistle: "Yes, I think the word 'reversal' is very appropriate, because entropy also seems to indicate the direction of time, it is like the arrow of time, showing the irreversible order."

"In fact, I seriously considered the reversal of the universe or reorganization, regression, and got some mathematical results. But if I expand the presentation, I am afraid that other speakers at the conference will run out of time."

The audience was buzzing.

Entropy seems to reveal the fate of the entire universe, and there are already mathematical results?

There is no doubt that no one wants to hear other people's speeches anymore, and people even think that the horse whistle speech has only just begun.

But the horse whistle did not continue: "Sorry everyone, I think I have taken up too much meeting time. If anyone has any questions to discuss with me, we can do it outside the meeting."

He looked at George Bull with a suggestive look.

As one of the most important mathematicians of the nineteenth century, Boole is naturally worth dealing with.

"Or when my book is published, all the questions I can answer will be explained in the book." Ma Shao finally said, "Thank you for listening to my lengthy speech."

"Papa-papa--" Two seconds later, there was a round of applause from the audience who were still unsatisfied.

Horse Whistle breathed a sigh of relief, sat back beside Kelvin and Joule, and asked casually, "How do you feel?"

"Excellent!" laughed Thomson. "You are a natural lecturer and speaker."

Joule also said: "That's right, I believe everyone here has been convinced by you."

Ma Shao smiled and said nothing.

Then, Thomson and Joule's smiles subsided, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little quiet and awkward.

Ma Shao also felt this embarrassment and drank water by himself.

It wasn't until about half a minute later that Thomson broke the embarrassment and said, "All of these are problems you have already solved, including those discussed with us... right?"

Ma Shao, as a future physics teacher, in the process of interacting with Thomson and Joule, inevitably pretended to be confused and pretended to discuss some questions that he knew the answers to.

There will always be flaws in the disguise, and occasional leaks are inevitable.

It's just that Thomson and Joule haven't paid much attention all the time, and didn't realize that the horse whistle was pretending to be confused.

Until this speech, as the horse whistle continued to throw out heavy content and performed some ground-breaking unique skills in public, the two keen scientists finally recalled the stupid moves before the horse whistle and realized that something was wrong.

This Indian who came from afar had already built a nearly perfect thermodynamic edifice on his own.

The horse whistle was silent for two seconds, and decided to tell the truth: "Indeed, I have already solved some problems...Frankly speaking, I need your help, otherwise you can imagine that British journals will not accept a savage's submission .”

"You actually wrote the paper on thermodynamic temperature scale?" Thomson took a deep breath and asked again.

Ma Whistle: "Well...almost."

(End of this chapter)