Editor's note: The Four Precepts of The Four Precepts of The Great Fan is a famous book of exhortation in ancient China. The four-dimensional space is a research topic at the forefront of physics today. What kind of connection is there between what seems so unrelated? Let's take a look at how Professor Jia Xudong interpreted it.
The Four Precepts of The Four Teachings of The Mortals, called the Study of Creation of Life in Traditional Chinese Studies, tells the process of the author changing his destiny.
But what is the principle behind it, Sinology may not be able to explain clearly, this answer may need to be found in science.
Science, on the other hand, has been studying the mysteries of human destiny.
But the current science, there is no complete theory that can explain this problem clearly.
Now, in combination with the results of today's scientific research, we will read the Four Precepts of Van. It is possible that you will find that we can find the principle of the possible change of life in the Four Precepts of the Mortals.
Because today's scientific progress has far exceeded our imagination.
When was the last time you studied physics?
Under normal circumstances, if the university is not a science and engineering major, physics will not be studied again.
That is to say, the last time most people study physics is in high school.
I went to high school in the 1980s. So, in the textbooks of physics at that time, what era of scientific research was written about the knowledge?
Basically certainly, it was the knowledge of physics from the first half of the last century.
And as far as I know, some of the discoveries of physics in the middle of the last century were not written into our physics textbooks at that time.
For example, quantum mechanics, we didn't have this concept at that time, we didn't know what quantum mechanics was.
But in fact, in the 1920s, the scientific community was already studying this thing.
For example, in 1957, the American quantum physicist Everett III proposed the hypothesis of the "multiverse".
The hypothesis suggests that our universe is not unique, but just one of hundreds of millions of universes.
These universes are divided into four levels in total, and there are N universes in each level. These universes, or space-time in other dimensions, are only 1 millimeter apart from each other.
Over time, this hypothesis has been confirmed by more and more experiments and evidence. Parallel universes do exist.
But to this day, the theory is known only to a small number of people. Even if he is a highly subversive scientific discovery of common sense.
That is to say, our knowledge of the most scientific in science, the discipline of physics, which is related to the mysteries of life in our universe, was almost a hundred years ago.
Almost a century ago, the knowledge was packed in our minds, constructing what we thought was the world and life.
The knowledge at that time was completely inconsistent with the current era.
We are now talking about three views, the world view, the outlook on life, and the values. Among them, the worldview determines your outlook on life and values.
I would like to ask, when our understanding of the world is outdated and outdated, does our outlook on life, our view of the ultimate pursuit of life, also need to be re-examined?
When we talk about the Four Precepts today, it is a matter of outlook on life.
But to solve the problem of outlook on life, we have to start with a worldview. Science, on the other hand, can help us form a comprehensive and detailed worldview.
This is why the Four Precepts of the Universe are related to the four dimensions of space.
Four-dimensional space is a term in physics, a category of scientific research.
The outlook on life embodied in the Four Precepts of The Four Precepts can find some answers from the current science. Therefore, we must see some inspiration for Sinology from science.
In fact, science and sinology are two things that go hand in hand and promote each other.
Scientific research focuses on matter and the outside; sinology research focuses on the spirit and the inside.
According to the theory of the use of the body of Sinology, science focuses on the study of "use", and Sinology focuses on the study of "body". "Using" to leave the "body" is the useless foundation, and the "body" leaving the "use" becomes illusory.
But unfortunately, now our domestic scientific community and the national academic community are seriously separated.
People who study science think that people who study Chinese studies are superstitious, and Chinese studies is some old things.
People who study Chinese culture feel that they are inheriting the wisdom left by their ancestors thousands of years ago. Science, on the other hand, has only developed for two hundred years, is nothing more than a "hairy boy."
As everyone knows, the higher level of human civilization must be a combination of Eastern civilization and Western civilization. The Chinese body is used in the West, and the body is used in the same way.
The search for truth by people who pursue truth in China and the West is like climbing the peak of truth along two different directions and paths, East and West.
Although the methods are different, the paths are different, and the scenery along the way is different, you will definitely meet at the summit and enjoy the same beautiful scenery!