Hawking and Qin Shi Huang, one is an Englishman born in 1942, one is a Qin national born in 259 BC, one is a famous contemporary physicist, cosmologist, and mathematician, and the other is a "one emperor in the ancient world" who unified the six kingdoms and established China's first great unified dynasty.
These two people, who were originally incompatible with each other and could not be hit by eight rods, were linked because of one of Hawking's prophecies. Hawking had been to China and left a prophecy: Qin Shi Huang might still be alive, but he would not be able to walk out of his tomb.
Is this true? Let's find out.
Qin Shi Huang, who was obsessed with "immortality"
As the emperor of the first great unified feudal dynasty in Chinese history, Qin Shi Huang had one of the biggest weaknesses: he was afraid of death, he spent his life looking for "elixirs of immortality", and longed to be able to "enjoy immortality forever, shou and tianqi", which led to the "Xu Fu Dongdu" thing.
"Elixir of Immortality" first appeared in "Han Feizi Say Lin Shang": "And the guest sacrifices the medicine of immortality, the subject eats and the king kills the subject, it is the dead medicine, and it is the guest who deceives the king." It is said that in 219 BC, Qin Shi Huang once traveled around the Shandong Peninsula in a boat, where he continued to be connected for three months, because he heard that there were three immortal mountains in Bohai Bay, called Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou.
On the three immortal mountains lived three immortals, with elixirs in their hands.
The person who told this story to Qin Shi Huang was called Xu Fu, and Qin Shi Huang couldn't find it everywhere, so he sent Xu Fu out to sea to ask for the elixir, and everyone knew what happened later: Xu Fu went back with "materials", there are rumors that he went to what is now Japan, and Qin Shi Huang died of illness in the sand dunes in 210 BC.
The matter is obvious: Qin Shi Huang is likely to be "fooled", Xu Fu cheated a wave of "materials" and ran away, leaving Qin Shi Huang "looking at the eyes to wear", until death did not wait for Xu Fu to return.
The history of the death of Qin Shi Huang is clearly recorded, why does Hawking say that Qin Shi Huang may not have died?
Although Hawking did not say the basis for his inference, it was nothing more than these:
First, according to the "Benji of Qin Shi Huang", Qin Shi Huang died of illness on the fifth tour, and it took Zhao Gao and others more than fifty days to transport Qin Shi Huang's body from the dune palace back to Xianyang, when it was summer, the weather was hot, and Qin Shi Huang's body did not decay in these fifty days!
Second, according to the "Collected Remains", a meteorite fell from the Heavenly Dome to Chang'an that year and was taken into custody by Qin Shi Huang. After the study of the alchemists, a mysterious substance in the meteorite was extracted and developed into Dan, so that Qin Shi Huang could live forever, in addition, the book also said that Qin Shi Huang did receive a group of tall and transportation vehicles that could "sink to the bottom of the sea without immersion" of the "Wanqu" people.
Third, it is said that in 1973, the military found traces of Qin Shi Huang still alive in Gansu, Shaanxi and other places, and out of "jealousy" of Qin Shi Huang, the state has not excavated the tomb of Qin Shi Huang. This incident has been widely publicized on the Internet, and it has been called the "1973 Qin Shi Huang Incident".
Hawking's speculation
In summary, we can boldly speculate that Hawking should have heard the above three "doubts" after he arrived in China, so he said the prophecy that "Qin Shi Huang is still alive".
As we all know, Hawking firmly believes in the existence of aliens, anything related to aliens will attract his attention, it should be recorded in the "Book of Collected Remains" that Qin Shi Huang saw "aliens" let him start to pay attention to Qin Shi Huang, thus speculating that Qin Shi Huang got the "elixir of immortality" from aliens, but this medicine will make people fall into a "deep sleep" state after taking it.
This is also the reason why Qin Shi Huang's body did not decay for more than fifty days, and when he woke up, he was already trapped in the underground palace, and it was still difficult to escape.
brief summary:
I have to say that Hawking's speculation is really very bold, in fact, we have similar rumors in the folk, but these are unfounded, and there are already scientific explanations for those "doubts" of Qin Shi Huang.
For example, the reason why the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has not been excavated so far is because China uses the means of "protective excavation" for the imperial tombs, that is, if the imperial tombs are not destroyed by external forces, we will not take the initiative to excavate, and according to surveys.
Qin Shi Huang mausoleum contains hundreds of tons of mercury, once the excavation is wrong, it is likely to cause disastrous consequences, and for example, the reason why Qin Shi Huang's body is not decaying is likely to be because he took too much Dan medicine, resulting in excessive deposition of mercury in the body, and mercury has an antiseptic effect.
In addition, the military has also confirmed that the "1973 Qin Shi Huang Incident" circulated on the Internet is nonsense.
Qin Shi Huang, the "Emperor of the Ages", was surrounded by a heavy fog from birth to death, and it seemed that no "explosive" news was not worthy of his identity!
Now that it is the information age, the Internet is full of a large number of good and uneven information, we must have our own judgment, have the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.
References: "Han Feizi Says Lin Shang", "Collecting The Remains"