Hello everyone, I'm Little Q. Is it true that the statement in "Journey to the West" that "one day in heaven and one year on earth" is true? Did the ancients have a scientific basis for their study of astrology? Why did Einstein argue this all his life, if there really is a "heavenly court"! Where will it be?
One day in heaven and one year on earth
The saying "one day in heaven, one year on earth" is something we learn more about in TV dramas. For example, in the 1986 version of "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong was called by the Heavenly Court to do bow ma Wen in the Heavenly Garden, and finally fought with the administrators of the Heavenly Palace because of various adaptations, and later returned to Huaguo Mountain in the Heavenly Palace. After returning to Huaguo Mountain, I found that many monkeys were already old. Sun Wukong asked incomprehensibly, "Old Sun has only been gone for dozens of days, how did you grow up like this?" Sun Wukong's monkey grandsons replied, "Great King, you have been away from Huaguo Mountain for decades. Sun Wukong suddenly realized that there was a day in the sky and a year on the earth. That is, 365 days a year in the mortal world, which can be spent in heaven in just one day. When I was a child, watching "Journey to the West" was only interesting for the red fire, but now that I have grown up and tasted it carefully, there are still many questions. Where does the phrase "one day in heaven, one year on earth" come from? When did it originate?
Or is there still something unreasonable about the time in the Heavenly Court and the Mortal Realm in Journey to the West? For example, the disaster of the red child, the red child arrested tang monks back, and Sun Wukong went to the heavenly court to move the rescue soldiers. But it didn't go very well, and Guanyin Bodhisattva first asked her to go to Muzha to get a weapon, and then returned to the heavenly court to find the bodhisattva. If the red child was eager to eat Tang Monk's meat, he would have already eaten Tang Monk long ago. But in the end, Guanyin Bodhisattva helped Sun Wukong subdue the Red Child. It can be seen that a mythical story is a mythical story, and the logic is not very meticulous, even if it has been paid attention to, but there are also hundreds of dense and sparse. Therefore, most people will not go deep into whether this "one day in heaven and one year on earth" is true. Because people's consciousness is false and mythical, of course, it is even more impossible to have an office space such as the Heavenly Garden.
But the phrase "one day in heaven, one year on earth" doesn't come out of thin air. The earliest record of this claim is none other than the Ming Dynasty Wu Cheng'en's book Journey to the West, in other words, the claim originated before the Ming Dynasty. In the ancient feudal dynastic society, the idea of divine right of kings made the ancients very much in awe of it. For example, if the weather is severely dry, the ruler will hold a ceremony to worship the heavens. Moreover, each dynasty ruler would hold a large-scale celestial ceremony on important festivals, and the scene was very solemn. In ancient times, there was a position called "Qin Tianjian", whose main job was to observe the stars at night, and then judge the auspicious signs of what might happen in the near future through the stars. Qin Tianjian is equivalent to the current National Meteorological Observatory, because it not only involves the affairs of the emperor's palace, the work of Qin Tianjian also involves the production of calendars, because the calendar is related to agricultural affairs, and the ancients believed that celestial changes and personnel changes correspond directly, so the work of Qin Tianjian is very important.
Qin Tianjian found a magical thing when he was looking at the stars at night, the starry sky layout observed that night always appeared two hours later than the same night last month, for example, the starry sky layout seen at 9 pm on November 30 would appear at 11 pm on December 30. The Staff of the Qin Heavenly Prison recorded that after one month on earth, the time in heaven had only passed one hour, that is, two hours now. In other words: an hour in heaven is equal to an hour on earth, which means 12 hours on earth and 12 hours in heaven, exactly one day and night. The saying "one day in heaven, one year on earth" comes from this. According to the technical level of ancient times, it is not easy to deduce all this. In ancient times, books were scarce and transportation was not very convenient, so the essence behind the phenomenon could only be inferred from the things within sight.
The Qin Tianjian was a very authoritative institution at that time, and the emperor's harem would consult the Qin Tianjian if there were problems that could not be solved; the people of Li min should also consult the Qin Tianjian whether this year's year was a disaster year or a harvest year. Therefore, the authority of qin tianjian is unquestionable. The conclusions given by Qin Tianjian cannot be overturned by ordinary people. Speaking of which, the phrase "one day in heaven, one year on earth" still exists in mythological stories and is still an unsubstantiated inference. Whether this statement is true or false, and now that science and technology are so developed, can it be confirmed?
How to prove "one day in heaven, one year on earth"
A day in heaven and a year on earth are not just myths and legends. This claim is confirmed by Einstein's theory of relativity. As we all know, Einstein was Jewish, Jews are one of the smartest races in the world, and Einstein has been called one of the smartest people ever. Einstein received his Ph.D. in physics in 1905 and successfully explained the photoelectric effect, which is known as the mystery of the universe because the tram on which Einstein commuted inspired Einstein. Einstein had a whim: if a person is getting faster and faster in space, this will cause the time around him to become slower and slower. At that time, there was no theory that could support Einstein's argument.
So Einstein studied Newton's three laws of motion and found many scientific giants to study this proposition. The final explanation of the photoelectric effect, which once again triggered Einstein's thinking, is the germ of the theory of relativity. Sure einstein founded special relativity in the same year and general relativity in 1915. It was this theory that Einstein successfully confirmed that the statement "one day in heaven, one year on earth" is true. Next, we talk about the theory of relativity, which can help you update your concept of time and space. In fact, the argument expressed in the theory of relativity is that the speed of light is constant, and the motion of all objects and even time itself must correspond to it. In fact, to put it bluntly, the universe does not have a unified time, and everyone's time is different.
Speaking of which, one might say: Is the difference you're talking about beijing time or London time? Sister Q tells you that this is not the case, and the time difference that Sister Q said is between individuals, not between regions. Let's look at an example. For example, in the dark of night, I sit on the bus and walk forward, and you, as an observer, stand across the road and watch the bus I am riding. At the same time, two rays of light are emitted at the same time at the same distance between the front and back of the bus, and the light I see on the bus at this time is the light emitted by the light source in front of the bus. And you, the observer, see two beams of light at the same time. This is the relativity of time. Physicists explain this phenomenon as relativity. And we ancient writers express this phenomenon with very elegant poetry, such as: horizontally looking at the mountain side into a peak, far and near the height of the two different, do not know the true face of Lushan Mountain, only because of being in this mountain.
Having said all that, how exactly does the theory of relativity justify the statement: "one day in heaven, one year on earth"? To explain this phenomenon, we must first update a concept for everyone, that is, the time expansion effect, although the word is relatively unfamiliar, but the application of the current technology is the global GPS positioning system, because of the time expansion effect, the global GPS positioning system error is reduced by nearly tens of meters. What is the time dilation effect? That is, the greater the mass of the object, the slower the passage of time nearby. A simple example: everyone has played with trampolines, the heavier the weight of the person, the greater the pressure to jump on the trampoline, the greater the depression. In this way, the light walks not the original straight line of the trampoline, but the curve that is pressed down. In this way, the distance of motion is increased, and in the case of the same speed of light, the distance is farther than the original, and it takes longer, which is the time expansion effect.
The real heavenly court is not actually on the earth, but in the universe. It is called another "Earth" without humans, that is, Neptune, which is similar to the Earth we live on, but it is not as beautiful and rich as in mythological stories. This Neptune is too close to the sun to survive. Neptune and the Earth have very different masses and modes of movement, the Earth rotates in a circle for one day, and once it orbits the Sun, the Earth passes for a year. Neptune circled around the sun, and neptune was only a day away. Seeing this, are you a bit blindfolded? Don't worry, listen to Sister Q slowly and talk to you. Above we mentioned the use of special relativity to explain the phenomenon of "one day in heaven and one year on earth". It is not difficult to imagine that the heavens we know are Neptune for a day.
Neptune itself is much lighter than Earth, so it takes only one day to orbit the Sun, but it takes a year for Earth. Then we can use the time expansion effect to explain it to make sense. This also confirms that the Heavenly Court really exists! Neptune may be the celestial court in our mythological story. From ancient times to the present, astronomers at home and abroad in ancient and modern times are constantly exploring our universe, from the speculation of Qin Tianjian in ancient times to the birth of Einstein's theory of relativity in the 19th century, the final scientific theory verification of "one day in the sky, one year on earth", every moment reflects the continuous exploration and research of human beings on the mysteries of the universe.
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