Human beings are the only intelligent life on earth, born millions of years ago. From the day human beings were born, we have had infinite curiosity about the earth, but due to the lack of scientific guidance, the various natural phenomena on the earth cannot be reasonably explained, and in the end we can only attribute the credit to God.
With the continuous development of mankind, we entered the age of civilization 100 million years ago and opened a new path. When human beings entered the civilized age, not only were they more curious about the phenomena of the earth, but they also began to have infinite reveries about the starry sky above their heads.
Also due to the lack of scientific knowledge, the ancients did not understand the earth and the world beyond it. It was just different from the ancestors of humans in ancient times. At this time, human beings have begun to realize that the phenomena of the earth and the starry sky may be parallel to the gods. It doesn’t matter, they have some natural laws that we don’t understand.
During the ancient Greek period, some scholars put forward the theory of geocentricity, thinking that the earth is the center of the universe and everything in the universe revolves around the earth. Although we now know that the geocentric theory is incorrect, it has dominated the thinking of people in China and the West for more than 2,000 years. It was not until Bainey proposed the “heliocentric theory” that it was gradually replaced.
Of course, the process of Bainey’s “heliocentric theory” replacing “geocentric theory” has not been so smooth. For the emergence of this truth, many people have paid a huge price for it. Although the geocentric theory was replaced by the heliocentric theory, and people knew that the earth is not the center of the universe, we cannot deny the contribution of geocentric theory to mankind.
The geocentric theory made people realize the importance of water for the first time. It is the root of all things on the earth. So how exactly are everything on the earth made up? This is a question that ancient Greek philosophers began to think about. At that time, the famous scientist Aristotle proposed that water, fire, earth, and atmosphere constitute the ecological structure of the earth and all things on the earth.
It was at this time that Aristotle proposed the classic “ether theory” theory, which ruled the scientific community for hundreds of years. The main reason why it has been able to dominate the scientific world for hundreds of years is that the “Ether Theory” can indeed explain many laws of operation in the earth and the universe.
Analyzing from the perspective of “the theory of ether”, Aristotle believed that the earth and the universe are two completely different systems, with their own elements of everything and their own laws of operation. This cognition had an unshakable position in the Western world at that time. All physicists researched and explored the mysteries of nature, basically from the perspective of “the ether theory.”
It was not until the emergence of a great scientist in the early 20th century that the status of the “ether theory” was ended. This great scientist believes that his friends all know that he is the Einstein that no one can surpass in modern history. Einstein put forward the theory of relativity, using the theory of relativity to completely negate the “theory of ether.”
From the perspective of the theory of relativity, the earth and the universe have a common material composition and a common law of operation. The relationship between them is equivalent to that of trees and forests, and the two are closely connected. The theory of relativity gave people a new understanding of the earth and the universe. From this point of view, the current scientific achievements of mankind can be extended.
Nowadays, human beings have already stepped out of the earth and began to explore the universe. Through continuous exploration of the universe, they have discovered that although the universe is very different from the earth’s environment, the elements and laws on the earth also exist in the universe, and they have been researched by humans. Various laws of physics and laws of operation are equally applicable in the universe.
This is undoubtedly good news for mankind. If the laws of the earth and the universe are completely different, then it is a tragedy for mankind. We must know that the scale of the vast universe is too large for us to imagine. Humans may never be able to travel throughout the universe, or even pessimistically, humans may always be trapped within a very limited range of the starry sky.
We can’t go all over the universe to explore, so if we want to uncover the mystery of the universe’s matter and various laws of operation, we can only start from the earth, and by studying the mystery and operation of matter, we can truly understand the earth and understand. The various laws of operation of the earth also understand the basic laws of operation of the entire universe.
If the earth and the universe are two completely different operating systems, then the study of the various mysteries of the earth by mankind will not help to understand the mysteries of the universe, and it will even cause a lot of misleading. This undoubtedly adds a lot of difficulty to mankind’s exploration of the universe, which is not conducive to the healthy development of human civilization.
Moreover, if we want to move to a more distant starry sky, or even reach the edge of the universe in the future, we need more powerful science and technology. Only when the earth and the universe have the same physical laws can human beings conduct scientific research on the earth and realize the dream of interstellar travel through continuous breakthroughs.
Of course, our current understanding of the universe is very one-sided, and our cognition is still relatively small. Although the physical laws of the universe are basically the same as those of the earth, the universe is too big and has countless angles. We are not sure that the laws of operation in every corner are the same as those of the earth. It is possible that from some mysterious angles, it has its own unique laws of operation, which are completely different from the laws of the earth’s physics.
This high probability also exists. For example, the space around a black hole may break our cognition and have a completely different operating law from that of the earth. Moreover, the current scientific system of mankind is not perfect, many physical laws are not comprehensive, and they may still be wrong. Therefore, we cannot really use the existing scientific laws to understand everything in the universe.