The Lord's inability not to jump is not because he cannot, but because he is mindful of standing in a position of obedience, and does nothing without God's command. The Lord's work is a miracle, and the Lord's inaction is a miracle.

We should believe in God and obey only, and we must not tempt with our hearts. To tempt God is to doubt God's love and power.

- Deuteronomy

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Steel City, 3rd floor.

"We currently have six special laboratories, numbered 1-6, and No. 6 is vacant. There is no doubt that only a few masters who have reached the peak of their attainments are eligible to apply for these laboratories. ”

Strunm thought to himself: Your Majesty, does it mean that you occupy the number 0 outside the establishment?

"Next, I'll take you to the class."

Leibniz, like a hen with a chick, led the two to Laboratory No. 4, and as soon as he entered the door, he said, "Treasure bag, tell us a little about the topic you are currently studying." ”

"They're there too?" Baibaobao glanced at the two goods and said, "Please allow me to refuse." I can't trust them. ”

Leibniz laughed: "Bargaining with me? Well, next month you're going to raise 3 percent. ”

Baibaobao shook his head, and his tone was categorical: "It's not about money or not, it's my ethics as a scientific researcher-"

"I'll give you an extra day to borrow your 'portable hard drive'."

"Deal." The treasure bag squeezed out a smile and said to the two necromantic creatures with what he thought was cordial: "I'm ready to talk, if there's anything I want to ask, I must know everything." ”

In times of war, this kind of person will definitely betray the country! Both rolled their eyes at the same time. In other words, what is the "mobile hard disk", which can make the attitude of the great god turn 180 degrees?

"My subject is—"

Suppose there is an omnipotent God, can He create a stone that He cannot lift?

After listening, Fermat was stunned: "Huh? What else can you study here? ”

Strom was also stunned, then grabbed Fermat by the collar and yelled, "Idiot! This is a paradox! ”

(Treasure Bag whispers to Leibniz: "Fortunately, not both of them are incurably stupid, otherwise this lesson would have been too difficult to teach.) ”）

In the popular perception, God is certainly omnipotent.

One scholar has proposed this paradox in response to the idea that God is omnipotent.

Can God move a stone? If you can't move, it means that God is not omnipotent.

Could God have created a stone? If it can't be created, it means that God is not omnipotent.

For religious scholars, this paradox is extremely vicious, because whether or not God can create this stone will shake the foundation of religion. So the religious scholars put forward the idealistic answer: God is not unable to do so, but he is unwilling, and in addition, mortals must not use such useless tests to test the power of God.

After listening to Strunm's explanation, Fermat still didn't understand it, this kind of thing was too profound for him. He asked, "So how do you study this?" Do you want to study it? ”

"That's right, so I've revised the subject, 'how to imagine something you can't imagine,' which can also be understood as 'how to describe something you can't describe.'"

This time, even Strunm couldn't understand it.

Leibniz exclaimed: "Every time I hear about you, I am so shocked that my soul almost dissipates. It's horrible. It really is, 'Don't tempt God.'" ”

"I prefer to understand it as 'don't stare into the abyss.'" The treasure bag turned his head: "Still incomprehensible?" Let's start with the 'God' we just mentioned, and let's talk about how the image of God is formed. ”

"In the Chinese Continent, their gods are the images of the yellow race; In the Goto continent, the gods have become Caucasian again. The orc god has coarse hair, and the elven god has long pointed ears. Have the craftsmen who carved the statues ever seen the gods with their own eyes? Of course not! They could only imagine that in their imagination, the gods were no different from themselves. The craftsmen of the Terran carved the gods into the appearance of humans, as did the rest of the races, because they could not imagine that the gods had an alien face. Yes, we just 'imagined something'. ”

To refer to "God" as a "thing" is definitely deviant, but Strom listens carefully.

"To put it bluntly, we may not have the imagination at all, we just extract the elements of what we see and hear, and then assemble them into a so-called 'new thing'. When we describe a thing, we always use words that we already know, and all of these words are understandable. ”

"Our ability to understand the outside world is first and foremost based on whether we have the tools to know or not. As living beings, the cognitive tool we rely on the most is the eye. Red-green color blindness is a condition in which the patient is unable to distinguish between red and green. Why am I saying this? Because that's the best example of what I'm talking about. How do people with red-green color blindness describe the 'red' and 'green' in our eyes?! The red apple and the green apple in their eyes are the same! They can't recognize it, they can't understand it, so they can't describe it! Let me give you another example, Mr. Leibniz, what color is ultraviolet light? What color is infrared? ”

Leibniz shook his head: "I don't know. My eyes can't make it. ”

"Yes, the naked eye can't tell the difference between ultraviolet and infrared light because we don't have a photosensor to deal with these two types of light, but the mantis shrimp can. Compared to the mantis shrimp, we are like red-green color blindness, we can't describe ultraviolet and infrared rays! ”

The pheasant had never seen a mirror, and when he saw the reflection in the mirror, he thought it was another pheasant, so he became competitive and danced with the reflection. We knew how mirrors worked, so we laughed at pheasants. ”

"The natives thought that firearms were a form of witchcraft, and they would ask the shamans to give them amulets, thinking that they would not be shot. We knew how guns worked, so we laughed at the natives. ”

"Both pheasants and indigenous people have limits to their cognition, so isn't there a limit to our cognition? Do we observe the world in a limited way and then gleefully arrive at a 'truth' while beings higher than us laugh at us? What is the essential difference between us and red-green color blindness? ”

The dizzy Fermat struggled to hold back a question: "What's the use of studying these!" ”

Hearing this, Treasure Bag and Leibniz sighed tacitly. A treasure bag looking for a glass of water to moisten his throat, Leibniz answered: "Sometimes it may take decades of investment and generations of hard work to get a little eyebrow, and the final result may not be immediately applicable." But is it because it's 'useless' that we don't look into it? As scholars, we need to see longer than the average person. ”

"He doesn't understand." The treasure bag put down the cup and pressed the button that popped up out of nowhere: "Then I'll show you the practical application of this subject." ”

With the sound of the mechanism operating, the original wall slowly opened, revealing a wider space behind it, only to see one large glass sink after another, each with a complex structure attached to the surface of the sink, these machines are actually different, presumably different functions. What's even more surprising is that the tanks are full of experimental creatures, and they feel the walls open and make a commotion.

Strom sighed, "These are all otherworldly creatures?!" ”

"'How to describe something you can't describe'. When we saw this little guy...... "The treasure bag pointed to the nearest sink, and saw a flesh-colored insect jumping in it, which disappeared from time to time, but instantly hit the inner wall of the sink, inspiring the runic light and shadow of space magic: "We subconsciously thought of the word 'worm'. So it's called the 'Sky Worm', but if you think about it, it's definitely not a worm. We didn't come up with anything other than a scientific name for granted. We don't know anything about otherworldly creatures. ”

"I don't know how other people's research is going, but I'll just talk about what I've found at this stage. They don't eat, they don't sleep, they don't excrete, they don't have the concept of a biological clock, some have no calories, some don't have bodily fluids, and according to me, they're not living things at all. But why do we call them 'otherworldly creatures'? Because they move, they die, and we can only describe them as 'creatures'! If you understand it from the perspective of your necromantic creatures, it is easy to conclude that otherworldly creatures are spiritual imprints, and then deduce from this, and maybe you will conclude that otherworldly creatures are part of some huge life collective! It's like a blind man touching an elephant! Haven't you ever heard of the 'blind man touching the elephant'? In the last sentence, the treasure bag showed deep doubt.

"Listen, heard." Under the staring of the great god, Fermat subconsciously swallowed his saliva, but forgot that the necromantic creature did not spit at all. Brian was well-read and once told a colleague about this story: the blind people surrounded the elephant, and one touched the tail and said that the elephant was like a snake; One touched his nose and said that the elephant was soft and wet; One touched the tusks and said that the elephant was smooth and hard; One touched the elephant's leg and said that the elephant was like a tree. Are they wrong? It's not wrong, but it's not right either, because they don't have the full picture of the subject.

"As long as we can fully describe the otherworldly creatures, then they are no longer mysterious and invincible, and we can win the 'Doomsday Confrontation' once and for all. You say, is my subject useful? ”

Fermat nodded incessantly: "It's so useful!" ”

In the "Doomsday Confrontation", all the great gods died in bloody battles, and the lives of various continents were devastated, leaving an indelible scar on the Qiankun world. If the treasure bag can really study the otherworldly creatures thoroughly, it will definitely become the greatest hero in history!

And Strom's mind was still haunted by the subject.

How do you imagine something you can't imagine?

It's simply unimaginable.

That's outside of thinking, it's a blind spot that neither reason nor sensibility can take care of, it's a place that can't be known at all, it's an abyss that shouldn't be gazed at, it's the part of the gods that can't be tempted.

He said to himself in a fool's mind: "Why did science eventually evolve into philosophy?" ”