The Art of Deception and Adrian's Tale Chapter 13

Laozi is the founder of the Zhou and Qin philosophers. His position in the Chinese academic world is equivalent to Newton in Western physics. Newton saw that everything was pulling inward, so he created the theory of universal gravitation. In fact, Laozi had already seen this phenomenon. He said: "The sky is clear with the One, the earth is peaceful with the One, the gods are spiritual with the One, the valley is full with the One, all things are alive with the One, and the princes and kings are loyal to the world. If the sky is not clear, it will be afraid of splitting, the earth will not be peaceful, it will be afraid of spreading, the gods will not be spiritual, it will be afraid of stopping, the valley will not be full, it will be afraid of drying up, all things will not be alive, they will be afraid of extinction, and the princes and kings will not be loyal and noble, they will be afraid of falling." Laozi meant that the heavens, the earth, and all things have something pulling them. If they don't have that thing, the sky will break, the earth will spread, the gods will stop, the valley will dry up, all things will be destroyed, and the princes and kings will fall. Look at the six words he wrote in a row: "Li Fa Xi Jie Mie Jue", which are the opposite of the word "yin" in "universal gravitation", that is, the synonym of the word "li" in "centrifugal force". It can be seen that Laozi had already seen the phenomenon Newton described. Newton only used it in physics, but Laozi also applied it to human affairs. How precise is his observation! How brilliant is his ideal!

In modern mathematics, X is used to represent unknown numbers. When encountering unknown objects, X is also used to represent them, such as X-rays. In ancient mathematics, the unknown was represented by one generation. Therefore, the ancient Chinese Tianyuan number and the ancient Western borrowing root formula both represented one generation of unknown numbers. Laozi saw that everything was pulling inwards, and he didn't know what it was, so he had to name it one.

Laozi said: "There is a thing that is mixed and formed before the heaven and the earth. It is silent and lonely, independent and unchanged, and it goes around without end. It can be the mother of the world, but I don't know its name." He also said: "It is called Yi if you can't see it, called Xi if you can't hear it, and called Wei if you can't grasp it. These three cannot be questioned, so they are mixed into one." He also said: "It is clear and seems to exist. I don't know whose son it is, but it is like the predecessor of the emperor." What exactly is this thing that deserves Laozi's praise? Now that science is prosperous, we have studied it carefully and found that what he said is the phenomenon when the centripetal and centrifugal forces are stable, that is, the phenomenon when the negative and positive electricity are neutralized. He saw that there was a whole thing that was originally silent and motionless. Once it moved, it was very wonderful. "One gave birth to two, two gave birth to three, and three gave birth to all things." This one thing, when it moved, gave birth to two things, one diverging and one contracting. From these two things, a third thing was born. From this, millions of things were born.

In mathematics, the word X or a character is used to represent an unknown number, which is constantly changing. It can represent this number or that number. Therefore, the word can represent this thing or that thing. When we study the word "one" in Laozi's book, there are two kinds of it. He said: "The sky gets one to be clear" refers to the phenomenon of all things pulling inward. He said: "One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three" refers to the phenomenon when the centrifugal and centripetal forces are stable, that is, the phenomenon when the yin and yang electricity are neutralized. With such research, the word "one" in Laozi's book can be found in reality.

When Westerners talk about mechanics and electricity, they always compare the positive and negative, and contrast them in pairs; whenever Lao Tzu talks about something, he always compares the two opposites in pairs. For example, "Existence and non-existence give birth to each other, and difficulty and ease complement each other." Existence and non-existence, difficulty and ease are compared. "Empty their minds, fill their bellies, weaken their wills, strengthen their bones." The empty and the full, the strong and the weak are compared. Other examples include: talking about stillness and restlessness, talking about male and female, talking about depression and fullness, etc., all of which are compared in pairs, and all describe the two states of divergence and contraction.