No one knows how lightning life appeared, just as no one knows how the first organic molecules such as amino acids were born from the crazy collisions and violent reactions of inorganic substances.
In short, in the atmosphere of ancient giant stars in the past hundreds of millions of years, violent energy The fluctuations were released and exploded in the form of lightning countless times.
By incredible chance, the lightning captured some unusual particles - rare elements from the depths of ancient giant stars or outer space, such as argon, and so on.
When powerful lightning penetrates the core of the argon element, it is immediately vaporized by extremely high temperatures into crystal clear, perfect plasma balls.
Its outer layer is composed of negatively charged free electrons, and positively charged electrons form its outer layer.
Ions form its inner layer, and the inner and outer layers form a clear boundary, but allow energy to circulate and transform freely, just like the membranes and walls of biological cells, a great yin and yang that can communicate with heaven and earth.
In other words, the coincidence of countless lightning surges created the miracle of life, a gaseous, pure energy, plasma "cell".
Of course, this "plasma cell" is not the same as a cell in the sense of carbon-based life.
It does not have so-called "genetic material."
But the form of life is inherently colorful, and genetic information does not necessarily need to be transmitted by genes.
The five definitions of a cell are: the ability to replicate itself, the ability to transmit information, the ability to have a metabolic mechanism, the ability to grow on its own, and the ability to have clear boundaries that separate it from the outside world.
All conditions are met by "plasma cells".
Although its initial "life" can only last for a few seconds, during its short and glorious life, it can continue to draw energy from the outside world, expand and even split.
It can extend its lightning tentacles and surround it.
Neutral elements, such as argon, helium, even methane, ethane, etc., are absorbed, add their own energy reaction, glow with colorful light, and even split themselves into two different plasma cells. , each plasma cell carries the same electromagnetic signature.
It can even transmit information by radiating electromagnetic wave energy into other plasma cells, so that the atoms in each plasma cell maintain the same oscillation frequency.
If this is not considered a "cell" and this is not considered "life", then what is the meaning of the definition of life?
Li Yao noticed that this wonderful lightning spirit has not been around for a long time, far less than the 100,000-year history of human civilization, and it cannot be compared with the Pangu civilization or even the civilization of the "Black Wall Maker" hundreds of millions of years ago. .
Their "history" is only about two to three thousand years.
Two to three thousand years ago, that was the time when two high-quality stars close to ancient giants entered the end of their lives and began to bloom violently, showing signs of "supernova explosions."
Perhaps it was the violent ejection of matter and energy in the death struggle of the star before its death that injected new vitality into the atmosphere of the ancient giant star, leading to the birth of these lightning elves.
They are, literally, "children of the sun."
Although they only have a history of two to three thousand years, they have spanned a journey that carbon-based intelligent life took hundreds of millions of years to complete.
Their lives are short and extremely intense.
Each bolt of lightning that pierces the sky of the ancient giant can only last from a few seconds to ten seconds at most.
In this lightning flash of ten seconds, billions of plasmas Cells are born in lightning.
Lightning is their river of life and their eternal destination.
They will survive within ten seconds.
Constantly absorbing various elements in the atmosphere, trying new discharge structures and electromagnetic restraining fields, trying to make themselves and lightning last longer, even for a microsecond.
If they cannot do this, they will split and split like crazy.
Proliferate, and try to "jump" to another newly born lightning before this lightning is annihilated.
"Survive, survive, survive!"
Li Yao seemed to be able to hear the newly born plasma cells roaring with infinite desire in the crackling arc.
Yes, the meaning of life is not just survival, but if you can't even survive the first time, then no matter how much meaning you have, you won't be able to find it.
In any source where life is just born, especially in such a harsh and cruel source, survival itself is the only meaning.
Every brain cell in Li Yao was surrounded by lightning.
He was full of respect and "appreciated" this poem of life that lasted for thousands and billions of years.
He "saw" that countless plasma cells clung to a few subtle lives, constantly absorbing and devouring surrounding elements, trying to use various elements and atomic vibration frequencies to form the cornerstone of their own lives. 99.99% of the attempts ended in failure.
Those plasma cells that swallowed the wrong elements and used the wrong oscillation frequency were instantly annihilated without leaving even a ripple.
In exchange, 0.001% of the lucky ones were able to kill them.
's life lasted 0.001 microseconds longer.
Before annihilation, these lucky ones immediately used electromagnetic radiation to transmit information such as new elements and vibration frequencies, and shared them with all "compatriots" in the same lightning.
And these "compatriots" are either frantically dividing, increasing the number of plasma balls in the lightning in a geometric progression, or they are like moths rushing to the flame, trying to jump out of the lightning, chopping through the waves in the sea of methane and helium elements, and finding another one.
The nascent lightning buys the entire clan a few or ten seconds more.
Just like this crazy attempt, and the hard work and sacrifice of tens of thousands of generations of "people" in a dozen seconds, gradually, the survival time of the plasma ball increased from a few microseconds to nearly one second, and the lightning they lived in was also transformed by them.
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It is different from ordinary lightning.
It can last for several minutes or dozens of minutes.
They even consciously seduced several lightning bolts together and used incredible methods to "weave" them into ingenious three-dimensional geometric shapes.
All of this was just to increase the survival time of lightning in the atmosphere and super The ability to transmit over long distances.
They are building their own "star sea battleships and spaceships".
They are refining lightning into their own spaceships!
Li Yao "saw" that the plasma cells that upgraded lightning into "battleships" gradually acquired a high degree of self-organization ability in the fierce battlefield of life.
Their exploration of the entire planet also began, and they were no longer limited.
Where the lightning is most intense, the lightning is harnessed, surrounding the magnetic field, and spreading to all directions of the ancient giant star.
Then, they discovered the place where life could make a further leap and evolve into "civilization", which is the most obvious Great Red Spot on the ancient giant star.
The Great Red Spot is a super cyclone with a diameter of more than a thousand kilometers and a duration that often exceeds a hundred years.
Within a super strong cyclone, drastic changes in air pressure can make the lightning discharge reaction more violent and faster, creating more possibilities.
Super strong cyclones constantly stir the surrounding material, and even absorb a large amount of material from the depths of the ancient giant star and spurt out.
Like the volcanic eruption in the depths of the primitive ocean, it brings rich energy and material to the center of the earth, becoming the first source of life.
The cradle can also bring richer elements to plasma cells.
The special material "red phosphorus" that makes up the Great Red Spot can release magnificent and unpredictable flames in the ultra-high-speed friction of lightning, becoming the carrier of "civilization".
Yes, each "red phosphorus fire" can only last for a few minutes or a few hours at most.
It is a "fleeting" thing measured on human time scales, but for a few subtle seconds and a few seconds, it can be passed down from generation to generation.
As far as plasma cells are concerned, a flame has burned for a long time, just like paper that can last for decades without decay, and can be used to make "books" and pass on "wisdom".
In this way, plasma cells harnessed lightning, looking for one big red spot after another, multiplying, prospering, and establishing a true "lightning civilization."
Their civilization is of course completely different from the civilization established by carbon-based intelligent life.
At least, 99% of the information Li Yao read was incomprehensible - he had no idea what these plasma cells were doing or building. , what are you pursuing.
On the other hand, if the "Lightning Civilization" can observe the human world's drinking and wealth, love and hatred, the rise and fall of countries, heroic epics, etc., they will definitely not be able to understand these highly self-organized carbon elements.
Body, what on earth are you doing?
However, there are some things that all "civilizations" have in common.
Li Yao "saw" that plasma cells actively ignited red phosphorus fires one after another deep in the Great Red Spot, recording specific information with uncertain flames.
Perhaps, that was their major research discovery, their understanding of heaven, earth and the universe, their secret method of inheriting life, and their method of constructing a more powerful "Lightning Battleship".
It is also possible that they are poems chanting "faith" and "love", a gorgeous and useless show off, or even a religious incantation developed based on their origins and superstitious about the sun.
Similarly, just as they tried to modify the lightning they were in in the past, now they have begun to modify the super strong cyclone they are in.
They precisely manipulate the current, charge and voltage, manipulate the clouds composed of helium and methane, and manipulate the speed and speed of the storm.
The angle is just to make the Great Red Spot where you are located larger and more stable, to last longer, to absorb more elements from the depths of the ancient giant star, and to carry more magnificent red phosphorus fire.
The naturally occurring Great Red Spot can only last for a hundred years, but after their transformation, it can last for three to five hundred years - on the scale of lightning civilization, this is almost eternity.
Then, there is war.
——War, especially civil war, is an indispensable part of the growth process of all civilizations.
The war between two big red spots, billions of lightning bolts, and uncountable plasma cells has begun!