owlsbooks Chapter 2171
Chapter 2171
Chapter 2171
Deep in the universe, there is a mysterious space.
A huge figure suddenly appeared in the void—the Court of Life!
The Living Tribunal is a very powerful abstract entity that has existed for as long as time and the universe itself. The function of the Living Tribunal is to protect the balance of the multiverse. It will prevent beings or mystical forces from disrupting the balance of the universe. There is only one Living Tribunal in the multiverse, and he will have different manifestations in different universes. The Living Tribunals in different universes are different aspects of himself.
The Living Tribunal has three faces, representing the three aspects of the Living Tribunal, the front face represents fairness, the fully masked face on the right represents necessity, and the half-masked face on the left represents revenge.
The appearance of the Life Tribunal in the space dimension of the universe is a huge golden humanoid entity with three faces, representing justice, need, and revenge. The fourth side of the head is blank. This fourth face can be everything in the universe. It is a cosmic mirror, the purpose is to remind us: while examining others, we must also examine ourselves. In higher or lower dimensional spaces, the Life Tribunal will take other appearances to manage other clusters.
He is the final judge of life in the universe... That being said, in fact, he does not make the judgement at the end of life. Instead, he begins to create the 'script' for them before life is born.
And this script is what we commonly call - fate!
Only a very small number of people exist who are not in destiny.
For example, the Celestials, because when the Celestials were created, the Life Tribunal had not yet made a detailed plan for life. In fact, a long, long time ago, everything in the universe was free.
The Life Court was not so harsh on life from the beginning.
For example, observers are not in destiny. But then the Living Tribunal saw what the so-called "freedom" brought to the universe.
Freedom brings disorder, disorder brings chaos, and chaos brings entropy increase!
And the increase in entropy heralds destruction!
So, what exactly is entropy? Entropy is a concept that describes the degree of disorder in a system. It was first proposed by German physicist Clausius in 1865. According to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy is a physical quantity that describes the degree of disorder or disorder within a system. In an isolated system, entropy always increases, which is the famous law of increasing entropy. So, what is the law of increasing entropy? Simply put, the law of increasing entropy describes that in a closed system, the process always proceeds from a more ordered state to a more disordered state, that is, the system always tends to maximize its entropy value. In other words, the law of increasing entropy reveals a universal natural trend in the universe: from chaos to order. Some readers may think that this concept is too abstract, but in fact, the law of increasing entropy can be seen everywhere in our daily lives. For example, in a closed system, such as a room, if you do not intervene, the air molecules in the room will gradually diffuse, so that the air pressure in each part of the room reaches equilibrium. This process is entropy increase. For another example, an undisturbed snowball will gradually melt in a natural environment and eventually turn into a piece of water, which is also an example of entropy increase. These are spontaneous processes from order to disorder that exist in nature.
The definition of "entropy increase" in physics is: "Everything in the universe will develop in a balanced way from an ordered state to a disordered state". In layman's terms, the universe we live in and everything in it will eventually go from "harmony" to "chaos" if there is no interference from "external forces". Just like the places where we usually work or live, if we don't deliberately put them in order, they will become more and more messy and finally "out of control". This phenomenon or law is also completely applicable to our universe.
Schrödinger's book What is Life expresses such an idea, that the universe was already on the road to "heat death" at the moment of the Big Bang, and what we can do is to "absorb negative entropy" as much as possible in the process to maintain the balance of the universe and life. According to the research of Schrödinger and others, the final result of "entropy increase" in any isolated system will be "extinction". Just like the hot water in a beaker, if there is no continuous replenishment of external heat, then no matter how hot the cup of hot water is, it will start to "cool down" from the moment it stops. As long as there is an "entropy increase effect" in the universe, energy will inevitably disperse a part to drive things into "chaos". This is why the scientific community regards the "entropy increase theory" as the most terrifying and desperate theorem, which reveals that our universe will end up with "heat death" from the "singularity Big Bang". The so-called "heat death" means that "the part of all things in the universe that is dispersed during the energy conversion process will eventually reach a thermal equilibrium, and there will be no other energy in the universe other than maintaining heat". It's like a "hot but lifeless" furnace. In fact, we can see this phenomenon at any time in our lives. When we mix two cups of water with different temperatures, they do not maintain their respective temperatures but blend together to form a new temperature value. However, when you are sick and want to drink hot water, this temperature cannot meet your needs. When you are hot and want to drink ice water, this temperature still cannot meet your needs. "Heat death" means that any life will eventually be unable to obtain the "temperature" they urgently need. However, the premise of all this is based on an "isolated system".
The Earth has a lifespan of more than 40 billion years, but it has not yet gone "extinct." This is because the Earth itself is not isolated. It has both "artificial" transformation and utilization internally and energy supply from stars and other celestial bodies externally.
The same is true for humans as individuals. The reason we can survive is that we always "absorb negative entropy" from nature and other individuals to fight against "entropy increase." But the scientific community has not been able to determine whether our universe is an isolated "system" because we cannot see whether there are "other time and space" 1000 billion light years away.
Einstein once said: "Entropy increase is the basis of all the laws of physics."
Fundamentally speaking, the exploration of the universe by all civilizations is a process of "fighting against entropy increase", trying to stop the continuous "discrete" energy and restore the universe from disorder to a stable state. This is almost impossible to do, just like a cup of still hot water, how to maintain the same temperature without energy replenishment? This itself violates the laws of physics. To some extent, since the scientific community has realized the existence of "entropy increase" in the universe, we can see the end of "heat death".
However, we don't need to be too "anxious". After all, this will happen billions of years later. The universe has its own destiny and it is not for human civilization to interfere. The fact that science can discover the laws of the universe only means that we can make better use of the laws, but it is impossible to change the laws. If the "heat death" of the universe is eventually coming, all we have to do is live our lives well every day and constantly absorb "negative entropy" so that our own "heat death" can be delayed as much as possible.
This is for us ordinary people.
But this is not the case for the Living Tribunal.
When life develops freely, the chaos they bring will be out of control.
Or an observer.
They are the earliest creatures in the universe.
The Life Tribunal did not give them any so-called scripts. They developed freely, and they developed very quickly!
The Observer race originated in the early days of the universe, and is considered one of the earliest cosmic races to be born. Therefore, compared with the origins and civilization development time of other races, the Observer race has developed hundreds of millions of years earlier than other races.
Such a long time span also means that the technological level of the Observer race civilization is hundreds of millions of years ahead of other races. But despite the Observers' very strong technological level, the Observers did not hide, nor did they invade other races. On the contrary, the Observers used their advanced technology to "help and create" everywhere in the universe. They are a peace-loving race. But they never thought that the root of the disaster would be sown!
During one of the daily help activities of the observers, the observers directly provided the civilization on Prosilicus, which was still in the primitive state, with the technology level of "nuclear power", and helped the race on Prosilicus to complete the development process of almost hundreds of years and thousands of years. After seeing their work completed, the observers left happily. But after a period of time, when the observers returned to Prosilicus, they unexpectedly found that the civilization of the entire planet had been almost completely destroyed. The reason is that while the observers brought technological progress to Prosilicus, they also accelerated the internal corruption. It was also because of this incident that the entire observer race began to realize the impact of their "pulling up seedlings to help them grow" approach on other civilizations in the universe. Therefore, it was decided that the entire observer race would no longer interfere with the development of other civilizations in the Marvel Universe, and would retire to the mountains and forests from then on, and become a neutral recorder. They follow the principle of "non-interference, non-influence, only recording and letting it develop".
The observers are still okay, as this race is not that aggressive, but this may not be the case for other civilizations.
The Celestials are indeed the number one race in the universe, there is nothing wrong with that, but don’t think that they are truly invincible. In fact, they have many enemies, and they are all civilizations that emerged in the early days of the universe!
In the universe, there are countless mysterious races of cosmic level, and there are also many races that are strong enough to rival gods. A typical example is the ancient mysterious race that created the "God Killer Armor".
The God Killer Armor was created by an ancient alien tyrant, who used the resources of the entire planet and even the universe to build this armor. Its purpose was to wage war against the Celestials. It could completely destroy a planet just by landing, and it had the power to kill millions of Celestials in one blow.
In the final battle against the Celestials, the alien tyrant sent out his powerful godslayers, and almost all the Celestials were dispatched. The tyrant won the war, but they were eventually destroyed, leaving behind only this invincible armor.
The alien tyrants built the God Killer in order to compete with the Celestials for territory. Although they successfully defeated the Celestials with the God Killer armor, this civilization was ultimately destroyed by their own civil strife.
The Life Tribunal immediately realized that this was not going to work.
The God Group is indeed very powerful, but no matter how strong a tiger is, it cannot defeat a pack of wolves!
And the God Group almost failed several times!
This is not the biggest problem, after all, he can be the back line. At best, he can go on the court directly.
But this is not the crux of the problem.
The key to solving a problem is to find the key problem.
As these civilizations continue to flourish, the entire universe will eventually fall into lasting chaos. Such chaos will accelerate the increase of entropy while also consuming the energy of the universe, and finally accelerate heat death until destruction!
Although the Five Great Gods and the Life Tribunal are very powerful, they are ultimately part of the universe. If the universe is destroyed, they will be destroyed too.
For them, continuing the existence of the universe is their greatest responsibility.
Even though heat death will eventually come, they still hope that day will come as late as possible.
This is the commonality of life, the instinct for survival!
Therefore, the Life Tribunal chose the most stringent method and made all lives follow the script he had set!
All civilizations should have their ebbs and flows.
Just like the three major empires in the universe before were the Skrull Empire, the Kree Empire and the Shi'ar Empire. But as time went on, the Skrulls were basically exterminated, and the Kree Empire also reached a dead end. They would also rush towards collapse. The Shi'ar Empire did not have this worry, after all, they were a new empire.
Before the three great empires, there were countless huge civilizations that rose and fell in the universe.
The Living Tribunal has set their fate, and it is in control of when they will rise and when they will fall.
In this way, there will be no next Observer civilization... To be honest, if the Observers had not always been neutral, perhaps the Living Tribunal would have directly destroyed the Observer civilization... instead of the war between the Celestials and the Observers lasting billions of years.
In short, the destiny that the Life Tribunal believes in is the responsibility for the entire universe, which not only ensures the vitality of the universe, but also ensures that the entire universe is always in a state of sustainable development.
But there are always exceptions to everything, and fate can make mistakes sometimes.
For example, the earth.
The Living Tribunal is omniscient and knows everything, but it is blocked outside the earth!
This made the Life Court very angry, but it didn't know what to do.
He had never encountered anything like this. To make matters worse, he was threatened.
He was afraid that the Earth would spread its method of resisting fate to the entire universe!
So he made a deal with the immortals, the immortals kept the secret, and he could not take action against the earth personally!