Negative Entropy Factor

This viewpoint emphasizes that life is far removed from thermodynamic equilibrium. It injects higher forms of energy into the environment, uses its free energy to maintain and develop life, and discharges lower forms of energy back to the environment, essentially acting as an energy converter that extracts Negative Entropy from the environment.

This is an entropy reduction process.

In other words, the maintenance and development of life comes at the cost of increasing the entropy of the environment. The essence of life's material and energy metabolism is to absorb Negative Entropy from the environment through the exchange of input and output.

So what is entropy? Entropy is a unit in thermodynamics, and its physical meaning is a measure of the degree of disorder in a system.

Clearly, this is a physical quantity defined by humans.

Shi Lifen used entropy to describe Yue Yuan's state, or rather, to explain why humans don't understand what Yue Yuan's body is currently in, indicating that she and her team must have discovered something, but there is no concrete evidence yet, so she didn't say it outright.

Yue Yuan has also reached the level of Research Personnel in various disciplines. When Shi Lifen was talking about this sentence, he thought of many possibilities based on some of the words.

Thinking of this, Yue Yuan slowly said, "Academician Shi, do you mean that my current situation is because of that unknown red color back then, which caused a seed of entropy to be planted deep within my life?"

Saying it was a seed was not quite appropriate, but Yue Yuan believed that Shi Lifen would understand what he meant.

Sure enough, the next moment Shi Lifen nodded slightly. She put her left hand on her right arm and touched her cheek with her right hand, a gesture that made her full breasts look a little distorted.

This brought Zhu Pete, who had been standing there in a daze, back to his senses.

"Well, it's a kind of seed of entropy, or you could say that, but we think it's more appropriate to call it the Negative Entropy Factor."

"Negative Entropy Factor"

"Yes, the Negative Entropy Factor." Shi Lifen pursed her lips and continued in the same position as before, "I believe the Chief is also familiar with the principles of our traditional Life Elixir. Our traditional Life Elixir gene changes the original instinctive mechanism of genes at the gene level, so that the genetic factors no longer aim to continue themselves through the next generation, but instead continuously renew themselves as the purpose of continuing themselves."

This leads to the common saying that our Life Elixir have "tricked" the genetic factors of life for many years. Of course, from another perspective, it means that aging genes are suppressed.

"But the Chief of Staff is not like that. Uh, what I'm about to say is just what everyone thinks is the most likely guess at this stage." Shi Lifen put on a suit of armor before speaking, which made her look a bit like Yi Kai.

"We believe that the Chief's body may have developed a Negative Entropy Factor at a deeper level of life due to the Red Gas from that year, and for some reason—perhaps due to our life energy level, perhaps due to our life form, or perhaps due to other reasons—"

The Negative Entropy Factor did not fully exert its intended effect, but only manifested the effects of traditional Life Elixir at the gene level. This meant that no matter how we tested it, we could only detect that the effects of the Life Elixir were still present.

Regarding the 500-year timeframe, our Expert Group unanimously agrees that it is one of the factors contributing to the surface gene expression effects of the Negative Entropy Factor in our life form. This factor is highly likely related to our human life form and the energy level provided for survival.

After saying all that, Shi Lifen paused for a moment, glanced at Zhu Pete looked somewhat bewildered, and continued, "It's unbelievable, but I have to admit, this seems to be a more advanced and profound life technology. It truly connects thermodynamic units like 'entropy' and 'Negative Entropy' with life. It's hard to imagine how they achieved this technology."

"We don't know how to describe this technology at the genetic level because it transcends genes; it's more like something that points directly to the essence of life. Our human exploration of life is still at the genetic level, and we don't even know how long it will take before we can reach that level."

Yes, we do have many theories about 'life' and 'Negative Entropy,' but they are just theories. We still cannot verify the essential mechanism by which 'Negative Entropy' and 'life' are related. What's even more disheartening is that 'entropy' is merely a physical quantity we define; we cannot imagine how a civilization that creates that Red Gas could actually transform this physical quantity into a tangible substance like 'Red Gas.'

Shi Lifen's words made Yue Yuan fall into deep thought for a long time. He could understand the Research Personnel' thirst for knowledge about the unknown, and he could also understand the despair they felt when faced with a technological gap that seemed as vast as the heavens and the earth.

After a long while, Yue Yuan spoke up, "So, if we continue our research along our current path of life technology, will we be able to reach, um, will we be able to, or rather, will we be able to 'see' the technology you mentioned for creating 'Negative Entropy Factor'?"

Arrival, reach, see. Yue Yuan's words changed again and again, because with his scientific literacy, he could clearly feel the huge gap between the two, it really felt like there was an abyss lying in front of him.

"I don't know." Shi Lifen shook her head, a hint of confusion on her face. Two seconds later, she opened her red lips again. "I really don't know. Our current Life Science direction can be said to be deeply exploring genes, but we don't know if if we continue to dig deeper, there will be a qualitative change from a quantitative change. We don't know what the end of this scientific route is."

The technology that might be the 'Negative Entropy Factor' could be the result of a qualitative leap in our existing biotechnology, or it could be a completely different technological path—one we've never tried before. Perhaps the civilization that created that gas doesn't even have a carbon-based life form, or rather, it's not even a matter-based form at all."

Shi Lifen knew about the spaceship that crashed on Callisto, and of course she also knew about the alien creature's remains on the spaceship.

The remains have been confirmed to be some kind of mollusc.

If she knows this and still says it, then it means she suspects that the civilization where that spaceship was located back then was not the civilization that produced that Red Gas at all.

The truth remains unknown to humankind, unless we encounter another civilization that uses Red Gas or Red Gas similar and ask them, in which case we might be able to obtain clues.

In any case, it's certain that humans won't know Yue Yuan's physical condition for a while.

As for the so-called 'Negative Entropy Factor,' Yue Yuan couldn't help but think of the Awakeners again. He thought to himself, "If only the Awakeners were here. The Awakeners should know what it is, right? Does the Negative Entropy Factor really exist? If so, does each individual life form of the Awakeners possess a so-called 'Negative Entropy Factor' to sustain their long lifespan? Or is it something more advanced? Back then, the Crimson Flame Civilization said that advanced civilizations and Low-level Civilization use Life Planet differently. Could it be that advanced civilizations are researching the Negative Entropy Factor?"

Could it be that the so-called Universal Life Elixir is actually some kind of creation that gives living organisms Negative Entropy Factor?