The Book of Changes is one of the Confucian classics, an ancient classic that expounds the changes in the world. However, the Book of Changes is completely different from the Poems, Books, Rites, and Spring and Autumn Periods, and it is mysterious and obscure, and few people can read it. Although there are many volumes of theories for the study of the Book of Changes from ancient times to the present, there is no one who can unravel the mystery of the Book of Changes. As a result, some people speculate that the Book of Changes was not written by an ancient, but the octal universe left by extraterrestrial civilizations**. This seemingly absurd remark, with the development of science and technology, is closer to its true meaning.
1. Bagua and binary computer language.
Gossip can be found in the cloud of "Zhou Yi Zhi Xia": "The ancients Bao Xi's king of the world is also, looking up at the sky, looking down at the law on the ground;The text of bird watching and beasts is suitable for the place;Take all the bodies closely, take all things far away, so he began to gossip, with the virtue of the gods, and the feelings of all things. Bagua is the Yin and Yang system of the Book of Changes to represent things themselves, with "one" representing yang, and "- representing yin", using these two symbols, according to the changes of yin and yang in nature, in parallel to form eight different forms, called Bagua. That is, dry (), dui (), li (), zhen (), kan (), gen (), Xun (), Kun ().
Since the Western Zhou Dynasty, countless Confucians have spent their lives trying to understand the mysteries of the Book of Changes, resulting in the formation of two schools and six sects. However, the research of these Confucian ancestors eventually pushed the Book of Changes to metaphysics, making the Book of Changes synonymous with superstitions such as divination, fortune-telling, and surveying.
But no one could have imagined that after the "Book of Changes" was introduced to Europe, Western scholars suddenly realized that after studying it, they would change the direction of the world's science and technology. In the 17th century, the I Ching was introduced to Europe. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, a famous German mathematician and philosopher, came into contact with the I Ching, and inspired by the hexagrams in the I Ching, he created binary.
The counting method we usually use is decimal, i.e., full decimal one. The number consists of ten digits, full of ten into one. Binary is made up of two numbers, 0 and 1, and the full 2 is 1.
If the yang line "δΈ€" represents the number 1, and the yin line "- represents the number 0, then the Bagua corresponds exactly to the eight numbers from 0 to 7. That is, the hexagram ( ) is 111 in binary and 7 in decimalHexagram ( ) binary 110, decimal 6;Hexagram ( ) binary 101, decimal 5;Hexagram ( ) is 100 in binary and 4 in decimalXun hexagram ( ) is 011 in binary and 3 in decimal;The hexagram ( ) is 010 in binary and 2 in decimalThe hexagram ( ) is 001 in binary and 1 in decimalThe kun hexagram ( ) is 000 in binary and 0 in decimal.
2. Binary gave birth to information technology.
After Leibniz founded binary, Western scholars further deepened binary and applied it to practice.
1848 British mathematician George. George Boole founded binary algebra, also known as Boolean algebra and logical algebra. Later, Boolean algebra was widely used in digital circuits, computers, and computer languages. Boolean laid the theoretical foundation for the development of modern binary electronic computers.
George of Bell Labs, 1937. George Stibitz showed a machine that represented binary with relays. Two years later, he developed an electromagnetic digital computer named M-1, marking the birth of the first digital computer in the United States.
1938 German engineer Konrad. Konrad Zuse developed a programmable binary computer implemented with relays, later named Z1, which was also based on Boolean algebra.
On February 14, 1946, the world's first real electronic digital computer was born at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. This general-purpose electronic computer was customized by the United States and named ENIAC (Electronic Digital Integration Computer). The birth of ENIAC also marks the entry of mankind into the information age, and it can be said that binary gave birth to information technology.
3. The profundity of the I Ching is far more than binary.
It is easy to have Tai Chi, Tai Chi gives birth to Eryi, Eryi gives birth to four elephants, and Sixiang gives birth to gossip. The original "Book of Changes" is "Lianshan", "Guizang", and "Zhou Yi", of which "Lianshan" and "Guizang" have been lost, and only "Zhou Yi" exists in the world. "Zhou Yi" has two parts: "Sutra" and "Biography". The Sutra section has 64 hexagrams and 384 hexagrams. Moreover, the hexagrams of the Book of Changes can indeed deduce the laws and directions of the change and development of things. From the perspective of modern scientific thinking, the Book of Changes is not a hexagram or a hexagram, but more like the future result of complex logical operations and deductions. From this point of view, binary is only a corner of the I Ching.
Some people say that the Book of Changes should be an octal universe left by extraterrestrial civilizations**. Human beings have only designed binary logic circuits and entered a new era of information technology, so what about octals?Will the in-depth study of the Book of Changes lead to the design of an octal computer, and what kind of era will mankind enter at that time?Some people have boldly speculated that if humans had really developed an octal computer, they might have been able to calculate and deduce everything that would happen in the future. Isn't this time travel?
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