"If our universe had a 'beginning,' then it must have had a 'first ripple'—an initial... 'oscillation.'"
The initial oscillation...
Milmina had finished speaking, but Gawain did not respond. He merely went over what he had just heard again and again, comparing and reasoning it against the knowledge he already possessed. Of course, he knew that the "initial oscillation" being discussed was not the same thing as the "oscillation" people understood in common sense and could not be interpreted literally. According to Milmina, if the entire universe were regarded as a "field," then its initial "oscillation" should have been an unprecedentedly immense collapse of fluctuations containing vast amounts of information—an information singularity, an "undulation" that caused the universe to lose its "flatness."
Milmina believed that it had been the first "glow of magic power" in this universe.
And such a description clearly corresponded to the intelligence provided by Bertram: among the knowledge those Dark Priests had obtained from the Sentinel, that "oscillation sweeping across all stars" was also called the "baseline frequency band" of magic power in the world.
"You believe the 'oscillation' Bertram mentioned was the 'initial ripple' you have been searching for in the Unified Fluctuation Model?" Camil, who had remained quietly listening without speaking, suddenly broke the silence. He looked at the former God of Magic across the round table, his voice low and trembling. "And this 'initial ripple' has continued to echo through cosmic space even today, showing no signs of dissipating, while also directly causing the Magic Tides appearing on all celestial bodies..."
"This ripple appeared alongside the birth of our universe. It is the 'starting point' that allows all things in the world to endure today. Perhaps it will never disappear, not until the end of our universe's life. At least in my theoretical model,