After experiencing one Pixel Space after another, each with different rules, people could not help wondering what conditions were actually required to create a universe.
Was it done directly, the way it had been back when they were still at the level of a Level Six Civilization, using Space Cutting technology to slice off a region of space, wrap it up, and then slap the name Small Universe on it?
Or was it like this cluster of Pixel Spaces, where grid space after grid space had been made, each containing so many spaces with different rules? Could its creator have been running some kind of test?
After humanity obtained data from one different space after another, the scientists also developed such an idea: could humans rely on their own technology to create a space, or even a Small Universe, whose rules were entirely edited by themselves?
This idea of creating a universe had existed for a very long time. From the perspective of human history, it appeared in myths and legends, such as Pangu separating heaven and earth, or God creating the world in seven days. In the technological age, scientists had also put forward similar hypotheses.
They had even calculated the required number of various particles, saying it would need 10^89 photons, and the same number of electrons, positrons, neutrinos, antineutrinos, protons, and neutrons.
But now humanity knew that a universe did not necessarily have to contain matter. When a space had no material manifestation, its timeline was hidden, which was what people often called meaningless.
During their exploration of the Pixel Spaces, humanity had encountered a space without the slightest trace of matter. That space was very small and very calm. It had existed for unknown years, yet showed no sign of heat death, because it had no