In scientific research, the greatest fear was choosing the wrong direction.
One wrong direction could render all prior preparation and research futile.
The energy consumed by Zero's full-power calculation, the AllSpark's complete energy replenishment, and Doctor Manhattan's exertion in calculating and researching minds, emotions, energy, and more were by no means trivial amounts.
Especially since Doctor Manhattan was not in the DC universe, but in the He-El Universe, all of it had to be supplied by the He-El Universe.
The energy spent detecting the common foundational matter of two universes was no small amount.
At the very least, the light of more than twelve galaxies larger than the Milky Way had dimmed within the He-El Universe.
Calculating a universe was no simple matter.
"Our line of thinking was wrong. All of our thinking was wrong," Doctor Manhattan said rigorously. "There are no commonalities between universes. Even material universes that appear identical are absolutely not the same."
"I once traveled through many Parallel Universes in the DC universe. Though they were called Parallel Universes, none of them were truly alike. Some Parallel Universes had no He-El, some had the Eastern Heavenly Court Pantheon as their gods, and some were zombie universes.
They looked like Parallel Universes, yet they were utterly different—worlds apart.
The DC universe had Parallel Universes, and even those varied so greatly. The Chronicle universe and the Jumper universe were two entirely different universes. The differences between them were even more complicated than we had calculated or imagined."
Doctor Manhattan immediately realized that their line of thinking had been wrong—absurdly wrong.
There was no such thing as identical foundational matter between universes. The different directions of each universe's development ensured that the foundational matter supporting their future growth would never be the same.
There was simply nothing identical.
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