"According to the 'Spiral Complex Universe Model' I established earlier, since the universe is infinitely vast, and this infinitely vast universe has split into infinitely many parallel universes, then at the end of logic, there must exist a 'hyperdimensional matrix' capable of linking—or even encompassing—all universes! A broader, higher-dimensional macro-universe!"
"In that higher-dimensional realm, three-dimensional distance, space, and time will be completely reconstructed! As long as our speed can surpass the rate of cosmic expansion, as long as our creations possess the power to forcibly tear open the barriers of the universe... then crossing universes will no longer be some unattainable miracle! It will be like sailing from one planet to another, crossing from one galaxy to the next—leaving our universe, eventually leaving the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quantum, and heading toward brand-new universes!!"
"This is the true ultimate stage! And we're standing right at its center!!"
As she spoke, she anxiously and excitedly traced her slender fingers across the train window, her nails scraping against the glass with a piercing screech.
For a scientist who regarded "creation" and "truth" as life itself, nothing was more thrilling—more shudderingly exhilarating—than witnessing wild fantasies that had existed only on theoretical papers become reality before her very eyes.
In another corner of the carriage, utterly unlike Verity's feverish clamor, Ling quietly leaned against the railing by the window.
"To lodge a mayfly between heaven and earth, as tiny as a grain in the vast sea; to mourn the fleeting span of my life, and envy the endless river..." As Ling gazed at the multicolored glimmers, she could imagine the rise and fall of countless civilizations unfolding within each densely packed, insignificant "bubble."
And those civilizations, in everyone's eyes at this moment, were merely insignificant dust and grains of sand within a