Mo Yun suddenly said, "We can be reborn in any bright matter. That means we only need to send a few elementary particles through the time-reversal zone."
Gu Lan Ba Tuo countered, "The Void knows our Starry Sky immortality inside out. How could they not guard against it? They won't allow any matter to cross this spacetime."
"How will we know unless we try?" Heavenly Decline gave his Methane Matter Sea tremendous acceleration and sent it surging forward.
The methane broke down and dissolved in moments, turning into clumps of quark soup.
That was the most terrifying thing about the universe at its birth: quark confinement had been broken—or rather, it had not yet formed.
Quark confinement meant that, under normal circumstances, no quark could exist alone. Quarks had to come together in groups of three to form hadrons, like three brothers locked in one room.
This was due to color charge. Every hadron had to contain quarks with three different color charges—red, green, and blue—so that its overall "color" was white.
Of course, that was only a way of describing it, not an actual color. In mathematical terms, the driving force represented by any quantum particle's color charge had to be zero. That was the most stable state.
But at the birth of the universe, immense pressure, immense energy, violent upheaval, and chaos were the norm.
Stability... was the aberration! Everything was in chaos, and many laws of mechanics had yet to form. After all, what people called laws were patterns distilled from phenomena repeating consistently over and over.
When the singularity had just erupted, the laws of mechanics themselves were still a mess. Mathematically, they were like infinite, nonrepeating decimals, with no pattern to follow.
Only as spacetime expanded and its early conditions settled and cooled did the