The civilizations of the Milky Way had grown ever more powerful. Since the insectoid race had bowed its head, more and more civilizations had undergone technological explosions. Sixth Level Civilizations were no longer limited to the Galactic Core, and Fifth Level Civilizations had become commonplace.
In a dense starfield over a hundred light-years from the Galactic Core, the Science Truth Club had taken the lead in constructing a vast interstellar Space City.
This was the Milky Way's shared platform for exchange.
Sixth Level Civilizations such as the Galactic Core had also maintained a long-term presence here, delving endlessly into the realm of Philosophical Weapons.
At this moment, they had been terrified by the changes to countless constants throughout the universe.
Take the speed of light alone. Not long ago, it had fluctuated drastically, once dropping to thirty meters per second. That had directly caused an apocalypse.
The overwhelming majority of life had perished as a result. A reduction in the speed of light was no joke. A small drop would have been manageable, but a ten-millionfold decrease was simply horrifying.
A photon's energy was the Planck constant multiplied by the speed of light, then divided by wavelength. Once the speed of light, a constant coefficient, changed, so did a photon's energy.
Countless physical, chemical, and biological phenomena at atomic and molecular scales underwent drastic changes as well!
At such an ultra-low speed of light, hydrogen fusion became far too easy. Though it had lasted only a dozen-odd seconds, eighty percent of all hydrogen in the universe had fused into helium.
"Good thing it only lasted a dozen seconds. If it had gone on any longer, there would no longer be any stars or water in the entire universe..."
The brief reduction in light speed had caused innumerable stars to die