Applied Immortality
Chapter 1687

A Rare Seclusion

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In nature, there were no "particles," no "waves," no "strings," and no "fields."

Those concrete concepts had, in truth, all been created by people to understand this world.

Different species might possess inherently different spatial intuitions.

Some living beings regarded "time" itself as an illusion.

Their cultures also contained other concepts capable of explaining all this.

As long as it could "justify itself," it was "good enough."

From this perspective, the so-called Spiritual Power Dimension, this "degree of freedom of matter," was not entirely unacceptable.

And after accepting it, research in many fields inclined toward empirical evidence and application became much easier.

The only dissatisfied ones were the cultivators attempting to produce a "theory of everything" in one stroke.

On humanity's road toward a theory of everything, "Spiritual Dimension Theory" itself seemed like driving history backward.

One could even say that, much like Special Relativity's a priori requirement that Minkowski spacetime hold true, it "presupposed" that matter possessed a wholly new degree of freedom.

It even granted spiritual power the status of a dimensioned quantity.

Perhaps a brand-new theory would emerge in the future, one that would attribute the Spiritual Power Dimension to changes within spacetime itself.

But for now... they would make do with it.

At worst, it could be regarded as a useful "spiritual energy modeling tool."

Thanks to Dimension Theory, everyone's speed in developing spells had increased considerably.

It had even aided cultivation.

As for the danger that "Dimension Theory might be falsified"... there was actually no need to worry.

As long as cultivators who used Dimension Theory for cultivation remembered that "this is merely a mathematical tool," that "I have only established a tool for processing spiritual power perception, rather than directly observing spiritual power," there would be no problem.

When it came to their own

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