The world had been progressing.
Even "science" itself was in constant progress.
The science of the eighteenth century, the nineteenth century, and the twentieth century had been utterly different.
Even the science of the early, middle, and late twentieth century had differed as vastly as heaven and earth.
Whether in scientific paradigms, the ways scientists thought, or anything else.
The twentieth century alone had seen many events that completely overturned the way scientists thought.
The same was true for the Divine Land.
When humanity faced the condition of "below the fourth tier, reality does not exist," they all began to doubt themselves.
No, rather, anyone who did not waver at such a time was no Modern Dharma Cultivator.
Advancement—science had always moved forward by denying itself.
It was only that such "denial" should not have been too cruel.
A mathematician who had only experienced one mathematical crisis, upon learning of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems born from the third mathematical crisis, would either be frightened mad on the spot or think that anyone researching such things had something wrong with their head.
Wang Qi quickly understood all of it.
To Lord of Yuanli, "Modern Dharma" had stagnated a thousand years ago.
That was right. He had been a genius without equal.
But cognitive barriers were not something one person could shatter alone.
Even on Earth, there had been professional scientists who, because of cognitive barriers, pursued research in absurd directions.
If not for Lu Xiaoqian, even Wang Qi, who came from the twenty-first century, might have been trapped by cognitive barriers within the string landscape.
But Lord of Yuanli had been alone.
That was only natural...
In Lord of Yuanli's era, Modern Dharma Cultivators had not yet established such a complete system for publishing papers.
He had not been someone willing to