O-Level Containment Object [Least-Action Wish Machine]

Li Heng focused his gaze on the object in his hand.

It was a gleaming golden goblet, resembling the Holy Grail from the Type-Moon Universe, though much larger.

This Holy Grail was also an O-Level containment object, but it was far more powerful than that Paralysis Ring that looked like a joke toy.

Doctor Manhattan had suddenly appeared and simply handed this item over to him.

O-Level Containment Object [Least-Action Wish Machine]

The term "wish machine" was easy enough to understand. Since ancient times, there had been countless wish machines of all kinds.

"Least action" came from the Principle of Least Action in physics.

For example, the shortest distance between two points was a geodesic. When an object moved through spacetime, it chose that shortest geodesic.

In curved spacetime, objects appeared to accelerate. This was the essence of force in the universe.

A shape with the smallest area corresponded to the state with the least energy. If all other conditions were equal, this was usually the most probable state.

A surface with the smallest area had zero surface tension, which was why liquid surfaces and soap films generally appeared smooth and taut.

Extreme-value problems such as these could all be classified under the Principle of Least Action.

For this O-Level containment object, the method by which it fulfilled a wisher's wish followed the Principle of Least Action.

Suppose the person using this containment object was an ordinary twenty-first-century Earthling. That Earthling made a wish to the Least Action Wish Machine:

[I can obtain endless wealth and eternal life.]

Then that Earthling would obtain endless wealth and eternal life, but only within the wisher's subjective perception.

An ordinary Earthling's brain could receive no more than 10^8 bits of information per second.

It only needed to fabricate something consistent with human common