"Not long ago, I firmly believed that the universe was a precise model—precise down to every atom and every molecule. Even one more or one less would trigger the collapse of the whole."
"As for now, I still don't believe this theory is entirely wrong. It merely needs a condition added before it: that the universe has no relevant error-correction mechanism. The simpler a structure is, the more stable it is; yet the more complex a structure is, the more stable it is as well. The former's stability lies in the structure itself, while the latter comes from the error-correction mechanisms derived from complex structures. Machines can service themselves..."
"The universe is indeed a precise model, but while forming a closed loop, the entire system also possesses enormous redundancy. Error-correction mechanisms are easily achieved at the software level, but difficult to achieve at the hardware level—unless software can affect hardware. And such a thing does exist in broader spacetime: higher dimensions. The existence of higher dimensions shatters the barrier between mind and matter. This was the X factor I overlooked in my previous deductions."
In another, more spacious area, all kinds of data and patterns surged across a virtual screen like flowing water.
The speaker was a young man in his twenties, but in truth, this "young man" was already over seventy. He had been a leading authority on spacetime theory in the old era. His name was Jason Tutton.
Tutton had been extraordinarily gifted in his youth. As early as his twenties, he had proposed the "reversal" theory of spacetime. He believed that time could not be traversed, but it could be reversed.
Traversal and reversal looked identical, but in essence, they were utterly different.
Traversing time meant leaping along the timeline—for example, jumping from the present to ten