String Theory

The most basic application of sensing vibrational frequencies was spatial displacement.

If explained scientifically, this ability was String Theory, a groundbreaking theory believed to be the only one capable of unifying the four fundamental forces and general relativity.

String Theory held that all matter in the universe was made up of tiny segments of strings. Some stretched across the stars, while others existed between electrons. They were the most fundamental units underlying the universe's current state.

After the Big Bang, vast numbers of cosmic strings had been produced. Some were over ten billion light-years long. Strings were difficult to observe directly and had to be discovered indirectly through gravitational lensing.

One common hypothesis held that cosmic strings existed within binary star systems, formed through gravitational resonance between the two stars. Their resonance produced a series of standing waves, and every time a string vibrated, it formed two stable wave points. Daisy's teleportation worked by vibrating a certain string and moving from one point to another.

Daisy had experimented several times before, but there had been no effect at all. Now, after listening to Dr. Pym's calculations, several obstacles had been laid bare, and everything suddenly became clear before her.

Although Old Pym was still bent over his calculations, she had already made some estimates in her mind by comparing them with her powers.

"Crackle! Crackle!" Vibrational waves radiated from her palms and rubbed against the air. She was probing frequencies, trying to find a string she could use.

The strange sound startled the Old Doctor out of his calculations, and he watched Daisy curiously.

At first, the pale blue glow was faint, like a tiny flame. Then it grew brighter and brighter. Something seemed to lurk beyond the light, but before the Old Doctor could speak, there was a bang, and a small fireball exploded in midair. Debris scattered everywhere, accompanied by a great deal of sand and dirt.

The explosion had come without warning, and Daisy bore the brunt of it.

Old Pym hurried to grab a fire extinguisher, only to find there was no open flame. There was simply a lot of dust. His previously spotless laboratory now looked like an old house that had been abandoned for years.

"Ptooey...!" Daisy climbed to her feet, covered in dust. Her once-presentable suit had become an indistinguishable gray, and her hair and shoes were full of sand.

"Yellow sand? What place did you connect to?" Old Pym crouched on the floor, pinching the fine grains scattered across it. Some had blown in from the other side, while others had shaken off Daisy.

Daisy smoothed down her hair, upgrading her appearance from a beggar to a refugee. She looked utterly speechless. "I don't know!"

She did not care much about appearances, but this was simply too embarrassing.

Old Pym looked at her with amusement. "Can you use self-vibration to shake off all this dust? That should be a basic ability for you, right?"

"Easy for you to say. Let me show you, and you'll understand how difficult it is." Daisy snorted softly, concentrating her power in her hands and giving them two slight shakes. Old Pym immediately saw the problem.

Vibration was possible, but she could not control its direction. Countless specks of dust shook about chaotically, yet after the shaking, they were still on her hands. At most, the dust had merely shifted positions among itself.

"Your control over your ability isn't very good. I don't know whether you've heard of Magneto. His ability—"

Before he could finish, Daisy cut him off. "Magneto has had his ability for years. At the beginning, he could only do clumsy hauling work too. I noticed something. You must have calculated something incorrectly just now. You'd better check it!"

After saying that, Daisy quickly ran to the bathroom, washed herself from head to toe, changed into a white lab coat, and only then came back out.

Poor Old Pym was over eighty, yet she had left him behind to clean up. Afterward, he checked the entire calculation process again and really did find an error.

Strictly speaking, it was not his mistake, but a mistake in modern quantum mechanics. He had copied an earlier formula directly, never expecting one of its values to shift during the calculation.

Daisy tied her hair into a ponytail. She had been far too unlucky just now. She had not expected the string vibration to connect to a place ravaged by a hurricane. The odds of running into something like that were absurd. All she could say was that her luck had been bad.

"When you adjust the frequency between thirty thousand and fifty thousand, you need to calculate this formula. It changes according to the distance to your target, its mass, air resistance..."

Old Pym explained while gesturing, rattling off a whole pile of information. Daisy could understand some of it, but some of it was completely beyond her.

It made her realize that she not only needed to study quantum physics, but also needed an extremely high level of mathematics.

"Try it once first. Right here in this laboratory. See if you can open a passage ten meters away," Old Pym said, giving her a test.

This task was not difficult. Air resistance, magnetic fields, and the many other hindering factors did not need much consideration. Even if there were slight discrepancies, she could adjust them with her power. Daisy silently calculated a value in her head.

She raised her right hand and sent a shockwave at the air.

The pale blue energy struck the air as if it had hit a wall, then pierced through after encountering a slight resistance.

She sensed that unobservable string again. Like flicking a rubber band, she calculated the distance and then vibrated it at a certain point.

With a gentle tremor, the string responded and transmitted the vibration to another point.

In the outside world, this manifested as a pale blue halo appearing before Daisy. Like ripples on water, its central vortex spun faster and faster until it finally became a clockwise energy vortex two meters high and one meter wide.

Daisy frowned slightly and struggled to maintain that connection. Another energy vortex appeared ten meters away, spinning in the opposite direction.

At her signal, Old Pym casually picked up a book and threw it into the energy gate on her side.

The next second, the book flew out from the other side undamaged and fell to the floor with a thud.

"Spatial jump!" Just as the old man was about to throw something else, Daisy dropped onto the floor.

"Pant, pant... Um, do you have anything to eat here? I feel like I'm starving to death!"

Daisy was so exhausted that cold sweat poured from her. There was still something wrong with their formula. The passage was unstable and changed constantly.

This required Daisy to continuously adjust the vibration frequency, forcing her to spend an enormous amount of mental energy on calculations.

Although Old Pym was healthy and strong, he was still advanced in age and did not keep high-calorie food in his laboratory. He could only call his assistant and have food delivered.

Daisy ate three twelve-inch pizzas. She could have kept eating, but she was getting sick of them. After drinking a bowl of meat soup, she finally recovered some of her strength.

"Does it consume that much energy?" Old Pym had been afraid she would starve to death, so he had held back until now before asking.

"The consumption itself is actually average, but there are still problems with our algorithm. Big problems. Right now, most of my physical and mental energy is being spent on the calculations. If we can optimize it, my ability will have a lot of room to improve," Daisy replied as she wiped her mouth.