The lecture hall was like a pot of boiling water, erupting into an instant frenzy.
People gasped in surprise, exchanging frightened, incredulous looks, some of them completely at a loss.
Because of observation, the superposition state had collapsed, triggering a chain reaction that caused mass to move from the n+1th dimension down into the nth dimension.
In other words, was there a "person" outside the box observing them?
This sounded rather absurd...
And terrifying.
It was as if an eye, in a Void farther away than Andromeda yet closer than the moon, was watching their every movement. Through an invisible sieve, it carefully selected the intelligent civilizations it favored from the dust of the universe.
And now, through that sieve, it had discovered their existence.
What did that mean?
No one knew.
That was precisely why panic appeared on so many faces.
At a moment like this, the calmest person was Fernando, seated near the front.
Perhaps ignorance bred fearlessness. Compared with the physicists present, he had not fully understood what Lu Zhou was saying. He had merely caught a few particularly jarring keywords.
"Void?"
"Isn't that the Void Realm described by the Forerunners? Does that mean the great Spirit of the Universe truly exists?"
Muttering to himself, the short man's eyes gradually brightened.
As though he had glimpsed some impossible hope...
Meanwhile, at the very front of the lecture hall.
Ignoring the chaos in the hall, Lu Zhou calmly used the marker in his hand to write out his proof on the whiteboard.
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Professor Witten, seated below the stage, stared fixedly at the rows of equations on the whiteboard, and his pupils contracted slightly.
Just a few minutes ago, when he had first heard Lu Zhou's theory about Extra Strings and an Observer beyond the horizon, his expression