IMCRC headquarters.
In an office whose walls were covered in whiteboards.
Facing one of the nearly filled whiteboards, Professor Wei Hong stood with a marker in his hand and pondered for a long time. Then he suddenly broke the silence.
"I've got it!"
Professor Daivik, standing beside him, hurriedly asked,
"What have you figured out?"
The three of them, including Luo Wenxuan, had been discussing "possible causes of the disturbance of gravitational fields by Z Particles." Wei Hong had proposed a possibility on the whiteboard from a mathematical perspective.
But just as the other two were listening intently, he had abruptly stopped mid-explanation. It was as though something had jammed his train of thought, leaving him standing there in a daze for quite some time.
Now that he had finally snapped out of it, Professor Daivik thought he had come up with some astonishing idea and immediately shot him a questioning look.
In response to his colleague's question, Professor Wei Hong pondered for roughly two minutes, organizing the ideas that had surfaced in his mind into simple, accessible terms before speaking.
"Gravity is essentially the curvature of spacetime caused by an object's own mass. Z Particles moving from higher dimensions into lower ones don't disturb the gravitational field itself. Instead, they alter the curvature of spacetime relative to the gravitational field."
As he spoke, he picked up the marker and drew two parallel circles on the whiteboard, connecting their corresponding upper and lower edges with two arcs.
"Spacetime has curvature. Let's call that curvature x, and suppose these two lines are gravitational field lines in normal spacetime. When Z Particles oscillate at both ends, the value of x changes. It might even be reduced to something infinitely close to zero. These two arcs would then be straightened indefinitely, approaching straight