IMCRC's press conference had ended.
The sensation it caused spread through the reporters' microphones and cameras, sweeping across the front pages of major newspapers like lightning.
Renren Daily: "The successful creation of the Z Particle has opened the door for Physics to step into the future, and it has also opened the door for our civilization to advance toward a more distant future!"
Jinling Evening News: "63.6 seconds!"
The Wall Street Journal: "The speed of light is no longer unsurpassable!"
The Sun: "The universe is no longer beyond our reach!"
The Times: "..."
Whether print media or television media, whether traditional media or new media, nearly all of them were flooded with the keywords "Academician Lu," "IMCRC," and "Z Particle."
What did faster-than-light travel mean?
Perhaps very few people could fully explain its academic significance. Most people could not even clearly explain what a Z Particle actually was.
Yet for the vast majority of people, their visions of the future were remarkably alike!
One day, humanity's footprints would set foot on distant planets in one form or another. One day, the seeds of civilization would be carried far away by solar winds or something else.
Even now, humanity's farthest probe had only just left the boundaries of the Solar System. Even humanity's proud science had no idea how many centuries it would take to reach the nearest star system.
But almost no one doubted that humanity's fate would be forever confined to this blue homeworld.
Now, the successful opening of the Hyperspace Channel had undoubtedly pushed open a door for people's imaginations.
Even if it still seemed like a beautiful yet distant dream, at least now, the word "distant" had been given a visible measure.
Just as everyone had witnessed together, this tiny particle had changed not only the world