Mary pressed a button on the console before her, and a complex particle-collapse simulation appeared on the large screen.
"Dr. Wu discovered that when a human shrinks beyond the subatomic limit, they don't fall into an endless collapse, as conventional physics would suggest."
"Instead, they pass through a dimensional barrier beyond our understanding and enter an entirely new dimension... the Quantum Realm."
"And that's not all. Through repeated simulations and scans using microscopic rays, Dr. Wu discovered..."
"Deep within that microscopic dimension lies a stable energy field. The environment there may well be capable of supporting carbon-based life!"
Mary continued as she watched Hope and Dr. Pym stare at her in shock.
"In other words... there may be humans living there!"
"Are you saying..." Hope's breathing quickened. "...Daniel might still be alive?!"
Dr. Pym jolted too. His lips moved for a long moment before he managed a faint whisper.
"Then... Janet... my Janet... she might still be alive?"
At the thought, tears spilled from the old man's eyes.
For over twenty years, he had lived with guilt every waking moment, believing his wife had died long ago.
And now someone was telling him she might still be waiting for him in another dimension!
"Theoretically, yes, Ms. Dane. If Dr. Wu used Pym Particles to shrink indefinitely, as you said... then, like Ms. Janet van Dyne, he entered the Quantum Realm."
Mary's words brought Hope to tears of joy.
"Then how do we save him? How do we get into the Quantum Realm?!" Hope pressed.
"That's the question Dr. Wu has been working on all this time."
Mary swiped across the control panel, and the hologram switched to a design for a tunnel-shaped device.
"To test his theory, Dr. Wu poured everything he had into building a portal that could travel