--Time existed objectively. --Time was asymmetric in the Magic Power dimension.
Zheng Qing's quill pen rested on these two conclusions. He felt an idea in his mind, just a tiny step away from completion, yet it seemed blocked by a thin but resilient membrane, unable to break through.
After all, he had only truly entered the Wizarding World a little over a year ago. Though he had performed exceptionally well, his foundation was ultimately not very solid. Much common knowledge that young wizards from established families knew by heart was unfamiliar to him, making it difficult for him to draw inferences and spark inspiration.
Since he could not make sense of it all on his own, he had to find a "stone from another mountain."
Stones from another mountain could sharpen jade.
The best such stone Zheng Qing could think of was Su Shijun's 2D evolution experiment—projecting phenomena from a Higher Dimension World into a lower-dimensional world, then drawing on the experience accumulated in that lower-dimensional world to understand changes in the Higher Dimension World. This line of experimentation could actually be applied in many places.
Like now.
As the tip of his pen hovered over those two conclusions, a very fitting "reference" had already emerged in Zheng Qing's mind—a movie. More precisely, a movie played on a computer through a media player.
To people in the real world, a movie was unquestionably a 2D World.
And in this 2D World, time existed objectively. Its existence was represented by the progress bar on the player. Within the scope of the movie's spacetime, everything was fixed—from its beginning to its end, every frame, every line of dialogue, every set was predetermined. To a movie, time and space were both very real things, merely extensions of different dimensions in different