" Academician Li, it seems you were using your left hand to pick up food just now. Look at where your rice bowl is placed. A normal person's rice bowl is either placed slightly to the left or in the center, but yours is slightly to the right," Chen Peng recalled and said.
"You two must be mistaken. I definitely can't use my left hand. Why are you two staring at my hands like that? Or I'll let you take a good look at them later, haha."
"But..."
"Alright, Zhuge Xiong, why are you agonizing over this? Come on, let's have another drink."
"Yes, yes, come on, although the wine is a bit lacking, we rarely get to relax like this, and a little drink might even help with our thinking." Academician Li said with a smile, unconsciously raising his wine glass with his left hand. This scene not only stunned Li Zhixiong and Chen Peng, but also nearly made Academician Liu Bo's eyes pop out.
Seeing everyone looking at him like that, Academician Li Youwei also looked at his hand that was holding up the cup.
" Youwei, I remember you are indeed severely right-handed," Academician Zeng said.
" Academician Li, are you kidding me?" Academician Liu Bo asked seriously.
"This... wait, why am I suddenly using my left hand? And my left hand..."
Before Academician Li finished speaking, he put down his wine glass and tried to pick up a chopstick with his left hand, skillfully picking up a grain of rice. This action of Academician Li left everyone dumbfounded. Having lived together for tens of thousands of years, everyone was very familiar with each other's habits. Academician Li Youwei was the kind of person who would turn around and use his right hand to pick up a document on the left side of the table.
As former colleagues of Academician Li, we've all made quite a few jokes about Academician Li seemingly inept habit of using chopsticks. Even for a normal person, holding chopsticks with their left hand is extremely awkward, yet Academician Li is even less capable than a normal person, has skillfully and precisely performed this action, leaving everyone quite puzzled.
"What... what's wrong with me? My left hand can't possibly do these things!"
"It's not your problem, it's the problem of the universe, everyone look." Academician Liu Bo even used his left hand to pick up a grain of rice with chopsticks.
"How could this be?!" Everyone tried using their left hand, and all of them found their dexterity greatly increased.
"This Secondary Universe is essentially a mirror image of our three-dimensional universe," Academician Liu Bo stated his conclusion.
" Mirror Universe?"
"Indeed, we've been mirrored since coming to this universe."
But our right hand is still flexible.
"The biological attributes accumulated over tens of millions of years cannot be changed. Moreover, this is not a real mirror; the universe merely mirrors our way of thinking. Our original way of thinking remains, which is why we can now use both hands," Academician Liu Bo explained.
"If that's the case, then the loss of particle entanglement can also be explained. The Mirror Universe shouldn't have a fourth dimension, but how do we explain the connection between it and our three-dimensional universe? It's neither three-dimensional nor a fourth dimension," Academician Li Youwei asked.
"You'll have to ask Academician Zhou about that."
"3.5 dimensions," Academician Zhou Xiaohua said after a moment's thought. "3.5 dimensions are neither four nor three, but they can connect two different universes, or in other words, allow another universe to exist within one universe."
3.5D?!
"The world we see in a regular mirror can be understood as 2.5-dimensional. Just imagine this as the world inside a mirror, and we are the people in that mirror world."
"Hmm, that's a very insightful idea." Academician Zeng nodded and said, "This also seems to explain why we could see the spaceship before, but the spaceship couldn't find its way back."
"Yes," Academician Liu Bo continued to explain, "The light and electromagnetic waves emitted from the Reaper ship that probed into this universe, including the released spaceships, were not mirrored in their existence, but their direction of movement was mirrored. The spaceships clearly wanted to return to their starting point, but instead, they were heading further and further away. This is the reason for the loss of contact."
"Furthermore, after receiving the electromagnetic waves, our spacecraft immediately sends back corresponding electromagnetic wave information. In the same direction as the spacecraft's flight path, the electromagnetic waves also travel in the opposite direction. This is why we can see the spacecraft, but we lose contact with it. When we use relay equipment, some of the electromagnetic wave radiation travels in the opposite direction and is received by our relay equipment, which is why the spacecraft can return normally."
"Wait a minute, Academician Liu, I'm not an expert, but I have a question. Since it's a mirror universe, moving forward is like moving backward. Why aren't we going back to the exit? Also, why is time here so much faster than in the three-dimensional universe?" Chen Peng asked.
"Haha, General, this isn't a real mirror. If it were, things would be simple," Academician Zhou laughed.
"I don't understand you guys, but I'm glad you found out. Zhuge Xiong, let's just focus on eating and drinking. If you don't eat, don't blame me and Zhuge Xiong for being ruthless and not leaving any for you, haha."
"Alright, let's have some food and drinks. Come on, let's have a toast to the great Chinese Nation and to our beloved academicians."
"Oh, it's been mirrored so quickly, haha." Academician Li laughed.
"By the way, Youwei, does the particle exhibit mirror-image behavior?"
"No, but I don't know about the particles in this universe. So far, I've only found energy in this universe, not any particles."
"It seems that the universe only reflects itself, and the only thing that can reflect external things is our habitual thinking. Otherwise, we would all be walking backwards and eating and drinking backwards."
" Academician Liu, although we don't understand it, we still want to hear if we can leave this universe."
"It's still unclear. We just discovered this anomaly. We need to conduct many tests and experiments to better understand this universe. Only by understanding it can we have a chance to get what we want and find a way out."
"That's true. At least we've made some important discoveries. Anyway, time flows much faster here than in that Alliance Space, which is a huge advantage for research."
"If this place could be used to study the subject of the three-dimensional universe, those Great Star Region Civilization Great Star Region Civilization have already occupied it. Although they haven't found the so-called defense system, they might not necessarily be lost."
"I see. Then we can only focus on studying this universe. Strange, didn't those hundred-plus Small Star Sector Civilization discover that this is Mirror Universe?"