Ch.122122. Change.

# 122.

[Physics Laws We Knew Were Wrong? Major Confusion in Academic Circles.]

[Previously Impossible Problems Solved. Impact on Stock Market…]

[Manufacturing Companies on Alert—Who Can Apply New Knowledge to Technology First?]

[History Books and Research Papers All Discarded. “Everything We’ve Learned Until Now Has Become Meaningless.”]

[Education System in Chaos: “College Entrance Exams Are Just Around the Corner.” Textbooks Being Revised Almost Daily.]

Each piece of knowledge Mori shared had enough impact to shake the world.

Theories and academic systems that were considered most rational and optimal just yesterday crumbled like ancient relics.

Not only research that had been built with passion until now, but also research being accumulated for the future lost its value overnight.

With each turn of a page or sheet of paper came the collapse of common sense and expansion of concepts.

All kinds of conjectures and hypotheses, including Millennium Problems that were thought to be unsolvable by current humanity, were solved with remarkable ease.

Mori, who in research terms was like a newborn chick, learned and spoke of such theories as if they were obvious, implementing them effortlessly with her fingertips.

Scholars who realized their lifelong research amounted to nothing could only shed tears of blood.

However, this future knowledge couldn’t immediately transform the world.

While those in academic and educational fields were desperate to keep up with new knowledge, society—already functioning stably as interconnected gears—neither needed to change by dismantling existing systems nor could it change so rapidly.

One year.

During the past year, many people followed Mori’s learning path, acquiring future knowledge and gaining completely different perspectives on the world they had known.

But for current humanity, this was merely abstract knowledge.

To properly utilize knowledge, supporting technology and infrastructure were necessary.

However, in the present era, there was no equipment or technology that could keep pace with knowledge that changed almost daily.

How much time would it take to change the world with future knowledge?

The process of proving whether this knowledge was correct… even if the time-consuming process was shortened as much as possible.

With current infrastructure, they couldn’t even imitate the items Mori created with ease.

Even if Mori showed parts of her creations, who could easily implement and manufacture components so small and intricate they were invisible to the eye?

Moreover, Mori could form completed objects just by thinking and easily change their properties.

Unlike modern humans, she didn’t incur costs like time when experiencing trial and error.

It was only natural that technology couldn’t keep up with the speed of knowledge acquisition.

Even if time passed and future technology could be fully acquired, it would take decades or centuries to commercialize it.

What would be needed to narrow this gap even slightly?

The answer wasn’t difficult.

***

Temperature, density, conductivity, magnetic properties, and strength.

Materials that can be seen, touched, and whose properties remain unchanged regardless of who touches them.

We believed that all materials on Earth had their own forms and properties, maintaining their state unless there was interaction.

—Light possessed properties of both particles and waves. Other natural materials also simultaneously possessed properties of particles and waves.

This was a fact revealed long ago through the double-slit experiment, but past humanity couldn’t even understand what role each property played, so they believed all objects existed only as they appeared to the eye.

“But as long as something exists, there’s no secret humanity can’t uncover.”

After a long time, humanity found the answer.

Just by visualizing a form in the mind, a device made of complex circuits materializes from thin air.

Something as hard as metal melts like baked cheese, and something weightless becomes as heavy as a rock.

There is no interaction between materials, only reconstruction of materials and reality guided solely by human consciousness.

In other words, humans became beings who could separate the particle and wave characteristics of materials and manipulate each property at will.

“By precisely adjusting wave interference and diffraction to form specific patterns, you can induce completely new properties beyond existing ones…”

One day, as if by agreement, everyone asked me to explain what I call “The Substance Itself.”

So I looked through numerous books and realized this was using material properties to their extreme limits.

Then I began to wonder:

“Where is this boundary?”

Although we had uncovered the secrets of matter and could handle it freely, this technology didn’t apply to all materials.

What was the difference between materials I could consciously reconstruct and the clothes I wore, the library, and the snow falling from the sky?

Why could some things be changed at will while others remained unchanged?

[Do you need special conditions to change them?]

[Maybe they used that knowledge to create new materials? Like graphene.]

[If anyone could change everything in the world at will, the universe would have already been destroyed.]

“The universe would be destroyed if everyone could do as they pleased… That’s both funny and relatable.”

Let’s say you could turn stones into gold without any effort.

From that moment, the practical boundary between stone and gold would disappear.

Similarly, if humans awakened to the essence of matter and could freely manipulate all materials…

The stars and worlds we perceive as “forms” should rightfully lose their form and collapse.

Just as there were people who believed the Earth was flat even after the 22nd century…

Not everyone perceives this planet and world in the same way.

Humans have the desire for destruction and the freedom to implement it, enough to deliberately lead their own given lives to death.

Yet I was still standing on the ground, looking at the sky where stars hung, exhaling cold breath in a snow-covered world.

This meant that regardless of understanding the essence of matter, there was a clear boundary to conscious intervention.

“Is that a technological limitation, or an instinctive barrier?”

All materials become indistinguishable. All values and meanings disappear.

Could humans maintain their sense of self in that state?

The human body is also an object and material.

If I realize that I too am part of the collapsing world…

My body and self would also disappear, becoming one with the world.

“Perhaps, just as humans distinguish between ‘me’ and ‘you,’ there might be something like individuality or selfhood deep in the unconscious that distinguishes between self and world, acting as a brake to prevent indiscriminate changes.”

Anyway, what’s important to us is that not all materials in the world change.

This means there exists separate technology and knowledge for manufacturing special materials.

Just like the book I’m reading right now.

I stacked numerous books and blueprints on my desk and began reading them one by one, transmitting knowledge to humanity of the past.

Methods of converting existing materials into The Substance Itself using real materials as mediums, and devices that maintain it within a certain range without dispersing when in an extreme wave state where it exists but cannot be perceived.

“I think there’s not enough space to build this here. I should clean up a room that’s not being used.”

[How about getting rid of the exercise room while we’re at it?]

“That’s a tempting suggestion, but then two nagging people would torment me day and night, wouldn’t they?”

To create a massive device, I emptied a room I wasn’t using, and instead of completed objects, I took out individual components and assembled them myself.

I experimented, failed, and tried again on behalf of past humanity so they wouldn’t have to go through major trial and error.

[Good news. We’ve succeeded in making it too.]

For the first time, we succeeded in creating the same object with the same knowledge across two eras.

And at that moment when I received that joyful message…

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—For the first time, the message that had never been distorted became corrupted.

Time passed again.

The world changed. Many people said many things had changed.

But since I wasn’t a person belonging to that world…

Even if the world changed because of the knowledge I provided, I had no way of knowing how much or in what ways it had changed.

I only heard through a few lines of messages that many things had changed.

It was a very lonely experience.

Still, I thought it was good because many people would be able to live more abundantly.

[It’s because of you.]

But contrary to my thoughts, it seemed my knowledge didn’t make everyone happy.

New technology—benefits always take a long time to reach everyone.

In that process, people who benefited and those who suffered losses were divided, causing many conflicts.

It was something that would be resolved simply with time, but it was a big problem for those living in the present.

Some even blamed me, criticizing me unfairly.

“…”

I sat quietly observing all the confusion and resentment.

In the past, would I have found such messages ridiculous? Would I have felt wronged?

Even though I could remove these messages from my sight whenever I wanted…

I just stared blankly at them while sitting in the dark library.

It must have been around that time.

When I forgot how to smile.