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While arranging the Avengers to monitor the Eternals, Harry also posted a bounty in the database of the Star Ocean Community.

Some data from the European Space Agency show that this operation was an exploration operation based on wormhole technology, but the problem is that no one knows where the wormhole leads.

Not only that, by the time Harry found the coordinates, the wormhole had closed.

The only thing that is known is that Ajak's expected destination is near the Oort Nebula.

There is no warp speed equipment on the earth, and there is only a hyperspace engine on the spacecraft. It seems that the hyperspace engine and wormhole passage technology are related, because the Eternals will not easily give human technology to humans, and Ajak’s understanding of technology is limited. not much.

Although the war is still going on, the Osborne Group's bounty still attracted a lot of attention, and a large number of interstellar travelers moved towards the Oort Nebula.

However, during the search process, new problems emerged.

"Sir, there seems to be some problems with the stargate orientation system. About 15% of passengers experienced abnormal deviations; during the same period, 37% of passengers within the community reported that the accuracy of hyperspace jumps decreased, or even abnormalities occurred."

Seeing the report at hand, Harry frowned: hyperspace jumping technology is already very mature. Judging from the history compiled by the Star Ocean Community, this technology has not been improved for a long time.

The difference in hyperspace engines between civilizations is the difference between engine startup efficiency and shuttle time of tens of seconds. Historical data shows that the probability of such a jump deviation is less than 2%.

Not to mention stargate technology. This technology itself is very stable. Compared with using hyperspace channels, this artificial orientation technology has more known and adjustable parameters, and the failure rate is theoretically less than one in a million. .

The Rainbow Bridge has been in use much longer than the Star Gate. The technologies used by the two are very similar and the quality is guaranteed.

But now, are these technologies collectively failing?

“Is there anything special about the engine operating environment in these failure cases?”

"No, there is no commonality. It seems that the entire universe has been affected, and the failure rate is still rising."

In other words, there are no massive celestial bodies that affect the jump, and there are no spectacular cosmic events such as hyperspace storms or supergalaxy explosions.

It's just...there's something wrong with the universe?

"What do you think it is?" Harry asked, rubbing his chin.

"Sir, I'm sorry, but I can't find the reason."

"The techniques used haven't changed, but the results have. ... Maybe we have to let our imaginations run wild and test the values ​​of the fundamental constants."

"Okay, sir."

What Harry meant by letting his imagination run wild was that "some of the basic rules of the universe have changed."

This kind of thing sounds unbelievable, but it is not impossible, because this is what the Reality Stone does.

In the original work, Malekith attempted to use this gem to turn the universe into "lightless darkness." It is difficult to imagine how this change would take effect, but there is no doubt that this is an ability to distort reality.

"Newton's gravitational constant - normal; speed of light, normal..." Oyce controlled various research laboratories to conduct tests.

To be honest, Oyce didn't understand the meaning of Harry's actions.

Basic physical constants are values ​​defined by human beings using mathematical tools in order to describe the laws of nature. Generally speaking, in a universe, these values ​​should be unchanged.

However, in fact, even if the value of the cosmological constant changes, it is difficult for humans who have been involved in it to detect this change, because once these values ​​change, it is likely to mean that the underlying logic will also change, and the final value taken out may not be the same. There will be no changes.

It is very likely that a situation will arise: in two "different universes", the "difference" in the speed of light is huge, but people in them will not notice anything, and may even take the same value mathematically.

The so-called "gap" in the speed of light requires someone who can observe two universes at the same time to detect the difference.

Of course, all this is based on the premise that these universes are independent and complete. As it happens, the Marvel Universe does not meet this condition.

"The precision structure coefficient... changed? And the vacuum dielectric coefficient..." Oyce's tone was extremely shocked!

All the physical constants related to quantum mechanics have deviations. If we use this as a basis to extrapolate other constants, we will get another set of constants...

what happened?

"As expected...it's the power of the Reality Stone." Harry's guess was correct.

In his original world, the quantum realm did not exist. Quantum mechanics was also part of the entire universe and was its law - at least that was the case when he traveled through time.

But in the Marvel Universe, the Quantum Realm is an independent miniature universe that blends with the real world and is not affected by the Infinity Stones.

In this case, with this universe as the reference system, the constants related to quantum mechanics are entirely possible to deviate, and changes in the constants of this universe can naturally be detected by creatures in this universe.

Thinking about it this way, the loss of contact with the Hyacinth and the recent channel positioning failure may be related to this incident.

The power of the Reality Stone is the most bizarre... It seems that Thanos has obtained that thing, and it has caused some unknown effects on the universe.

The day of the decisive battle must be brought forward - Harry is not sure what Thanos can do with the Reality Stone alone, that is not in the original book.

"Assemble the fleet and prepare for the decisive battle."

"Okay, sir...wait a minute, there's an emergency transmission here. It looks like someone has found the Hyacinth."

Harry was stunned for a moment: What a coincidence?

"Access."

The communication request came from a spacecraft registered within the Star Sea Community. It seemed like he was just an ordinary person.

When the communication was opened, the other party looked completely inhuman, with red mucus flowing in the wrinkled skin, and two tentacles waving excitedly.

This is a fungal creature called Brog. It likes to communicate with aliens and explore, but due to its ugly appearance, most of the time people avoid it...

"Hello Mr. Osborne, I think I found your employee, the coordinates have been attached."

This coordinate is located on a planet in the Deneb galaxy. From the images returned by the optical detector, it can be seen that its surface is quite deserted, and Hyacinth is on its surface.

Although Harry also thinks this race is disgusting, the other party has good intentions after all...

"Thank you for your help, the reward will be credited to your account."

"You're welcome, Mr. Osborne, it's been a pleasure to serve you...but you may need to hurry up.

Because just now, the detector I left on the road detected the approach of a military ship, which seemed to be the bad guy Thanos. "