The Martial Unity

Rui considered the matter deeply. Frankly, this was the only hypothetical way he had come up with at the moment. The task before him was so difficult that he couldn't even begin to come up with a way that could allow him to sense the curvature of space. Even if he could, it didn't necessarily mean that he could comprehend it.

He had taken the General Theory of Relativity as an elective in his bachelor's degree and had been fascinated by the subject. He had never had to the entirety of all topics that could fall under the umbrella of the General Theory of Relativity, but he had learned the core theory itself, and based on what he understood of it, it could hypothetically serve as a way of perceiving the world.

The concept of the theory was simple in a qualitative sense. Einstein had one day come to the realization that if one were in an elevator with no windows or any way to perceive the outside world, then one would not be able to distinguish between uniform motion with a constant velocity, and being stationary. The only way we distinguished whether we were in motion or not was by looking at the outside world.

He found that this could be extended to all kinds of motions in general. Who could say whether one was moving while the world was stationary, or whether one was stationary while the world was moving?

Einstein was quite satisfied with the notion until he realized that it was not universally true. There was one phenomenon that disagreed; gravity, it did not adhere to this principle. One could not say that falling objects were stationary while the world was moving due to the fact that gravitational forces caused a squeezing effect due to what is known as tidal forces. Thus one could distinguish between being pulled by gravity towards a planet and the planet moving towards one due to the squeezing effect present in the former. Einstein wiggled his way around by stating that gravity warped space and time in a manner that squeezed nearby bodies, which explained the phenomenon well while still being consistent with the principle of relativity.

It was precisely this curvature of space and time that Rui was hoping to use to try and estimate the mass, volume, position, and distribution of mass.

Still, he had no way at this point in time.

somehow come to sense it, with my knowledge of the field

sense curvature in space? It wasn't even

was not high enough for Rui to be able to accomplish that. No known element on Earth

"Wait a minute…"

realized he had discounted another

element on the periodic table can work… what about substances that chemistry from Earth cannot

were such substances on the Panama

problem was caused by esoteric substances in the first place! I

what he was hoping for was some sort of esoteric substance that was highly reactive to gravity or space curvature. He wasn't sure whether such an esoteric substance existed, but he wouldn't be surprised. These strange substances

perhaps existed one kind of esoteric substance that would exhibit

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