Hospital 444
Chapter 598 - 20: Material Perception and Dimensional Levels

Chapter 598: Chapter 20: Material Perception and Dimensional Levels

Ying Ziye was listening to Gao Menghua’s words when he asked, "So, Dr. Gao, regarding the life path offered by this blood letter mission, do you have any... ideas?"

For Ziye, her most pressing concern was always just one thing: the life path from the blood letter mission!

"You should know about the five major hell gates, as well as the mutations occurring at these gates, right?"

"Yes, the most crucial point is that at these hell gates, strange phenomena are occurring. People living there are gradually beginning to transform into ghost-like beings. This means that many people will acquire a constitution similar to that of a Paranormal Doctor."

"But they won’t have the Cursed Objects Department to control the cursed objects, so they will eventually be consumed by their own curse."

"Hell..." After a moment of silence, Ying Ziye said, "Could hell be some kind of higher-dimensional twisted space?"

"To be precise, yes," Gao Menghua continued, "but also not entirely. Our low-dimensional space cannot observe the true nature of space, and in the end, it can only be twisted and assimilated, becoming part of the curse. The so-called sciences, physics, these relatively stable material theories, can only exist stably in a low-dimensional material plane."

Ying Ziye gradually began to understand: "So it is precisely because of the existence of high-dimensional twisted entities that humans, after death, gradually transform from ghosts into Resentful Spirits, and then..."

"For more than a decade, I have been researching why human souls gradually transform into increasingly powerful malevolent spirits after death. However, the influence of higher dimensions is only part of the reason. It must be said that the material plane is more fragile than we imagine, and even time and space are unstable, easily giving rise to new parallel spaces under influence. For a high-dimensional twisted space, there can be countless parallel time and spaces on a low-dimensional plane, but it’s different on a high-dimensional plane."

"I still find it hard to grasp..." Ying Ziye half understood Gao Menghua’s words, "So the transformation of the matter into a malevolent spirit after death is not entirely due to a high-dimensional twist and curse?"

"Not entirely. This still requires further research as to why life, while alive, completely adheres to all physical laws of the low-dimensional material plane, but becomes utterly different after death. But at least, the changing rule of curses into spirits, Malevolent Ghosts, and even Devils and Demons is influenced by the high-dimensional curse. It is actually quite difficult for the low-dimension to imagine and understand the high-dimension, and to simply use the physical laws of three-dimensional space for imagination."

This was natural. After all, what kind of super-material form do ghosts exist in, even as a Paranormal Doctor, one still cannot comprehend it.

"I will try to explain the twisted high-dimensional aspect in a way you can understand," Gao Menghua began her explanation: "First is... do not apply the so-called multiverse concept from science fiction films to consider the high-dimensional plane; the high-dimensional plane and parallel spaces are entirely different concepts, a difference in layers, rather than an alternate plane."

"I understand, the high-dimensional plane is not some otherworld you can go to by being hit by a dump truck."

"What do you mean by dump truck?" Gao Menghua was stunned. Was this some kind of new cursed object?

"Uh, never mind, pretend I never said that. Please continue, Dr. Gao."

"Um, okay... Next, I will discuss the soul."

What followed was Gao Menghua’s talk that opened up a whole new world for Ying Ziye.

"From the perspective of a low-dimensional material plane, you are currently at Oroñe Hotel, but from a high-dimensional perspective, where you are doesn’t matter. The so-called Netherworld is not purely about the high-dimensional plane."

Ying Ziye knew that what Gao Menghua was about to say would be conceptually very complex.

She could only try her best to understand.

"There is no stable concept of three-dimensional space in the high-dimensional twisted plane," Gao Menghua tried to explain to Ying Ziye in the simplest way possible about her research findings as a Paranormal Doctor, "For most people, the perception of matter is mainly divided into two types, the perception of space and the perception of time. Scientific laws bind people’s subjective consciousness with objective material laws, and stable subjective perceptions become the criterion for human science’s determination of material laws. For example, gravity, electromagnetism, light, temperature, etc... Humans distinguish the Earth from outer space with gravity and oxygen, seasons with temperature, the North and South Poles with magnetism, and most importantly, they distinguish time with changes in matter observed subjectively and with their own memory."

"Yes..."

"But there is one problem that human science has not solved to this day, and that is... where is the starting point of time? Where is the end of space?"

"Before the Big Bang, there was no concept of space or time..."

"So what is a world without time and space? Can you even imagine such a concept subjectively?"

Yes.

If even three-dimensional space did not exist before the Big Bang, what would a world without space and without time be like?

Ying Ziye, a science and engineering student, also couldn’t imagine this.

"The so-called... singularity..." Ying Ziye continued, "A tiny point with extreme temperature, and without any space, without space, and without time..."

"But actually, space and time do not exist," Gao Menghua replied, "This is just an illusion of the low-dimensional space, this illusion lies in defining physical laws with subjective sensations, thereby feeling that matter is stable, which leads science to acknowledge materialism, completely reject idealism, and arbitrarily assume that ghosts do not exist."