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[10billionpercent]

[Visible now is Senku, and a smashed piece of glass. This is his new mirror already, but it was no accident. He holds up a shard.]

Well, I can report that this appears to be just ordinary mirror glass, I'm no closer to understanding how it works yet.

[It's quite possible that people haven't met him yet, but he doesn't consider that.]

Intersting. I was expecting some kind of technology to explain the so called magic effect.

Any thoughts?

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[dr_riley]

Could be crystal technology. Easy to miss to an untrained eye, but haven't gone and smashed mine. Think teleportation mirror is white hole generating/stabilising device.

[10billionpercent]

You're welcome to take a look at mine if you want, since I went to the trouble of breaking it open. It looks like an ordinary mirror to me, but we all know it doesn't work that way.

A white hole stabilizing device? Now that is fascinating.

[dr_riley]

Might take you up on it, though the really advanced stuff requires a lab for precise diagnostics.

I think. No other theories yet seem as plausible.

[10billionpercent]

What kind of analysis are you looking for? If a lab doesn't exist, I can certainly create one. You'd be surprised how far you can get with every little.

Very interesting. Have you studied much quantum theory?

[dr_riley]

Chemical analysis, energy emission, presence of any conductive or semi-conductive materials or structural patterns, that sort of thing.

Yes. Astrophysics, mechanical engineering, quantum mechanics. Yourself?

[10billionpercent]

Nothing I noticed on first glance, but you're right I don't have the kind of lab set up to deal with that at the moment. Granted, that's only a matter of time, I'm not going to abandon my scientific pursuits.

I've studied chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, geology and mathematics. Especially astrophysics. If it was related to science, and I could get my hands on it, I probably read it.

I was trying to get into space. JAXA was my fallback, but I was trying to go on my own. I have successfully shot one rocket into orbit.

[dr_riley]

Very ambitious. What were you trying to do in space?

[10billionpercent]

Explore it, naturally, what else would one do in space? Humans don't know nearly enough about it. I want to see it with my own eyes.

[dr_riley]

All well and good, but you understand that space is mostly nothing? Well, it's mostly dark energy, but aside from that, it's mostly nothing. Is there something specific you want to study? A place you want to go? The chemistry of a particular planet's atmosphere, for example, or the viability of a nearby planet for colonisation? Looking for resources for Earth's expanding population? Helping to build the structures required for that kind of study and retrieval? Early prediction of cataclysmic events?

[10billionpercent]

I'm intimately aware with all of the known facets of space, including all of the space.

At the moment, I need to head to the moon specifically. I suspect there will be evidence there, probably some kind of broadcast, that will give an indication as to why all of the humans were petrified for thousands of years.

Aside from that, I want to know and understand everything. Humans don't know that much about space, it's hard to get to. I want to know everything, from foreign viruses found on other planets, to how each planet's gravitational pull works, why and how they differ from Earth, and what I can find there, even if it is just nothing, so to speak.

I like mysteries, and space is one of the biggest ones there is.

[dr_riley]

We must be from different realities. I've never heard of all of humanity being petrified for millennia, and where I'm from, we know more about space than our own oceans. Extraplanetary viruses haven't been discovered, but there were some fossilized bacteria that were found that cause quite a stir. Regardless, knowing and understanding EVERYTHING is, I'm afraid, a little outside of literally anything's capabilities. That's more of a God thing, I'd think.

[10billionpercent]

I wanted to be prepared if I did find something, but it's come in handy.

If I thought like that, it would be an excuse to be lazy. Science is a huge, boring, long pain in the ass. One I really enjoy, so the more knowledge I can get, the better.