Chapter: 265
"Hi, Dad, and Pepper! Long time no see! That kick just now was definitely you, Dad, right? It almost knocked over the reagents on my lab table, but luckily my reaction was fast enough."
Mark walked out from the spatial portal, leaving Tony and Pepper standing frozen in their tracks. They showed no response to his greeting.
"What's wrong with you guys? Why do you both look like you've seen a ghost? Is my transformation that drastic after a few months?"
"What's wrong with you! How dare you take such a risk and walk directly through it, considering how few times this thing has been tested?
If anything unexpected happened during the transit, like spatial turbulence, you could have easily ended up lost in the spatial flow or torn to pieces!"
Although Tony didn't fully understand the technology behind Mark's spatial portal, he was well aware of the characteristics of space in physics.
Mark personally conducting the experiment while risking his life in the process, naturally surprised and angered him.
As for Pepper, she was simply stunned by Mark's amazing feat of walking out of the portal. This is why she didn't respond to Mark's greeting.
Now that Tony explained the danger of Mark's actions, Pepper also scolded him and gave him a lecture.
"Okay, okay, Pepper! Don't listen to Dad's unfounded speculations. He has no idea about the working principles of my technology.
The dangers he mentioned are just his personal assumptions. Don't keep nagging me anymore."
Mark, who was used to having no one controlling or disciplining him in both his past and present lives, felt quite uncomfortable suddenly being subjected to Pepper's oppressive care and reprimand.
Taking advantage of a moment when she paused to catch her breath, Mark finally found an opportunity to interrupt Pepper's lecture and explain to her.
"My spatial portal technology is not like the Tesseract, which requires powerful energy support and stabilizers.
Its principle involves constructing a higher-dimensional teleportation channel, reducing the physical distance between the two portals, thus achieving spatial connection."
"Higher-dimensional space is more stable than the 3-dimensional space we live in, so there won't be any of the dangers Dad mentioned.
Besides, haven't there been several tests before I conducted the experiment?
Whether it's a non-autonomous football, a robot, or a living mouse, they all successfully completed round-trip journeys through the spatial portal, proving that all my calculations and designs are valid.
Therefore, the safety of the portal is beyond doubt!"
"Opening a passage to higher-dimensional space! This is already beyond the realm of today's science; it can only be described as magic.
As beings in 3-dimensional space, according to the Fermi Paradox, it's fundamentally impossible for us to observe and interact with higher-dimensional entities until our technological civilization reaches the limits of our dimension."
The more Tony understood science, the harder it was to believe the information Mark conveyed.
Even though the emotional side of his brain kept telling him that Mark had never lied about scientific matters, and his character wouldn't allow him to deceive in research.
But the absolute rationality in his mind reinforced the belief that this was a fallacy within Tony's knowledge system, something that could never be achieved.
"If we consider it from a scientific perspective, of course, it's impossible to touch higher-dimensions.
But, after knowing Thor for so long, Dad, haven't you thought about looking at this from a different angle? What if it's a form of magic?"
Though he couldn't reveal his identity as a sorcerer to Tony, he didn't need to hide the existence of magic.
After all, Tony was also a superhero, and as long as he continued his duty of protecting Earth, he would eventually encounter more magical events. Giving him a heads-up would be a good thing.
"Magic!?" Tony couldn't believe that Mark, who had always been an advocate of scientific thinking and materialism, was discussing this medieval superstition in front of him.
But on second thought, he couldn't deny the existence of magic. Both Thor and Loki had demonstrated abilities that exceeded his scientific understanding. So, what Mark mentioned about magic seemed to make sense.
"To call it magic is not entirely accurate; the so-called magic is just a term used by other civilizations to refer to their unique scientific and cultural systems.
Or perhaps, it's a form of science that is beyond our current comprehension.
Thor also said that what we call science on Earth is known as magic in Asgard, but in truth, they are one and the same."
"And when I was studying the essence of magic, I found a broader path, which led to the completion of my new invention."
Perhaps afraid that Tony would struggle to understand, Mark followed up with further explanations.
Hearing Mark's explanation, Tony's eyes opened wide, feeling like a new door had opened before him. This novel way of thinking made Tony eager to immediately dismantle the spatial portal in front of him and explore the secrets it held.
"If it's really as safe and stable as you say, then the entire transportation industry is about to undergo a revolutionary transformation, and your company will seize the largest share of the benefits.
From now on, major air disasters in human history will become a thing of the past, and convenient and fast spatial teleportation could entirely replace all existing large-scale transportation and logistics methods!"
"Yes, Mark! If this technology can be successfully developed for commercial use, I believe not only will your wealth grow immensely, but people's way of life will also undergo a tremendous change!"
As the Stark Industries executive and a businesswoman, Pepper fully agreed with Tony's vision of the future.
With her perspective, she naturally saw tremendous business opportunities, and it was a monopoly business at that. With the right pricing strategy, Mark could generate a continuous stream of wealth.
Although Tony and Pepper had high hopes for the commercial value of the spatial portal and their descriptions were captivating, Mark knew deep down that he couldn't possibly fully popularize this technology into people's daily lives.
Producing a qualified and design-compliant door body for the spatial portal wasn't a difficult task, and the cost wasn't prohibitively high.
The real challenge lay in Mark having to infuse magic and mystical energy into the portal after production; otherwise, it would just be an expensive heap of scrap metal.
But was it possible for Mark, alone, to manufacture enough spatial portals to serve billions of people worldwide? Clearly, that was impossible, and even if it were possible, Mark wouldn't want to waste so much of his time on it.
Moreover, if this business was to take off, even with the wealth and status of the Stark family, it would be hard to resist the watchful eyes and schemes of capital and politics, potentially bringing endless troubles.
In Mark's view, this business simply wasn't worth it!
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