"Thank you, Mr. Osborn. According to a survey, the vast majority of the labor force liberated by the Oscorp's automated robots are male, with few females. May I ask if this involves discrimination?"
Harry opened his mouth, and the reporters at the scene all looked at this female reporter, but her gaze was incredibly firm.
"Madam, the current application scenarios for machine labor are mainly geared towards jobs in industries like construction and mining that require heavy physical labor."
Harry finished speaking, but the reporter just nodded, seemingly still waiting for Harry to continue.
So, Harry waved his hand slightly with his palm facing up, indicating that he had finished.
As if only just realizing it, the reporter scribbled something in her notebook and said, "Are these robots able to freely choose their gender? Can they freely choose their own jobs and appearance?"
Seeing that the reporter's questions were becoming increasingly absurd, it seemed her colleagues came in from off-stage and dragged her out.
"I haven't finished my questions yet, Mr. Osborn! What about the societal allegations of 'discrimination' against you, and the human rights issues—"
The reporter's voice faded into the distance, and the reporters at the scene looked at each other.
A press officer immediately ran from behind the stage to Harry's side and said, "Mr. Osborn, she is—"
Harry waved his hand to interrupt him, indicating that he could understand—different countries have different national conditions, after all.
"Regarding this lady's question, currently, the Oscorp's machine laborers are non-sentient artificial intelligence. From this perspective, these laborers are equivalent to mechanical arms in laboratories and factories—except I designed them as individuals.
But just like your computers—they lack sentience.
Perhaps one day in the future, we will welcome sentient robots—like in Big Hero 6 or the androids in some science fiction works, and I would be very happy to support granting these new members citizenship.
But not now, and not for these machine laborers."
Although there was a small incident, the press conference went fairly normally overall, and the general goal was to showcase Osborn's image as a pure and honest businessman.
After meeting with the head of the European division and using psychic abilities to confirm that he didn't have any ulterior motives, Harry carried his suitcase to the fusion power plant under construction.
For some things that were about to happen, Harry had also called over Dr. Otto. This Doctor Octopus was currently calibrating his magnetohydrodynamic power generation facility design, his mechanical claws nimbly moving parts.
"Long time no see, Dr., how have you been lately?"
Hearing Harry's voice, Dr. Otto turned around and said with a smile, "It has indeed been a long time, Harry. As you can see, I am turning imagination into reality—all thanks to you."
The two shook hands with a smile, and Harry said, "This is all your credit, Dr., Osborn just did a trivial little thing.
I came here this time because I have a major discovery, Dr."
Under Otto's puzzled gaze, Harry opened the suitcase in his hand. A miniature gravity generator lay quietly inside. Blue electric currents flashed, and Otto felt himself floating up—
"This is—"
"This is gravity, Dr. I found that thing—gravitonium."
In Otto's shocked gaze, his four mechanical arms grabbed the ceiling and the floor, helping Dr. Otto adapt to the change in gravity. Finally, the two stood steadily on the ceiling.
This kind of scene was practically a miracle for a physicist. This thing would deepen the entire scientific community's understanding of relativity—and might even help them confirm the existence of gravitational waves as Einstein predicted!
This is one of the four fundamental forces—although these four fundamental forces are basically things played with at will in this World, that doesn't mean this discovery isn't important.
Suddenly, the magnetohydrodynamic generator in his hands didn't seem as appealing. As gravity gradually returned to normal, Dr. Otto eagerly leaned in to take a closer look at this thing.
"It's changing and flowing. How is this possible? Is this a liquid?" Dr. Otto said uncertainly.
"After preliminary research, this is a type of supersolid." Harry's words shocked Dr. Otto even more.
"How is that possible?"
"It's true. The internal temperature of this thing is very low, but it can absorb over 99% of external thermal radiation. This might be related to Bose-Einstein condensation—perhaps there are some other changes, but that enters my blind spot of knowledge."
Harry shrugged.
Let alone Harry's blind spot; even if Einstein were standing here, this thing would exceed his blind spot, too. This thing has to be explained using Marvel physics.
Fortunately, Harry had many experts proficient in Marvel physics, and he could learn from them.
"I replicated Dr. Hall's gravitational field generator. The previous gravitational anomaly was achieved using this thing. This thing can convert electromagnetic force into a gravitational field, but the laws behind this still need to be summarized."
Dr. Otto was completely captivated by this thing. He said, "Of course, of course, it still needs to be studied slowly. You mean converting electromagnetic force into a gravitational field?"
Harry nodded. He knew Dr. Otto must have some ideas—looking at Dr. Otto's fanatical expression, Harry knew what he was thinking.
Generally speaking, among the four fundamental forces, except for gravity, the other three forces can be categorized under the electromagnetic framework, but gravity is always at odds with them.
And the existence of this gravitonium seems to have built a bridge for them—anyone who sees this thing would think the same: Is this a breakthrough for the Grand Unified Theory?
"We must, we must treat this resource with caution. How is this possible?" Dr. Otto kept talking to himself, pacing anxiously around the laboratory.
A few mechanical arms reached out towards Harry as if complaining. To this, Harry could only express that he was innocent—he just gave Dr. Otto what he wanted.
However, theoretical research could be put aside for now—this wasn't something that could be finished in a day or two. With this thing, the application of gravity could get ahead of the theory. The most urgent task was to find a way to control this force field.
"Dr., I know you are very excited right now, but this thing isn't going to run away. You, on the other hand, shouldn't rush yourself and ruin your health." Harry clicked the suitcase shut.
Dr. Otto's behavior, like Fan Jin passing the imperial examination, was too scary. Dedication is a good thing, but one must also take care of their health.
"You don't understand, Harry, you are not in this field—"
"I do understand, Dr., I really do. How do you think I replicated this small instrument and demonstrated its effects to you?"
Although being able to achieve this effect was largely due to Volt's control, it was clearly very convincing to Otto.
Dr. Otto wiped his face and said, "How much of this stuff do you have?"
"About 6 meters in diameter, the mass is not easy to measure."
"Fine, fine, that's only natural—you're right, adjusting one's mindset is very important."
As he was saying this, Harry's phone rang. He opened the phone and found a piece of news that UIS had retrieved:
"Famous astrophysicist Dr. Selvig was recently taken away by the police at Stonehenge because he was streaking there with a strange instrument."
Seeing this news, the two in the laboratory looked at each other.
Harry smiled and said, "See, Dr., I told you, mindset is very important."
Dr. Otto nodded in deep agreement.
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