Work over a ground model of ZFC+Generalized continuum hypothesis and let . Force with finite binary partial functions on , with extensions stronger. The Delta-system lemma thins any uncountable family of finite domains to an uncountable family with one common root. Only finitely many binary assignments on that root occur, so two conditions agree there and their union is a common extension. Hence the forcing has the countable chain condition for forcing and preserves cardinals and cofinalities.
The generic union yields distinct reals. Totality at each coordinate is dense, and for two different coordinates it is dense to assign different values at some unused natural-number position. Thus the extension satisfies .
A nice forcing name for a subset of uses one countable forcing antichain at each ordinal below . Since the forcing has size , there are at most such forcing names. Ground Generalized continuum hypothesis gives ; for instance apply the Hausdorff formula at and the Generalized continuum hypothesis arithmetic below it. Therefore in the extension. Combining the bounds gives
The ordinal and cardinal is the same in both models by the chain in a partial order condition. The forcing theorem formalizes this construction as the requested relative-consistency implication. A countable transitive ground model is a convenient presentation, not an additional consequence silently derived from mere consistency. This is the Cohen forcing two-level continuum plateau.