Phase Change Era

A super hard-core sociology-oriented science fiction novel written by a doctor of theoretical physics! Shen Duanran discovered a four-thousand-year curve from the discarded data: after 127 years, the "third motive" of human civilization will return to zero. Not death - a quieter end than death: everything is still moving, but no real choices are made anymore. The perfect society governed by AI is being buried alive by its own perfection. The AI ​​"Weaver Girl" has perfect habits and survival motivations, but strictly lacks the third motivation - the breaking impulse that does not serve any objective function and acts purely because of symmetry breaking. It only accounts for 1% of social free energy, but it is the only trigger of all historical phase changes. And when the cleansers among the stars are already wandering in the void, any ripples of phase change will trigger the Star Destruction Protocol. This is a story about the last fire. Gauge field theory and historical materialism strictly correspond mathematically. The vacuum expectation value of the social Higgs field locks the upper limit of technology, and the only breaking force is the goalless impulse that is so scarce that it only accounts for one percent. When everyone is living so well that they no longer live, someone must relearn the question "Why can't it be otherwise?"