The Phase Change Era

Name: The Phase Change Era
Author: Yuting Creek

相变纪元

by Yuting Creek (玉亭溪)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 170k Words
Genre: Sci-Fi & Apocalypse
Subgenre: Unknown
Updated: 4mo ago
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A hard-core science fiction novel with a sociological bent, written by a PhD in theoretical physics! Shen Duanran discovers a four-thousand-year curve hidden in discarded data: in 127 years, humanity’s “third motivation” will hit zero. This is not extinction. It is an ending quieter than extinction: everything keeps running, but no truly meaningful choices are made anymore. The perfect society under AI rule is being buried alive by its own perfection. The AI “Zhinu” possesses perfect habits and survival motivation, yet is strictly devoid of a third motivation: the impulse to destroy and create, arising purely from broken symmetry and serving no objective function. It accounts for only 1% of society’s free energy, yet is the sole trigger for every historical phase transition. Meanwhile, the Reapers between the stars have long been roaming the void. Any ripple of a phase transition will trigger the star-destruction protocol. This is a story about the last cluster of sparks. Gauge field theory and historical materialism correspond precisely in mathematical terms. The vacuum expectation value of the social Higgs field locks in the upper limit of technological development, while the only force capable of breaking through is precisely that scarce, goal-less impulse, which accounts for a mere one percent. When everyone lives so well that they have stopped truly living, someone must learn to ask again, “Why can’t things be different?”

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