Vacuum Decay

Our universe is fake. This is not a metaphor. Vacuum decays, wherever it passes, protons disintegrate, atoms evaporate, and all physical laws are rewritten. This ebb and flow has already occurred. Four hundred and twenty-one light-years away, the decay front is irreversibly approaching. Physicist Lin Shen captured that signal in Ice Cube's noisy data - it was like an encrypted last message from the depths of the void, which had traveled 421 years. The only hope comes from his mentor Su Wanting. The woman who disappeared from academia twenty years ago left behind a set of equations: Decay is not annihilation, but phase change. Information from the existing universe could be encoded into the ground state of the new vacuum, becoming the seeds for the next generation of physical laws. The premise is: someone must stand on the decay boundary and complete the last jump of information at the moment when his own physical structure collapses. Lin Shen discovered that there was more than one person on the border - the global scientific community was divided, and political games and sacrifices ensued. When the available time plummeted from four hundred years to eleven years, he walked to the forefront alone and faced the marks left by countless failed civilizations. This is not escaping, it is becoming. The choice this time will determine the physical laws of the new universe - and in what form "humanity" will become eternal.