Echoes of the Starry Abyss

In the 22nd century AD, mankind enjoyed peace in the glorious "Great Stagnation". The laws of physics are as solid as a rock, the speed of light is insurmountable, and the increase in entropy is irreversible. Until that day, the fine structure constant silently jumped to the seventeenth decimal place without anyone noticing. The New Babylon Space Station bore the brunt of the attack. The originally strong titanium alloy bulkhead became as soft as rotten wood overnight; astronaut Luo Feng did not die in the vacuum, but was "flattened" alive into a two-dimensional oil painting pasted on the porthole; engineer Lao Zhang disappeared in the airlock door, leaving not even an atom behind. This is not an alien invasion, this is a modification of the laws of physics. The mysterious signal from the "Gorgon Nebula" in Centauri is sweeping through the solar system like a virus. It does not rewrite civilization, it rewrites the chassis that carries it. The sky began to rust, gravity began to lose, and the 1+1 answers jumped crazily on the electronic screen. Theoretical physicist Chen Xin, a madman with a surly personality who once proposed the terrifying theory of "vacuum decay", became the last gatekeeper of mankind. He must solve the ultimate mystery on this space station that is about to disintegrate: Why does the universe need to restart?