Silent Ark

Yao Chong used the first fourteen days of the dramatic events that occurred thirty-seven days after the whale's death to thoroughly analyze historical data on global physical constant monitoring.

This is not a workload that one person could complete in 14 days.

But Yao Chong's brain has one unique feature—he can maintain multiple parallel computing channels in his mind.

While others take three seconds to read a line of data, he only takes 0.3 seconds. His fast reading speed is just a facade; in reality, his visual cortex directly "feeds" the numbers into the computational channel, skipping the intermediate step of language processing.

14 days.

47 experimental reports.

Data spanning 25 years.

What are the connections and patterns?

Yao Chong drew the following conclusions:

Prior to 2012, the trend was that the fine structure constant α fluctuated randomly and had no direction.

The gravitational constant G fluctuates randomly and has no direction.

The defined value of the equivalent value of the speed of light, c, cannot be directly measured.

The anomalous magnetic moment aμ of the muon is in good agreement with the Standard Model.

The electron magnetic moment anomaly ae is in good agreement with the standard model.

The trend after 2012 is: the fine structure constant α shifts unidirectionally and accelerates exponentially.

The gravitational constant G shifts in one direction, resulting in exponential acceleration.

The indirect calculation of the equivalent value of the speed of light, c, is unidirectionally shifted and exponentially accelerated.

The deviation of the anomalous magnetic moment aμ of the μ particle increased from 2.1σ to 5.0σ after 2021.

The electron magnetic moment anomaly ae shifted by 0.3σ after 2018 and has continued to increase.

Five independent sets of data.

In the same watershed year.

The offset direction is consistent: all deviate from the standard model prediction.

The probability of this phenomenon occurring is almost zero.

On July 4, 2012, CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson.

The 1748th collision at the LHC.

ATLAS detector.

Two-photon decay channel.

Yao Chong retrieved the original operation logs for that day from the database and found an event marked as "instrument noise": "14:27:33.0007—Full channel baseline offset +3.7σ, lasting 0.0003 seconds. Cause: Suspected interference from the front-end electronic grounding loop. Handling: Marked, does not affect physical analysis."

The figure of 3.7σ is quite striking.

He then searched the entire running history of the LHC for all "3.7σ baseline offset" events:

时间段2010—2012.7.4，对撞总次数～10的9次方，3.7σ事件次数0。

时间段2012.7.4—2015，对撞总次数～10的9次方，3.7σ事件次数3。

时间段2015—2018，对撞总次数～10的9次方，3.7σ事件次数11。

时间段2018—2021，对撞总次数～10的9次方，3.7σ事件次数34。

时间段2021—2031.11.17，对撞总次数～5乘10的9次方，3.7σ事件次数99。

The exponential rate is accelerating.

Acceleration factor: e to the power of 0.194 per year.

The acceleration factor, which is offset from the physical constant, is consistent within four significant digits.

Before July 4, 2012: zero times.

July 4, 2012: The first time.

Therefore, it is assumed that the folds detected in arc segment 7 originated on July 5, 2012.

Maintenance records for the casing of the No. 7 arc superconducting magnet show that during routine inspections on July 5, 2012—the day after the discovery of Higgs—a temperature 0.7 degrees Celsius higher than normal was found at a certain point on the casing.

The 0.7 degree Celsius figure did not attract attention at the time. After no other abnormalities were found during the test, it was simply considered to be within the normal range of error and was ignored.

Yao Chong and Liu Pan disagreed, arguing that the abnormal temperature was not random, but rather that during routine checks each year thereafter, the temperature at that point was consistently 0.7 degrees Celsius higher than the surrounding area.

It is not affected by external seasonal changes, solar altitude angle, tides, etc., nor by changes in the operating status after replacement of machine parts. It seems to be a constant value, which is very suspicious.

In the early morning of November 17, 2031—Liu Pan said he felt a “vibration” when he placed his finger on the curved outer shell—Yao Chong later measured the physical properties of that point and found that it was no longer an ordinary metal.

Its spatial topology was permanently altered—from a simply connected three-dimensional solid to a non-orientable, genus 7 surface.

A crease.

It has existed for more than ten years.

Nobody noticed.

The temperature only increased by 0.7℃, and there were no other abnormal phenomena.

early morning.

Yao Chong compiled the analysis results from the 14 days into a chart.

The general content of the diagram:

Horizontal axis: Time (2010-2031).

Vertical axis: Overall offset of physical constants (normalized average of five sets of data).

Three points are marked on the curve:

Point A: July 4, 2012—the starting point where the curve begins to rise from zero. Label: "Higgs discovery date. First touch."

Point B: July 5, 2028—Inflection point where the curve slope suddenly increases. Note: "Folding day of arc segment four. Touch echo reaches arc segment. Folding forms."

Point C: 2031.11.17 — Curve extrapolated to the vertical asymptote. Label: "Predicted tear date".

Point C was not simply fitted from a large amount of data.

It was Yao Chong who verified this using extrapolation based on known data—extending the exponential acceleration curve to the threshold where the offset reaches the point where "physical laws completely fail," and the corresponding date is November 17, 2031.

The experience that day, in turn, proved the conjecture to be correct.

But these days, they haven't actually been completely underground. Most places haven't been affected yet because, according to their calculations, the degree of this shift varies. The affected areas are like "dry places" that will be completely affected by the new rules or shifted to different degrees, while the areas with "water stains" are completely unaffected. Currently, the "water-covered areas" are still much larger than the "dry" areas, so people, like fish in water, can still survive in continuous or discontinuous puddles.

Therefore, the world after the whale fall is not like the apocalypse.

This is the most terrifying part.

Yao Chong was being too pessimistic. He originally thought that the collapse of physical laws would bring about some kind of visually visible disaster—the ozone layer in the sky would crack, the earth would shake and melt, or in the experimental area where there were folds, photons would completely fail and light would turn into darkness.

But in fact, on the morning of the third day, when Yao Chong and Liu Pan walked out of the CERN underground passage to buy breakfast, the streets of Geneva looked almost completely normal.

The streetlights were still on, but they seemed to have dimmed to an imperceptible degree. The outlines of buildings a little further away had a kind of "blurriness" that was hard to describe, like nearsightedness, as if the resolution had been reduced.

People are still moving around, but their pace feels slower than before. It's like when you play a game and the frame rate drops from over 200 frames to 165 frames. You might not notice a drop of 144 frames from 165, but if your internet suddenly lags, the frame rate drops to 30 or 60. The same speed, but there's a visible difference.

The world is not destroyed, it is being dismantled.

Just like a package, the outer packaging paper is torn off layer by layer.

Each layer of packaging paper follows a physical law.

When the layer of strong nuclear force is torn off, the microscopic structure of matter loosens, but it doesn't immediately fall apart—because the electromagnetic force of the next layer of packaging paper hasn't completely disappeared.

When the layer of electromagnetic force is torn away, the texture of light changes, but it does not disappear—because the spacetime structure composed of the next layer of gravity and other forces still exists.

The world is divided into countless boxes of varying sizes, and the wrapping paper is torn in an unpredictable order. There are gaps between each box and between each layer, and the gaps are getting shorter.

Based on existing data, the whale fall era may have arrived as early as 2012, as predicted by the Mayan prophecy. However, Yao Chong believes that this is not merely a matter of local deviations or failures in physics.

Even more seriously, after that year, perhaps some kind of barrier was broken, evil was not absent before. In some chaotic times, such as the Five Barbarian Invasions during the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the warlord wars during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Crusades, and the dark Middle Ages, it was also very common.

However, in a relatively peaceful era, an era where science is superior to secrecy, and an era where everyone can receive higher or relatively higher education, what were originally low-probability events have become commonplace.

People seem to have lost some precious qualities. The world is going downhill, humanity is distorted, and moral decay is rampant, as if influenced by some metaphysical force...