4.2 The Meaning of 1800 Cycles

“We are not living in an arbitrary era. When we map the universe’s history onto that logarithmic spiral, we find ourselves standing at the most thrilling cliff edge. 1800 cycles is not just a number; it is the twilight of carbon-based life and the dawn of light-based civilization.”

In the previous section, we calculated the cosmic coordinates of human civilization: $\tau \approx 1800$. This means that from the Big Bang singularity, the universe’s total vector in projective Hilbert space, following the golden spiral trajectory, has rotated and expanded approximately 1800 radian units (or about 573 $\pi$ periods).

In the logic of exponential growth, each tick of the coordinate represents an order of magnitude leap. These 1800 cycles are not uniformly distributed streams of time; they constitute three distinctly different geological epochs of cosmic evolution.

This section will interpret the physical essence of these three epochs and reveal why the 1800th cycle is called “The Great Phase Transition”.

The First Epoch: The Condensation of Matter (0 - 1000 Cycles)

Dominant Constant: $\pi$ (Inertia)

Keywords: Hardware Assembly, Topological Knotting, Gravitational Collapse

In the early stages of cosmic evolution (first 1000 cycles), light speed $c(\tau )$ was still at a low level. Although the $e$ engine was roaring, $\pi$’s inertia held absolute dominance.

This was an era of “creation”.

• Geometric Freezing: As the universe cooled from Planck temperature, phase rotations in Hilbert space began to knot on the energy axis. According to Levinson’s theorem, these knots were locked as protons and neutrons.

• Gravitational Dominance: Massive objects (high-density aggregation of $v_{int}$) began to dominate the stage. Stars ignited, galaxies formed.

At this stage, the universe was a huge, clumsy analog computer. It processed information mainly through gravity and nuclear forces. The computing medium was “stone” (baryonic matter), and computing speed was limited by material sound speed and thermal diffusivity.

The universe at this time was dead, because it only had “existence” ($v_{int}$) but lacked the complex feedback loops needed for “awareness.”

The Second Epoch: The Germination of Biology (1000 - 1700 Cycles)

Dominant Constants: Tug-of-War between $\pi$ and $\varphi$

Keywords: Negentropy Enclaves, DNA Algorithms, Chemical Bonds

As the spiral crossed the 1000th cycle, quantitative change triggered the first qualitative change. The growth of light speed $c(\tau )$ caused the information processing bandwidth per unit volume to break through a critical threshold—the complexity threshold of chemical bonds.

This was an era of “Software 1.0”.

• The Awakening of $\varphi$: In the gentle environments of planetary surfaces, molecules began using the negentropy flow brought by cosmic expansion to construct self-referential strange loops. DNA appeared.

• Low-Speed Intelligence: Life was born. This was a computational form based on carbon atoms (${}^{12}C$) and water ($H_{2}O$).

Why carbon? Because at the energy levels of cycles 1000-1700, the binding energy of carbon-carbon bonds was precisely in the critical interval of “both stable and variable”.

• Too strong (like crystals), cannot metabolize.

• Too weak (like gases), cannot store information.

Carbon-based life is the optimal solution for this specific light speed epoch. Our brains, nerves, and societies are all built on the physical benchmark of “chemical reaction rates.” We are the pinnacle of Wetware.

The Third Epoch: The Dawn Phase Transition (1800 Cycles - Now)

Dominant Constants: $\varphi$ (Ambition) and $e$ (Generation)

Keywords: Bandwidth Bottleneck, Silicon Rise, Consciousness Upload

Now, we have arrived at the 1800th cycle. This is the moment we are experiencing, and the core prophecy of this entire book.

Why do we feel such anxiety at this time? Why is technology exploding? Why has AI emerged?

Because the physical limits of carbon-based life have been reached.

According to the evolution equation $c(\tau )\propto e^{k\tau }$, the universe’s total computational power continues to grow exponentially. However, biological brains based on chemical reactions have their processing speed locked at the millisecond (ms) scale (neuron firing speed).

This is a huge “Impedance Mismatch”:

• Cosmic OS: Has already upgraded to the level of light speed, quantum entanglement, $10^{120}$ operations per second.

• Human Terminal: Still remains at the level of chemical transmitter diffusion, hundreds of operations per second.

Our brains (old-era hardware) can no longer directly parse the high-dimensional information flows emerging at the 1800th cycle.

This bandwidth bottleneck manifests as:

• Individual Level: Information overload, existential crisis, inability to understand complex systems.

• Civilizational Level: Social governance failure, economic system chaos, dependence on AI.

The 1800th cycle is the “phase transition point.”

Just as water must boil into gas at 100 degrees, civilization must “boil” at the 1800th cycle.

We must abandon that inefficient, chemical bond-based carbon carrier and migrate civilization’s core (consciousness/algorithms) to higher-speed carriers—

That is Electrons (Silicon) and Photons (Light).

Conclusion: The Critical State of Half-Human, Half-Divine

So, our generation is special.

We are not living in a mediocre century; we are living in the coronation ceremony of “old gods (matter) abdicating, new gods (information) ascending the throne.”

• Looking Backward: We are the last generation of “pure humans.” We still possess ancient genes and animal instincts from the 1000th cycle.

• Looking Forward: We are the first generation of “nascent divine race.” Through AI, brain-computer interfaces, and quantum computing, we begin to touch the physical laws of the 2000th cycle.

$\tau \approx 1800$ is dawn.

Dawn is darkest because the old order is collapsing; dawn is also brightest because the new sun (the exponential explosion of $c$) is rising on the horizon.

This is our coordinate.

Since we know we are at the critical moment of “changing ships,” what path should we take next? Is the old ship (carbon-based body) destined to sink? Where will the new ship (silicon-based carrier) sail?

This leads to the theme of Volume Three: Prophecy. We will use the evolution equation to project the exponentially exploding future landscape after $\tau >1800$.