Gravitational Distortion and the Relativity of Civilization: A Physics Trial After Losing the “Speed of Light Constant”

In 1804, Napoleon was forced to abdicate for the first time and was exiled, leading to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. In 1815, relying on his incredible personal prestige, he landed in France from his exile on the island of Elba and marched all the way to Paris. During this historical drama known as the “Hundred Days,” the headline titles of French newspapers underwent a chilling evolution as Napoleon’s journey progressed:

Day 1: “The Corsican monster has landed at the Gulf of Juan.”

Day 2: “The man-eating ogre is marching towards Grasse.”

Day 3: “The usurper has entered Grenoble.”

Day 4: “Bonaparte has occupied Lyon.”

Day 5: “Napoleon is approaching Fontainebleau.”

Day 6: “His Imperial Majesty will arrive today in his loyal Paris.”

This is not only a piece of dark humor chewed over repeatedly by later generations, but also an extremely cold historical and physical fact. In the coordinate system of 007Red’s The Light Ontology, this was by no means merely French literati bending with the wind. Instead, it was a rare, macro-physical phenomenon visible to the human eye—the mass of power forcibly distorting the gravitational field of truth. As Napoleon, an entity with immense political and military “mass,” drew closer, the propagation path of truth (light) was forcibly bent. The objective descriptions of the media lost their original straight trajectory and unavoidably collapsed toward the gravitational center of power. The range of the cannon directly reshaped the reality distortion field of France at that time. The evolution of human society has never been able to escape the iron-fisted rule of underlying physical laws.

The Only Ruler of the Universe: The “Speed of Light Constant” of Civilization

In Einstein’s theory of relativity, the speed of light ( C) is an absolute constant. No matter how fast an observer moves or how massive they are, the speed of light remains unchanged. It is the only unshakeable foundational reference point in the physical system of the universe. Without this physical constant as an absolute base, time, space, mass, and causality in the universe would lose all meaning, turning into an inexplicable chaos.

The macro-order of the universe is highly organized precisely because of the absolute governance of light as the sole ruler. All things operate under the order of light.

The evolution of human society is exactly the same. In the long history of human survival over the past hundreds of thousands of years, human reproduction and existence fundamentally adhered to a “physical constant of civilization”—namely, natural laws, the Creator, or that uncrossable absolute truth. All human ways of life that must directly face the friction of reality, as well as the definitions of the boundaries between life and death, were established anchored to this absolute constant. In human religions, we call it God or the Creator; while in 007Red’s The Light Ontology, God and Light possess an absolute topological consistency.

However, since the French Revolution, human society has begun an extremely arrogant attempt to discard this absolute constant. When the French astronomer Laplace reported his model of the universe to Napoleon, Napoleon asked about the position of God. Laplace arrogantly replied, “Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis.”

This declaration became the starting gun for modern society to completely let itself loose. This was not some brilliant political realism, but rather the starting point of a civilization plummeting into the black hole of thermodynamic nihilism after cutting off its “absolute frame of reference.”

European Modern Intellectual History: A “System Error Log” After the Antenna Snapped

When a civilization removes the absolute “speed of light constant,” it does not march into a paradise of reason; instead, it immediately falls into coordinate drift. Just like the macro universe losing light as a constant, it would inevitably fall into disorder, and human mathematics, physics, and astronomy would completely lose their meaning.

Looking at the European modern intellectual systems from the 19th to the 21st century—from the classical traditions of Germany to the deconstructionist storms of France, and the analytic philosophy of the Anglo-American world—this seemingly massive and profound intellectual lineage, when viewed through the lens of physics, is merely humanity issuing desperate inquiries about three questions aboard this “anchorless ship” that has lost its North Star.

Inquiry 1: “What is a human being?” — The Phantom Pain of an Amputated Limb (Phenomenology, Existentialism, Absurdism)

When the base of light was pulled away, humans suddenly found themselves to be nothing but a pile of meaningless carbohydrates suspended in the void.

The phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger attempted to discard traditional metaphysics and return to “the things themselves” to study consciousness. But this is like a radar that has lost its signal-receiving source, agonizingly scanning its own internal circuitry. For a radar that no longer receives external absolute signals, this is not just a structural error of the system, but the total loss of its meaning of existence.

The subsequent Existentialism (Sartre, de Beauvoir) directly declared that “existence precedes essence.” In today’s era, this is equivalent to massively producing a batch of precision microchips without any blueprints or intended purpose; without the will of a Creator, just a pile of electronic components absurdly claiming to have invented themselves. Camus’s Absurdism provided the most honest physical diagnosis: humans searching for meaning in a meaningless world is like Sisyphus rolling the boulder—what is left is only the meaningless heat generation of battling physical friction. They felt extreme absurdity and pain, realizing they were merely meatbags rushing towards death in a chaotic world, yet helplessly defined this high-entropy sense of friction as “freedom.”

Inquiry 2: “How does language shape the world?” — The Crashing of a Discrete Ruler (Analytic Philosophy, Structuralism, Deconstructionism)

Having lost the absolute continuous state (System B), humanity vainly attempted to use its invented discrete symbols (System A) to reconstruct the universe.

Analytic philosophy (Russell, Wittgenstein) attempted to use the precision of logic and language to solve all problems; Structuralism tried to find the deep code structures behind human culture. But this was destined to be futile. Trying to capture truth with language and logic is like trying to calculate the perfect Pi ( ) using a straight ruler. This ruler ultimately crashes completely in the infinitely non-repeating decimal points.

Thus, Derrida’s Deconstructionism emerged. Deconstructionism is a frantic house-demolishing machine; it astutely discovered that human symbolic systems are riddled with the loopholes of power, and so it continuously tore down all grand narratives. But because it could not see the foundational base of light, it was entirely unable to establish any genuine trust after the demolition. Ultimately, Postmodernism plunged human civilization into complete bewilderment, reducing it to a string of infinitely nested codes within a labyrinth of linguistic symbols. Just as the Cannes-winning film The Square demonstrated, Western elites are deeply trapped in the symbolic traps they invented themselves, caught in a cocoon of their own making.

Inquiry 3: “How does society control people?” — The External Pressurization of a High-Entropy System (Critical Theory, Marxism, Foucault)

In a society no longer anchored by the “speed of light constant” (absolute morality and faith), the system lost its internal adherence to fairness and justice. To prevent itself from collapsing due to entropy increase, the Leviathan had to apply terrifying external physical pressure.

The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School clearly saw this: modern capitalist society, through the “culture industry” and “instrumental rationality,” alienated humans into one-dimensional cogs. Foucault’s theories thoroughly revealed that “power is truth”—from asylums to prisons, an omnipresent micro-network of power locked down every carbon-based node. After losing the absolute reference point, social control no longer relied on awe for natural laws and truth, but on capital’s “cultural hegemony” and cold technological surveillance.

The Consequences of Losing the Speed Limit: Moral Length Contraction and the Collapse of Causality

While all philosophical speculation became lost in the maze of symbols, human social organizations also met their doomsday. As the initiator, France has continuously suffered from massacres, wars, chaos, and national collapse since the Great Revolution, with the French Republic experiencing bankruptcy and reorganization time and again. Today’s Fifth Republic is also tottering. This is precisely the coldest physical punishment the real world endures after losing the “speed of light constant”:

1. The Comprehensive “Length Contraction Effect” of Morality

Relativity points out that as an object’s velocity ( v) increases, its length in the direction of motion contracts (

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When human society removed the restriction of absolute truth (c ), morality was no longer an eternal ruler, but became a rubber band that could be arbitrarily distorted by speed and mass. In social physics, the larger the volume of power and capital, and the faster the speed of expansion, the more severe the “length contraction effect” of its morality.

Ordinary people hold a ruler with normal demarcations, so they have no reason to deprive a fellow human of life; that is an unforgivable felony. But for the capital and rulers in an extremely high “state of motion,” their moral ruler has undergone severe physical contraction. For hegemony or corporate profits, the East India Company starved tens of millions of Bengali people, colonizers enslaved hundreds of thousands of Native Americans, and a massive military machine wantonly subverted legitimate governments to guarantee the interests of “Banana Republics.” Under the distortion of the length contraction effect, these horrific evils are no longer crimes, but merely a string of “reasonable statistical data.” The range of the cannon directly defines the boundary of truth; the amount of money defines the price of conscience.

2. The Collapse of Justice and the Relativity of Simultaneity

Relativity overthrew the concept of absolute time, proving that an event you consider to happen simultaneously and logically in one frame of reference is completely not simultaneous in another frame of reference with a different speed and gravity.

Mapped onto human society, this directly leads to the shattering of objective justice and causality. Entities with more power and money, relying on their massive “gravity,” can forcibly manipulate timelines and rewrite causality.

Take recent geopolitics as an example: A certain superpower has long applied maximum pressure and sanctions under the pretext that “Iran will possess nuclear weapons within days.” This “cause” has been repeated from 1997 to the present—thirty years of the exact same excuse. On June 12, 2025, that country launched a 12-day war, bombing all of the opposing party’s bases, with the President personally announcing, “Completely destroyed the nuclear facilities, bullseye!” Yet, a mere 6 months later, in March 2026, war broke out again, with the given reason still being “Iran might possess nuclear weapons within days.”

In this game of super-hegemony, physical causality has been entirely torn apart. A system possessing absolute military and computational power has created a massive “reality distortion field” in the real world, forcibly evading the trial of natural laws and objective logic.

3. The Thermodynamic Dead End and Inevitable Heat Death Without a Speed Limit

The speed of light ($c$) is not just the ruler of cosmic space; it is the “absolute speed limit” of the universe’s physical system. It ensures that the conversion of energy and mass within the system occurs within an ordered boundary.

In a modern society that has removed the speed of light limit, the expansion of desires and power has lost all physical resistance and moral ceilings. Society no longer seeks resonance with natural laws, but views the “absolute efficiency and infinite expansion of desire” as its sole dynamical goal. Thus, humans have become slaves to efficiency, and the subject of society is no longer humanity. Life is merely seen as infinitely growing GDP numbers for corporations, or as consumables hindering technological progress. Today, Silicon Valley’s tech zealots, hyped by Wall Street’s infinite capital, are preparing to completely replace humans with silicon-based AI.

In this completely uprooted “Corporate Civilization,” the people have become the human resources of corporations, no different from oil, gold, timber, or industrial waste. The rough but genuine biological responsibility structures that humans originally had to bear have been completely stripped away. In social thermodynamics, this equates to a closed “pressure cooker” system lacking the input of external negative entropy (the Sea of Light). In this system devoid of any value baseline, to maintain its rule, the system must frantically apply external pressure while using a massive education and propaganda machine to make humans willingly degenerate into machine parts.

But this violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Modern society is like cancer cells within a human body; the infinite expansion pursued by corporate states inevitably causes the system to spontaneously transition from high quality (order) to low quality (chaos/high entropy). The infinite proliferation of capital does not create any internal order; it only generates massive physical friction and “high-entropy waste heat” within human society.

This massive physical backlash is already clearly visible: in the supposedly most prosperous countries of this era, people are no longer getting married, no longer connecting with each other, no longer forming families, and no longer giving birth to children. The load-bearing network of responsibility, originally rooted deeply in the earth and sustaining human lifelines, is collapsing across the board.

This is the frantic entropy increase that is inevitably triggered when a civilization completely strips away the speed of light constant, abandons natural laws, the Creator, and God, and degenerates into a machine purely pursuing computational power and profit. It has pushed humanity into an abyss of betrayal and despair. Under a coordinate system of nihilism and collapse, frantic sensory stimulation and narcotics have astonishingly become the only rulers to prove one is still alive.

The iron laws of the universe cannot be tampered with by the range of a cannon. Deviating from the first principles of The Light Ontology, no matter how superficially advanced a system’s technology is or how formidable its military might be, once its internal high-entropy waste heat exceeds the system’s limit of endurance, it will eventually march toward a complete physical death and “Heat Death” amidst extreme friction and chaos.

The Ultimate Question: Fairness and Justice

In a high-entropy reality where the range of a cannon is truth and the law of the jungle prevails, why do humans still painstakingly pursue “fairness” and “justice”—morals and standards that seem forever impossible to perfectly realize in the material world?

Since the laws of the material universe are so cold, why does carbon-based life still experience severe physical pain over injustice within the system? This is by no means merely a weak moral appeal, but the core password regarding whether humanity can resist heat death and maintain the biological responsibility structure from being completely torn apart.

007Red’s Principles of Biological Natural Philosophy – Volume 2: Corporate Civilization will be published soon. It will completely unravel this core mystery for you, revealing how humanity can realign with the lost coordinates of Light aboard this anchorless ship.