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"That is an utterly terrifying state—a fruit without cause."
"Matter crossing the event horizon becomes a cluster of particles whose 'future is not determined by the past.'"
"It is a superposition of all possibilities… it has ascended in dimensionality…"
Huang Ji could sense that after Black Tea (Hēi Chá[黑茶]) crossed the Cauchy Horizon (Kēxī Shìjiè[柯西视界]), it transcended causality, becoming a cluster of 'paradox particles' or 'all-causal particles.'
Outside the black hole, all matter in the universe follows order and abides by causality.
Strike a baseball with force, and it will follow a parabolic trajectory. Where it lands is determined the moment it is hit—this is causality.
Particles coalesce through interactions to form molecules. Countless such events link together to create macroscopic matter. This is the order of physics.
Yet this order collapses within the black hole.
The past states of the particles that once composed Black Tea no longer matter, as they cannot influence the present state, let alone the future.
Black Tea exists only in the "here and now"!
And what is this "here and now"? It is everything—the superposition of all possibilities for matter.
Not just permutations of arrangement but also mass and energy.
In other words, Black Tea is now any matter. It is simultaneously a human, an elephant, Earth, a positron cannon, a supercluster of galaxies, the total matter of the universe…
The collapse of causality equates to encompassing all causal events.
At this moment, Black Tea is both One and All—an existence where all things return to One.
Of course, it has no consciousness, for thought itself is a causal process: thinking of this, associating with that, deriving another… These processes fuse into what we call "thought."
Something that exists only in the "here and now" cannot possess thought.
Thus, this is meaningless. Its dimensional ascension is equivalent to tossing a rock into the black hole.
Well, it was described that all-causal particles cannot have thought or consciousness, so if they were to have self-awareness, would we define them as having consciousness or other spiritual/mental aspects?"Fascinating. This superposition state can only exist within the black hole's super-causal law zone (Chāo Yīnguǒ Lǜ Dìdài[超因果律地带]), a high-dimensional domain."
"Though it is also a supercluster of galaxies, its mass at this dimension remains merely that of Black Tea."
Huang Ji gazed at the black hole. From the outside, it appeared unchanged.
Black Tea's entry had only added "one Black Tea's mass" to the black hole.
Even if the black hole were filled with countless "All-in-One" existences, it would make no difference.
This is a matter of dimensions. Imagine a colossal sword piercing through paper. No matter how large the sword, the two-dimensional world on the paper perceives only a point.
Even if seventeen Earths hung from the sword, the two-dimensional world would remain oblivious—only the contact point between the sword tip and the plane holds meaning.
The same applies here. However terrifying the high-dimensional all-causal particles may be, they hold no relevance to Huang Ji's four-dimensional spacetime.
The event horizon isolates the interior and exterior—a dimensional chasm.
By the laws of physics, observing matter within the horizon should be impossible.
All-causal particles cannot have an "observer."
Yet Huang Ji defied convention. Standing outside the horizon, he peered into the matter within!
As the observer, he discovered he could determine Black Tea's current state—collapsing the "simultaneous existence as all" into "being this specific thing."
And what type of acausality are these particles?