Ball Lightning
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Ball Lightning

by Liu Cixin

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After a catastrophic ball lightning strike kills his parents, a young man dedicates his entire life to unraveling the mystery of this baffling natural phenomenon. He skips college social life to self-study physics, crosses paths with the fiercely driven military researcher Lin Yun, and teams up with the eccentric, Nobel-nominated physicist Ding Yi. Their journey spans dusty university libraries, top-secret military bases, abandoned Soviet research facilities, and high-stakes war zones. What begins as a personal quest for truth evolves into a race to weaponize ball lightning, uncovering mind-bending quantum secrets—like macro-electrons, invisible spatial bubbles, and the eerie reality of quantum-state beings. As war erupts and ethical lines blur, he grapples with the devastating cost of his obsession: lost innocence, shattered loyalties, and a world forever altered by the power he helped unleash.

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