Beijing, 2007. A series of inexplicable suicides by prominent physicists has sent police officials into confusion and the public into a swirl of rumors and panic. When nanotech engineer Wang Miao is tasked by the military to infiltrate a secretive organization known as the Frontiers of Science, his path leads him to an interstellar conspiracy that spans decades and light-years, as well as to the true meaning behind a researcher’s cryptic suicide note: “Physics does not exist”.