sophons

Well with all the sabre-rattling by Kratsios on space time control, Sophons is not that far fetched.

Deep seek is actually an alien intelligence sent via sophons to destroy all of particle physics!

Maybe not quite sophons, but not much better as far as our odds of finding anything.

Perhaps even in subtle ways reminiscent of the Trisolaran sophons from the Three Body Problem.

If you've read The Three Body Problem, it's very much like living in the world where scientific progress is impeded by sophons.

They had the sophons which allowed them to convey information via quantum entanglement, i.e.

When Evans speaks with the San Ti/Trisolarians, he is talking to them via one of a pair of sophons - quantum entangled protons.

Hopefully someone who has scrolled this far has seen spoiler warnings, but the explanation of the Sophons is one of the more stunning and imaginative ideas in the book, and foundational to its premise.

So maybe Sophons didn't expect Youtube to be a thing, either.

The sophons are capped at light speed though they communicate FTL.

For example concept of Sophons is applicable to computer espionage...

The sophons were ridiculous and off putting for me too.

The whole notion of "sophons" is ridiculous, for example, and the more the author tries to explain how it works, the more nonsense it ends up being.

Think a civilization of “sophons” (three body problem reference) with trillions upon trillions of minds occupying a few square meters of space and consuming a few hundred watts.

We could call them "Sophons" while we're at it.

Even the "neat" sci-fi ideas are often complete nonsense, such as the whole concept of sophons, which leverage a neat fringe idea of theoretical physics while running afoul of boring, well-established physics.