1000 years have passed since the last human uploaded their consciousness at the event known as the Technological Singularity. Humanity is now interstellar, living not as flesh and blood, but as machines with godlike abilities, travelling the stars and living in vast virtual worlds of their own creation. One team of scientists orbiting a black hole may be on to a scientific discovery that would be the most revolutionary development since the Singularity, and may even hold the key to conquering entropy, and the end of the universe while saving the lives of all of our ancestors.