September 16, 2025Open Access

The Asymptote of Civilization

JOJames OliverSouth Eastern Sydney Local Health District

Key Points

Human civilization evolves by expanding control over its environment, aiming for cosmic agency.
The inevitability of this transition is sustained through advancements in energy density to support mobility.
Achieving self-directed trajectories in space hinges on overcoming significant engineering challenges.
This pattern implies that as fixed worlds decay from stellar evolution, mobile civilizations may prosper.

Abstract

Human civilization demonstrates a consistent historical trajectory of expanding control over its environment to ensure survival. This pattern points toward an inevitable endpoint: mobile civilizations that can steer their own cosmic path, as any fixed world faces eventual termination from stellar evolution. While physics permits this transition, achieving such cosmic agency is contingent on solving the engineering challenge of energy density at scale.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/68d453a431b076d99fa5989e https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.22541/au.173921722.28824606/v3

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