Water Refused to Boil

What if the most basic law of the universe simply stopped working?

One ordinary morning in Mumbai, Ravi turns on his stove to make his daughter's porridge, but the water refuses to boil. In a high-tech laboratory in Geneva, Sofia watches in horror as energy pours into a beaker, yet the liquid remains perfectly still. Across the globe, the "Stillness" takes hold. Food systems collapse, power grids die, and hospitals are pushed to the brink as the fundamental mechanics of heat and steam vanish...