Sublime

“But there’s something else here, Doctor. What do you think this is?” asked one of the engineers, pointing to a spot close to the three halos. Fitzroy leaned in but saw nothing. It was so faint that only an expert could catch it. “It’s got a diameter larger than a star,” an engineer said. After enlarging the area several times, the thing covered

In such a scenario all antimatter would subsequently have annihilated itself with matter in the dense primeval gas, inundating the universe with high-energy photons. But there would be a small relic of matter left, no more than one part in a billion, which, almost as an afterthought, would make up the roughly 1050 tons of matter of which you and I

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Two days later, a stream of high-power radio waves was sent off from Earth toward the sun, penetrating the convection zone and reaching the energy mirror in the radiation zone, where its reflection, magnified hundreds of millions of times, carried Wallfacer Luo Ji’s spell into the cosmos at the speed of light.