Post by Pawel on Sept 13, 2021 12:49:52 GMT
Another Blue Planet: Recontact preview, guys! A bit of the wormhole backstory here:
"In 2192 HCST astronomer Eden Wu and her team published some unlikely findings regarding long-recognized but trivial discrepancies in astronomical positions when measured on either side of the wormhole – discrepancies that until Wu’s study were thought to be within the margin of error for the available instruments. Wu’s work however, corrected for this error and lead to her discovery of a 13 minute, 57.43 second discrepancy between the positions of the astronomical bodies when observed from the Sol system and when observed from the Serpentis system.
The release of the study initially made Wu and her team laughing stocks and almost cost Wu her career. She stood by her science however, and after the subsequent introduction of new observatory technologies and independent verification, her conclusions were confirmed. Though the discovery caused a short-lived media sensation, the facts were too nuanced, the science too rarified and the practical consequences so irrelevant that the public quickly lost interest. The astronomy community however, was not so quick to move on, especially those studying the wormhole. Suddenly, fringe hypotheticals and ephemeral mathematics understood by only a handful of physicists in either system, become the focus of a dozen new lines of excited inquiry into wormhole research.
Now, in 2199, some scientists – at least those who understand the math – are beginning to think that it is possible that dense theories about the relativistic velocity of wormhole termini and temporal displacement might be true. Simply put, the Serpentis system might actually exist approximately 14 minutes into the Earth’s future."
"In 2192 HCST astronomer Eden Wu and her team published some unlikely findings regarding long-recognized but trivial discrepancies in astronomical positions when measured on either side of the wormhole – discrepancies that until Wu’s study were thought to be within the margin of error for the available instruments. Wu’s work however, corrected for this error and lead to her discovery of a 13 minute, 57.43 second discrepancy between the positions of the astronomical bodies when observed from the Sol system and when observed from the Serpentis system.
The release of the study initially made Wu and her team laughing stocks and almost cost Wu her career. She stood by her science however, and after the subsequent introduction of new observatory technologies and independent verification, her conclusions were confirmed. Though the discovery caused a short-lived media sensation, the facts were too nuanced, the science too rarified and the practical consequences so irrelevant that the public quickly lost interest. The astronomy community however, was not so quick to move on, especially those studying the wormhole. Suddenly, fringe hypotheticals and ephemeral mathematics understood by only a handful of physicists in either system, become the focus of a dozen new lines of excited inquiry into wormhole research.
Now, in 2199, some scientists – at least those who understand the math – are beginning to think that it is possible that dense theories about the relativistic velocity of wormhole termini and temporal displacement might be true. Simply put, the Serpentis system might actually exist approximately 14 minutes into the Earth’s future."
