Jack Arcalon

The contest: Sheet Theory



  
We have found a new type of particle that is also a force of nature!
It's simple really: when two elementary superstrings are brought together, they can combine into an indestructible sheet.
An interesting detail is that this sheet is not vastly heavier than a single string, though it appears to be made of infinitely many superstrings lined up. It's actually only about twice as heavy.
Mathematically speaking, a sheet needs only a few extra digits to describe.

These sheets can form closed loops or strips twisted in complicated ways. They can be folded like origami into topological shapes, which may be enlarged by increasing their spin rates or oscillation frequencies.
No one but us knows how to make or control them.

Imagine turning a corner so fast reality can't keep up. One or more of the forces of nature becomes 'separated', forming boundary sheets that can be rolled up or unfolded as desired.
The sheets block everything else, even gravity, which simply flows around them.
Most particles wrapped inside naturally occurring boundary sheets appear to be mass-less, traveling at the speed of light between galaxy clusters in their indestructible cocoons.

A boundary sheet can be made to 'push' against a gravitational field. It can be accelerated by compressing one side, causing it to move in the opposite direction: a reactionless drive.
When one side is distorted by the tidal force of a star or a planet, it will accelerate away.
A boundary sheet is less likely to be distorted by a powerful but smooth gravity field, like from a distant galaxy. It won't accelerate nearly as fast. This may explain the old Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) theories.

The interior of a closed boundary sheet can be expanded without limit by pumping energy inside, eventually creating a new universe!
This could be done by launching it past a black hole on a close trajectory. As the edge skirts the event horizon, empty space and new particles are created inside. The black hole will appear to shrink, and might even vanish. Energy appears to leave our universe, something once thought to be impossible.

We will create a new universe roughly the size of our solar system, accessible through an unobtrusive wormhole.
It may contain a dwarf star, or self-levitating gas, or ideally highly organized structures like a Dyson Sphere.

The existence of this technology explains why no black holes have been detected in a roughly disk-shaped sector of our galaxy representing almost 19% of its total volume.
It also explains the large gamma burst recently observed near the core.
The nearest remaining black hole is sixteen lightyears away.
We have less than a thousand years to claim what's ours, before someone else takes it.
We better hurry.
A one-meter-wide erasure sheet moving at the speed of light could sweep the surface of the earth in less than a week.




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