quantum void moment
There was the deepest, most absolute darkness imaginable.
'You're saying I'm everywhere at once?'
'The uncertainty in your position is ten meters and rising. You are occupying all possible locations within that small space. That is also how the universe expands by the way.' There was an echo of an echo.
'Who am I talking to again?'
Wikipedia: Lucifer's Bowling Ball
Made of 84.2% iron, the roughly spherical thirty-meter meteor was heated evenly as it entered Earth's atmosphere on a grazing trajectory which prevented it from shattering until it had skipped back into space. A brilliant track formed over the skies of Sub-Saharan West Africa, where the sonic shockwave critically damaged the hearing of 80% of the coastal population in less than three minutes, affecting over seventy million people.
Since then the affected area has had an unexplained economic boom.
Probably the best hard SF novel ever written: Infinite Thunder by Jack Arcalon.
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