Reality and Rebirth
Reality Designation: #STONE, Part One
The first attempt to reach other realities very quickly landed us in over our heads. From the moment we could detect the fluctuations in our own reality levels we wanted to learn more–and the faint signals from realities not our own hinted at a vast unknown. So of course we wanted to know it.
We didn't account for how different these realities were. They were built on different laws of physics, different types of energy and matter and forces that were unlike anything we had ever seen. How could we possibly know something beyond comprehension? Still, we continued, discerning the vague outline of other worlds, and eventually, the first other reality was discovered.
The world we visualized was a lightless expanse of flat ground, the surface marred only by rocks of a variety of sizes. By our measures, the world was deeply, unlivably cold, but inside the rocks, temperatures fluctuated wildly and unpredictably. Yet the surface was still.
The physics were close enough to our own that the concepts we needed to make contact could translate. The world was three-dimensional, and its flow of time could be measured using the same tools our world used. With our understanding of space and matter, we were able to determine its size; while we had trouble discerning where the edge of the world was, our best measurements concluded that the entire universe could fit within our solar system.
Like most of the exoplanets in our universe, this reality appeared to be lifeless.
Some of us thought it wasn't. With the unexplainable heat signatures as our guidepost, we searched.