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Dark Sky Sentiment
January 7, 2021 at precisely zero three thirty, the sky went dark. The stars twinkled, flickered and flashed out of existence. The ageless constellations vanished from the heavens while the city skylines went black. That orange-yellow glow that perpetuates the night-scape on almost every continent on earth flickered once and disappeared. Street lights went out along the boulevards and avenues of suburbia that spidered out from the glowing cores of urban amalgamation. All manner of light across the vast illuminated networks of the modern world had suddenly gone dark.
An engineer working for the Canadian Ministry of Natural Resources, and a group of US Geological Survey physicists, discovered that all the generating stations connected to all power grids and transfer stations of North and South America remained at optimal operating capacities. They followed up with teams stationed at the US Atomic Energy Agency and at various high energy research facilities around the world and concluded that there was no justifiable explanation for the event. That night as the stars vanished and the city lights blinked out, the world had descended into a blackness not seen since before the time of Edison, Bell and Tesla. A world plunged into a gloom not known since man had unlocked the arcane secrets of the electron and harnessed its revolutionary properties. The tools of humanity, created and used to ward off the dark and hold the shadows at bay, had suddenly, and without warning, failed, though their sources remained intact. Science could explain the mystery behind any nuance affecting the multitude of electro constructs in some way through quantum formula or mechanical error. What perplexed the engineers and theorists was the absence of the stars in the night sky. Men of science scrambled to their chalkboards and their whiteboards, to their computers and their models, hoping to find an answer to an unanswerable problem.
Stars don’t just wink out existence, nor do lights go dark, which are fully powered and without defect. Even more difficult to explain, and the strangest of all, was the fact that reflections don’t fail to reflect. The eggheads at CERN theorized that a previously undiscovered quantum particle was behind this phenomenon. They were already hard at work at the dials and knobs of their monstrous machines, hoping to be the first with a description of the situation. The LISA team members from the US had their stock...
An engineer working for the Canadian Ministry of Natural Resources, and a group of US Geological Survey physicists, discovered that all the generating stations connected to all power grids and transfer stations of North and South America remained at optimal operating capacities. They followed up with teams stationed at the US Atomic Energy Agency and at various high energy research facilities around the world and concluded that there was no justifiable explanation for the event. That night as the stars vanished and the city lights blinked out, the world had descended into a blackness not seen since before the time of Edison, Bell and Tesla. A world plunged into a gloom not known since man had unlocked the arcane secrets of the electron and harnessed its revolutionary properties. The tools of humanity, created and used to ward off the dark and hold the shadows at bay, had suddenly, and without warning, failed, though their sources remained intact. Science could explain the mystery behind any nuance affecting the multitude of electro constructs in some way through quantum formula or mechanical error. What perplexed the engineers and theorists was the absence of the stars in the night sky. Men of science scrambled to their chalkboards and their whiteboards, to their computers and their models, hoping to find an answer to an unanswerable problem.
Stars don’t just wink out existence, nor do lights go dark, which are fully powered and without defect. Even more difficult to explain, and the strangest of all, was the fact that reflections don’t fail to reflect. The eggheads at CERN theorized that a previously undiscovered quantum particle was behind this phenomenon. They were already hard at work at the dials and knobs of their monstrous machines, hoping to be the first with a description of the situation. The LISA team members from the US had their stock...
