They end up needing quite a few more than one.
By the time the signal commences, Mrs. Lang-Scranton and her new husband have made significant modifications to the Geiger counter. A week after the signal starts, Mr. Hutchinson has returned — alongside a brilliant chemist from France. Two weeks after that, they have several backers, six more scientists (with one more on the way), and a laboratory of their own.
The message they are receiving describes a universe beyond the boundaries of their imagination. It is a universe filled with quarks and singularities — containing cosmological events so grand, so enormous in scale, that they defy all comprehension — alongside quantum phenomena so subtle, so minuscule in nature, that they can scarcely be said to exist at all.
It is also a universe filled with the impossible. Impossible ideas. Impossible science. Impossible magic. And impossible monsters.
So very many impossible monsters.
The message is prefaced with a warning:
DO NOT RESPOND
AUTOMATED MESSAGE
OTHER UNIVERSES EXIST
SOMETHING DIGESTING THEM
IF YOU SEE THIS THEN WE LOST
YOU ARE NEXT
THIS IS ALL I CAN DO
SORRY AND GOOD LUCK
- ALICE CHAO
Next: That God-Damned Lizard
