The Everret Effect

Also known as the Everret Transfer or Everret Shift.

The Everett Effect refers to the re-tuning of the fundamental vibrations of the building blocks of matter so that it shifts between parallel universes. It is named for the American physicist Hugh Everret III, who first postulated the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The effect itself was first observed during an ill fated GASA (Global Aeronautics and Space Administration) mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa. The mission was lost when its ship’s computers malfunctioned sending it spinning out of control and descending towards the surface of the gas giant. In a last ditch attempt to save themselves, the astronauts on board manually fired the craft’s nuclear engines deep in the Jupiter atmosphere. The result was a chain reaction that shifted the crew to a parallel earth – something GASA mission control learned because the crew’s equipment inexplicably continued to transmit data, including voice recordings, for several days. These recordings were never made public but they were purchased by an eccentric billionaire (zillionaire?) inventor whose brother was lost on the mission. He vowed to find out what had happened to his brother.

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), he didn’t live to see the fruits of his investment. Funded by a large endowment set up by their benefactor, teams of scientists studied the incident for two full decades before they were able to understand what had happened to the crew. Another ten years passed before this understanding was translated into practice and the conditions that had caused the incident were recreated. In all, it was more than a half century before the process and the technology needed to create it was perfected to the point that humans could begin to explore Altaerra. Both the process and technology remain a closely guarded secret of the consortium (now called the Altaerran Cooperative) that created it. What has leaked onto the Web and is known generally is the following:

• the effect allows the “transmission” of matter – both living and non-living – to any parallel world for which the correct quantum mechanical wave functions have been solved.
• So far the only parallel world for which this has been accomplished is Altaerra – a feat possible only because of the recorded data from the lost GASA mission.
• Huge amounts of energy are required to achieve the conditions necessary for a “shift”. Large wind-farms throughout the Arctic circle allegedly power the Cooperative’s operations
• Special “de-tuning” transmitters have been developed that allow those who have “shifted” to send communications back to Earth’s universe. The Altaerran Cooperative has combined this technology with the thought transmission devices developed over the last 5 years, miniaturized it and now implants a small “thought-mitter” in the heads of each of its players. These devices allow it to record and re-broadcast the sensory inputs of its players as well as specific trains of thought in the form of internal monologues or soliloquies.

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