“Some [redacted] had the idea that it was possible to get something to fall faster than gravity would pull it — without propelling it.

He called it superslip. He was (approximately) correct. His apparent insanity turned out to be inspiration.

That was how we learned to use gravity as a propellant, rather than … well, whatever it was before we used it to flit about timespace.

I think he said he was thinking about a force that was recursively slippery in such a fashion that anything falling in conservation with it would rapidly begin an infinite sequence of geometric accelerations. This was a clumsy approximation of an inexplicably elegant solution.

In the long run, it turned out that the methods we employed to leverage this fact had other unexpected consequences, thus, our predicament.

I am afraid we have inadvertently destabilized the fundamental structure of uncertainty in this universe. It is coming apart at the seams. In time.

We haven’t the slightest idea what to do.”

— an anonymous informant