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Humans are now entering an era in which they are beginning to
experiment with the diverse forces of physics in ways that change the
nature of the time and space in which those forces operate.
We have but one caution regarding these forces, and that involves the
production of what you call "strange matter". There are different
types of strange matter, but the most easily-produced forms in
something like a "liquid". Unlike current speculation, it doesn't
convert everything around it into strange matter - though it does
convert -some- matter around it, just not all at once or very quickly.
The problem with this strange matter is that if you produce enough of
it, it begins a cycle not at all unlike the eva****ation and
condensation of water from the oceans in the form of rain. It cannot
be contained by glass, though some silicate metals and pure silicon
can, depending upon how it was created.
When strange matter "rains" down upon a world composed of non-strange
matter, it essentially tears apart the fabric of the space holding the
atoms and molecules together - but only for an instant. It doesn't
explode the atoms, it just "stirs" them in a manner of speaking,
shattering them into their component subatomic parts but in such a way
that the subatomic components recombine almost instantly after the
strange-matter rain has passed through it. But the atoms affected in
such a way are not the same atoms that were there previously - the
subatomic components don't necessarily recombine with the same
components they had been combined with in the original atoms.
So you see, everything gets "blended" after awhile of being subjected
to strange-matter rain. Life cannot evolve in such conditions because
any combined molecules are inevitably torn asunder.
It is a power that has ravaged many emerging technological species
throughout the course of existence.
The strange-matter rain does eventually decay, but it takes hundreds
of thousands of years. Many of the afflicted worlds end up just like
your Venus, with nothing of their former inhabitants remaining in even
the most remotely recognizable form.
That's all. We knew some of you might want to know this, we know
those who need to know this probably will never see it, but we've got
to try to get the word out anyway. You're probably not going to
encounter the strange-matter problem at this point, but you're not
entirely out of the woods yet.
Good luck, peace be with you.
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