The Closed Universe - Gaia by pmoores

Bryce • Science Fiction • posted on Mar 02, 2003

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Deep in the Closed Universe humans have found new wonders. Great crystaline lifeforms thousands of feet high, floating on 50 mile wide globes of water. Here, where the strange magnetic forces of this universe collide, temporary microgravity exists. Little more then 1/100 of earths gravity, these worldlets bob and pulse as the energy of the central star bob through them. But all is not peaceful, gravity storms can shoot pass at near the speed of local light. These storms can bend and pull the globes at as high as 1/5 of a g. Beware, for with lightspeed at just 1450mph, it can take 2 to 3 minutes for the storm waves to pass. A few cubic miles of rippling water can do serious damage at even a fraction of normal earth gravity. After a century or so, overall gravity will weaken and disperse. The cystaline lifeforms will then explode, firing their spines into surrounding space. Eventually, those spines will land on other new worldlets, to begin life anew. **** Modelled in Xfrog and some basic Bryce metaballs for the water.