Historia av "Unfysical Intrusions" [stängd]

Edwin Abbott Flatland (1884) kan fungera. Protagonisten, A. Square, som är en kvadrat som bor i ett tvådimensionellt universum, besöks av en sfär (benämnd A. Sphere) från en tredimensionell värld. A. Sphere lyfter A. Kvadreras ur hans tvådimensionella existens och låter honom se Flatland ovanifrån.

Så, jag vet inte om det här är en exakt matchning. Vi har

• ett intrång
  • det är sfäriskt
• från en annan dimension
  • med olika fysiska lagar.

Men vi har inte

• Alien artefakter
• områden där sakerna är annorlunda.

Är det O.K. om det laglösa området är hela jorden? Jag tänker på Jack Vance s novell " The Men Return ", först publicerad i Infinity Science Fiction , juli 1957 , tillgänglig på Internetarkiv .

Far away rose low hills, blurring into the sky, which was mottled and sallow like poor milk-glass. The intervening plain spread like rotten velvet, black-green and wrinkled, streaked with ocher and rust. A fountain of liquid rock jetted high in the air, branched out into black coral. In the middle distance a family of gray objects evolved with a sense of purposeful destiny: spheres melted into pyramids, became domes, tufts of white spires, sky-piercing poles; then, as a final tour de force, tesseracts.

The Relict cared nothing for this; he needed food: out on the plain were plants. They would suffice in lieu of anything better. They grew on the ground, or sometimes on a floating lump of water, or to a core of hard black gas. There were dank black flaps of leaf, clumps of haggard thorn, pale green bulbs, stalks with leaves and contorted flowers. There were no definite growths or species, and the Relict had no means of knowing if the leaves and tendrils he had eaten yesterday would poison him today.

[. . . .]

Matters had not always been so. The Relict retained a few tattered recollections of the old days, before system and logic had been rendered obsolete. Man had dominated Earth by virtue of a single assumption: that an effect could be traced to a cause, itself the effect of a previous cause.

[. . . .]

Then came the terrible hour when Earth swam into a pocket of non-causality, and all the ordered tensions of cause-effect dissolved. The special tool was useless; it had no purchase on reality. From the two billions of men, only a few survived—the mad. They were now the Organisms, lords of the era, their discords so exactly equivalent to the vagaries of the land as to constitute a peculiar wild wisdom. Or perhaps the disorganized matter of the world, loose from the old organization, was peculiarly sensitive to psycho-kinesis.

A handful of others, the Relicts, managed to exist, but only through a delicate set of circumstances. They were the ones most strongly charged with the old causal dynamic. It persisted sufficiently to control the metabolism of their bodies, but could extend no further. They were fast, fast dying, for sanity provided no leverage against the environment. Sometimes their own minds sputtered and jangled, and they would go raving and leaping out across the plain.