Who cares! It's a good enough reason to make a scientific paper!
In 1928, the late Francis Wayland Thurston published a scandalous manuscript in purport of
warning the world of a global conspiracy of occultists. Among the documents he gathered to
support his thesis was the personal account of a sailor by the name of Gustaf Johansen, describing
an encounter with an extraordinary island. Johansen’s descriptions of his adventures upon the
island are fantastic, and are often considered the most enigmatic (and therefore the highlight) of
Thurston’s collection of documents.
We contend that all of the credible phenomena which Johansen described may be explained as
being the observable consequences of a localized bubble of spacetime curvature. Many of his most
incomprehensible statements (involving the geometry of the architecture, and variability of the
location of the horizon) can therefore be said to have a unified underlying cause.
We propose a simplified example of such a geometry, and show using numerical computation that
Johansen’s descriptions were, for the most part, not simply the ravings of a lunatic. Rather, they
are the nontechnical observations of an intelligent man who did not understand how to describe
what he was seeing. Conversely, it seems to us improbable that Johansen should have unwittingly
given such a precise description of the consequences of spacetime curvature, if the details of this
story were merely the dregs of some half remembered fever dream.
We calculate the type of matter which would be required to generate such exotic spacetime
curvature. Unfortunately, we determine that the required matter is quite unphysical, and possess
a nature which is entirely alien to all of the experiences of human science. Indeed, any civilization
with mastery over such matter would be able to construct warp drives, cloaking devices, and other
exotic geometries required to conveniently travel through the cosmos.
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