The world-mover

Les Ackerman is a diligent researcher who spends months cataloguing a brand‑new transuranic element, then decides to finish the work with a single night in the cyclotron. What begins as a routine neutron bombardment instantly spirals into something impossible: a shimmering sphere of energy that multiplies the laboratory, producing an eerie ghost version that burns and hovers while the original remains untouched. The split reality leaves Ackerman bewildered, staring at a towering flame against a moonlit sky that refuses to change.

Word spreads quickly through the three divergent worlds that now exist side‑by‑side, each believing only Ackerman can mend the fracture he unknowingly caused. As curious strangers and desperate officials converge on the shattered site, he must grapple with the bizarre physics of his accident while trying to understand what his own experiment has truly unleashed. The story balances scientific intrigue with a tense, other‑worldly mystery that asks how one man’s discovery might reshape reality itself.