Gate to Greatness

Growing up, you always had a dream to become a renowned scientist and invent teleportation. (set: $plate to false) [[I'll work hard in school]] [[I'd rather hang out with my friends]]

You fall victim to earthly pleasures and trap yourself in an unending feedback loop of serotonin, forcing you to work a blue collar job to pay your bills and eventually forgetting your childhood dreams. [[Give up]] [[Quit your job]] [[Go back to school]]

You graduate at the top of your class in studies of quantum mechanics and research, landing you a job at a newly constructed hadron collider - the largest and most powerful one ever constructed. [[Begin Experimenting]]

In your quest to invent teleportation, you believe that you can create a black hole by smashing various particles at very high speeds. By accelerating protons and other particles to the near speed of light with an extremely high energy, you could induce the formation of a microscopic gravity well. [[ Collide protons]] [[Search for another answer]]

As you power up the hadron collider and your instruments glow with anticipitation, the protons approach 300 million meters per second: the speed of light. You watch in awe at the massive amount of energy, the two protons collide with each other in an enormous flash of energy. Your instrument panel blares as it detects an anomaly... [[Observe the anomaly]] [[Attempt to send a particle through the anomaly]] (if:$plate is true)[[Enable the conduction plates]]

You collect two plasmonic metamaterial conduction plates and space them a micron apart within your particle accelerator, allowing you to control the gravitational field between the two and influence the presence of negative energy. (set: $plate to true) [[ Collide protons]]

For a split microsend, a gravity well appears. You've done it, you're the first person to create a man-made black hole. Unfortunately, due to the size of the miniature black hole, it succumbs to the loss of Hawking Radiation: causing the gravitational anomaly to evaporate just as quickly as it appeared.

For a split microsend, a gravity well appears. You've done it, you're the first person to create a man-made black hole. Before the anomaly disappears for good, you utilize the mere microseconds of its existence to inject a foreign particle into the black hole. Success would mean proof of extra dimensions besides our own and more importantly - the realization of your dreams of teleportation. Unfortunately, the particle is swept up by the event horizon before eventually disappating along with the Hawking Radiation and the gravitational anomaly soon after.

You and your dreams are buried, along with the wills and promises of millions before you and millions to follow.

Free from the burdens of your former employer, you decide to pack all of your possessions into a van and roam the country. [[Explore the enchanting forests]] [[Explore the great deserts]]

You decide to give life a second chance. Returning to your studies, you find yourself back in college with a renewed vigor. [[I'll work hard in school]]

After years of your travels and many stories to tell, you enter a new and unexplored territory. As you venture forward, the sands shift and the sun's glow begins to dim. You look behind you only to realize an unrecognizable landscape. [[Continue exploring]]

After years of your travels and many stories to tell, you enter a new and unexplored territory. As you venture forward, the woods grow deeper and darker. The voices of the trees seem to vanish as you press on. [[Continue exploring]]

As you proceed, you notice the your surroundings begin to warp and you can no longer hear your own footsteps. You approach the source of the anomaly: a small black hole situated in the middle of this forgotten landscape. It beckons you forward... [[Explore the mysteries of the unknown]] [[Live to see another day]]

As you inch closer to the strange black orb, you are suddenly tugged inside with great force. Lights dance around you and your body begins to contort as you are ripped through space and time in a dazzling, inexplicable tunnel. Your speed continues accelerating until all you can feel in your body is the sudden afterthough of what may be at the other end of this wormhole. Just then, you see a light at the end of the tunnel. You cannot stop as you continue speeding towards the blinding light, your heart racing and your mind aflame with panic and regret. [[Travel into the light...]]

You run away in fear and self-preservation. Returning to your van, you learn to appreciate the smaller and less exciting things in your life as you tuck into bed and go to sleep.

Careening through the portal, you are blinded by a flash of flight. Your stomach churns as your body regains its composition. Tumbling back into a physical plane of reality, you look up just in time to see something you would have never expected. You are filled with sudden fear and panic as your mind struggles to formulate an answer as to why you have arrived where you are. [[Where did you go?]]

You are escorted into the back of a police cruiser after inexplicably manifesting within an occupied bathroom stall. Hope you still have money left for a lawyer.

The influx of energy causes the black hole to lose its form and evaporate.

The negative energy introduced to the black hole causes its mass to lower, however the charge remains constant. As more negative energy enters the anomaly, it begins to charge and stabilize before eventually transforming into a Reissner-Nordström black hole. The event horizon of the black hole no longer suppresses objects from entering. As proposed by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen over a century ago, the Einsein-Rosen bridge now exists before you very eyes. You've done it, you've created a wormhole - a portal between dimensions. [[Explore the mysteries of the unknown]]

You introduce a Higgs-Boson particle to the gravitational anomaly. The formation of the black hole is interfered with by immense energy within it, causing the Higgs field to rupture. This enables the event of quantum tunneling. This is an unfortunately misleading name. Due to the effects of the lower-energy state, this creates a bubble of true vacuum, known as vacuum decay. This bubble expands at the speed of light - instantaneously annihilating every atom and particle it collides with. This is the end of our universe.

Activing the field between the metamaterial plates, you induce a repulsive field for the protons to collide in. For a split microsend, a gravity well appears. You've done it, you're the first person to create a man-made black hole. The negative energy from the repulsing fields stabilizes the gravity well and effectively reduces the loss of Hawking Radiation, allowing the black hole to sustain its form. [[Increase the output of the conduction plates]] [[Maintain the output of the conduction plates]] [[Inject a Higgs-Boson particle]]