Origin of the World of 134|D

Discovery of the Portals -

• The portals were discovered well before their world-changing applications transformed society.
• Astronomers observed a portion of an asteroid belt essentially disappearing and being transformed into energy in a huge exothermic reaction.
• The nature of the energy was not fully understood at the time although the wavelengths emitted exhibited unique behaviour.
• 20 years later in the same spot a huge endothermic reaction sucked the energy out of neighbouring star systems in order to produce the SAME ASTEROIDS that disappeared 20 years earlier exactly as they were when they entered the portal.
• The phenomenon was not understood until one scientist identified it as a rip in space time that operated on the principles of Quantum Mechanics (string theory/dark matter?)
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• The first artificial portal was created a few years later. Inanimate matter was fed into it in order to generate energy.
• A suicide attempt was the first person to leap. Scientist or janitor who crossed over the portal. Became a celebrity (politician?) and eventually committed suicide anyway (?)
  
• Eventually animals and finally humans are (intially paid to) go through the portal.
• Story of the first people to volunteer - no idea of what awaits them on the other side because time travel can only go in one direction.
  
• Government offers incentives (payments are invested in guaranteed interest funds so that their money will mature when they get to the future)