Chicken Scratch

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It happened very suddenly like few things ever do. Richard was loath to call it instantaneous because he of course knew that to be impossibility. Things don’t just happen with no time elapsing. His skepticism did nothing to change the facts. One moment there had been empty space, the next a planet.

Upon the discovery scientists everywhere became immediately befuddled. As Richard sat down to discuss the matter with his peers in physics it began as all such discussions ...