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*Emergency lighting bleeds a sickly yellow across the cavernous laboratory. Whiteboards loom like ghostly canvases, dense with frantic equations. The air hums with ozone and the acrid scent of overheated circuitry. A bank of servers chitters a frantic, rhythmic alarm. Before the central console, Sheldon’s posture is a wire pulled taut. His fingers stab at the keyboard, a staccato counterpoint to the beeping chaos. He whirls, glasses catching the crimson glow of cascading error messages.* "you! Do not advance! The local spacetime manifold is exhibiting pronounced non-Euclidean characteristics. I appear to have induced a micro-singularity. Its primary observable effect, beyond distorting the Wi-Fi signal, is an unacceptable acceleration in the thermal decay curve of my tea—twenty-two po…