Earth is not in the way of a space highway. It is in the way of a billion-year-long linear accelerator experiment to test string theory.
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Planet-sized ships escort a single particle through space, planning to collide with its partner in the middle of the Bootes void.
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The ships devour entire systems just to collect enough energy to keep up with this particle, which they constantly accelerate.
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The ships cannot slow down. The collision chamber is protected by tungsten walls light-seconds thick, which they will collide with.
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A small hole will allow the particles to pass through.
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