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nope. The nature of "the agent" is speculated on for one paragraph (alien? antimatter? comet?), and then never touched on again.
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how do you "break" the moon anyway? inject sufficient energy to boost its entire mass above its escape velocity, I guess?
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An impact was just a theory also: “The most generally accepted theory was that the puff of dust observed by the Utah astronomer was caused by an impact. That the Agent, in other words, came from outside the moon, pierced its surface...”
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I remember seeing in an interview that Stephenson didn’t know or care why the moon blew up because it wasn’t important to the novel. But I can’t find it now so I might be making that part up.
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