The tramp had been dead for over 10,000 years
Prague (Czech Republic) - June 3, 2023 - Four weeks ago, workers reported the presence of a lifeless tramp in front of a building on Kolinska Street undergoing renovation. Rescuers noticed that the man appeared to be mummified. When they tried to transport him in the ambulance, they realized that it was impossible to move him,and he appeared to be stuck to the sidewalk.
At the press conference on June 2, Ferdinand K., forensic doctor, and head of the search team announced: "We don't know who this person is. In fact, I should say that we don't know what it is. You know we have not managed to move it, as though it were the heaviest object on earth. We have come to the conclusion that it appears to be attached to the universe. It is simply unmovable from its place in the universe and the trajectory that it follows. We also discovered that the skin of this being is harder than the purest diamond. We have not been able to remove even one atom from its body. This material is unknown to us. His clothes, on the other hand, are common. We were able to identify that it is a fabric of Chinese origin, and a rather Asian cut of clothing.
Yesterday, we moved some heavy investigation devices on site: several scanners of different technologies. Last night, around 3 am, only one of the scanners had managed to penetrate inside the being. The images that have reached us are still being analyzed. We are puzzled. [The forensic scientist displays an image on a screen that appears to be that of a whole galaxy] It appears that our beggar's interior is a sort of miniature universe. We spotted similarities to the map of our own universe, but at a different era: of the order of half a billion years younger than our known universe. Early this morning, we managed to take an image of the area that appears to be closest to the galactic system that includes our galaxy, and thus our Earth. What we saw there does not conform to our predictive models. We cannot say more at this time.'"
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Jákob B., the oldest inhabitant of Kolinska Street: "I have lived in the neighborhood since I was a child, and I have always seen the bum in the same place. He was part of the life of the neighborhood. My father and grandmother both told me that they too had always seen him there. We never talked to him. He was in front of us every day, we were used to him. Nobody cared about him. We had other things to think about, surviving, working, raising the kids, preparing for war and crisis. We always see everything from our personal point of view, why should we care about a lousy old man who never spoke to us?"
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Over the night of June 3 to 4, 2023, while all the inhabitants of Kolinka Street are sleeping soundly, in absolute silence, the being slowly rises from the ground. An hour later, it floats above the street, just above the roofs of the buildings and stops.
At noon, all the inhabitants of the street, the research team and the security forces that contain the curious from all over the city and beyond look up to the sky. Prague is as silent as a cemetery. Not a car, not a sound, not even the flutter of a bird's wing. When the astronomical clock strikes noon, the tramp disappears from the sky as if he had never existed.
In the years following this event, all sorts of explanations of the phenomenon are run through research laboratories, universities and social networks. From collective hallucination to terrorist conspiracy to failed alien invasion. The most conservative theory of the scientific community was that it was a message so complex that our technology could not decode it. Its origin, according to the analysis of the composition of matter of the being, was not in the known universe.
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In 2049, the most powerful quantum computer in the world ran an artificial intelligence application for modeling a grand unification theory. The computer produced a 3D image of a beggar huddled on a sidewalk. No one was able to understand and interpret either the logic of the AI or the result.