Stephen Hawking’s Resonance Cascade

Stephen Hawking performing the experiment. Picture by Naru.

Recently, VRChat met a wave of users looking like Stephen Hawking. This might’ve been caused by the fact that the real Stephen Hawking is gone, but we’ll try to capture as many details as possible.

According to our source, Stephen Hawking visited the Black Mesa research facility in the Half-Life world provided by Omega and took part in some sort of scientific experiment that involved pushing a cart full of custom particles into a beam in the anti-mass spectrometer.

Before the experiment, the last words Pan Diman used with a synthesizer were, “Now is the time for science.”

Our informer agreed to share the details only if we provide them with anonymity, so we cannot mention them by their name in this sentence. Nonetheless, this is what they said, “It’s like he disappeared after the explosion. Maybe he went into a portal or something.”

Later, they added, “I saw a bunch of new portals, and the weird thing is, it might be just my imagination, but I feel like I’ve seen creatures dropping down from mid-air, and they all looked just like Stephen Hawking, except not as handsome and smart.”

If the provided statement is true, we can assume the experiment caused unforeseen consequences, and the resonance cascade opened multiple portals to/from multiple dimensions that led to the invasion of people using the Stephen Hawking avatar.

However, despite the events most of us are aware of, Stephen Hawking isn’t the only avatar-related person whose real-life existence became a delicate subject in VRChat.

A few weeks ago, Billy Herrington, commonly known in VRChat for sharing resemblance with the avatar Jameskii uses from time to time, also passed away.

We can never be sure if their souls are trapped in VRChat from now on, but if that’s the case, it’s only up to us to keep our environment safe so they don’t have to spend eternity suffering from existence of toxicity.