Part 1

My father told me about how a great physicist helped my grandfather to build a new theory. He said with eloquence, I remember, «Your grandfather wrote about chaos theory before all these new age scientists.» My father had a big belly because of the alcohol, and when he told me about my grandfather’s memories, he was always drunk.

My grandfather was in his twenties, finishing his PhD in electromechanics at Oxford. It was around the 60s. At that time, Newtonian physics was enough to explain everything. But Tony, my grandpa, made a big decision. He had two options in his life: be another PhD and go back to teach at his alma mater or try to find something new. Obviously, pushed by his father, he moved from London to Chile to the biggest telescope built by anyone in the world at that time.

About six years after his arrival in Chile, he found something special, something weird. He discovered some kind of net around the lights of the stars. Chile had the largest database of star intensity, compiled over about 100 years. The faculty of physics had saved this information. Since my grandpa had access to this vast amount of data, he sensed something was wrong.