[ WP ] Humanity realizes the Universe is actually a simulation so out of spite it decides to concentrate its effort on messing with the civilization that does the simulation

Twenty quantum disruptors the size of Jupiter were arranged in an icosahedron at a lightminute ’ s distance from a perfectly smooth ball the size of an apple. In two pictoseconds, each of these quantum disruptors would annihilate 16.7*10^9 tonnes of matter, teleported in from fourteen trillion siphon points across a galaxy called G563879255, and focus the energy on the ball. At the moment the energy makes contact with the ball ’ s shell, about ten cubic centimeters at the center of the sphere will be carved out of the universe and injected into the theoretically-predicted parent universe in which our universe is contained. 
 
 If all goes as planned, the device would interact with the universe above it. This disruption could be controlled in order to transmit eighteen bytes of information, a fragment of an equation. If this attempt failed, it would be over fifteen years before another galaxy could be prepared to resend the message. 
 
 A human in a ceremonial body flipped the ceremonial switch, initiating the process. A shell of energy swept outward from the center of the device in a process that would destroy G563879255 over the next fifty thousand years. 
 
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 The most advanced particle collider ever constructed formed a thirteen thousand kilometer ring around a small moon, accelerating hadrons with eighteen zettaelectronvolts of energy. A team of researchers from across the solar system worked to analyze the data it produced. After three months of operation, the media began to comment on the rising secrecy around the facility. Excitement grew at the possibility that the experiment had finally revealed new physics that could hint at a path toward the fabled theory of everything, a single theoretical framework that describes all physics. 
 
 The principal investigators finally announced a press conference seven months after the experiments began. 
 
 The level of public interest was unprecedented for a scientific announcement and reporters crammed into every space in the auditorium. 
 
 A being, which may have looked like a brightly-plumed spider to a human, walked to the podium as his colleagues assembled behind it. 
 
 When everyone had come on stage, it began to speak. “ We ’ ve gathered here to announce that the Encenadex Hadron Colllider team has discovered the Theory of Everything. ” 
 
 The crowd was so excited that the sound of mandibles rubbing together became nearly deafening. The being at the podium motioned for silence. 
 
 “ While this discovery promises to revolutionize every aspect of our lives, it may not be the most significant finding of this experiment. ” 
 
 A dry scratching sound rose in the room, as beings rubbed up against their colleagues to whisper. 
 
 “ The new particle we discovered lasts only for a tenth of a picosecond. In that time, it emits eighteen particles, either electrons or positrons. At first, we believed these to be random. Once we analysed millions of these decay events, we realized that each contained a piece of a very concise proof that revealed the theory to us. So we did not so much discover the theory of everything as had it taught to us by some entity from another universe. ” 
 
 The room erupted in noise again. The being at the front motioned once more and a hush fell over the room. 
 
 “ The message included something else: a description of a device of unimaginable scale along with a short instruction to us. ” 
 
 The being paused for effect before repeating the message to the crowd. “ It says, roughly, ‘ pay it forward ’. ”
