[ WP ] A college campus is suddenly yanked into another dimension when a physics experiment goes wrong .

The lights in Physics Lab 5-A flickered for about five seconds. Nobody flinched, because that was normal when operating the accelerator. It drew enough power to cause building-wide power fluctuations, and today was an accelerator day. All the computers were on battery backup, so there was no risk of data loss, and people just learned to ignore everything else. 
 
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 Not a single storm cloud had been brewing in the sky, let alone a puffy cumulus cloud. The only clouds that could be seen were the thin wisps of cirrus in the distance. It wasn ’ t hot enough for heat lightning. Needless to say, the bolt of lightning that hit the Specialty Physics Lab shook the campus and startled the stray cloudwatchers enjoying the benches scattered across campus. 
 
 Nobody, not even the physicists using the accelerator, expected a bolt of lightning, or the…problem…it caused. 
 
 Students driving to campus were startled to find nothing but a field where their college campus, composed of some old stone buildings, a lot of new buildings made to look like the old stone buildings, and not enough parking, should have been. Students attempting to leave campus were similarly disturbed by the lack of the main roads bordering campus, the small, congested streets used as thoroughfares simply depositing them onto a seemingly endless field. 
 
 Emergency calls began flooding into every administration office on campus, and as students were released from their class, people started to panic. All the administration did was set up a few barricades to discourage people from adventuring into the field. Not many people came to the physics lab or left it, so the physics majors didn ’ t realize what they had accidentally done, while the rest of the student population knew who had done it. 
 
 At least not until some freshmen, who were doing a free-fall acceleration lab, started to look at their data. Up until about 2:19 PM, everyone had been getting values near the standard, 9.8 meters per second squared. After then, everyone ’ s values dropped to about 5 meters per second squared. It was when everyone started asking questions about the change in free fall acceleration that the lab TA texted his friend down in the accelerator lab. Whatever had happened shouldn ’ t have happened, but it did. 
 
 When the freshmen were dismissed, word started to spread that something had happened in the Specialty Physics Lab. Administrators, keeping their ears open for word of what caused this disruption, immediately tasked the physics department with finding out what they did and fixing it. 
 
 After sleepless hours, they reached their conclusion. “ We ’ ve been transported into another dimension, and it ’ s collapsing, ” the dean of the physics department said. “ We ’ re working on figuring out how to return to our own dimension. But we must assume that only people and things on campus will return, so we must advise all students to remain on campus. ”
