[ WP ] Stars are actually sentient beings , and humans finally establish communication with them .

Dr. Laura Thomaso was perhaps the most influential physicist since Hawking. She was the first person to ever be nominated and awarded two Nobel prizes the same year - one for physics and one for peace. That was a combo that was not thought a very likely pairing nor was a double-win even thought possible. 
 
 To fully appreciate the gravity of her discovery you must first consider the first hundred and fifty years of humanity's space travelling era - not the silly little space walks we used to do in orbit, but the vast technological marathons we started to undertake on the first half of the twenty-third century. When we were forced into a situation of space or extinction our genetics took over and chose flight. The big steps in propulsion technology enabled us to reach farther than before and we were able to establish well-stocked bases inside the solar system and once the dark matter compression technology was developed it expanded our horizons even further. 
 
 Our exploration expanded rapidly and soon we had conquered three different solar systems in addition to our own. One of the key factors was how we used each sun's gravity well as a sort of a ski jump slope - it of course included metric tons of higher math, but that was the gist of it in common navigator jargon: making the jump and landing. It was n't until we had been doing these star jumps for a few decades that we saw the first jump disasters. Based on our readings back then we figured that the navigator had simply made an error in calculation and thus had overshot their landing and had ended up crashing into the target sun. 
 
 But then we got the second accident. And the third. In a few years the salary of the navigators had more than quadrupled due to the risk of premature cremation. People were still making successful jumps and the colonies kept in touch via physical relays, but the rate of fatalities had risen to one a month. The statisticians had calculated that if this rate rose to one in two weeks we would not be able to keep up ship production with the rate of destruction. Something had to be done. The rate of increase based on linear time series analysis had put the estimated time of this critical limit happening in 17,5 months. 
 
 Humanity in all solar systems began diverting a bigger chunk of tax income towards science research so that we could figure out what was causing these navigational errors at such a deadly rate. 
 
 There were many hypothesis from many a scientist. Yet more people died and ships destroyed. Most commercial ship traffic had already ceased and only essential civilian and military traffic was permitted to move between systems. We did not hit the deadline. More people died. Less traffic. Humanity began to fragment into its solar system constituents. Long-range communications still worked as we had perfected stable quantum singularity transmitters by then. 
 
 It took the ground-breaking inter-disciplinary work of a alpha-centaurian physicist, Dr. Laura Thomaso, to make the astounding discovery: stars are actually sentient beings! 
 
 Dr. Thomaso was originally interested in just studying the different radiation signatures of the stars and had spent several years on each system doing extensive field work at the top solar observatories. It was n't until she ran the solar signature changes through a time series analysis that she noticed that there was a space-time connection between one star emitting a certain type of radiation signature and the other star almost like responding to it. Of course the answer was n't instantaneous since it takes time for specific types of materials to bubble up from the core to the surface of the stars, but given enough data and zooming out far enough to compress the time it became obvious to Dr. Thomaso that something eerily familiar was to be seen in the timing of the sunspots and radiation peaks. Of course she discounted this as a statistical anomaly at first and kept her hypothesis to herself but believed in it enough that she decided to go out and seek evidence against her assumption. Wanting to prove herself wrong. That this was an anomaly that she as a fallible human was just seeing patterns where there were none. 
 
 She continued to accumulate evidence for her hypothesis until the evidence was overwhelming and there was no denying it. She formalised her theory on how the stars were sentient beings who/which worked on a vastly different timescale to humans, but were sentient nonetheless. She was able to postulate the way the stars were interfering with our star jumps -- this postulation was later proved correct by further research by some original Lunar colony researchers. 
 
 It was further shown how our star jumps were in fact causing very significant effects on the stars' magnetic fields. This was probably noticed by the early scientists who invented the jump system but was discounted as irrelevant since no permanent changes were measured. 
 
 With this new revelation we were able to develop a way to communicate with the stars - even tho' the latency of responses was immense - and finally come up with a way to resume star jumps in such a manner that would not disturb the stars too much. Once the new procedure was developed the fatality rate of jumps dropped to a negligible amount. 
 
 For her outstanding work in the field of science she was awarded the Nobel for physics and given the impact on the wellbeing of humanity and the wellbeing of these new-found sentient life-forms she was awarded the Nobel for peace.
