Daniel Chin

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: safe Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX should be contained in a locker whose diagonal length is no longer than 6 cm.

Description:
SCP-XXXX is a pair of identical metal balls, labeled SCP-XXXX-0 and SCP-XXXX-1 SCP-XXXX-L and SCP-XXXX-R. The diameter of each ball is 1.928 cm and the weight is 34.0611534 g. There is always a repulsive force between the two balls.

The anomoly of SCP-XXXX lies in how the repulsive force responds to the distance between the two balls. Unlike most physical forces that follow the inverse square law, SCP-XXXX follows a not-inverse square law - the repulsive force is proportional to the square of the distance between the two balls:

(1)

\begin{align} f = k \times d^2 \end{align}

where $d$ is the distance between the two balls, $f$ is the resulting repulsive force, and $k$ is a constant number. Foundation measurements have shown that $k = 426.7998 \pm 0.0001$ N/m².

distance between two balls	repulsive force	equivalent weight
1.928 cm	0.16 N	a tablespoon
4.072 cm	0.71 N	a cupcake
1 m	427 N	a 15-year-old girl
5 m	10670 N	a compact car
20 m	1.7 × 105 N	???

Computer simulations of SCP-XXXX under free acceleration show alarming results. Suppose that some glue was holding the two balls in contact. If the glue was to be removed at t = 0 s and SCP-XXXX was allowed to freely accelerate, then at t = 0.135 s SCP-XXXX starts to gain significant velocity. The high velocity quickly increases the distance, which in turns amplifies the repulsive force by many folds. By t = 0.136 s, the velocity has risen to 3.4 × 10¹⁹⁸ m/s and the distance 6.7 × 10¹⁹⁴ m. Afterwards (t > 0.136 s), unmanageable overflow immediately crashes any simulation attempts. The figure below shows the simulated trajectory up to t = 0.136 s.

Free acceleration, distance against time.

Free acceleration, distance against time.

Addendum:

+ [show] Log: initial procurement

The Foundation found SCP-XXXX during the 2021 April ██^██ sweep at ████████████ along with other novel objects including SCP-████, SCP-████, and SCP-████. Field agents reported no apparent anomalies related to SCP-XXXX other than a faint repulsive force felt when holding SCP-XXXX-0 and SCP-XXXX-1 in the palm. During its transportation to site-██, SCP-XXXX happened to be contained in a 4cm×4cm plastic bag.

SCP-XXXX was classified as safe. Several foundation researchers expressed interest in SCP-XXXX because of its behavioral resemblance to magnetic monopoles. However, many of the said researchers were engaged in other containment projects so experiment sessions with SCP-XXXX were delayed to June 2021. During the two months from April to June, SCP-XXXX was to be temporarily contained in a designated standard bullet-proof locker.

+ [show] Event log: Locker incident

The following events were recroded on April 28^th, 2021.

04:33:30
site-██'s sound surveillance system reports a loud noise originating from the bullet-proof locker containing SCP-XXXX.

04:34:59
The response team arrived at the locker and observed no structural damage to the locker on the outside.

04:36:02
The response team applied acoustic resonance imaging to probe the inside of the locker. Results showed that SCP-XXXX was at two diagonally opposing corners of the locker and these locker corners were under 600 N of stress.

04:36:31
Object class "safe" revoked; new object class pending. Locker reinforced externally. Acoustic resonance imaging was applied every other minute to monitor the repulsive force.

04:55:28
SCP-XXXX safely removed from the locker. Also in the locker was found a 4cm×4cm plastic bag with a hole in its corner. The plastic bag seemed to have gone through a slow process of plastic deformation before its eventual bursting.

05:20:44
SCP-XXXX transferred to Engineering Lab 11 for immediate testing.

+ [show] Dr. Cun's report

Date: April 28^th, 2021.
Time: 06:55

Dr. Bin and I conducted tests on SCP-XXXX immediately after its locker incident. Here I summarize our findings.

The repulsive force between the two balls follows a not-inverse square law. In other words, the further away the two balls are, the larger is the repulsive force. This is a miraculous behavior in physics - at the same time an unthinkably dangerous one. Think about what this means - the potential energy the two balls possess, in their current state, is stupidly high. If the distance between the balls ever becomes too large, subsequent divergence of the two balls will be beyond anyone's control.

If you release the two balls on the Earth's surface and let them diverge vertically, the ball going downwards will easily pierce through the entire Earth, transferring an astronomical amount of kinetic energy during the process. Now, in case the reader is wondering, yes, it is an end-of-the-world scenario.

Given the immense risks associated with these balls, Dr. Bin and I are drafting some neutralization plans. Among those, the orbital release solution seems particularly promising to me; it'll probably solve our problem once and for all. Expect our draft to be finished soon.

However, note that we are in need of more tests on SCP-XXXX. What is the ratio between the squared distance and the repulsion force? Does it depend on the body mass? What happens if we chop one ball into two, or dissolve it in acid? (I presume the pieces of SCP-XXXX will inherit its anomoly.) We need a more exact description of SCP-XXXX's behaviors in order to model the containment and neutralization procedures.

SCP-XXXX reclassified as Keter.

+ [show] Neutralization proposal: Orbital release

Authors: Dr. Cun, Dr. Bin, Dr. ████████, and Dr. ████.
Date: May 2^nd, 2021.

This neutralization procedure involves three steps:
1. Launch the containment of SCP-XXXX into Earth orbit.
2. Carefully calibrate the relative position between SCP-XXXX-0 and SCP-XXXX-1 so that the release trajectory is tangential to the orbit.
3. Release SCP-XXXX into outer space.

Dr. Cun's sketch, "Orbital Release".

Dr. Cun's sketch, "Orbital Release".

Soon, both instances of SCP-XXXX will be traveling away from the Earth at the speed of light. (This is the fastest that an SCP can go when you want it to leave.)

The tidal force will increase linearly with regard to the distance, so eventually each instance of SCP-XXXX will be ripped into an expanding line segment of debris.

This neutralization procedure will destroy all things on the path of SCP-XXXX - a straight line in the universe. The impacted bodies will gain a fraction of SCP-XXXX's momentum and travel in a similar direction. Because a fraction of an astronomical number is still astronomical, this will likely widen the zone of total destruction into a cone, or even a horn.

Dr. Bin's sketch, "Sacrificed Zones".

Dr. Bin's sketch, "Sacrificed Zones".

Given the irreversibility of SCP-XXXX's divergence, we argue that the Foundation's job is to make sure that the Earth is not in the sacrificed zones, instead of trying to contain SCP-XXXX.

In conclusion, the orbital release procedure must be taken at the earliest opportunity in order to minimize risks.

+ [show] Notice: Orbital release canceled

Date: June 2^nd, 2021.

The launch of SCP-XXXX scheduled on June 20^th is canceled. SCP-XXXX is to be returned to site-██ within 24 hours. The decision is made based on Dr. Bin's recent discovery of SCP-XXXX's electromagnetic properties. Refer to his May 24^th report for details.

+ [show] Dr. Bin's Report

Authors: Dr. Bin, Dr. Cun, Dr. ████████, and Dr. ████.
Date: May 24^th, 2021.

Abstract: SCP-XXXX-0 and SCP-XXXX-1 renamed to SCP-XXXX-L and SCP-XXXX-R. SCP-XXXX's movement generates an electric field. SCP-XXXX-L follows the left-hand rule while SCP-XXXX-R follows the right-hand rule. An orbital release of SCP-XXXX will therefore incur catastrophic consequences.

The experiments reported here took place in a 5m×5m×2.5m Faraday cage.

We first bound together SCP-XXXX-0 and SCP-XXXX-1 with hot glue. We then conducted the following experiments on the bounded pair of balls.

1.1. When placed near normal magnets, SCP-XXXX displayed no interaction with the normal magnets.

1.2. When we moved SCP-XXXX at 2 cm/s inside a coil of wires, no current was detected in the coil.

We then carefully separated SCP-XXXX-0 and SCP-XXXX-1 and tested them individually.

2.1. When placed near normal magnets, neither SCP-XXXX-0 nor SCP-XXXX-1 displayed interaction with the normal magnets.

2.2. When either SCP-XXXX-0 or SCP-XXXX-1 rests inside a coil of wires, no current was detected.

2.3. When we moved either SCP-XXXX-0 or SCP-XXXX-1 at 2 cm/s inside the coil, a current was detected in the coil. In terms of the direction of the resulting current, SCP-XXXX-0 followed the left-hand rule while SCP-XXXX-1 followed the right-hand rule.

2.4. When we varied the movement velocity, the current in the coil had a linear response.

2.5. When we increased the diameter of the coil, the current in the coil increased.

Experiment 2.3 shows that the two instances of SCP-XXXX are of opposing polarities. We rename them as SCP-XXXX-L and SCP-XXXX-R. The phenomenon observed in experiment 2.5 is attributed to the not-inverse square nature of SCP-XXXX.

An electromagnetic model of SCP-XXXX can thus be derived. The movement of SCP-XXXX-L generates an eletric field whose orientation follows Fleming's left-hand rule but whose magnitude increases with the radius. For a given point in space, the potential gradient is

(2)

\begin{align} \boldsymbol{d} \times \boldsymbol{u} \cdot ||\boldsymbol{d}|| \cdot b \cdot i_\text{LR} \end{align}

where "$\times$" is the cross product, $\boldsymbol{d}$ is the displacement vector from SCP-XXXX to that point in space, $\boldsymbol{u}$ is the velocity vector of SCP-XXXX, $b$ is a constant coefficient with unit V·s·m^-4, and $i_\text{LR}$ is the identity variable that takes $-1$ for SCP-XXXX-L and $1$ for SCP-XXXX-R.

Now we can explain why we didn't fry distant star systems when we moved SCP-XXXX around: as long as SCP-XXXX-L and SCP-XXXX-R move together, the electric fields they generate will cancel each other out. In fact, the Earth is always carrying SCP-XXXX at a considerable velocity.

In contrary, whenever SCP-XXXX-L and SCP-XXXX-R move in opposite directions, the electric fields they generate will double on top of each other. Suppose SCP-XXXX is placed above your head. If SCP-XXXX-L shoots left and SCP-XXXX-R shoots right, then both of them will exert a forward electric gradient at your head.

As such, if SCP-XXXX were to be released in orbit, its tremendous velocity would generate an electric field over the Earth so strong that ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ In addition, because SCP-XXXX's electromagnetic effect increases with regard to distance, the rest of the universe will end up much worse.

+ [show] Final decision regarding SCP-XXXX

Date: June 14^th, 2021.
Released by: O5-██ and O5-██

The Foundation has come to conclude that SCP-XXXX is to be indefinitely contained.

Experimentation and neutralization requests related to SCP-XXXX will require direct approval from the O5 council.

+ [show] A quote from Dr. Cun

They don't want to stay together.