The World's Most Deadly Equation

The Perils of Interdimensional Travel

Einstein was playing the violin in his study, then he suddenly stopped and with a yelp proclaimed :
'But of course !'.
He then ran to his desk like a giddy schoolchild and lacking any suitable writting materials, he rapidly scrawled out several lines of equations on the back of a napkin. Such a sudden flash of divine inspiration happened to him so rarely in his life, that he had no wish to lose his train of thought in the emotion of the moment. He had just discovered the most elegant solution to a particularly hairy problem in quantum field theory.

The equations were so simple, he immediately phoned his nemesis Niels Bohr to seek corroboration. They had been academic rivals in the past, however this discovery had such monumental consequences that all their previous disputes faded into insignificance :
'Gudden dag, Niels ! I have a beautiful solution for you ...'.
Bohr patiently listened to the proof, and when Einstein asked him for his opinion,
That's fantastic Albert ! However there is a possible contentious corollary.
Even before Bohr was able to completely describe his point, an overly excited Einstein interrupted him :
'I believe I can satisfy your concerns on this issue, just one moment, I need to check something ...'
Bohr heard the sounds of Einstein's rapid footsteps as he hastily made his way back towards his desk ... A few moments later Bohr heard a loud 'POOF' ! Then no sound for what seemed like an eternity. After an excessive amount of time had elapsed, he hung up and dialed Einstein's number, but the line was busy. He attempted to redial several times later in the day, however with the same results. Concerned for his slightly eccentric fellow physicist, he made a few phone calls to some of Einstein's collegues and explained the situtation, inluding the equations Einstein mentioned.
After he was satisfied that he alerted the proper people he immediately began feverishly writing equations on the back of an envellope attempting to complete Einstein's proof. Just at that moment Heisenberg knocked at Bohr's door, no response. He waited a while, then knocked again just to be sure :
'Niels, it is Werner'.
After a long pause, just as Heisenberg was about to leave, a busy sounding Bohr responded :
'Just a moment ...'.
Then Heisenberg suddenly heard a muffled 'POOF' somewhat like a loud decompression sound. Heisenberg waited, but after a very long wait he began to be concerned and opened the unlocked door and called again :
'Niels, I heard a sound, are you alright ?'.
The room was deserted, Bohr was nowhere to be found. Heisenberg bacame very concerned as there was no other exit in the office, he quietly recalled to himself the often quoted Sherlock Holmes lines :

He concluded that he must have gone out the window. The mystery of Bohr's disappearance deepened after further inquiries with the students having lunch outside revealed that Bohr's window had never been opened. However one of them did notice that the window rattled a few moments ago. Heisenberg returned to Bohr's office to see if he missed anything. There was a pipe in the ashtray still smoldering, and just beside several equations crudely scribbled on the back of an envelloppe. Heisenberg, struck by something he couldn't exactly put a finger on, began to study the proof; his face suddenly brightened as he frantically added another line just below the last equation, then he took a step back and as if admiring the most magnificant painting he had ever seen, yelled:
'Beautiful !'
a few moments later the students outside Bohr's office hear another rattling sound from the window. Concerned, some of them made their way to Bohr's office, they were astonished to find that both Bohr and now Heisenberg were missing !

The phone call Bohr had made to several of Einstein's collegues had identical effects. Unfortunately, some of them had time to call one or more their fellow researchers before they disappeared themselves. This lead to an out of control chain reaction of disappearances. The next day, the newspapers ran some very puzzling headlines:

The Daily Planet

5 cents April 1, 1933.
Famous Scientists Dissappear !

 Researchers are vanishing into thin air, by press time 143 physicists and mathematician had myteriously disapeared.

Some scientists disappeared even under protective custody, curiously they received a mysterious phone call from scientists soon to be reported missing. Authorities are stumped, the only clues left behind are still smoldering pipes and half-eaten lunches. The dissapearances all share a common item: scribblings of what appear to be mathematical equations frantically written on paper, on blackboards, even on the back of envellopes or paper napkins...
page 1

[MODERATOR'S NOTE: Hold it, wait a minute, this story is getting too silly, its gotten out of hand, there no such things as interdimensional travel ... and yet ... if the infinities cancel in the fourth equation it would allow ... just a minute ... Aha ! ... POOF !

(Sysop notice: Umm ... our moderator appears to have vanished, we apologize for the incovenience.)
:-) Humour Page