Aris spent the next 48 hours awake, chasing the math. The extra-dimensional hint wasn’t a red herring—it was a key. He derived a modified vacuum dispersion relation from a 5D warped brane model (Randall-Sundrum type). The result made his stomach drop: high-energy photons would experience a tiny, periodic time delay as the universe expanded through a cycle of brane oscillations. The period wasn’t random—it was a carrier wave . And the 100 MeV cutoff was a side effect: the vacuum itself became opaque to certain gamma-ray energies when the brane tension varied.

Somewhere, in a war-torn century that had not yet begun, a soldier read Aris’s solution and smiled.

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