In the direction of Ursa Major, at the edge of the M82 Cigar Galaxy dozens of light-years from Earth, there exists a lonely star system. Apart from the star at its center, this system contains two planets orbiting the star: one called the Electron-Deficient Planet, which is dark green, and another called the Electron-Rich Planet, which is silvery white. Their orbital paths nearly coincide, and even their orbital periods are almost identical, which causes them to forever remain on opposite sides of the central star, never able to “meet.”
They don’t truly lack electrons, as they are both electrically neutral—the number of protons on these planets equals the number of electrons. However, the chemical substances composing them have an intense desire to lose or gain electrons. These two planets have other names—the Oxidizer Planet and the Reducer Planet.
Both planets have liquid substances on their surfaces. The Electron-Deficient Planet’s surface is covered by dark green oceans of manganic anhydride, with an atmosphere containing large amounts of fluorine gas, oxygen, dinitrogen pentoxide, sulfur trioxide, neon dioxide, and other gases. The oceans contain small amounts of concentrated sulfuric acid and $MnO_3^+$, with islands of potassium permanganate and potassium dichromate scattered throughout, while the ocean floor contains minerals such as ferrates, perchlorates, and superoxides. The Electron-Rich Planet, on the other hand, has silver oceans of potassium-sodium alloy, containing small amounts of cesium, rubidium, francium, mercury, magnesium, alkyl sodium, and alkyl lithium. The ocean floor is deposited with large amounts of sodium blocks, elemental cesium, charcoal, sodium hydride, and lithium aluminum hydride reefs. The planet’s interior has a core composed of liquid magnesium-aluminum alloy, and the atmosphere consists mainly of argon, elemental ammonium, and trace amounts of hydrogen gas, silanes, and short-chain hydrocarbons.
However, by chance, a massive “light particle” (or “mass point”) flew past the M82 Cigar Galaxy from the direction of the elliptical galaxy M32 near Andromeda at nearly the speed of light. The orbits of the two planets in this star system were slightly affected, their orbital periods developed small deviations and became misaligned, their orbital phase difference decreased, and they slowly approached each other. Finally, after more than twenty million time grains had passed, the two planets entered each other’s gravitational range—they would collide in less than 10 time nodes! This was the inescapable final destiny of the two planets.
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