Dr. Lisa Chen had been running the same quantum entanglement experiment for three hours, and the results kept defying every law of physics she understood. The particles were behaving normally—right up until they weren't.
"Sarah, are you seeing these readings?" she called to her graduate student, who was monitoring the secondary detection array across the lab.
"The coherence is holding longer than it should," Sarah Martinez replied, adjusting her equipment with the focused intensity of someone trying to understand something that didn't make sense. "It's like the quantum field is being artificially stabilized by an external source."
