Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures SCP-XXXX is to be kept in Secure Site XX, located in ████ █████████, Indiana. SCP-XXXX is to be kept under constant surveillance by site staff in the event of containment failure. No matter or electromagnetic radiation is to enter the active area of SCP-XXXX, for this reason, SCP-XXXX is to be contained within an instance of 2817-B.

Should containment fail staff personnel are to evacuate and active procedure 314-Pi to stabilize the breach.

Description: SCP-XXXX is an iron sphere approximately 6 meters in diameter with a volume of 108 cubic meters and a mass of 847.8 metric tonnes. Due to currently unknown forces, SCP-XXXX remains suspended at a distance of two(2) meters above the ground. Attempts to move SCP-XXXX to move SCP-XXXX closer to the ground have proven futile.

Samples of SCP-XXXX have been shown to not possess the anomalous properties of SCP-XXXX after removal from its surface possessing all the chemical and physical properties associated with iron-56.

SCP-XXXX was discovered in 1987 at Purdue University, Indiana following reports of repeat electrical failures and strange lights in the area. SCP agents planted in the area to search for the anomaly discovered SCP-XXXX in the possession of XXXXX, Goodwin along with notes on its creation which were used by the Foundation to create instances of SCP-XXXX-B. Further study of these documents has found that while the information present allows the creation of similar anomalies its explanation for how they function has been found to be inaccurate.

SCP-XXXX was discovered in West Lafayette, Indiana in XX/XX/1987 in the possession of X.X XXXXX following news of failing electronics and anomalous results in Purdue University. Foundation agents planted in the area reported strange lights and random electrical faults soon after, containment teams were sent to secure the area and administer class-A amnesiacs to all students, faculty and visitors present. Upon the discovery of SCP-XXXX, Foundation Keter Containment team 4 was sent in to study and secure the anomaly.

Studies performed by Keter Containment have found that through currently unknown means SCP-XXXX is able to influence physical laws and constants within a two (2) meter radius such that a value of 3.00 is derived for Pi rather than the normal 3.1415. Following the creation of SCP-XXXX-B and the movement of SCP-XXXX to secure site-XX further observation by the Foundation has found that the anomalous properties of SCP-XXXX vary with time following a five-step cycle.

Stage Description Stage One Documents containing information relating to the value of Pi whether physical or digital, are altered to state that Pi has a value of 3. Calculations performed near SCP-2817 generate values only possible if Pi is 3. Stage Two Macroscopic objects exhibit behavior only possible with an altered value of Pi, spheroid objects volumes and areas are reduced removing excess mass-energy in the form of bursts of gamma radiation at a rate of 243kW. Circles are functionally identical to hexagons at this stage. Stage Three Kepler's Law is altered, reducing the charge that SCP-2817 can carry on its surface causing the release of electrical energy, computers, and other electrical devices fail or explode due to possessing insufficient charge to function. Stage Four Complete collapse of normal reality and mathematics. Changes occur on the atomic level as classical and modern physics are separated, measurements of particle positions and velocities become increasingly inaccurate as the minimum energy state of space decreases. Stage Five Small-scale vacuum meta-stability event. Space within the active area of XXXX drops to the lower energy state releasing 25000TJ of energy in a wave moving at 3X108ms-1 terminating at the edge of the active area.

The latter two stages were discovered while testing small-scale replicas of SCP-XXXX prompting the creation of SCP-XXXX-B.

SCP-XXXX-B is the collective designation for seven (7) Foundation made anomalies designed to counteract the effects of SCP-XXXX. Each instance of SCP-XXXX-B is a white hollow cube, the smallest being 1000 cubic meters in volume. The largest instance, SCP-XXXX-B7 is secure site-XX.

Each instance of SCP-XXXX-B uses the same principles as SCP-XXXX to alter physical laws and constants such that a value of 3.1415 is derived for Pi inside it, locking SCP-XXXX into stage one.

In the event that the current instance of SCP-XXXX-B should fail all staff must be evacuated and procedure 314-Waldo activated, which will active the next available instance.