At some point during that fateful lunch, "Bog" departed from the table silently with a string of enriched pasta characters left behind in pure mathematical language which translated roughly as "we have a problem." Nine days later he emerged from his office looking exhausted and haggard, but claiming to have made some headway toward a solution. Assembling a small team, they devoted the next three months to formulating a theory based on their findings, which would have been impossible without data collected from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in the Chilean Andes, in an unrelated experiment concerning the symmetry of empty space. The researchers on this project could not have known their data would contribute to perhaps the most significant scientific finding since Newton's discovery of Gravity.

"I think it's incredible. Just amazing," said a flustered Lawrence Filibender, a 2nd-year Physics and Astronomy major at the University of Waterloo. "This changes everything. Think about it! Every experiment ever done by anyone – their measurements need to be corrected now that we know the Universe is 1 bog to the left of where we thought it was." Filibender proceeded to vomit on the Perimeter Institute's atrium floor and then politely excuse himself.

However, not everyone is equally enthusiastic. "All I want is some credit, man," said Keith Harris, chief custodian whose team was responsible for cleaning the facility the night before Skorobogatov's discovery and who was more currently responsible for cleaning up the overly-enthusiastic Mr. Filibender's thrown-up breakfast. "It's enough that I moved the guy's table the night before he came up with this brilliant theory," continued Harris, pausing with mop in hand, "but forget about that – I've been saying the same thing as him for at least two years." Harris joined the Perimeter Institute custodial staff in 2002 and was attracted because of his hobby fascination with cosmology. "I read that Carl Sagan [sic.] book about time – what's it called… ah, you know the one. Anyway I read that thing and one morning I'm taking some aluminum out of the microwave and it just occurs to me: how do we know we are where they say we are? I mean, think about this: what if it's actually yesterday? All I'm saying to that Skorobov [sic.] character is one thing: give credit where it's due, man. Give credit where it's due."