The Pause: Something Out There Pressed Pause

Something strange has happened in the laboratory. Every Geiger counter has gone silent, every isotope has gone inert, and every trace of radioactivity-everywhere on Earth-has vanished. Physicist Alexander Johannison watches the instruments go dead, but the real horror begins when he finds the books themselves rewritten and his colleagues unable to remember that radioactivity ever existed. The world's knowledge has been edited, its history rewritten in real time.

In Isaac Asimov's The Pause, ...