A romanização oficial contém uma explicação absolutamente desconcertante. Em suma, o "Efeito Gênesis" cria uma matriz que envolve o planetoide. Que de alguma forma inclui a fabricação de um sol em miniatura.
A forest stretched into the distance, filling the shell of the lifeless planetoid that had been Regulus I. It was the most beautiful place he had ever seen, a storybook forest from children's tales. The gnarled trees showed immense age and mystery. The grass in the meadow at the foot of the cliff was as smooth and soft as green velvet, sprinkled with wildflowers of delicate blue and violent orange. Where the shadow of the forest began, Jim half expected to glimpse a flash of white, a unicorn fleeing his gaze.
He looked at Carol, who leaned against the cliff next to the tunnel entrance, her arms folded. She smiled.
"You did this in a day?" Jim said.
"The matrix forms in a day. The life forms take a little longer. Not much, though." She grinned. "Now do you believe I can cook?"
He gazed out, fascinated at her world. "How far does it go?"
"All the way around," she said. "The rotation of the planet gives us some radial acceleration to act in place of gravity, to probably forty-five degrees above and below the equator. I expect things get a little strange out at the poles." She pointed past the sun. "A stress field keeps the star in place. It's an extreme variable; twelve hours out of twenty-four, it dims down to give some night. Makes a very pretty moon."
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A world has formed; the Genesis wave is still resonating within the nebula, forming a new sun to give the world light and sustain its life. Soon the wave will die away, and the universe will have another star system. But it will be one among millions, one among billions, and you taught me to value uniqueness. Your uniqueness is gone."
A luz que estamos vendo é a luz de fora da caverna brilhando para dentro ao invés de uma luz dentro da própria caverna.