História curta - Crianças geniais criadas na instituição, inventam muitas coisas e se isolam na bolha do tempo

"Os primeiros homens" aka "The Trap ", uma novela de 1960 de Howard Fast ; Publicado pela primeira vez em A Revista de Fantasia e Ficção Científica , Fevereiro de 1960 , disponível no Arquivo da Internet ; texto completo disponível em EclectiCity de Trussel . Foi também a resposta à velha questão Estou procurando uma pequena história sobre crianças super inteligentes / telepáticas . Você pode ter lido em uma destas estas antologias .

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Fast's story is about how a group of scientists and educators, through a controlled environment, succeed in raising naturally gifted children into "man-plus"—people who possess comparatively super-human abilities. They possess unparalleled understanding of all technical subjects such as math, physics and unlock natural telepathy. They also excel at physical endeavors, such as sports and break numerous physical records.

Their controlled environment, an isolated compound in California comprising 8,000 acres (32 km²), is a government sponsored facility granted for the raising of the children. The scientists were given fifteen years, later extended by three more years and a few weeks, to experimentally raise the children. By a very early age, the children surpass their teachers' knowledge.

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Near the end of the fifteenth year, realizing that their experiment is about to be investigated, Jean worries what may happen to the children, now young adults, when the government discovers them. The experiment was a success—too much of a success. Not only have they raised mentally gifted people, they have given rise to a new race of super-intelligent demigods. Jean fears—correctly—that the government will react with fear and destroy the advanced super-race. The children, though incredibly advanced, are incapable of violence, even in self-defense.

Jean is able to obtain a three-year extension, and then another of a few weeks when the three years expires. In that time, the children, now able to telepathically reach the entire Earth's population, build a defense mechanism which resulted in the gray barrier Eggerton described. Jean reveals that the barrier is based on time: the Earth outside the shield is a fraction of a millisecond in the future. They can pass outside without any difficulty. And though they can also get back in, Jean doesn't disclose how this is done.

Estou razoavelmente certo de que você está procurando por um livro de Stephen Baxter. Qual deles é um pouco mais difícil de definir, porque ele usa o Super Intelligent Children, sendo arredondado e inventado várias vezes.

Neste caso, é mais provável que eu tenha um bom tempo para Manifold Time , não é um curto história, mas o pouco sobre as crianças "azuis" é um sub-enredo que poderia ter feito isso se sentir como um.

The book begins at the end of space and time, when the last descendants of humanity face an infinite but pointless existence. Due to proton decay the physical universe has collapsed, but some form of intelligence has survived by embedding itself into a lossless computing substrate where it can theoretically survive indefinitely. However, because there will never be new input, eventually all possible thoughts will be exhausted. Some portion of this intelligence decides that this should not have been the ultimate fate of the universe, and takes action to change the past, centering on the early 21st century. The changes come in several forms, including a message to Reid Malenfant, the appearance of super-intelligent children around the world, and the discovery of a mysterious gateway on asteroid 3753 Cruithne.

A série inteira do Manifold tem uma imagem recorrente de um Círculo Azul, que é usado para coisas diferentes em cada livro. Em tempo, as crianças azuis adotam-no como um emblema de seu grupo e, eventualmente, criam uma bolha como a que você descreveu para se separar daqueles que tentam controlá-los.