“Chronicles of the Lost Constellations: A Star Map Leading to Forgotten Cosmic Realms. Wait, so constellations can change?”

“The precession of the equinoxes. The proper motion of the stars. Earth’s axis wobbles on a 26,000-year cycle, and the stars are, all of them, in motion with regard to the earth. What we believe is fixed and immutable has changed within the span of recorded history, albeit only slightly, and it will change again.”

“So what’s the big deal, then?”

“This text chronicles lost constellations and asterisms, collections of stars in configurations that they could never have had in human history. In fact, my own computer modeling indicates that this book contains constellations that would have only been visible during the Ediacaran period, the first great explosion of multicellular life on this planet.”

“Are you saying…that this book was written in the Ediacaran?”

“Of course not. Look at it! It’s made of wood pulp and iron gall ink, and the Ediacaran was close to 100 million years earlier than the Ordovician period–to say nothing of the further 100 million needed to get to the Devonian period and trees. Anyone with the proper training could have backdated the existing constellations to this configuration, but why?”

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