Science-Fiction Experiment with Prisms and Rainbows

It was public knowledge that light refracts through transparent objects, resulting in a visible spectrum of color, but what if one could do the same with matter?

This was the idea that Dr. Mary Magedala posits.

By subjects a slab of compressed carbon to intense quantum radiation, she had created a new, diamond-like mineral that can separate matter as though it were light. It looked like a glass prism, but its density was trapped in a state of quantum uncertainty. Anything that touches it is absorbed into the crystal and is replicated a dozen times over on the other side, each a statistically possible version of the original object, their distinct differences separated by differing probabel versions of the same object measured in planck time.

She had done the impossible and broken the Law of Conservation of Mass by creating what was essentially an instant cloning device.

She called it Project LIGHT, or simply "The Prism."

Every magazine -- both scientific and cultural -- had her face on it for several months. News stations and celebrity youtubers all did recordings of what people called "The Apple Test", where she would throw a basket's worth of apples through the the prism, one at a time, and by the end half the room was full of apples in every color of the rainbow.

That was another thing: the clones were all distinct from one another in that they were dyed different colors of the rainbow. She had no explanation as to why, all organic material showing no differences in DNA, chemical structure or atomic structure. They were just... different colors.

She has mostly been working with synthetic material and plant matter, and she was waiting for approval to begin animal testing.

And then human testing.

To say that she was anticipating the day when she herself could step through it was a breathtaking proposition.

Things were looking up.