@futurebird Stephen Baxter has a short story called "Touching Centauri" (part of his "Phase Space" collection published in 2003). It has a *very* similar premise and it stuck with me ever since I read it:
e-reading.mobi/chapter.php/103…
https://mastodon.xyz/@lamnatos/113612301026584609
https://www.e-reading.mobi/chapter.php/1035265/30/stephen-baxter-phase-space.html
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