When Worlds Collide

An orbital research station created a wormhole that pulled the station into a parallel universe. The station found itself orbiting an alternative Earth with 99.9 % parity to its original Earth. After spending several months studying their new home safely from their orbital station, the research team had enough sensor data of the planet, solar system, and the surrounding cosmos to determine that there were minor cosmic changes with the planets of the solar system.

The stranded researchers became colonists who landed in a region of what would have been Germany on their original Earth. This was just a couple hundred miles south of the Great European Ice Sheet and located on a basalt ramp formed by a lava tube that had flowed out from a now-extinct volcano. The story details the colonist struggle for survival to establish a viable settlement with the additional problem of their electronic components being incompatible with the native electricity of the new universe, making electronics unusable.

After some time, they discover that specific laws of physics are different in this alternative universe. They can interact with their environment directly with psychokinesis, telepathically, or in other ways depending on each person’s innate personality characteristics. Some colonists seem able to affect gravity, electricity, or life force energy. As time passed, they discovered more powers or gifts that manifested in this new universe.