Newton's third law was not to be denied, however, and so the teacher's leg likewise smashed into splinters. Then, as he landed on the floor, his other leg broke as well.

The floor also shattered, and he fell into the store-room below, landing on a pile of discarded PE kits. An ominous creak emanated from the walls of the school, and...

...., with staff and kids rushing from the building, one entire side collapsed with a heavy steel joist landing on a....

...drum of highly explosive chemicals, which detonated violently, spraying debris across a wide area. The resulting fumes and dust cloud...

...started to corrode the wires on a high-tension electric pylon, which caused a short...

...-circuit that cut power to the whole of Bracknell.

What Bracknell does today the rest of the world does tomorrow and the resulting surge in the Grid plunged large areas of southern England into darkness and chaos, in particular....

...the pumps for the cooling water for the reactor at Sizewell B, which rapidly reached a point of imminent chain reaction.

... Swindon, but nobody there noticed, as traffic whirled in disorganized clusters around multi-island roundabouts and ...

...finally exploding and spreading a massive cloud of fallout which was large enough to divert air flows in the global conveyer...

....belt with the result that Norway became a tropical paradise, its inhabitants former sobriety being transformed into a volatile mixture of violence and territorial greed ultimately resulting in...

...their invasion of North America, now known as the United States of Norway (Including Canada). Several countries elsewhere in the world expressed great alarm at this military action, resulting in...