"The physicists who'd supposedly attested to the breakthrough were all on our plane."

"But the markets would have noticed--"

"In reality they were on our plane.  But their Network accounts and cellular texters had been corrupted, as in, video cameras to intercept their passwords, attackers with screwdrivers and microscopes going over their hardware.  Their accounts were sending emails, attesting to the superconductivity, and they were verifiably on a plane back from a conference when the news supposedly broke, so nobody thought it was odd that they couldn't give in-person interviews right away."

"And nobody thought to check that against the weird little item, probably not even in the news feeds, about how some random flight had partially lost comms and was diverting along an emergency route.  It looked like the physicists were in contact."

"The physicists who'd supposedly attested to the breakthrough were all on our plane."

"But the markets would have noticed, if nobody could reach--"

"In reality they were on our plane.  But their Network accounts and cellular texters had been corrupted, as in, video cameras to intercept their passwords, attackers with screwdrivers and microscopes going over their hardware.  Their accounts were sending emails, attesting to the superconductivity, and they were verifiably on a plane back from a conference when the news supposedly broke, so nobody thought it was odd that they couldn't give in-person interviews right away."

"And nobody thought to check that against the weird little item, probably not even in the news feeds, about how some random flight had partially lost comms and was diverting along an emergency route.  It looked like the physicists were in contact."

"The physicists who'd supposedly attested to the breakthrough were all on our plane."

"But the markets would have noticed, if nobody could reach--"

"In reality they were on our plane.  But their Network accounts and cellular texters had been corrupted, as in, video cameras to intercept their passwords, attackers with screwdrivers and microscopes going over their hardware, the cellular texters they have with them on board the plane are custom-built proxies to their real texters being hidden elsewhere.  The kind of attack that's basically not possible to defend against in real life.  Their accounts were sending emails, attesting to the superconductivity, and they were verifiably on a plane back from a conference when the news supposedly broke, so nobody thought it was odd that they couldn't give in-person interviews right away.  That's what journalists and chroniclers and other scientists saw; their personal friends saw, 'Sorry I'm on a plane very busy right now' and didn't think to ask deep personal questions for identity verification."

"And nobody thought to check that against the weird little item, probably not even in the news feeds, about how some random flight had partially lost comms and was diverting along an emergency route.  It looked like the physicists were in contact."

"The physicists who'd supposedly verified and attested the breakthrough as third parties were all on our plane."

"But the markets would have noticed, if nobody could reach--"

"In reality they were on our plane.  But their Network accounts and cellular texters had been corrupted, as in, video cameras to intercept their passwords, attackers with screwdrivers and microscopes going over their hardware, the cellular texters they have with them on board the plane are custom-built proxies to their real texters being hidden elsewhere.  The kind of attack that's basically not possible to defend against in real life.  Their accounts were sending emails, attesting to the superconductivity, and they were verifiably on a plane back from a conference when the news supposedly broke, so nobody thought it was odd that they couldn't give in-person interviews right away.  That's what journalists and chroniclers and other scientists saw; their personal friends saw, 'Sorry I'm on a plane very busy right now' and didn't think to ask deep personal questions for identity verification."

"And nobody thought to check that against the weird little item, probably not even in the news feeds, about how some random flight had partially lost comms and was diverting along an emergency route.  It looked like the physicists were in contact."