of the amplification factor. In the event that three or more layers 
overlap while facing the same direction, the weight of SCP-2052 can 
threaten the integrity of supporting structures (see incident log 2052- 
I-3). 


When exposed to typical atmospheric pressures, pressure 
imbalances will propel SCP-2052 in the direction of side B. 
SCP-2052 will fly erratically and at high speed, until impacting a 
solid obstacle capable of resisting pressures of 82 MPa.2 


Discovery Log: SCP-2052 came to the Foundation's attention 
when automated webcrawler CASIMIR-J87 detected anomalous 
watch-phrases in a YouTube video, archived as 2052-V-1, posted by 
user "TeslaFyMe" (later identified as Kyle Wathers of Huddersfield, 
UK). Previous uploads from this account consist of 113 videos, 
primarily centered around the testing and refinement of alleged free- 
energy and perpetual motion devices. Foundation researchers 
reviewing the footage determined that none of the devices shown in 
prior videos produced anomalous behavior. CASIMIR-J87 
successfully removed 2052-V-1 before any users viewed it. 


87% of uploads on Wathers' account contain references to another 
user by the name of "Discord_33", with whom Wathers appears to 
have shared a personal friendship. Videos on this account employ a 
variety of face and voice disguising technologies that have 
prevented the Foundation from determining the user's identity. 
Content is typically of a theoretical nature, and includes several 
lectures on engineering techniques which are known to the 
Foundation to produce anomalous effects. These lectures are 
worded in ways that prevented detection by CASIMIR-J87, 
apparently by design. Investigation into possible leaks in the 
CASIMIR program is ongoing. 


Upon discovery of their anomalous content, Foundation agents 
attempted to delete all videos posted by user Discord_33, but found 
that they had already been deleted. 


Video Transcript 2052-V-1 


[Wathers is seated at a desk in a residential 
garage; this setting has been used in 82 of his 


previous videos. Several previously-shown 
devices are visible on a workbench against the 
opposite wall, and have been moved aside to 
make room for a short cylindrical chamber, 
approximately 70 cm in diameter and 20 cm in 
height. This chamber has been designated 
SCP-2052-1.] 


00:00 - Hi guys, sorry | haven't posted any 
videos lately, I've been dealing with a lot of 
real life stuff recently and haven't had as much 
time for the vlog as I'd like. Some of you know 
what I'm talking about, | know Discord does, 
but | won't bore everyone else with, uh, the 
grisly details. If you're really interested, | guess 
hit me up on Skype or something. 


00:22 - So | got a lot of questions on my last 
video about what kind of magnets | was using, 
and a lot of the usual ignorant comments 
about how | don't understand physics or 
thermodynamics or whatever, so let me just go 
through and, um, | guess address some of 
those issues. 

00:42 - 09:40 [Irrelevant data omitted; subject 
responded to comments on previous videos. 
Full transcript available as document 2052- 
V-1F. -Dr. Collier] 


09:41 - So | was looking at Discord's last 
video. By the way, dude, "diction-obscuring 
filters"? [laughs] Really? | know the corporate 
giants want to suppress this stuff, but that's 
just getting silly. Nobody cares how often you 
say "is" or "of". Anyway, it got me thinking 
about quantum vacuum energy again. Yes, | 
know I've been harping on about that since 
forever, but | think you'll forgive me once | 
show you my results. If I'm understanding the 
physics right, a discontinuity in the quantum 


vacuum would act as sort of a one-way street. 
So I'll go over the math in my next video if it 
works as well as | think, but for now it's easiest 
if | just show you my setup. 


[Subject picks up the camera and carries it to 
the workbench, focusing on SCP-2052-1. 
Several wires are now visible extending from 
the back of the chamber, leading to a nearby 
oscilloscope and a control panel. Subject 
proceeds to open the lid, revealing a series of 
electromagnets surrounding the interior, 
alternating with additional devices of 
unidentifed purpose. The bottom half of the 
chamber is filled with an unidentified clear 
liquid.3 A silk square is suspended from the 
sides of the chamber on a grate roughly level 
with the surface of the liquid.] 


11:03 - I've already done the tricky part, 
because you need to have a zero-point 
membrane that doesn't conduct electricity, but 
it turns out silk works pretty well for that. You 
just have to expose it to [REDACTED] and 
then leave it out to dry for a few hours. Discord 
has a great video on how to do that. Once it's 
dry, just put it in the activation chamber, and 
make sure it's only partially submerged. If both 
sides are exposed you'll defeat the whole point 
and have to start all over again. [Subject 
replaces the lid and activates a switch. A low 
hum is audible.] Now, in theory, all you have to 
do is dial in the right resonant frequency, and 
you should see the reaction right away. 


13:47 - 14:16 [Subject slowly rotates a dial. 
The oscilloscope shows slight disturbances at 
unpredictable intervals, increasing in 
frequency and intensity until peaking at 
roughly 14:12.] 


14:17 - Okay, | think that's all the reaction I'm 
going to get this time. | think | need to align the 
Tesla emitters a little more carefully to get the 
resonance clean enough. But it's pretty clear 
something really wants to happen right at this 
specific frequency, and that means I'm on to 
something. And, you know, if this stuff works, 
it'll do a lot more than free energy - you could 
make a glove out of it, and mold steel with 
your bare hands. Um, | guess it's not your bare 
hands in that case. Whatever, you know what | 
mean. We wouldn't need any dangerous 
heavy-duty machinery any more. Which 
probably means all the big manufacturing 
companies are in on this too, along with the oil 
cartels. So if | just up and disappear 
mysteriously tomorrow, well, you guys know 
what happened. 


15:20 - | guess that's all | have for now. 
Thanks for the well wishes from everybody, 
hopefully | can get back to regular updates. 
Oh, and don't forget to like. 


Recovery Log: At 10:15 AM 8/7/20 , shortly before the arrival of 
Foundation agents, local police responded to reports of a series of 
loud explosions in Wathers' neighborhood. Foundation operatives 
administered class-C amnestics to all witnesses, and planted cover 
stories explaining the damage as the result of a natural gas leak. 
Investigation confirmed that the damage began in a garage 
identified as the one appearing in 2052-V-1. SCP-2052-1 was still 
present, and had a large puncture consistent with pressures of 

82 MPa applied over a limited area. SCP-2052 appears to have 
exited through the west-facing wall, and followed a flight path 
passing through three nearby houses, a telephone pole, and an 
SUV, in unknown order before impacting the ground and coming to 
a stop at a depth of 3 meters. Only minor injuries were reported. 
Forensic analysis indicates that this event lasted approximately 7 
seconds. 


Foundation recovery teams were able to transfer SCP-2052 to a 
vacuum chamber for transport to Site- . SCP-2052-1 was also 
recovered; however, researchers were unable to reproduce its 
anomalous effects. 


Foundation spyware installed on Wathers' laptop succeeded in 
activating the attached webcam and recording for the duration of the 
event. 


Video Transcript 2052-V-2 


00:00 - [Webcam is placed on a desk facing 
Wathers' workbench. Wathers is seated at the 
workbench at the left edge of the frame, and is 
rotating a dial in a similar manner to that seen 
in 2052-V-1. Notably, the oscilloscope shows 
much steadier readings of a higher 
magnitude. ] 


00:05 - [A loud crash is heard. The webcam is 
knocked off the desk and now dangles from a 
USB cable, facing a wall.] 


00:06 - 00:13 [Several more loud crashes, 
more distant. ] 


00:14 - 00:25 [Silence] 


00:26 - 02:15 [Rapid pacing is heard along 
with shallow breathing, interspersed with 
occasional deep breaths] 


02:16 - 02:28 [Sounds of metallic objects being 
moved. Wathers replaces the webcam on the 
desk, briefly exposing his hands to the 
camera. Shaking is visible consistent with 
extreme anxiety. Camera now faces a different 
wall.] 


02:29 - 03:12 [Pacing resumes. Wathers 
briefly exits the garage, then returns, repeating 


this behavior twice.] 
03:13 [A car is heard pulling into the driveway.] 
03:18 - Unidentified voice: Are you okay? 


03:21 - Wathers: |, uh, | think so. Are you here 
to arrest me? 


03:26 - Unidentified: No, I'm Discord. The 
police will be here in- 


03:30 - Wathers: What? No you aren't. 


03:35 - Unidentified: | told you | disguise my 
face for videos, right? 


[3 Ss pause] 


03:46 - Wathers: That's impossible, do you 
really think I'll believe - 


03:51 - Unidentified: You just launched a 
Kleenex through three houses, and you don't 
believe in video editing? 


03:57 - Wathers: That's not funny. 


04:02 - Unidentified: | know. And I'm sorry. But 
I'm kind of in a hurry here. Because now you 
know that free energy is real, and - 


04:10 - Wathers: | believed in it before. 


04:13 - Unidentified: Don't kid yourself. 
Nobody really believes it, deep down, until 
they see it firsthand. What's important is, now 
that you know, that means you know the 
coverup is real too. And when the police figure 
out what happened here, they’'// know that you 
know. Can you guess what happens then? 


04:31 - Wathers: Well, what are you 
suggesting? | just go into hiding? Spend the 
rest of my life in your basement, watching, like, 
daytime TV? 


04:42 - Unidentified: No, | mean you take the 
fight to the conspiracy. We have a private lab, 
where you can help us build machines that will 


04:54 - Wathers: Wait, we? 


04:57 - Unidentified: It's complicated, but I'll 
explain when we get there. 


[4 s pause] 


05:05 - Wathers: You really think | could help 
take down the oil cartels? 


05:11 - Unidentified: | promise everything you 
build will be used against the people behind 
the coverup. 


Addendum 2052-A-1: On 11/26/20 , hostile forces attempting to 
seize SCP- assaulted Site- using four steel slabs of mass 2.4 x 
104 kg, which possessed properties similar to SCP-2052. Three of 
these objects were recovered by the hostile forces, and the 
remaining one self-destructed and could not be recovered for 
analysis. The investigation into Kyle Wathers and his associate has 
been upgraded to a level-3 priority. 


Footnotes 

1. "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction." 
2. 810 times atmospheric pressure 

3. Image analysis indicates a refractive index 28% higher than 
water. 


« SCP-2051 | SCP-2052 | SCP-2053 » 


SCP-2053: Paternal Rubik's Cube 


Item #: SCP-2053 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2053-1 is keptina 
standard containment locker at Site- . SCP-2053-2 is to be stored 
on a 2 GB flash drive in the same containment locker as 
SCP-2053-1. Once a month, one Level-2 researcher is to remove 
SCP-2053-1 from this locker and attempt to rotate the object's faces. 
If unsuccessful, the object is to be returned to the locker. If rotation 
is successful, testing will resume under the direction of Dr. Boone. 


Description: SCP-2053-1 is a puzzle cube measuring 
approximately 5.7cm along each exterior edge. It is physically 
identical to a standard Rubik's brand puzzle cube. SCP-2053-1 can 
be solved in the same way that a non-anomalous Rubik's Cube can 
be solved, by rotating its various faces until all the stickers on each 
distinct face of the cube are identical in color. The object shows 
signs of wear and tear, presumably an indication of heavy use; 
however, tests show that the stickers themselves have never been 
removed. 


Occasionally, SCP-2053-1 will enter an active state, during which 
the object's faces will begin to rotate of their own accord at 
approximately three rotations per second. After the object has 
completed several of these rotations, it will enter a passive state for 
approximately twenty seconds, during which the faces will remain in 
this permutation. The object will then become active again, and 
return to its base "solved" state, at which point it will become 
dormant once more. 


SCP-2053-2 is a computer file labeled 
"|_love_you_jake_please_read_this.pdf". The metadata associated 
with the file show that it is 1.21 MB in size, and it can be stored on 
any digital media with that amount of available storage; however, the 


number of pages contained within the document far surpasses the 
number that should be possible of a file this size. When opened by a 
PDF-capable program, the resulting document contains exactly 
43252003274489856000 pages; Foundation analysts estimate that 
a non-anomalous PDF document of this length would occupy 
approximately 2.1 yottabytes (2.1 trillion terabytes) of storage space. 


Each page of the document depicts a two-dimensional polyhedral 
net equivalent to a three-dimensional Rubik's Cube. The diagram on 
each page is colored in such a way that it corresponds to a possible 
permutation of SCP-2053-1. Displayed below each diagram is an 
English phrase or sentence in a nondescript black typeface. Using 
computing assets obtained from Inc., personnel assigned to 
SCP-2053 have created a digital database containing all of these 
diagrams and their corresponding phrases. Of note is the fact that 
the number of pages in SCP-2053-2 exactly matches the number of 
possible arrangements of SCP-2053-1. This implies that, for every 
possible permutation, there is a corresponding phrase. By physically 
rotating the faces of the cube to match a permutation contained 
within SCP-2053-2, communication with SCP-2053-1 is possible, 
using the phrases given in the document. 


+ Interview Log 2053-01 
Interview Log 2053-01 


Notes: For the purposes of this experiment 
(and subsequent interviews), Dr. Boone has 
set up a device which quickly analyzes each 
passive state permutation of SCP-2053-1, and 
cross-references this against the contents of 
SCP-2053-2 to produce the corresponding 
phrase. At the same time, another program is 
used to search SCP-2053-2 for specific 
desired phrases, such as "WHAT IS YOUR 
NAME", and translates these phrases back 
into their corresponding permutations. These 
two programs are used in tandem, essentially 
to decode incoming communications from 
SCP-2053-1, and to encode phrases directed 
at SCP-2053-1. This allows Dr. Boone to open 


a dialogue with SCP-2053-1, to determine the 
nature of the entity associated with it. All of the 
phrases used during this initial interview 
appear in SCP-2053-2; capitalization and 
spelling have not been altered. 


Dr. Boone: HELLO 

SCP-2053-1: JAKE 

Dr. Boone: HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS 
SCP-2053-1: IS THAT YOU JAKE 

Dr. Boone: YES 

SCP-2053-1: ITS ME YOUR DAD 

Dr. Boone: HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS 
SCP-2053-1: | LOVE YOU JAKE 

Dr. Boone: | LOVE YOU DAD 
SCP-2053-1: | AM SO HAPPY JAKE 

Dr. Boone: WHAT IS GOING ON 


SCP-2053-1: YOU HAVE NEVER TALKED 
TO ME BEFORE 


Dr. Boone: | AM SORRY 


SCP-2053-1: | AM SO HAPPY THIS 
WORKED 


Dr. Boone: WHAT WORKED 


SCP-2053-1: | FINALLY FOUND A WAY TO 
TALK TO YOU 


Dr. Boone: WHAT DO YOU MEAN 


SCP-2053-1: THE DOCTORS SAID YOU 
WOULD PROBABLY NEVER TALK AGAIN 


SCP-2053-1: AFTER THE ACCIDENT WITH 
YOUR MOM 


Dr. Boone: THE ACCIDENT 
SCP-2053-1: | AM SO SORRY JAKE 


SCP-2053-1: ALL | EVER WANTED WAS TO 
TELL YOU 


Dr. Boone: TELL ME WHAT 


SCP-2053-1: | LOVE YOU AND | AM SO 
SORRY 


Dr. Boone: ITS OK 


SCP-2053-1: THIS IS THE MOST YOU HAVE 
EVER TALKED TO ANYONE THERE ARE SO 
MANY THINGS | WANT TO ASK YOU 


At this point, Dr. Boone ceases 
communication.