Gemotions

The headline glared back at Sophia from the website: "New Breakthrough in Quantum Physics - by Dr. Alistair Finch." Her carefully constructed research, her groundbreaking discoveries, were now attributed to someone else. She felt a chilling emptiness creep into her bones.

She sat frozen, her fingers twitching uncontrollably. She'd spent years on this project, sacrificing sleep, social life, and sanity. To have it ripped away like this… it felt like a betrayal.

She let out a shaky breath, then quickly opened her research folder. She began to scan through every document, every note, every calculation. She tried to find something, *anything*, that would offer some kind of explanation for this bewildering state of affairs.