I love it. Your writing style is impeccable. Reminds me of James Rollins. As for the storyline, maybe you can write about the collapse of multiple realities due to the failure of the device, or maybe it can be a crime story where criminals are jumping between realities to escape death sentences, or perhaps the bridging of multiple realities caused some weird anomalies to appear in the current reality.
There is a lot of potential to this prologue.
I'm looking forward to reading the next piece.