Introducing Zirth

When Kiviuq Orion applied for a job giving intelligence tests to a sample of every life-form in the universe, he never thought he would come across any so ill-informed and ignorant as those he found on the planet Earth. And when Oberon Furrow, the unsuspecting human that Kiviuq tested first, answered innocently that the universe had only three dimensions, he never suspected that any ten-dimensional aliens could take offence. Thankfully the alien in question is far from hostile, and is willing to demonstrate to Oberon the true vastness of the cosmos, in return for an insight into that curious concept of the perception of 'time'. Meanwhile, the foundations of human society are falling apart, but it won't take much to convince them that it's time to give everything a thorough rethink, surely? It would merely be necessary to introduce them to Zirth...