New Book

Well, I'm back. I was gone to Minnesota this weekend and while I was there, I bought a couple books to help me out with my quest. I started to read one of them and I must admit, it's quite interesting.

Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan is set in the future. Not the few hundred years into the future like most authors use when they write sci-fi books. Egan takes us 20, 000 years into the future. So far, the book is somewhat confusing. The first chapters are practically nothing but a bunch of quantam mechanics and why some of it works. Then, there comes the twist.

The author departs from the conventional q.m. theories and starts talking about a Quantum Graph Theory. While Q.G.T. is a real thing, Egan's version is purely ficticious. Nonetheless, this theory basically tells us that you can predict the kind of space (vaccuum) that will be formed in these different instances by using graphs.

Have I lost everyone yet? If I have, don't feel bad, I am still lost on all of this.

Although it is difficult to understand what Mr. Egan is trying to tell us at times, the book is so far a good read. From what I have read so far, I'm going to give it 4 stars.