Laurel Brett

“Everett’s model insisted that I could never get two of the girls together. The laws of physics as described by Schrödinger’s equation, and interpreted by Everett’s hypothesis, prohibited it. That much I understood, but then why could one Daphne see another’s portrait? Why had one Daphne glimpsed another at a school teach-in? Why could I see all four? Which reality was I in?”
― Laurel Brett, The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel

“was grandiose enough to wonder if I had found a glitch in the space-time continuum. Of course, I also questioned if everything I had discovered about Daphne could exist only in my own mind. I had to reject that idea when I remembered the snapshot, the guidance counselors, the Green portraits—all the manifestations of multiple Daphnes that existed in the real world, even if I was the only one of billions of people to know the reality of the Schrödinger girl.”
― Laurel Brett, The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel

“while lecturing in Ireland, where the scientist repatriated, Schrödinger had announced that although the audience might think him crazy, his equations led to the strong possibility of simultaneous realities. So here it is in black and white! Schrödinger had actually predicted the possibility of simultaneous incarnations of Daphne.”
― Laurel Brett, The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel

“The confrontation between the protesters, the police, and the army had gone on all night. The police made arrests.”
― Laurel Brett, The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel