“These were stunning thoughts—that Caroline and I were already parents, that Daphne was not the anomaly but the rule, and that the only weird circumstance would be the unexplained break in the membrane keeping these different realities separate.”
― The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel
― The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel
“The confrontation between the protesters, the police, and the army had gone on all night. The police made arrests.”
― The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel
― The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel
“reviewed these implications in my mind, assuring myself that I understood what I had just read: Daphne was a set of possibilities, and each possibility became manifest in a new universe when the universe branched off, as Borges had said it would. But once this new universe branched off, it could never interact with the previous universe. They split completely. But the question still remained: why could I interact with all four?”
― The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel
― The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel
“But poor Everett had been ostracized for his elegant and daring theory and forced to leave physics.”
― The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel
― The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel
“Then the outstanding variable would not be Daphne, it would be you and your ability to see these realities. What if we are all part of realities we never know? What if you and I are already married with three children in an alternate universe?”
― The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel
― The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel
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