
Schild's Ladder
Greg Egan
Cass has stumbled on something that might be an entirely different type of physics, and she's travelled three hundred and fifty light-years to Mimosa Station, a remote experimental facility, to test her theory. The novo-vacuum she creates is predicted to begin decaying the instant it's created, but even so short-lived a microscopic speck could shed new light on the origins of the universe. But instead of decaying, Cass's novo-vacuum is wildly successful and begins expanding, slowly but inexorably taking over the universe.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- EOS
- Year
- 2002
- ISBN-13
- 9780575082069
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- Topics
- Origins of the universeFar future civilizationConsequences of scientific experimentation
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(2003)
- Prometheus AwardShortlisted(2003)
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