Tomorrow's Yesterdays

2019 C.E.
When an asteroid strike causes a major disaster in Boston, it forces physicist Ben Shore to rethink his life and purpose. Together with his step-sister and mathematics whiz, Nicky, and orphaned early-teen hacker, Jessie, he embarks on a quest to find a way to avert similar or worse disasters from happening. Ben's attempts to create a new physics change their world forever and turn their basic assumptions about reality on their head.

But they only realize just how little they understand the full implications of their work, when Frank, Ben's former collaborator, has Ben kidnapped in order to force him to reveal what Ben has secretly been working on. Frank's action brings unexpected visitors from two different times of the future into the present.

Now they all need to work together to ensure that the future they know actually comes into existence, while at the same time avoiding the paradoxes that the multiverse and time travel produce, and which may destroy everything they are hoping to achieve—and quite possibly tear their families apart.

Tomorrow's Yesterdays is about love, family, personhood, artificial intelligence, time, the multiverse, and the true meaning of 'and'.

Note 1:

Many of the ideas explored in here were inspired by David Deutsch and his two books, The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity; with extensive artistic license of course, which implies that they’re meant to be imaginative/explorative, with lots of not exactly-adhering-to-real-science speculations and mixing together a wide range of hypotheses, all grounded in the concept of an infinitely-dimensioned block multiverse composed of universes that have -∞< t >+∞, with ‘t’ not being ‘passing time’, but merely an index of discrete frames of the movie-like strips that constitute the histories of the respective universes. I also make extensive use of the scientifically unsupported notion that quantum events, processes and philosophical concepts have mirror images on the macroscopic scale.

While I take some of the suggestions made in this story seriously, the truth is that some of the quantum logic related things simply aren’t going to work without some more tweaking. Therefore, it may be that in due course I’ll do a massive rewrite of at least elements of this story, even though its essence won’t change. A little like what what was done to Continuity Slip during the more than two decades after it was first published. That’s what happens when one tries to weave evolving science and technology into ‘science fiction’: like science—as well as any technology derived from science— it must evolve and change.

Note 2:

This novel contains love scenes with mildly explicit sexual elements.

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