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Cass has stumbled on something that might be an entirely different type of physics, and she s travelled three hundred an. The title, schilds ladder, is taken from a method in differential geometry which is used to approximate the parallel transport of a vector along a curve. Unlike the people in this room, who all want exactly the same things in life as i do, and have precisely the same tastes in food, art, music, and sex. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading schilds. Plot summary this novel is perhaps the hardest science fiction ever published by egan, filled with nontrivial mathematics and. Unlike some of his other books, this also ends on a very positive note. For twenty thousand years, every observable phenomenon in the universe has been successfully explained by the sarumpaet. The story line is cleverly designed to run faster than the speed of light yet maintains a cerebral moral fiber to the. Twentythousand years in the future, cass, a humanoid physicist from earth, travels to an orbital station in the vicinity of the star mimosa, and begins a. Greg egan became the hottest new sciencefiction author of the 1990s and won the hugo and john w. The book derives its name from schilds ladder, a construction in differential. For twenty thousand years, every observable phenomenon in the universe has been successfully explained by the sarumpaet rules. This time im actually unsure whether its worth the effort, to try to understand what hes saying.
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