{"id":531,"date":"2016-11-12T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T20:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2016-11-12T17:23:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T01:23:30","slug":"schrodingers-cat-trilogy-robert-anton-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>book 47\/48\/49 &#8211; Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Confession: I bought this book years ago, thinking it was &#8220;In Search Of Schrodinger&#8217;s Cat&#8221; by John Gribbin, a book about quantum theory and reality that I keep lending to people and losing. When I realized it was definitely not the John Gribbin version, I decided to keep it and see if one day I might actually read it. Well, I finally picked it up as part of this year long reading challenge, and it actually turns out to be a science fiction trilogy, loosely based on 3 different models of quantum theory. (The fact that it&#8217;s actually a trilogy means I am counting it as three books, even though they&#8217;ve all been bound into a single volume. It&#8217;s a bit of a cheat, but I&#8217;m taking it. So there.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Universe Next Door is based on the many worlds interpretation of quantum theory, where it seems the characters in the book occasionally &#8220;drift&#8221; between universes. Or not. It&#8217;s kind of hard to tell.<\/li>\n<li>The Trick Top Hat is a story in which the characters are connected through the principle of non-locality. When their cross paths they become joined in quantum entanglement. At least, this is what I read in a review. It is also moderately pornographic. In one scene, a character volunteers at a sex clinic where she gratifies herself using a machine that consists of the amputated penis of another character who underwent gender transformation surgery. I kid you not.<\/li>\n<li>The Homing Pigeons is based on the Copenhagen interpretation, wherein the observer causes the collapse of the quantum probability wave. At least, this must be what it&#8217;s about, because by process of elimination it&#8217;s the only remaining theory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seriously this pseudo-trilogy is one of the strangest books I have ever read. To be fair, The Universe Next Door was actually kind of intriguing, and I didn&#8217;t dislike it (which doesn&#8217;t mean that I understood it). But the other two &#8230; wow! Totally weird.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: Skip it. Unless you absolutely have to &#8220;see for yourself&#8221;, in which case you can have my copy if you want it.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-574\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?attachment_id=574\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"574\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?attachment_id=574\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_42001-e1478999416628.jpg?fit=240%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"240,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1478882808&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_4200\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_42001-e1478999416628.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_42001-e1478999416628.jpg?fit=240%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-574\" title=\"IMG_4200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_42001-e1478999416628-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_42001-e1478999416628.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_42001-e1478999416628.jpg?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>book 47\/48\/49 &#8211; Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Cat Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson Confession: I bought this book years ago, thinking it was &#8220;In Search Of Schrodinger&#8217;s Cat&#8221; by John Gribbin, a book about quantum theory and reality that I keep lending to people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8xTNS-8z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}