THE ATLAS OF ALTERNATE REALITIES is a hybrid literary work mixing fiction and nonfiction to paint a unified picture of the size and shape of the entire Universe and to pinpoint humanity's place inside it.
I chose a hybrid literary format because it's more fun to walk someone through a new idea rather than to just talk about it. Selections include includes everything from a broadcast of the Dr. Phil Show from pre-Renaissance Europe to the comic book adventures of Physics Man! to a play about Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubbell, and God reviewing the blueprints for the Universe.
The result is a journey that takes readers out to the far edges of the cosmos, back before the beginning of time, and down to the deepest levels of reality itself.
Read a representative sample below.
1 And it happened that there was a Dust Mite, and she knew the world.
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2 The world was full and abundant. There was the Floor, and the Wall, and the Dark Space under the Bed. There were predators, but there was also food everywhere, and there were also mates.
3 There was no need for anything else. There was no room for anything else.
Quantum Physics was developed solely for use at the subatomic level. Application beyond this intended use, and particularly outside of this scale of effectiveness, is not recommended and may be dangerous, leading to conditions such as: unwarranted conclusions, unsubstantiated claims, complete nonsense, magical thinking, New-Age philosophies, delusions of grandeur, pseudo-scientific gibberish, and blatant hucksterism.
Albert Einstein, singlehandedly responsible for bankrupting physics textbook publishers worldwide in the first decades of the 20th century
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Edwin Hubble, who did to astronomy textbook publishers what Einstein did to the physics textbook publishers
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God, the Almighty
