Decoherence and the Appearance of a Classical World in Quantum Theory by D. Giulini, E. Joos, C. Kiefer, J. Kupsch, I.-O. Stamatescu, and H. D. Zeh, Springer, Berlin, 1996.

I learned about the construction known as Schild’s ladder from:

Gravitation by C. W. Misner, K. S. Thorne and J. A. Wheeler, W. H. Freemann, New York, 1970.

who cite an unpublished lecture by Alfred Schild on January 19, 1970, at Princeton University.

Supplementary material for this novel can be found at

About the Author

Greg Egan is the author of several acclaimed SF novels and short stories. A winner of the Hugo Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, he was voted the "Most Popular Science Fiction Author of the Decade" (1990s) by Interzone magazine. Mr. Egan lives in Australia.

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Credits

Cover design by Ervin Serrano

Cover illustration by John Lewis

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

SCHILD’S LADDER.

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