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Authors: Christopher Edge
“If you think you understand quantum physics, you don’t understand quantum physics.”
That’s what the American physicist Richard Feynman said, according to the Internet, but I’d like to thank the authors of the following books for helping me to pretend that I understand a little more than I did before I started writing this book:
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene;
Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide
by J.P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate;
In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat
by John Gribbin;
The Particle at the End of the Universe
by Sean Carroll;
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
by Lisa Randall, and
The Quantum Universe
by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw.
Thanks too to Ben Thomson and Professor Dan Tovey, Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Sheffield, for their sage scientific advice and guidance. All scientific errors and exaggerations remaining in the text, particularly the use of quantum entanglement to communicate between parallel universes, are, of course, my own, and if I’ve got anything spectacularly wrong, I claim artistic licence!
Huge thanks to my fantastic agent, Lucy Juckes, and my wonderful editor, Kirsty Stansfield, without whom this book would not exist. Thank you to all at Nosy Crow for giving it the best possible home. And with heartfelt thanks to my family for all their love and support, especially my mum for everything that she’s done for me in this universe.
In loving memory of Jo Pettman.
CHRISTOPHER EDGE
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For Chrissie, Alex and Josie in every universe
THE MANY WORLDS OF ALBIE BRIGHT
First published in the UK in 2016 by Nosy Crow Ltd
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, incidents and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictiously. Any resemblence to actual people, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
ISBN: 978 0 85763 605 8
