
A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

does the existence of a singular cat, either dead or alive, require an external observer, i.e., you? And if not you, then who? Can the cat be an observer of itself?
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
quantum mechanics itself is a calculus. It’s a machine for predicting experimental results. It’s a finger, pointing at the moon.
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
“The door,” he writes, “to the invisible must be visible.”
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
At what point in time does a quantum system stop being a superposition of all possible states and become a singular, either/or state instead?
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
are to wake up and truly live our lives. That’s what it means to be a time
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most intimate way, or did I just dream that?
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
Is death even possible in a universe of many worlds? Is suicide?
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
second problem is that nobody’s been able to come up with the math to support this theory of wave function collapse.