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Schrödinger's cat trilogy

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First 1 volume edition of the trilogy

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English
Pages
545

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Cover of: Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy
Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy
2009, Random House Publishing Group
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Cover of: Schrodinger's cat trilogy
Schrodinger's cat trilogy
1990, Orbit
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Schrodinger's cat trilogy.
1990, Orbit
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Schrödinger's cat trilogy
1988, Dell Publishing, Dell Pub.
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New York

Table of Contents

The universe next door
The trick top hat
The homing pigeons

Edition Notes

"A Dell trade paperback."

Other Titles
Schrödinger's cat, Universe next door, Trick top hat, Homing pigeons

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3573.I4662S3 1988

The Physical Object

Pagination
545 p. ;
Number of pages
545

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16700962M
Internet Archive
schrdingerscattr00wils
ISBN 10
0440500702
OCLC/WorldCat
18824978
Library Thing
2681850
Goodreads
62567

Work Description

The Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy is a trilogy of novels by American writer Robert Anton Wilson consisting of The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, and The Homing Pigeons, each illustrating a different interpretation of quantum physics. Wilson is also co-author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, and Schrödinger's Cat is a sequel of sorts, re-using several of the same characters and carrying on many of the themes of the earlier work.

The one-volume edition currently in print is significantly shorter than the original three-volume edition. This is not a difference in print size or removal of redundant "recaps"; it is missing a noticeable amount of material, including many entire chapters.

The name Schrödinger's Cat comes from a thought experiment in quantum mechanics. The first book, The Universe Next Door, takes place in different universes in accord with the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics; in the second, The Trick Top Hat, characters are unknowingly connected through non-locality, i.e., having once crossed paths they are joined in quantum entanglement; and the third book, The Homing Pigeons, places characters in an "observer-created universe" in which Consciousness Causes the Collapse of the wavefunction.

Taking place in Unistat, which is the novel's parallel to the United States, the novels have intertwining plots involving a wide array of characters, including:

Epicene Wildeblood, a.k.a. Mary Margaret Wildeblood, a transsexual woman who throws great parties
Frank Dashwood, president of Orgasm Research
Markoff Chaney, a prankster
Hugh Crane, a.k.a. Cagliostro the Great, a mystic and magician
Furbish Lousewart V, author and President of Unistat
Marvin Gardens, author and cocaine addict
Eve Hubbard, scientist and alternate President of Unistat

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