False Vacuum

<p>Jakob Schenk an Oxford physicist has built a machine that can transfer consciousness between parallel universes. He tells himself it's for science. Really it's</p><p> for Christina Hamilton-brilliant capricious doomed to die in timeline after timeline no matter what he does to save her.</p><p></p><p> Each jump leaves behind a universe that begins to collapse at the quantum level reality unravelling as the fundamental constants of physics decay. Ten billion lives</p><p> are erased every time he pulls the trigger. But Jakob keeps jumping because somewhere in the infinite parallels there must exist a world where she doesn't die of an</p><p> aneurysm at thirty-one doesn't board the plane that crashes doesn't simply stop loving him for reasons that make perfect sense to everyone but him.</p><p></p><p> What he discovers is worse than her death: the universe seems hardcoded against them. Their separation repeats across realities like a cosmic constant as immutable</p><p> as the speed of light. Every timeline offers a new variation on the same theme-love loss the inevitable ending.</p><p></p><p> This is a philosophical horror novel dressed as a romance a recursive tragedy where one man treats infinite realities as rough drafts he can discard. As the body</p><p> count climbs into the trillions the question becomes not whether Jakob will find the perfect timeline but whether destroying universes for love is more or less</p><p> insane than simply accepting grief.</p><p></p><p> A literary thriller about obsession quantum physics and the terrible mathematics of letting go.</p>