It's Thanksgiving evening, and, stuffed tighter than a Thanksgiving turkey, hot cuppa in hand, I've been sitting back in my comfort chair and counting all the things for which I am this year most thankful. You know all the usual ones, so I skip on to Higher-Dimensional Gravity. Yep, as the co-author with A. G. Hayes of QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2017), for what could I be more thankful than that? After all, in the story the Quantum Death Machine is a Hitchcock macguffin, a device, largely unexplained, pursued by the protagonist, that makes the story "work."


Okay. But recently, M-Superstring theorists have continued advancing the eleven dimension multiverse such that a quantum translocation device not unlike that described in our book could possibly exist. And thanks to Dr. Stephen Hawking, there's now proof using Einsteinian four dimensional space, that something called a spherical event horizon exists surrounding a non-rotating black hole, and within might exists a record of all events that have ever happened in the galaxy surrounding its central black hole. This quantum phenomenon, assumedly one of the many aspects of quantum strangeness, is further support for the possibility of a Quantum Death Machine not unlike we described. 

In a recently resurrected article from Discover magazine Elizabeth Svoboda entitled " #40: Quantum Strangeness Leaks Into the Big World -- Four ions can become quantum entangled. Why not a human?" one result of Hawking's event horizon, which projects the largely invisible quantum world into our experiential world, supports the supposition that, "If the rules of the tiny quantum world applied to ordinary objects, all sorts of strange things could happen: An object like a car or a person might be in two places at once, or two clocks could “entangle,” moving in synchrony as if they were physically conjoined even when miles apart." Voila! The very basis of our Quantum Death Machine, though our protagonists' solution to the threat remains science fiction. For today at least. 

So, I am especially thankful this Thanksgiving for (1) the increasing plausibility of our macguffin, which should make our book of increasing interest over time -- what Savant Books and Publications would say elevates our novel to that of "enduring literature" -- and (2) the remaining mystery of whether our protagonists' solution to the device's threat is not only plausible but prophetic. 

Oh, and if this has piqued your interest, why not try for a 2017 holiday free first edition copy, signed by me, Raymond Gaynor, co-author of this fascinating politico-techno-thriller at 

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/enter_choose_address/265939?utm_medium=api&utm_source=giveaway_widget

I'm giving away five books through Goodreads this holiday season; the giveaway ends the first of December 2017.

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