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Dark Matter
In order to get the most out of Crouch's DARK MATTER, the reader should be familiar with String theory or M theory. A good source might be Michio Kaku's PARALLEL WORLDS, in which he posits the possibility of parallel universes.
But this is fiction, so it seems a little extreme at moments when all the Jason Dresson clones start popping up, in search of his wife Daniela and his son, Charlie. Jason Dresson was a brilliant scientist who was working on this cube-like device that would allow people to enter a box and visit parallel worlds, where they'd find themselves living a different life. Jason's big decision was to marry Daniela and give up his super star status as the next Einstein. He chose the life of a physics professor and Daniela, while his friend, Brian Holder, got the scientific accolades. Even Brian feels Jason was the one who should've received the awards. Jason attends a celebration for Brian; on his way home, he's kidnapped and wakes up battered and blue in another universe. He's a hero there because he's the first to return from an episode inside the box. But he escapes, visits his former home where he lived with Daniela and Charlie, but everything is a bit off. It smells like loneliness and everything is a bit too ritzy for a college professor.
Eventually Jason finds out he was kidnapped by himself, a man he calls Jason 2, who made the opposite decision he made on Earth. He chose the scientific career and invented the multi-universe box, but then he observed Jason 1's life in Chicago with Daniela and Charlie and was jealous. So . . . he took Jason's place.
In Jason's new world Daniela is a famous artist. He has a romantic interlude with her, but she's not HIS Daniela. The leaders in Jason new world are willing to do anything to keep the box, including pulling a Darth Cheney on Jason; you know the torture route. Amanda, one of the aides feels sorry for him, helps him enter the box, and they begin to open doors. They find places that are too cold, other places that are suffering from a deadly pestilence. Finally they realize that you have to be in the right frame of mind to find the world you're after, but something is always just a little bit off. I'll let you read the book to find out how Jason finds his original home.
There's not enough science in this book. If you've never heard of String Theory, you'll think it's not even good science fiction. As I said above, other Jasons start to show up looking for Daniela. There are hundreds of them, and they seen to anticipate Jason 1's every move. They're terrible people. They're willing to kill to get what they want. They kill each other; one would think they'd retain some of Jason 1's basic goodness, which Daniela fell in love with.
I have never had it clearly explained to me, not even after reading Kaku, why a version of ourselves would exist in these other universes. I understand that there may have been more than one Big Bang or maybe lots of them, which would explain the parallel universes, but why would we exist in these places as president of the United States or head of a giant corporation or maybe even as a member of the opposite sex or a homeless person. If you can think of it, it exists on another planet in another universe. Don't scoff. The mathematical formula works. Einstein worked his entire career to find a theory of everything, which made the macroverse (the solar systems, the stars, the galaxies) and the microverse (atoms, protons, quarks) jive. He never found it, but String Theory seems to explain them both, only with ten dimensions (in some versions) seven we can't see.
But this is fiction, so it seems a little extreme at moments when all the Jason Dresson clones start popping up, in search of his wife Daniela and his son, Charlie. Jason Dresson was a brilliant scientist who was working on this cube-like device that would allow people to enter a box and visit parallel worlds, where they'd find themselves living a different life. Jason's big decision was to marry Daniela and give up his super star status as the next Einstein. He chose the life of a physics professor and Daniela, while his friend, Brian Holder, got the scientific accolades. Even Brian feels Jason was the one who should've received the awards. Jason attends a celebration for Brian; on his way home, he's kidnapped and wakes up battered and blue in another universe. He's a hero there because he's the first to return from an episode inside the box. But he escapes, visits his former home where he lived with Daniela and Charlie, but everything is a bit off. It smells like loneliness and everything is a bit too ritzy for a college professor.
Eventually Jason finds out he was kidnapped by himself, a man he calls Jason 2, who made the opposite decision he made on Earth. He chose the scientific career and invented the multi-universe box, but then he observed Jason 1's life in Chicago with Daniela and Charlie and was jealous. So . . . he took Jason's place.
In Jason's new world Daniela is a famous artist. He has a romantic interlude with her, but she's not HIS Daniela. The leaders in Jason new world are willing to do anything to keep the box, including pulling a Darth Cheney on Jason; you know the torture route. Amanda, one of the aides feels sorry for him, helps him enter the box, and they begin to open doors. They find places that are too cold, other places that are suffering from a deadly pestilence. Finally they realize that you have to be in the right frame of mind to find the world you're after, but something is always just a little bit off. I'll let you read the book to find out how Jason finds his original home.
There's not enough science in this book. If you've never heard of String Theory, you'll think it's not even good science fiction. As I said above, other Jasons start to show up looking for Daniela. There are hundreds of them, and they seen to anticipate Jason 1's every move. They're terrible people. They're willing to kill to get what they want. They kill each other; one would think they'd retain some of Jason 1's basic goodness, which Daniela fell in love with.
I have never had it clearly explained to me, not even after reading Kaku, why a version of ourselves would exist in these other universes. I understand that there may have been more than one Big Bang or maybe lots of them, which would explain the parallel universes, but why would we exist in these places as president of the United States or head of a giant corporation or maybe even as a member of the opposite sex or a homeless person. If you can think of it, it exists on another planet in another universe. Don't scoff. The mathematical formula works. Einstein worked his entire career to find a theory of everything, which made the macroverse (the solar systems, the stars, the galaxies) and the microverse (atoms, protons, quarks) jive. He never found it, but String Theory seems to explain them both, only with ten dimensions (in some versions) seven we can't see.
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