Status Updates From Schild’s Ladder

Life had still arisen here, thirty orders of magnitude up the length scale, as heroic and miraculous as some hardy plant on a frozen mountain peak, but all the while, infinitely richer possibilities had been buzzing through the superposition that the dead vacuum concealed.

Oof. Book’s good, but... so much quantum physics, and I can’t tell if any of it is grounded in reality or it’s all “ionic defibulizer” this and “spacetime conspaculator” that. Trippy as all hell, but the kinda trip that makes you feel kinda dumb. But on the bright side, you’ve got fractal universes iteratively unfurling within a vacuum, subsuming our own reality, so there’s that.