{"product_id":"false-vacuum-joseph-s-finberg-9798218853839","title":"False Vacuum","description":"\u003cp\u003eJakob 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e for Christina Hamilton-brilliant, capricious, doomed to die in timeline after timeline no matter what he does to save her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e as the speed of light. Every timeline offers a new variation on the same theme-love, loss, the inevitable ending.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e insane than simply accepting grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A literary thriller about obsession, quantum physics, and the terrible mathematics of letting go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph S. Finberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218853839\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e False Vacuum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.50d","brand":"Joseph S. Finberg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48454284968191,"sku":"9798218853839","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_16e20adc-23a0-4c83-b15d-43555f7239b0.jpg?v=1777305268","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/false-vacuum-joseph-s-finberg-9798218853839","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}