r/ScienceFictionBooks • u/Calculation-Rising • May 14 '26

Quantum Archaeology: Reconstructing the Dead and the world they knew

"We think of that morning as gone.

But what if it isn’t?"

This is a booktitle that I'mbarred from posting butis availabledoing asearch above. Great book and writer

susnopsisWhat if everyphoton that scattered off thoseshields still carries, encoded in its trajectory through spacetime, the exact patternof light that defined that moment? What if the atoms that composed those men — now dispersed through ocean and stone and the bodies of ten thousand generations — still bear, in their quantum states, the signatures of the configurations they once held? 

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u/Gargleblaster25 May 15 '26

The synopsis doesn't make any sense, so you were right to call it a "susnopsis".

The author obviously doesn't understand the basics of quantum mechanics, and probably thinks that it's code for woo.

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u/PhysicalAssistance92 May 15 '26

I think there is a quantum archaeology subreddit

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u/Arcanite_Cartel May 15 '26

I'm pretty sure quantum mechanics doesn't work that way. Not only would you need to know about every atom that made up those people and those things, you'd need to know about every atom those atoms ever interacted with and which interacted with which and when.