How Dark Matter Changed Me
Really cool, high-concept sci-fi, very well written, story flows like water—if that water were occasionally interrupted by waves of deep existential dread.Book that gets you thinking about your life choices type of shit. When you’re faced with the idea that every decision has a butterfly effect that could lead to a completely different universe, you start questioning whether you’ve made all the right ones
It made me realize that we only truly understand “every choice counts” when we’re faced with a never-ending parade of “what-ifs”. It drills in the idea that every choice, no matter how small, can spiral into a completely different version of reality. Is your life really your life, or is it just a string of choices that could’ve easily been different? Definitely got me thinking about how much I take my decisions for granted.
Thanks for the existential crisis, Blake. Appreciate it. I’m turning this into my personality now.
eli5.txt
> be a mediocre physics professor
> have hot wife at least
> gets abducted
> wakes up in an alternate universe
> somehow not a failure anymore, actually a world-renowned physicist
> realizes is bitchless
> discovers his parallel counterpart invented a box that can hop between parallel worlds just to fuck his wife
> existential crisis.jpg
> wants to go back immediatly
> quantum physics mumbo jumbo.txt
> enters box, has to deal with a bunch of versions of himself from different “what if” scenarios.
> regret purgatory ensues
> welcome to the multiverse, where nothing matters, and everything’s your fault
> should just stayed home and rewatched Back to the Future instead