Add The Clockwork Trilogy by Greg Egan

[RichardLitt]

The Clockwork Trilogy by Greg Egan was suggested. Anyone read it?

[vrysmart]

The Orthogonal series is a science fiction trilogy by Australian author Greg Egan taking place in a universe where there are four fundamentally identical dimensions Explanation by Greg Egan - "Plus, Minus: A Gentle Introduction to the Physics of Orthogonal".

1. The Clockwork Rocket was published in 2011,
2. The Eternal Flame in 2012,
3. The Arrows of Time in 2013.

Wikipedia's explanation of the plot is as follows:

"The plot involves the inhabitants of a planet that comes under threat from a barrage of high-velocity meteors known as 'hurtlers', who launch a generation ship that exploits the distinctive relativistic effects present in this universe which allow far more time to elapse on the ship than passes on the home world, in order for the ship's inhabitants to develop the technology needed to protect the planet. The three novels deal with a succession of increasingly advanced scientific discoveries, as well as a number of radical social changes in the culture of the generation ship's passengers. Technically, the space-time of the universe portrayed in the novels has a positive-definite Riemannian metric, rather than a pseudo-Riemannian metric, which is the kind that describes our own universe."

A lot of quantum physics and general relativity theory Albert Einstein

[RichardLitt]

Have you read this, @vrysmart?