Arthur looked down at the book. The equations on the page were no longer terrifying squiggles of Greek letters; they were the sheet music for the light hitting the windows and the blood pumping in his veins.
As he flipped to Chapter 4, "The Green’s Function Method," the library around him began to blur. It wasn't a dizzy spell. The wooden table began to lose its "woodness," dissolving into a shimmering lattice of carbon atoms. His coffee cup became a probability cloud of ceramic shards. A Course in Quantum Many-Body Theory: From Conv...
The heavy, blue-spined textbook had lived on the bottom shelf of the university library for a decade, its title— A Course in Quantum Many-Body Theory: From Conventional Systems to Strongly Correlated Matter —acting as a natural deterrent to anyone looking for a light read. Arthur looked down at the book