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Relations between the two men skid into a series of affronts, real or perceived, while Breege, Brennan's younger sister, looks on with mounting dread. She loves her brother but also feels, in spite of herself, drawn to the stranger. When Brennan senses her interest, he strikes her and accuses her of siding with the enemy...
...from clear that we could detect their existence, let alone step through a mirror or a space warp for a visit. But hints that ours is just one of many universes keep cropping up in all sorts of different theories--and in ways that can seem far stranger than fiction...
...mind-bending 20th century concepts like Einstein's curved space, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the realization that exotic subatomic particles sail through our bodies by the trillions without laying a glove on us, and I see no reason to suppose that doors won't open onto even stranger notions in the century to come. So perhaps we can glimpse a few shafts of light, shining under doors as yet unopened, that promise to refine our predictions of cosmic destiny...
This strange idea leads to even stranger consequences, including the fact that as an object goes faster, its mass increases (the reasons are dizzyingly complex, but it's been verified in particle accelerators). The faster you go, the harder it is to get yourself going faster still. As you near the speed of light, your weight heads for infinity, which makes it infinitely hard to go faster. So while we might reach 99% of light-speed, or even 99.99999%, the last little bit will forever lie just beyond our grasp...
...there anything in this universe--except perhaps the mind of a rebellious teenager--that is stranger than the bright cutting edge of science? We try to wrap our imagination around the radical ideas that modern scientists take for granted, but we're left breathless. Cosmic strings that snap like rubber bands! Parallel universes that sprout like bubbles! Wormholes! Gravity waves! Particles that vibrate not in three or four dimensions...