Quantum Reality in Recent Science Fiction

S. L. Grigor’ev

J. Dale Prince

With recent news about a quantum computer, it is clear that quantum computing is cresting the horizon of the mainstream. It may be a distant horizon, but quantum computing is increasingly becoming not just a trope of science fiction but also a near future reality. Moreover, once the mechanisms of quantum computing have been ironed out, it has the potential to revolutionize the world of computing.

Zsuzsanna Plank

This paper explores the conceptual intersections between quantum mechanics and world literature by examining how different physical interpretations manifest in literary narratives. Moving beyond science-fiction tropes, the study provides a non-specialist overview of core principles—including wave-particle duality, quantum superposition, and the structure of Schrödinger equation—and utilizes fiction as a cognitive tool to illustrate complex realities. Through a comparative analysis, Frigyes Karinthy’s Barabbás is used to contextualize foundational quantum concepts, H.G. Wells’s The Country of the Blind serves as an analogy for the Copenhagen interpretation, and Sándor Márai’s Peace in Ithaca (Béke Ithacában) visualizes the Many-Worlds interpretation. By demonstrating how fictional plots function as structural analogies for physical models, this study highlights the epistemological links between science and the humanities, offering an accessible pathway to quantum theory while challenging conventional perceptions of reality

Nick Herbert, Frederick M. Stein

Doug Porpora

Bertrand Wong

A number of points are brought up below for pondering and possible discussion. We should not regard our physics as the one and only reality. What is described below may seem like science fiction, but should not be brushed off as inconsequential.