Dark Matter

Kamane Vedika, T.Y. B.Tech. Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering,MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering For Women,Pune
The book starts with an introduction to the family — Jason, a physics professor who regrets not becoming the great scientist he could’ve been; his wife Daniella, a stay-at-home mom who regrets not becoming the great artist she could’ve been; and Charlie, the annoying teenage trope. Their mundane life is thrown into shambles when Jason lives the meme of the father who never returns after getting milk and is kidnapped and taken to a different world. .A world so similar, yet different, where he is a famous scientist; Daniella is a celebrated artist, but not his wife. He is pursued by a group of crony capitalists who want to cash in on “his” invention, which he knows nothing about, and chased like a fugitive. At least Charlie not existing in this world was a silver lining. After bearing trauma that would put the Nazis and Unit 731 to shame, Jason realizes he’s been swapped by his doppelganger from a parallel universe using a Cube which allowed him to traverse all possible universes which are so different that Earth doesn’t exist. The different versions converge on the same universe, a philosophical dilemma unfolds: since all these versions are essentially identical, what right does one have over another?. The persons have ideas about how life would have turned out if thy had made different choices, not realizing that much of what they love results from a series of seemingly unrelated decisions they made in the past.The book raises essential questions: Are humans truly the unique, sentient entities or merely one among infinite possibilities? That’s left for the reader to decide.