Second Coming: Extending the Entertainment

Paul's World

The fictional reality of the novel is exactly like conventional reality except for one thing: in the novel’s reality, everything is balanced by everything else. To get the novel’s reality, you only have to make a single assumption: that balance rules absolutely. You simply apply balance to the whole of existence.

Balance as the operating principle of the novel's reality

‘Second Coming’ protagonist, Paul Genet, answers questions about his universe:

What is time?

Why is there something rather than nothing?

What is the true nature of existence?

Has the Universe been replaced by a Multiverse?

Does God exist in the balanced universe of Paul Genet?

Does life exist elsewhere in the universe?

Is the universe a computer?

Will there ever be a coherent theory of quantum gravity?

Are superstrings the theory of everything?

Is Schrödinger's cat both alive and dead in a balanced quantum universe?

What is memory?

What is the origin of language?