The Irreversible

In the cathedral of steel three hundred feet below the Mojave Desert, at 4:11 AM on November 14, a hum begins to rise - a frequency too low for human ears, too patient to be random. By the time the night shift physicists understand what they are watching, the universe has already begun to remember that it has weight. The Irreversible follows the scientists, soldiers, and ordinary witnesses caught in the slow expansion of a phenomenon that obeys no equation in any textbook.
From a young engineer's notebook in a federal cell outside Atlanta, to a hospice window where a widow named Maya holds her newborn daughter, to a hawk that glides impossibly over a ring of corten steel in the high desert - this is a novel about the moment when our most precise instruments stop describing reality and begin to participate in it. A hard science fiction novel in the lineage of Liu Cixin and Ted Chiang, The Irreversible asks what survives when an event cannot be reversed, only witnessed.