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Two factions develop as the expanding bubble swallows star after star: the Preservationists, who wish to stop the expansion and preserve the [[Milky Way]] at any cost; and the Yielders, who consider the novo-vacuum to be too important a discovery to destroy without understanding.
Six hundred years after the initial experiment, aboarda vessel called the ''Rindler'', a vessel that has matched velocities with a ever-expanding novo-vacuum region ofat the border and is, powered by multispectral light emitted as the ordinary vacuum collapses into its lower energy-state,. aA variety of refugees are probing the novo-vacuum in order to understand the physics that makes it possible. The novo-vacuum turns out to be more complicated than anyone suspects, however, and Egan's usual topics of simulation and [[quantum ontology]] are taken to the extreme when we learn that a whole ordered universe exists within this zone of apparent [[Chaos (physics)|chaos]], existing as direct elaborations of the quantum graph's [[Lattice model (physics)|lattice]] structure, of which elementary particles, [[fundamental interaction]]s, and our spacetime itself are only special cases.
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