The Flicker Men

The Flicker Men by Ted Kosmatka is another book that uses as part of its plot line points from quantum mechanics.  Eric Argus is a physicist, struggling with an alcohol problem, who is hired by an old friend.  Out of some sort of weird sense of boredom he decides to repeat the double-slit experiment.  He then introduces a new component and gets a telling result that soon has incredibly wide implications.  The book then devolves into what is essentially a thriller as our hero races around trying to find his missing colleague, piece together the larger implications of his discovery, and avoid being killed by what are essentially alien beings.

The book was not very satisfying on the whole. The narrator was not very relatable and the implications drawn by the characters from the science invoked was either just wrong or explained so badly that reasonable people found flaws in the logic chain and called it wrong.