Scrooge's Cryptic Carol: Visions of Energy, Time, and Quantum Nature

When the destination sign on Scrooge's train reads "HEAT DEATH" instead of "HEATHROW," when his dead partner Marley's face appears inexplicably as a talking head in a department store tv, and when the street lights outside his luxurious London flat begin acting strangely, it's a sign of a bad night to come. Like his famous ancestor, the modern Scrooge—who hews tightly to the credo "it Is enough for a man to understand his own business and look to his own advantage"—is about to be visited by...