The Livewood

The Livewood was designed to establish self-replicating extraterrestrial colonies. As a student attempts to wrest control of his life from a controlling society, severe repercussions ensue, placing his life's dream even further out of reach.
But his cunning creativity demonstrated the very attributes that qualified him for this program, and the repercussions were designed to develop his abilities to deal with unexpected situations.
As politics and the threat of war consumed Earth, the Livewood and the colony it carried assumed the status of a sovereign state. Escaping the corruption of earthbound politics, the Livewood and the colonies it spawns become the heirs of the Solar System and beyond. Eventually the Livewood interacts with war-torn Earth in an unexpected way.
The science involved contains radical theories that - although different from some quantum physics assumptions - have yet to be disproven. These are introduced to challenge science-oriented readers to either debunk or discuss them.