The God Particle

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To all the scientists who have delivered us from the dark ages, and to the men and women of conscience who have prevented them from returning us there.

And to the submariners of America’s Silent Service — past, present and those still on eternal patrol. If I write a thousand books, I will never come close to honoring their courage, sacrifice and grit.

Once upon a time… that is a refrain one might recall when first seeing the shores of Lake Geneva, dotted with fairytale castles, chateaus, small villages and picture-perfect walks. The calm, croissant-shaped ‘lake’ is actually a wide, flat portion of the river Rhone. On the French end of the crescent the gentle waves are refocused into a flowing river of crisp Alpine water that resumes its seventeen-year journey to empty into the Mediterranean Sea.

The storybook setting makes this idyllic place a most unlikely point of origin for the smallest particle of God to be used to ignite the ultimate cataclysm: the end of Earth, the solar system, the infinite universes beyond, indeed of all existence — gone in a flash — a flash to be seen only once, upon the death of time itself.

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