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Isabella is the world's most powerful particle accelerator. She sits under the Red Mesa in the abandoned bituminous coal mines on the Navaho Indian Reservation in Arizona, tended by a team of twelve, including the Nobel Laureate, Gregory Hazelius, the team leader, and Ken Dolby, the designer. If they can get her to 100% power, they will recreate the moment of the Big Bang and be able to see the beginning of our universe. The time has come to power up Isabella. They bring her to 99.9% of capacity and strange images appear on the viewing screen. At 100%, they get a message, 'Greetings'. They quickly power down. Over the next few weeks, they keep trying but they always get to the same place. They try to trace the message back to its origin which appears to be Isabella. Is there a super hacker at work somewhere or do the messages actually mean something? The powers that be in Washington are trying to get a straight answer out of the crew in New Mexico, but all they are told is that there are problems. They don't want problems with this $40 billion experiment. And things only get worse when† Rev Don. T Spates televises a sermon outing the project as the antichrist. What caused the Big Bang? First there was nothing. Then a great explosion and chaos, but something. 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep.' . Did the Big Bang create a supreme being or was the Big Bang created by a supreme being? This is the fundamental question that the scientists, who question Isabella minutely, are trying to determine. They are desperately trying to locate the superbug that has infected their machine. Can they do it? Or is the supercollider really god? I almost put BLASPHEMY down. I don't have much patience with the hyperorthodox who keep trying to convert everyone to their own brand of religious bigotry, but I kept going and it was worth it. This is a very different sort of thriller. Don't let the discussion of God get in your way of enjoying it.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, February 2008
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