My name is Gregory Peter Le Sage, and I am a Ph.D. scientist from UCLA working for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford. Before that I worked for the U.S. government for sixteen years and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for ten years. I have published over 100 scientific papers. This book marks my first venture into fiction writing.

I call this story “future fact” because I believe events like these could one day become reality. I was inspired to write this story when multiple colleagues were recently hired away from SLAC by some of the biggest technology companies in the U.S. These were brilliant scientists, and I wondered how their expertise would be used by private companies. I wondered what kind of projects they would create. Then I wondered what would happen if a giant discovery occurred in a private company.