The God Particle (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Richard Cox | knygos.lt

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From Richard Cox, whose debut novel was the high-tech thriller Rift, comes a speculative masterwork about one physicist's search for the force that binds the universe together and another man's sudden transcendent ability to see the world as never before.

As chief physicist and director of the North Texas Superconducting Super Collider, Mike McNair's one and only goal is to identify the Higgs boson (a.k.a. the God Particle), the field of energy that theoretically holds the universe together. But after years of research with no breakthroughs, the boss of the multibillion-dollar project wants results - or else.

Steve Keeley is a high-ranking executive for an import auto parts manufacturer. While on a business trip in Switzerland, he finds out about his future fiance's infidelity and ends up drunk in a seedy cabaret. After being manipulated upstairs by a prostitute, he's inexplicably thrown out a third-floor window. After four days in a coma, Steve, somehow altered, awakes and is forced to ask himself: Is insanity simply reality that no one else can see? Ultimately, he will collide with Mike McNair...


Comparable to "consciousness-expanding" novels like James L. Halperin's The First Immortal, Stephen Baxter's Evolution, and Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, Cox's ambitious second novel fearlessly explores the gray area between science and religion with both tact and insight. Does God exist? Is the universe alive? What's the next step in human development? The God Particle is a cerebral page-turner of the highest order; readers will find it practically impossible to put this book down before getting to the last page. - Paul Goat Allen