First, the bad news. On Wednesday, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland gets turned on and there is an outside chance that the world will be swallowed up into a huge, man-made black hole. The good news is that if we survive this, the world’s interest will peak in finding a “Theory of Everything” because the LHC is a multi-billion dollar device designed to look into the elementary nature of the universe and what conditions were like a moment after The Big Bang. The better news is that a reclusive South African thinker and writer, John Thompson of Greyton, seems to have discovered a fascinating gateway to the “Theory of Everything” using only his brain, a pad of paper and an ancient word processor. Even better news, Blackhall Publishing in Ireland has agreed to acquire worldwide rights on his magnificent book, provisionally entitled Nature’s Watchmaker, which came to us at Griffyn House at the start of the year and had us wondering what exactly holds the stars together and whether time does, in fact, exist (it does, Thompson assures us; so all you tardy MA students still have no excuse for late work). We have positive reviews from the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University on this manuscript, which was written after Mr. Thompson thought very hard for a very long time about some pretty complex questions that have dogged theoretical physics for decades. This book is a must for anyone who believes that if God created the universe, She would have preferred that it adhere to an elegantly (mind blowingly) simple structure. Curious? Watch this space…and the window at your local book store.
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