The Irreversible

In the cathedral of steel three hundred feet below the Mojave Desert, at 4:11 AM on November 14, a hum begins to rise - a frequency too low for human ears, too patient to be random. By the time the night shift physicists understand what they are watching, the universe has already begun to remember that it has weight.

The Irreversible follows the scientists, soldiers, and ordinary witnesses caught in the slow expansion of a phenomenon that obeys no equation in any textbook. From a young engin...