I began the planning for this book a long time ago and there have been many false starts and dead ends I’ve travelled down, but luckily (or I wouldn’t have finished!) there were moments throughout the long process that moved it forward considerably. One of them was on a flight in Australia watching a programme on Issac Newton and alchemy which sparked some neurons and suddenly threads of my story found connecting paths. It came, as fate would have it, at a similar time to reading several books on quantum physics and the hiatus surrounding the search for the Higgs Boson; so the science of the book was born. The regulus, which in alchemy, is a metallic component refined from an ore, became my Higgs Field, an energy field that exists everywhere and connects everything and allows….well you’d better read the book for that 🙂