MARK ALPERT’S debut novel is not the first thriller to involve a particle accelerator – that honour probably goes to Joe Haldeman’s , or Dan Brown’s , which imagined various happenings at . But Final Theory is perhaps the first true physics thriller, where the esoteric theories themselves drive the action.
Alpert imagines a world in which Einstein discovered the ultimate “unified theory” of physics before he died, but also saw that its equations could be used to build a terrible weapon, far worse than an atomic bomb. Afraid that this knowledge would fall into the…
