Dan Freeland is among five new physics Ph.D.’s who win fellowships to spend a year at CERN’s Larg Hadron Collider in Switzerland. their task is to help search for the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle”. While most scientists are in search of “The Higgs”, one has a secret agenda. Backed by a sinister political group, this lone physicist intends to use the “Super Collider” to isolate a unique particle that may enable her to travel through time.