The 13th Power Quest

American and European scientists have been building bigger and faster particle accelerators to smash atoms into smaller pieces. They are looking for the Higgs boson, the particle that gives matter mass, The God Particle. What if they find it? Fermilab and CERN are the biggest players in this race for the Higgs boson, named after Peter Higgs who first proposed its existence in1964 as a way to explain why atoms have mass. Since then, tens of billions of dollars have been spent to prove the Higgs exists. The Russians tried and failed in a catastrophic way. However, in California, there’s a smaller lab with an equally determined group of scientists in the hunt. Their motivations are as varied as the characters themselves. Whether it’s love, money, power, fame, or revenge that drives them, they’re about to set the world on a course of impending destruction. This is their story.