V4641 Sgr, a microquasar in the Milky Way, has become associated with a pattern of astronomical and terrestrial anomalies affecting Earth and the rest of our solar system in inexplicable ways. In trying to determine how such a thing could happen, Danny Adamson, a physicist turned science editor for NHQ Broadcast Services, discovers not only an inconceivable connection between Earth and the V4641 signature, but also a critical miscalculation in the way he understands the creation of the universe. Correcting that error may change what he thinks he knows about our planet's stability, the longevity of the human race, and reality itself.