18 Halli and I planned on meeting at 7:00 tonight. I had a few hours before that, and decided to spend them as productively as I could—diving back into Hawkins. So much of what I’d read in his new parallel universe book had just seemed academic at the time. Interesting, but not specifically relevant to my life. Now I read it like it was an instruction manual. I went back to the section that had started me down this path in the first place—the part where his colleague had made that comment about vibrations. Here was the section: “After a long morning of listening to various presentations at the conference, several of us decided to go out to lunch to relax and discuss what we had heard. The mood was rather jovial; it might surprise people to learn that physicists can be a fun lot when