'The Hymn of Creation' can be enjoyed at multiple individual levels and collectively at all levels. Without question, it would be certainly most enjoyable to those with a smattering of physics in their toolkit and to those bitten by the bug of exploring all that physics still hasn't quite arrived at in unravelling – time travel, traveling faster than the speed of light, unique propulsion systems, may be, and wormholes and all that.

But here is the difference. 'The Hymn of Creation' ventures to do all this while never once leaving the realm of the plausible. Beware, therefore, that you cannot read here and there and still get to the scientific narrative that it builds.

It all begins when I find myself in this intractable jungle. So, when I stumble upon this clearing with an oversized mushroom at its center I am both relieved and curious in equal measure.

Curious, because there is a caterpillar atop it smoking a hookah. While the likes of us may not think much about caterpillars, this one surprises me quite out of my shoes. "What," it asks me, "Ïs the neo classical rendition of Newton's First Law of Motion?"

And while I am left still fumbling, he tells me that the First Law should actually have read something like this: All objects and bodies, whether in motion or at rest according to Isaac, and irrespective of any unbalancing forces acting upon them, must continue to remain in perpetual motion towards the Future.

That is, by no means, the end of the conversation. It is just the beginning of all my troubles and yours too, if you care to pick through the pages.

As the motley gathering of characters – some borrowed and some very much unique –take you along on a journey that is every bit thought provoking, intriguing, and pure fun; all of a sudden, time travel, things travelling faster than light, and that damned wormhole start appearing quite within reach of the realm of the comprehensible – all, without once stepping beyond what Physics says already.

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