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What if the mysteries of the universe could change the way we understand reality itself?
When brilliant teenage twins Beth and Michael McDonald become deeply concerned about climate change, their determination to make a difference takes an unexpected turn. After their fascination with environmental activism leads them into dangerous territory, guidance teacher Jean McCarthy searches for a way to redirect their extraordinary intelligence and passion.
Her solution is a visit to the University of Edinburgh, where the twins meet quantum physicist Hugh Faversham.
What begins as an opportunity to explore science soon becomes something far stranger.
Quantum entanglement, spacetime, the nature of reality and the mysteries of the universe open the door to questions that conventional explanations struggle to answer. As Beth and Michael become increasingly drawn into Hugh’s world, their journey takes them beyond the familiar and into encounters involving strange landscapes, ancient mysteries, unexpected beings and extraordinary dimensions of existence.
At the heart of their adventure is the idea of Under-standing: a radically different way of looking at space, time, consciousness, difference and the apparent separation between things.
From the Great Oak Tree of Lammermuir and the mysterious Celt to the Seeing Pool, the Stream of Tears, spacetime wormholes, dark matter, gravity, light and the astonishing hexa-verse, the journey continually blurs the boundary between scientific possibility, philosophy and imagination.
Standing Under Under-standing is an ambitious and thought-provoking journey into the known, the unknown and everything that may exist between them.
For readers fascinated by quantum physics, consciousness, spacetime, environmental questions and speculative ideas about the nature of reality, this is a story that invites you to look at the universe differently.