... in which physicists and religious extremists clash over the building of a supercollider meant to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang.
Blasphemy is set deep in the Arizona desert, where the world's biggest supercollider is being built beneath a mountain. The purpose of the supercollider, nicknamed Isabella, is to recreate the energy and conditions present at the Big Bang. Leading the team of scientists is brilliant physicist Gregory Hazelius. The US government, after putting $40 billion into this project, is eager to see it succeed, but after the first run of the machine, it's clear that something has gone wrong and the scientists aren't talking. An adviser to the president hires Wyman Ford to go undercover and find out what's going on. In the meantime, the evangelicals of America have worked themselves into a rage over the Isabella Project, which they believe is challenging the word of God. At the same time, the Navajo people, on whose land Isabella has been built, are protesting the project because it's destroying their sacred lands. As Ford tries to balance his mission and the mounting tensions with the evangelicals and the Navajo, he discovers that the secret being hidden by the physicists is big enough to change the world.
