Jason Crouse sees the world differently. He has seen it differently since he was a child. He sees patterns. He feels patterns. He lives in the concrete world of people and objects, but his senses are also attuned to a cosmic dimension filled with light and dark matter, the energy of the universe. He is an autistic savant employed by NOAA. He is a one-man department whose one-phrase mission is "to think." One long, involved thought unlocks a quantum entanglement means of space travel. When a National Weather Service scientist detects patterns in lightning strikes, patterns that contain messages, he reaches out to Jason to break the code. Things get very interesting. Jason's world explodes with criminal grifters, national security zealots, psychiatrists, prison wardens, extraordinary rendition, and the Nobel committee. Then there are scientist heroes... journalist heroes... and finally the butterfly effect of love.