Superintellect I eventually settled on, as the purest concept to cling to, when forced to cast about during my time of hardest thinking immediately following the dramatic and unexpected nature of the experiences. It was a true foundation that you could build a house onto if that was ever possible, but without the tenuous added arrivals of gods that fly in like dreams from all corners, griffins unravelling from history onto the parapets of my attempted steps of worthy logic and exploration. Superintellect was Fred Hoyle’s word. He was the astrophysicist who had made his science knockabout and intelligible using an everyman touch in popular post war radio broadcasts. He was to discover that most elements were not formed at the beginning of the universe but rather hundreds of millions of years later in star furnaces after the immensely unlikely bonding and clustering of matter to form these stars and galaxies. Carbon itself he found was miraculously cooked inside these giant stars as a result of quantum collisions, however should have been so rarely produced as to exclude the beginnings of life. He theorized while peering along his typically backward gaze through the eons, that only a very rare value in a particular ‘excitation’ level in the quantum structure of the carbon atom, would have allowed the required collisions of quantum matter to produce carbon in prodigious quantity. The precise value of this necessary ‘excitation’ he was able to calculate. To the immense shock of peers, who at that time were mostly under the belief that the universe was randomly formed rather than as a result of a deliberate act, the value was exactly correct when tested by others in experiments. Hoyle stared down these unambiguous results and took them on board personally as well as scientifically. He also stared down the florid imaginations of priests and dogmatizers who sought to attach themselves to this discovery and managed to remain an unflinching life long atheist and only in this minimalist was a believer. According to Hoyle a “common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature”.