[ WP ] For one day , every single mechanism , from complex electronics to simple machines , fail to work for no reason .

The phone range for the fifth time. He would no longer ignore it, as he had been doing before. Kevin smiled at Laura, looking deep into her eyes; as he did so, he felt a moment of complete assurance. Every emotion he had ever felt - every pain, joy, sensation, guilt pain and emotion he had ever felt wrapped themselves around him like a warm opiate acceptance. He had not been sure how he would handle this but, given the time the men ( or `` We, The Crippled Charles Atlas Fan Club Subscribers'' as Mike had labelled the group, while sitting at the bottom of Lake Golding, fishing for the last few cod of the season ); given the time the men had had... the time... they had as much time any men had ever had. They had agreed upon that early on. They were the lucky ( if this was as far as luck went ). Griffiths had put it bluntly. With chalk, a blackboard, and a simple few principles of physics combined with irrefutable evidence. 
 
 They had all missed it. All of them. The crushing stupidity of Eintstein; the embarrassment with which Euler would have been better placed in a home that taught people to use spoons, rather than pontificate on circles, spacetime, frequencies and the notion of laws and constants; and fractal variable. Euclid, Newton... it was too long to list. The greatest minds; and they were the greatest we had - and now... 
 
 Always looking for complexity, but only finding it when looking for it - that should have been our clue. Complexity derives not from design; design is a reduction in complexity. Space and time are the same thing; our right brain handles space; left - time. But spacetime are the same thing, as are energy and mass. 
 
 What was willl be. What will be, was. 
 
 Kevin picked up the revolver from under the table, and one by one, shot round the table. Starting with his youngest son, and ending with his wife. Four of them. Two bullets left. 
 
 The innate pain descended within him, and he could not bring himself to raise the gun to his head. He placed his hand flat on the table, and shot through it. In absolute pain, and as the snake released its coil upon him, and he could breathe for the first time in years, he sighed the deepest breath he had ever taken. And then shot himself in the mouth. 
 
 The next day, every family member's phone rang, but no answer ever came. No one answered the door. The coffee machine remained off. 
 
 The fridge hummed at a looping oscillation between 80Hz and 110Hz.
