Cosmic Ray

When Ray Chaffee was 13 and going in for his first kiss, a cosmic ray hit him, knocking him flat, igniting in him a lifetime's passion for particle physics, and a reflexive terror of romance. Now, on the eve of his study of an unprecedented storm of the high-energy particles, his colleague, fellow physicist Belinda Nutt, wants a piece of his action -- but penetrating Ray's atmosphere is a trial of intergalactic proportions.