– So, if scientists are right and every particle has another particle with exactly the same mass but an opposite electric charge – then it’s possible two people can fit together like yin and yang, noh?

– My understanding is that when matter and antimatter come into direct contact, they annihilate each other. They just totally disappear in a flash of energy. It’s what should have happened directly after the Big Bang spunked its guts out. When matter and antimatter meet they leave nothing behind at all – so really we shouldn’t exist.

– Perhaps we dinnae exist.

– What they do know – is there is one extra matter particle for every billion matter and antimatter pairs. Somehow, just that extra one means we aren’t totally zapped into the stratosphere.

– One sole particle can change everything, Bill?

– Yes, if one sole particle can change everything then so can a person, no?

– Then one thought could?

– One day the right thought will, my lovely John. Any person walking around this planet today could land upon a thought that would change the evolution of the human race. I mean most of them won’t because evolution has been careened through space and time mostly out of religious extremes, right? Our need for gods to give us permission for whom we hold hands with, or how we work or live or lay in our beds. It’s all been geared to favour men though, hasn’t it? I don’t need a fabricated deity to raise me in some archaic programme so I can feel okay about being a moral man in a universe without explanation. However I am free – so many men are diseased and by that I mean they are dis-eased in their own masculinity. In their desires both homosexual and heterosexual, they are so twisted by it the only answer they have is to try and control literally everyone – women, children, dogs, trees, oxygen, space, other men.

– Language?

– You’ve got it.

Bill and John grin at each other.

– Keep talking to me. I could listen tae your voice forever.