Science died in the early 20th century and we didn’t even know it. From the renaissance until its untimely death it had been like a lively lamb skipping up hillsides leading us toward heaven, the very picture of vitality fuelled by reason. But then dogma seeped into physics, the footing of science. Reason was downgraded to common sense, and common sense was redefined by the Brahmins of the new scientific establishment as the ignorance of the common man. This was the death of science, but it was cloaked by a simultaneous explosion — a supernova — of knowledge.

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Planarity addresses this death of science at the root: special relativity. And it begins with an introduction to two great dissidents, apostates from the standard physics model: Dr. Louis Essen, father of the atomic clock; and Dr. Paul Marmet, a past president of the Canadian Association of Physicists.