Interestingly, the man who found the answer to that question was a cosmologist who heartily despised the Big Bang as a theory and coined the term Big Bang sarcastically, as a way of mocking it.
He loved her best, she thought; and yet—dared she to murmur such treacherous criticism ever so softly? --what was the man worth whom a woman inferior to herself did not value?
And so I made my decision. You would be protected by an ancient magic of which he knows, which he despises, and which he has always, therefore, underestimated-to his cost.