But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

Metaphysics is a science.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Change happens very slow and very sudden.

And therefore the Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind.

I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.