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Book SynopsisFundamental does for physics what Tim''s first book, Elemental, does for chemistry: it demystifies the topic in his trademark humorous, engaging style, including the most recent developments in the field.
At the start of the twentieth century, science appeared complete and the laws of nature were almost all discovered, but then we woke a sleeping giant - we discovered quantum mechanics.
In the quantum realm, objects can be in two places at once. It''s a place where time travel is not only possible, but necessary. It''s a place where cause and effect can happen in reverse and observing something changes its state. From parallel universes to antimatter, quantum mechanics has revealed that when you get right down to it, the laws of nature are insane. The scientist J. B. S. Haldane once said, ''Reality is not only stranger than we imagine . . . it''s stranger than we can imagine.'' Never is this more true than with quantum mechanics; our best, most recen
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A hugely entertaining tour of the periodic table and the 118 elements that are the basic building blocks of everything. - Daily Mail
