FUNDAMENTALS

One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fundamentals Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science With clarity and an infectious sense of joy he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works Through these pages we come to see our reality in a new way bigger fuller and stranger than it looked before Synthesizing basic questions facts and dazzling speculations Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe time space matter energy complexity and complementarity He excavates the history of fundamental science exploring what we know and how we know it while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover Brilliant lucid and accessible this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind