Imagine a book that explains particle physics in a way that a history major can grasp it. That's this book. It's awesome by the way. Here are some concepts that might grab your attention: polywater - it makes water gel-like and it bonds ands spreads fast. Like that Vonnegut book except the water doesn't freeze. Scary. Then there's the god particle. They absolute smallest form that you can get to, but they can't prove it or test it yet. Then there's how they think that they know that there are different dimensions because when they watch some particles they're reacting to something that isn't there...unless string theory is true. Really fascinating.