- The search for the fundamental nature of reality - The author works on one of the two main projects at the Large Hadron Collider. As the Large Hadron Collider has recently been super-charged, it is a certainty that fundamental discoveries that will shake the physics orthodoxy will be made over the next few years. - Gavin Hesketh is a genuine expert working at the cutting edge and is interviewed regularly on Radio 5Live, as well as appearing on BBC's Horizon and Stargazing Live programs. - This one concise volume covers all of the touchstone topics in popular physics and cosmology - Concepts of quantum theory, relativity, the Higgs boson, antimatter, dark matter and energy, string theory and more are discussed in detail