It was exciting to read this book and better than ever before to glimpse what is meant by the great discoveries in the twentieth century about how the universe and matter and energy are and how they work. The circumference of our ignorance is expanding! ( )

Light and fun. Marcus has a way of making such an obtuse subject more understandable with excellent analogies or detours into the land of "think of it like this . . ."

Easy to bite off and chew chapters on various implications and aspects of current scientific thinking.

We get some great throw away amaze your friends type facts but also a deeper understanding of just how strange the universe is.

This book makes the subject much more approachable and nearly understandable and is a great introduction to the topic.

I have added his other books to my ever growing "read this" list. ( )