The Shortest History of Reality: From Plato's Cave to the Mind-Bending Discoveries of Modern Physics - The Human Quest to Explain the World

An award-winning astrophysicist leads a brisk, lucid tour of the human quest to uncover reality’s fundamentals, from myth-making to mathematical precision

Since the dawn of consciousness, humans have sought to make sense of this world into which we’re each born. The Shortest History of Reality explores the shifting boundary between what we perceive and what truly exists—tracing the idea of “what’s real” from its everyday, commonsense beginnings to the mind-bending discoveries of modern physi...