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

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By an award-winning astrophysicist and coauthor of Where Did the Universe Come From?, a brisk, lucid tour of the human quest to uncover reality’s fundamentals, from the atomic to the cosmological

Making sense of our reality has burdened humanity since the very beginning. In their search for answers, scientists, astrophysicists, and cosmologists have revealed incredible insight into our perception of the world around us—but they have also cracked open a Pandora’s box of discoveries that chall...