Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World

“This is a riveting and mind-bending book that explains the various ways in which scientists have sought to make sense of the quantum world. John Gribbin is one of the UK’s foremost science writers. He effortlessly explains the quantum phenomena themselves, the history of their discovery and the challenges they pose. He does this with elegant simplicity whilst pointing out how deeply unsettling these results are for our common sense intuitions of how the world behaves around us. “ Read more...

The Royal Society Science Book Prize: the 2019 shortlist

Nigel Shadbolt, Technologist