From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks down complex science into manageable chunks, explaining the one thing you really need to know to get to grips with the subject.Rather than trying to bend your mind around all the vast and confounding details of things such as gravitational waves, electricity and black holes, wouldn't it be easier tounderstand just one central conceptfrom which everything else follows?If you've ever found yourself fascinated by the idea ofquantum computingbut feel a little overwhelmed by the mindblowing subject of quantum mechanics or concerned by climate change but haven't been able to get to grips with the details ofglobal warming, this book is for you. Let's takeatoms, for example - what on earth are they? Well, if you start to think of them less like things you can't see with complex little...