Gavin Hesketh is an experimental particle physicist, supported by the Royal Society and based at University College London and CERN in Switzerland. He is currently working on the ATLAS experiment, one of the major projects at the Large Hadron Collider, and is therefore at the heart of the cutting edge experiments that are searching for a deeper understanding of the universe at its most fundamental scales. Gavin has appeared on the BBC's Horizon and Stargazing Live programs and been interviewed regularly on Radio 5Live about discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider. This one concise volume covers all of the touchstone topics in popular physics and cosmology: quantum theory, relativity, the Higgs boson, antimatter, dark matter and energy, string theory, and the theory of everything... As the Large Hadron Collider has recently been super-charged, it is a certainty that fundamental discoveries that will shake the physics orthodoxy will be made over the next few years, with associated TV and broadsheet coverage. sakriti opis