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This is the book that got me excited about physics in high school. Though now 25 years old, it's still worth reading. ( )

This is the book that first made me want to study science, it's very well written and the sheer weirdness of quantum physics made me want to find out more. I've since bought another 97 books about science. ( )

This is the second John Gribbin book I have read, but not the last one, I am sure.

Another Gribbin book (Science: A History 1534-2001) convinced me that his style is very enjoyable. His scientific thinking, good sense of selecting and explaining interesting subjects is very well integrated by his fine humor and vivid story telling. You can find no boring parts you might got familiar in school. Based on what I have already read from him, he seems to choose the time based story telling approach instead of giving the knowledge at once - this makes the whole much more exciting.

Atom, light, electron: I have never thought they could be so amusing. You know, school have hidden this secret world from me. Or just didn't know the right way to tell it. The whole book is a fascinating and shocking travel to the world of the smaller and smaller things. In the office it was a constant subject, I always kept my collegues up-to-date regarding what I have read. And what also counts: I am a sceptic and agnostig man, lacking mystic feelings. Now I got it.

I myself made notes during reading, because otherwise I cannot remember the details. Of course, it is also good just to relax and enjoy.

In the last chapter, he becomes subjective, and votes for a theory that I could not believe. However, in the second part of this book (Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality) he practically votes for another one. That is also hard to believe - but this is typical for the whole subject. So might even be true. ( )

A now dated, but still useful guide to the bizare world of quantum mechanics, and how the world of the unbelivavbly small effects everyday life. ( )