One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way--bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before.Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind.

A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: Wilczek is one of the giants of contemporary physics. He teaches at MIT and other prestigious institutions and has made central contributions to our understanding of the universe.A SCIENCE BOOK FOR EVERYONE: FUNDAMENTALS was written with the idea that if you read only one science book, this should be the one.IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FEYNMAN, ROVELLI, AND TYSON: Wilczek's book follows in a lineage of extraordinary and extraordinarily successful books from prominent scientists writing for a general audience.