Aimed at older children and curious adults, this book covers everything you need to know about some of the most complex scientific ideas the world has ever seen, made accessible and fun.

Welcome to cool physics! -- Physics timeline -- Eureka! -- Fitting the world in a matchbox -- The densest place in the universe -- Famous physicists I -- chaos from order -- Experiment: Squishy circuits -- Maxwell's demon -- What goes up must come down -- Building Blocks of the Universe -- Experiment Indoor Clouds -- The Standard Model -- Surfing the Wave -- The Electromagnetic Spectrum -- Experiment Whirlpool in a Bottle -- Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall -- Bending light -- Seeing through the gaps -- Experiment: Melting race -- Radioactivity -- Edison, Swan and the Light Bulb -- Under Pressure -- Static Shock -- Searching for the Higgs Boson -- It's All Relative -- Experiment: Collapsing Bottles -- The Marksman and the Monkey -- Famous Physicists II -- Experiment: Making a Pinhole Camera -- Black Bodies and Quantum Physics -- Nuclear Fission -- Nuclear Fusion -- Magnets --Experiment: Measuring the Speed of Light -- Temperature Scale -- Newton's Laws of Motion -- Rollercoaster Rides -- Experiment: Cartesian Diver -- To Wave or Not to Wave -- Motors and Dynamos -- Elastics, Plastics and Springs -- E=​mc2 -- Experiment Making Ice Cream -- States of Matter -- Speed Limits -- Experiment: Matchstick Rockets -- Moving Sound -- Tick-tock -- Uniting the World -- Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle -- Brownian Motion -- Glossary.