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THE fundamental building blocks of matter were dreamed up by the ancient Greeks, but it wasn’t until the 18th century that the journey to uncover the atom truly began. Bizony’s insightful, compelling book chronicles our quest to understand the atom through the personalities of those who looked furthest into its abyss – a human drama wrought with frustration, love, guilt and genius. He shows that all of reality’s mysteries come to light when peering into an atom, from quantum strangeness to parallel universes, and makes it clear that key questions remain – for example, are atoms even real?