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There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
Lord Kelvin, 1900

We now know that the Universe is rather larger, and more ancient. We
know how the stars shine, what they are made of and how they evolve.

We have confirmed Darwin’s theories, (no serious paper challenging the basic reality of evolution has been published for more than a century). Einstein linked space and time, acceleration and gravity, and mass and energy in wonderful and counter-intuitive ways.

So what more must there be to know?

A lot is the answer, and that is what this book is about. There are no great answers here, just some big (and not so big) questions, things that science has often sidestepped or before which it has simply wilted: challenges that have been considered too enormous, at least until recently.