Everything around us is made of ‘stuff’, from planets and books to the air and our own bodies. Whereas philosophers once thought matter came in ‘lumps’, science has peeled away layers of matter to reveal …what? Have we discovered that the foundations of our
Universe are not as solid or as certain as we might have once imagined? Find out
how quantum field theory is helping to fill
the voids.
Jim Baggott is an award-winning science writer with a background in chemical physics
followed by a career in research, industry and consulting in the UK and USA.