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How to Build a Universe
  • Published: 9 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781802064148
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

How to Build a Universe

(Theoretically Speaking)

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From one of the most exciting voices in science, a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of modern physics

What is the universe made of, and how do we know? For decades, physicists have studied this question, circling the most fundamental yet enigmatic building blocks of our world, descending to a level below atoms into the mysterious particles and fields that make up the quantum realm. This astonishing world is the key to understanding the workings of the universe, but it has held its secrets close.

In How to Build a Universe, celebrated astrophysicist Katie Mack pulls back the curtain on these mysteries, presenting the most cutting-edge picture of what we know so far. And she shows we may be on the precipice of a monumental breakthrough, one that could shatter everything we thought we knew about the universe and the nature of reality.

Thrilling and witty, How to Build a Universe is a ringside seat to some of the most mind-bending and exciting developments in physics and cosmology as they undergo a revolution, informed by the smallest and most alluring particles.
  • Published: 9 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781802064148
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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About the author

Katie Mack

Katie Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist and the author of The End of Everything. She currently holds the position of Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, where she carries out research on dark matter and the early universe and works to make physics more accessible to the general public.
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Praise for How to Build a Universe

I am astounded by Katie Mack's ability to capture the rich complexity of the universe in a way that's accessible and entertaining. In this brilliant book, Mack makes learning feel thrilling, and along the way helps us to understand what science actually does

John Green, author of Everything Is Tuberculosis

Katie Mack's writing on physics is always a joy: not just because of the wit, and the charming lightness, but especially because she describes science as it really is, not the sanitized version which is often presented. If you want to know how a scientist thinks about reality today, read this

Carlo Rovelli

Mind-expanding and fascinating. Katie Mack is the perfect guide for a behind-the-scenes tour of modern physics

Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd and author of What If?