This might be an interesting book, but you have to have a more thorough knowledge of physics. So, by rating as I did, I am not dismissing the book, but rather badly my lack of insight for missing out so much of what could possibly be a really great book. ( )

Bought it to familiarize myself with MB's style, as Alfredo asked me to edit their interview for O Metis (published in July2015). Probably will not finish it, but it is a down-to-earth take on quantum mojo. ( )

This one adopts the point of view of loop quantum gravity, an in-progress approach to reconciling general relativity with quantum physics. Less ballyhooed than string theory, it differs from the latter in that it posits that space and time themselves are quantized (discretized). Having a smallest possible time interval (probably ~10^(-42) sec) implies there is a largest possible energy density, and this would enable the troublesome theoretical singularities in black holes and at the Big Bang to be avoided. Pre-Bang times would exist and cyclicity of the universe would be a possibility. A good, fresh contribution.