Our world is an extremely inefficient and impoverished place in comparison to what it could be. There is a vast amount of room for improvement in the world around us that goes unnoticed because of simple grooved-in thinking. Even when new discoveries are made or new technology implemented, we may get far less than maximum benefit because potential applications do not occur to anyone.

This book has a threefold purpose.

A lot of discussion nowadays concerns "thinking outside the box." The best way to teach such thinking is through examples. The generation of new ideas will also be...

With all that we know about the universe, why are there so many questions that we cannot answer?

If time is a dimension, then why can we not travel in it as we can in space?

Why can no physical reason be found for why the speed of light is what it is? Why, as Einstein told us, is it absolutely constant and is the maximum possible velocity? Why would the speed of light affect the mass of an object and the passage of time? Einstein told us the way the universe operates but did not tell us why.

What about matter? Why is there not just empty space? Matter revolves around two electric...