Is an understanding of why we exist an impossible dream? Using the greatest minds in science past and present, including the collected works of many famous Nobel Prize winners, the author argues that an unspoken revolution is taking place within science. It involves the growing realisation that at the deepest level our world may be constructed from nothing more than mathematical patterns. We are taken on a rapid journey from the beginning of time to the present in a language that is informal and conversational. Without using equations we are introduced to the biggest mysteries in science,...