A great and fascinating look from the cosmos down to the atoms, the nuts and bolts and more of how the universe (and us, and everything) works. The book does a really good job of explaining more of the jargon and technical side and hard to understand aspects of the science (quarks, string theory, quantum mechanics, foam, multi-verse, etc.) Some of the science was a bit dumbed down and a few liberties taken to make things make sense (laymen wise) but overall it was done for the better good and to make things make more sense as a whole.

The artwork in the book is absolutely beautiful and the infographics are very well done and help showcase whatever is being discussed. ( )

This was an awesome journey that gave me a sense of being a part of a universe aware of itself. The trip goes in a very logical order and the writing is clear and entertaining as well. It has many illustrations. I read this in ebook format on a tablet so that I could zoom in on the images and see them in color. The science is made understandable, or at least as much as is possible when we get down to those very small bits. ( )

This largish-format color-illustration book summarizes all known reality on all 63 order-of-magnitude scales from the whole observable universe (10^27 meters) down to the Planck length (10^-35 m). Except for 16 "empty" (?) scales between elementary particles and the Planck length, each scale description is centered around an anchoring illustration. (I was a little disappointed that not every one of these anchor images zooms in on the exact center of its predecessor, but perhaps that would be difficult or impossible to arrange.) The volume would be a beautiful and informative intro-to-science book for those in need of such.