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John Dalton gave us the first photograph of an atom in the early 19th century. Nearly a hundred years later, the outcast young New Zealander Ernest Rutherford showed that the atom consists mostly of empty space, upending centuries of classical science. It was the brilliant Dane Niels Bohr who took the next big step—into the astonishing world of quantum theory. However, he and a host of other revolutionary young scientists were not prepared for the shocks nature had in store. This “piercing and gripping” book (New Scientist) reveals startling discoveries that would overturn everything we thought we knew about reality and unleash a dangerous new force on the world. Even today, as we delve deeper into the atom, it poses as many questions as it answers.