📖 Breakthrough. Spectacular stories of scientific discovery from the Higgs particle to black holes

Breakthrough takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the eureka moments of modern physics. Charting the spellbinding stories of the scientists who predicted and discovered the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time, unsuspected subatomic particles and even antimatter, Marcus Chown reveals science's greatest mystery: it's astonishing predictive power.