Presenter Matthew Parris discussed with Professor Kathy Sykes and Gribbin whether Einstein "really was a 'crazy genius' ". Gribbin's book has been cited as an example of how to revive an interest in the study of mathematics. It does this by building the topic from the ground up, starting from the first developments of quantum mechanics, all the way through to the current cutting-edge theories in quantum mechanics.

I'm reading this again after a few years so that when I give it to my girlfriend to read and EXPAND HER MIND I will be able to help guide her through it. It was a thought experiment, produced to ask "when does a Quantum model cease to be a mixture and become one thing or another? Maybe it was the passage of time and the advancement of science, maybe it was my own further studies in the field, maybe it was own growth and change in preferences, or maybe I just things didn't notice the first time.He then explains the Planck's black body radiation and the famous two-slit experiment whose observations threw the entire scientific community into a state of utter ambiguity and disarray about the nature of electrons. According to the Copenhagen model, this would mean that the cat is both alive and dead inside the box until the atom is observed.

He investigates the atom, radiation, time travel, the birth of the universe, superconductors and life itself. An in depth discussion of the birth of quantum physics, where it is now and what it means for the future. A larger flaw is his matter-of-fact presentation of certain controversial theories as "yeah, that's the way it is; don't bother investigating further. I won’t spoil this content if, like myself, you’re going on blind with very little pre-knowledge on quantum mechanics. According to the first of them, Copenhagen interpretations, Chance plays the chancellor or Chairman.Science is often best understood in this chronological fashion, to allow us to see the different layers of key insights and discoveries that have been added to the basic structure of quantum mechanics over time. Gribbin uses his excellent understanding of the essence of quantum mechanics to produce a book that is equal parts fascinating and educational.