With a degree in theoretical chemical physics and a senior researcher at the New Drug Development Research Group, Scott Bembenek, in the best traditions of popular literature, tells how scientific theories were born and developed. This book is a unique combination of science, history and biography. It tells the history of science in accessible language from the earliest scientific questions in human history, without sacrificing accuracy and correctness of facts. The reader will see: - how energy, entropy, atoms and quantum mechanics, which form the basis of our Universe, control the world in which we live; - what a difficult path humanity has gone through to discover the laws of physical phenomena; — how scientific discoveries (and the scientists associated with them) shaped the world as we know it today.