Only 4 percent of the Universe is accessible to us - where are the other 96? Are the great constants constant, and if they are constant, then why are they not constant? What the hell is going on with life on Mars? Free will is, of course, a good thing, however, one question worries us: this very “will” - whose is it? And so on... Michael Brooks does not mock common sense, he only brings this “common sense” to the edge where the most interesting things begin. A magnificent book in which the search for scientific truth comes close to adventurism, and the history of scientific adventures turns into the progress of science itself. It is no coincidence that one of the critics called Michael Brooks “Indiana Jones in a lab coat.” Michael Brooks is a British scientist, writer and science journalist, a brilliant popularizer of science, consultant to New Scientist magazine.