"This Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the scale of our daily lives. The enigmas that Professor Michael Dine discusses are like landmarks on a fantastic journey to the edge of the universe. Asked where to find out about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs boson particle--the long cutting edge of physics right now--Dine had no single book he could recommend. This is his accessible, authoritative, and up-to-date answer. Comprehensible to anyone with a high-school level education, with almost no equations, there is no better author to take you on this amazing odyssey."--Publisher.

Step one: Surveying the universe ; Can we take space and time for granted? ; What do we mean by "universe"? -- Step 2: Can quantum mechanics predict the future? ; Fruits of the nuclear age ; The weight of the smallest things ; Stardom -- The next steps: Why is there something rather than nothing? ; "The large number problem" ; What is the universe made of? ; The dark energy -- And stepping into the unstable: At the beginning of everything ; Can we get to a final theory without getting up from our chairs? ; The landscape of reality ; Rolling the dice of theoretical physics.