Get ready for a unique adventure into the world of fundamental particles with Frank Close in this exciting introduction. The journey will take you inside the atom, where you will discover magical particles such as quarks, electrons and ghostly neutrinos. Close provides fascinating insights into how discoveries in the field of particle physics were made, and how these developments fundamentally changed our view of the world. At the end of the book, Close explores some new ideas about the mystery of antimatter, and the number of possible dimensions of the universe, taking a look at what research may reveal to us in the next fifty years.