The task addressed by this book is to put forward a convincing scientific description of objective reality. In so doing, it also aims to communicate a frame of mind, an attitude, a feeling of how reality is approached scientifically. It is written for a lay readership and should be comprehensible to anyone with a basic grasp of school science.
Starting with some simple, almost trivial observations, the author explains how the basic concepts of science, concepts such as force and acceleration, and mass and energy arise. He then goes on to show that these concepts are equally applicable whatever one is seeking to describe: whether it be the very smallest scales accessible to physics (chapter 3), the universe at large (chapter 4), biological entities (chapter 5), or the human brain (chapter 6). It becomes clear from science's success with these disparate forms of matter that scientific concepts are a valid tool for comprehending not only simple objects like electrons and gala
