A hugely entertaining tour of the periodic table and the 118 elements that are the basic building blocks of everything. - Daily Mail Book Description In the same way that Tim's first book Elemental, a Daily Mail Book of the Year in 2018, serves as a beginner's guide to Chemistry, Fundamental provides a very entertaining beginner's guide to quantum and particle physics. From the Back Cover Understand every quantum phenomenon without the need for complex maths Tim James dispels the myth that quantum and particle physics are too difficult for most of us to grasp and reveals why they are fascinating and relevant to all of us. In the quantum realm, objects can be in two places at once; time travel is not only possible, but necessary; cause and effect can happen in reverse; and observing something changes its state.