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Unbelievable! Incredibly Inspiring This book made me wish I was a physicist! I'm an economist by training, with no physics background--and now I'm an enthusiast of M-Theory! I got on this quantum mechanics kick after reading Bill Bryson: "A History of Nearly Everything." Since then, I've read all of Hawking (horrible writer, not worth the time), biographies of Newton and Einstein, and Green's other great book, The Elegant Universe. However, this book should be required reading! His ability to give clear and consistent analogies for incredibly complex concepts is cunning. I especially liked his repeated, and successful, attempts to explain what is important, and why, and reminding the reader when the eyes start to gloss over. It's almost as if he knows you've just got lost, and brings you back to where he's trying to take you. He is also a master at building on successive, complicated concepts, and literally "threads" you through the book, one stitch and sentence at a time, with each new idea. While some of his details on experiments can seem tedious, I respect these attempts as he tries to explain the significance of grounding outlandish concepts in down-to-earth observable experiments and realities. Take your time reading it. I understand probably just 40-60% of what he wrote, at best, but I'm still blown away. Enjoyable for everyone.