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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Here's the opportunity to see the seemingly impossible: a book which encourages you to share in the most extraordinary fantasies and learn why your world is so extraordinary. As in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the central character, Scrooge, is visited by Spirits - but this time they show him a vision of the nature of the physical universe. Being Spirits, they can transport him to places that cannot normally be visited and show visions of what Scrooge could not normally see.

(Extracted from the back cover)

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Prologue.

-THE FIRST VISITATION:

-The Mistress of the World.

-The Shadow of Entropy.

-Heat Death.

-THE SECOND VISITATION:

-Relatively speaking.

-The Light Barrier.

-A point of view.

-A clockwork universe.

-Never mind the destination, enjoy the scenery.

-THE THIRD VISITATION:

-The Ghost in the Atom.

-Virtually un-certain.

-No atom of doubt.

-Per amplitude ad astra.

-Epilogue: Not the man he was.

-Alphabetical index.

OUR REVIEW

The approach in this book is really very interesting, as it makes available to those readers non-specialized in physics, the most fascinating questions yet the most complex ones, of this science.

Yet special praise is deserved by the format of fantastic narrative chosen by Gilmore. Uniting scientific divulgation with literary skills usually is a great achievement, even though some people may think that fiction and science must not agree. In an agile, pleasant way, the reader's attention is absorbed just like it happens when reading a novel. The mysteries of space-time and other fascinating questions of modern physics are narrated in a clarifying manner. A book like this can be an excellent introduction to the most complex part of physics.

Gilmore knows how to shape in a clear way such themes as relativity or quantum mechanics, that tend to be difficult to transmit to the general readership.

The conclusion is that this book can turn out to be an ideal one for those who feel attracted to this issue yet have avoided reading too technical works, whose approach is inaccessible to their level of knowledge or too dense and boring. It also can appeal to those readers who are more specialized that enjoy an amusing treatment of physics.