BBC Science The Theory of (nearly) Everything 2019

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Discover how Democritus set us on a path

towards an atomic theor y of the Universe

The story of the Universe from

the Big Bang to the present day

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CONTENTS

THE NEXT BIG STEPS

FOR SCIENCE

80 The Future of Genetics

83 Synthetic Biology Breakthroughs

86 Searching for Dark Matter

90 The Existence of Black Holes

96 The End of the Universe

THE FUNDAMENTALS

OF PHYSICS

08 The Story of the Universe

16 The Composition of Stars

22 Measuring the Speed of Light

28 The Nature of Gravity

32 The Structure of the Atom

38 The Structure of the Periodic Table

43 Understanding Quantum Physics

THE FUNDAMENTALS

OF LIFE

50 The Origin of Life

56 The Structure of DNA

62 The Composition of Human Cells

68 The Theory of Evolution

74 The History of Brain Research