our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.